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I do prefer Shere Khan because he is very cool, sauve and calculating. Don't get me wrong, I really liked Kaa as well he is manipulative and sly, but Shere Khan has the qualities that I love in a villain.
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At least Shere Khan is honest about what he's going to do. Plus he has the patience to inform his victims of what they're about to get. All because he's a giant egotist, of course, but he doesn't try to pretend that he's your friend or anything.
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Kaa or Sir Hiss (Robin Hood,1973)
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Kaa.
His character is much more complex than it first appears, while Shere Khan is a huge arrogant prick who simply enjoys killing things. There's nothing more to him than that in the film, no matter how he disguises it with a smooth voice and attitude.
The second meeting with Kaa establishes so much more to him than the first brief encounter. We can't forget that Kaa quickly understood Mowgli enough to deceive him in the first place. That puts his intellect above Khan's, who couldn't perceive at all that the boy was no threat at all and merely wanted to remain friends with the jungle creatures. Never once did Khan consider how potentially useful it would be to befriend the boy instead. This also suggests strongly that Kaa can empathize with even those he intends to devour, seeing them as 'people' and not merely food... even if that's what he uses them for.
If we think about it a little, Kaa could simply have constricted Mowgli to death if the desire to eat him was the sole driving factor. It seems that Kaa dislikes cruelty and fear when he's hunting, and this is backed up by his obvious disdain for Shere Khan. The comparison and contrast between the two predators is obvious from their little chat. Kaa appeared to have momentarily forgotten he had Mowgli in his coils immediately after Khan left, indicative of how fervently the python despised the tiger.
Perhaps there was, from the start, a two-fold reason Kaa didn't simply hand over Mowgli to the tiger he clearly hated and feared: 1) he didn't want to lose his hard-won meal, but also 2) he didn't want the 'poor helpless boy' to endure the terrible death he'd suffer in the tiger's cruel claws.
So there are little hints of an internal character conflict going on there. His predatory instincts win out, of course; but for that brief instant he sympathizes with Mowgli, and perhaps even believes he's doing the boy a favor by eating him so nicely!
This makes him a much more interesting character than the very bluntly murderous Shere Khan.
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