what was scar's name
Answer Wiki. The Disney novel series The Lion King: Six New Adventures, which was released in 2007, covers some of the back story of the 1994 film The Lion King [1]. In the first book, A Tale of Two Brothers, Scar's original name is revealed to be Taka, which means dirt,, trash, or want in Swahili. Taka receives his name of Scar after a foolish fight with a herd of buffaloes that arose from his jealousy of his king brother Mufasa [2]: