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**** 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.

* Unintentionally Sympathetic: Zazu, definitely.

* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: Zazu, definitely.

** 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]].

* [[The Woobie]]: Most of the cast, obviously including main character Simba, are this at some point, but one nobody seems to realize is this is Zazu. Out of all the characters, he, from the start, seems to constantly have it pretty rough. He doesn't appear to have any true friends and the closest thing he has to one appears to treat him questionably; said friend ends up getting murdered. He’s constantly abused, which is almost always ~~PlayedForLaughs~~, and his situation just gets bleaker as the film continues. And finally, after all is said and done and all the rest of the surviving characters get the obvious happy ending they deserve, it’s still not clear if Zazu is respected or treated any better than he was at the start of the film.

* [[The Woobie]]: Most of the cast, obviously including main character Simba, are this at some point, but one nobody seems to realize is this is Zazu. Out of all the characters, he, from the start, seems to constantly have it pretty rough. He doesn't appear to have any true friends and the closest thing he has to one appears to treat him questionably; said friend ends up getting murdered. He’s constantly abused, which is almost always [[Played for Laughs]], and his situation just gets bleaker as the film continues. And finally, after all is said and done and all the rest of the surviving characters get the obvious happy ending they deserve, it’s still not clear if Zazu is respected or treated any better than he was at the start of the film.

** [[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.