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Denahi is a major character and (briefly) the main antagonist of Disney's 2003 film Brother Bear. He is the younger brother to Sitka and older brother of Kenai.

Background

Personality

Denahi likes to tease Kenai, but still loves him in every way. However, at the final fight of the film, it looks as though his anger has descended to madness and evil (shown throughout the film as he slowly grows a mustache and goatee to give him a more sinister and mad appearance, giving a physical manifestation of his slow descent into madness in his pursuit for vengeance). His madness ends, however, when he realizes that Kenai is still alive.

He starts off as a mischievous, fun-loving character, but after Sitka dies, he becomes much more serious. When he realizes that Kenai is still alive, however, some of his old playfulness returns, though he still retains his seriousness out of necessity, signifying his growth into a man.

Role in the film

Denahi is first seen as an old man telling his story to the younger generations. Then, as a young man, witnesses his brother's, Kenai's, totum-receiving and makes fun of him for the totum being the "Bear of Love." When Kenai went to get the basket that was taken by a bear, Denahi and Sitka went after him and saw him get attacked by the bear. As Kenai tries to save Denahi from falling down a hole, Sitka breaks the ice cliff with his spear and falls into the waters with the bear to save his brothers. His body is not found.

After Sitka's funeral, Kenai tries to convince Denahi that they should go after the bear, but Denahi refuses, claiming he doesn't blame the bear for Sitka's death because Kenai provoked it to attack. Denahi advises Kenai against avenging Sitka's death, as it may anger the spirits, but a frustrated Kenai sets out to kill the bear anyway. Kenai fulfills his mission and is transformed into a bear by Sitka's displeased spirit. As Denahi arrives at the scene of the fight, he sees scraps of his brother's clothes and Kenai in his bear form. Believing that his brother lost the fight and was also killed by the bear, a saddened Denahi begins to hunt Kenai's bear form relentlessly across the wilderness, not understanding that the bear is actually his brother. He first sees Kenai in the woods where he hides behind a tree. When Denahi comes out to attack, Kenai sees him and tries to talk to him, still unaware that he was a bear and therefore that Denahi could not understand him, so Denahi tries to stab Kenai.

Denahi later sees Kenai in his bear form in a lava field. There, Denahi tries to kill him, but Kenai hits him and runs for it along with Koda, when he gets up he gets his spear and tries to break the log bridge that Kenai and Koda are trying to get across and he breaks the bridge but Kenai and Koda manage to get to the other side and Denahi gives up briefly, then he growls and tries to jump to the other side but lands on the bridge instead. The log than falls, with Denahi, into the waters below even though Kenai tried to save him.

Denahi was later seen trying to warm himself with a small campfire and was about to give up on avenging Kenai when he saw an eagle, recognizing it as Sitka, and followed it. Denahi reached the mountain where the (Northern) lights touched the earth and found Kenai in his bear form and attacked him. During the battle, Sitka arrived and changed Kenai back into a human. A shocked Denahi threw down his spear after realizing the bear was really his younger brother the whole time. When he sees how much Koda meant to Kenai, he told Kenai that he "looked better as a bear," and that he'll always be his brother no matter what Kenai chooses to be.

Later, Kenai was made known as a man, even in bear form, and Denahi was there to see and help his brother put a hand print on the wall, making his manhood official.

Trivia

Denahi is the narrator of the film. Although the subtitles in the film mistake the narrator to be Sitka, it is shown at the beginning that he is the narrator when it shows an elderly Denahi, wearing his totem, as he tells the story in Inuktitut, which is vocally translated to the audience.
Denahi was originally going to be Kenai's father instead of his older brother.
Denahi's voice actor, Jason Raize, also played Simba in the Broadway production of The Lion King.
Even though Denahi was made to look like the main antagonist, Kenai, the film's protagonist, ironically appears to be the more malevolent character, since killing Koda's mother was considered an offense to the Great Spirits, and a posthumous Sitka now attempts to stop Denahi from suffering the same fate as Kenai.
Denahi is one of the four main antagonists in the Disney Animated Canon to be redeemed, the other three being Amos Slade, John Silver, & Te Kā as well.
Denahi becomes a silent warrior after Kenai turns into a bear, aside from some angry growls, screams, and yells when the two fight. He does not start talking again until after Sitka changes Kenai back. This may have been due to the fact that, as pointed out by Tanana, bears cannot talk to humans and vice verse, so when Kenai begged Denahi to stop attacking him since he is his brother, all Denahi hears is him growling.
His totem is the Wolf of Wisdom.

Gallery

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Media
Brother Bear (Soundtrack/Video) • Brother Bear 2 (Soundtrack/Video) • Video game Cancelled projects: Brother Bear: The Series

Disney Parks
Redwood Creek Challenge Trail Entertainment: Hakuna Matata Time Dance Party • Rivers of Light: We Are One Fireworks: Wonderful World of Animation • Wondrous Journeys

Characters
Brother Bear: Kenai • Koda • Rutt and Tuke • Denahi • Sitka • Tanana • Tug • Koda's mother • The Rams • Mammoths • Sockeye Salmon • The Great Spirits • Caribou Stampede Brother Bear 2: Nita • Atka • Chilkoot • Siqiniq and Taqqiq • Anda and Kata • Innoko • Bering

Songs
Great Spirits • Transformation • On My Way • Welcome • No Way Out • Look Through My Eyes • Welcome to This Day • Feels Like Home • It Will Be Me Deleted: Fishing Song

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+{{Infobox character
+|image = Brother-bear-disneyscreencaps.com-1056.jpg
 |films = ''[[Brother Bear]]''
+|games = ''[[Disney's Brother Bear (video game)|Brother Bear]]''
-|voice = [[Jason Raize]]<br>[[Harold Gould]] (when old)<br>[[Sean Astin]]
-|games = Brother Bear Game
 |animator = [[Ruben A. Aquino]]
+|voice = [[Jason Raize]]<br>[[Harold Gould]] (older)
-|personality = '''(previously):''' Mischievous (to Kenai)<br>'''(later):''' Resolute, purposeful, powerful, wise, fun (sometimes)
+|personality = Teasing, brotherly, protective, loving, playful, vengeful (formerly), violent (on situations), mischievous, mature, wise (later on), serious, strict
-|appearance = Slender, medium skin, briefly mustachioed, short black goatee, black hair with a gold bead on his right strand, thick black eyebrows, light gray fur hoodie with a fuzzy white collar and cuffs and a dark gray horizontal line around in the middle of it, fuzzy dark gray knickerbockers, brown boots
+|appearance = Slender, medium skin, briefly mustachioed, short black goatee, black hair with a gold bead on his right strand, thick black eyebrows
-|occupation = Bear hunter<br>[[Sitka]] and [[Kenai]]'s brother<br>[[Nita]]'s brother-in-law
+|occupation = Hunter
-|alliance = Good/Neutral
+|alignment = Neutral, later good
-|goal = To hunt down Kenai (as a bear) (formerly)
+|goal = To avenge Kenai's "death" (unaware that the bear was actually Kenai transformed)
-|home = His village
+|home = [[Alaska]]
-|family = [[Kenai]] (brother)<br>[[Sitka]] (brother/deceased)<br>[[Nita]] (sister-in-law)
-|friends = His brothers [[Kenai]] and [[Sitka]], his sister-in-law [[Nita]], [[Koda's mother]]
+|family = [[Kenai]] (younger brother)<br>[[Sitka]] † (older brother)<br>[[Nita]] (sister-in-law)
-|enemies = [[Atka]], [[Koda's mother]] (formerly)
+|friends = [[Koda]], [[Koda's mother]], [[Tanana]]
+|enemies = [[Kenai]] (briefly), [[Koda]] (formerly), [[Koda's mother]] (formerly)
-|likes = His brothers
+|likes = His brothers, bears (currently)
-|dislikes = Bears (formerly), the caribou stampede
+|dislikes = Bears (formerly), the caribou stampede, danger, Sitka's death
-|powers = His strength<br>His speed
+|paraphernalia = Spear
-|weapons = His spear
-|fate = Stays in his village.
+|fate = Reunites with Kenai and reforms
-|quote = "No matter what you choose, you'll always be my little brother."|image = Brother-bear-disneyscreencaps.com-1056.jpg}}
+|quote = "No matter what you choose, you'll always be my little brother."|weapons = Spear}}'''Denahi''' is a major character and (briefly) the main antagonist of [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]]'s [[2003]] film ''[[Brother Bear]]''. He is the younger brother to [[Sitka]] and older brother of [[Kenai]].
-'''Denahi''' is a supporting character and (formerly) the main antagonist from Disney's [[2003]] film ''[[Brother Bear]]''. He is one of [[Kenai]]'s brothers.
-==Personality==
+==Background==
+===Personality===
-Denahi likes to tease Kenai, but still loves him in every way. In the beginning of the movie, he's a protagonist but in the middle until the climax he is an antagonist. Also, he is one of the antagonists who is not evil. However, at the final fight of the film, it looks like his anger has descended to madness and evil (shown throughout the film as he slowly grows a mustache and goatee to give him a more sinister and mad appearance, giving a physical manifestation of his slow descent into madness in his pursuit for vengeance). His role of an antagonist is due to him unknowingly being a threat to Kenai, as he assumed Kenai was killed by the mother bear. His totem is the '''Wolf of Wisdom'''.
+Denahi likes to tease Kenai, but still loves him in every way. However, at the final fight of the film, it looks as though his anger has descended to madness and evil (shown throughout the film as he slowly grows a mustache and goatee to give him a more sinister and mad appearance, giving a physical manifestation of his slow descent into madness in his pursuit for vengeance). His madness ends, however, when he realizes that Kenai is still alive.
-He starts off as a mischievous, fun-loving character, but after Sitka dies, he becomes much more serious.
+He starts off as a mischievous, fun-loving character, but after Sitka dies, he becomes much more serious. When he realizes that Kenai is still alive, however, some of his old playfulness returns, though he still retains his seriousness out of necessity, signifying his growth into a man.
 ==Role in the film==
-Denahi is first seen as an old man telling his story to younger generations. Than, as a young man, witnesses his brother's, Kenai's, totum-recieving and makes fun of him for the totum being the "Bear of Love." When Kenai went to get the basket that was taken by a bear, Denahi and Sitka went after him and saw him get attacked by a bear. As Denahi tries to save Kenai from falling in a hole, Sitka broke the ice cliff with his spear and falls into the waters with the bear to save his brothers.
+Denahi is first seen as an old man telling his story to the younger generations. Then, as a young man, witnesses his brother's, Kenai's, totum-receiving and makes fun of him for the totum being the "Bear of Love." When Kenai went to get the basket that was taken by a bear, Denahi and Sitka went after him and saw him get attacked by the bear. As Kenai tries to save Denahi from falling down a hole, Sitka breaks the ice cliff with his spear and falls into the waters with the bear to save his brothers. His body is not found.
-Denahi advises Kenai against avenging [[Sitka]]'s death, as it may anger the spirits, but Kenai sets out to kill the bear anyway. Kenai does so and is transformed into a bear by Sitka. As Denahi arrives at the scene of the fight, he sees scraps of his brother's clothes and Kenai in his bear form. Believing that his brother lost the fight and was also killed by the bear, Denahi begins to hunt [[Kenai|Kenai's]] bear form relentlessly across the wilderness, not understanding that the bear is actually his brother. He first sees Kenai in the woods where he hides behind a tree. When Denahi comes out to attack, Kenai sees him and tries to talk to him, still unaware that he was a bear and therefore that Denahi could not understand him, so Denahi tries to stab Kenai.
+After Sitka's funeral, Kenai tries to convince Denahi that they should go after the bear, but Denahi refuses, claiming he doesn't blame the bear for Sitka's death because Kenai provoked it to attack. Denahi advises Kenai against avenging [[Sitka]]'s death, as it may anger the spirits, but a frustrated Kenai sets out to kill the bear anyway. Kenai fulfills his mission and is transformed into a bear by Sitka's displeased spirit. As Denahi arrives at the scene of the fight, he sees scraps of his brother's clothes and Kenai in his bear form. Believing that his brother lost the fight and was also killed by the bear, a saddened Denahi begins to hunt [[Kenai|Kenai's]] bear form relentlessly across the wilderness, not understanding that the bear is actually his brother. He first sees Kenai in the woods where he hides behind a tree. When Denahi comes out to attack, Kenai sees him and tries to talk to him, still unaware that he was a bear and therefore that Denahi could not understand him, so Denahi tries to stab Kenai.
-Denahi later sees Kenai in his bear form in a lava field. There, Denahi tries to kill him, but Kenai hits him and runs for it along with [[Koda]], when he gets up he gets his spear and tries to break the log bridge that Kenai and Koda are trying to get across and he breaks the brige but Kenai and Koda manage to get to the other side and Denahi gives up briefly, then he growls and tries to jump to the other side but lands on the bridge instead. The log than falls, with Denahi, into the waters below even though Kenai tried to save him.
+Denahi later sees Kenai in his bear form in a lava field. There, Denahi tries to kill him, but Kenai hits him and runs for it along with [[Koda]], when he gets up he gets his spear and tries to break the log bridge that Kenai and Koda are trying to get across and he breaks the bridge but Kenai and Koda manage to get to the other side and Denahi gives up briefly, then he growls and tries to jump to the other side but lands on the bridge instead. The log than falls, with Denahi, into the waters below even though Kenai tried to save him.
-Denahi was later seen trying to warm himself with a small campfire and was about to give up on avenging Kenai when he saw an eagle, recongizing it as Sitka, and follow it. Denahi reached the mountian where the (Northern) lights touched the earth and found Kenai in his bear form and attacked him. During the battle, Sitka arrived and changed Kenai back into a human. Shocked and confused, Denahi threw down his spear. When he sees how much Koda meant to Kenai, he told Kenai that he "looked a better as a bear," and that he'll always be his brother no matter what Kenai chooses to be.
+Denahi was later seen trying to warm himself with a small campfire and was about to give up on avenging Kenai when he saw an eagle, recognizing it as Sitka, and followed it. Denahi reached the mountain where the (Northern) lights touched the earth and found Kenai in his bear form and attacked him. During the battle, Sitka arrived and changed Kenai back into a human. A shocked Denahi threw down his spear after realizing the bear was really his younger brother the whole time. When he sees how much Koda meant to Kenai, he told Kenai that he "looked better as a bear," and that he'll always be his brother no matter what Kenai chooses to be.
-Later, Kenai was made known as a man, even in bear form, and Denahi was there to see and help his brother put an handprint on the wall, making his manhood offical.
+Later, Kenai was made known as a man, even in bear form, and Denahi was there to see and help his brother put a hand print on the wall, making his manhood official.
 ==Trivia==
-*Denahi is the narrator of the film. Although the subtitles in the film mistake the narrator to be Sitka, it is shown at the beginning that he's the narrator when it shows an elderly Denahi, wearing his totem, as he tells the story in a native American language, which is vocally translated to the audience.
+*Denahi is the narrator of the film. Although the subtitles in the film mistake the narrator to be Sitka, it is shown at the beginning that he ''is'' the narrator when it shows an elderly Denahi, wearing his totem, as he tells the story in Inuktitut, which is vocally translated to the audience.
+*Denahi was originally going to be Kenai's father instead of his older brother.
-*Denahi did not appear in ''[[Brother Bear 2]] because ''his voice actor, [[Jason Raize]], committed suicide in 2004, two years before the sequel was released.
+*Denahi's voice actor, Jason Raize, also played [[Simba]] in the Broadway production of ''[[The Lion King]]''.
-*Denahi's totem being a wolf may be a subtle reference to the long portrayal of wolves being antagonists in several stories, and it could've been a way to foreshadow Denahi's role as an antagonist.
+*Even though Denahi was made to look like the main antagonist, ''Kenai'', the film's protagonist, ironically appears to be the more malevolent character, since killing Koda's mother was considered an offense to the Great Spirits, and a posthumous Sitka now attempts to stop Denahi from suffering the same fate as Kenai.
-*Originally Denahi was gonna be Kenai's father.
+*Denahi is one of the four main antagonists in the Disney Animated Canon to be redeemed, the other three being [[Amos Slade]], [[John Silver]], & [[Te Kā]] as well.
-*Denahi's voice actor, Jason Raize, is the same actor who played [[Simba]] in the Broadway production of ''[[The Lion King]]''.
+*Denahi becomes a silent warrior after Kenai turns into a bear, aside from some angry growls, screams, and yells when the two fight. He does not start talking again until after Sitka changes Kenai back. This may have been due to the fact that, as pointed out by Tanana, bears cannot talk to humans and vice verse, so when Kenai begged Denahi to stop attacking him since he is his brother, all Denahi hears is him growling.
-*Denahi is the only Disney main antagonist to be a biological sibling to the hero, and the third Disney main antagonist to be biologically related to the hero, after Scar and Hades and before King Triton.
+*His totem is the '''Wolf of Wisdom'''.
-*He is also the second Disney main antagonist to reform at the end of the film, after John Silver and before King Triton.
 ==Gallery==
+{{Gallerylink}}
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-brother-bear-disneyscreencaps.com-1655.jpg|Denahi mourns over the loss of his eldest brother [[Sitka]]
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