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Rogue Lion
Rogue Lion
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Personality Bloodthirsty, vicious, savage, aggressive, ferocious
Appearance Large African lion
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Goal To kill anyone in his path
To kill Dr. Nate Samuels, his daughters and Martin Battles
Home Africa
Friends
Enemies Dr. Nate Samuels
Mae and Norah Samuels
Martin Battles
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Likes Food
Dislikes Humans, other lions
Powers and abilities
Weapons Powerful jaws, sharp teeth and claws
Fate Gets mauled to death by a local lion pride during his violent and bloody fight with Nate.
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The Rogue Lion is the titular main antagonist of the 2022 survival thriller film, Beast. This individual male African lion lived in a pride until they were taken away from him by poachers. Enraged, he goes rogue and starts killing the poachers in vengeance to avenge his pride. Since then, he started to target not only poachers, but anyone that stands in his path.

History[]

The Rogue Lion lived with his pride in an animal reserve in South Africa until one night, poachers killed the pride to sell for marketing, but the lion escapes and kills two poachers in a fit of vengeful rage. One day, while Dr. Nate Samuels and his two daughters were on a safari trip in the wildlife reserve with his friend Martin Battles, who is a biologist, they discover the corpses of most of the Tsonga population, and they suspect a rogue lion was the one responsible for this. Martin rushes back to report a finding when he and Nate encounter an injured Tsonga man who tells them about the Rogue Lion, and Nate was unable to save the man. Mauling Martin, the Rogue Lion ambushes Nate and his daughters in the car. Meredith drives the car to escape the Rogue Lion, but crashes into a tree, stranding them.

Martin radios Nate on a walkie-talkie, warning him to stay away, saying the Rogue Lion is using Martin as bait to lure the others out. As the radio is out of range to contact help, Nate assembles a tranquilizer rifle. He confronts the Rogue Lion, hoping to subdue him long enough to recover Martin and trek back to civilization. The Rogue Lion attacks and Meredith takes advantage of the distraction to save Martin. Norah stabs the Rogue Lion with a tranquilizer dart after it knocks the gun from Nate’s hands, causing the Rogue Lion to retreat. Meredith brings Martin back to the car and Nate treats his wound. However, the Rogue Lion returns to the car for a moment, roaring, and leaves as the sun sets.

Recovering as night falls, Martin speculates the lion went rogue after poachers killed his pride. Soon after, when the poachers return to transport the group to the village in exchange for payment, tensions rise after the poachers spot Martin, being an avid anti-poacher. The Rogue Lion attacks and scatters the poachers, killing all of them. Nate maneuvers his way past the Rogue Lion and finds the poachers' truck keys. Back at the car, Martin holds the Rogue Lion off long enough to allow the sisters to escape, though Meredith sustains a deep laceration to her side. The car falls into a ravine and Martin sacrifices himself by setting off an explosion from the leaking gasoline, severely burning the Rogue Lion. When Nate and his girls drove a truck to escape and ran out of fuel, they stopped by an abandoned schoolhouse nearby the poachers used as their base.

At the schoolhouse, after Nate treats Meredith's wound and forages for water, the Rogue Lion reappears and stalks the girls, but Nate returns and scares him off. Locking his daughters inside a room and accepting that the Rogue Lion won't stop no matter what they do, Nate promises to return after subduing the Rogue Lion. Luring him into an opening, Nate attracts a local lion pride which Martin helped raise. In the ensuing struggle, the Rogue Lion mauls Nate, nearly killing him, until the pride patriarchs intervene and kill the Rogue Lion, ending his bloodthirsty savagery.

Personality[]

At first, the Rogue Lion was like any typical lion; behaving naturally and living naturally. But, when his pride is killed by the poachers, he is fueled with anger and takes out the poachers. Since then, the Rogue Lion became a dangerous, ferocious, bloodthirsty rogue and attacked not just any poacher, but any person who came into his territory. Coupled with that, the Rogue Lion saw every human as his real enemy; taking out an entire village, attacking a vehicle, etc. - something that is not normal in lion behavior. The Rogue Lion was rather intelligent, as he used Martin as bait to lure Nate and the girls out of his car. And in the cover of night, the Rogue Lion used the darkness to hide from the poachers. The Rogue Lion was also persistent and determined, enough so that he survived the explosion and despite enduring the burns, followed Nate and his girls through the mountains. However, his unrelenting behavior turned out to be his down fall, as the Rogue Lion followed Nate to another pride, with the two males taking out and killing the Rogue Lion.

Appearance[]

The Rogue Lion was like any typical male African lion, but he was larger than normal. His mane was dark in color, whereas most males have lighter colored manes. Due to this rogue behavior, the Rogue Lion also had scars across his body.

Trivia[]

  • Despite being the main antagonist, the Rogue Lion's role in the film is small.
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