

Akela is the leader of the wolf pack but, as he is growing old, he agrees to pass the leadership onto a worthy successor. Akela is also a major character in the Japanese-produced Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli, he was voiced by Yuzuru Fujimoto in the Japanese and Walter Massey in the English dub.Afterwards, Raksha takes Akela's place as the new leader of the pack. Akela is finally avenged when Mowgli kills Shere Khan by causing him to fall into a pit of fire beneath a tree. Akela's death has far-reaching effects, spreading through the jungle until Mowgli hears of his murder from King Louie and decides to avenge him. Shere Khan then kills Akela by throwing him off a cliff and assumes command of the wolf pack. Upon Shere Khan's return, Akela tells him that Mowgli has left. This causes disagreement to break out on whether Mowgli should leave the pack, but Mowgli decides to leave to protect them before a decision is reached. However, years later, Shere Khan threatens the wolf pack upon finding Mowgli at a gathering at the watering hole during a drought. In the film, Akela adopts Mowgli into his pack after Bagheera rescues him. In an interview, Esposito describes his character as the wolf pack's fierce patriarch and as "strong and hardened" as well as "a great leader and wise teacher", welcoming of Mowgli into his pack, but at the same time, worried that Mowgli may compromise the pack's safety in the future. In the 2016 live-action/CGI hybrid film, Giancarlo Esposito voices Akela.In this adaptation, he is also the father of Mowgli's adopted family and mate of Raksha.
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Akela plays a bigger role in the live-action Disney movie Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story voiced by Clancy Brown.Despite their evident closeness to the other cubs in this episode, Akela and Leah never appeared again in the series. At the conclusion of the episode, Akela and Leah become the parents of a group of wolf cubs, with the other animals being appointed the cubs' godfathers. Although Shere Khan initially objects to their presence when the rest of the pack arrives, the young cubs agree to help Akela and Leah, driving the rest of the pack away as Akela battles and defeats Cain. In this episode, Akela and Leah (voiced by Kath Soucie) run away from their old wolf pack as the pack leader Cain (voiced by Jim Cummings) wants Leah for himself, forcing the two younger wolves to escape and retreat to the old temple that serves as the group's Cubhouse. A younger Akela appears in an episode of the prequel cartoon Jungle Cubs, looking at the animal characters in their youth (voiced by Rob Paulsen).Acknowledging Shere Khan on their own, they decide to send Mowgli away, with Bagheera volunteering to take Mowgli back to the man-village. In the animated 1967 Disney adaptation, Akela (voiced by John Abbott) only has a brief role at the beginning of the film, when the council of wolves meet after Shere Khan's return to the jungle to decide what to do about Mowgli's future.Akela did this for the love of Mowgli and his death is a major factor in Mowgli's decision to finally return to human society at the age of 17. Some years later, when Mowgli has been rejected by human society and the pack is threatened with extinction by a rampaging pack of dholes, Akela joins the battle and fights to the death, finally dying in Mowgli's company ("Red Dog", in The Second Jungle Book). During this period Akela helps Mowgli to kill Shere Khan with the aid of the human village's water buffalo herd. Phao becomes the new pack leader, Mowgli returns to human society, at least for a time, and Akela hunts alone. The death of Akela after his battle with the dholes, as illustrated in page 280 of the 1895 edition of The Two Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingĪfter Shere Khan's departure the remaining wolves beg Akela to stay, but he refuses to remain pack leader and decides to hunt alone.

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Īkela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and colour He is large and grey and leads the pack by virtue of his strength and cunning. This is shown by his recurring references to the honour of the pack. Kipling portrays Akela with the character of an English gentleman. It is at such a meeting that the pack adopts the lost child Mowgli and Akela becomes one of Mowgli's mentors.Īkelā means "single or solitary" in Hindi. He is the leader of the Seeonee pack of Indian wolves and presides over the pack's council meetings. Akela as depicted on the frontispiece of The Two Jungle Books, published in 1895.Īkela ( Akelā also called The Lone Wolf or Big Wolf) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's stories, The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895).
