Ryan is the deuteragonist of Disney's 2006 animated feature film The Wild, He's 11-year old son of Samson and Galena, the older brother of Nani, and the grandson of Judah.
Ryan is a teenage lion who wants to be able to roar like his father Samson. All he can apparently do is make a feeble meowing noise. He likes hearing Samson's stories about the wild, although none of them were true. One day, Ryan inadvertently provokes a gazelle stampede, which promptly invokes Samson's anger over losing the turtle curling championship. After Samson scolds Ryan and lectures him about not being able to roar, Ryan sneaks into a green transport box and winds up getting shipped to Africa. He is later kidnapped by Blag, one of Kazar's wildebeest henchmen, and taken to a dormant volcano.
After reuniting with his father and learning the truth about where Sãmson came from, Ryan eventually finds his inner roar (which he uses to defeat Kazar) and heads back home with his father, the zoo animals, and Kazar's former minions.
