Winifred (Disney)

Winifred is a female Indian Elephant who appears in Disney's 1967 film The Jungle Book. She is the wife of Colonel Hathi, and the mother of their son, Hathi, Jr.
In the original film, she was voiced by the late Verna Felton, who previously voiced Mrs. Jumbo and the Elephant Matriarch in Dumbo, the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp, and Flora and Queen Leah in Sleeping Beauty. In the prequel TV Series Jungle Cubs, she was voiced by Kath Soucie, who also voiced the Bimbettes in Beauty and the Beast, and Kanga from 2000 to 2010.
==Background==
Winifred is a female Indian Elephant. She is the wife of Colonel Hathi and the mother of their son, Hathi, Jr. She is a member of the jungle patrol. Unlike most mothers seen in Disney films, Winifred is snarky and sarcastic, never hesitating to remind Hathi of his faults and his forgetfulness. However, she is shown to be caring for others, and shows concern for Mowgli's welfare to the point of convincing Hathi to help find him. 
==Appearances==
===The Jungle Book===
Winifred appears in the two Jungle Patrol scenes. She first appears marching behind Hathi. After they stop marching, she complains to the elephant standing next to her that her feet are killing her, and he tells her that he's putting in for a transfer to another herd. She also participates in drills and inspections, and Hathi even smacked her behind for not having her back legs straight.
When Hathi and his patrol leave, Winifred asks him if he forgot something, Hathi insists that an elephant never forgets, and Winifred tells him he just forgot their son. Hathi sees their son talking to Mowgli, and he orders an immediate about face. Hathi, Jr. tells Mowgli that when he grows up, he's going to be a Colonel just like his father, and his father grabs him and scolds him for not leaving with the group, and the herd crashes into them, and his son tells him he forgot to say "Halt!"
Bagheera later interrupts the herd's cross country march in order to ask for their help in finding Mowgli after he runs away. At first, Hathi refuses, and Winifred and their son break ranks in order to set him straight. She calls Hathi "a pompous old windbag", and asks him how he would like to have their son lost and alone in the jungle, and Hathi tells her that's an entirely different matter. Winifred tells him that Mowgli is no different from their own son, and she tells him to help find Mowgli or she's taking over command. Hathi is shocked, and answers that a female leading his herd is utterly preposterous. Hathi Jr. tells him that he and Mowgli are friends, and he'll get hurt if they don't find him. Hathi relents, and forms a search party to find Mowgli.
===The Jungle Book 2===
While Winifred doesn't appear in The Jungle Book 2, fans believe that she might be among the herd when they form a line to prevent Baloo from going to the Man Village as well as when the herd stampedes into a cave to avoid the humans who have entered the jungle to search for Mowgli. Like the rest of her family, she does not appear for the rest of the film after that.
===Jungle Cubs===
Winifred appears as a supporting character in the prequel TV Series Jungle Cubs, where she meets Hathi and the other cubs. She was a young domesticated elephant who was separated from her herd by a fire. In a lead up to the first film, the young Hathi develops a crush on her. Like her son, she is shown to have a mop of brown hair when she was a child. She appears only twice in both seasons and in the second season, her hair is a darker brown color and more clean.
===Fantasia 2000===
In Fantasia 2000, an elephant that is believed to be Winifred makes a cameo along with another elephant that is believed to be Colonel Hathi during the "Pomp and Circumstance" segment of the film.
==Gallery==
===Images===
Junglebook445.jpg|Winifred in The Jungle Book
Junglebook-disneyscreencaps.com-5476.jpg|Winifred and Colonel Hathi
Winifred01.png|Winifred in Jungle Cubs
Fantasia_2000_Elephants.jpg|Winifred and Hathi's cameo in Fantasia 2000
==Trivia==
*Verna Felton, Winifred's original voice actress, also voiced the matriarch elephant in Dumbo, which was her first Disney role. Ironically, Winifred was also Felton's final acting role ever due to her death before the film was released (a day before Walt Disney), therefore bringing her entire acting career full circle.
*Winifred is not present in the original "Jungle Book" novel. Her character was conceived entirely by Disney for the film.
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