Mowgli
From the Jungle Book stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Name:
Mowgli
Publisher:
Real name:
Mowgli
Aliases:
- Mowgli
- Human Cub
- The Frog
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Male
Powers:
- Agility
- Feral
- Unarmed Combat
First issue:
True Comics (1941) #10
Mowgli is a human cub who first appeared in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
According to Rudyard Kipling, he had intended for Mowgli's name to be pronounced "mow" (rhymes with cow or vow) "gli". His daughter even obtained a verbal promise from Disney that his name would be pronounced that way in the film.
However, in the Disney film, they chose to mispronounce Mowgli's name as "moe" (rhymes with show or glow) "gli", and such is the power of Disney that almost every version of the story since has repeated the Disney way of saying his name and ignored the official way preferred by the author who created the character.
