History WesternAnimation / TheJungleBook1967

* DeadpanSnarker: Bagheera.
-->'''Baloo:''' Oh, stop worrying, Baggy! Stop worrying! I'll take care of him.\\

* AdaptationalComicRelief: Many characters get this treatment, with Baloo, Kaa and Hathi being the most obvious examples. In the book, all three are serious characters and mentors to Mowgli. Here, Baloo is a lazy, laid-back BigFun friend of Mowgli, Kaa is a LaughablyEvil ButtMonkey antagonist, and Hathi is a bumbling, absent-minded military commander.

* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When Bagheera states that Baloo is incapable of protecting Mowgli after letting the monkeys kidnap him, Baloo tries to defend himself saying "Can't a guy make one mistake?". Bagheera bluntly replies " [[DeathWorld ''Not'']] [[EverythingTryingToKillYou in the jungle.]]"

** Kaa, who is a powerful badass and much more deserving of respect in the book. He's the only animal in the jungle that the monkeys fear, and even Baloo and Bagheera are wary when approaching him.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Mowgli's name is actually pronounced MAO-gli, not MOH-gli. Mow rhymes with cow. Rudyard Kipling's daughter allegedly never forgave Disney for this mistake, though it's hardly their fault--the mispronunciation of Mowgli's name could be heard as far back as Zoltan Korda's 1942 live action adaptation.

--->'''Hathi Jr.:''' The other way! Turn around!

* RumpRoast: The defeat of Shere Khan, who has a major fear of fire. Khan has his butt singed after Mowgli ties a burning branch that came from a tree struck by lightning and set on fire to Khan's tail.

* OhCrap: Most epically with Shere Khan after he discovers a big burning bush on his tail. King Louie also has one upon noticing that the temple is about to crumble due to having (accidentally) knocked down a support pillar.

* UltimateEvil: For much of the film [[BigBad Shere Khan]] isn't seen or heard. We only hear and see from other characters that he's [[TheDreaded the most feared]], dangerous creature in the jungle, and even the mention of his name [[KnightOfCerebus often results in a more serious tone]]. Towards the end the tiger finally appears, and while he's FauxAffablyEvil, he's every bit of the Badass he's hyped up to be, especially when he shows his true colors in the final fight.

** Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/JungleBooks'' (yes, two of them) depict the orphaned Mowgli growing into a strong and intelligent young man whose jungle upbringing will make him something of a NobleSavage. Baloo was a sleepy [[GrumpyBear grump]] with a HiddenHeartOfGold, rather than a kindly GentleGiant. Kaa, while large, intimidating, and alien, is one of Mowgli's ''allies'', not enemies. Hathi the elephant is wise and powerful and when he tells Shere Khan to clear off ("How Fear Came"), the tiger does so -- he's not a pompous ass who fancies himself a Victoria Cross-winning British Army colonel.
** There's quite a lot of violence, too. At one point Kaa hypnotizes a troupe of monkeys into becoming his helpless (ahem) dinner guests; later on Mowgli and the wolves kill Shere Khan by a stampede of water-buffalo over him. (In the Disney version he doesn't even die!) The story "Red Dog" has Mowgli cause the marauding dogs of the title to be attacked by millions of angry bees; those who jump in the river to survive are attacked by Mowgli with a knife; and those left then face Mowgli ''and'' his enraged wolf pack. And incidentally, Mowgli does most of this while he's naked. It should come as no surprise that none of the violence or nudity makes it into the Disney version, but Disney not only censors the story but effectively throws out every last original plot thread.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: This is one of the extreme few works that mentions and shows a paw-paw fruit, a fruit native to the eastern United States.

* LostInImitation: A lot of later adaptions of the original stories, while usually more faithful to the original source material, tend to borrow elements from the Disney movie. Variations of King Louie appear in the [[Film/TheJungleBook1994 live-action movie]] and [[Anime/TheJungleBook Shonen anime]] for example. Characterizations such as that of Shere Khan and Baloo are also occasionally borrowed vaguely from their Disney interpretations.

-->'''Bagheera''': (narrating) No man-cub was ever happier. And yet, I knew that someday he would have to go back to his own kind.

---> '''Winifred:''' That little boy is no different than our own son.

** In the original book Shere Khan was killed by Mowgli, to the point of he almost DroppedABridgeOnHim. However the tiger survives in ''most'' of Disney's adaptions of the stories and character to date, [[spoiler: except in the 2013 stage version and [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 Disney's own remake film]]]].

-->'''Shere Khan:''' (''snarling'') I'll kill you for THIS!!

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The reason Shere Khan wants to kill Mowgli is that the former doesn't want the latter to grow up to be just another hunter. Mowgli thinks this is a silly notion since he doesn't have any intention of hunting on account of growing up in the jungle. In addition, jungle animals don't typically come across weapons like that lying around in the wild, much less have the dexterity to use them. On the other side of the equation, while threatening harm on a child isn't the best way to go about it, Shere Khan's fear of man's gun and man's fire is a reasonable one, and there are some hunters out there who hunt for the sake of hurting animals instead of for food, something that's elaborated more in the deleted VillainSong "The Mighty Hunters".

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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The reason Shere Khan wants to kill Mowgli is because the former doesn't want the latter to grow up to be just another hunter. Mowgli thinks this is a silly notion since he doesn't have any intention of hunting on account of growing up in the jungle. In addition, jungle animals don't typically come across weapons like that lying around in the wild, much less have the dexterity to use them. On the other side of the equation, while threatening harm on a child isn't the best way to go about it, Shere Khan's fear of man's gun and man's fire is a reasonable one, and there are some hunters out there who hunt for the sake of hurting animals instead of for food, something that's elaborated more in the deleted VillainSong "The Mighty Hunters".

* PigeonholedVoiceActor: Phil Harris would go on to play Little John in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' (which was basically Baloo again in both appearance and attitude) and a similar character in ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' as O'Malley.

That bring the bare necessities of life!

** Mowgli instantly loses all control of his mental faculties the moment he sees Shanti, a reaction [[ShowSomeLeg she quite deliberately uses to lure him into the village]] - by the time she blinks her eyes at him he's [[{{Catchphrase}} gone, man: solid gone]].

* EyelashFluttering: Shanti (named in the [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook2 sequel]]) seduces Mowgli into the village this way, and [[DistractedByTheSexy he has absolutely no problem admitting to that]], but she apparently finds it embarrassing and [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend denies ever doing any such thing]].

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The reason Shere Khan wants to kill Mowgli is because the former doesn't want the latter to grow up to be just another hunter. Mowgli thinks this is a silly notion since he doesn't have any intention of hunting on account of growing up in the jungle. In addition, jungle animals don't typically come across weapons like that, much less have the dexterity to use them. On the other side of the equation, while threatening harm on a child isn't the best way to go about it, Shere Khan's fear of man's gun and man's fire is a reasonable one, and there are some hunters out there who hunt for the sake of hurting animals instead of for food, something that's elaborated more in the deleted VillainSong "The Mighty Hunters".

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The reason Shere Khan wants to kill Mowgli is because the former doesn't want the latter to grow up to be just another hunter. Mowgli thinks this is a silly notion since he doesn't have any intention of hunting on account of growing up in the jungle. In addition, jungle animals don't typically come across weapons like that in the jungle, much less have the dexterity to use them. On the other side of the equation, while threatening harm on a child isn't the best way to go about it, Shere Khan's fear of man's gun and man's fire is a reasonable one, and there are some hunters out there who hunt for the sake of hurting animals instead of for food, something that's elaborated more in the deleted VillainSong "The Mighty Hunters".

* ForceFeeding: A relatively humorous example occurs when upon capturing Mowgli, King Louie holds his mouth open to feed him a banana.

* AdultFear: Rama initially hesitated about adopting Mowgli, until the baby charmed him. A few moons later, Akela tells Rama that they need to find a way to protect Mowgli, and send him back to his people. Rama protests, saying that he can't just abandon his child. Akela then delivers the bad news: the pack isn't strong enough to protect the boy. Rama faces a SadisticChoice of saying farewell to one of his children to save his family from imminent slaughter and only trusts Bagheera to escort Mowgli safely.

* ParentalBonus: During "The Bare Necessities" Baloo and Mowgli begin to enjoy scratching their butts on rocks a bit much. Baloo is getting ''visibly'' [[ADateWithRosiePalms aroused]] and the rock wall goes ''deep into his crack once or twice''.

* AdaptationalBadass: Shere Khan in the film is far more menacing than he was in the original stories, in which he wasn't so much feared by the other animals as disdained for being lame and a man-eater; not because man are respected, but because they're seen as easy prey. On the other hand, the books' Shere Khan is smarter and a lot more influential, succeeding in turning almost the entire wolf pack against Mowgli and Akela.

* AffablyEvil: Nearly all of the RoguesGallery have some amount of charm to their personality and valid reasons for their wrathful intentions (Kaa for food, Shere Khan for his hatred and self preservation from man).

* AntiVillain: Most of the rouges gallery have semi-valid reasons for wanting to kill Mowgli, some more valid than others. With Kaa he's just trying to get a meal, with Shere Khan it's the fact that man had driven tigers to near-extinction. King Louie doesn't even want to kill Mowgli at all--he just wants to learn about man.

* SuperPersistentPredator: Shere Khan tracks Mowgli all throughout the jungle, but both times he's out to kill him for being human rather than hunting him for food. Meanwhile, Kaa (who ''is'' hunting for food) only chances upon the main characters and quits pursuing them once they prove to be more trouble than they're worth.