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| "The cub is mine. I already tasted it's mother's blood. It is my right." |
| — Shere Khan to the wolf pack about Mowgli in Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle |
Shere Khan is a male Bengal tiger and the main antagonist in Mowgli:Legend of the Jungle. He was voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch in motion capture. He is Mowgli's archenemy whom he is obsessed with killing.
Personality[]
Shere Khan is known throughout the entire jungle as a tiger without mercy as well as being ruthless, vengeful, sadistic, psychopathic, arrogant, hateful, power-hungry, and hypocritical, who mainly kills for his own pleasure instead of survival. His most defining personality trait is his unbounded hatred towards mankind, possibly due to a previous encounter with them, and was willing to break the law of the jungle to satisfy his thirst for their blood. He always makes grand gestures about the ever-changing nature of the jungle, ranting to Akela how he allowed the man to live among the inhabitants. However, he was also incapable to think that perhaps he was also one of the reasons that the humans are cruel towards their environment.
Appearence[]
In contrast to his book counterpart from Rudyard Kipling's original novel, this version of Shere Khan is portrayed as a much more sinister and evil large Bengal tiger with a wild and with a much more muscular appearance than the others Shere Khans in the other films.
Just like his original counterpart, he is shown as a tiger with a deformed right front leg assuming he went through a fight with humans while in the book he was born that way.
Curiosities[]
He was nicknamed ''the lame one'' by his mother due to his lame leg, even with a limp and crippled leg shere khan remains a very agile and fast tiger being able to catch several cows, run with almost no difficulty or even he is able to climb even a tree.
Biography[]
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle[]
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