Ping Pong (born Boris Antonio Rolf Jean-Pierre Gaulle LeGrand IV) is a new character of Xiaolin Chronicles. He is the newest addition to the Xiaolin Temple. He is the Xiaolin Dragon of Wood who joined the Xiaolin Dragons in the quest for Shen Gong Wu and the never-ending battle between the Heylin.
History
Past
Ping Pong was born in Europe. Growing up orphaned, his abilities granted him supernatural speed that reached lengths which allowed him to run over a hundred miles. While living in Europe, Ping worked as a messenger and delivered different documents around the country. However, his life as a runner was cut short when when the mailing system evolved and put messengers out of the job. Searching for a new purpose, Ping remembered his admiration of his four favorite warriors: Omi, Raimundo, Kimiko, and Clay. Inspired by their heroism, Ping journeyed to the Xiaolin Temple and worked to become a monk like those he looked up to.
Xiaolin Chronicles
Ping Pong became the apprentice monk competing against Willow for apprentice. After an incident where the monks lose a Wu Ping Pong left the monks. Later he encounters Kimiko and they both learn Willow is the evil Heylin apprentice Shadow. Ping Pong was captured but escape to warn the monks of Willow but was too late. Chase and Shadow stole the Wu and destroyed the Xiaolin Temple. The monks decided to took Ping Pong in and they went on a journey to find a new temple home and defeat Chase and the Heylin Empire.
Ping Pong was a victim to several of Chase Young's evil plans, such as when the Heylin warrior used the Sapphire Dragonfly to try to destroy him and later Chase transformed Ping Pong to an evil monster but had the evil element removed from his body in a showdown.
Physical Appearance
Ping Pong bore a huge resemblance to fellow teammate, Omi. While both being quite short in stature, it is important to note that Ping Pong was half of Omi's size. Ping Pong and Omi shared a yellow skin tone, the same facial structure and were both bald, being Xiaolin monks.
However, Ping Pong did have a few minor differences that set him apart from Omi, that corresponded to his element. Due to being a Xiaolin monk like Omi, they both had white circles on their forehead; Omi had nine while Ping Pong carried three.
Personality
Ping Pong is a energetic young monk and quite hyperactive. He is outgoing and was extremely enthusiastic about training. He greatly admires the Xiaolin Dragons, especially Omi (to whom he bears a striking resemblance) the most and is delighted when Omi agrees to take him under his wing.
In battle, Ping Pong becomes determined to win and has a strong sense of justice and duty. Although, due to Ping Pong's innocense, he can be gullible and easily manipulated into too much of what Omi wants him to do.
Powers & Abilities
Powers
- Limited Elemental Manipulation: He could create fire and air blasts and crack the ground by punching it.
- Wood Manipulation: Ping's Xiaolin element is wood. However, he hasn't shown any sign of wood manipulation yet, due to lack of training.
- Enhanced Strength: He could break a wall, with his bare hands.
Abilities
- Expert Martial Artist: He was an excellent martial artist able to reach the Shoku Warrior rank, without even becoming a Wudai Warrior.
- Immense Speed: Ping was small and frail in combat, but made up of this flaw with his speed. He could launch a flurry of punches and kicks to stagger his opponents with a barrage of attacks. In addition to his speedy attacks, he could also run very fast.
Former Powers and Abilities
After Chase made Ping Pong reptilian, he had the following powers and abilities:
- Shapeshifting: He could shapeshift himself in order to become cuter or even to transform into others, like Master Fung.
- Mud Spitting: He could spit a great amount of mud from his mouth.
- Reptile Transformation: He could transform himself into reptilian Ping Pong. As reptilian Ping Pong, he had superhuman strength and durability.
- Great Martial Artist: He was better at martial arts, able to defeat all monks one-by-one.
Trivia
- One of Ping Pong's promotion images features him in the same pose as Omi when the latter appeared in Xiaolin Showdown.
- Ping Pong was believed to be a descendant of Barkey LeBois, the last known dragon of wood, as he knew the signature move of Lotus Locust Clan, had an affinity for the same element as Barky, was from France as was Barky, and was naturally gifted in the ways of Xiaolin.
- It is unknown if Ping Pong is related to Omi due to the both having the same appearance and having 3 glowing dots on his forehead.
- It is unknown from which part of Europe Ping Pong really is, as during the series he can be seen speaking French, English, and Spanish. However as he has a French accent, when speaking English, it is possible that he is from France and learned the other languages when he was delivering documents around Europe. Boris and Antonio are Slavic and Italian names respectively. His background is most likely primarily French due to both his accent and half of his name "Jean-Pierre Gaulle Legrand" being of French origin.
- So far, Ping Pong was the only known individual among the Xiaolin who could manipulate more than one element without the aid of a Shen Gong Wu, weapon, or machine.
- As seen in "Chase Lays An Egg", Ping Pong slept without any clothing.
- Ping Pong is the only monk to have a longer name.
- Ping Pong is the second character to have a French accent after Gigi.
- As seen at the beginning of Out of Ping Pong's Mind, he can demostrate other elements such as fire, wind and earth.
- Ping Pong is one of the shortest characters after Omi, Dojo, Megan and Hannibal Roy Bean.
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