Shere Khan (TaleSpin)

“	I spent years building Khan Industries into the biggest corporation in the world. And I have discovered that business is like a jungle. You see, there are the eaters... and there are the eatens.	„
	~ Shere Khan to one of his employees while the latter was threatened by the former's carnivorous plants. noicon

Shere Khan is a supporting character in the Disney animated series TaleSpin.

He is the stingy but sophisticated CEO of Khan Industries and enemy of Baloo.

He was voiced by the late Tony Jay, who later voiced his mainstream counterpart in The Jungle Book 2, and who also played Galactus in the 1994 Fantastic Four TV Series, Baron Mordo in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Khartoum in the Aladdin series, Megabyte in the ReBoot TV series, Monsieur D'Arque in Beauty and the Beast, the Transcendent One in Planescape: Torment, and Judge Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Appearence[]

Shere Khan is an anthropomorphic majestic male tiger with a sleek, orange fur with black stripes, white facial hair, and a brown nose. His attire consists of a three-piece dark blue suit, a pristine white shirt, and a crimson necktie adorned with a gold tie pin and a red rose in the left lapel, giving him an air of sophistication and wealth. Despite his elegant look, he lacks shoes, which is quite uncommon for his kind. When provoked, he often splays the claws of his hands, hinting at his more primal nature beneath the veneer of civility. His face is sharp and intelligent, with piercing yellow eyes that seem to size up his opponents and his surroundings with ease. He is depicted without a tail.

Biography[]

Depicted as a stereotypical businessman that owns his business and a fleet of planes and navy to protect his shipping and business interests worldwide, Shere Khan is extremely relentless and ready to do anything to make money to expand his business by running smaller companies out of business; at one time in the episode "On a Wing and a Bear", he barged a deal with Don Karnage and his band of Air Pirates to create an artificial oil shortage so he could extort higher prices from the public.

However, despite his baleful and villainous presence, Khan holds a sense of morals and honor, as he would be more than willing to aid those who have assisted him, proving himself more of an ally than a villain. For one example, in the story arc "Plunder and Lightning", Shere Khan learns of a frightening event that Karnage and his Air Pirates have created an enormous gun that can utilize electricity to eliminate Cape Suzette, and without hesitation, Khan calls in his navy to defend the city from the Air Pirates at all costs. In another episode "From Here to Machinery", his plane is being ambushed by the Air Pirates, and the robot pilot (created by the sleazy Professor Torque) is unable to deviate from its flight programming, causing an arriving Baloo to take action by eliminating the robot and taking control of the plane to get away from the pirates, an act that has made Khan proud and causing him to develop a certain courtesy for Baloo's piloting skills. In "Louie's Last Stand", he saved Louie's from being blown up by his employee, Douglas Benson, and disliked how he broke a verbal deal on Louie.

His final appearance on the show was in the episode "Bullethead Baloo", in which he was taken hostage, tied to a chair and gagged with a thick cloth.

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Trivia[]

His voice actor, Tony Jay, also voiced his mainstream counterpart in The Jungle Book 2.
Along with the 1994 version, The TaleSpin's incarnation of Shere Khan is considered as one of the most sympathetic.

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