Boss Wolf

Near Pure Evil

Full Name

Unknown

Alias

Boss Wolf

The Wolf Boss

Origin

Kung Fu Panda 2

Allies

Lord Shen (formerly)

His wolf army

Powers / Skills

Hammer expertise

Fighting skills
Strength
Durability
Agility
Strategy
Leadership
Intimidation

Goals

Help Shen in his plan to conquer China.

Kill Po and the Furious Five (both failed).

Moral Event Horizon

Helping Shen masscare pandas in a village.

Endangering the lives of various villagers while trying to escape Po, including children.

Kill Count

Hundreds to Thousands

Millions (attempted)

Crimes

Mass murder
Genocide
War crimes
Terrorism
Vandalism
Arson
Theft
Kidnapping
Assault
Conspiracy
Enslavement
Attempted infanticide
Aiding and abetting

Type of Villain

Genocidal Right-Hand

“	Guess nobody told you: you mess with the wolf.... you get the fangs.	„
	~ Boss Wolf taunting Po.

Boss Wolf, also known as the Wolf Boss, is the secondary antagonist of DreamWorks' 22nd full-length animated feature film, Kung Fu Panda 2, the second installment of the Kung Fu Panda franchise.

He is Lord Shen's former henchman and trusted right paw who serves as his military strategist and field commander of his army in their master's quest to conquer all of China. However, he would soon meet his demise at the hands of Shen himself when they made a disagreement with each other. He is also Po's second archrival after Tai Lung.

He was voiced by Danny McBride.

His Evil Ranking[]

What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]

He helped Shen massacre a majority of pandas in a village which also resulted in Po's mother being killed and would have scarred him for life. He attempted to attack and kill an infant Po with another wolf only to be whacked in the head with a hammer by his father, causing him to get a blind eye.
Under Shen's orders, he and his wolves proceeded to rob a village of nearly all their metal. He was even willing to take a metal item with a pig villager still inside while taking off on a flying invention, showing he was willing to endanger one of their lives too.
When Po and the Furious Five arrived to try to stop him and the wolves, after they kept their ground against the wolves for some time, he whacked them with his hammer, hurting them badly before taking off with the metal he stole.
He helped Shen build a cannon with the stolen metal, which he would use to kill a Kung Fu master and imprison two more.
While searching for Po as Shen commanded, he allowed his wolves to pillage and plunder from the villagers, who would be saved by Po and the Furious Five. Upon finding them with the help of a couple wolves, he attempted to attack them only for his two wolf minions to be knocked out by Monkey and Crane, leaving him to run off. While trying to escape, he endangered the lives of multiple villagers by throwing them in front of them riding a cart, even throwing young children. When his wolf army surrounded Po and his friends, he taunted him before hitting him again and having members of his army capture them in cuffs. Along the way, he showed them Master Rhino's grave and tapped the hammer representing it, sadistically chuckling about it before moving on with them.
Under Shen's orders, he attempted to kill Po and the Furious Five by lighting a cannon pointed at them only for Mantis to keep putting it out and eventually defeating them with the freed Five.
He helped the wolves tie up the Furious Five in chains before continuing to sail their ship. He allowed one of his wolf henchmen to shoot the bridge under Shen's orders, endangering the lives of multiple villagers. He made another attempt to kill Po and the Furious Five with the help of his henchmen only for them to close up to them.
While he defected Shen when he was willing to fire into his own army, this is not a act of redemption and more of showing care as if Shen didn't do that, he would've stayed going on board with him. We also never see the heroes react to his death, so it doesn't count as a sympathetic one.
While he has a few comedic moments such as getting into a rickshaw chase with Po and his friends and being threatened by Shen into telling him that it is “The Year of the Peacock” even though it wasn’t actually the time, they are brief and not that frequent with his crimes still being taken dead seriously.
While he is Shen's right hand, it is unknown if he really likes or cares about him or if he just works for him out of pragmatism. It also doesn't make him that much less heinous as he did some other crimes that Shen did not intend him to commit, not that he would've cared about it anyway.
While his death of Shen impaling him with his blades is pretty gruesome, it doesn't make him a scapegoat because he deserved it for his crimes.
His tragedy of losing his eye is not played for sympathy as he got his black eye during the massacre of the pandas, meaning he was evil long before he got his black eye. Furthermore, he completely deserved it for trying to kill an infant Po.

What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]

Since a majority of his actions are done under Shen's orders, he fails the heinous standards to him with the few acts that he did on his own not being quite enough to help him stand out.
He shows care for his wolf army, hesitating to fire on the Furious Five as Shen commanded since it would have also resulted in some of their deaths and even ended up defying that order, causing Shen to kill him.