Of his troops only five other Huns break out from the snow, and Shan Yu quickly realizes that he can’t or doesn’t have time to return to the village and raise the rest of the generals army, and takes his five remaining undead soldiers to capture the Emperor. Shan Yu, like his men, is buried by the avalanche, he gets out of the snow and lets out a cry which appears to be the necromantic magic he uses to bolster his army. Shan Yu then leads the Hun cavalry down to the army to attack, but Mulan manages to bury them in an avalanche by aiming a rocket at a nearby mountain. It is at this point that Shan Yu seems genuinely worried, possibly because he knows that an avalanche would destroy his troops with no hope of reanimating them afterwards. This is where Shan Yu begins to lose confidence in an easy victory when Mulan finds the undead army’s weakness purely by accident, using cannons to hold their own against Hun archers. Then comes the strongest argument for this case, when the Huns encounter Li Shang's meager force. This never comes to pass, as he meets his match at the Tung Shao mountain pass. It is possible that Shan Yu, in his arrogance left the generals dead as a reserve, but raised the general to demoralize soldiers that would see him as an undead tool of Shan Yu. When Li Shang’s army finds the village, they do not find corpses of any villager corpse’s nor the general’s body but they do find the corpses of the generals army and the general’s helmet. While heading to the Imperial city, his falcon brings him a doll from a village where the Imperial army is waiting for them at a mountain pass.Īgain, instead of avoiding the army, he and his men head in that direction, crush General Li's army at the mountain pass and raze the surrounding village to the ground, leaving no survivors. Possibly to add another corpse to his forces. As the two men leave, he has one of his archers murder one. Shan Yu, tells them to pass a message to the Emperor to send his strongest armies. Later on, the Huns destroy another village and find two spies sent by the Emperor. When one of the guards of the Great Wall reveals that the Emperor will soon know of Shan Yu's presence, his only response is to burn one of the flags before giving a satisfied "perfect," revealing that this is precisely what Shan Yu has intended to accomplish. The film opens with Shan Yu leading the Huns in an invasion of China, during the entirety of the film, he makes no effort to hide his arrival. Movie elements that point towards Shan Yu being a necromancer. Several elements of the film give credence to this theory and this theory posits that Shan Yu is raising an undead army to conquer China, and is making every attempt to have his enemy supply him with fresh corpses along the way. His detachment and amusement towards death could point to a necromantic nature. He has an imperial scout killed, razes at least two villages to the ground and is implied to commit infanticide during the course of the movie.ĭuring the film, when he fights the generals army it's implied that his army suffered little to no losses and his supreme confidence in his army seems to support that these losses mean little to him. His approach to death is rather unique in the fact that he actually kills people in cold blood. Shan Yu, as we know him from the Mulan movie, isn't a typical villain by Disney standards. Source Warning: many elements for this article were taken from the Disney Wikia article on Shan Yu, and some of the sources could not be verified.
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