Spike (porcupine)

Spike is a male porcupine.
Spike befriended Timon and Pumbaa. However, Simba mistook Spike for an enemy and attacked him in the defense of his friends. Spike used his quills to defend himself and hurt Simba, which forced Timon and Pumbaa to take the cub to Grandmother Elephant for healing.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Spike lived in the jungle.
===Skirmish with Simba===
Spike met Timon and Pumbaa in an elephants' graveyard, where he assured the duo that nothing there would harm them. He then introduced himself to the two and explained his strange hankering for elephant bones. When he offered a bone to Timon and Pumbaa, the friends politely declined, and Spike offered to show them where they could dig up grubs instead. In their haste to follow Spike, Timon and Pumbaa tripped over each other and rolled down a steep embankment. Spike moved to follow them, but Simba mistook the porcupine for an enemy who had knocked Timon and Pumbaa down the hill.
The cub roared in the defense of his friends, and Spike shot the young lion with his quills. A horrified Timon and Pumbaa ran to their friend's side, and Spike wailed that he had not known that Simba was their friend and that he had only been defending himself. Timon and Pumbaa were quick to forgive Spike, but they left right away with an injured Simba to seek medical help from Grandmother Elephant.
==Physical appearance==
Spike is small and portly, with many long brown quills on his back. His eyes are black.
==Personality and traits==
Despite his fearsome exterior, Spike is friendly and only uses his quills if threatened. He was genuinely upset when he hurt Simba and pointed out that he had simply been trying to defend himself.
==Appearances==
* Hakuna Matata
** Prickly Problems
==Trivia==
* Another character named Spike appears in Mummy Pumbaa.
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Males
Category:Porcupines