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To be fair, the original Lion King movie did a good job of making that point for them. With the whole "everyone is part of the circle, except those hyena guys they deserve to die because they ugly lol" thing.
They had to literally make them goosestep to try and convince us they were evil for not wanting to starve because the King didn't like them.
Except when the hyenas were allowed into the Pridelands by Scar, the entire realm became a lifeless wasteland not much different from the Elephant Graveyard that the hyenas inhabited originally. Which makes you realize it was most likely their own damn fault they were starving in the first place.
The original Lion King is a pretty damn based film in retrospect.
And as a rough guess, the entire process only took two years based the time it took Simba to mature. Talk about demographics and destiny.
It doesn't take long for undesirables to turn a neighborhood to shit.
Muh magic dirt.
Yeah, because they were allowed to do whatever they wanted because they were the muscle of a tyrant who gave zero shits about the realm. A large amount of animals would turn their domain into a barren wasteland if they weren't kept in check by the competition and predators of that domain.
That's the point of the "circle of life." Its that everything big and small has its place in the process, in life and death both, and the point of the "Lion King" as a ruler was to keep that process running smoothly.
And considering Scar was able to literally say "hey I'll feed you" and amass a fucking army strong enough to conquer the entire kingdom that means Mufasa failed by letting such an angry undercurrent brew in his kingdom that his life, legacy, and people could be so easily destroyed by refusing to solve the issue. Instead he removed it from his sight and considered it good.
So either the hyenas were driven to and allowed to be destructive monsters by years of being outcasted and oppressed from their basic role in nature, or they were always chaotic evil and Mufasa was a coward for letting them fester like they were.
You think it based because the hyenas are blacks or some other parasitic minority group in our society, I think it based because it shows that when you treat a group (like say, white males) like monsters long enough they can easily be swayed by a little charisma and a little fulfillment of basic needs to topple kingdoms.
Heck its almost a perfect example of how Hitler rose to power, and why its a very bad thing to let those types of resentments fester.
The hyenas were never part of Mufasa's kingdom. He spells this out early on in the film when he says the "shadowy place" they inhabit is "beyond our borders," which implies it's a separate nation-state entirely. The only "oppressing" Mufasa does is when the hyenas leave their territory and trespass into his, which is just ordinary border enforcement. Besides that (and that one little incident where they tried to kill his son), whatever they did in their lands wasn't any of his business.
The hyenas weren't an undercurrent society that festered. They were a separate one entirely that failed, likely as a result of their own stupidity and decadent culture, which by all appearances was incompatible with the Pridelands.' Which is probably why they weren't part of it (and the "circle of life" that went with it).
And unfortunately, you two have now just discussed the politics and power dynamics at a level deeper than anything Disney is capable of anymore. We'll get girlboss Shenzi and absolutely none of this.
They tried to kill Simba because HE tresspassed on THEIR land. Border control!
The hyaenas are allowed to do it, too.
Considering everything that happened, clearly it was. Especially as both this movie and the sequel show that the main form of "punishment" him and his son deal out is exiling people there, which gives credence to the idea that they got kicked out just the same as Scar and his pack did (who were citizens of his kingdom).
Regardless, they still did fester, whether they were a former citizen or not. And he left them there fully knowing they did so with outright hatred and lack of respect for him in their hearts, as shown by their attempt on his son. That's why isolationism is a terrible idea, because part of securing your nation and protecting your people also means stamping out groups like that entirely. Rather than let them breed unchecked enough to have numbers of an army and a ticking time bomb of a guy promising them almost nothing to invade and ruin you.
So again, he failed entirely by letting them live. Whether as exiles from his own nation or just the remnants of a dead one, they were openly and obviously a threat to his people and his "out of sight" policy let them ruin it. Double so when they kept exiling fucking psychos among them like Scar or Kira.
Like every immigrant in Europe
The hyaenas were NOT "refugees". They had THEIR OWN COUNTRY, which makes Scar a fucking traitor on the scale of real life politicians allowing mass immigration (it's the SAME FUCKING THING).
Hell, the Hyaenas even had control of an elephant graveyard. A place where elephants willingly come to die. That's a lot of free meat that isn't going to fight back.
But they're starving and their land is devastated. Why?
LOOK AT THEIR FUCKING NUMBERS.
Hyaenas are basically the pakiniggers of the piece.
Deer also create infinite numbers and strip entire forests dry when not in their proper place in nature dealing with competition and predation. That's kind of the entire deal with the "circle of life."
Yes, and he was a traitor his entire life. All the currently canon material showed he has tried to overthrow Mufasa multiple times in the past. At some point, him being your brother doesn't matter to the fact that he is incompatible with allowing to live.
Deer also get their cripples and retards trimmed by cougars, wolves, and bears (humans aren't needed, eat your cows and chickens you greedy fucks).
ANY species with no predators, a high birth rate, and a low infant mortality rate, will destroy the land they live on. INCLUDING HUMANS, who have no predators but each other. But humans really, really need one or three.
I only know the movie, never saw any series. The movie does suggest that the birth of Simba is just the last straw, but doesn't elaborate on why there would have been friction between Scar and Mufasa before Simba's birth. And he had already been dealing with the Hyaenas for a while, as they seemed to be quite familiar with him coming and feeding them.
Agreed, that's my point. Its not unique to them the barren wasteland of their location. Its just them being left alone there to fuck and eat without any check on their behavior that nature would give.
They've been anthropomorphized, so they should have morals and higher thinking to not do that, but that's the issue with humanizing animals in fiction. The line where their instincts and nature has to be ignored for the story to function.
AFAIK, nothing in the sequel or series is at opposition with the movie's canon and fills in a lot of gaps in it, so I think its a decent explanation of how things ended up. With Scar being the neglected son his entire life to him meeting the literal devil in the form of a scarred lion filling his head with envy of the throne and giving him his own scar to mark him as "evil." Which is how the first coup attempt ends up happening.
What is wrong with making the Hyenas goosestep?