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Shere Khan

2008-06-27T01:49:11Z

BlindMike:

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[[Image:c19big-a.jpg|right|thumb|Cover of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book with Mowgli versus Shere Khan]]

'''Shere Khan''' is a [[tiger]] character that first appeared in the book The [[Jungle Book]] by the author Rudyard Kipling, who was born with a withered leg and nicknamed '''Lungri''' (The Lame One) by his mother. Shere Khan was aggressive, arrogant and self-centered and saw himself as the rightful king of the jungle. The only one who looked up to him was [[Tabaqui]] the [[jackal]]. The worst thing Shere Khan knows are [[human]] people and when he finds out about [[Mowgli]], he sends out to get his paws on him. But staying in his way are the bear [[Baloo]] and the panther [[Bagheera]]. Shere Khan has a big weakness and that is his great fear of fire.

[[Image:sherekhan.jpg|left|frame|thumbnail|Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book]]
== Disney's The Jungle Book ==
[[Disney]] animated their very own version of Kipling's book which basically have the same plot and characters with small alternations. Shere Khan does not show any signs of being born with a withered leg and the jackal Tabaqui does not show up anywhere. But Shere Khan is still the villain of the story and is out to get Mowgli. The Jungle Book is one of Disney's most loved classic animated movies.

== Other Animations ==

There was once also an animated series that had appeared in some European countries airing in the mid-90's, mixing in characters from both [[The Lion King]] and the [[Jungle Book]], where Shere Khan was bossing around a wimpy [[Striped Hyena]] and was out to get [[Simba]] to put an end on him and become the king of the jungle. This was not animated by the Disney company but took a lot of ideas and character interpretations from it. It was told to be animated in France or Italy.

== Name Fame ==

Since Shere Khan's popularity it became common to name tigers after him. Both [[plushies]], wild tigers, and real tigers in [[zoological]] parks. But behind the name, Shere Khan was named after a king of the Khan clan which were living in parts of Asia. Another famous Khan is Genghis Khan.

[[Image:Ts0015.jpg|right|thumb|Shere Khan in Talespin]]
== Disney's ''Tale Spin'' ==
In 1990 Disney released the series ''[[Tale Spin]]'' where most of the loved characters of the Jungle Book appear with more humanoid characteristics. In this version, Khan, who originally appeared in Part II of the four-part pilot miniseries for the show, ''Plunder and Lightning'', is depicted as being neither good nor evil. He is the multi-millionaire businessman and president of Khan Industries, a company which employs mostly felines. He is mostly just concerned with his company meeting its goals (even if it means someone has to get hurt in the process), he will occasionally dabble in illegal operations, such as when he secretly paid the [[Air Pirates]] to attack his refineries and steal his oil so that he could raise gas prices.

Despite this, Khan has a deep code of honor. He always repays his debts and he never goes back on a deal with anyone... but he'll still exploit loopholes in order to defeat his adversaries. This was demonstrated when Baloo saved Khan's life and in return a grateful Khan offered to give Baloo anything he wanted. Although at first Khan was perfectly willing to give Baloo whatever he asked for, Baloo's ridiculous demands soon grew on Khan's nerves, and he had his henchmen kidnap Baloo and hold him for ransom, in order to teach him a lesson. [[Kit Cloudkicker|Kit]] and [[Rebecca Cunningham|Rebecca]] were forced to sell everything Baloo had acquired from Khan to come up with the ransom money. The henchmen then gave the money to their boss following Baloo's release. Thus, Khan won in the end without (technically) going back on his deal with Baloo.

[[Category:Tiger characters]]

User:BlindMike

2008-06-27T01:47:06Z

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2008-06-25T05:39:13Z

BlindMike:

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Heya, my name's Mike and im new to to wikifur. I've loved furry cartoons and games since i was around 6 but never really new there was a community of it until my buddy mentioned furries in World Of Warcraft a few days ago..
i've been reading about it a lot and seems like fun so i thought I'd say hello. ^_^

:Welcome to WikiFur, and glad to hear about your discovery of furry fandom. You'll find that there are quite a few of us about and you're in good company. The discussions you'll find here on WikiFur are primarily geared toward WikiFur itself and the improvement of the articles thereon. If you're looking for a more general community website to interact with furry fans, you might want to take a look at the [[list of furry LiveJournal communities]], [[list of furry discussion forums]], some of the [[:Category:Websites|websites]] covered here, including such places as [[Fur Affinity]] and [[VCL]]. And if you still like what you find, once you've had some time to get around a bit and meet some other fans online or in person, you might want to consider attending a furry [[convention]]. Once again, welcome and I hope you have as much fun as the rest of us do. --[[User:Mwalimu|mwalimu]] 05:14, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

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I've been to VCL and they have some nice work up like that bubble tree. lol.
i dont have a live journal though, should i consider getting one? i bet my brother could help >.>

Forum:Heya, im a newbie too!

2008-06-25T04:46:04Z

BlindMike: Hello World of WikiFur

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Heya, my name's Mike and im new to to wikifur. I've loved furry cartoons and games since i was around 6 but never really new there was a community of it until my buddy mentioned furries in World Of Warcraft a few days ago..
i've been reading about it a lot and seems like fun so i thought I'd say hello. ^_^