Jade Emperor is a minor character in the Disney+ series American Born Chinese.
Background[]
In most tellings, Jade Emperor, or Yudi, was born with a heavenly glow and grew up to be a kind and caring individual who tried to help people. Many years ago, the world was a terrible place full of monsters and the Jade Emperor decided to undertake the numerous Taoist teachings. When he was finished, he found that an evil demon had taken over the Heavens and Yudi ascended and managed to defeat him with his new powers. Because of this, combined with him creating the other Gods, Yudi became the Jade Emperor and has since kept a watchful and caring eye over all living things.
Personality[]
Jade Emperor is depicted as being slightly immature, yet easy going. He clearly loves to party as it means having to get a lot of attention. He is also shown to be slightly lecherous as he openly tells his wife that he does not like her and prefers her sister instead, making him a bit of scamp in this incarnation.
Physical appearance[]
Jade Emperor is very elderly in appearance with long grey hair and beard. As suiting to his name, his clothing is green jade colored with some matching black and gold accents.
Powers and abilities[]
Being the leader of all the Gods, it is implied that the Jade Emperor has numerous powers, though what these are have yet to be shown.
Trivia[]
- In the original graphic novel, the Jade Emperor refuses to acknowledge Sun Wukong as being a great deity and Wukong responds by beating him up with a magic cudgel. He, along with the rest of the Gods, demand from the emissaries of Buddha to do something about him.
- Jade Emperor's birthday is said to be on the ninth day of the first lunar month.
- There is a Marvel Comics character named Jade Emperor whose real name is Yu Huang.
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