And people aren't necessarily that interested.
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Let me guess, the bad guys are actually the good guys, but were oppressed. And the good guys were wrong the whole time.
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.
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).