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== Movie ==

* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: There are more than a few people who view Scar as an [[Ambiguously Gay]] [[Depraved Homosexual]], due to his lack of a mate and somewhat effeminate manner. The Broadway play seems to play this up to extreme levels. Scar goes from scary angry dude to Paul Lynde turned psychopath, which is still scary but filled with [[Unfortunate Implications]].

*** As for Timon and Pumbaa, they're just outcasts simply because they were a klutzy screwup and a guy with farting problems. Timon and Pumbaa go by the philosophy of "If your life used to suck, just move on and be merry". They probably thought Simba went through the same sort of thing. They had no idea he was a young prince with responsibilities. Simba, being [[Heroic BSOD|mentally scarred by his father's death]] and having been [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulated by Scar]] took their philosophy, and abused it to the point of shirking his responsibilities. Plus, a little bit of what Timon and Pumbaa had to offer was probably good for Simba at the time, considering before they found him he was a little kid drowning in guilt to the point of nearly letting himself die.

* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: Lion King in 3D!

* [[Complete Monster]]: Scar is defined by his envy and hatred of his elder brother Mufasa. Hating that he isn't king, Scar hatches a scheme to remove Mufasa from the equation as well as Mufasa's young son Simba. When Scar's first attempt to murder Simba and his best friend Nala fails, Scar has his Hyena cohorts cause a stampede and personally throws Mufasa in to be trampled when he escapes it. He then convinces Simba the whole thing was his fault, convincing him to go into self imposed exile before ordering the hyenas to murder Simba anyways. Scar's incompetence as king leads to a famine, and when Simba returns, he sees Scar refuse to allow anyone to leave to go anywhere else, declaring "so be it" when Mufasa's widow Sarabi says he's condemning everyone to death. He proceeds to backhand her when she compares him unfavorably to Mufasa, and when he confronts Simba, Scar tries to break him by bringing up Mufasa's death. He only pauses in his attempt at a public execution to mock Simba with the knowledge that ''he'' was Mufasa's true murderer.

** To make things worse, Scar wanted the Hyenas to kill Simba after he'd just manipulated him into self-guilt. Just so that the guilt would be one of the last things Simba was feeling before he died. Tricking him into thinking it was his fault that his father died was all for his own pleasure, as were all the sick double-meaning phrases like 'Simba it's to die for'. He could have lied flat out and told him it was the best thing ever, but he came out with a sick 'not quite a lie' to make himself feel smarter than a cub barely a year old.

**** The smoking gun in favor of it being originally planned as a remake and having to be retooled? [[Osamu Tezuka]] himself [[Word of God|wanted to see]] Disney [[What Could Have Been|remake]] Kimba.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: "I Just Can't Wait to be King" is a song about [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|how much Simba wants to be king]]. How does one become king? By ascending the throne when the previous king dies. Simba is essentially singing about how he can't wait for his father to die so he can take his place. Which turns into [[Harsher in Hindsight]] when Mufasa ''does'' die.

** Being a kid, he probably thinks that his father would just give the throne to him when he's old enough.

* [[Weird Al Effect]]: Good luck to you trying to find anybody who knows the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" existed for over 30 years before this movie came out.

* [[Win the Crowd]]: If there was any doubt on how this film would do, the teaser using the entire "Circle of Life" sequence and the rapturous audience reaction to it settled them all.

** Disney briefly flirted with the idea of Re-Releasing ''Beauty and the Beast'' in 2010 as a 3D movie, but scrapped it. 2011, ''Lion King'' ended up getting the re-release to theaters and made well over $150 million. Disney is now planning to do the same type of re-releases with [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, and Monster's Inc]].

** [[Jerkass Woobie]]: The hyenas are, perhaps, Woobie villains, as they're quite put-upon throughout the film and are more or less [[Punch Clock Villain]]s manipulated by the [[Big Bad]].

* [[Woolseyism]]: In the Spanish release of the film. In the scene where Banzai is kicked in the ribcage by Shenzie before he prounces the name of Mufasa again. In the original English dub he says "¿Qué pasa?", a Spanish line that means "What's up?". In the Spanish dub the line was dubbed as "¿Cón mostaza?" which means "With mustard?". This was likely done because of phonetic similarities.

** Likewise in the German dub he says "Mit Wasser?"<ref>"With water?"</ref> which sounds pretty similar to "Qué pasa".

== Sequels ==

** Even more so in the deleted extended version where {{spoiler|Nuka actually asks with his last breath if Zira is finally proud of him.}}

** Depending on how you view Zira's [[Freudian Excuse]] and how you view her [[Alternative Character Interpretation]], she may also qualify.