Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Mufasa: The Lion King. Mufasa: The Lion King provides a new origin story about how Scar got his scar ... The story comes full circle as Taka saves his ...

In The Lion King Scar doesn’t just kill Mufasa, he also betrays Simba so he can rule the Pride Lands. In the movie’s climax, he and Simba come head-to-head after Scar reveals that he was the o ...

In both versions of The Lion King, Scar appears as a power-thirsty lion who envies his brother’s kingdom. His motivations are political, as he wants to rule the lands with an iron fist.

Later, the new king decreed that the name of the royal blood lion should not be spoken again. As a result, Taka began calling himself Scar after receiving a scar from Kiros on his face while ...