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Vitani

2019-11-13T22:43:39Z

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'''Vitani''' is the (former) tertiary antagonist of ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]''. She is the daughter of [[Zira]], the stepdaughter of [[Scar]] and the younger sister of [[Nuka]], and the older sister to [[Kovu (character)|Kovu]]. Her original name was '''Shetani''', which is Swahili for "demon".

Vitani's father is unknown, although Darrell Rooney, the director of Simba's Pride confirmed that it is not [[Scar]]. However, he might be Vitani's stepfather.

The character was voiced by a few different people in the English version:

* [[wikipedia:Lacey Chabert|Lacey Chabert]] voiced the young Vitani.
* Crysta Macalush was the singing voice of the young Vitani.
* [[wikipedia:Jennifer Lien|Jennifer Lien]] voiced the adult Vitani.
* [[wikipedia:Lacey Chabert|Lacey Chabert]] also voiced Vitani in The Lion Guard both young and adult.

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Scar

2019-11-13T22:38:39Z

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'''Scar''' (also known as '''Taka''') is the main antagonist of ''[[The Lion King]]'' and a minor antagonist in ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]''. He was [[Simba (The Lion King)|Simba]]'s uncle, [[Zira]]'s husband, [[Vitani]]'s and [[Nuka]]'s step-father, [[Kovu (character)|Kovu]] 's mentor and protege, [[Kiara]] and Kion's great-uncle, [[Mufasa]]'s younger brother, and [[Sarabi]]'s brother-in-law. Unlike his brother, Scar is small and thin, and his mane is black. There is a scar over his left eye which he got from a buffalo. He is voiced by [[wikipedia:Jeremy Irons|Jeremy Irons]] in the English version of the movie.

==Childhood==

In his youth which lead eventually into adolescence/young adulthood before Kion, Scar was tasked with leading the Lion Guard before Simba was born, and was given a power called the Roar of the Elders by the the Great Kings of the Past. When it was used he summoned the Great Kings of the Past, to roar along with him. However, that power went to Scar's head, and he believed that with this power he should be the king instead of Mufasa. So he planned to dethrone of Mufasa, by using the Roar of the Elders. But when the rest of the Lion Guard refused to help aid him in his plot, Scar destroyed them and thus lost his power as the Roar of the Elders was not meant to be used for evil. After many years of the Lion Guard's downfall, Scar focused his life on striving for his older brother's throne and continued to plot schemes with the hyenas to rule the Pride Lands.

==Adulthood==
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Scar's jealousy of Mufasa carried over into his adulthood. During Mufasa's reign, Scar became an aloof pridal member whose presence seemed tolerated by most.

When Simba was born--quelling any chances of Scar gaining the throne--Scar's envy grew. He began to scheme ways of killing off his nephew and brother. It was Scar who tricked Simba into venturing to the Elephant Graveyard. There, Simba; his betrothed, [[Nala]]; and the majordomo, [[Zazu]] were almost killed by the hyenas Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed. They were rescued by the timely arrival of Mufasa, which angered Scar. Once Mufasa had taken the others out of the Elephant Graveyard, Scar went back, and with the hyenas, he discussed his plans to kill Mufasa and Simba both.

Not long after the incident at the Elephant Graveyard, Scar lured Simba into the Gorge by telling him that his father had a surprise for him. He left Simba at the bottom of the Gorge and snuck off to signal the hyenas, who were waiting with a wildebeest herd on the cliffs above. The hyenas forced the wildebeests into a stampede that charged into the Gorge, right towards Simba.

While Simba ran for his life, Scar returned to Pride Rock and told Mufasa that Simba was in danger. Mufasa rushed to his son's aid and succeeded in getting Simba out of the way of the herd, but when he tried to climb to safety himself, Scar intercepted him on the cliff face. Mufasa pleaded for his brother's help, but Scar instead flung him off the cliff. Mufasa was trampled to death by the wildebeest.

When Simba returned to the bottom of the Gorge and found the body of Mufasa, Scar guilted Simba into believing that he was responsible for the death of his father and urged him to run away. Simba did so, and Scar sent the hyenas after him. However, Simba managed to escape into a patch of thorns, and the hyenas left him for dead.

Scar returned to Pride Rock and delivered the news that Mufasa and Simba were both dead. With no other heirs in place, Scar was able to claim the throne.

==Reign==
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Scar's first order of business as new king was to give the hyenas free range of the Pridelands. He also banned his brother's name because Scar did want anybody to know he was his brother's murderer.

Specific events during Scar's reign are sketchy at best. During this time, he married [[Zira]], who was already a mother with 3 cubs.

Scar's rule lasted for quite a long time--up until Simba's ascension to adulthood. During that time, thanks to Scar's irresponsible management, the Pridelands became over-hunted and barren. The pride members began to voice their desire to follow the herds to greener, more prosperous areas, but Scar would not listen. Food became so scarce that even the hyenas--Scar's avid supporters--began to murmur against him.

During this time, Nala fled the pride. Some speculate that her reasons for leaving stemmed from a confrontation she had with Scar, in which Scar attempted to make her his queen. This idea is supported by ''The Lion King on Broadway'' show, in which Scar makes overtures towards Nala during the song ''The Madness of King Scar''. However, when Nala explains her escape to Simba in the movie, she cites a desire to "find help" as her reason for leaving the pride. Likewise, in the canon film alone, she fled the Pride to leave help as implied.

When Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed complained to Scar about the lionesses not hunting, Scar demanded an explanation from [[Sarabi]], whom he had demoted from queen to huntress. Sarabi tried to explain to him that the herds had moved and that the pride should leave Pride Rock, but again Scar refused. Enraged, Sarabi compared Scar to Mufasa, and Scar struck her across the face. In that moment, Simba appeared and confronted Scar. It was then that he learned the truth of Mufasa's death, and when the lionesses heard, they rallied around Simba. The hyenas backed Scar, and a battle ensued.

Simba chased Scar up to the pinnacle of Pride Rock, where Scar pleaded for his life, telling Simba that the hyenas were the ones who plotted Mufasa's death. After that, Simba says to him "Why should I believe you? Everything you ever told me was a lie". Simba agreed to spare Scar if he would "run away and never return". Scar said those same words to the younger Simba after murdering his brother years ago. However, Scar opted to attack Simba instead. In the struggle, Scar was flung off of Pride Rock. There, the hyenas--who had heard him try to slough the blame of Mufasa's death off on them--turned on Scar and killed him. Scar was also burned by the fire that surrounded the hyenas.

==Legacy==
In the second movie, ''[[Simba's Pride]]'', it is alleged that before his death, Scar's wife Zira, ruled the Pride Lands alongside him as Queen. Despite this, he had no children, despite Zira's 3 young cubs becoming Scar's step-children. Sometime before or after Scar and Zira's union, Scar adopted "hand-picked" [[Kovu (character)|Kovu]]--another one of Zira's offspring--as his heir before his death. In ''Simba's Pride'', Nuka reveals that--despite a striking resemblance to Scar--Kovu is not Scar's real son. However, he is Scar's adopted son.

After Scar's death, Zira and some of her fellow lionesses were banished from the Pridelands by Simba. They became known as the [[Outlanders]], and they remained loyal to Scar. This has raised some controversy, because in ''The Lion King'', all the lionesses fought on Simba's side.
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In ''Simba's Pride'', Simba relives his father's death in a dream. In this dream, Simba finds Mufasa at the edge of a cliff. Simba reaches out to grab his paw but Scar appears and prevents him. Mufasa disappears into the stampede below. Simba looks up at Scar, and Scar grabs his [[paw]]. Scar then turns into [[Kovu (character)|Kovu]], and throws Simba off the cliff. Simba wakes up before he hits the ground.

In the sequel, [[The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar]] Scar's great nephew, [[Kion]] takes Scar's former place as Leader of the Lion Guard. After hearing the story of Scar's demotion from Lion Guard leader, Kion vows to never be like Scar, which is a common recurring theme throughout the series.

In "The Lion Guard: The Rise of Scar", After Kion uses the Roar of the Elders in his anger, Kion summons the most greatest villain Scar being revived. With him summoned, Scar begins to get revenge on his nephew take over the Pride Lands defeat the new Lion Guard and overthrow Simba as the king. Meanwhile the Lion Guard begins to come face to face with Scar for the first time. As of Season 2, Kion vows to defeat Scar once and for all.

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Mufasa

2019-11-13T22:34:18Z

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[[Image:Lionking-Mufasa.jpg|right|thumb|Mufasa on Pride Rock.]]

'''Mufasa''' (Swahili for 'king') was the king of the Pridelands in ''[[The Lion King]]''. He was the mate of [[Sarabi]] and the father of [[Simba (The Lion King)|Simba]]. His parents are [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]]<ref>Detailed in ''A Tale of Two Brothers'', from [[Wikipedia:The Lion King: Six New Adventures|The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]</ref>. He is killed by his brother [[Scar]] by being thrown from a cliff into a herd of stampeding wildebeests.

The character was voiced by [[wikipedia:James Earl Jones|James Earl Jones]] in the English version of the movie.

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Ahadi

2019-11-13T22:23:22Z

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'''Ahadi''' is a [[character]] from ''[[The Lion King]]'' universe. He is father of [[Mufasa]] and [[Scar]], husband of [[Uru]], and paternal grandfather of [[Simba]]. He appeared in ''[[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]'' book series, specifically ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]''. Ahadi was king after [[Mohatu (The Lion King character)|Mohatu]] and is followed by his son Mufasa. In the book, Ahadi was the one who rescued [[Rafiki]] when the [[hyena]]s attacked him; Ahadi also promised Scar to take him and Mufasa hunting, but broke Scar's promise. It is assumed that such situtations happened often and led Scar to develop hatred toward both his brother and father.

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Mohatu (The Lion King character)

2019-11-13T22:21:52Z

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'''Mohatu''' is the is grandfather of Mufasa and Scar, Simba's great-grandfather, and the father of [[Ahadi]] and was King of the Pridelands through a terrible drought that forced him to find water elsewhere. He is part of [[The Lion King]] Semi-canon.

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://lionking.wikia.com/wiki/Mohatu Mohatu] on The Lion King wiki

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Simba (The Lion King)

2019-11-13T22:20:16Z

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:''This article is about the movie character. For other uses, see [[Simba]].''

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'''Simba''' ([[w:Swahili|Swahili]] for 'lion') is the titular protagonist of ''[[The Lion King]]'' and the tritagonist of ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]''.

==Biography==
Simba is the son of [[Mufasa]] and [[Sarabi]], the monarchs of the pridelands at the beginning of ''The Lion King''.

===Childhood===
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As a child, Simba was a somewhat reckless, naive, optimistic, and very enthusiastic prince. He boasted frequently about being "future king" as opposed to merely a prince, and, perhaps unintentionally, pestered his jealous uncle [[Scar]].

His best friend was Nala, who would often get in trouble with him, especially when they decided to ditch Zazu, who was watching them at the time, and explore the Elephant Graveyard which Scar told Simba about, knowing he would want to go there to test his bravery.

[[File:YoungSimbaSmilestlk.png|left|thumb|200px|Simba as a cub]]
The Elephant Graveyard later became known as the Outlands after the [[Outlander|dark lions]] were banished there in the [[Simba's Pride|second movie]].

At the time, the Elephant graveyard was home to thousands of hyenas, and three of them, Banzai, Shenzi, and Ed, were expecting the cubs. By now, Zazu had caught up with the kids, and the hyenas decided to send him off via a steam vent. Zazu reported the incident to Mufasa, who promptly chased off the hyenas.

Scar then decided to bump off both Mufasa and Simba, this time through a wildebeest stampede. Once again, he set up Simba and the hyenas, and signalled for the hyenas to initiate the stampede. Mufasa was again informed of the danger of his child, and while rescuing Simba, got himself into a fatal situation. While trying to get Scar to help him, Scar punctured his claws into those of Mufasa's, and then released him. Mufasa fell into the stampede and was crushed, and Scar told the traumatised cub that Mufasa's death was his fault and that he should run away. Scar then set the hyenas after him.

Simba escaped the hyenas, was then assumed dead by all, including the hyenas, and ran across the desert until he was taken in by [[Timon (character)|Timon]] and [[Pumbaa]]. Simba adopted a nihilistic philosophy, and lived in isolated bliss with his new-found friends.

===Adulthood===
Finally, the turning point came in Simba's life when he met up again with Nala, while trying to chase her off from killing Pumbaa. Simba was told of what was going on back home under Scar's rule, but due to his "Hakuna Matata" philosophy, he refused to return, although he would be king. He finally got into a bitter argument with her and offended, he left to be alone in the grassland at night.

[[Rafiki]], who had found out that he was alive, found Simba and decided to annoy him, possibly delirious from joy, and when Simba asked him who he was, countered the question with "The question is, Who are '''you'''?"
Simba admitted to not being so sure anymore, Rafiki took this as a perfect opportunity to make Simba take responsibility for what was rightfully his kingdom. He was escorted to a small pool and told that his father lived in him.

Mufasa then appeared, as a ghost in the sky, to command Simba to take responsibility and left him shortly afterwards, leaving Simba to make up his mind. Simba then returned to the Pridelands.

Upon return, he found out that a drought had occurred, and regardless, Scar refused to let the pride leave. What's more, the hyenas, the natural enemy of the lion, had taken over. Simba finally found Scar abusing his mother. Enraged, Simba revealed himself and was unrecognized by his family, who believed him to be Mufasa coming back for revenge.

Scar realized that Simba was in fact alive, and then decided to tell the pride that Simba was the one responsible for Mufasa's death. A thunderstorm began, and Scar had Simba dangling from the jutting edge of Pride Rock. Like he had killed Mufasa, Scar dug his claws into Simba's, and finally revealed that he was the killer. Further enraged, Simba jumped back up and engaged in battle, finally throwing Scar off the edge. Scar was then consumed by the hyenas he had just betrayed when trying to pin Mufasa's death on them after admitting it to Simba.

Simba then became king and had a daughter, [[Kiara]], with Nala. (For discussion on some of the non-canonical identities of the cub, see the section entitled ''Who was the cub?'' in the article on [[Kiara]].)

===Reign===
Simba banished the dark lions (who became known as Outsiders) to the Elephant Graveyard for supporting Scar. The hyenas ran off, probably due to lack of support.

Due to his paranoia of losing Kiara, Simba became uptight and overprotective. One day, in her early childhood, Kiara had gone off to the Outlands and Simba had to go rescue her, where he met Scar's mate and follower [[Zira]], who taunted Simba with the implication of the death of another cub. Simba merely took his daughter and left, and he didn't meet up with Zira again until some years later.

When Kiara became a young adult, Simba reluctantly allowed her to go on a hunt alone. Up until then, he would always send out Timon and Pumbaa to watch her, which he did again while Kiara was hunting.

After [[Nuka (character)|Nuka]] and [[Vitani]] had set the grassland on fire and their brother [[Kovu (character)|Kovu]] began his staged rescue, Simba noticed that Kiara was in danger and went off to get her, meeting Kovu, who had been trained to assassinate him. Reserving judgment of Kovu, Simba allowed him to follow him home.

After finally gaining enough trust for Kovu to take a personal walk with him, Simba was ambushed by the Outsiders. Assuming Kovu had set it up, Simba regained his hatred towards dark lions and banished Kovu.

The death of Nuka, who had been crushed by a log Simba had kicked on him, stirred up enough hatred from the Outsiders for a war to break out. Kiara had run away to find Kovu, whilst the Outsiders were now in the vicinity of Pride Rock, and coming for him. During the climax of the war, Kiara and Kovu returned, and convinced Simba to let go of his hatred for the Outsiders, Zira, however, didn't fare too well. Simba joined forces with the Outsiders, and allowed Kovu to become his heir.

==Voices==
The character was voiced by many different people in the English version of the movie.

* [[wikipedia:Jonathan Taylor Thomas|Jonathan Taylor Thomas]] voiced the young Simba in the first movie.
* Matt Weinberg voiced the young Simba in the third (''[[The Lion King 1 1/2]]'') movie.
* [[wikipedia:Matthew Broderick|Matthew Broderick]] voiced the adult Simba in all three movies.
* Jason Weaver was the singing voice for the young Simba in the first movie.
* [[wikipedia:Joseph Williams (musician)|Joseph Williams]] was the singing voice for the adult Simba in the first movie.
* [[wikipedia:Cam Clarke|Cam Clarke]] was the singing voice for the adult Simba in the second movie, ''[[Simba's Pride]]''.
* Cam Clarke also voiced Simba in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
* Evan Saucedo provided the singing voice for young Simba in the extended "Morning Report" scene that appeared on ''The Lion King'' DVD.
* Rob Lowe voiced Simba in The Lion Guard.

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Kovu (character)

2019-11-13T22:18:37Z

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'''Kovu''' (Swahili for 'scar') is the secondary tritagonist of ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]''. He is [[Zira]]'s son who made his first appearance as a cub, when he has a chance encounter with [[Kiara]], [[Simba (The Lion King)|Simba]]'s daughter. Later in the movie, after Zira trains him as Scar's heir, he goes back to avenge Scar and take back Pride Rock. However, he falls in love with Kiara and the two stop a bitter feud between Simba's pride and the pride led by Zira.

Kovu supplies the greatest tension in the film by use of his internal struggle. Inside he must decide between letting down his family or his love. Although he attempts to appease both, he knows he must choose between one or the other. This arguably makes Kovu the deepest and most complex character in ''The Lion King 2''.

When Kovu chooses to follow Kiara, Zira slashes him across his eye so that he resembles [[Scar]].

Kovu has two siblings, [[Nuka]] and [[Vitani]]. He was originally scripted as the son of [[Scar]], but realizing the incestuous undertones this would have had with his romance with Kiara, it was scrapped and clarified that he had no relation to Scar.

The character is voiced by multiple people in the English version of the movie:
*Ryan O'Donahue voiced the young Kovu.
*Jason Marsden voiced the adult Kovu.
*Gene Miller was the singing voice for adult Kovu.
* Jason Marsden also voiced Kovu in The Lion Guard both young and adult.
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