Ethics and Morality in Kung Fu Panda

Noah has really gotten into Kung Fu Panda, and Jonah likes it enough to watch along too. Although some parts still scare him.
At any rate, Noah has been asking a lot of questions about Kung Fu Panda. Namely, "Where is Tai Long in Kung Fu Panda 2?"
And others as a result of the answer.
Why did Tigress try to stop Tai Long?
Why did Tai Long kill Tigress? (he didn't he only beat her.)
Why did he beat her?
How did he beat her?
How come Kung Fu Panda caught Tai Long with his finger like this?
Why did Kung Fu Panda destroy Tai Long?

I guess this is what is meant by Parental Guidance.

Anyway, here is something troubling about the first movie. It's obvious that Tai Long is a bad guy. It is implied that maybe he killed people. But since it is a children's movie you really have no proof of this. All that is said is that Tai Long "wreaked havoc on the Valley." He fought and hurt a lot of people, and scared a lot of people. Basically he threw a tantrum and I think Noah (and indeed a lot of kids) can identify with Tai Long. He is so angry at his guardians for not giving him what he wanted, what he felt he deserved, what he felt he was promised in return for all his really really hard work and obedience. But then Master OO Gwei says that Tai Long (Big Dragon) cannot have the Dragon scroll after all.
So he throws a tantrum that we don't see and is locked up in severely inhumane conditions for years.

Then he escapes and beats a lot of people up. But nobody dies that we know of.

The furious five go to stop him and they have a Kung Fu fight that looks a lot like the training fights that friends have with each other throughout the movie, except that Tai Long Freezes a couple of them.

Then it is asked why Tai Long didn't just kill the five and the answer is that he wants Master Shifu and the others to be afraid. But that's what they think. Maybe he just wants his dragon scroll. Maybe he is just a big child that is misguided and wants to beat up his parents and everyone else, but in the end he doesn't really want to kill them. Pak mei is a good historical "villain" example. It is clear he wanted to beat Jee seen (the Shaolin Abbot) and also clear he wants to constantly show the "Shaolin Heroes" that come after him that he is better thathem. But somehow they always manage to escape alive. Even Jee Sin escapes alive initially and only dies later and it is unclear whether Pak Mei really meant to do that. In fact Pak Mei students say that their founder went into a kind of depression after Jee Sin died. Well back to KF panda fiction, Tai Long never kills anyone. All he does is beat people up and destroy a lot of property, which is all any of the Kung Fu people do in the movies. Except that Tai Long attacks first and attacks innocent people as well as people who raised him and his younger Kung Fu siblings. He is a traitor.

So Po and Tai Long fight and I guess that is over the dragon scroll and you could say that Tai Long wins because he does indeed get the dragon scroll and opens it and gets to see it, which is theoretically the whole point of all this fighting. Then he doesn't get it, and Kung Fu Panda tries to explain it to him, and he decided to attack KF Panda but his deadly pressure points jut tickle Po and then Po ctaches him in the Wushu Finger hold.
And here is a difficult point. Po then murders Tai Long, and does so in a joking way saying Ska Doosh. Nobody morns Tai Long. Everyone is with Kung Fu Panda as he presses his finger down and seems to unleash some sort of Kung Fu Bomb. But when you think about it. Po, cuddly and funny as he may be, is the only one who we see Kill someone else. Again. Its a kids movie. If it was an adult movie Tai Long would rape and kill children or something of that sort but think about it, Po is the only one who kills anyone. And if you kind of identify with Tai Long, you will wonder why Noah throws tantrums and is bad sometimes. Maybe Tai Long was bad but did he deserve death? Did he even deserve jail in the first place? Why didn't he initially get the dragon scroll anyway. Noah, with limited language, is essentially trying to ask me these questions by asking the same few qusetions over and over. "Where is Tai Long in this Lung Fu Panda?" (holding up the cover to KF Panda 2)
Why does Po kill Tai Long?
Self defense? Sort of. Did Po feel threatened at that point? Not really? The death touches were just tickling and indeed Po had Tai Long in a hold. There was no trial for Tai Long. They could of locked him back up. But then he could escape again. Tai Long's crime is that A) he doesn't listen to authority. and then B) he is too powerful to ignore. Killing him is easier. So that's what happens. Of course he "dies" in a vague way that maybe it could be explained away that he didn't really die, but that is what a mushroom cloud implies right?

If you think I am over analyzing this, then I will explain how I am not by explaining the difference between that villains death and the Lord Shen's death in Kung Fu Panda 2. People must have talked about it and so they decided to make that death decidedly different, even though Lord Shen is actually guilty of genocide.