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Shere Khan is the main antagonist of the 2016 Disney live-action film, The Jungle Book. He is Mowgli and Bagheera's arch-nemesis.
He was voiced by Idris Elba.
History[]
Shere Khan first appears during the drought, when the animals gather to drink during the Water Truce from a watering hole where the animals maintain a truce not to attack, fight, and kill each other while quenching their thirst. Upon scenting Mowgli, he threatens to kill him as man is not allowed to live in the jungle. He also holds the scars on his face as proof of man's cruel and destructive nature and issues a warning that when the Water Truce ends and the Peace Rock disappears, he will come for the boy and that the wolves should decide how many of their own kind they would be willing to sacrifice to protect a man-cub. He then leaves.
This causes Akela and his wolf pack to choose whether to have Mowgli leave the jungle or not, resulting Mowgli to leave the wolf pack with Bagheera to head over to the Man-Village. But Shere Khan ambushes them en route and fights Bagheera. He easily overpowers Bagheera and chases after Mowgli, who manages to escape from him with the aid of a herd of water buffalo.