User blog comment:Koko Nigel/PG Proposal: Mowgli (2016)/@comment-39032584-20191001132410

Yes. This version of Mowgli is far more heroic, selfless, and all-around likeable (at least for me) than his animated-counterpart. Unlike him, he actually chose to leave the pack on his own accord due to not wanting anyone to get hurt protecting him against Shere Khan, and he only had reservations about going to the "man-village" specifically due to worrying that he wouldn't fit it. Eventually, when he returned to face Shere Khan, he did so not out of vengeance for his dad or Akela, but because he felt "someone has to do something" to stop his reign of terror. He also gained the trust of the elephants by helping save the young one, and to thank him, they agreed when he enlisted their help to put out the fire he accidently spread through the jungle. As Bagheera puts it at the end, he did something that he had never seen before; he saw "a little boy, without a people, bring all the jungle together for the very first time". I think it's telling that one of the worst things you can say about this version is that he got mad and snapped at a monkey when he was bothering him at a moment where he was feeling really upset.