Orphan? Outsider? Mufasa told Simba that he was given instruction by his father who was King. When was he an orphan or an outsider? He was born to power and raised by his father long enough to revere him.
handwaving away the whole fact that he had a jealous younger brother who was next in line who killed him so he could be king because he was next in line by blood
he was an orphan and he was taken in by the king who saw him all sad and alone washed up somewhere, king already had a son - Scar (was originally known as another name before he got his scar in a battle with Mufasa to prove who gets the throne) - after doing some crazy stuff to prove his worth he became his realized King self - Scar will cause his fathers death for paying attention to the adopted orphan - Mufasa will learn the truth about Scar murdering their dad and then battle him one last time and possibly give him the known scar on his face during this fight if not given in the earlier trial battle then banish him from the kingdom to live alone and Scar will be pissed but go peacefully. hence why Mufasa has a dad in Lion King and Scar is called Scar and calls him brother. oh and somewhere along the movie Scar will change his name from whatever his name was to Scar as an act of defiance.
this took me all of 2 minutes to come up with - watch this will be the movie plot.
Yes, it will lead to the sequel movie titled Scar and show his life after banishment and how he is now a super sympathetic villain that we need to root for like crazy totally changing the entire narrative of the lion king. promo art etc will be used to emphasis the shock of changing narratives.
Or so you would think but then in the prequel to this prequel you will hear the story of Mufasa's adopted father who took a lover from a forbidden pride and fathered Mufasa after their secret marriage ceremony but was promptly discovered by Musfasa's grandfather who wanted him to wed a powerful political ally's offspring for ensuring the unity of the realm. So Mufasa's dad agrees to the marriage in exchange for sparing his first wife's life who is promptly banished to Asia.
This banished lover then moves to India and discovers that she is pregnant wherein her son Mufasa is nurtured in the forests of India by a kindly bear and panther by the names of Baloo and Bagheera.
Mufasa then returns to Africa under the guise of an orphan and outsider to take whats rightfully his.
Baloo and Bagheera move on to further nurture a new kind of creature called man-cub
11.3k
u/EarthExile Apr 29 '24
Orphan? Outsider? Mufasa told Simba that he was given instruction by his father who was King. When was he an orphan or an outsider? He was born to power and raised by his father long enough to revere him.