Movies - Kerchak

	Movies - Kerchak

Kerchak is a fictional character in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and in the Walt Disney produced animated movie, Tarzan based on them. In the original Tarzan book Tarzan of the Apes, Kerchak is the "king" of a band of Great Apes, a fictional species intermediate between real life chimpanzees and gorillas. He leads his band against Tarzan's marooned parents early in the novel and kills them; the infant Tarzan is saved by the she-ape Kala, who rears the baby and protects him against Kerchak. When Tarzan reaches adulthood he fights and kills Kerchak and succeeds him as king of the apes.

In the movie, Burroughs' "Great Apes" are gorillas, and Kerchak is a much more benign figure, the dominant male of the gorilla band and mate of Kala. He is not connected with the deaths of Tarzan's real parents, who in the film's retelling are killed by Sabor the leopard. When Kala saves Tarzan from Sheeta, Kerchak become's Tarzan's adoptive "father." While not initially accepting of the human child, he comes to recognize him as his son after Tarzan kills Sabor and when he himself is mortally wounded by Clayton at the end of the movie.

Kerchack also appears briefly in the video game Kingdom Hearts.

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