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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 revealing his true intentions to Nigel of planning to become a predator, despite being a herbivore.
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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 insane breakdown and last words before his demise after he is abandoned by his minions and left to die in the volcano for his actions.
Kazar is the main antagonist of Disney and 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 being a herbivore. 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.
Kazar is a large, slender, muscular, middle-aged black wildebeest with sharp horns, the left slightly chipped, and a mouth with badly maintained semi-sharp teeth. He also displays scars all over his face and body while his left eye is blind and milky grey.
Personality[]
Kazar is shown to be a very cruel and manipulative wildebeest with no redeeming qualities, 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 his minions 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, when he was young, he found himself cornered by three lionesses, but before they could attack him, 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, which he turns into his lair, to worship the Great Him.
The Wild[]
Years later, Samson the lion and his friends arrive in Africa by boat to find Samson's son Ryan, who was trapped in a green shipping container meant to rescue the endangered wild animals before the volcano erupted. When Samson leaves his friends behind so he can continue searching for Ryan on his own after confessing to them that he wasn't from the wild as it's revealed that he has never really been there before, the group are found and captured by Kazar's minions while Samson's best friend Benny the squirrel is knocked unconscious when he tried to fight the wildebeests to protect the others. Bridget the giraffe and Larry the anaconda are imprisoned in the volcano while Nigel the koala is brought to an altar where Kazar, now an adult, appears and introduces 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.
Suddenly, Kazar's vulture minions Scab and Scraw appear and intervene, informing Kazar that they have 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 and second-in-command Blag to bring both lions to him so they can devour them. Although Scab and Scraw are scared off by Samson as he reunites with Ryan after they attempted to capture the cub so they can bring Ryan to Kazar, Blag and the other wildebeests manage to find the two lions and pursue them until Samson and Ryan find refuge on a dead tree. However, they are discovered by the wildebeests, who capture Ryan and take him to the volcano before knocking Samson off a cliff to his presumed death while he was still holding onto the tree. Upon discovering that Blag has only brought Ryan to the volcano and realizing that Samson isn't with him, Kazar angrily berates his lieutenant for his failure and almost killing his fresh meal before deciding to hold a feast to eat Ryan, Bridget and Larry.
However, it was revealed that Samson had survived the fall and is found by Benny, who, having regained consciousness, encouraged him 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 distracting the wildebeests while Benny attempts to sneak Ryan and the others out of the volcano before they can be sacrificed, only for Samson to be exposed when the chameleons flee from the volcano's heat, much to Kazar's delight. Samson and Kazar engage in a vicious fight, with Samson eventually gaining the upper hand by knocking off Kazar's right horn until 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, only for him to be quickly overpowered. However, this only lets Kazar's guard down long enough for Samson to regain the upper hand and overpower the evil wildebeest.
Injured, Kazar orders Blag and the others to kill Samson and Ryan. However, Blag and the other wildebeest betray Kazar, deciding that they remain as herbivores rather than follow his delusions. Enraged, Kazar tries to kill the lions himself, but as he charges at Samson and Ryan ready to attack them, he is suddenly pushed back when Samson unleashes an extremely powerful 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 and travel back to New York before the volcano erupts and destroys the wild completely. Following Kazar's death, Blag takes over as the new leader of the wildebeests since they no longer work for Kazar after everything that he did to them.
Quotes[]
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That's twice you've been out of step today, Blag! You klutz! You know we can't ascend to the top of the food chain until we eat a lion!
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~ Kazar to Blag.
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I’ll kill them myself.
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~ Kazar deciding to kill Samson and Ryan himself after Blag and the other wildebeests turn against him.
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That's right, run! Run like the cowardly prey that you are! I will hunt you down!
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~ Kazar to his henchmen as they leave him to die inside the erupting volcano.
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's line "Step, kick, pivot, kick, walk, walk, walk" is a parody of the line from the stage play "A Chorus Line", which goes "back step, pivot step, walk, walk, walk!" from the song "I Hope I Get It".
Kazar has been shown to roar a few times in the film. However, wildebeests do not roar in real life as 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 evil.
It is unknown what caused Kazar's left eye to be shaped that way.
Kazar's name means "beware" in the language of the people of Caspak in a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs who wrote Tarzan.
Kazar acts as a dark parallel to Samson. Both 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 despite the fact he wasn't originally from it because he came from a circus while Kazar has considered becoming a carnivore as he wants to devour predators such as lions with his fellow wildebeests in order to ascend to the top of the food chain, despite the fact that he is herbivorous since he can't eat carnivorous animals). However, after Samson confessed the truth to Ryan and his friends about his past, he later started to embrace it, whereas Kazar refuses to accept the fact that he and his minions are herbivores since wildebeests couldn't really eat meat. Kazar serves as an example of what Samson would've become if he never learned to properly acknowledge his own truth.
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