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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[Spoilers: One of them falls to their death after trying to lunge at Akela when the pack challenges him]].

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*UncertainDoom: When Akela missed his kill, they tried taking him down to remove him from his position. At least one of them falls to his death, but the other two aren’t seen after the fight. It is possible Akela killed them offsreeen.


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*EarlyBirdCameo: She is the woman Mowgli frightens when he searches for fire to scare off Shere Khan.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoilers: One of them falls to their death after trying to lunge at Akela when the pack challenges him]].

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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[Spoilers: One of them falls to their death after trying to lunge at Akela when the pack challenges him.]]
* FlatCharacters: They do not have much characterization besides being jerks to Mowgli.

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* FlatCharacters: FlatCharacter: They do not have much characterization besides being jerks to Mowgli.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[Spoilers: One of them falls to their death after trying to lunge at Akela when the pack challenges him.]]
* FlatCharacters: They do not have much characterization besides being jerks to Mowgli.
* TerribleTrio: All three of them are very harsh and dismissive of Mowgli.
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There have been many adaptations of The Jungle Book and not all of them have done Adaptational Comic Relief on him. It isn't needed to mention it.


* AdaptationalComicRelief: Averted. Baloo is every bit as serious as his book's counterpart, and takes on his role in the books as the mentor and teacher of the would-be members of the pack.
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* BaldOfAwesome: His face and forehead is almost devoid of any hair, which indicates his old age and gives him a rugged appearance.
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* AgeLift: His literary counterpart Buldeo was stated to be an old man, while Lockwood is in his forties, going by his actor's age.

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* AdaptationalUgliness: This version of Baloo is ''creepy'' compared to his other incarnations.



* GenderFlip: In the book, Kaa was a male python.

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* GenderFlip: In the book, Kaa was a male python. This version is female, just like her [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 previous live action counterpart]].
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*TapOnTheHead: Hit his head on a rock when he was being carried by the monkeys.


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*WoundThatWillNotHeal: He has a wound on his left arm.
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* BigBrotherBully: They are are mean towards Mowgli, calling him a freak.

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* BigBrotherBully: *BigBrotherBully: They are are mean towards Mowgli, calling him a freak.

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*BigBrotherBully: They are are mean towards Mowgli, calling him a freak.

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->''"Freaks have to stick together."''
->'''Voiced by''' Jayden Fowora-Knight, Georgie Farmer and Kassius Carey-Johnson
Nisha and Vihaan's sons and Mowgli adoptive brothers.

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* AntiVillain: The only truly immoral things that he does pertain to being vain about his collection and hunting juvenile animals (considered very unsportsmanlike among all hunters except poachers); other than that, he is a cordial man who genuinely wants to help the village get rid of Shere Khan.

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* AntiVillain: The only truly immoral things that he does pertain to being vain about his collection and hunting juvenile animals (considered ([[EveryoneHasStandards considered very unsportsmanlike among all hunters except poachers); poachers]]); other than that, he is a cordial man who genuinely wants to help the village get rid of Shere Khan.



* WouldHurtAChild: Played with. He had no problem shooting, killing, and taxidermizing Bhoot, as in his view, it was just another animal (even though going after juvenile animals is outright illegal in dozens of countries and looked at incredibly badly among professional hunters). When he shoots Mowgli by accident in the final battle, however, he is visibly concerned.

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* WouldHurtAChild: Played with. He had no problem shooting, killing, and taxidermizing Bhoot, as in his view, it was just another animal (even though going after juvenile animals is outright illegal in dozens of countries and looked at incredibly badly among professional hunters). When he shoots Mowgli by accident in the final battle, however, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he is visibly concerned.concerned]].
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* AcousticLicense: Played with. When he first appears, his footsteps are plodding, heavy and unusually loud, more akin to the footsteps of dinosaurs in popular media. When he trudges towards Lockwood, however, RealityEnsues and Lockwood can't hear him coming because of the elephant's padded feet.

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* AcousticLicense: Played with. When he first appears, his footsteps are plodding, heavy and unusually loud, more akin to the footsteps of dinosaurs in popular media. When he trudges towards Lockwood, however, RealityEnsues and Lockwood can't hear him coming because of the elephant's padded feet.



* RealityEnsues: Since elephants have padded feet that allow them to move almost unheard when they walk, it comes of no surprise that Lockwood doesn't hear Hathi trudging towards him until it's too late.

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* RealityEnsues: StealthyColossus: Since elephants have padded feet that allow them to move almost unheard when they walk, it comes of no surprise that Lockwood doesn't hear Hathi trudging towards him until it's too late.
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* NotSoDifferent: At one point, he mocks Mowgli's wish to be a wolf instead of a man-cub by remarking "Sometimes, I dream I'm a tiger... but I always wake up a hyena."

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: At one point, he mocks Mowgli's wish to be a wolf instead of a man-cub by remarking "Sometimes, I dream I'm a tiger... but I always wake up a hyena."
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* HatedByAll: As a cowardly scavenger who mooches off of other predators' kills, it comes of no surprise that he is loathed by most of the jungle.
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* SinkOrSwimMentor: Bagheera takes his role as hunter in the Running very seriously; he ruthlessly picks off those who don't do well.
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Not a character trait, but a plot point.


* BondVillainStupidity: When the unconscious Mowgli is at his mercy in the monkey temple, he takes his time to gloat to himself and slowly torture the boy instead of killing him right away. This wins time for Bagheera, Baloo and Kaa to come to the rescue.
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Not a character trait, but a plot point.


* KickTheSonOfABitch: He punts a baby Bandar-Log offscreen when he's trying to torture Mowgli. The Bandar-Log are ManiacMonkeys, though.
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* MeaningfulName: His name means "ghost" in Hindi and Urdu. [[SarcasmMode What a surprise]].
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* IAmVeryBritish: He speaks with such an accent despite being Indian, possibly because all the animals he grew up with have British accents.


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* KickTheSonOfABitch: He punts a baby Bandar-Log offscreen when he's trying to torture Mowgli. The Bandar-Log are ManiacMonkeys, though.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Kaa has unusually blue eyes and green scales for an Indian python.


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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Lockwood keeps his stuffed head on a stand in his hut.


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* CruelElephant: Despite being a friendly elephant for the most part, he is positively ''brutal'' towards Lockwood, the hunter who took half his tusk.


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* NotSoDifferent: At one point, he mocks Mowgli's wish to be a wolf instead of a man-cub by remarking "Sometimes, I dream I'm a tiger... but I always wake up a hyena."


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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When he sees the elephants emerging from the forest to confront Shere Khan, Tabaqui abandons his master to fend for himself.

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* BeYourself: He's encouraged repeatedly by several characters to not flee from his human nature.

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* BeYourself: He's encouraged repeatedly by several characters to not flee from BewareTheNiceOnes: When the danger his human nature.pack is in gets dire, Mowgli isn't afraid to face his foes head-on.



* DidntThinkThisThrough: While he did save Akela by shooing away his defectors, Shere Khan and the Bandar-log with fire, in doing so, he violated the Jungle Law by turning the weapons of man upon animals.



* HeroicBSOD: When he sees that Lockwood has killed and taxidermized Bhoot, he is rendered absolutely catatonic until the hunter leaves his presence. When he does, Mowgli breaks into tears.



* LetsGetDangerous: When the danger his pack is in becomes all too apparent to him in that it prompted Lockwood to shoot and kill Bhoot, Mowgli resolves to have Shere Khan tracked down and killed.



* CruelToBeKind: After being unable to convince Mowgli to go to the Man-Village to be safe from Shere Khan, he intentionally targets the boy during the Running to make him fail, because he believes that the Man Village is the only place where Mowgli will be safe from Shere Khan, seeing as there is no way that the tiger will relent in his pursuit of him.



* GoodIsNotSoft: If it's for your own good, Bagheera ''will'' do things you don't like. After being unable to convince Mowgli to go to the Man-Village to be safe from Shere Khan, he intentionally targets the boy during the Running to make him fail, because he believes that the Man Village is the only place where Mowgli will be safe from Shere Khan, seeing as there is no way that the tiger will relent in his pursuit of him.



* ManlyTears: He can't stop himself from crying after hearing Mowgli's desperate pleas for him to not leave, and seeing him in such a miserable state.



* CassandraTruth: After Mowgli veers off after a monkey during a training session for the Running, Baloo warns Mowgli to stay away from the Monkey People, because they are unpredictable and anarchistic. Mowgli would have fared better had he actually listened to this advice, though in his defense, it was only one monkey that seemed to be harasing him.



* KillTheCutie: He gets killed and taxidermized by Lockwood.



* AndroclesLion: Inverted; it's he who saves Mowgli from a tiger pit meant for Shere Khan, and later on, it's Mowgli who shows him the way to Lockwood in return.



* ParentalSubstitute: As Mowgli's foster mother, she qualifies.

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* ParentalSubstitute: As in the source material, Messua is Mowgli's foster mother, she qualifies.mother while he's in the man village.



* NoTrueScotsman: He self-righteously claims to have the moral high ground in calling out Akela for adopting a man cub; what he refuses to realize is that he is breaking the Law much more grievously.



* VillainousBreakdown: When he realizes that Mowgli has rallied the elephants (the ''lords'' of the jungle) to stand up to his malice, Khan goes completely off his rocker and flies into a psychotic rage, erratically snapping at the elephants that surround him, and taking every chance he gets to try and maim Mowgli.



* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Buldeo in the book was an outright {{Jerkass}} to Mowgli, threatened to beat him when he discovered him taking the corpse of Shere Khan, and later tried to have Messua outright killed because he saw her as aiding an evil sorcerer. Aside from killing Bhoot, Lockwood is a genuinely nice man, who speaks Hindu fluently and treats the villagers with immense respect and kindness.

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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Buldeo in the book was an outright {{Jerkass}} to Mowgli, Mowgli; he threatened to beat him when he discovered him taking the corpse of Shere Khan, and later tried to have Messua outright killed because he saw her as aiding an evil sorcerer. Aside from killing Bhoot, Lockwood is a genuinely nice man, who speaks Hindu fluently and treats the villagers with immense respect and kindness.



* AmbiguousSituation: Whether or not he survived Hathi's attack is left uncertain -- when we last see him, he is writhing on the ground from the pain, and still alive.



* EgomaniacHunter: He takes pleasure in shooting rare animals and collecting trophies.

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* EgomaniacHunter: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He takes pleasure in shooting rare animals and collecting trophies.trophies, but he doesn't do it out of outward vanity.



* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: When Hathi charges towards him, he hurls him several meters away with a single blow of his trunk.



* WouldHurtAChild: He had no problem shooting, killing, and taxiderming Bhoot, as in his view, it is just another animal (even though going after juvenile animals is outright illegal in dozens of countries and looked at incredibly badly among professional hunter). When he shoots Mowgli by accident in the final battle, by contrast he is clearly visibly shaken.

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* WouldHurtAChild: Played with. He had no problem shooting, killing, and taxiderming taxidermizing Bhoot, as in his view, it is was just another animal (even though going after juvenile animals is outright illegal in dozens of countries and looked at incredibly badly among professional hunter). hunters). When he shoots Mowgli by accident in the final battle, by contrast however, he is clearly visibly shaken.concerned.
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-> ''"You are no different, Little Brother - you are special."''

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-> ''"You are no different, Little Brother - -- you are special."''



* UndyingLoyalty: To Mowgli - cemented when out of all the mammals in Akela's pack, it's he who is willing to step ahead and aid Mowgli in his mission to kill Shere Khan. Only Baloo's denial stops him from following with it.

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* UndyingLoyalty: To Mowgli - -- cemented when out of all the mammals in Akela's pack, it's he who is willing to step ahead and aid Mowgli in his mission to kill Shere Khan. Only Baloo's denial stops him from following with it.



** Bears are not known to bald - Baloo's entire face is strangely devoid of fur.

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** Bears are not known to bald - -- Baloo's entire face is strangely devoid of fur.



* PapaBear: Make no mistake - for all his harshness, he will '''not''' let anyone harm Mowgli. This extends even to Bagheera, as Baloo furiously calls him out for deliberately making Mowgli fail the running.

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* PapaBear: PapaWolf: Make no mistake - -- for all his harshness, he will '''not''' let anyone harm Mowgli. This extends even to Bagheera, as Baloo furiously calls him out for deliberately making Mowgli fail the running.



* LargeHam: Not only is she physically enormous - her every word drips with hamminess, complete with [[SnakeTalk stressed sibilants]].

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* LargeHam: Not only is she physically enormous - -- her every word drips with hamminess, complete with [[SnakeTalk stressed sibilants]].



* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Albino mammals' eyes are usually red, due to lack of pigmentation causing the blood vessels to add the color - Bhoot has blue eyes.

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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Albino mammals' eyes are usually red, due to lack of pigmentation causing the blood vessels to add the color - -- Bhoot has blue eyes.



* EvilIsHammy: He chews the scenery with abandon whenever he is excited or angry - Creator/BenedictCumberbatch in his natural environment as far as antagonists are concerned.

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* EvilIsHammy: He chews the scenery with abandon whenever he is excited or angry - -- Creator/BenedictCumberbatch in his natural environment as far as antagonists are concerned.



* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After years of evading comeuppance for his violations of the Jungle Law, Shere Khan is finally faced with poetic justice - the elephants who founded the Law.
* KarmicDeath: Killed by the creature that he spent his entire life hating - man.

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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After years of evading comeuppance for his violations of the Jungle Law, Shere Khan is finally faced with poetic justice - -- the elephants who founded the Law.
* KarmicDeath: Killed by the creature that he spent his entire life hating - -- man.



* TheSociopath: Remorseless, arrogant, self-righteous, obstinate beyond all reason and completely devoid of any redeeming qualities - there's no other way to sum all this up.

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* TheSociopath: Remorseless, arrogant, self-righteous, obstinate beyond all reason and completely devoid of any redeeming qualities - -- there's no other way to sum all this up.



* AmbiguousSituation: Whether or not he survived Hathi's attack is left uncertain - when we last see him, he is writhing on the ground from the pain, and still alive.

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* AmbiguousSituation: Whether or not he survived Hathi's attack is left uncertain - -- when we last see him, he is writhing on the ground from the pain, and still alive.



* {{BFG}}: He wields a large-caliber double-barreled rifle - presumably an elephant gun.

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* {{BFG}}: He wields a large-caliber double-barreled rifle - -- presumably an elephant gun.



* LaserGuidedKarma: It hits him very hard - and very literally - when Hathi tracks him down and clobbers him with his trunk.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: It hits him very hard - -- and very literally - -- when Hathi tracks him down and clobbers him with his trunk.
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Messua: deleted Adaptational Early Appearance as inaccurate - in the book Messua first adopts Mowgli when he's 10-11, not teenaged.


* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the original book, she appeared while Mowgli was a teenager, and on the verge of becoming an adult. In this adaptation, she appears when he is still a child.

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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the original book, she appeared while Mowgli was a teenager, and on the verge of becoming an adult. In this adaptation, she appears when he is still a child.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppereance: In the original book, she appeared while Mowgli was a teenager, and on the verge of becoming an adult. In this adaptation, she appears when he is still a child.

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* AdaptationalEarlyAppereance: AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the original book, she appeared while Mowgli was a teenager, and on the verge of becoming an adult. In this adaptation, she appears when he is still a child.


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