Mpishi

**“**Carrion? Leftovers? You call that a meal?**”**

**Mpishi** is a harrier hawk that appears in The Lion Guard episode Ono and the Egg.

## Background

### Appearance

Mpishi is a well built bird with grey feathers, with some white and a few black feathers on her underbelly as stripes. Her wings are also black towards the tip. Her beak is white, tipped with black. Orange surrounds the bottom part of her brown eyes. She has bright ginger feet, and black talons.

## Personality

**“**Fine. I'll go home. After I sample at least one tasty Pride Lands treat!**”**

-Mpishi, Ono and the Egg

## Role in the series

### ***Ono and the Egg***

Mpishi tried all the food in her territory to which she decides to try out fresh food instead, to which she went to the Pride Lands to eat fresh food. She first chases hyraxes and catches one and attempts to eat him. Ono chases hers and tells her to drop the hyrax, but she misunderstands and says doesn't want to share it. Ono pulls one of her tail feathers to distract her, causing Mpishi to crash into a cliff and eventually saves the innocent hyrax from his demise. Kion asks her why she's in the Pride Lands, to which she says she came to try new food in the landscape around her. Kion tells Mpishi that here in the Pride Lands, all the animals respect the Circle of Life as he tells her to return to her territory. Mpishi lies saying she'll go after she catches something new.

Mpishi next appears hunting during a storm, where she spots some red rock hares trying to escape a mudslide and goes after them. When the Lion Guard shows up, she stops, but realizes she has an advantage as they're not watching the rest of the animals then leaves.

Mpishi later flies around the area where Ono and the newly hatched hammerkop were resting at, but couldn't find anything to eat there. She then noticed Mwoga flying behind her and accusingly asked if he was following her. He admitted that he was and that where she was going, there would be leftovers for him. She agreed and stated that hawks like her were excellent hunters. After introducing each other, Mwoga asked Mpishi what she was doing in the Pride Lands and outside her territory. She explained that she tried all the food in her territory, she went here to try something new to eat, but the Lion Guard kept preventing her from doing so. She stated that she could use some help outwitting them and asked Mwoga if he would like a fresh meal.

While trying to rescue the newly hatched hammerkop, the Guard, along with help from Kulinda, decides to rescue her only for her to be captured by Mpishi. The Guard decides to find Mpishi and stop her from eating Kulinda's daughter to which Ono and Kulinda work together to stop Mpishi from eating her the baby hammerkop only for Mpishi to throw her into Mwoga. Devising a plan to stop Mpishi and Mwoga, Bunga climbs a tree to the top to tackle Mwoga just the Kion tells him to return to the Outlands just as Kulinda and Ono fly into Mpishi, defeating her and reuniting Kulinda with her daughter once again and telling Mpishi to leave the Pride Lands at once before she breaks the Circle of Life. Following his orders, Mpishi retreats to her territory.

## Enemies

* **Kion**
* **Fuli**
* **Bunga**
* **Ono**
* **Beshte**
* **Kulinda**
* **Ona**
* **Pim**

## Trivia

* She is one of the few villains not associated with Scar, the others being Mapigano and Makucha, Fahari, Jiona, Chuluun, Ora, Smun, and Mama Binturong.