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I've been on a sort of kick for The Jungle Book lately. I haven't read the original book, but I have been watching the movie a lot lately and am looking forward to the remake of next Summer.

For a long time I have also had the idea that The Jungle Book could be a half-season ark on OUAT. I think it could work out by having the animals as shape-shifters who can turn into humans at will and Shere-Khan could be the main antagonist.

I also think that it would allow the tie-in of characters like Kenai and Merida (who could be bear shape-shifters like Baloo) and Tarzan (who could be a Gorilla and have some rivalry with King Louie or be a sort of fatherly figure towards Mowgli, who in turn I am unsure as to whether or not he would be a shape-shifter as he had been involved with so many different animals).

Of course, I'll admit that my idea is a little far-fetched for at least three reasons:

1. The Jungle Book technically isn't a fairy tale (if you ask me the distinguishing characteristics of a fairy tale are that it is reasonably old, somewhat fantastical, and having been told in multiple different ways, each slightly different from the others in some way), but then again, neither is 101 Dalmatians (let us also bear in mind that not all Disney animations are fairy tales, including Dumbo, The Aristocats, Lilo and Stitch, and Wreck-it Ralph) and he have Cruella De Vil.

2. We have already featured a jungle setting for a half-season ark in Neverland in season 3 and therefore are unlikely to have it happen again.

3. Shape-shifting is something which has been featured but has had a few discrepencies as to how it works. For instance, Red is a werewolf and transforms automatically if the moon is full and she is not wearing her cloak, Maleficent can transform into a dragon but we know from Enter the Dragon that she has to have the right level of power for it to work or something, people can be transformed into animals be means of someone else's magic (Rumple has turned people into rats and snails, Cora has turned someone into a fish, Maleficent turned Philip into a Yaoguai, and Zelena turned people into flying monkeys), people can be transformed by means of having contact with something (being bitten by a flying monkey or a werewolf can turn you into one) and people with magic can transform themselves into animals (Regina turned herself into a rat in "The thing you love most" and into an Ursula-like creature in "Ariel").

All right, that's all I have to say. What do you readers think? 