Mushu

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Mushu
First appearance	Mulan
Created by	Robert D. San Souci
Voiced by	Eddie Murphy (Mulan) Mark Moseley, (in all of his later appearances)

Mushu is a dragon on the Disney animated film, Mulan and its sequel Mulan II. He is voiced by Eddie Murphy in his first appearance and Mark Moseley afterwards. Mushu also appears in the popular game series Kingdom Hearts.

[edit] Movie sypnosis

Mushu was once a guardian spirit of Mulan's family, but he has been demoted to the humiliating position of an incense burner and guardian waker ever since he failed to protect the last family member (Fa Deng) that went to war. When Mulan's ancestors needed to get her back home from the army, Mushu is sent to awaken the Great Stone Dragon to perform the task. When he accidentally destroys the dragon instead, Mushu goes himself to help Mulan fight the Huns and bring honor to her family. After Mulan is discovered she and Mushu set out to stop Shan Yu and the Empire, after Mushu tied himself to a giant firework rocket he launched himself at Shan Yu and he and Mulan saved China.

In the sequel, when Mulan prepares to marry Li Shang, Mushu is at first overjoyed to the point of tears, going as far as planning the wedding himself. However, things change once the ancestors tell him that if Mulan marries Shang, his family's guardians will take over for Mulan, thus making Mushu a gong ringer once again. Desperate to keep his job, he continuously tries to break the two apart to keep his position, but after several attempts at first, it only brings Mulan and Shang closer. Later on, after their cart crashes off a cliff, tension starts to arise between the two fiances. Eventually, Mulan and Shang are finally driven apart and will not even speak to each other. As much as he tries to cheer Mulan up, she stays depressed. Mushu begins to feel a little guilty because of this, but once Mulan tells him that he's her most trusted friend, he loses control and admits that everything that had caused Mulan and Shang to hate each other was because of him. Mulan is furious at Mushu's selfishness and scolds him, but she quickly halts this to tell Shang what happened. Before this can be done, bandits ambush the group. To prevent them from following the thieves cut the bridge with Mulan and Shang on it. Shang, in order to save Mulan lets go and falls into the chasm, presumably dead. Now Mushu regrets everything he'd done, for it's left Mulan into mourning, and went to be married to let the princesses be with Yao, Ling and Chin Po. Mushu tries to stop her, but to no avail despite her misery. Although Shang, who survived the fall, interferes with the ritual, Mushu ultimately saves the day by pretending to be the great Golden Dragon of unity. Mulan and Shang are married, leaving Mushu a gong ringer. As the ancestors tease him, Shang unites his and Mulan's ancestors, thus allowing Mushu to be a guardian again. Mushu dances around and accidentally reveals himself to Shang, to whom Mulan told all about the red dragon. Shang thanks Mushu and the film ends.

[edit] Personality

What this pint-sized dragon wants more than anything is to be one of the family guardians again. But in the meantime he's happy to help Mulan get into and out of trouble whenever he can, even though he's the one who starts it due to his big mouth. He can also be selfish at times, but his heroism proves in the end that little dragons can have mighty big hearts.

[edit] Kingdom Hearts

In the first Kingdom Hearts, his world (The Land of Dragons) had been destroyed by the Heartless. He became a summon gem, and he aided Sora and his friends whenever they needed him, using his Fire Breath to attack enemies. In the end the door to Kingdom Hearts was sealed, and his world was restored.

In Kingdom Hearts II, Mushu's world had been restored, and he is helping Ping (Mulan) get in to the Imperial Army. When Sora, Donald and Goofy show up, they quickly reminisce about their past adventures, and after telling them he was a family guardian, Sora and the others agreed to help out Ping as payback for borrowing Mushu in the first game. In a later scene, he accidentally reveals that Ping is a woman and she is discharged from the army. In the end, peace was restored to their world and he went back to being a guardian, but not after receiving a quick scolding from Sora. When Sora and Mulan use combo attacks, he helps by using his fire breath and fireballs.