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**Askari II**, better known as "**Scar**", is a member of the Black Hawk Militia and is a recurring antagonist in the *Sean In The Vyond World* series. He was taken from the 1994 Disney movie *The Lion King*.

## Personality

As a young lion, Askari was the leader of the Lion Guard who protected the Pride Lands from danger. At the time, Askari proved to be a good leader and constantly followed his duties and was faithful, though he had a secret lust for more power and attention. Someday, he met a Strange Lion and Askari was attacked and poisoned by his pet, an equally Strange Cobra. The venom brought out Askari's desire for power, his greediness, his jealousy and annoyance towards Mufasa. However, the bite and resulting venom only removes moral restraints and amplifies negative traits and desires; for example, his annoyance for Mufasa had already existed, but the venom that brought it out more eventually turned it into murderous hatred.

Askari also has intense anger, so after getting bitten by the cobra, he became intensely mad at both the cobra and the lion who commands it. After double-crossing and slaughtering the lion, he reported to Mufasa, spinning the narrative in his favor to make him look like a hero, in order to garner sympathy and to be seen as superior to his brother. However, this backfired, as he was only to be teased by his older brother with the nickname of "Scar", which makes him give up the search for a cure for the venom given by the cobra despite the fact he knew the existence of such a cure, showing Scar's lack of forgiveness to his older brother and pettiness, and showing how he is not a tragic character in the slightest, openly embracing his negative traits coming out.

As an adult, Scar is a cunning, sarcastic and narcissistic lion with a cultured and elegant demeanour, and a wry and cynical wit. However, even with his evil and deceiving ways, he prefers to run rather than fight, though if cornered Scar has shown the ability to hold his own as seen in his last fight with Simba. He was somewhat of a spoiled brat, believing because he is king, he can do whatever he wants. Scar is filled with loathing and disgust for his brother and nephew, and most likely everybody against him as well. He doesn’t care much about the hyenas and seems to view them only as tools and weapons to use for his own gain, which ultimately resulted in his demise when he tried to blame his crimes on them. His loathing of his older brother is proved when he instituted a rule against saying Mufasa's name in his presence. When he heard the name of Mufasa, he becomes furious, showing again his intense anger and wrath.

Scar has also proven to be a coward. He didn't have the guts to kill Mufasa in a fight and had to have him and Simba put in a risky situation so it can make it easier for Scar to kill him without a fight. But years later after having Mufasa slaughtered and thinking the hyenas slaughtered Simba, his nephew returned after learning what Scar did to the Pride Lands. Just when Scar had the upper hand on Simba and revealed he had his brother slaughtered, making Simba completely furious as Scar flees like a coward one more time and begs Simba to let him live, and Scar finally fights Simba back, as he is very desperate to stay as a king, and able to jump on him since he blinded him-hoping he can have him slaughtered quick but fails and eventually got defeated and crucified by the hyenas for blaming them to save himself.

When he was king of the Pride Lands, Scar is very shiftless because he does not even bother to try to take his responsibilities seriously as Mufasa did, leaving the Hyena Clan to do the hunting and letting both them and the lions to starve without wanting to move somewhere else at the same time a severe drought was occurring in the Pride Lands. This makes the Pride Lands fall into a wasteland. Because of this , Scar was despised by all of his subjects because of this; the hyenas even realized Mufasa was a better king given how their conditions are even more unbearable under Scar's reign. This shiftlessness comes from Scar flaunting the title of king only for the power and privileges and when he finds out that it requires real work on his part, he has less than zero interest for that and prefers chewing bones in his cave. His conceitedness also blinds him from seeing his inability to rule decently. Even when he returned as a spirit he claimed in his song ""When I led the Guard"" that if it weren't for Simba, he'd still be ruling Pride Rock, obviously forgetting that the Pridelands had become a wasteland and by refusing to allow himself or any of his subjects to leave, he was condemning them all to death by starvation, meaning he would have died anyway.

Scar is also shown to be very antipathetic and intolerant of failure, criticizing the hyenas for their failure to kill Simba, even though it wasn't their fault as an unaccounted rescue from Mufasa foiled their attempt (which even Scar witnessed himself), and infuriatingly throwing them out after they made the mistake of mentioning his brother of who Scar was extremely jealous. Scar's treatment of the hyenas was derogatory, seeing them only as valuable pawns he could use to take over the kingdom. He did not hesitate to call them publicly or criticize them for the slightest thing.

Nevertheless, Scar is also very sophisticated, charismatic, and persuasive, able to rally the hyenas to his cause and inspire fanatical loyalty from Zira and her pride of lionesses in death. He retained his manipulative side after returning as a spirit; using his charismatic persona to inspire the Outlanders to help him have Simba and the Lion Guard killed and control the rest of the Pride Lands.

He is also shown to be highly calculating, able to manipulate conversations and situations to his advantage with relative ease. Scar also proved to be extremely sadistic and merciless, convincing his own nephew, Simba, that he was responsible for the his father's death, and later going on to taunt him that he himself was responsible for Mufasa's death actually, which also led to his demise. Scar is also a hypocrite, begging Simba to spare him because they were family, completely ignoring the fact he killed his own brother in cold blood and conspired to have his young nephew killed. What's more, he tells Janja not to run like a coward, forgetting the fact that he himself did that when Simba chased him. He also called the hyenas enemies but when cornered by them, he called them friends only to learn that they heard his words and he is reduced to begging before being mauled to death.

Upon his return as a ghost in *The Lion Guard*, Scar became more chaotic in nature, as he was willing to intentionally break the Circle of Life and take over the entire Pride Lands by sowing chaos as revenge for his defeat. And what’s more, he becomes more sadistic; gleefully attempting mass murder to get revenge on Simba and the rest of the Pride Lands. He has tried to have Kion, Kiara, Tifu, Zuri, and the new Lion Guard killed despite the fact that they are all young children. He even has a hot temper that's worse than before when his minions fail him. If his allies show any sign of failure, cowardice, idiocy, or weakness, he will fly into a horrible rage. His fury only rises when his multiple plots are foiled by his grand-nephew, Kion, who he harbors a special loathing for. His hate for Simba has grown much stronger as he uses his army to have him killed many times.

Even when they meet for the first time in years, he enjoys mocking his nephew reminding him how easily he fooled Simba in the past to break his spirit. He is even willing to scare the Pridelanders and assure them that their lives will be doomed. He also attempted to have Kion use his roar on a volcano so it will cause an eruption that will devastate the Pride Lands and slay many animals in the process just for sadistic pleasure.

In the end, Scar has no concept of forgiveness nor compassion towards others, caring only for himself, and has no understanding of family, clearly shown when he is shocked and dumbfounded when Kion forgives him for his crimes and calls upon the Great Kings of the Past to judge Scar instead rather than eliminating the wicked spirit in loathing. His evil actions are the whole reason why Simba gets really stressed out and paranoid in the second film, becoming overprotective of his daughter Kiara and not trusting Kovu, who was Scar's hand chosen heir.