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name | Shere Khan |
first | "Mowgli's Brothers" |
last | "How Fear Came" |
nickname | The Lame One |
species | Bengal Tiger |
gender | Male |
creator | Rudyard Kipling }} |
In "Mowgli's Brothers", Shere Khan's failed attempt to hunt humans causes a human "cub" to stray from his parents. By the time Shere Khan catches up with the infant it has already been adopted by the Indian wolves Raksha and Father Wolf, who have named the child Mowgli. Despite Shere Khan's bluster, Mowgli is accepted into Akela's wolf pack and protected by Bagheera and Baloo. Furious at losing his kill, the tiger swears that the boy will be his some day.
Over the next decade, while Mowgli is growing up, Shere Khan infiltrates the wolf pack by promising the younger wolves rich rewards once Akela is deposed. His plan comes to a head when the young wolves maneuver Akela into missing his kill, and the pack council meets to expel him.
At the meeting Shere Khan threatens that if the wolves do not give him Mowgli he will take over their hunting territory. Having been warned by Bagheera, however, Mowgli attacks Shere Khan and his allies with a burning branch and drives them away. Akela leaves the pack to become a lone hunter. Mowgli returns to the human village, but swears that he will return one day with Shere Khan's skin.
In "Tiger! Tiger!" Mowgli is adopted by Messua and her husband and learns human ways. He also learns that the villagers have heard of the lame tiger, which has a price on its head, but believe it is lame because it is the reincarnation of a money-lender who was lamed in a riot. When Mowgli scoffs at these fanciful tales the villagers decide to put him to work herding buffalo to keep him out of trouble.
While he is doing so he meets his wolf friend Grey Brother, who tells him that Shere Khan is still planning to kill him. Grey Brother forces Tabaqui to tell him where and when Shere Khan is planning to strike, and then kills the jackal. With the help of Akela, Grey Brother and Mowgli trap Shere Khan in a narrow canyon and incite the buffalo to stampede him to death.
Mowgli then sets out to fulfil his promise by skinning Shere Khan, but while he is doing so he is interrupted by the village's elderly chief hunter Buldeo who wants the tiger's hide for the reward. Mowgli calls Akela, who pins Buldeo down while Mowgli finishes removing the hide.
Mowgli assumes that this will be an end of the matter, since in the jungle quarrels are usually settled quickly, but when he returns to the village with the hide and the buffalo the villagers drive him away, accusing him of witchcraft. Furious at being driven out of not one but two 'packs', Mowgli leaves. That night he fulfils his pledge by laying Shere Khan's hide upon the wolf pack's council rock, and then dances upon the hide singing of his anger and confusion.
Thus Shere Khan's story comes to an end, but the consequences of Mowgli's actions in defeating him continue to affect Mowgli and his adoptive parents. In the story "Letting In the Jungle" in The Second Jungle Book Mowgli discovers that the villagers are preparing to burn to death Messua and her husband for harbouring a witch-boy so Mowgli prepares to rescue them and take revenge on Buldeo and the villagers.
Shere Khan also appears in the story "How Fear Came," which is set between the first and second halves of "Mowgli's Brothers," and probably some time after "Kaa's Hunting". In this story the tiger comes to drink from the river just after having killed a human purely for sport, prompting Hathi the Elephant to tell the story of why tigers, alone of all the animals in the jungle, are allowed to hunt humans for pleasure at certain times. This story, in which Mowgli appears mainly as an observer, may be seen as a direct ancestor of Kipling's Just So Stories.
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name | Shere Khan |
first | The Jungle Book |
creator | Rudyard Kipling |
lbl1 | Voiced by |
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In the climactic battle of the movie, Shere Khan finds Mowgli. Impressed by the boy standing up to him, Shere Khan, for his own amusement, gives him a ten second head-start to run-away. Once he reaches ten, Baloo grabs his tail and holds him back. Shere Khan chases Mowgli, who is being carried away by the vultures, while dragging Baloo behind him. Baloo proves such an impediment to Khan that he decides to fight Baloo, nearly killing him, until the vultures arrive and distract him. Mowgli finds a burning branch from a lightning-struck tree and ties it to Khan's tail. When a vulture's comment prompts Khan to notice the branch, he attempts to put the fire out and then flees when he fails.
In the Disney sequel, The Jungle Book 2, Shere Khan returns to the jungle, humiliated and determined to kill Mowgli for tying stick with fire to his tail, this time as revenge. Nothing could stop the tiger; not even the fire as he had overcome his fear of it. During the conclusion of the final battle in an ancient temple surrounded by lava, Shere Khan falls into a pit of molten lava but lands on a stone slab, trapped underneath the head of a tiger statue. He is not killed, and is last seen being teased by Lucky (voiced by Phil Collins), the new member of the Vultures who had been teasing him throughout the whole movie. His death is not shown or mentioned, but is obvious as he can not live without nutrition or water and is trapped in never ending heat. His death was also implied at the end of the film when Bagheera willingly allows Mowgli, Shanti, and Ranjan to come into the jungle and spend time with Baloo as he had been opposed to it when Khan was not trapped. He is now currently deceased in The Jungle Book films and is no longer a threat to Mowgli. In The Jungle Book 2, Khan was voiced by the late Tony Jay, who reprised his role from the Disney Afternoon series Tale Spin.
Shere Khan was included in the cast of characters in the Disney Afternoon series Tale Spin, being cast as the richest corporate magnate in the harbor town of Cape Suzette. He was a nominal villain who occasionally allied with the heroes when it suited him—such as when he allowed Baloo to fly his plane after destroying the robotic pilot he had been using previously, as the pilot's A.I. lacked the ability to cope with unexpected occurrences during the flight. He was voiced by the late Tony Jay, who provided a voice remarkably similar to George Sanders' rendition and who later voiced Disney villain Judge Frollo.
In the 1994 film, Shere Khan is presented as a more sympathetic character and anti-hero. Despite being a dangerous threat to Mowgli, Khan appears rarely and instead serves as a secondary antagonist of the film while an arrogant British captain named William Boone (who is played by Cary Elwes) serves as the primary antagonist and villain of the film. Khan does not kill for sport, and his sole goal is to protect the jungle from those who break "the laws of the jungle", including humans who trespass with guns and kill animals for fun and not food. At the beginning of the movie, he sees numerous guards shooting animals for fun, and becomes enraged at this. That night, he attacks the humans' camp in revenge for the animals' death, and kills Mowgli's father, who was defending one of the hunters, in the process. Other than killing Mowgli's father in the process, Khan also kills a guard and a British colonel named Claibourne. He is not seen again until the second half of the movie, where he mauls Lt. Wilkins, a henchman of Captain Boone. He also cause Wilkins to shoot one his groups guides, Buldeo, by roaring. After the climactic battle between Mowgli and Boone, Khan and Mowgli meet face to face after a long time. Khan is obviously still distrusting of Mowgli (and all humans in general), and attempts to scare him away by roaring in his face, but Mowgli stubbornly roars back and stares Khan down. Khan develops a newfound respect for Mowgli, and begins to see him as a fellow "creature of the jungle".
Shere Khan also appeared as a main character in the Disney Channel series Jungle Cubs, where he was portrayed as a tiger cub, more a bully than a predator, but nonetheless friends with the other characters. In this show, Shere Khan is voiced by Jason Marsden. The producers originally wanted Khan to keep his British accent for the show, but later changed their mind and Shere Khan ended up with an American accent, completely different from that of his adult version. The adult version of himself appears in the Jungle Cubs: Born to be Wild video(again voiced by Tony Jay), and in these cutscenes, he attempts to kill Mowgli when he (Mowgli), Baloo and Bagheera walk into his part of the jungle. Baloo and Bagheera try to reason with Khan by recounting the Red Dogs story, in which they and the other animals saved Khan's life, but Khan refuses to listen. Baloo then throws a stone at a beehive and grabs Khan by the head, letting go only when the beehive falls on his head. Khan, with the beehive still on his head, runs away from the angry bees.
Shere Khan appears once again as a villain in Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, where he is voiced by Sherman Howard and accompanied by his sidekick Tabaqui, who in this version is a spotted hyena.
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Shere is a village in the Guildford district of Surrey, England. It is about east of Guildford, west of Dorking off the A25. It is a small and attractive village in the traditional English sense. It has a small central cluster of old village houses, shops (including a blacksmith), tea house, art gallery, two pubs and a church. There is also a museum which opens most afternoons at weekends and the former Victorian fire station of 1886 (Grade II Listed and one of the oldest in Surrey) has been cleverly converted into public conveniences. The Tillingbourne, a small stream, runs through the centre of the village. Its attractiveness makes it popular with tourists from London and surrounding areas. It can be busy on weekends and bank holidays.
Shere is also a civil parish, consisting of the villages of Shere, Gomshall, Holmbury St. Mary, Peaslake, and most of Abinger Hammer. Shere is part of the census ward Tillingbourne which has a population of 5,216.
Shere appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Essira and Essire. It was held by William the Conqueror. Its domesday assets were: 1 church, 2 mills worth 10s, 14 ploughs, of meadow, woodland worth 50 hogs. It rendered £15. __NOTOC__
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