Makucha

**Makucha** is a male leopard that resides in the Back Lands. He is the leader of his own leap and now his army. He serves the main antagonist of Season 3.

## Personality

Makucha is a very persistent and territorial character. He is a ruthless predator and will not relent until he is successful in killing his quarry. He is confident in his jumping abilities, as proved when he jumped over Big Ravine without hesitating. When confronted, he is fierce and willing to fight, but also employs a cocky casualness. He is very confident in his fighting skills, believing himself capable of taking on two at once. Despite his confidence, however, he is not arrogant or foolish: If he is severely outnumbered or overpowered, he will back down. He has a great liking for rare and exotic animals as food and will go to great lengths to catch one. He frequently roars and growls to express anger or irritation as seen in *The Imaginary Okapi*.

When he feels that someone has wronged him, he can be severely vengeful. With these individuals, in particular, he becomes incredibly uncompromising and refuses to accept peace when offered to him. When an enemy encounters him on his home turf, he is fully capable of working in a team and using their numbers to even out the odds.

In*The Harmattan*, he initial offer to escort the Lion Guard out of his territory to get rid of them knowing that he and his leap can't take them down.

Makucha is also very cunning and greedy, just like Janja before he reformed, wanting to find the Tree of Life so he can eat rare and exotic animals who are easy to find and catch, because they are sick or injured, showing no respect for the circle of life.

He is shown to be a good leader of his kind, as he managed to get a few leopards to work with him to succeed in taking down enemies or defending his territory. It seems after his encounter with the Lion Guard a few times, he knows he wasn't matched against them as they keep entering his territory. Though, as they pass through the Back Lands, he got two new friends on his side, Fahari and Jiona. After failing twice with his two new friends, he left them. When he recruited two different animals to join him in following the Lion Guard to the Tree of Life, he realized their differences in each other's fighting styles proved to make teamwork difficult.

## Trivia

* He is one of only a few villains in the show not to be associated with Scar, the others being Mpishi, Mapigano, and the Outsiders.

* He is the second villain after Scar who created a group to get revenge on Lion Guard and achieve his goals by gathering enemies from different species.
* Makucha become Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's enemy in *Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's Adventures of The Lion Guard.*
* Makucha is an associate of Phango since they're both evil leopards.

## Gallery

Makucha escapes the Lion Guard"And your trail is about to come to an end.""So leopards say hello with their teeth?"Makucha appears againMakucha fought KionMakucha with his leapMakucha with ChuluunMakucha with OraMakucha with Jiona, and FahariMakucha facing FuliMakucha pouncing on KionMakucha kidnapping MakiniMakucha fighting RaniMakucha facing VaryaMakucha’s defeat