Kenai

{{Infobox Kenai is the main protagonist of Brother Bear and it's sequel Brother Bear 2. He is the youngest of three brothers who gets turned into a bear, to teach him to see through their eyes.
 * Box title = Hero
 * image = Kenai_a_bear_again.jpg
 * Full Name = Kenai
 * Alias = Brother
 * Origin = Brother Bear
 * Occupation = Sitka and Denahi's younger brother, Nita's husband
 * Powers/Skills = Teeth, Claws
 * Hobby = Being with Koda
 * Goals = To become human again (formally), To help Nita burn her amulet (succeeded)
 * Type of Hero = Animal Hero

He is voiced by Joaquin Phoenix in the first film and Patrick Dempsey in the sequel.

Plot
Kenai was a young Inuit on the verge of becoming a man. But after his brother Sitka died saving him from a bear, Kenai decided to kill the bear at all costs. He succeeded, but for acting out of hate rather than out of love as he had been commanded to do, the spirits turned Kenai himself into a bear as punishment for his actions. The only way for him to become human again was to travel to a mountain peak called, "the place where the (Northern) lights touch the earth." Along the way, however, Kenai met an orphaned bear named Koda. At first Kenai did not like the young bear's company, but eventually he became attached to him. Then Kenai learned that the bear he had hunted and killed had been Koda's mother. When he becomes human again, Kenai chose to stay in the woods and live with Koda, who needed him more than any of his own people. For this act of love, Kenai was declared to have become a man.