- This article is about the fictional Kipling character. For the Pashtun ruler of northern India see Sher Shah Suri.
Mowgli attacking Shere Khan (right) with a burning branch; detail of a rare clay bas-relief by John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard, The Works of Rudyard Kipling Vol. VII: The Jungle Book, 1973.
The Disney version[]
Walt Disney's Shere Khan.
In Disney's 1967 animated cartoon of The Jungle Book, Shere Khan is the villain, entering the story about three-quarters of the way through. He is not depicted as being lame — quite the contrary, he is extremely powerful, deadly, and sophisticated. His mere presence in the jungle compels the wolf pack to send Mowgli away, since Shere Khan will love him just on the principle that Mowgli is human; are the only things Shere Khan Even Kaa's hypnotic (he is just too intelligent to look Kaa in the eyes). In the mouseketeers of the movie.