How the Monkey King escaped the underworld - Shunan Teng
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Published 2020-04-07
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The Monkey King, a legendary troublemaker hatched from stone and schooled in divine magic, had stolen the Dragon Lord’s most treasured weapon: a magical staff. Returning to his kingdom to show off his treasure to his tribe of warrior monkeys, he finds himself caught in the clutches of two soul collectors, dragging him to his death. Shunan Teng details the Monkey King’s journey to the underworld.
Lesson by Shunan Teng, directed by Yijia Cao & Mohammad Babakoohi.
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Ok but the fact that Wukong tore out the names of as many monkeys from his tribe as he could find, implying that he actually memorized their names which is saying something because he had 46 THOUSAND MONKEYS IN HIS KINGDOM, really shows just how much he cared for them
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European mythology: All those who tried to defy death had failed. Chinese mythology: monke rewrite expiration date to never
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Monkey: Tears own name out Death Lords "...hey, you can't do..." Monkey: tears whole tribe out
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"Escaped" the underworld? More like he decided to leave after making the death lords cry
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Imagine being one of those monkey warriors being told that everybody was liberated, but then the Monkey King saw you and said “Oh, my bad, forgot to clear your name.”
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I’m pretty sure it was easier for him. He literally beat up heaven, like 5 times.
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If this were any other story, that would be the entire thing. But in reality, Sun Wukong's journey to the underworld and back again is pretty much only a very small part of a much larger prologue to an even larger epic.
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Imagine being that one monkey he forgot to take off the list. “I have made you all immortal!” “Even me?” “Uh...yeah...what was your name again?”
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"There must be a lot of dudes name Sun Wukong right?" "Yeah show me where that is written." Proceeds to erase his name and a lot of his monkeys' name off from the underworld book
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Just casually tears his whole tribe’s names from the literal records of death in front of the literal enforcers of death That’s some monkey balls of steel
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0:48 "The dragons graciously allowed Sun Wukong to keep the staff." Yeah right, he wrecked havoc in their palaces and they couldn't do anything about it.
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"And before they could do anything to stop him, The Monkey King wrote that every criminal on earth would die of a heart attack in 40 seconds."
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I heard the monkey king received a rework recently and now he is OP in top lane.
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Trivia: the “magical staff” was actually an iron pillar and weighed 8.1 tonnes. Although its physical dimensions could be magically shrunk, its mass could not - it weighed the same even when shrunk to the size of a needle. Only Son’s tremendous strength allowed him to carry it in his ear.
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Normal myths: teaches a moral usually about self control This myth: m o n k e
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What I love about Sun Wukong's story is that he becomes Immortal 4 or 5 times, first by becoming ageless by learning taoist secrets, then this, then he eats pills of immortality made by the jade emperor's alchemist and later eating the peaches of immortality from the orchard they were in- all of them. Its hilarious, the first part of the Journey to the west is basically hyping him up the whole time, finally stoping him, so he can be made to help out the MC of that tale.
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Death: Sun Wukong, it’s time for you and your monkeys to di- Sun Wukong: No.
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Can I also say, this guy was like, QUADUPLELY IMMORTAL. This was like his 4th round of immortality.
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I love how this is so professional and quaint, and then there’s just Overly Sarcastic Productions. “DiD sOmEoNe SaY IMPULSIVE???”
