- “I've spent years building Khan Industries into the biggest corporation in the world, and I've discovered that business is like a jungle. You see there are the eaters, and there are the eatens.”
- ―Shere Khan[src]
Shere Khan is a recurring character who appears in The Disney Afternoon animated series TaleSpin. In the series, he is an extremely wealthy CEO of Khan Industries which is the dominant economic force in Cape Suzette, and an antihero.
He is based on the character of the same name from The Jungle Book.
Background[]
Shere Khan is depicted as a selfish businessman. He is sometimes accompanied by an unnamed emaciated tiger "yes-man" office aide. He takes enjoyment out of running small companies out of business (Higher for Hire is sometimes on his hit list) with a sense of ruthlessness to skirt around the law as he chooses. He also likes to feed tiny insects to the many carnivorous plants he grows in his office. At one point he even hires the Air Pirates to create an artificial oil shortage, so he can extort higher prices from the public in "On a Wing and a Bear".
He has a well-armed air force and navy, complete with battleships. This is mainly to protect his Khan Transport shipping and business interests worldwide. However, he is willing to act nobly at times, such as ordering his forces into the air to protect the city from the Air Pirates, and has shown that he respects Baloo's piloting skills, most notably when he allows Baloo to take over piloting his plane after having all of his pilots replaced with his own robotic pilots; his plane is ambushed by the Air Pirates, and the robotic pilot refuses to deviate from its flight plan due to its programming, causing Baloo to forcefully remove the robot and take control of the plane to evade the foes.
He has an extremely cool and calm personality, rarely (if ever) showing any sort of alarm or surprise, regardless of the circumstances. In fact, when his plane is attacked by Don Karnage's forces in the incident detailed above, he calmly mixes himself a drink as he explains the situation to Baloo.
Other Appearances[]
This version of Shere Khan also makes a cameo in the Bonkers series in the episode "Of Mice and Menace". He appears in a couple of mugshots on a computer, implying that he is a criminal in the series.
This version of Shere Khan also serves as the influence for CEO Carl, the main antagonist of the CGI animated web series Talking Tom and Friends.
Video games[]
Shere Khan serves as the main antagonist of the TaleSpin NES game. In the game he hires Don Karnage and his Air Pirates to stall Baloo's deliveries so he can acquire Higher for Hire and put it out of business.
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- Shere Khan
- Shere Khan (Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book)
- Shere Khan (The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story)
- Shere Khan (The Jungle Book 2016)