Scar

**Scar** is the main antagonist of Disney's The Lion King franchise serving as the main antagonist of the 1994 Disney film The Lion King. He is the younger brother of Mufasa as well as the uncle and arch-nemesis of Simba who wants to rule Pride Rock until his nephew return and defeated him.

In the original film, He was voiced by Jeremy Irons while in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, he is voiced by Jim Cummings who provided some of Scar's singing lines in the original film.

## History

### The Lion King

Scar is first seen trying to eat a mouse telling it that life is not fair as he will never be king, and the mouse will never see the light of another day. Before Scar can eat the mouse, Zazu arrives telling him not to play with his food and his brother is arriving for not being at the presentation of Simba which also gives the mouse time to escape. Annoyed at losing his lunch, Scar attempts to eat Zazu, but is stopped by Mufasa who is angry at him for not at the presentation of Simba. Zazu tells Scar as the king's brother, he should have been first in line, to which Scar replies that he was first in line until Simba was born. Mufasa replies that the hairball is his son and the future king, to which Scar replies that he will practice his curtsy. Scar attempts to leave which cause Mufasa to warn Scar do not turn his back on him, to which Scar replies that perhaps Mufasa shouldn't turn his back on him. When Mufasa asks Scar is he challenging him, Scar assures that he wouldn't even consider challenging his older brother as well as leaving.

A few months later, Scar is visited by Simba, who tells him that Mufasa showed him around the whole kingdom. Scar then tells Simba about the Elephant Graveyard pretending to be protective to him. After that, Simba left to go to the Elephant Graveyard along with his best friend Nala since Scar is planning to have the hyenas to kill Simba. At the Elephant Graveyard, after Simba and Nala are saved by Mufasa, Scar is seen spying on them angry that his plan failed.

After that, Scar goes to the hyenas telling them about his plans of killing Simba and Mufasa as well singing his song "Be Prepared".

The next day, Scar set ups another trap for Simba by lying to him that his father has a surprise for him as well as having the wildebeest kill him and Mufasa. With that done, Scar alerts Mufasa to the incident and the two brothers arrive along with Zazu to the gorge. While Mufasa tries to save Simba who is at a broken tree, Zazu declares that he will get help, but Scar, not wanting his plan to failed, knocks the bird by hitting him against the wall. He then watches Mufasa and Simba trying to survive the stampede.

After Mufasa manages to get Simba and himself out of the stampede, he begins to climb safety which is before unable to reach the ledge. Mufasa then sees Scar telling him to help him, but Scar grabs his paws saying "Long Live the King" as well as killing him. After the stampede is over, Scar goes into the gorge (most likely to make sure that Mufasa didn't survive the fall) seeing Simba crying as well as pretending that Simba is the reason why Mufasa is now dead and telling him to run away and never return to the Pride Rocks. After Simba ran away, Scar orders the hyenas to kill him, but the hyenas fail to kill Simba.

That night, Scar told everyone about Mufasa's death as well as lying to them that Simba is dead and during that, he became the king and let the hyenas come to the Pride lands.

When Simba becomes an adult, Scar had Zazu imprisoned and forces him to sing to him as he lies on his throne, picking his teeth with the bones of his previous meal. When Zazu mention Mufasa, Scar gets angry at him for that. Just then the hyenas arrive telling Scar about the food since there's none of those there. Scar then tells that's because of the lionesses and insists that they eat Zazu. When Banzi whispers Mufasa's name saying that he thought the land was bad when he was the king, Scar furiously demands them to leave immediately.

When Simba returns to Pride Rock after being convinced by Rafiki and Mufasa's spirit, Scar gets angry at Sarabi for not having her hunting party not doing their job. Sabari says that the herds had moved on which caused Scar to believe that she is not looking hard enough as well as insists that the Pride lands are finished and that in order to survive, they all must leave Pride Rock. Scar then tells her that no one is going anywhere. Sarabi states that he can't do that, but Scar doesn't care by saying he can do whatever he wants since he is the king. After Sarabi compares Scar to her late husband, Mufasa. Scar loses his temper and brutally strikes Sarabi to the ground, stating he's ten times the king Mufasa was which is before Simba arrive.

When Simba arrive, Scar mistakes him for Mufasa which before he realizes that he is an older Simba. After that, Scar pretends to be happy to see Simba alive while glaring at the hyena trio for failing to kill Simba. When Simba tells Scar to stepdown or fight, Scar then talks to Simba about Mufasa's death as well as pretending that Simba is the reason why Mufasa is dead. During that, Scar attempts to kill Simba as well revealing to him that he killed Mufasa. This cause Simba to jump and angrily call Scar a murderer. Simba then forces Scar to admit that he killed Mufasa instead of Simba himself. The hyenas just then attack Simba but however the rest of Simba's friends help him. After that, he notices Scar and chased him and when Scar went to a dead end, he tried to lie to Simba that the hyenas are the real enemy, but Simba didn't believe him due to knowing about his true nature as well as telling Scar to run away from the Pride Lands. Scar then pretends to agree and attack Simba with fire. The two began to fight and when Scar prepares to defeat Simba, Simba kick Scar in stomach, sending him flying off of Pride Rock to the ground below.

Scar survives the fall and as he struggles his feet, he sees the hyenas calling them friends, but the hyenas said they thought they are the enemy. Scar tries to explain to the hyenas but it's too late when the hyenas kill and ate him.

### The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

Scar does not appear in the sequel due to his death but was mentioned and also appeared in Simba's nightmare.

## Appearance

Scar is shown to have a scar on his right side as well as having orange-brown fur and yellow eyes with green irises and a black mane.

## Personality

Scar is a cunning, sarcastic and narcissistic lion who wants to overthrow his brother Mufasa as well as shown as a coward and liar due him pretending to be a nice uncle to Simba and not always having his hyena gang. He also shown to care about himself since he is shown to doesn't care about the other lions or his hyena gang.

## Trivia

* Before The Lion Guard revealed Scar's real name to be Askari, written works such as the book The Lion King: Six New Adventures had his name as Taka. However, the stories were confirmed to be non-canon with the films and the television series.
* In an earlier draft of the original film, Scar was originally going to have a snake minion who is a rock python. He also has no relation with Mufasa. The producers decided later to make Scar the brother of Mufasa in order to make the plot more interesting. This explains why Mufasa, and Scar look different from each other.
	+ Also, in the same draft, Scar killed Mufasa in a different way. Instead of throwing him into the wildebeest stampede, Scar fought Mufasa to death with the help of his hyena minions. Also, Scar was going to have vultures as his minions as well. Coincidentally, Scar having vultures as his minions were kept in Game Gear version of The Lion King video game and The Lion Guard.
* According to Andreas Deja, Scar is modeled after his voice actor Jeremy Irons.
* Scar is loosely based on real-life dictator Adolf Hitler: as the scene where Scar is overlooking his hyena army mimics the scene where Hitler over looks at his army and stretches out his hand over them.
* At 29 minutes, Jim Cummings (the voice of Ed the Hyena) had to fill in for Jermany Irons for the finale of "Be Prepared". Irons threw out his voice after performing the line "you won't get a sniff without me". The rest of his recording did not sound powerful enough.
* Unlike in the other lions in the film (expect when they attack), Scar's claws are always displayed throughout the movie.
* In an earlier draft for The Lion King, Scar was originally a baboon as the plot of the film would have been about a battle between lions and baboons. The only thing that was kept was the scar on his left eye.
* Near the start of the film, Scar tells a mouse that himself will never be king of the Pride Lands while the mouse will never see the light of the sun of another day. Ironically, Scar does become king later in the film while the mouse lives after Zazu prevents Scar from eating the mouse. The scene also foreshadows Scar's death at the end of the film as Scar never sees the light of the sun of another day thanks to the hyenas eating/killing him.
* Though he is well known after his death, Scar's demise at the jaws of his hyena minions is not well known. Both Simba and Jajna claims Scar dies in the fire, while Zira believes that Scar was killed by Simba.
	+ And speaking of that, Simba himself saying that Scar died in the fire pretty much makes no sense since in the original film, he saw that his uncle survived as being killed by the hyenas.