Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-2175012-20160323030814/@comment-2175012-20160416032840

OK, I had seen the remake of Disney's The Jungle Book. Shere Khan is definitely more evil in this version than in the original film, though I don't know if he catapults into Complete Monsterdom. For one, Shere Khan murders Mowgli's father years before the start of the film, and he murders Akela, the chief of the wolf pack, when he learned that Mowgli was on his way to the human village. He then establishes himself as the illegitimate leader of the pack, thus becoming even more hellbent on killing Mowgli. He also mocks Mowgli about him murdering his father, saying that he wasn't going to let Mowgli grow up, as well as rubbing it in his face about how he murdered Akela. That, and he tried to turn Raksha's (a female Indian wolf who is the adoptive mother of Mowgli) against her by trying to indoctrinate them into thinking that Mowgli was evil, and that their mother was a fool for raising him as her own.

Now, as for the heinous standard, Khan sets it. No other animal expresses as much hatred towards humans like he does. As for a freudian excuse, he received a blind eye when he tried to kill Mowgli's father, thus explaining why he's terrified of fire, or as they put it, the red flower. However, Mowgli's father only burned Shere Khan's face in order to defend himself. Really, Shere Khan just comes out of no where, only to find himself on the receiving end of a torch. Really, there's no one to blame but Khan himself. While he tries to say that he wants to kill Mowgli, stating that it's for the good of the jungle, it's made clear that he's simply power hungry, as evidenced by him immediately making himself the ruler of the wolves after murdering Akela. In addition to this, he is sadistic. Not only does he sadistically mocks Mowgli on the deaths of his father and Akela by his hands, but he relishes in the idea of devouring Mowgli; not just kill him, he wants to destroy him. While I was watching the film, I was actually reminded a great bit by Koba. Pretty much, 2016!Shere Khan is Disney's answer to Koba.