Later, Denahi huddles against the cold on the Mountain Where the Lights Touch the Earth. Denahi is a male human. When he came of age, he was gifted with a totem, the Bear of Love, much to his disappointment. Sitka - Denahi respected and adored Sitka, looking up to him as any younger brother would. He chases the bear up onto a mountain and engages it in a fight, eventually stabbing it and killing it. Jeremy Suarez as Koda, a wisecracking grizzly bear cub, who helps Kenai on his journey to where the Lights Touch the Earth. Sitka orders Denahi to take care of the fish, and he saunters off, only to get bitten in the hind by a dog. Recognizing the eagle as Sitka, Denahi follows it. As a result, Denahi blamed Sitka's death on Kenai, which drove Kenai to pursue and kill the bear to avenge Sitka's death. However, to Denahi's outrage, Kenai makes it safely to the other side. Sitka loved his younger brothers and would do anything for them. Intent on killing Kenai, Denahi jumps across a chasm to reach him. "Denahi Mourns" is a score composed by Mark Mancina and Phil Collins for Brother Bear. The brothers return to their canoes and paddle back to the village. When Denahi comes out to attack, Kenai sees him and tries to talk to him, still unaware that he was a bear and therefore that Denahi could not understand him, so Denahi tries to stab Kenai. Ha ha! - See if you can answer this Brother Bear trivia question! Denahi is first seen as an elderly man telling his story to the younger generations. He is the younger brother to Sitka and older brother of Kenai. But Denahi has forgiven him, and Denahi understands him. Though Sitka is amused, Denahi is annoyed. I'm a man! Kenai: I'm going after the bear. Brother Bear is a 2003 animated film from Walt Disney Pictures about an Inupiat boy who pursues a Alaskan brown bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which his oldest brother is killed. Hi, everyone! Kenai cries out for his brother and tries to stop the log from falling, but it plunges into the river below, taking Denahi with it. Denahi is first seen as an old man telling his story to the younger generations. I'm a bea... No, I mean, I'm not a bear. As such, he officiates Kenai's ceremony to place his paw print on the wall of his ancestors. Attends Kenai's official manhood ceremony and lives to tell the story to the next generation. However, before the two can have a confrontation, a fork of lightning sends Kenai falling off the side of the mountain into a raging river below. Denahi made many attempts on Kenai's life, even endangering himself in the process, and almost succeeded until Sitka interfered and transformed Kenai back into a human. They find him being attacked by a bear and so rush to his rescue. There, Denahi tries to kill him, but Kenai hits him and runs for it along with Koda, when he gets up he gets his spear and tries to break the log bridge that Kenai and Koda are trying to get across and he breaks the bridge but Kenai and Koda manage to get to the other side and Denahi gives up briefly, then he growls and tries to jump to the other side but lands on the bridge instead. Kenai agrees, and the party rides on mammoths in order to hide their trail from Denahi. As the middle brother, Denahi is the second largest in size. He did not start talking again until when he breaks the bridge in the lava field as he briefly yells out, "No! Directed by Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker. [after Kenai got his totem "The Bear of Love"] Denahi : THERE he is. Appearance Hyung86. They are given to tribespeople who come of age by their tribe's shaman, who receives them from the Great Spirits. Kenai fulfills his mission and is transformed into a bear by Sitka's displeased spirit. Denahi is first seen as an old man telling his story to the younger generations. His body is not found. Terrified that Denahi will hurt Koda, Kenai races after him. The brothers take shelter behind their canoes, though one of the caribou kicks Denahi in the head. He becomes callous, violent, and savage, displaying hostility for a pair of harmless moose and even a small bear cub. He is the elder brother of Denahi and Kenai. As Denahi arrives at the scene of the fight, he sees scraps of his brother's clothes and Kenai in his bear form. In the meantime, Sitka takes on the bear, though he is quickly overpowered. Denahi later sees Kenai in his bear form in a lava field. The three brothers share a final tender moment before Sitka rejoins the Great Spirits. He is Kenai's former arch-nemesis and older brother and Sitka's younger brother. After discovering that the bear he had been pursuing was Kenai, Denahi is humbled and horrified by what he has done. He shows acceptance and understanding for Kenai's decision to remain a bear and proves his unconditional love by declaring that they will always be brothers, no matter their circumstances. As Denahi's hunt for the bear goes on, he descends slowly into madness. This causes Denahi to snicker. Meanwhile, Denahi and Sitka run ahead to the village. “ I'm not a beaver. Denahi starts off as a mischievous, fun-loving character. Denahi's actions shock Kenai, who does not understand why Denahi has had such a fierce change of heart about revenge. The reaction from film reviewers was severely mixed with many panning the film as a retread of older Disney films like The Lion King and the 20th Century Fox film, Ice Age (although Brother Bear began production before Ice Agedid), while others defended the film as a legitimate variation of the theme. Later, Denahi becomes Tanana's successor as the village shaman. Brother Bear (2003) Jason Raize as Denahi. Their fight takes them to a cliff, and the two fall a great height to a ledge below. With Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis, Jason Raize. The two embrace, and Sitka honors Kenai's request by transforming him back into a bear. In everyday life these trips rarely happen. Denahi: I don't blame the bear, Kenai. When upset, Denahi has a fierce temper and can be harshly critical. 1. Later, Kenai was made known as a man, even in bear form, and Denahi was there to see and help his brother put a handprint on the wall, making his manhood official. Denahi warns Kenai not to upset the Great Spirits, but Kenai brushes him aside, throws his totem in the embers of the funeral pyre, and leaves. The Spirits, represented by Sitka's spirit in the form of a bald eagle transforms Kenai into a bear after the dead bear's body disappears. Walt Disney Pixar. As delicately as we could, we made our way across this valley of fire. While Sitka helps Kenai climb off a ledge, Denahi distracts the bear and lures it onto an unstable glacier. As Kenai and Koda walk away, Denahi angrily clutches Kenai's totem in one fist, then jumps across the gorge with a scream, barely catching on to the still-hanging log. "Denahi Mourns" was written to represent the scene in which Denahi mourns the presumed … Disney Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Little Sister (Brother Bear) Denahi. ", then when he was warming himself with the campfire, and then again after Sitka changed Kenai back. As an adolescent, Denahi witnessed Sitka die in a fight with a bear, which Kenai had instigated. I might add more Disney characters later on. Shortly after Kenai leaves, Denahi and Sitka set off after him. He finds Kenai's bear form stumbling among the remains of torn clothing and so assumes that Kenai is dead. After finding only Sitka's hood in the water, Denahi accepts that his brother is dead. They learned to hunt, fish, and contribute to the tribe together, forming an inseparable bond between them. After a bit, Denahi grabs Kenai's totem and follows. Sitka raised and took care of his younger brothers, Denahi and Kenai. Denahi was born as the younger brother of Sitka and the elder brother of Kenai. Books: Little Golden Book • Disney's Wonderful World of Reading • Disney Read-Along, Entertainment: Hakuna Matata Time Dance Party • Rivers of Light: We Are OneFirework: Wonderful World of Animation, Teasing, brotherly, protective, loving, playful, vengeful (formerly), violent (sometimes), mischievous, mature, wise, serious, strict, Slender, olive skin, briefly mustachioed, short black goatee, black hair with a gold bead on his right strand, thick black eyebrows, To avenge Kenai's "death" (unaware that the bear was actually Kenai transformed), Bears (formerly), the caribou stampede, danger, Sitka's death. However, he falls through a fissure in the ice, and Kenai rushes over to help him. John E. Hurst and Byron Howard served as the supervising animators for Kenai in human and bear form respectively. My name is Tehya. This is the story of a boy who became a man…by becoming a bear.”-Denahi, Brother Bear– The journey of personal growth in Brother Bear. While Denahi is right to blame Kenai, he denies the fact that he himself holds some of the blame. This prompts Kenai to fetch his spear and take off after the bear in an effort to retrieve Denahi's basket. Misunderstanding the situation, Denahi thinks the bear has killed his brother. Even with snow on the ground and the trees still bare, love is decidedly in the air. The next morning, Denahi explores the ice cave where Kenai had been hiding, only to find it empty. When Sitka dies and Kenai goes missing after fighting the bear who is Koda's mother, Denahi seeks to avenge his brothers without knowing that Kenai was turned into a bear. He then reminds Kenai that killing the bear will not make him a man, but Kenai simply mocks him for trying to be wise. As an old man, Denahi looks much the same, just noticeably more wrinkled and with white hair. This makes him develop a more serious, bitter personality as he vows to avenge Kenai by killing the bear. It is implied that Sitka raised and took care of both him and Kenai. Their names are Kenai, Denahi, and Sitka. Believing that his brother lost the fight and was also killed by the bear, a saddened Denahi begins to hunt Kenai's bear form relentlessly across the wilderness, not understanding that the bear is actually his brother. Just then, an eagle appears and flies off, tugging at Denahi's hood as it does so. His eyes are brown. Shortly afterward, Kenai implores Denahi to help him track down and kill the bear that had killed Sitka. Unaware that the bear was really a transformed Kenai, Denahi swore his vengeance and embarked on a quest to slay the bear. Kenai is the main protagonist of Disney's 44th full-length animated feature film, Brother Bear and it's 2006 sequel, Brother Bear 2. As Kenai tries to save Denahi from falling down a hole, Sitka breaks the ice cliff with his spear and falls into the waters with the bear to save his brothers. This is our story... well, mainly Kenai’s, but we play a big part in it as well. 1 Stock Art 2 Film 2.1 Brother Bear 3 Miscellaneous Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery  Images of Denahi from Brother Bear. After Kenai's totem ceremony, Sitka encouraged him to live by his totem's virtue in order to place his handprint on the wall of their ancestors. A shocked Denahi threw down his spear after realizing the bear was really his younger brother the whole time. However, he will defer to and obey his elder brother, Sitka, even if he is in the middle of causing mischief. While out with his brothers, Sitka and Kenai, Denahi spots Kenai fleeing a stampede of caribou. Kenai: Wrong? He apologizes to Kenai's spirit and admits that he does not know what he is doing anymore. As a young man, he witnesses his younger brother Kenai's totem-receiving and makes fun of him for the totem being the "Bear of Love." Saved by Riann Brady Riann Brady That night, the tribe holds a funeral for Sitka, during which Denahi looks on sorrowfully. Then, as a young man, witnesses his brother's, Kenai's, totum-receiving and makes fun of him for the totum being the "Bear of Love." He is the younger brother of Sitka and Denahi, the adoptive older brother of Koda, and the husband of Nita. Denahi: I know what you're feeling, but killing that bear is wrong. Denahi tracks Kenai to the Mountain Where the Lights Touch the Earth, unaware that Kenai had killed the bear and subsequently been transformed into a bear by the Great Spirits as punishment. Sitka is the oldest brother of Denahi and Kenai and parental figure since the death of their parents sometime before the events of Disney's 2003 animated feature film, Brother Bear. Denahi: Killing that bear won't make you a man. Fanpop quiz: What is Denahi's totem? Denahi was originally going to be Kenai's father instead of his older brother. Eventually, Denahi tracks Kenai to a forest and makes an attempt on his life, but Kenai manages to escape into an ice cave. However, after realizing that Kenai is alive, Denahi returns his appearance to its usual state. This anger does not interfere with his conscience, as he continually makes attempts to follow his totem despite any animosity he may feel. When he sees how much Koda meant to Kenai, he told Kenai that he "looked better as a bear," and that he'll always be his brother no matter what Kenai chooses to be. It was unofficially released in 2003 as part of the film's complete score. Hi, everyone! 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