Samson's Father is the overarching antagonist of Disney and C.O.R.E.'s sole animated feature film The Wild. He is the cruel and abusive father of Samson and grandfather of Ryan. In the flashback, Samson's Father is shown to have been very strict with Samson when he was a cub and one day he set him out to roar for the audience at the circus but Samson was only able to make a squeaky growl when trying to roar back at the mechanical wildebeest to impress the audience, which caused the audience to laugh at him. After this, Samson's ashamed father told him that if he was born in the wild, he would know how to roar before disowning his son and allowing him to be sent to the zoo without a second thought. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards, though he might still have been working with the circus or have died of old age before the events of the film.