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LEGO Monkie Kid - Macaque (S1E9)
The mysterious and powerful Macaque shows up in the city, helping MK thwart an evil cloud of smoke. He offers to train MK. But the new teacher is actually an old enemy of the Monkey King and is trying to siphon the Monkey King's powers from MK to defeat his fabled arch nemesis. It's up to MK to rise up and help the Monkey King before all his power is gone.
| Runtime (min) | 11 |
|---|---|
| TMDB Rating | 6.0 (2 votes) |
| Air Date | 2020-09-12 |
| Genres | Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family |
| Network(s) | iQiyi, Youku, Tencent Video |
Storyline
When a menacing cloud of smoke threatens the city, MK finds himself struggling to stop it until a mysterious warrior named Macaque arrives and helps him drive the danger away. Impressed by MK's potential but concerned about gaps in his training, Macaque offers to become his new mentor, claiming he can teach MK techniques that the Monkey King never shared. MK, eager to prove himself and improve his skills, accepts the offer and begins training under this charismatic new teacher.
As the training intensifies, MK begins to feel weaker rather than stronger, and the Monkey King grows increasingly ill and drained of his legendary power. MK discovers that Macaque is actually an ancient enemy of the Monkey King, using their training sessions to secretly siphon the Monkey King's powers through MK in order to defeat his old rival once and for all. Realizing he has been manipulated, MK must find the courage and strength within himself to break free from Macaque's deception and help restore the Monkey King's power before it is lost forever.
What kids learn
This episode teaches children about the importance of discernment when choosing mentors and trusting new people who offer help. MK learns that not everyone who appears friendly or helpful has good intentions, and that it is important to question why someone is offering assistance, especially when it seems too good to be true. Children see how manipulation can be disguised as kindness and how villains sometimes exploit a person's desire to improve or prove themselves.
The story also reinforces the value of loyalty and recognizing when something feels wrong. MK notices that his training is having unexpected negative effects, and he must trust his instincts rather than ignore warning signs because he wants to believe in his new teacher. This encourages children to pay attention to their feelings and speak up when a situation does not seem right, even if they initially wanted to believe in someone.
Finally, the episode demonstrates that true strength comes from within and that real mentors build you up rather than drain you. MK must rely on his own courage and inner power to overcome Macaque's deception and save the Monkey King, showing children that they have the capacity to stand up against manipulation and protect the people they care about.
Parents' top 5 questions
| Question | Answer |
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| Is the deception in this episode too complex for younger children to understand? | The episode presents Macaque's manipulation in a straightforward way that most children can follow. MK visibly grows weaker while the Monkey King becomes ill, providing clear visual cues that something is wrong. The betrayal is revealed explicitly rather than subtly, making it accessible for the show's target audience. Parents can use the episode to discuss how people sometimes pretend to be helpful when they have hidden motives, reinforcing the importance of trusting instincts when something feels off. |
| How scary is Macaque as a villain? | Macaque is presented as cunning and manipulative rather than overtly terrifying. He uses charm and persuasion instead of direct violence or horror elements to achieve his goals. The threatening cloud of smoke at the beginning may be mildly intense, but the episode focuses more on psychological manipulation than frightening imagery. Most children familiar with action-adventure cartoons will find the villain appropriately challenging without being nightmare-inducing, though very sensitive younger viewers might need reassurance during tense moments. |
| What should I tell my child about accepting help from strangers? | This episode provides a natural opportunity to discuss the difference between genuine help and manipulation. You can explain that while many people are truly kind, it is important to be cautious with strangers who offer things that seem too good to be true or who try to separate children from trusted adults. Emphasize that MK's mistake was not asking the Monkey King or his friends about Macaque before training with him alone, highlighting the importance of checking with trusted adults before accepting help from unfamiliar people. |
| Does MK get seriously hurt during the power drain? | MK experiences weakness and exhaustion as his powers are siphoned, but the episode does not depict graphic injury or lasting harm. The power drain is shown through fatigue and diminished abilities rather than physical wounds. Once MK breaks free from Macaque's influence and defeats him, both MK and the Monkey King recover. The episode keeps the consequences appropriate for its young audience while still conveying that Macaque's actions were harmful and wrong. |
| How does MK ultimately defeat Macaque? | MK overcomes Macaque by recognizing the deception, refusing to continue being manipulated, and tapping into his own inner strength rather than relying solely on borrowed power. The resolution emphasizes MK's personal growth and courage rather than simply overpowering the villain through superior force. This teaches children that standing up to manipulation and trusting yourself are forms of strength, and that real victory comes from making the right choices even when someone is trying to control or deceive you. |
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| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
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| 1 | 1 | After the humiliating defeat of DBK, Red Son decides to reclaim some villainous glory by taking over the "Weather Station" a prestigious club that allows its members to control the weather in different parts of the city. MK, overconfident with his new powers, attempts to defeat Red Son, but his lack of control and discipline causes some trouble. |
| 1 | 2 | After Mr. Tang mentions the famed power of the Monkey King to duplicate himself, MK decides to do the same and creates "corrupted" clones, that supposedly will do everything for everyone while he stays home and plays video games. But, since MK is undisciplined, and doesn't really know how to use his powers, the clones go crazy, wreaking havoc. |
| 1 | 3 | When Mei, a member of the fabled and prestigious Dragon Family, is asked to house sit, MK begs to come along. General Ironclad, one of the DBK's minions, hears that the Dragon Family will be gone and realizes there's an opening to infiltrate the Dragon Temple House and steal the legendary Dragon Blade. But Mei defends her home and claims her birthright as the wielder of the fabled sword. |
| 1 | 4 | Pigsy and Mr. Tang, on the hunt for ingredients for the perfect meal, are taken hostage by the villainous Spider Queen. Sandy, MK, Mei, and Mo must take their new boat down into the sewers and free their friends before they become the main ingredients in Spider Queen's dinner. |
| 1 | 5 | MK wakes up to a perfect life... TOO perfect. Evidently, he's defeated the entire DBK family and everyone treats him like a hero. MK soon realizes everything is not as it seems, but that he's living in an illusion brought on by being trapped in the nefarious Calabash, an ancient magical device wielded by two mischievous demons. MK must shake off the illusion to defeat his comically weird enemies. |
| 1 | 6 | Everyone in the city is abuzz with the talk of an upcoming street race that will grant the winner "immortality". Mei and MK enter the race but a disagreement has them competing against each other. Their frustration boils over, causing them both to wreck and the DBK family to take the lead. Our heroes must learn to work together to defeat the DBK clan before they can claim the ultimate prize! |
| 1 | 7 | MK is easily distracted, something that hasn't gone unnoticed by his employer, Pigsy, who challenges MK to deliver an order in an allotted time. MK must go through a series of obstacles that challenges his focus in order to accomplish his goal. Eventually, he succeeds and arrives at his destination, delivering the order to... The Monkey King! |
| 1 | 8 | DBK's family's found a mysterious power source that will allow the brute to reclaim his former glory. But the strange item is locked behind an impervious ancient gate that needs a key... the same key that was given to MK as a 'thank you' for saving the city over and over. Now, it's a game of cat and mouse as DBK's family tries to get the key and our heroes attempt to keep it out of their hands. |
| 1 | 9 | The mysterious and powerful Macaque shows up in the city, helping MK thwart an evil cloud of smoke. He offers to train MK. But the new teacher is actually an old enemy of the Monkey King and is trying to siphon the Monkey King's powers from MK to defeat his fabled arch nemesis. It's up to MK to rise up and help the Monkey King before all his power is gone. |
| 1 | 10 | When MK arrives back in the city after an extended training session with Monkey King, he discovers the villainous Demon Bull King has taken over the city! Now he must use everything he’s learned this season to break into DBK’s hideout and defeat the family that causes him so much trouble! |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | A new game sweeps across the city, but instead of fun and frivolity, the game is actually a virus that knocks out everyone who plays it, leaving the "Cloud" free and clear to be pilfered by one of Spider Queen's minions - Syntax, the Tech Spider! It's up to MK to swing into action, shut down the cloud, and wake up the city. |
| 2 | 2 | MK receives a mysterious call from Monkey King. Turns out, he may have accidentally knocked over a "Celestial Dumpling". It's streaking toward earth, and if it hits... well, everything will be destroyed. To contain the Dumpling, MK and Tang must find a Mystical Vase at Flower Fruit Mountain, a place replete with mystery and danger. |
| 2 | 3 | Pigsy has replaced the Monkey Mech game with Ping Pong and gets wildly addicted. MK has to break Pigsy from his addiction in order to save his shop. Meanwhile - Sandy accidentally gets put to sleep with a supercharged sleepy time tea. When a box, marked "from Monkey King" arrives, Mo finds himself having to take care of a bunch of Fruit Babies that are running rampant all throughout the boat. |
| 2 | 4 | Speedy Panda stores have appeared everywhere along with their biker gang delivery boys. Things boil over until a "food war" is declared. "Food critics" arrive, and Pigsy and friends must compete in a Food Olympics against Speedy Panda... which just so happens to be owned by Jin and Yin, the Gold and Silver Demons! |
| 2 | 5 | MK accidentally shrinks himself and falls down the drain, into the sewers, and finds himself back in the lair of the Spider Queen. Trying to escape, MK finds a young girl in need of rescuing. However, she's really Lady Bone Demon in disguise! Meanwhile, Tang has become a food critic, and Pigsy bends over backwards to make sure he's pleased. |
| 2 | 6 | MK is stuck in his training. He's not really advancing in his power set and feels like he'll never really be the hero he needs to be unless he goes through exactly what Monkey King went through. When he finds a VR video game that emulates the Monkey King's battles, MK jumps in, hoping to "live" Monkey King's life in order to be a better hero. |
| 2 | 7 | Our heroes attend a shadow play, secretly run by the Macaque. Using a magical lantern, he imprisons the other heroes to toy with MK. MK feels a strong connection to the play, about a Warrior abandoned by his Hero. When Macaque finally reveals himself, he torments MK for not realising his friends were missing. Macaque declares he will be MK's teacher, even if MK doesn't want him to be. |
| 2 | 8 | MK has got a bad case of the hiccups. Real bad. Because of his powers, every time he hiccups it causes a giant earthquake! There's only one thing that can cure it, a special tea made from a flower that only Sandy can procure from a dangerous location. While he attempts to find the leaf, Huntsman; one of Spider Queen's henchmen, is in pursuit, trying to steal the flower for his master. |
| 2 | 9 | MK has learned the power of TRANSFORMATION! Kind of... When Spider-Bots steal Pigsy's sign, MK needs to use his new powers to get it back! Down in Spider Queen's lair, MK finds she is trying to build a weapon to fight her old ally, Lady Bone Demon. He knows he needs to stop her, but maybe there's hope for his old enemy? |
| 2 | 10 | After gathering all the secret ingredients, Lady Bone Demon creates a POWERFUL BONE MECH which she uses to attack MK while he is out training. Even though MK has gained new powers, Lady Bone Demon has figured out how to defend against each one and everything turns sideways as MK is defeated! Now our hero desperately needs help to make it out alive, and find some way to come back and save the day! |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | Monkey King battles the hero Ne Zha for a map that will lead to a weapon strong enough to defeat the Lady Bone Demon. With MK in peril, Monkey King uses the last of his strength to get back, but not before MK loses his powers. Now, MK, Monkey King, and the other heroes are on the run, pursued by the Macaque! Without his powers, MK must make a tough choice in order to defeat the villain! |
| 3 | 2 | When the heroes' drone crashes in the ocean, they are captured by the Dragon of the East, Mei's distant uncle! Furious with Monkey King for stealing the staff eons ago, he confiscates the map and imprisons the heroes... all except Mei! Now it's up to her to retake the map and save her friends before Macaque catches up to them! |
| 3 | 3 | The heroes drive across a vast desert, headed for the first location on the map. When their van breaks down, the team is stranded until they find an Oasis owned by the crafty Goldfish Demon! He offers to let them try and win whatever they need in his game show. MK, desperate to prove he can be the 'smart one' now he has no powers, agrees to play. Problem is, he's not the smart one! |
| 3 | 4 | After a pitstop, the heroes get back on the road. Strangely, MK notices they're headed East, not West! Something's wrong! We soon learn Macaque has tricked them and is bringing MK back to Lady Bone Demon. Meanwhile, Pigsy, Mr Tang, and Monkey King realise they've been separated from the others, but before they can go looking for them, they are attacked by a horrifying demon! |
| 3 | 5 | When a demon attacks, Tang and Pigsy know their only choice is to wake Monkey King from his mystic meditation. Monkey King scares off the demon, but now thinks he's his younger self! When the demon kidnaps Tang, it's up to Pigsy and Young Monkey King to rescue their friend. Meanwhile, Tang wakes up in the castle of a beautiful Queen who 'rescued him from the demon'. Tang isn't buying it... |
| 3 | 6 | MK, Mei and Sandy find themselves stranded in the desert, but a familiar figure emerges to save them: Red Son is back! Bringing the trio to his family's fortress, the heroes overstay their welcome with the villainous trio as they try to find out everything they can about the creation of the Samadhi Fire... and soon realize that the first ring is here, in Demon Bull King's nose! |
| 3 | 7 | Watching Pigsy's favourite cooking show, "Cooking with Chang'e", MK realises the second ring of Samadhi is there in her kitchen... On the moon! Soon, Pigsy, MK and the Monkey King are flying to the moon in a rocket! Making their way through Chang'e's solar base, they need to avoid Chang'e's killer bunny mechs and make it to the kitchen! However, getting out is going to be even harder than getting in! |
| 3 | 8 | The heroes arrive at the last stop on the map: Lantern City! But to get the final ring, they'll need to compete in a talent show! Stuck as band manager, Tang doesn't want to just sit around and wait. He's going to find the ring himself! Unfortunately, he's leading the Macaque right to it! To everyone's surprise, Tang stands up to Macaque, tapping into a power he didn't know existed... |
| 3 | 9 | Now with all three rings, the heroes ask Monkey King 'what's next?' But before he can answer, Ne Zha arrives, hunting them down. While Monkey King holds Ne Zha off, MK and the heroes must get the rings to a mystic mountain where they can reforge the fire. However, when Macaque arrives, now supercharged with Bone Demon power, things go from bad to worse. |
| 3 | 10 | Now that the ritual has been started, it can't be stopped. Worse, something is happening to Mei! Ancient secrets are revealed as Monkey King finally tells the heroes the truth: there is a fourth ring! All of the Samadhi Fire is absorbed into Mei, and there are now two unstoppable forces for the heroes to contend with. The Monkie Kid team is pushed to breaking point, and nothing will be the same! |
| 3 | 11 | With the heroes' team in disarray, MK and Ne Zha try desperately to stop the Monkey King from confronting the Lady Bone Demon on his own, while Mei learns how to control the Samadhi Fire with Red Son. When MK catches up to the Monkey King, it seems that his mentor might actually stand a chance of defeating her! |
| 3 | 12 | The Lady Bone Demon successfully overcomes the Monkey King and now has the perfect champion to complete her 'destiny'. MK reunites with Mei and Red Son, but before they can come up with a plan, the corrupted Monkey King arrives to take Mei and the Samadhi Fire to his new master! Now MK and the heroes will need to fight their strongest opponent ever! |
| 3 | 13 | With the Monkey King under Lady Bone Demon's control and Mei imprisoned in her tower, MK and other heroes formulate a plan to rescue their friends and save the world. With help from Macaque, new information from a depowered Mayor, and the Lady Bone Demon's power stretch thin, this is their last chance to stop Lady Bone Demon! |
| 3 | 14 | The final battle between the heroes and Lady Bone Demon has begun. MK must save his mentor from her control and stop her before she can release the Samadhi Fire and destroy the world! When all our heroes embrace their own destinies, the ultimate fight is on. Working together, they have one shot at defeating their ultimate enemy once and for all! |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | MK is living that hero lifestyle, busting bad guys and saving the day, until he opens a cursed scroll and his world is flipped upside down once again! |
| 4 | 2 | Unable to reseal the scroll, MK's friends become trapped inside! Luckily, a mysterious new hero arrives in time to save Mei and MK from the same fate! |
| 4 | 3 | In order to find Tang, our heroes must start their Journey where Monkey King began his! In the company of the great monk Tang Sanzang. |
| 4 | 4 | Kidnapped by Pigsy in the body of his demonic ancestor, Zhu Ganglie, Tang must help Pigsy remember who he is before he's turned into demon-dinner! |
| 4 | 5 | When our heroes are scattered to different memories, Mei is captured by a powerful demon, and her family sword is broken! |
| 4 | 6 | Trapped in the body of his ancestor, Sandy challenges Pigsy to a fight! Meanwhile, MK meets the wise master who taught Monkey King all he knows. |
| 4 | 7 | As MK faces off with the scroll's curse, he's forced to confront his mysterious past and his ominous future. |
| 4 | 8 | Pulled from the scroll, the gang find themselves facing a new threat. This time, they are totally outclassed. |
| 4 | 9 | As the Brotherhood prepare their assault on the Celestial Realm, the heroes must train if they have any chance of saving the world! |
| 4 | 10 | Things aren't looking good as the Brotherhood overwhelms the Celestial Armies. Desperate to act, Mei leads the charge in a rescue mission. |
| 4 | 11 | With the fate of the universe in the balance, the team's only hope lies in someone who stood up to the Jade Emperor before and survived: Monkey King. |
| 4 | 12 | The gang gear up and prepare for their own assault on the Celestial Realm. |
| 4 | 13 | The universe tears at the seams as MK and friends engage in a final standoff with The Brotherhood. |
| 4 | 14 | It's all over! The New Jade Emperor's power is completely out of control and the universe tearing apart before our heroes' eyes! MK must help his enemy become the hero he believes himself to be before it's too late! |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | MK is tormented by visions of the past and future. Monkey King and Macaque brace for the impending storm, facing the unknown. |
| 5 | 2 | MK, Monkey King and Macaque are called to the Underworld to stand trial for their 'crimes,' confronting their past misdeeds. |
| 5 | 3 | On the run from the celestial realm, our heroes seek the five Color Stones to save the universe! Their first destination: Burning Mountain! |
| 5 | 4 | Sandy demands a one-on-one training session with MK. To his dismay, Sandy's technique is not combat, but meditation. |
| 5 | 5 | The team splits up to locate the next stone. Pigsy and Tang encounter trouble, while Mei runs into a familiar face from her past. |
| 5 | 6 | At a food festival, the heroes search for the next stone, but they instead find Ne Zha and the celestial host blocking their path. |
| 5 | 7 | Inside Li Jing's Pagoda, a demon traps the heroes in memories. MK is shown memories he never knew existed. |
| 5 | 8 | Now that the heroes obtained all of the Color Stones, it's time to save the world! However, the secret enemy reveals himself, signaling that their trials are only beginning. |
| 5 | 9 | As the enemy fights the heroes, MK must confront his mentor. He knows what he must do, but Monkey King is trying to prevent him from following through with his destiny. |
| 5 | 10 | Amid the chaos beyond the world, MK encounters the goddess Nüwa and uncovers a secret so devastating it could alter everything. |
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