Menace

## Menace Menacepride

**Menace Menacepride** was the second cub and only daughter of Titan and Artful. She lacked her elder brother Ruthless’s sense of morality, and was a staunch supporter of Titan and his ideology. This earned her the status of her parents' favorite child. Even though she is seemingly killed in *Oathkeeper*, Menace is revealed to have survived and has formed her own pride as of Shadows on the Mountain. When Grandmother invades the Plains, Menace and Terror flee when their pridemates are poisoned and subsequently turn on the pair. Meance soon finds herself dying from the snake poison. However she begs Chase to return Terror to Gallantpride as her dying wish.

## Description

Menace was a tawny-furred[*citation needed*] lioness. One of her legs is crippled due to an injury she sustained in *Oathkeeper*. In Curse of the Sandtounge, Menace has become an elderly lioness.

## Personality

***Spoiler Warning:** Plot and/or ending details follow.*As a cub, Menace was bossy and badly behaved. Like her father, she was also highly imperious. Like her parents, she also has no qualms subjecting her older brother to physical and verbal abuse as well; showing time and time again when she constantly compares herself to Ruthless, and acknowledges the irony of her brother's namesake by calling him "Useless" and biting his tail, feeling no remorse for doing so. However she does care deeply for her father, the only lion that she cares about besides herself.

Menace also idolizes her father for his arrogance and brutality going so far to denounce Forceful and the rest of the remnants of Titanpride.

Menace called her former pridemates traitors, since they left Titanpride, despite Forceful telling her that they left because even those that served Titan loyally, such as Forceful himself, didn't hesitate to abandon Titan when the latter's lust for power caused his mental health to decline, showing her indifference to how Titan treated his former pride mates in general, even his cronies. After Forceful and the rest of Titan's remnants side with Fearless and Ruthless, Menace leaves in self-exile much to Fearless' relief. Despite her loyalty towards her father, Menace's age and inexperience blinded her from the fact that her alignment and her status as Titan's favorite child didn't spare her entirely from her father's wrath. This is shown when she fought Fearless near the end of *Oathkeeper*. When she began to struggle, Titan scolded her for not doing a good enough job even though she did the best she could.

Despite Titan abandoning her, Menace continues to hold her father in high regard. She is also not above using unethical hunting methods as she is shown to capture other animals to blackmail them into baiting unwitting animals into being killed and eaten by Menacepride. She is also shown to have a twisted sense of mercy as shown when she agreed to free Dustback only to send her lions after him. In *Blood on the Plains*, Menace is revealed to have developed a genuine attachment towards her ward, Terror. As Menace was dying, she revealed to Chase that although she never had any interest in being a good lion, she grew to care about Terror to some degree and truly regarded the latter as her own cub. Her dying wish was for Terror to be returned to his true family.

## Biography

***Spoiler Warning:** Plot and/or ending details follow.*
### *Shifting Shadows*

Menace is first mentioned by her older brother, Ruthless, when the latter meets up with Fearless to discuss what is going on in Titanpride. Ruthless reveals that she is their parents' favorite child, as all Titan and Artful's attention is on her instead of him. Ruthless states that he wasn't even allowed to access the pride's food anymore, ever since his sister has been born.

When Fearless expresses concern about Ruthless' well-being, the latter attempts to reassure his friend that the former doesn't need to worry too much about his status as Titan and Artful's least favorite child as Ruthless is convinced that once Menace gets to be a little older, he'll no longer be the least favorite child. When her brother gets rescued by Fearlesspride, Artful keeps Menace under her paws thinking that Fearlesspride is going to cubnap her. However Fearless tells her that they came for Ruthless and not Menace. Menace stares at Fearless and Ruthless as they leave Titanpride. During the attack on the bull elephants, she is taken by Sky and lives with her and Rush's cubs, Nimble and Lively.

### *The Spirit-Eaters*

In *the Spirit-Eaters*, Menace is at the bottom of the mountain bossing Nimble and Lively around.

Later at the Watering Hole, she complains that she is bored, and finds the Great Gathering boring. When Fearless announces his plans to seek out Titan with Keen and Ruthless, Menace wants to come along as well but is disappointed when Fearless refuses to let her come along and leaves her with Sky. Menace, however, makes a break for it when Sky, Nimble and Lively aren't looking. She tracks down Fearlesspride, and demands that she join them in their quest in finding Titan. Fearless reluctantly agrees to allow Menace to join them.

When Fearlesspride arrives at the Dead Forest, Menace confronts the Golden Wolves when Fearlesspride encounters them.

### *Oathkeeper*

Menace appears alongside her father. When she volunteers to fight Fearless for him, Titan praises her for her loyalty, but informs her that it's his job to fight Fearless and not hers. Fearless also responds that Titan is right.
Later, when Thorn uses his powers to look into Menace's head, he discovers that Menace is thinking about how the world should revolve around herself and has an unrealistic sense of entitlement. However, Menace's age and inexperience blinded her from the fact that, despite her arrogance and loyalty to Titan, not even she is entirely free from his wrath.
Later, Menace teams up with the Crownguard to take Thorn down; however, Menace and the Crownguard are thwarted by Spider when he strikes the group with a beehive. She later limps away after being injured while attempting to kill Fearless on Titan's behalf.

### *Shadows on the Mountain*

After Prance was exiled from her herd, she felt like she was being hunted. She looked back and saw a group of lions after her, a lioness in the lead. The lioness was walking with three legs, while the fourth barely touched down. Prance tried to run into the bushes, though the lioness grabbed her in her claws. Prance was accepting of her death at first, as the lioness dragged her, until she thought about how she wasn't meant to die. She kicked the lioness on the face, and the both of them rolled over and crashed into a fallen branch. As the lioness grunted in pain, Prance set herself free and ran away as the lioness watched her with rage.

### *The Venom Spreads*

When Prance and Shortsight are looking for Dawn Herd, they stumble upon a small water hole where an eldery wildebeest, a zebra and a small disk-disk are stationed. Prance asks the trio for the whereabouts of Dawn Herd, and the dik-dik denies seeing Dawn Herd despite evidence to the contrary. The elderly wildebeest warns Prance and Shortsight that there not safe at the watering hole and should leave. The idk-dik however, tries to talk Prance and Shortsight out of listening to the wildebeest but Prance tells the dik-dik that she and Shortsight have no time to spare. Before Prance and Shortsight could leave however, they are ambushed by Menacepride. The zebra apologizes for leading the pair into a trap before revealing that Menace forced them to do so. When Menace steps out of the grass, Prance recognizes her as the lioness who tried to hunt her.

## Trivia

* Menace's namesake is a threat/danger.
* Unlike Ruthless, Menace has lived up to her name, causing many problems for Fearless and company.
	+ She also attempted to murder Prance Herdless and used her along with several animals as bait to trap other creatures.
	+ She also abducted Terror and took him in as her own son.