Koda's mother

Koda's mother was the mother of Koda and a minor character in Disney's 2003 animated film Brother Bear.
She was voiced by the late Mickie McGowan in a flashback, while her vocal effects were provided by Frank Welker.
==History==
===Brother Bear ===
She was the first bear to be seen in the film. 
Offscreen, she goes into a village and takes a basket containing fish that had not been suspended properly by a teenaged resident of the village named Kenai (who chose not to tie it back up in order to get to his manhood ceremony). 
Later that day, Kenai goes to retrieve the basket and is attacked by her as she believed that he was going to harm Koda. Kenai's brothers Denahi and Sitka appear to help him. Koda's mother battles Sitka on a glacier and eventually overpowers him. She then advances on Kenai and Denahi. Sitka, in order to save his brothers, uses his spear to break the glacier, making it fall apart and sending himself and Koda's mother into the lake below. Koda's mother survives the fall and runs off, whilst Sitka perishes. 
After Sitka's funeral, Kenai blames Koda's mother for his brother's death and sets out to avenge him. He hides in berry bushes and hears Koda's mother roaring. He then chases her to a cliff and battles her, before impaling her with his spear. Angered at this unnecessary death, the Great Spirits take away Koda's mother away to their realm whilst Sitka's spirit turns Kenai into a bear as punishment for his actions.
She is mentioned various times in the film after these events, and is also seen in Kenai's flashbacks when he puts the pieces of Koda's story together. In another flashback, Kenai was hiding in the berry bushes before Koda's mother appeared and Kenai thought that she is looking for him. But she was really calling for Koda. The call of an innocent victim wondering if that was her cub she heard in the bushes. 
She is last seen in spirit form nuzzling her son for the last time before she, along with Sitka, returns to the Great Spirits.
===Brother Bear 2===
Koda's mother is mentioned twice in the film's 2006 sequel. Her first mention comes when Koda, Kenai and Nita look at the Great Spirits and Nita says that her mother is up there to which Koda replies that his is up there too. Second was when later on, Koda calls out to her through the northern lights and asks her to tell the other spirits to turn Kenai back into a human so he could be with Nita. The lights flashed as if she responded and understood her son's wish.
==Personality==
Her behavior is same way as real-life bears, but she's very caring for her son Koda, even as a spirit.
==Trivia==
* Before she died, and in Kenai and Koda's flashback, Koda's mother had black beady eyes, but when she reunited with Koda at the end of the movie, she had cartoony eyes like the other bears had while Kenai was a bear. The change in eye design reflected how Kenai and the audience portrayed her at the time; her black, beady eyes remarked a soulless, rampaging monster who killed the protagonist's brother, but at the end of the movie, she has normal eyes since Kenai and the audience no longer saw her as a monster, but a kind, loving, cautious, and worried mother protecting her cub and herself from a pack of hunters.
* Since Koda's mother was seen talking in a flashback, it appears that as a bear, Kenai can even hear animals talking through his memories and flashbacks, which he couldn't as a human.
==Gallery==
Koda mom.png|Koda's mother as a Spirit.
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