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“Meditation teaches us calm, focus, how to harmonize the wild energies and emotions burning within us and to focus them so we might use them to smite our enemies and destroy all who would try to stop us!” |
— Red Son[src] |
Red Son is the son of the Demon Bull King and Princess Iron Fan. Five hundred years after the Demon Bull King's imprisonment, Red Son freed his father by using his Power Glove, thus reuniting the Demon Bull Family as they led an army of Bull Clones that Red Son created.
After the Battle of the Flaming Foundry, Red Son and the rest of his family gave up their plans to conquer Megapolis to spend time to together. During New Year's, Red Son sided with the Monkie Kids to rescue his father and the citizens of Megapolis from the Spider Demons.
Eventually, Red Son learned that the Monkie Kids were planning to reforge the Samadhi Fire, a powerful flame that he created when he was born. Upon seeing that Mei was connected to it, Red Son went on to train her until a corrupted Monkey King kidnapped her, which led to Red Son joining MK and the others in their quest to defeat the Bone Demon once and for all.
Official description
Demons and Other Bad GuysSon of the Demon Bull King, he is a short-tempered evil genius who builds diabolical weapons and tries to impress his dad at any cost. His mission is to rule the city and wipe out all signs of the Monkey King.[2] |
Personality
Red Son is an intelligent, prideful, and impressively short-tempered demon. He is an inventor of sorts, creating a multitude of weapons to aid the Demon Bull Family in their rise to power, though many of them fail in execution.[8] He has a flair for the dramatic and makes a show out of the majority of his actions.[5][9]
Befitting his maniacal personality, he is prone to outbursts of rage whenever things do not go his way, or when he finds himself challenged by those he deems "inferior", which is most people. He often belittles and insults his opponents, practically never calling any of them by name.
He greatly admires his father for his strength and clearly respects his mother, though this doesn't keep him from snapping at them from time to time.[7] He desperately craves approval from both of them.[6]
Red Son fears being emotionally vulnerable, becoming embarrassed to the point of blushing when letting down any of his walls.[10] He is often uncomfortable receiving physical affection, even from people he isn't antagonizing. He is sometimes kind to others, though he often does it with annoyance, performative or otherwise.[3][11]
Game appearances
LEGO Brawls
Red Son is a playable character in LEGO Brawls. He is the third character that can be unlocked after collecting enough Season Trophies in the third week of Season 14 of LEGO Brawls, Team D.B.K..
Appearance
Red Son looks akin to an average human teenager. He has red hair tied into a high ponytail, a section of it stands up at his widows peak with a yellow highlight resembling fire. He also has a 'X' shaped scar on his right cheek and a red dot on his forehead.
Minifigure
Minifigure | Show | Minifigure's description |
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Red Son's suspender straps are red instead of orange, he has silver knee-pads, as well as red makeup above his eyebrows. |
Weapons
Power Glove
Sometime before "Monkie Kid: A Hero is Born", Red Son created a silver gauntlet that can lift the Golden Staff for those who can't.
Abilities
Note: Italicized text indicates all of Red Son's former abilities.
- Holographic projections - Red Son can project holograms.
Powers
- Demon Physiology - Red Son has the traits and abilities of a demon.
- Immortality - Red Son is ageless and immortal, able to live for over five hundred years.
- Pyrokinesis - Red Son has the ability to create fire.
- Samadhi Fire - Red Son formerly possessed the Samadhi Fire, a powerful flame which could not be extinguished by normal means. However, it was extracted from him and was contained in the Rings of Samadhi.
- Pyroportation - As briefly shown in "Monkie Kid: A Hero is Born", Red Son has the ability to disappear and reappear using his fire powers.
- Pyro-telekinesis - Red Son has the ability to manipulate objects by using his fire powers.
- Portal creation - Via his fire powers, Red Son can create portals.
Vehicles
Vehicle | Description | Image | Status |
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Inferno Jet | An aircraft was that Red Son used in New Year's. | Destroyed | |
Inferno Truck | A large, heavy motor vehicle that Red Son used. | ||
Race car | A dragster and the cockpit of the Inferno Truck. It was later transformed into the Dragon Car by Mei. | ||
Non-canon | |||
Flyer | A hoverboard that Red Son uses. | Intact |
Appearances
Episodes and sets
Monkie Kid: A Hero is Born | ||||||||||||
Opening sequence: | Absent | |||||||||||
Episodes | ||||||||||||
"Monkie Kid: A Hero is Born": | Debut | |||||||||||
Sets | ||||||||||||
80006 White Dragon Horse Bike: |
Absent | 80007 Iron Bull Tank: |
Absent | |||||||||
80008 Monkie Kid's Cloud Jet: |
Appears | 80009 Pigsy's Food Truck: |
Absent | |||||||||
80010 Demon Bull King: |
Absent | 80011 Red Son's Inferno Truck: |
Appears | |||||||||
80012 Monkey King Warrior Mech: |
Absent | 80013 Monkie Kid's Team Secret HQ: |
Absent |
Season 1 | ||||||||||||
Opening sequence: | Absent | |||||||||||
Episodes | ||||||||||||
1. "Bad Weather": | Appears | 2. "Duplicatnation": | Absent | |||||||||
3. "Coming Home": | Absent | 4. "Noodles or Death": | Absent | |||||||||
5. "Calabash": | Absent | 6. "The Great Wall Race": | Appears | |||||||||
7. "Impossible Delivery": | Absent | 8. "Skeleton Key": | Appears | |||||||||
9. "Macaque": | Absent | 10. "The End is Here!": | Appears | |||||||||
Sets | ||||||||||||
80014 Sandy's Speedboat: |
Absent | |||||||||||
80015 Monkie Kid's Cloud Roadster: |
Absent | 80016 The Flaming Foundry: |
Appears |
Season 2 | ||||||||||||
Opening sequence: | Absent | |||||||||||
Episodes | ||||||||||||
"Revenge of the Spider Queen": | Appears | |||||||||||
11. "Sleep Bug": | Absent | 12. "Dumpling Destruction": | Absent | |||||||||
13. "Pig Pong Panic": | Absent | 14. "Sweet 'n' Sour": | Absent | |||||||||
15. "Minor Scale": | Absent | 16. "Game On": | Absent | |||||||||
17. "Shadow Play": | Absent | 18. "To Catch a Leaf": | Absent | |||||||||
19. "72 Transformations": | Absent | 20. "This is the End!": | Absent | |||||||||
Sets | ||||||||||||
80018 Monkie Kid's Cloud Bike: |
Absent | 80019 Red Son's Inferno Jet: |
Appears | |||||||||
80020 White Dragon Horse Jet: |
Absent | 80021 Monkie Kid's Lion Guardian: |
Absent | |||||||||
80022 Spider Queen's Arachnoid Base: |
Absent | 80023 Monkie Kid's Team Dronecopter: |
Appears | |||||||||
80024 The Legendary Flower Fruit Mountain: |
Absent | 80025 Sandy's Power Loader Mech: |
Absent | |||||||||
80026 Pigsy's Noodle Tank: |
Absent | 80028 The Bone Demon: |
Absent |
Season 3 | ||||||||||||
Opening sequence: | Absent | |||||||||||
Episodes | ||||||||||||
21. "On the Run": | Absent | 22. "Great Grand Dragon of the East": | Absent | |||||||||
23. "Smartie Kid": | Cameo | 24. "The Winning Side": | Absent | |||||||||
25. "Amnesia Rules": | Absent | 26. "The First Ring": | Appears | |||||||||
27. "Cooking With Chang'e": | Absent | 28. "Benched": | Cameo | |||||||||
29. "The King, the Prince, and the Shadow": | Absent | 30. "The Samadhi Fire": | Appears | |||||||||
Embrace Your Destiny | ||||||||||||
31. "This Imperfect World": | Appears | 32. "The Corrupted King": | Appears | |||||||||
33. "Time to Be Warriors": | Appears | 34. "Destiny Fulfilled": | Appears | |||||||||
Sets | ||||||||||||
80030 Monkie Kid's Staff Creations: |
Absent | 80031 Mei's Dragon Car: |
Absent | |||||||||
80032 Chang'e Moon Cake Factory: |
Absent | 80033 Evil Macaque's Mech: |
Absent | |||||||||
80034 Nezha's Fire Ring: |
Absent | 80035 Monkie Kid's Galactic Explorer: |
Absent | |||||||||
80036 The City of Lanterns: |
Absent | 80037 Dragon of the East: |
Absent | |||||||||
80038 Monkie Kid's Team Van: |
Absent | 80039 The Heavenly Realms: |
Absent |
Season 4 | ||||||||||||
Opening sequence: | Absent | |||||||||||
Episodes | ||||||||||||
35. "Familiar Tales": | Pictured | 36. "New Adventures": | Absent | |||||||||
37. "The Great Tang Man": | Cameo | 38. "Pig-Napped!": | Absent | |||||||||
39. "Court of the Yellow Robed Demon": | Absent | 40. "Show Me the Monster": | Cameo | |||||||||
41. "Pitiful Creatures": | Absent | 42. "The Brotherhood": | Absent | |||||||||
43. "Roast of the Monkie Kids": | Appears | 44. "The Jade Emperor": | Appears | |||||||||
The Emperor's Wrath | ||||||||||||
45. "A Lifetime of Mistakes": | Absent | 46. "The Plan Man": | Illustration | |||||||||
47. "Rip and Tear": | Absent | 48. "Better Than We Found It": | Appears | |||||||||
Sets | ||||||||||||
80040 Monkie Kid's Combi Mech: |
Absent | |||||||||||
80041 Mei's Dragon Jet: |
Absent | 80043 Yellow Tusk Elephant: |
Absent | |||||||||
80044 Monkie Kid's Team Hideout: |
Absent | 80045 Monkey King Ultra Mech: |
Absent | |||||||||
80046 Monkie Kid's Cloud Airship: |
Absent | 80047 Mei's Guardian Dragon: |
Absent | |||||||||
80048 The Mighty Azure Lion: |
Absent | 80049 Dragon of the East Palace: |
Absent |
Season 5 | ||||||||||||
Opening sequence: | Absent | |||||||||||
Episodes | ||||||||||||
TBA: | Absent | TBA: | Absent | |||||||||
TBA: | Absent | TBA: | Absent | |||||||||
TBA: | Absent | TBA: | Absent | |||||||||
TBA: | Absent | TBA: | Absent | |||||||||
TBA: | Absent | TBA: | Absent | |||||||||
Sets | ||||||||||||
80050 Creative Vehicles: |
Absent | 80051 Monkie Kid's Mini Mech: |
Absent | |||||||||
80053 Mei's Dragon Mech: |
Absent | 80054 Megapolis City: |
Appears | |||||||||
80055 Monkie Kid's Team Power Truck: |
Absent | 80056 Nine-Headed Beast: |
Absent | |||||||||
80057 Nezha's Ring of Fire Mech: |
Absent | 80058 Celestial Pagoda: |
Absent |
Other Sets | |||||||||
30341 Monkie Kid's Delivery Bike |
Absent | 40381 Monkey King: |
Absent | ||||||
40474 Build your own Monkey King: |
Absent | 40472 Monkie Kid's RC Race: |
Absent | ||||||
30344 Mini Monkey King Warrior Mech: |
Absent | 854085 Monkie Kid Key Chain: |
Absent | ||||||
854086 Red Son Key Chain: |
Appears | 30562 Monkie Kid's Underwater Journey: |
Absent | ||||||
30656 Monkey King Marketplace: |
Absent | 6476261 Monkie Kid 5th Anniversary Cake: |
Absent |
Other
Video Games | |||||||||
LEGO Brawls: | Appears |
Names in other languages
Language | Name | Translation, etymology, and notes |
---|---|---|
Arabic | ريد سون | Arabic reading of the English word Red Sun. |
Cantonese | 紅孩兒 | Translates to Red Boy. |
French | Fils Rouge | Translates to Red Son. |
German | Red Son | Same as English. |
Hebrew | רד סאן | Hebrew reading of the English Red Sun. |
Hungarian | Vörös Kópé | Translates to Crimson Rascal. |
Japanese | レッドサン | Japanese reading of the English word Red Son. |
Korean | 레드썬 | Korean reading of Red Son. |
Mandarin | 红孩儿 | Translates to Red Boy. |
Serbian | Црвени Син | Translates to Red Son. |
Spanish | Red Son | Same as English. |
Taiwanese | 紅孩兒 | Translates to Red Boy. |
Behind the scenes
- His Journey to the West character is known as "Red Boy" (紅孩兒 "Hóng Hái-ér") instead of "Red Son" and was a child instead of a young adult.
- Mei often refers to Red Son by that name.
- His name remains Red Boy in the Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese dubs, with Mei instead referring to him as "Red Kid" (红小子 "Hóng Xiǎozi").
- In the novel, Red Son engaged in a fight with Monkey King after learning about his relationship with the Demon Bull King until he became Guanyin's permanent disciple after asking her for mercy due to the pain he was in after sitting on her lotus throne, which she had transformed into several swords.[12]
- According to Villads Spangsberg, the reason Red Son wears a sleeveless turtleneck under his signature jacket is because the crew had seen fanart depicting him wearing one and worked it into his official design.[13]
Trivia
- Red Son and Princess Iron Fan are currently the only known demons to have a human appearance.
- He like listening to soft jazz.[9]
- Red Son shares many similarities with Mei:
- Both are descended from non-human creatures yet look like normal humans.
- Both have a complicated relationship with their parents.
- Both are short tempered (the two of them also share this trait with Ne Zha.)
- Both are very proud of their heritage.
- In the Mandarin dub, they both hate being referred to as "small".
- He implies that he has his own hit list.
- The Monkey King refers to him as the Demon Bull King's "half-baked son".
- Although Red Son's necklace is normally hidden under his shirt, it can briefly be seen in "The Great Wall Race" when he is ejected from the Cloud Roadster.[14]
- The waist on Red Son's minifigure is noticeably more defined than a usual minifigure's chest piece.
- Storyboard director, Ashe Jacobson, has said that they view Red Son as using any pronouns.
- Another storyboarder, Melanie Shin, has drawn Red Son dressing in a gender nonconforming fashion, such as skirts, on several occasions.
- Shin once joked, in response to Jacobson's Pokemon card edits, that Red Son: "can not be contained by one measly gender and will be taking all the genders".[15]
- Red Son's cheek scar is implied to come from repeatably punching himself in the face as an infant, as that was how the Samadhi Fire was summoned in Journey to the West and his scar is seemingly bleeding after the fire is removed in the storyboards.
- Red Son shares many parallels with Ne Zha:
- They both appear as children in Journey to the West.
- Both wield pyrokinesis, and carry spears within mythology.
- They are both quick to annoyance and prone to outbursts.
- In "Embrace Your Destiny" both team up with and emotionally support a member of the Monkie Kids, some of their poses even mirror one another.
Gallery
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References
- ↑ Adams, Jeremy. It is not a direct 1:1 representation to JTW by design. It gives us more freedom with stories and characters and hopefully points people to search and experience JTW themselves (Tweet). Archived from the original on August 28, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 LEGO® Monkie Kid™ Playsets for Ages 6-10+| Themes | LEGO.com. Archived from the original on March 10, 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Adams, Jeremy; Kai, Yin. "The First Ring". Monkie Kid. Season 3. Episode 26.
- ↑
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Adams, Jeremy. "Bad Weather". Monkie Kid. Season 1. Episode 1.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Adams, Jeremy. "Revenge of the Spider Queen". Monkie Kid. Season 2 Special.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Adams, Jeremy. "The Great Wall Race". Monkie Kid. Season 1. Episode 6.
- ↑ Adams, Jeremy. "Monkie Kid: A Hero is Born". Monkie Kid. Pilot.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Adams, Jeremy. "Skeleton Key". Monkie Kid. Season 1. Episode 8.
- ↑ Adams, Jeremy; Breen, David; Harper, Sarah; Kai, Yin. "This Imperfect World". Monkie Kid. Season 3. Episode 31.
- ↑ Adams, Jeremy; Breen, David; Harper, Sarah; Kai, Yin. "Time to Be Warriors". Monkie Kid. Season 3. Episode 33.
- ↑ Journey to the West, Volume 2, Chapter 42 (Anthony C. Yu translation, Revised Edition)
- ↑ Spangsberg, Villads. ...it came from some of the animators and the guys down at Flying Bark... But then there’s also all of you artists who are so great at portraying him on Instagram, and it’s been so much fun to go through the tag recently with all the great fanart that’s out there..
- ↑ Red sons necklace the great wall race.png
- ↑ Shin, Melanie (June 18, 2021). The great reD SON CANNOT BE CONTAINED BY ONE MEASLY GENDER AND WILL BE TAKING ALL THE GENDERS.