Shere Khan is a fictional tiger of the Indian jungle, named after a Pashtun Prince (Sher Khan Nasher) Kipling encountered on his trips to Afghanistan. Shere Khan is the chief enemy in two of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories featuring Mowgli. Mowgli attacking Shere Khan: detail from a rare clay bas-relief by John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling; , 1907. ... The Gay Head cliffs in Marthas Vineyard are made almost entirely of clay. ... Bas relief is a method of sculpting which entails carving or etching away the surface of a flat piece of stone or metal. ... John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) was an art teacher, an illustrator, museum curator, and father of Rudyard Kipling. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This article is about the British author. ... Embossed cover from the original MacMillan edition of The Jungle Book, 1894, based on art by John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyards father) For other uses, see The Jungle Book (disambiguation). ... Mowgli by John Lockwood Kipling (father of Rudyard Kipling). ...

The original Jungle Book stories

Despite being born with a crippled leg (and thus lacking the "fearful symmetry" of William Blake's Tyger), and derisively nicknamed Lungri (The Lame One) by his own mother, Shere Khan is aggressive and arrogant and regards himself as the rightful lord of the jungle. It seems, however, that the only creature who looks up to him is Tabaqui, the cowardly, despised jackal. William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. ... William Blakes original plate for The Tyger. ... This article or section seems to contain too many examples (or of a poor quality) for an encyclopedia entry. ... Tabaqui is a fictional jackal character featured in Rudyard Kiplings Mowgli stories collected in The Jungle Book. ... Species Canis aureus Canis adustus Canis mesomelas A jackal (from Turkish çakal, via Persian shaghal ultimately from Sanskrit sṛgālaḥ [1][2]) is any of three (sometimes four) small to medium-sized members of the family Canidae, found in Africa, Asia and Southeastern Europe. ...

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 wolves Raksha and Father Wolf, who have named it 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 cub will be his some day. Mowglis Brothers, separate edition, 1992 illustrated by Christopher Wormell Mowglis Brothers is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. ... Wolf Wolf Man Mount Wolf Wolf Prizes Wolf Spider Wolf 424 Wolf 359 Wolf Point Wolf-herring Frank Wolf Friedrich Wolf Friedrich August Wolf Hugo Wolf Johannes Wolf Julius Wolf Max Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf Maximilian Wolf Rudolf Wolf Thomas Wolf As Name Wolf Breidenbach Wolf Hirshorn Other The call... Raksha is afemale wolf in Rudyard Kiplings novel The JUNGLE BOO ... Father Wolf is a fictional wolf character in Rudyard Kiplings Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. ... Mowgli by John Lockwood Kipling (father of Rudyard Kipling). ... Akela (occasionally called The Lone Wolf) is a fictional character featured in Rudyard Kiplings Mowgli stories collected in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. ... Bagheera in a Russian cartoon (1967) Bagheera (Hindi: Leopard) the black panther is an animal fictional character in Rudyard Kiplings Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (coll. ... Baloo is the fictional sleepy old grey bear featured in Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. ...

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. Tiger! Tiger! is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. ... Messua is a fictional character in Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. ... Messuas husband is an otherwise unnamed fictional character in Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. ... Reincarnation, literally to be made flesh again, is a doctrine or mystical belief that some essential part of a living being (in some variations only human beings) survives death to be reborn in a new body. ...

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 stampede the buffalo, which trample him to death. Grey Brother, also spelled Gray Brother in some editions, is a fictional wolf character in Rudyard Kiplings Mowgli stories, collected in The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895). ...

Mowgli then sets out to fulfill 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. Buldeo is a fictional character appearing in Rudyard Kiplings Mowgli stories  Tiger! Tiger!  (in The Jungle Book) and Letting Inthe Jungle (in The Second Jungle Book). ...

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 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. For other uses, see Witchcraft (disambiguation). ...

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 adopted parents. In the story "Letting In the Jungle" in The Second Jungle Book Mowgli discovers that the villagers are preparing to burn Messua and her husband to death for harbouring a witch-boy, and so he prepares to rescue them and take revenge on Buldeo and the villagers. Embossed cover from the original MacMillan edition of The Second Jungle Book, 1895, based on art by John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyards father) The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. ...

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. Kaas Hunting is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli. ... See also Just-so story for anthropological sense Wikisource has original text related to this article: Just So Stories The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. ...

The Disney version

Disney's Shere Khan.

In Disney's 1967 animated adaptation of The Jungle Book, Shere Khan is the major villain, entering the story about three-quarters of the way through. He is not depicted as being lame — quite the contrary, he is extremely powerful, deadly, and sophisticated. His mere presence in the jungle compels the wolf pack to send Mowgli away, since Shere Khan will kill him just on the principle that Mowgli is human; Man's gun and Man's fire are the only things Shere Khan fears. Even Kaa's hypnotic powers have no effect on him (or else he is just too intelligent to look Kaa in the eyes). In the climactic battle of the movie, he finally finds Mowgli and gives him atleast a ten second head-start. Once he reached ten, he was already grabbed by the tail by Baloo. The vultures fly Mowgli out of harms way, but Baloo (who was still holding onto the tail) had finally let go after running into a tree which sended the two flying into a rock. He then proceeded to kill Baloo until the vultures arrived and attacked him while Mowgli got a burning branch from a tree that was recently hit by lightning. Mowgli ties a burning branch to his tail, and the tiger finally noticed the branch after being informed by one of the vultures. He tried to put the fire out so he could attack again, but the fire was impossible to be put out by him and tried to get rid of the fire another way, sending the tiger to run away frantically. His seductive, purring voice was supplied by the late George Sanders. Image File history File links Shere. ... Image File history File links Shere. ... The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday and the summer of 1967 was known as The Summer of Peace and Love (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... The Jungle Book is the nineteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ... Mowgli with Kaa in a Russian cartoon (1969). ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... George Sanders (July 3, 1906 – April 25, 1972) was an English actor in British and American films. ...

In the Disney animated television show TaleSpin (1990-1994), Shere Khan is a recurring character. He's been anthropomorphized and personifies the wealthy industrialist archetype, the president of a huge conglomerate called Khan Industries. The show saps him of his dry humor, making him very grim-faced and serious. His business practices occasionally put him at odds with Baloo and the other TaleSpin heroes. His voice in the series was provided by the late Tony Jay. TaleSpin was a half-hour American animated television series spin-off of The Jungle Book that first aired as part of The Disney Afternoon. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Tony Jay (February 2, 1933 - August 13, 2006) was an English/American actor. ...

In the television series Jungle Cubs (1996-1998), a prequel to the original 1967 film, Shere Khan appears as a young tiger cub. The show reveals that he was once friends with Baloo, Bagheera, King Louie, Kaa and Hathi, but is still arrogant and haughty. In one episode, he laughs when Bagheera loses his voice in an attempt to roar like him; in another, he refuses to fight the invading Red Dogs alongside his friends, preferring to battle them alone; in another, to prove that he is the bravest in the jungle, Khan travels to the forbidden wastelands, but his good side surfaces when he saves his friends (who came to follow him) from the evil baboon Mara and her sons. He was voiced by Jason Marsden in the series. Jungle Cubs was an animated series produced by Disney for ABC in 1996. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Baloo is the fictional sleepy old grey bear featured in Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. ... Bagheera in a Russian cartoon (1967) Bagheera (Hindi: Leopard) the black panther is an animal fictional character in Rudyard Kiplings Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (coll. ... King Louie is a fictional character, an orangutan who kidnaps Mowgli in Disneys 1967 animated musical adaptation of The Jungle Book. ... Mowgli with Kaa in a Russian cartoon (1969). ... Hathi is a fictional animal character created by Rudyard Kipling for the Mowgli stories collected in The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895). ... In religion, evil refers to anything against the will or law of the god(s). ... Type species Simia hamadryas Linnaeus, 1758 Species Papio hamadryas Papio papio Papio anubis Papio cynocephalus Papio ursinus The five baboon species are some of the largest non-hominid members of the primate order; only the Mandrill and the Drill are larger. ... Jason Christopher Marsden (born January 3, 1975 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA) is an American screen and voice actor largely known for numerous voice roles in animated films, as well as various television series. ...

Shere Khan appears again in the theatrical sequel to the original 1967 film, The Jungle Book 2 (2003). When Mowgli returns to the jungle, the tiger seeks revenge and places Mowgli's friend Shanti in jeopardy, only to be defeated again, but not killed. The Jungle Book 2 is an animated feature produced by the DisneyToons studio in Sydney, Australia and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Trivia

• Shere Khan should be pronounced "Skere Khan" according to one of Rudyard Kipling's notes. However, in movie adaptations his name has always been pronounced as written.

• Shere Khan is one of the most popular names for housecats, according to polls.

• In Rudyard Kipling's novel, Shere Khan is lame. This is probably because of the widely known myth that only injured, diseased or weakened tigers attack humans. In reality, young, healthy tiger have also been known to become man eaters. It might also be that Kipling felt that a tiger on his prime and with all his physical capabilities would be too much of a foe for Mowgli and his friends. (A healthy Shere Khan would also not need to manipulate the Seonee wolves to get his prey, which would have made pointless many of the stories minor plots).

• On
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  Shere Khan comes 12th
  the 30 Disney villains countdown, Shere Khan received 12th place, coming between Chernabog (13th) and Gaston (11th).

• Shere Khan (in Persian) means "lord tiger".

• Shere Khan is the only tiger to ever appear in The Jungle Book, besides the First Tiger in a legend told by Hathi to the other animals.

• Shere Khan is voiced by actor Carlos Petrel in the Spanish version of Disney's The Jungle Book. Petrel also voiced Scar, from the Lion King. Both of these characters have been said to be a lot like each other. As a curious fact, both of them had British accents in the original English versions of the films.