Doesn't that kinda make Scar correct in his dismissal of Mufasa and Simba and make him the good guy? And yes I'm aware some societies had adoptable heirs, like the Roman emperors.
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It just continues the trend that Scar is evil because he is evil and thereby the actions that make him evil were justified to begin with.
Like, the canon of film universe shows he was branded by what is plainly implied to be the Devil with his scar that is a literal corrupting mark while also having his head filled with thoughts of being king instead by said devil. And when he tells his brother what happened, the nigga just says "guess your name is Scar now lol" and laughs it all off.
So its actually pretty consistent that Scar is made the villain through external forces that culminate in him being the vile thing he becomes in the original movie proper. In this case, I'll guess its his parents saw him as evil or arrogant and passed him over because of it without caring how it would effect him.
Its that perfect circular logic that bad story writers use. We know Scar will be evil, so him getting shit on is a good thing the audience will cheer for because he is evil, even if that shitting on is what makes him evil in the first place.
There was a Disney movie made in the early 2000s called "Meet the Robinsons" and it's plot is almost the exact opposite of your description. We see the villain become a bad guy because the actions of the protagonists ruin his life. So at the end they fix the issue and there is no villain.
It's also weird the the movies "Cruella" and "Malificent" attempt to soften the villainy of those villains, but Scar has to be a villain so Mufasa can shine. I suspect them being female has a lot to do with changing their image.
Its almost certainly a female thing there. Both because women make characters like Maleficent their entire personality, and because Scar being so evil is what makes him so hot to women too. So in both cases, its to appeal to them.
In this specific case though, there is this extremely specific character shilling going on. Like, I keep seeing descriptions for this movie as "see how Mufasa became the paragon of good we all know him as."
I don't know about most people, but that's never something I'd call him. Not only that, but it really makes him so more generic than he was even in the original movie which had the excuse of his fucking death to not have the time to give him depth.
It feels like they are really angling for some sort of "Wise African Giga King" symbol to replace the dead guy from Black Panther, and to do that they apparently really need their unquestionably evil counterpart. Its also why they seem to only care about this specific live action movie enough to give it a sequel with its own continuity instead of a one and done.
People in creative fields are obsessed with origin stories. It is their thing and they only focus on it.
they're obsessed origin stories of characters somebody else created so they can subvert it for their agendas
It's what actors and storytellers use to create the characters in their heads.
I love meet the Robinsons. It's full of fantasy and I connect with it as a really smart blond kid with glasses, and then since I adopted a kid at that age.
Star Trek has done this. Probably a few times.
Kai Winn in DS9 is a miserable busybody cat lady because she's never actually had any spiritual experiences with the wormhole aliens the Bajorans call The Prophets.
These are known deities that multiple characters meet and interact with, who for centuries would basically send Bajor voicemail in the form of the Orbs. Using one of these would have different effects depending on precisely which one it was, but it included time travel, vision quests, and a whole slew of other things due to the non corporeal and non linear existence of the Prophets who could both perceive and manipulate the galaxy in ways beyond understanding. They even flat out delete an entire Dominion fleet at one point. They really are God-like in what they can do, however extremely detached from reality because they neither exist in it or experience it the same way any of the cast do.
Which leads to Kai Winn being the person she is, and taking the actions she does. She hooks up with the evil versions of the Prophets, the Pah-Wraith, because the Prophets never spoke to her. But the Prophets never speak to her because they know she eventually hooks up with the Pah-Wraith... 🙄
She's entirely a villain of their own making and everything she does which almost leads to the destruction of the Prophets, Bajor, DS9, and the galaxy could have been avoided if the Prophets understood their own lack of awareness of time and linear existence.
It's a slightly different twist on someone using time travel and going back to meet someone they know to be bad only to be the catalyst that makes said person bad in the first place, but it's still the same general principle of using foreknowledge to create a predestination paradox.
Unfortunately, Kai Winn is a basically just an insert for "religion is bad, m'kay" logic that the liberals who watch the show believe. Star Trek normally fails when it comes to religion, and DS9 is the series that actively tries to force the writers to try and give religion some value in the universe, and they still can't help themselves but insert a "evil conservative" character into show that has no redeeming qualities and is the cause of all problems.
I've never seen a Star Trek, but reading his description really jumped out to me as some Leftist's idea of how people who "don't hear god talk to them" become evil over it because they are obsessive dumb religoids. So I guess its spoton as what they always do.
Religion ends up being a corrupting influence to the Left, the same way every totalitarian ideology does. Frankly, it's what happened to a lot of atheists.
I always considered the atheists who adopted Leftism to (as many have pointed out) swapped one religion for another. In the atheist cultural experience, you would say these people didn't engage in "Deconversion".
Deconversion is the actual process of truly leaving all religious behavior and magical thinking. It is a point where I would agree with the edge lords on Reddit that if someone claimed they were an atheist and found God, it's because they weren't really an atheist because they didn't engage in deconversion.
What that really looks like is that you genuinely don't replace God with anything, you drop the concept altogether. You don't search for a replacement, because you don't actually need one at all. You have to actually place the mantel of moral responsibility onto yourself and deal with it in an appropriate manner.
But, because Leftists always shirk responsibility, particularly moral responsibility to deontological assertions and historical meta-narratives, they never actually de-convert from religious thinking. In fact, they engage in worse magical thinking than some of the worst religious zealots. They are the ones dragging Carrie into the closet.
I wouldn't entirely say that, especially when you have multiple foil examples of religious figures who aren't assholes and do challenge Winn quite often (Bareil, Opaka, Sisko to some extent).
She is however playing a somewhat common kind of villain though. The uptight, controlling, power hungry, self-serving, finger wagging sort of virtue-signaling villain who tries to pretend like they're a self-sacrificing hero for the people.
In a way she's practically reprising her role as the bitch-nurse from One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest.
I agree that it's not entirely that, because after Gene Roddenberry died, they tried to add depth to the character. I think Gene couldn't see the character outside of his bias.
While I'm sure in her (character's) mind that's true, the more likely truth is that she came up with that as an excuse for her being a miserable cunt, long after a lifetime of actively choosing to be a miserable cunt. She just doesn't want to admit that she's simply a terrible person.
Dukat's character followed a largely similar pattern. Trying to lay every possible thing out there to blame instead of himself for how he managed the station during the occupation. Coming up with rationalization after rationalization for why he does such slimy shit, like constantly trying to use his position of power to seduce and bone Bajoran women. Why he treats his own daughter like shit. Etc etc etc.
It's something that we can see in common with deranged political sorts (especially on the left today), who'll excuse every possible failing they have and mistake they make, claiming it's for the greater good. And lying through their teeth about just about everything for as long as they draw breath.