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MK is a noodle delivery boy and the successor of the Monkey King. When MK learned that the Demon Bull King was freed from his imprisonment, he, along with Mei, Pigsy, Tang, and Sandy, went on a quest to give the Golden Staff back to the Monkey King, in hopes that he could defeat the Demon Bull King again. However, when he went to Flower Fruit Mountain, the Monkey King appoints him as his successor. MK then reunited with his friends and defeated the Demon Bull King, earning the title Monkie Kid.

Sometime later, MK's power was sealed by Monkey King, who began training him. MK fought many demons, including Macaque, who tricked him and temporarily stole his powers. After the Demon Bull family freed the Lady Bone Demon from her tomb, MK helped Princess Iron Fan and Red Son free the Demon Bull King from her possession.

When the Spider Queen took control of the city and captured the Monkey King during New Year's, MK, his friends, and Red Son traveled to the Celestial Realm to gather ingredients for an antidote to the Spider Queen's venom. MK along with the Monkey King defeated Spider Queen.

Soon after New Years, Monkey King lied to MK, stating he was going on vacation, when he was really looking for a weapon to defeat the Lady Bone Demon. After an encounter with the Bone Demon, MK began doubting himself.

Eventually, MK learned that the Spider Queen was being used as a pawn by Lady Bone Demon, who used her to make the bone mech. Lady Bone Demon stole MK's powers and sealed the staff in bone. MK was rescued by Monkey King, who revealed his plan to find the Samadhi Fire.

Official descriptions

Personality

MK is a typical teenage boy.[3][4] He enjoys hanging out with his friends, playing video games, and is often easily distracted when it comes to his job. MK is a fanboy of the Monkey King, knowing almost everything about his background. Upon gaining the Monkey King's Golden Staff, MK seeks to become hero like the Monkey King. However, he tends lose focus on the task at hand, and can be impatient when to comes to his training. He has severe arachnophobia but can overcome it when his life is at stake.

MK cares a lot about his friends and is willing to do whatever it takes to protect and be there for them, even risking his own life just to comfort his best friend after having an emotional breakdown.[5] MK is incredibly empathetic, accepting and encouraging the help of Red Son and Macaque, even though both were his enemies at the time.[6] [7] He believes that people cannot judge something by its worst qualities and that there is perfection in imperfection.

Despite his kind heart, MK is still a bit of a jerk sometimes and hes got an ego.

Monkey King's absence and Lady Bone Demon's interference caused MK's insecurities to grow. He felt that the Monkey King had made a mistake and that he wasn't fit to be his successor. He hides these feelings and becomes distant from his friends in order to protect them. Hes frustrated with Monkey Kings departure in Season 2, though it manifests more as self-doubt than anything else.

MK has admitted that sometimes, he plays dumb to lighten the mood.

In LEGO Brawls (non-canon)

Appearance

MK is a teenager[3][4] with spiky black hair that's kept up by a red bandana. He has thick eyebrows and his minifigure has a chipped tooth.

Minifigures

Minifigure	Show	Differences
		MK's Minifigure has the Chinese character for "sky" on the left side of his shirt while a red rectangle with white squares is featured on the right. His bandana has a circlet design on the front as well.
		MK's Minifigure features a breast pocket and a Pigsy's Noodles' insignia on his white dress shirt.
		MK's minifigure features more pockets on the pants and the shoes are more detailed, with the outsole having white and gold printing. Each side of the jacket also has a breast pocket and the shoulder strap has the Chinese character for "sky".
		MKs training outfit is practically identical between the minifigure and the show.

Weapons & Accessories

Book

MK's book is a red book that contains the history of the Monkey King. The front cover depicts a drawing of MK and Monkey King.

Headphones

MK occasionally uses his headphones to listen to music either while delivering noodles or on his free time.

Phone

MK's phone is a handheld object owned by him. He mainly uses it as a GPS whenever he delivers noodles. It has a noticeably cracked screen.

The Golden Staff

The Golden Staff is legendary staff owned by MK. Originally, it belonged to the Monkey King, who used the staff to imprison the Demon Bull King under a mountain.

However, during his battle with the Lady Bone Demon, MK lost the Golden Staff after his powers were taken. He later gained it back before defeating the Lady Bone Demon.

Alternate versions

His reflection

During his entrapment in the Trigram Furnace, MK found himself hopeless until he saw his reflection, who told him that he was on his own and that he needed to figure a way out by himself. Even though he struggled at first, MK took his reflection's advice and was able to escape from the furnace.

When the Lady Bone Demon attempted to trick MK into striking the furnace with his staff, his reflection frantically warned him to stop, causing MK to catch onto her ruse.

It's worth noting that MK's reflection is presumably not another living being like his clones, but a representation of his inner thoughts and subconscious for the audiences benefit.

MK Clones

Due to him having the same powers as Monkey King's, MK can create multiple versions of himself by using strains of his hair. Although, MK can only keep the clones docile depending on how well he can control his powers.[8] Otherwise they would overdo what they were told.

Abilities

Note: Italicized text indicates all of MK's former abilities.

Skillset

• Staff proficiency - While not on the same skill level as the Monkey King, MK has shown to adept in using the Golden Staff, albeit with some difficulties such as being initially unable to control its size.
• Vehicle intuition - MK has extraordinary skill in operating vehicles.
• Artistry - MK is a talented artist, he enjoys drawing but struggles when drawing Tang.

Powers

• Replication - MK has the ability to make copies of himself by using strands of his hair.
• Telepathic communication - MK can interact with other people through telepathy, thus being able to talk to another person despite not being in the same place as them.
• Size alteration - MK can grow or shrink his body.
• Flaming Fist of Fury - After playing Monkey King's VR video game, MK was able to unlock one of Monkey King's abilities, which can let him ignite his fist and throw various fire punches.
• Shapeshifting - Like the Monkey King, MK use to shapeshift into one of his 72 forms.
  • Known forms:
    • Bird
    • Gorilla
    • Spider
• Invincibility - MK was immune to any forms of physical damage. Unlike most of his former powers, which were removed by Lady Bone Demon de-powering him in "This is the End!", this power was removed by Monkey King himself in "Bad Weather" to reduce MK's power to a more manageable level.
• Gold Vision - Gold vision is a power that allows MK to see through demonic illusions.

Via the Golden Staff

• Materialization - As shown in "Monkie Kid: A Hero is Born", it was revealed that MK has the power to create anything out of the other things.

Vehicles

Air vehicles

• Cloud Bike - A hoverbike that can transform between a motorcycle and an aircraft.
• Cloud Board - A small hoverboard that MK uses at times.
• Cloud Jet (destroyed) - A red and yellow colored jet that MK used to return to Megapolis after meeting the Monkey King.

Land vehicles

• Cloud Roadster - A race car that MK created for him and Mei to win the Great Wall Race.
• Delivery Bike (non-canon) - A small motorbike that MK uses.
• Speed bike (destroyed) - A small motorcycle that was used as the cockpit of the Cloud Jet.
• Tuk-tuk - An auto-rickshaw that MK uses to deliver noodles.

Mechs

• Battle mech (non-canon) - A mech that MK uses.
• Monkey Mech - A giant mech that's based on MK's avatar from the titular video game.
• Monkie Kid Mech - A small mech that is stored in the Sea-Crate HQ.

Etymology

MK is an in-universe nickname, presumably a reference to his title as the Monkie Kid.

His name in the Chinese dubs, Qí Xiǎotiān (齐小天) translates to Together Little Sky. Xiǎo (小) meaning little and Tiān (天) meaning sky. The surname Qí (齐) is the simplified character for 齊. Both these characters come from Monkey King's title: "The Great Sage, Equal to Heaven" or Qítiān Dàshèng (齊天大聖).

Appearances

Names in other languages

Behind the scenes

• He is considered to be an enigma by Ashe Jacobson, as most people don't know much of MK, such as his real name and age.[9]
• Although he is seemingly a teenager,[4] MK's exact age is not confirmed. According to Ashe Jacobson, one reason for this was because the Monkie Kid crew wanted fans to feel like the characters could be any age.[10]

Trivia

• The reason he currently goes by "MK" is because his actual name is too long to say.[11]
• MK's outfit in the first two seasons is heavily based off of Monkey Kings classic outfit.
  • The headband references the circlet, the headphones represent his neckerchief and they both have orange tops as well as black shoes and red pants.
• MK, as of "Calabash", has been working at Pigsy's Noodles for at least two years.

• Storyboard director, Ashe Jacobson, has said that they view MK as using he/they pronouns.
  • MK has also, on several occasions, been drawn by storyboarder, Melanie Shin, with the transgender pride flag.[12][13]
• Up until "Amnesia Rules", MK was the only character to appear in every episode of the series.

References

1. ↑ LEGO® Monkie Kid™ Playsets for Ages 6-10+| Themes | LEGO.com.
2. ↑ LEGO® Life Magazine Issue 1 2022 (PDF).
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Inspired by the classic Chinese story Journey to the West, the series follows the adventures of a young teenager, MK, as he comes into terms of his mission to save the world.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Teenage hero MK and his friends must save their city from the Demon Bull King, in the LEGO adventure inspired by classic Chinese stories.
5. ↑ Adams, Jeremy; Kai, Yin. "The Samadhi Fire". Monkie Kid. Season 3. Episode 30.
6. ↑ Adams, Jeremy. "Revenge of the Spider Queen". Monkie Kid. Season 2 Special.
7. ↑ Adams, Jeremy; Breen, David ; Harper, Sarah; Kai, Yin. "Time to Be Warriors". Monkie Kid. Season 3. Episode 33.
8. ↑ Duplicatnation#Synopsis
9. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe. Yeah I think he and Mei are roughly the same age, if I had to guess. I just put a ??? on MK's age for the running gag concerning how little we actually know about him- real name, age, etc. He's an enimga! (Tweet). Archived from the original on August 29, 2022.
10. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe. Ahaha i consider 23 so young but I'm forgetting that it's all relative. I think that's why the ages are left a little grey- we want people to be able to feel like they could kinda be anywhere and relate. They're just havin' fun messing with Pigsy either way. (Tweet). Archived from the original on August 29, 2022.
11. ↑ Adams, Jeremy. "Sleep Bug". Monkie Kid. Season 2. Episode 11.
12. ↑ File:MK Trans Pride, Among Us, Red Son sketch by Mel Shin.jpg
13. ↑ File:Melanie shin mk mei casual winter.png

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