Wizard

The wizard is a male monkey. He is a member of the lead ape's troop.
The wizard grew up in the lost city of Gonzolanga. Discontent with his life there, he constructed a magical whistle and used it to control a giant ape, whom he used to terrorize and subdue his troop. Eventually, the troop overpowered him and sent him away from Gonzolanga with his memories scrambled.
While in exile, the wizard stumbled upon Timon and Pumbaa, whom he used to lead him back to Gonzolanga. Once back home, the wizard summoned the giant ape and began re-exerting tyrannical control over his troop. However, Timon tickled the giant ape's hand, which caused him to fall backward onto the wizard. This rendered the wizard insane and broke his magical whistle. Without his mental faculties or his whistle, the wizard became harmless and lived peacefully with his troop.
==Biography==
===Early life===
After humans abandoned the city of Gonzolanga, the lead ape's troop inhabited the city's ruins. For a time, the monkeys lived in peace. However, the wizard, discontent with his life, constructed a magical whistle and used it to control a giant ape into dominating and terrorizing his troop. Eventually, the troop overwhelmed the wizard and forced him to leave Gonzolanga with no memory of how to return.
===Attack on the lead ape's troop===
While in the jungle, the wizard noticed Timon and Pumbaa racing past. He pursued them to the edge of a cliff and called to them from atop a nearby log. However, he lost his balance and toppled into the ravine below, severely injuring himself. Timon and Pumbaa bore the injured wizard to safety, and the monkey revealed that he was searching for the lost city of Gonzolanga. This sent Timon and Pumbaa into a panic.
Though Timon and Pumbaa tried to flee, the wizard shot a bolt of lightning at them and explained that he could perform magic. He then implored them to guide him to Gonzolanga. In exchange, he offered to refill their dried up watering hole. Timon wondered if the wizard could truly do what he said, and the wizard proved his proficiency in magic again by drawing a circle and dancing, which caused it to rain.
The wizard told Timon and Pumbaa to uphold their end of the bargain, and Timon declared that he always kept his word and that lightning would strike him down otherwise. Mid-sentence, he got struck by a bolt of lightning. Pumbaa blamed the incident on the wizard, who promptly stopped the rain and ordered Pumbaa to bring Timon into a cave while he searched for medicinal herbs. Once Timon had been moved to a cave, the wizard returned with an antidote. However, the medicine merely made Timon breathe fire, then pass out again.
The wizard urged Pumbaa to lead him to Gonzolanga without Timon, but Pumbaa refused to leave his friend behind. This prompted the wizard to hypnotize Pumbaa and force his submission.
Meanwhile, Timon had a nightmare about a gorilla capturing him. Timon cried out for Pumbaa, only to awaken in the empty cave. He quickly deduced that the wizard had forced Pumbaa to travel to Gonzolanga with him, and so he took off in the hopes of rescuing his friend from the wizard's hypnosis.
Across the jungle, the wizard and Pumbaa nearly got trampled by an elephant stampede. After the elephants passed, the wizard fell into a deep hole in the ground. Though he pleaded with Pumbaa to give him a vine, the warthog mindlessly followed his master into the hole. As the wizard examined his surroundings, he noticed a map to the lost city. Feeling that Pumbaa had served his purpose, the wizard sent him back to Timon, but not before a spear was thrown at him, only narrowly missing him.
Meanwhile, Timon followed Pumbaa's tracks to the hole, which he fell into himself. He lit a torch with his fiery breath and followed the underground tunnels to where Pumbaa and the wizard had been tied up by the Giant Bat Tribe. Timon attempted to breathe fire at the tribe but failed, as the potion had worn off. The bats proceeded to knock him out and tie him up next to Pumbaa and the wizard.
A while later, Timon awakened and found that he once more possessed fiery breath, which he used to free himself and his companions. Once free, the wizard attempted to hypnotize Pumbaa again, but Timon forbade him to do so. Pumbaa questioned the wizard on why he wanted to visit Gonzolanga so badly, and the wizard replied tearfully that he simply wished to be reunited with his family.
Just then, the bats returned, and the three escaped into a nearby underground river, which spit them back out into the jungle. The three followed a trail through the underbrush that led them to the lost city of Gonzolanga. Once they arrived, a parrot spy rushed off to report their presence to his masters, and the wizard fled in a panic. Timon and Pumbaa attempted to follow him but got surrounded by a troop of monkeys, who demanded to know what Timon and Pumbaa were doing in Gonzolanga.
Timon explained that they had followed a magical monkey to Gonzolanga. The wizard then appeared in the branches of a tree overhead and proclaimed that he was furious. Though the leader of the troop ordered his lackeys to capture the wizard, the wizard pulled out a whistle and blew on it, which caused the other monkeys to run away in fear. Shortly after the whistle had been blown, a massive gorilla appeared and bowed before the wizard, calling him his master.
Timon questioned the troop leader on the wizard's identity, and the lead ape regretfully explained that he and his fellow monkeys had lived happily in the ruins of Gonzolanga until the wizard had made a whistle through magical means to control the giant gorilla. The troop had managed to subdue the wizard, force him to drink a potion that had made him forget the path to Gonzolanga, and send him drifting down the river on a log.
The story got interrupted by the wizard, who explained that he had hidden his magic whistle from his troop. Timon attempted to use his fiery breath on the wizard, but it did not work, which prompted Pumbaa to race to Timon's rescue. However, Pumbaa was easily defeated, and the gorilla seized Timon in one fist. To escape, Timon tickled the gorilla's hand, and the gorilla fell backward onto his wizard master. In the process, the magic whistle got broken, and the wizard hit his head so hard that he forgot who he was.
With the wizard defeated, the troop thanked Timon and Pumbaa for their help and sent them back home. The wizard, whose mind was addled, bade them farewell and remained with his troop in Gonzolanga.
==Physical appearance==
The wizard is a moderately sized monkey. He is long-bodied and thin, with large hands and feet. His main pelt is brown, while his chest, tail tip, and the fur lining his upper face are white.
==Personality and traits==
Cruel and manipulative, the wizard initially used his magic to subdue other animals and force them to serve him. His arrogance led him to oppress and tyrannize his troop. However, after the giant ape fell on him, the wizard went insane and became more harmless.
==Appearances==
* The Lost City of Gonzolanga
==Trivia==
* The wizard mentions to Timon and Pumbaa that he has a mother, sister, and grandmother. However, this may be a lie, as it is not the real reason that he wished to return to Gonzolanga.
==References==
Category:Antagonists
Category:Characters
Category:Males
Category:Monkeys
Category:Unnamed characters