Chase Young is a fictional martial artist in the cartoon Xiaolin Showdown.



Chase Young is the great master of evil. He is generally considered the greatest evil genius in the world.

Chase Young lives in his secret domain, which is a hideout in the side of a mountain, much like Wuya's. Inside the mountain is his citadel, which is surprisingly serene and contains mostly fountains and sculptures. Whenever he battles a warrior on the force of good, he wagers his or her loyalty to him. Once he defeats a warrior, he transforms him or her into some feline predator, generally a tiger, lion, or leopard (apparently the leopards are always black). Because he has many cat guards in his hideout, it is presumed that he has defeated many warriors in his life. When he needs to battle multiple forces of good, he is able to make them transform back into their human forms, and it is revealed that he has defeated good warriors from all around the world. The cat soldiers (or at least some of them) have the ability to turn into crows and spy on people for Chase.

Although Chase Young looks young, he is in fact quite old. He was once on the side of good, but then he traded his soul for a potion that makes him immortal. The main ingredient is a dragon; any dragon will do, apparently. Chase Young is a legendary martial arts master, generally regarded as the best in the world. He has only been defeated once in combat throughout the series, by Master Monk Guan. Before battle, he drinks the Lao-Mang-Lone Soup, as a toast to his predicted victory. His true form is a giant (a bit larger than the average human) lizard like creature with incredible fighting abilities.

In the first appearance of Chase Young, he was after Dojo, the dragon. He needed Dojo for his potion, so he made a deal with a warrior of good, Master Monk Guan. In exchange for Guan bringing him Dojo, he would return the Spear of Guan to him, which he had won in a previous battle. However, Master Monk Guan decided to fight Chase Young, and managed to defeat him in a rematch. Although Chase Young is on the side of evil, he is still a true warrior, and to his word, he let Dojo and the Xiaolin Warriors go.

Chase Young is regarded by most to be the true villain of the series, even though Jack Spicer has done most of the fighting for the side of evil (and has not won many Shen Gong Wu), and Wuya has been around for 1,500 years. Chase Young predicts the future of Omi; that he will grow up to become an extremely strong warrior when he is an adult. He even believes that Omi will one day be strong enough to defeat him one day, which is why Chase Young's main goal throughout the series has been to turn Omi to the side of evil.

In the end of season 2, Chase Young had a complex plan to win over Omi once and for all. First, he acquired the Ying Yo-Yo, although the Xiaolin Warriors believed that Jack Spicer had won it. Next he incapacitated Master Fung by using the Ying Yo-Yo to bring him into the Ying-Yang world. Because Master Fung knew if he left the Ying-Yang world he would leave his ying behind, he put himself into a trance-like state, not to be awakened until his ying was returned and his chi was whole.

Omi, not knowing the true effects of the Ying Yo-Yo, as the part of the scroll describing the effects of the two Yo-Yo Shen Gong Wu was missing, went into the Ying-Yang World to rescue Master Fung. Once he left, his ying chi was left behind, and he became irrational and quick-tempered. He left the Xiaolin Temple, joining Chase Young, as he was the only one who helped Omi when the Temple was taken over by Jack Spicer and his new evil army. While still under the effects of losing his ying, he swore his loyalty to Chase Young.

Later, Clay, Kimiko, and Raimundo stormed Chase Young's fortress. They retrieved the Ying Yo-Yo, and went into the Ying-Yang World, along with Jack Spicer. There, they found the Yang Yo-Yo, acquired Master Fung and Omi's ying chi, and went back into the real world. Kimiko used the Machurian Musca to enter Omi's brain, as did Jack Spicer with his Changing Chopsticks. In a critical climax, as Omi was annihilating both Raimundo and Clay in combat with his new Heylin powers, Kimiko drops the bottle of Omi's ying chi. Jack Spicer catches it, but instead of destroying it, thus winning Omi to the side of evil forever, he instead helps Kimiko to return the chi to Omi.

Although Omi returns to normal and renounces his evil ways, Chase Young shows them that Omi swore his loyalty to him. Even though Omi was not thinking straight when he did so, he is bound to his word as a warrior of honor, and joins Chase Young. Like many other warriors before him, he is turned into a feline by Chase Young, a small yellow cat. This causes Chase to become infused with Omi's energy, making him stronger than ever before. However, despite his unleashing the Chi Creature on the other Xiaolin warriors, Chase was beaten and Omi returned to the side of good. With Wuya, now human, by his side, Chase continued his efforts against the Xiaolin warriors. His first attempt was to interfere with the quest for the Bird of Paradise.

It is later revealed that he was turned over to the Heylin (evil) Side by Hannibal Roy Bean, and that he was once a comrade-in-arms with Master Monk Guan before his turn. Chase Young then betrayed Hannibal, trapping him in the Yin Yang World. Now that Hannibal is back, the two are at odds, as they seem evenly matched in the field of evil. Chase does have a weak point, during the Heylin Eclipse. He is not fully incapacitated though, and with help from a disguised Kimiko, survived the attacks of Hannibal Bean and Wuya. He realized the deception afterward, noting that the Warriors had surprised him (a rare event).