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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Good guy? No, though if we take the "passed over for an orphan" to be true (and not a stupid, subversive retcon likely meant to devillify yet another Dinsey bad guy), it means that his feelings of betrayal and anger are more justified.
Unfortunately, his (currently) cannonical actions of murdering his "adopted" brother, driving off his nephew to usurp the throne, and then allowing the kingdom to become a shithole prove that his parents seemed to have a prescient understanding of who would be a better leader and chose accordingly.
To someone who is reasonable this would make sense. But the logic here seems like reality's villains are self-identifying with fake villains. Instead of Scar being a vengeful, ambitious, and resentful brother; he can be seen as the privileged, entitled, elitist replaced by a foreigner, who never learned to accept his place as someone who is innately inferior due to his privilege. So instead of accepting his inferiority and apologizing to his betters for being born in the wrong class, he gets resentful, justifying his eventual death as an outsider literally replaces him and his bloodline.
And knowing Hollywood, that could be the exact message they want to convey. There really is no goddamn end to this globalist malarkey, is there?
Totalitarian ideologies have no end, comrade.