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*** This is actually made quite clear in ''Lion King 1 1/2'', when cub Simba can't sleep because he "had a bad dream". The utter look of suffering on Simba's face is heartbreaking, and even though he has no idea what the dream was about, Timon's comforting reaction is so sweet and shows he really is a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]].
* There's a very understated bit during the stampede. Zazu is flying through the gorge searching for Simba and finds him desperately clinging to a tree branch over the rampaging wildebeest. Simba cries out for Zazu to help him, and all Zazu can do is reassure him that his father is coming and tell him to hold on. Simba has caused Zazu plenty of irritation in the past, but [[Rowan Atkinson]]'s excellent voice acting definitely gives the impression that right now Zazu would give anything to be able to pull Simba out of harm's way.
** Nasty [[Fridge Horror]] when considering Zazu for this whole thing. After Mufasa goes down into the gorge to save Simba, Zazu tries to fly back to Pride Rock and get help, only to be smacked into a wall by Scar and knocked unconscious. Imagine what happened when Zazu woke up. He probably thought he panicked and hit the wall himself and failed to get potential help for Mufasa and Simba because of it. Until the truth comes out later, it's not unreasonable to think that he blamed himself and felt that he failed both Simba and his king.
* The look of utter horror and betrayal on Mufasa's face when he realizes his own little brother is about to throw him to his death. In spite of the vitriol shown between Scar and Mufasa at the beginning, Mufasa is still a good and noble character and he probably still cares about his brother and is completely unaware of Scar's hatred for him until the very end. Someone he knew as family, someone he probably loved and wanted to see happy, tricked and brutally murdered him.
** Even moreso when you consider that at that moment, he probably realized that Scar wanted his son dead too, and there was nothing he could do about it.
* While Scar is telling the lionesses about the stampede and Simba and Mufasa, there is a close up of Nala crying. We also see poor Sarabi weeping while Zazu tries to comfort her. The poor woman has just lost her husband and (she thinks) her young son. Just imagining how utterly wracked with grief she must be is heartbreaking.
* "Hey, where you going?" "I'M GOING BACK."
* Zazu’s story throughout the film, as explained under the Woobie section of the YMMV page, is a lot sadder than most people realize. Disney seemed to be going with the “when in doubt, hurt the bird” pattern they’d used with Iago a few years earlier in Aladdin. The difference? Iago is a Jerkass who sided with the villain of the film, whereas Zazu is a snarky but overall NiceGuy who is unambiguously on the side of the heroes. Two very different scenarios.
=== The Lion King II ===
* "When you first came here, you asked for judgement! And I pass it now...{{spoiler|[[What the Hell, Hero?|EXILE!!!]]}}
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