The Jungle Book (2016)

Idris Elba: Shere Khan

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Quotes 

• Shere Khan : Shift your hunting ground for a few years and everyone forgets how the law works. Well, let me remind you. A man-cub becomes man, and man is FORBIDDEN!

• Baloo : "This is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky."

  Shere Khan : What is this?

  Baloo : "The wolf that keeps it may prosper /"

  Baloo , Bagheera : "... but the wolf that breaks it will die ."

  Shere Khan : You fools.

  Baloo , Bagheera , Raksha : "Like the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth over and back."

  Shere Khan : Fine! Rise up, all of you! You want to put yourselves between me and the man-cub?

  Baloo , Bagheera , Raksha : "For the strength of the pack is the wolf..."

  Baloo , Bagheera , Raksha , Mowgli : [further joined by the other wolves]  "... and the strength of the wolf is the pack!"

  Shere Khan : I will have you ALL IN MY TEETH!

• Akela : Mowgli belongs to my pack, Shere Khan.

  Shere Khan : Mowgli? They've given it a name! When was it we came to adopt man into the jungle?

  Akela : He's just a cub.

  Shere Khan : [shows his scars]  Does my face not remind you of what a grown man can do?

• Shere Khan : I can't help but notice there's this strange odor today. What is it, this scent that I'm on? I almost... I almost think it was some kind of... man-cub.

  [spots Mowgli] 

• Shere Khan : [playing with Akela's cubs after he killed Akela]  I think they like me.

• Shere Khan : [finds himself on the branch of a dead tree that starts to crack under his weight]  Did you think I would let you grow old?

  [sees the flames below the tree] 

  Shere Khan : Either I'll devour you or the red flower will. It's just a matter of time. How long did you really think you'd survive against me? Longer than your father did? Longer than... Akela?

  Mowgli : I'm not afraid of you! Do you hear me? I'm done running from you!

  [Shere Khan roars and leaps at the end of the branch to tackle Mowgli, but the boy manages to jump onto a vine. The branch snaps and Shere Khan falls to his death] 

  Shere Khan : NOOO!

• Shere Khan : [to Raksha's cubs]  But the one you have to watch out for is the cuckoo bird. Do you know how the cuckoo bird survives? By preying on a mother's weakness. The cuckoo bird is too cleaver to raise its young. Instead, it sneaks its eggs into the nests of simpler birds; so, when they hatch, the mother bird is fooled. She feeds them, nurtures them... And do you know what happens to her own chicks? They starve and die from neglect, all because a mother loved a chick that wasn't her own.

• Raksha : Why are you doing this? He's gone! Isn't that what you want?

  Shere Khan : I want him dead. Once he gets word of what happened here, he'll come back... and I'll be waiting.

• [Shere Khan visits the wolf pack and learns that Mowgli has left] 

  Shere Khan : Well, I guess it's done then... unless I can draw him BACK OUT!

  Raksha : Akela!

  [throws Akela off the cliff] 

  Shere Khan : [to the pack]  Have I got your attention now? I didn't want it to be this way. I made it SO simple. All I asked for was one thing, and you DENIED me! Well, that - ends - now. Spread the word! Until I have the man-cub, these hills are my hills. You did not RESPOND to reason, so now you will know fear!

• Shere Khan : [Shere Khan and Bagheera fight one more time. Shere Khan knocks Bagheera down and pins down his head]  It's time we put an end to this!

  [prepares to deliver the killing bite to Bagheera's neck but Raksha tackles him] 

  Raksha : No!