Linus (Pride)

Linus is the son of Macheeba and either James or Eddie, the brother of Suki, the cousin and adoptive brother (and possibly half-brother) of Fleck and the deuteragonist of the 2004 film Pride.

He was voiced by Rupert Graves.

Linus lived in James and Eddie's pride with his mother Macheeba and sister Suki. One day, the pride is attacked by two Wanderer lions named Dark and Harry, but are seen off by the lionesses. Sadly in the battle, Linus and Suki's aunt is killed, resulting in her son Fleck being adopted by Macheeba. However, Linus and Suki do not get along with Fleck as he refuses to share Macheeba's milk with them and when they berate him for it, he tells them that they must be nice to him because he is an orphan. As the Wanderers' territory is on the other side of a crocodile filled river, Linus and Suki wonder how Dark and Harry were able to get across. They decide to find out. They use a dead tree as a bridge to cross the river (which is most likely what the Wanderers used to cross to the pride's territory). However the two cubs end up trapped on the Wanderers side after elephants destroy the bridge. They are later confronted by hyenas, but are saved by Dark. Linus and Suki then swim back to the pride's side.

A few years later, Linus and Suki are now teeagers and are learning to hunt. Whilst Suki refuses to hunt and decides to be vegetarian, Linus attempts to hunt on two occasions, only to be humiliated; his first attempt ends with him being urinated on by a baboon and his second attempt ends with him being chased up a tree by a buffalo.

Another few years past, Linus is now a young adult and Suki decides to leave the pride and joins the Wanderers and becomes Dark's mate. Linus becomes an uncle when Suki has cubs with Dark, one of which is called Rory. Sadly, Harry kills all the cubs except Rory. Linus is later reunited with Suki when she returns to the pride with a lion named Lush to warn the pride that Dark and Harry are planning to attack them. Dark and Harry later arrive with Fleck betraying the pride and becoming a Wanderer, despite Linus pointing out that the Wanderers killed his mother. Linus later fights Harry and forces him off a cliff, where the latter falls to his death after Dark refused to help him after discovering that Harry killed his cubs.

After the battle, Linus decides to leave the pride to see the world and will return when he is needed.