Wuya

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Wuya is an evil Heylin witch who once was the most powerful and most evil being in the universe. She is one of three main antagonists of the show. She counqered the world 1500 years ago but was defeated in the first Xiaolin Showdown by the legendary Grand Master Dashi and trapped in a wooden Puzzle Box, However, many years later she was released by Jack Spicer. She is usually seen working with a partner (often Jack Spicer) to collect Shen Gong Wu and take over the world once again; she has the power to sense Shen Gong Wu. However, she is a ghost during most of the series, apart from in the third season in which she regained her human form with out her powers, and she needs a living person to collect them for her. Wuya serves as the main antagonist of the first season.

Personality

Wuya is a very ruthless, cruel, and cunning person who will stop at nothing to achieve her goals of world domination, and will ally herself with any one to do so. In her ghost form, Wuya is often cranky, though the extent of this is different from season to season; In season one she was generally very calm and coniving except when Jack was doing something stupid, while in season two she often just yelled at Jack and complained about things. In her human form, Wuya is much more calm and decisive. She seems to fear Dojo's escape from his box with such intensity that she feared he would end the world. Despite her evil and malevolent ways, Wuya has always kept her word. An example of this is her giving Raimundo everything he asked for after he had helped her take over the world, even though she could have easily betrayed him.

Powers and ablities

In her human form, Wuya has almost god-like powers mostly derived from Heylin Dark Magic which is far superior to that of the powers and abilities of Chase Young and Hannibal Roy Bean -- more than they could ever master. She can change the landscape of the whole world simply by regianing her powers and can create large amounts of Rock Creatures to do her bidding; she can also create a palace from a mountain with a swish of her hands. It is assumed that she is immortal, even though this has never technically been plainly stated. However, the full extent of Wuya's powers are not fully explored or shown in the series, though it is implied that Wuya's dark powers are more powerful than Shen Gong Wu and would easily defeat Chase Young, Hannibal Roy Bean, and certianly Jack in battle.

Role in the show

Season One

Wuya's story began 1500 years prior to the show's beginging, were she fought a great battle battle between herself and the great Xiaolin Master Dashi in the first Xiaolin Showdown. Wuya pitted her dark magic agianst Dashi's Shen Gong Wu, and in the end Dashi was the victor and Wuya was imprisoned in a wooden Puzzle Box. So, Dashi spead his Shen Gong Wu around then earth so no evil could ever lay the hands on them.

In the start of the show, Wuya was released from her prison by a boy named Jack Spicer, a self-procliamed evil boy genius, so she persaded him to join the hunt for the Shen Gong Wu. She could not touch anything, for she was a spirit and needed Jack to collect the Shen Gong Wu for her, in hopes of taking over the world.

As the series progressed, Wuya and Jack worked together to find the Shen Gong Wu. However, they often failed due to the Monks' skills and Jack Spicer's incompitance. Wuya reacted by begining to show signs of leaving Spicer in search of a better option, such as Katnappe.

Near the end of the series, Wuya and Jack had the necessary amount of Shen Gong Wu needed to create Mala Mala Jong, the anient demon warrior who was completly loyal to Wuya, and so Wuya decided she on longer needed Spicer and left with Mala Mala Jong to raid the Xiaolin Temple. Contrary to expectations and much to her anger, the Chosen Ones had left with the Shen Gong Wu. However, much to Wuya's good fortune, the Dragon of the Wind, Raimundo returned to save Master Fung, but the young monk was no match for Mala Mala Jong; Wuya went inside Raimundo's head and found out the location of the hidden Shen Gong Wu and set out to find them in the side of a mountion. However, unkown to her, Omi, the Dragon of the Water, gained the Golden Tiger Claws and took the Heart of Jong out of the monster. Therefore, Mala Mala Jong was no more, and much to Wuya's dissappoinment, she seemingly had no choice but to go back to Jack.

After these events, Wuya attemped to try and reform her partnership with Spicer. However, Jack had no need for her and left her without an ally. Despite this, Wuya had a back-up plan after the events of the previous day. The Dragon of the Wind, Raimondo had been angered by not being promoted to the rank of Xiaolin Appentace and left to go to his home town. There Wuya found him alone and offered him a "faster more effective way of acheiving his greatness." However, the Reversing Mirror revealed itself before Raimundo had given her an answer, and he returned to the temple to start the search for it. After winning the Mirror in a Showdown against Jack, he accepted Wuya's offer, and joined her on the Heylin side to plan their conquest of the world. Wuya sent Raimundo to get the Serpant's Tail so she could regain her powers and her body. He succeded in retrieving it, and Wuya was once again the most powerful being in the universe!

Season Two

Now that Wuya was all-powerful, the world changed its landscape as soon as she transformed and the Reversing Mirror shattered under her feet. The monks attempted to stop her, but they were powerless against the magic of the Heylin Witch, and so they retreated with Jack (who had saved them from Wuya's Rock Creatures). Then, Wuya raised her palace, where she began her conquest of the globe. Now the world was her's with Raimundo at her side, and the Xiaolin Temple was easily delt with. The monks had nowhere to go for help, but Jack had an idea to send Omi back in time to get a new Puzzle Box from Dashi; after sending Omi to the past the monks and Jack were captured and imprisoned by Wuya. Suddenly, Omi returned successful and tried to open the box in the presence of Wuya; unfourtunatly, it did not open and victory was certian for the Heylin Witch. Unforseen by Wuya, Raimundo decided, after she triumphantly and arrogantly gave him the box, to help his friends, and he opened the box. The unexpecting villain was instantly incarcerated back in the Puzzle Box, and Wuya's regin of evil ended as the world returned to normal (the Reversing Mirror was also restored).

Very shortly after her defeat, Kattnappe released her from the Box; the two decided to join forces. However their partnership didn't last long, due to Kattnappe's lack of determantion. Soon after, the ghost and Jack reforged their coalition, and the two started once agian to collect the Shen Gong Wu. They continued to work together on many occations, but tentions were strained most of the time, due to Jacks new obsesstion with his evil hero and Wuya's ex-Xiaolin enemy, Chase Young. Soon after, Chase and Wuya began to work together to turn Omi to the dark side. After their plan succeded and Chase Young ruled the earth, he used the Serpant's Tail and the Reversing Mirror to return her to her human form; however, he did this without giving Wuya her god-like powers, so she whould never be more powerful as him. Wuya responded to this cooly, stating that she would had done the same thing and stayed loyaly by his side, until Chase was defeated by the monks in a Xiaolin Showdown.

Season Three

After Chase's defeat, Wuya and he lived together in his fortess for most of the season, and the two worked together many times. Despite this, there was not sense of trust between the two, and Chase secretly had her under constant watch. When Hannibal Roy Bean returned from the Ying Yang World, she began to work with him in hopes of using him to gain Shen Gong Wu and regain her powers. The two made a private plan to destroy Chase Young. To their dismay, the plan failed, and the two parted ways. After this event, Chase and Wuya settled their differences and decieded to stay together "for the sake of evil." Wuya is seen along with the other Heylin villians at the end of the last episode.

Relationships

Heylin

Jack Spicer

Wuya and Jack shared a very strained relationship, mostly because of Jack's incompitance; he often failed, which angered her to a great exstent. Wuya seems to have no problem leaving Jack for a better option like Katnappe or Chase Young; however, when Wuya needed help from Jack he always complied, mostly because if he didn't she would probably use someone else to continue to foil his plans until he did. Wuya also acted as a kind of mentor or motherly figure for Jack in the early days of their partnership.

Chase Young

One of Wuya's most notable relationships is with the Heylin Warrior, Chase Young. The two lived together in his palace. Through the third season he had a sense of respect for her, regaruding her as a worthly partner in evil. This is something that Wuya did not seem to pick up on or didn't show much deference for. However, like her relationship with Jack Spicer, it was often strained, due to Chase's pide and Wuya's treacherous ways. Eventually, she began to side with Hannibal, much to Chase's disapproval, but the two eventually setlled their differences and decided to stay together "for the sake of evil," hinting at some from of relationship between the pair of potent villains.

Hannibal Roy Bean

Contrary her relationship with Chase and Jack, Wuya's relationship with Hanniabal is very unique for one particular reason: the two seem to share a mutual respect for each other and have always cooperated quite well when working together. The two shared a common enmity against Chase Young, and so on some occasions worked togther to destory him. Also, Wuya is the only other villian not to be betrayed by Hannibal (or vise versa) in the show, suggesting that they enjoy one another's company.

Xiaolin

Raimundo

Wuya lucratively tempted Raimundo into joining her on the Heylin side in the end of season one by preying on his dissatisfactions. He used the Reversing Mirror and the Serpant's Tail to convert her back into her physical form and restore her powers. This gave her the ability to take control of the world again, as she did 1500 years ago. She rewarded him for his loyalty by giving him anything he wanted. It appears that she even let him rule by her side, granting him a limited amount of her power (since he could summon Rock Creatures on his own). In the end, however, Raimundo realized that what he really wanted was his friends, and he betrayed Wuya by trapping her in the Puzzle Box Dashi had made. Much later, in "The Last Tempatation of Raimundo," Raimundo was temperarally possessed by Wuya when the Shen Gong Wu had taken over his body and will-power because of the passing of the Heylin Comet. The monks quickly freed Raimundo from the Wu and Wuya.

Grand Master Dashi

Dashi and Wuya share a very complex relationship. It has not been revealed how the two first met; however, desipite the fact the two are mortal enemies, Wuya seems to have a good sense of respect for how he dresses. She once stated to Raimundo, "He was always was a fool; a smart dresser, but a fool." This also implies she knew him prior to their war with each other, which would also explain how Dashi speaks in a smug and childish tone when he talks to her. Through Xiaolin legand they have become the symbols of good and evil ( Xiaolin and Heylin )-- Dashi representing good and Wuya representing evil.

Physical Appearance

Human Form

In her human form, Wuya can resemble a vampire in some aspects. She looks quite young and beautiful, despite her true age; she has long red hair and often wears a black robe with purple outlines and a red sash with no footwear, walking barefoot and on tiptoe almost always. She wears eye makup similar to Jack Spicer's, but under both eyes and with three vertical lines coming off of each horizontal line. Her eyes are an abnormaly bright green (the same color that her Heylin Magic powers seems to be represented by), showing behind her lovely apperance how twisted and evil she truly is.

Ghost Form

Wuya's ghost form looks very similar to a squid; a disembodied floating head with many tentacles that resemble hair. She also is constantly masked in this form. The mask's eyes resemble Jack's eye goggles. She flashes and sparks when a Shen Gong Wu is located or when she is extremely emotional.

Wuya is commonly called an "old hag," due to her age and appearance as a spirit. While still referred to as a hag, in her human form, Wuya is actually youthful and extremely striking. As she has not physically aged in the episode "Time After Time," which takes place 80 years into the future, it can be assumed that she is essentially immortal and has eternal youth.

Voice

Susan Silo has done the voice of Wuya for the character's entire existence. While in her spirit form, Susan Silo uses a deeper more raspy voice along with an echo effect to make the character seem more frightening. However, in human form, Susan uses a much more alluring and smooth voice to make the character appear more stimulating and manipulative.

References

Characters

Xiaolin Showdown Xiaolin Omi • Raimundo Pedrosa • Kimiko Tohomiko • Clay Bailey • Dojo Kanojo Cho • Master Fung • Grand Master Dashi • Master Monk Guan • Chucky Choo Neutral Jessie Bailey • Mr. Bailey • Jermaine • Mr. Tohomiko • Megan Heylin Jack Spicer • Wuya • Chase Young • Hannibal Roy Bean • Ying-Ying Bird • Katnappé • Le Mime • Tubbimura • Cyclops • Vlad • Mala Mala Jong • PandaBubba • Gigi • Sibini Xiaolin Chronicles Xiaolin Omi • Raimundo Pedrosa • Kimiko Tohomiko • Clay Bailey • Ping Pong • Dojo Kanojo Cho • Master Fung Neutral Heylin Jack Spicer • Wuya • Chase Young • Shadow • Katnappé • Tubbimura