Denahi

Denahi is the main antagonist of Disney's 44th full-length feature film . He is Kenai's older brother, Sitka's younger brother and Nita's brother-in-law.
He was voiced by the late Jason Raize (who was the first actor to portray Simba in the stage version of The Lion King) and by the late Harold Gould as an elderly man.
==Biography==
===Beginnings===
Denahi is the older brother of Kenai and the younger brother of Sitka, thus making him a middle child. At some point, upon reaching manhood, he received a totem from his village's shaman woman Tanana known as the Wolf of Wisdom.
===Brother Bear===
Denahi is first seen as an elderly man telling his story to the younger generations of his tribe.
As a young man, he was seen fishing with Sitka, only for it to be cut short after Kenai unintentionally leads a large herd of caribou towards them. Fortunately, the brothers are able to avoid being trampled by the caribou, though Denahi is kicked in the back of the head by one of the caribou. Annoyed at Kenai, Denahi pins him to the ground and tries to drool on him, before being pulled off by Sitka. Kenai tells Sitka after today, Denahi cannot treat him like that anymore. Denahi realizes that Kenai is referring to his manhood ceremony where he will receive a totem and replies that it does not matter what the spirits say as Kenai will always be his and Sitka's baby brother. Denahi and his brothers return to their tribe with Denahi instructing Kenai to tie up the basket with the fish they caught up high to avoid bears getting them. However as Kenai leaves to attend his ceremony, the rope suspending the basket comes loose, causing the basket to fall to the ground, spilling the fish.
Denahi later witnesses Kenai's totem-receiving and teases him for the totem being the "Bear of Love", before being sent away by Sitka to deal with the fish. Moments later, Denahi confronts Kenai over not tying up the basket properly (as it has been taken by a bear) and says that Kenai should have got the totem of pinheads. Sitka tries to calm the situation by saying that they'll just make another basket, but Denahi replies that it took him 2 weeks to make the basket and tells Sitka to get Kenai to do. Kenai leaves to get the basket back from the bear. Denahi and Sitka went after him and saw him getting attacked by the bear. As Kenai tries to save Denahi from falling down the side of a glacier, Sitka breaks the part of the glacier he is on with his spear and falls into the waters with the bear to save his brothers. Shortly thereafter, Kenai and Denahi hurry down to find Sitka, only to find his hood.
After Sitka's death, Kenai attempts to convince Denahi that they should go after the bear. Denahi tells Kenai that even though he knows what he is feeling, killing the bear would be wrong; however, Kenai says that their brother is dead because of the "monster". Denahi says that he doesn't blame the bear for Sitka's death, implying that he instead blames Kenai. Denahi advises Kenai against avenging Sitka's death as it may anger the spirits, but a frustrated Kenai sets out to kill the bear anyway. Kenai does so and is transformed into a bear by Sitka as punishment. As Denahi arrives at the scene of the battle, he sees scraps of his brother's clothes and Kenai in his bear form. Thinking his brother lost the fight and was also killed by the bear, a saddened Denahi vows to avenge Kenai and also takes Kenai's totem with him. He begins to hunt Kenai's bear form relentlessly across the wilderness, not understanding that the bear is actually his brother.
He first sees Kenai in the woods, where he hides behind a tree. When Denahi comes out to attack, Kenai sees him and tries to talk to him, unaware that due to being a bear, Denahi could not understand him and only heard growls. Denahi tries to stab and kill Kenai, forcing the latter to flee.
Later, at a lava field, Denahi finds Kenai and tries to kill him, but Kenai hits him and tries to escape with Koda. Denahi then breaks the log bridge that Kenai and Koda are getting across with his spear, but Kenai and Koda still manage to get to the other side, making Denahi briefly giving up chasing them. Denahi jumps to the other side, but instead ends landing on the bridge, and then the logs and Denahi fall into the waters bellow, despite Kenai's attempt to save him.
Afterwards, Denahi is seen beside a small campfire. He is about to give up pursuing Kenai when he sees an eagle that he recognizes as Sitka. Following the eagle, he reaches the mountain where the (Northern) lights touch the earth. There he sees Kenai again and attacks him, but is stopped by Koda who jumps and steals his spear. Denahi runs after Koda and Kenai chases them, telling Denahi to leave Koda alone. During this, Sitka arrives and turns Kenai back into a human before Denahi suffered the same fate as Kenai. Shocked and confused, Denahi threw down his spear, horrified that he nearly caused his remaining brother's death. When he sees how much Koda means to Kenai, Denahi redeems himself, even telling Kenai that he "looked a better as a bear" and that he will always be his little brother, no matter what Kenai chooses to be.
Later, Kenai is turned back into his bear form, but is still made known as a man. Denahi is there during the manhood ceremony and helps his brother put a handprint on the wall.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Denahi shares the name with the peak of the same name, which also goes by the name Mount McKinley.
*Denahi did not appear in the sequel as his voice actor Jason Raize committed suicide in 2004, 2 years before the sequel was released and a few months after the first film was released.
*In an early draft of Brother Bear, Denahi was called Chilkoot and was Kenai and Sitka's father rather than their brother and would have been the one of sacrificed themselves rather than Sitka. However this idea was scrapped as it was similar to a previous Disney film The Lion King (which involved Mufasa dying whilst saving his son Simba), thus Chilkoot became Denahi and it was Sitka who became the one who sacrificed himself. The name Chilkoot was later given to Nita's father in Brother Bear 2.
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