Nenemama and Nenepapa

Nenemama and Nenepapa, also known as the "Parrot-Eaters", were the two main villains in one story in the German book Der Löwe ist los (The lion is loose). They were two tribal natives living on an island who were planning to eat the cockatoo Ka, and later his friends.

History
When a cockatoo called Ka landed on the lighthouse island in a box, he was welcomed by the lighthouse warden, his nephew Kim and his niece Pips as well as their pets, a cat and a goat. Ka had belonged to a sailor who trimmed his wings. Afraid of his owner, Ka had climbed into the box and was carried away by the sea. The warden told him how lucky he was as there is an island inhabited by savages who loved eating parrots. When Ka later tried to demonstrate to the cat how he was carried away, the box was actually carried away again. The two kids and their pets decided to follow him.

Soon, Ka landed at the island he's been warned of. He's then kidnapped by two of the natives, Nenemama and Nenepapa, who planned to serve him to their daughter to cure her. Ka argued that he's a cockatoo, not a parrot, but the two didn't see a difference and looked for a recipe instead. When Ka heard that their daughter was sick, he claimed to be a doctor and offered them to help her if they promised to let him go. However, as Ka was no real doctor, his prescribtion made the girl's condition even worse. This angered the parents, who decided to cook Ka soon.

Meanwhile, Kim, Pips and their pets had crossed paths with their friend, the titular lion as well as a seagull and arrived at the island. While the lion was ordered to guard the boat, the others were able to sneak to the parrot-eaters' hut. They soon had a plan to help Ka escape: the seagull was coloured like a parrot and then switched with Ka. To the seagull's shock, the parrot-eaters put her in a cage and left to gather the last ingredients. While the others were heading towards the boat, Pips returned to the hut to cure Nenekiki. However, when the cockatoo and his friends arrived at the boat, they were met by Nenemama and Nenepapa, who were able to steal their as the lion fell asleep after accidentally taking sleeping pills which he thought to be against sleep. The two parrot-eaters orded Kim and the pets to hand over Ka, otherwise they would all be taken prisoners and the pets would be eaten while Kim would work as a slave. The lion was finally waking up when he heard of the parrot-eaters' plan to eat the kids, Ka and the other pets. Hearing that Pips was supposed to get eaten, he attacked Nenemama and Nenepapa. When he realized that Pips was gone, he planned to eat the two. However, at this point, Pips returned with Nenekiki whom she had cured as well as the seagull. Overjoyed at their daughter being cured, Nenekiki's parents promised to never eat parrots again and instead renaming their island into "parrot nurse island", now planning to cure all parrots and cockatoos that came to their island.

At some later point, Ka actually returned to them when he needed help to re-learn how to fly.

Personality
Nenemama and Nenepapa were very concerned about their daughters wellbeing, believing that eating a parrot could cure her as they lived on the parrot-eaters anyway. The joy of seeing her cured at the end, although it was done through pills and not eating Ka, caused the parents to honor their daughter's request and quit eating parrots for good.

Towards Ka, they were rather careless about his arguments of being a cockatoo as they saw no difference. They treated him as nothing but talking food until they heard his lie of being a doctor, which made them accept his condition of being set free if he could cure their daughter. When this turned out to be mistake as Ka made her feel worse, the two decided to eat Ka without giving him another chance. When their daughter argued that she wouldn't eat him, Nenemama told her that in that case, they would eat Ka themselves. When they changed the island's name, the former parrot-eaters were treating Ka much more friendlier, even telling him and his friends to come to their island whenever they wanted.

When they saw a strange boat at the beach, the two decided to take whoever was on it prisoner and have him work for them. This plan was about to be executed when they met with Kim, Ka and the other two pets, and claimed that now they would eat the pets and have Kim chop their wood. This also implied that despite being parrot-eaters, the two didn't just eat parrots. Ka also implied this when telling the lion that they planned to eat Ka, Kim, Pips, the cat and the goat. The lion then believed that the two had already eaten the human girl Pips as she wasn't there, which the two declined. According to this assumption as well as Ka's previous warning, it's possible that Nenemama and Nenepapa were also cannibals and might've eaten Kim and Pips in the end, although the two didn't actually eat the girl.

TV
The two were shown in an adaption by a German puppet show for TV. The only difference between them and their book counterparts was that in this version, they had also previously kidnapped another character from the book, an African boy who they planned to marry to their daughter against his will, possibly because he was also having dark skin, as they didn't make such a suggestion to Kim. They were also a bit less honorable in this version, like when they promised Ka to let him go, Nenepapa told his wife that they wouldn't keep their promise. They also didn't leave the pets and Kim achoice about getting the sail back or not and just planned to capture them anyway.

Radio play
They also appeared in a radio play adaption, which, in difference to the TV adaption, was faithful to the book in terms of text, like giving them completely different lines than in the books and the TV episode or having them live in a tree house instad of a hut on the ground. The greatest major difference to the book and TV adaption was that the radio play had changed their skin colour to "verdigis-green" instead of black, possible due to critisms of racism.

Trivia

 * As the two were two natives looking like stereotypical cannibals, both the books (especially when it was printed in colour), as well as the TV adaption were critizised by some people for being racist.
 * However, the people who were purchasing the couloured version rewrote the racist lines by erasing most of the lines that referred to them being black and replaced the word "nigger", which appeared very often in the book, with the word "parrot-eater".