King Louie (Disney)

King Louis Lamount, better known as King Louie, is a major antagonist in the 1967 film The Jungle Book and one of the main characters of it's 1996-1998 prequel series Jungle Cubs and the films 1990-1991 spin-off series TaleSpin. He is an orangutan who wishes to become a man.
As an adult, Louie is voiced by the late in the film, (who also voices Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Darkwing Duck, Taz, and Pete) in other media, and Jason Marsden (who also voices Max Goof and Kovu) and Cree Summer as a child in Jungle Cubs.
==Appearances==
===The Jungle Book===
After hearing that a man-cub named Mowgli is in the jungle, Louie sends his monkeys to bring him to his palace made out of ruins which they succeed. After Mowgli is brought to him, Louie makes a deal with him saying that he will help him stay in the jungle if Mowgli does something for him in return which the boy agrees to. Louie then starts to sing I Wanna Be Like You where he tells Mowgli that he wants to be a man and wants to know how to make Red Flower (Animal talk for Fire) but due to not being raised by other humans Mowgli does not know how to make it and when he says this to Louie, the orangutan thinks he's just kidding. Just then Baloo and Bagheera arrive to save Mowgli, so Baloo dresses up as a female orangutan to distract Louie and the monkeys but his disguise falls apart and a fight breaks out and the palace begins to fall apart but luckily Mowgli, Baloo, and Bagheera manage to escape. Louie is not seen again in the film.
===The Jungle Book 2===
Louie doesn't appear in this film as according to Baloo he is "splitsville" instead a shadow puppet of him appears at the start of the film. Louie's palace appears where Baloo takes Mowgli to party with the other animals and it is shown that the monkeys still live there and are now friendly to Baloo.
===TaleSpin===
Louie appears as a supporting character in this series were unlike the first film he is on good terms with Baloo and is his best friend. Also unlike the film, Louie acts more like a human as he is seen wearing clothes and owns and works in a bar.
===Jungle Cubs===
Louie appears as the main character in the prequel series to the film where he like the other animal characters is shown as a child. He is once again seen as Baloo's best friend and is shown to have also been friends with Shere Khan and Kaa. He is also shown to have two younger cousins named Benny and Clyde.
===House of Mouse===
Louie makes a few cameo appearances in the series. He was meant to appear in the episode King Larry Swings In but was replaced by his twin brother Larry. This was because the widow of Louis Prima (who voiced Louie in the film) sued Disney for the unauthorized use of her late husband's voice.
==Vocals==
==Gallery==
===Images===
Imagelts.jpg|Louie in TaleSpin
Imageyljcs1.jpg|Young Louie in Jungle Cubs (Season One)
Imageyljcs2.jpg|Young Louie in Jungle Cubs (Season Two)
Imageljb.jpg|Louie in The Jungle Book
Imagelhom.jpg|Louie in House of Mouse
Screen-Shot-2015-09-15-at-1.02.31-PM.png|Louie in The Jungle Book as a Gigantopithecus.
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Realkinglouie.jpg|Louie in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
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==Trivia==
*Although having a friend or foe role in the original film, he is far more villainous and is actually evil in the 2016 remake, becoming the third Disney side character to be depicted as a villain, following King Stefan in Maleficent and the Grand Duke in Cinderella.
*Despite being male, Louie lacks flanges on his face, which adult male orangutans have in real life. This could be a mistake or perhaps Louie is meant to be a young adult male.
*While he is an orangutan, his live action counterpart is a Gigantopithecus as orangutans are not native to India, but Gigantopithecus fossil remains have been found there.
*Louie's laughter when Baloo is tickling his armpits while the ape is attempting to keep the crumbling palace in place is reused exactly from Br'er Rabbit in Song of the South.
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