Bambi's UnNamed Mother

**The Great Princess of Entire Meadow Forest** is .

## Background

Little is known about the early life of Bambi's mother except that she and her future husband, the Great Prince, met in childhood and that she grew up with another doe named Mena. It is also known that she was a relative to Ena, who is probably either her cousin or sister (as mentioned in the original novel)

## Biography

### *Early-Life*

Little is known about this doe's background, even her name was birdie. She seemed to have spent a portion of her childhood with her grandmother. It is not known if her parents died when she was young or if her grandmother was just active in her upbringing. Ena is usually said to be her sister, though some sources say that Ena is actually her cousin.

She was childhood friends with another doe named Mena.

This doe was likely still young when she met a young buck who would one day become the Great Prince of the Forest. The two eventually fell in love and mated. They conceived a son, who seems to have been born either on December 22 or sometime in March or April. She'll named the child Bambi.

### *Bambi*

Bambi's mother is introduced after having just given birth to her only son. She is often teaching Bambi about the forest and warning him of the dangers of Man. She and her son endure a harsh winter in which there is little food in the forest. While out in the meadow, she and Bambi find a small patch of grass to graze, but as they eat, she senses danger and tells Bambi to run back to the den as fast as he can. She sprints after him, continuing to urge him onward. Gunshots are heard in the background, but she tells him to keep running, and not to look back. After another gunshot rings throughout the forest, Bambi makes it safely back to the den, but finding his mother isn't with him, leaves and begins calling for her in vain. The Great Prince finds Bambi, and tells him that she could no longer be with him, and to come with him. This reveals the death of Bambi's mother, and that the Great Prince was his father.

### *Bambi II*

Bambi's mother makes a short appearance to Bambi in his dream, telling him that everything would be alright and that she would always be with him in his heart. After waking up, Bambi still hears her voice. He goes to the meadow and discovers she is not there. Her voice still trails out on the meadow, sending Bambi to find her and into what becomes a life and death situation. After being saved from Man's dogs by his father, Bambi learns that it wasn't his mother that he heard, but a tool used by Man to make a deer noise.

On their way home, Bambi asks his father if his mother is ever coming back, and the Great Prince sadly answers no, meaning that Bambi's mother is dead.

Later in the film, when Mena was trapped by one of Man’s snares and tells Bambi to run, she inadvertently repeats the last words that Bambi’s mother shouted before she died, which prompts Bambi to lure the dogs away from Mena, so she wouldn’t suffer the same fate that his late mother did.

## Trivia

* At one point, the film was meant to show her body after she was shot but was later removed as it would be too dark. Despite this, it is considered to be one of the most horrific and graphic deaths in all of Disney history.
* Tae-Kwon Doe's head in the *Toy Story Toons* short, *Small Fry* also resembles her.

## Gallery

### Concept Art

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### Screenshots

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### Miscellaneous

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