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Shere Khan (2016)
Shere Khan is the main antagonist of the 2016 Disney live action fantasy adventure film The Jungle Book, a remake of the 1967 animated classic.
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. 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 was portrayed by Idris Elba via motion capture, who also played Russell "Stringer" Bell in The Wire, 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.
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- Shere Khan (Disney original)
- Shere Khan (Talespin)
- Shere Khan (Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book film)