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The terrible reputation of Shere Khan is enough that all the animals present during the truce shrink back in fear with each step of the tiger. This can be seen when he kills Akela for not doing what he says or trying to turn the cubs against Raksha with a mix of history and manipulation. This is further made clear when Raksha calls him out for hunting for pleasure and killing for power, as he simply puts his grim smile instead of trying to defend himself and his point of view.ĭespicable and ruthless individual, this tiger is known to hunt only for pleasure, to inspire fear, killing for power and to make anyone who dares to stand up to him suffer. Ultimately, this shows that Shere Khan is a hypocrite that's willing to twist his rule when he sees fit. He also criticizes Akela and the wolves for protecting Mowgli under their care as it goes against the law and sought out to drag Mowgli back into the jungle so that he may kill him himself, despite the man-cub having already left the jungle. However, his methods are not honorable as he's willing to use this same law for all the animals, including the pack, to turn against Mowgli when Mowgli wanted to use a burning pelt against the tiger. Shere Khan at first sight pretends to rescind the law of the jungle by demanding that Mowgli leave the jungle. Like all of his past counterparts, Shere Khan possesses an immense and irrepressible hatred for humanity.
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He is much less affable and polite than his original counterpart and is actually shown killing both a man and animal whereas his original counterpart never killed anyone (at least not on screen). This incarnation of Shere Khan is far more ruthless, manipulative, cold, and monstrous than his original counterpart. ~ Baloo and Bagheera speaking about Shere Khan's threat. He will stop at nothing until he has this boy. Who's their alpha? Akela! He can protect him.īagheera: Shere Khan killed him. We should send him back to the wolf pack. He's being hunted.By a tiger.īaloo: Shere Khan's hunting him? But if we send to the man-village, they'll ruin him. Shere Khan is an imposing Bengal tiger that has a blinded left eye and multiple burn scars on his face.īagheera: You don't understand. He was voiced by Idris Elba via motion capture, who also played Russell "Stringer" Bell in The Wire, Br'er Wolf in The Adventures of Br'e Rabbit, Charles Miner in the US version of The Office, William Roque in The Losers, Colin Evans in No Good Deed, The Commandant in Beasts of No Nation, Krall in Star Trek Beyond, Brixton Lore in Hobbs & Shaw, Macavity in the 2019 Cats film and Bloodsport in The Suicide Squad. He is based off his original incarnation of the same name. He also serves as the most feared animal of the jungle as well as the one responsible for Mowgli being adopted and raised by Bagheera and the wolf pack in the first place. He is a notorious, fearsome and scarred Bengal tiger who serves as the tyrannical king of the jungle and is obsessed on killing the man-cub Mowgli due to him having a vendetta against mankind after getting his face burned which blinded his left eye and gave him facial scars. Shere Khan is the main antagonist of the 2016 Disney live action film The Jungle Book, a remake of the 1967 animated classic. ~ Shere Khan showing his scars and expressing his hatred for mankind, before Raksha stands up to him by revealing the true personality of the evil tiger. The cub is mine! Mine to me, so go back to where you came from, you burnt beast! Raksha: What do you know about law? ( Akela: Raksha.) Hunting for pleasure. Well, let me remind you a man-cub becomes man, and man. Shere Khan: Does my face not remind you of what a grown man can do? Shift your hunting grounds for a few years and everyone forgets how the law works.