Kaa (Disney)

Kaa is a secondary villain in the Disney film The Jungle Book. He is a python who lives in the jungles of India.

His two scenes in the movie revolve around his attempts to eat Mowgli, a human boy raised by wolves and the story's protagonist. Both times he ends up getting pushed out of the tree he is in, banging his head on the branches and getting a knot in his tail. Kaa was voiced by Sterling Holloway in the first film. In Jungle Cubs, House of Mouse, and the sequel Kaa is voiced by Jim Cummings. Cummings' portrayal is questionable since it has some traces of Winnie-the-Pooh in it.

This character marks one of several who was altered by Disney from the original short stories for the movie. In the original, Kaa is one of Mowgli's friends and mentors who helps him on multiple occasions, and is more of an anti-hero than a villain. While Kaa wants to eat Mowgli, he hates Shere Khan, who wants to kill the boy because he exists. However due to his fear of the tiger, he never voices this to his face.

Kaa, like most fictional snakes, has the power to hypnotize by staring into his victim's eyes.