Sitka

Sitka is the overarching protagonist of Disney's 44th full-length animated feature film and its 2006 sequel . He is the late older brother of both Denahi and Kenai and their parental figure, as well as the brother-in-law of Nita.
He is voiced by D.B. Sweeney who also voiced Aladar.
==Biography==
===Brother Bear===
Sitka loved his younger brothers and would do anything for them. He is first seen at the start of the film with Kenai and Denahi to collect fish, before returning to their tribe's village for Kenai's manhood ceremony. At the ceremony, Sitka and Denahi watch on as Kenai is given the bear of love totem by their tribe's shaman woman Tanana, much to Kenai's disappointment as he dislikes bears. Afterwards, Sitka comes across Denahi teasing Kenai over his totem and tells him to check on the fish, before telling Kenai about his own ceremony and how his totem is the eagle, which represent leadership. Just then the two discover that a bear stole the basket they kept the fish in, after Kenai (in a hurry to get to his ceremony) didn't tie the basket's rope properly and caused it to fall to the ground. Denahi (who had made the basket) gets mad at Kenai for not tying up the basket properly, to which Kenai leaves to retrieve it. Sitka unsuccessfully tries to persuade Kenai from leaving before giving Denai a look of disappointment for upsetting Kenai. Sitka and Denahi follow Kenai to make sure he doesn't end up getting killed. They see Kenai fighting the bear from a distance and race to help. When Kenai is dangling off a cliff, Sitka comes to help him and is warned by him about the bear being behind him. Luckily, Denahi throws stones at the bear to distract her, giving Sitka time to help Kenai back up the cliff. Kenai is knocked to the ground and Denahi defends him, but the bear knocks the spear out of his hands and it looks like it's over for them when Sitka, deciding there is no other option, stabs the ice around the bear with his spear, causing the ice to crack and break, off causing the bear to fall and Sitka falls with her.
Kenai and Denahi search for him, but only find his pelt and his spirit assumes the form of a bald eagle. Later that night, a funeral is held for Sitka and his pelt and totem are cremated. Kenai is enraged that the bear lived and Sitka died and feels responsible for what happened, so he goes out to kill the bear to avenge Sitka. After a battle, Kenai succeeds in killing the bear, but he is visited by Sitka in spirit form, as he was disappointed in his little brother for murdering an innocent animal out of misguided vengeance, going against everything his totem stood for. To punish Kenai, Sitka becomes a spiritual eagle and turns Kenai into a bear. Just after Sitka leaves, Denahi arrives, finds Kenai's tattered clothes and believes the bear killed his brother. Because of this, Denahi decides to avenge both of his brothers deaths and relentlessly hunts Kenai who has to look after a bear cub named Koda whom he finds annoying at first, but eventually grows to love him. At the end of the movie, upon seeing Kenai nearly give his life for Koda, Sitka decides to change him back into a human and visits him and Denahi in his human form before departing to the spirit world with Koda's mother (who was the bear Kenai killed to avenge Sitka) but, before he leaves, Kenai wishes to be a bear again so that he can look after Koda, because he can't talk to him in human form which Sitka and Denahi respected.
===Brother Bear 2===
Sitka does make a cameo in eagle form near the end of the film with the spirits transforming Nita into a bear. Also, while Nita and Kenai are traveling, an eagle flies to a nest to bring some chicks food.
==Powers and Abilities==
*Ethereal Physiology: After death, he transformed into an ethereal being, one impervious to death & a spirit of guidance with great supernatural powers.
**Metamorphosis: He can shift from his ethereal human-like form into an eagle form for flying mainly.
**Transmutation: He is able to transform Kenai & Nita into bears on a cellular level.
**Clairvoyance: As a spirit, he was aware of everything going on in the valleys.
*Immense Wisdom: He is immensely wise, turning Kenai into a bear so as not only to punish him, but to also make him realize that what he sees as monsters are not different from humans. He also taught his brothers that killing mercilessly is unnecessary.
*Hunting: While he was alive on earth, he was an amazing hunter.
==Gallery==
Profile - Great Spirit Version of The Regular-Human Sitka.webp|Sitka as a Spirit.
Sitka.png|Sitka Render
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Sitka smile.webp
Brother-bear-1180w-600h-1180x600.jpg|Sitka with his brothers Kenai and Denahi.
Sitka's sacrifice.jpg|thumb|Sitka sacrifices himself to save his little brothers from Koda's mother.
File:Brother-bear-disneyscreencaps.com-8831.jpg.webp
Brother-bear-disneyscreencaps.com-9070.jpg|Sitka (in Spirit form) with Kenai (in his bear form) and Denahi.
==Trivia==
*In an earlier draft of Brother Bear, Sitka had one brother (Kenai) and a father named Chilkoot, who would have been the one who sacrificed himself whilst saving Kenai rather than Sitka. However this death was deemed too similar to Mufasa's death in The Lion King so Chilkoot was scrapped and was replaced by Denahi and Sitka was made the one who sacrificed himself. The name Chilkoot was later given to Nita's father in Brother Bear 2.
**Also in the earlier draft, there was a flashback which showed a young Sitka and Kenai with their mother, who for reasons unknown, did not appear in the final film (though it is most likely due to time restrictions). It is possible that she had passed away sometime before the events of the film as Sitka is shown acting as a parental figure to Kenai.
*In the early stages of Brother Bear 2, Kenai was to have a nightmare about Sitka's death.
*Sitka is named after a big city at Alaska.
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