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For centuries, we watched our brethren perish at the claw of the lion. Today, we put our hooves down! No longer will we dwell at the bottom of the food chain!
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~ Kazar planning to become a predator.
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Top of the food chain, ma! TOP OF THE FOOD CHAAAAAAAAAAAOOW... OW! ["I'm so cuddly, I like you!", from a plush koala, is repeated several times.] Uh-oh.
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~ Kazar's last words before his demise.
Kazar is the main antagonist of C.O.R.E.'s sole animated feature film The Wild.
He is a sadistic and unhinged wildebeest who intends to ascend to the top of the food chain by becoming a predator and devouring meat, despite the species being herbivores themselves. He is also the former leader of the wildebeests, in which one of them includes his second-in-command Blag, and Scab and Scraw, as well as the arch-nemesis of Samson and his son Ryan.
He was voiced by William Shatner (also one of C.O.R.E.'s founders), who also played an evil version of James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, General Curtis Mortars in Loaded Weapon 1, Mayor Phlegmming in Osmosis Jones, General Shanker in Escape From Planet Earth, Two-Face in Batman vs. Two-Face and Cyrax in Insaniquarium.
Kazar is a large, slender, muscular wildebeest with sharp horns, the left slightly chipped, and a mouth with badly maintained teeth. His left eye is blind and milky grey while displaying scars all over his face and body, implying that he has been in fights with other animals during his time in Africa in the past.
Personality[]
Kazar is a very cruel and manipulative wildebeest with no redeeming or admirable traits, being nothing more than a sadistic brute who cares about nobody but himself and no longer wants to dwell at the bottom of the food chain. He is somewhat insane and delusional, since he actually wants to eat meat in order to ascend to the top of the food chain, despite being a herbivore himself. He is also shown to be extremely abusive towards his own herd, especially his second-in-command Blag, showing that he never cares about them as he only sees them as tools.
Biography[]
Past[]
Not much is known about Kazar's past beyond the fact that he was just an ordinary wildebeest living in Africa. One day, however, he found himself cornered by three lionesses. Before they could attack Kazar, a stuffed koala bear fell from the sky (actually from a plane) and scared them away. Kazar saw this as an omen from "The Great Him" and rallied the local wildebeests to a nearby volcano to worship the Great Him.
The Wild[]
Years later, Samson the lion and his friends arrive in the area by boat to find his son Ryan, who was trapped in a green shipping container meant to rescue the endangered wild animals before the volcano erupted. After Samson abandons his friends so he can find Ryan on his own after confessing that he wasn't actually from the wild, Kazar's minions appear and capture them while knocking Samson's best friend Benny the squirrel unconscious when he tried to intervene. Bridget the giraffe and Larry the anaconda are held captive in the volcano while Nigel the koala is brought to an altar where Kazar reveals himself. Kazar sees Nigel as the Great Him and explains his plan to change the food chain so that prey becomes predator and vice versa.
Kazar's vulture minions Scab and Scraw then appear, telling Kazar that they found a lion cub (referring to Ryan), with Nigel accidentally revealing the existence of Samson as well. Kazar sends his minions led by his lieutenant Blag to bring both lions to him so they can devour them. Although Scab and Scraw failed to capture Ryan when they are scared off by Samson as he reunites with his son, Blag and the other wildebeests manage to find and capture Ryan before taking him to the volcano while Samson is seemingly killed when the tree he was holding onto is pushed over a cliff by the wildebeests. Upon discovering that Blag has only brought Ryan to the volcano instead of Samson, Kazar angrily berates his lieutenant for his failure before deciding to hold a feast to eat Ryan, Bridget, and Larry.
Samson survives the fall and is motivated by Benny, who had regained consciousness, to be a real lion even if he wasn't born in the wild. With the help of a pair of chameleons, Samson and Benny sneak into the volcano, with Samson using the chameleons' camouflage to distract the wildebeests while Benny helps Ryan and the others escape, only for Samson to be exposed when the chameleons flee from the volcano's heat. Samson and Kazar engage in a brutal fight, with Samson gaining the upper hand by knocking off Kazar's right horn until the fight climaxes when Kazar manages to corner Samson towards a lava pit, intending to send him falling to his death. Just as Kazar had Samson at his mercy and prepares to kill him, Ryan, seeing his father in danger, climbs onto a catapulting device and, with the help of Samson's friends, he launches himself at Kazar while unleashing a mighty roar, letting the evil wildebeest's guard down and distracting him long enough for Samson to regain the upper hand and overpower Kazar.
Wounded, Kazar orders Blag and the others to kill Samson and Ryan. However, the other wildebeest turn against Kazar, deciding that they rather be prey than follow his delusions. Enraged, Kazar tries to kill the lions himself, but as he lunges at Samson and Ryan, he is suddenly pushed back when Samson unleashes a powerful supersonic roar, causing the walls of the volcano to crumble down. Kazar is then abandoned by his minions for his actions and left to die in the volcano before he is crushed to death by the collapsing altar wall after his hooves are tied on the plush koala's pull string, while the rest of the animals escape on the boat before the volcano erupts.
Trivia[]
Kazar's last words "Top of the food chain, Ma! Top of the food chain!" before meeting his demise is a reference to James Cagney's character, Arthur "Cody" Jarrett's line from White Heat "Top of the world, Ma! Top of the world!".
Kazar has been shown to roar a few times in the film, However, wildebeests do not roar in real life; they instead honk.
Kazar is the third animated character to be voiced by William Shatner.
Kazar is the only wildebeest in the film who does not redeem himself; instead, he is killed off while remaining wicked.
It is unknown what caused Kazar's left eye to be shaped that way.
Kazar acts as a dark parallel to Samson. Both animals have deluded themselves into idealizing that they are what they're really not (Samson thought to himself that he was born and raised in the wild; Kazar has considered overtopping carnivores, such as lions, with his fellow wildebeests). However, after Samson told the truth that he wasn't originally from the wild, but rather from a circus, he later started to embrace his actual past, whereas Kazar refuses to accept the fact that he and his fellow wildebeests are just herbivores who really couldn't eat carnivorous animals. If Samson never learned to properly acknowledge his own truth, he would've ended up becoming like Kazar.
The moment when Kazar's fellow wildebeests gave up on him after what he did to Ryan is similar to the scene in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, specifically the one where the majority of the Outsiders have renounced their devotion to Scar in favor of peace with the Pridelanders, with Zira being the only remaining Outsider to stand for her master. Ironically, said scene involves lions, something that Kazar was trying to aim at for his overall predatory goal.
