| “ | All right, go then! GO! Go with your jungle boy! I got what I came for! I DON'T NEED YOU! (laughs evilly) | „ |
| ~ William Boone's last words. |
Captain William Boone is the main antagonist of the 1994 film Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, based on the 1967 film of the same name, which was released 28 years prior to the 1994 remake.
He is a corrupt British Army captain and hunter bent on enriching himself, even willing to resort to treason against his commanding officers.
He was portrayed by Cary Elwes, who also played Lawrence Gordon in the Saw film franchise.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- He just simply wanted to greedily steal the lost treasures of Monkey City and was completely focused on betraying and killing everyone he saw in his sight.
- When he first meets Mowgli, William challenges Mowgli to a fist fight.
- He orders Wilkins to shoot Mowgli, but the soldier hesitates with Kitty assuring him that Mowgli is harmless.
- He refuses to listen to Kitty that Mowgli is harmless and goes with his men to capture him.
- He accuses Mowgli of trying to kill Kitty and has him arrested and locked up so that he couldn't interfere with his plans.
- He shows his dislike of Mowgli by making fun of him and after Brydon announces his engagement to Kitty, his men cruelly push him and knock him into one of the food tables.
- He decides to use force to get to the treasure and capture Mowgli so they can get to the treasure, but this fails after they are intervened by Baloo, whom Boone and Wilkins wound with gunshots.
- He sends some bandits to ambush Kitty and her father (i.e. the Colonel), resulting the deaths of many officers who were escorting the two.
- After Buldeo's death, Boone spots Mowgli and proceeds to shoot him again, but Kitty stops him; sending them plummeting down into the treasure cavern.
- He attempts to kill Mowgli in a fierce sword fight, but Mowgli wins and severely injures the evil soldier on the right arm with a dagger.
- He shouts after Katherine hat he doesn't need her anymore and grabs a bag of treasure himself.
- His love for Kitty was not genuine as he became very sadistic after witnessing her betrayal.
- Overall, Boone is taken entirely seriously, has almost no redeeming qualities and is willing to betray anyone he meets and he is not hesitant to kill children or teenagers like Mowgli.
Why Doesn't He Stand Out?[]
- Despite his apathy towards his allies, he is visibly upset when Wilkins dies and yells for him with no avail. He is also enraged when Katherine laughs at his distress.
- While he passes the baseline by getting several officers killed through a gang of bandits, he fails to go beyond that due to his other crimes amounting to poaching animals that he likely doesn't know are sapient and trying to kill Mowgli making him fail stand out from the bandits as considering the setting of Rudy Kipling's The Jungle Book where poaching was common and finding the treasure were common so he fails the in-story standards.
Trivia[]
- He was initially considered Pure Evil, but he was removed due to being too standard.
- Even if the franchise's heinous standards were lower, due to the preventions above, he still wouldn't qualify. Instead, he would be Near Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- William Boone on the Villains Wiki
- William Boone on the Hate Sink Wiki
