Why Does Janja Trust Scar Again

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• Affections/Devil Shipping: Janja/Jasiri become quite a bit of Ship Tease.
• Angst? What Angst?:
  • So far, Scar has been absurd and collected since his revival, and hasn't brought up the fact that he was mauled to death and eaten by hyenas to Janja's association.
  • None of the King of beasts Guard nor Makini seemed to be surprised almost Ushari existence evil. Did they expect this to happen? In fact, the bailiwick of Ushari's expose was never called upon.
  • With the sole exception of Fuli, none of the Lion Baby-sit ever seems to show concern whenever Kion gets hostile or vicious with other animals, or when he acts dismissive or rude to them in Season 3. They also don't seem to telephone call Kion out for making incredibly bad calls when Ushari's venom flairs up. They likewise treat the journey to the Tree of Life as an adventure, rather than acknowledging that the reason they are going is to foreclose Kion from going insane.
• Donkey Pull: Scar is evil because he was bitten by a cobra?! Are you serious?!
  • In fairness, Scar was shown to always be evil and conniving. The cobra bite merely removed his few inhibitions or he used it as an excuse.
• Author's Saving Throw:
  • Despite being geared more towards kids, the show yet goes out of its manner to elaborate on the various (and often confusing) elements of the "Circle of Life" and how the citizens of the Pride Lands coexist. 1 of the large ones being what makes the predators of the Pride Lands morally amend than a lot of the ones of Outlands. Many episodes display Pride Land predators hunting in a more than civilized and controlled manner like Kiara telling her friend they can't take likewise many gazelles, or Pua the crocodile asking the hippos if the pond has plenty fish for them to consume. The animals of the Outlands (past contrast) are shown to be Always Chaotic Evil creatures who seem eager to take whatever they desire and kill anyone they can go their hands, such as Janja and his hyenas who wanted to kill as many animals as they could in the pilot. Such animals are even shown openly denouncing the Circumvolve of Life and those who live by it... So far any attempts at making peace with animals from the Outlands has concluded in betrayal. The bear witness likewise attempts to address a long-continuing event in regards to the serial' portraying hyenas as inherently bad. The evidence introduces Jasiri, who tells Kion straight upward that near hyenas are not like the Ax-Crazy Janja and in fact respect their roles in the Circle of Life.
  • They too requite a clear explanation for why hyenas are not allowed in the Pride Lands. Besides many apex predators in one area would put too much of a strain on prey populations, so previous lions, hyenas and leopards all mutually agreed to have their own territories to keep this from happening — and while that's not how biodiversity works in real life, information technology'due south at least something.
  • One of the most mutual criticisms of the show is that Fuli the cheetah's design looks likewise much like a leopard. They attempted to set up this by making the leopards distinctly unlike. All of them are more muscular than Fuli, accept bigger spots, and singled-out face up shapes like to each other but different than hers. Besides, the yellow of their fur is lighter than Fuli's yellow, just to farther distinguish them from her. All of these are accurate differences, except for the paler yellow fur, merely that last thing is a minor change compared to how far they deviate from the real matter in some of the other animal'south designs. This is further fixed with the introduction of Azaad who is a more than authentic cheetah, having solid spots and stripes on the sides of his muzzle.
    • Fuli's "inaccurate" blueprint is as well not equally off-base of operations as the critics seem to believe; "king" cheetahs are an an unusual color morph, only they're hardly vanishingly rare either. Fuli's splotchy coloring and vaguely square patterns are actually a fairly spot-on representation.
  • Like to Jasiri, Badili is introduced to testify that not all leopards are bad and helps to reassure that the Lion Guard is more than than willing to be squeamish to and aid a predatory animate being that's good at heart. They still boot him out of the Pridelands and refuse to entertain the mere notion of him living at that place, but at least they do it in a polite way (information technology was more along the lines of taking him dorsum habitation rather than outright banishing him), and go out of their way for him one time they learn his situation.
  • Earlier the show's debut, when it was commencement appear that it would revolve around Simba and Nala'southward son Kion, a number of fans were upset by the idea of The Panthera leo King II: Simba'south Pride beingness retconned out of catechism and Kion replacing Kiara. There was much relief when information technology turned out that the show does keep Simba'southward Pride as catechism and that Kion is Kiara's younger brother.
  • One major betoken of anger was Kiara's Aforementioned Grapheme, but Different, with her being portrayed as interested in ruling and as well being somewhat of a Big Sister Bully, peculiarly among those who knew her as a selfless kind purple dorsum in Simba's Pride. Towards the end of Flavour 1, starting in Baboons, and especially in Season 2, Kiara begins to prove more of her Simba's Pride personality, such as not mentioning her royal duties, existence kind and forgiving for Kion's errors, and also showing fear over her brother's fate in Season 3.
  • Makuu's Character Development and Heel–Face Plow satisfied some fans who felt uneasy about portraying crocodiles equally villains, especially if they're role of the Pride Lands. Although "Permit Sleeping Crocs Lie" still introduces more crocodilian antagonists, but these crocs turn out to be truly villainous in contrast to Makuu and thus get banished into the Outlands where they join Scar and his Legion of Doom. Basically, they fabricated the Pridelander crocs good while the outsider crocs are evil, which fares a lot better than in Season ane.
  • "The Morn Report" has a moment that subverts the show'southward frequent indulging in Protagonist-Centered Morality. Makuu asserts that the crocodile float is within their rights to eat babe Kion and Bunga later the pair wanders onto their territory and harasses them — and Pua, a very kindly and sensible leader, acknowledges that he'southward 100 percent right. When he does let them go, he makes information technology very articulate that Kion's not getting a pass because he'southward entitled to it.
  • Some viewers accused the show of perpetuating the Reptiles Are Abhorrent trope subsequently having Ushari plow evil and the first named lizard characters as villains, which is not helped by them occurring after Makuu's redemption plus the show already having groundwork squamates (i.e. lizards and snakes) as good guys. The bear witness balances this past introducing more reptilian characters who are outright heroic (Hodari and Kinyonga).
  • When the original film came out, Scar got some balmy controversy for interim slightly effeminate. When he returns in the testify, Scar completely loses whatever effeminate traits and becomes a total fledged serious villain.
  • Viewers who wondred if Scar beingness bitten past a cobra left him unable to understand his actions were quite relieved to see in other Season iii episodes that the venom only reduces morals, and merely amplifies the negative traits and desires of the bite victim, as they are shown to however be in utter control of their actions, meaning all of Scar'due south actions were still motivated by his own evil desires rather than beingness compelled to do then by a medical affliction.
  • The episode "The Golden Zebra" solves whatever Fridge Horror acquired by "Let Sleeping Crocodiles Lie" and, to a lesser extent, "The Bite of Kenge". Season 2 makes it articulate that there is an upcoming dry flavor and at that place is a chance of a water shortage. However, due to the events of "Permit Sleeping Crocodiles Lie", the Pride Lands finish upward giving away an entire watering hole to provide a abode for the awakened crocodiles, who besides add more mouths to feed. Meanwhile, "The Bite of Kenge" reveals that the elephants have been saving watermelons for themselves due to the fact that they demand extra water, however, in the episode, several of the watermelons are destroyed making it uncertain if they will have plenty left. In "The Golden Zebra", both bug are indirectly resolved past giving all the Pridlanders access to a big renewable source of water that they can access whatever time they like.
• Crawly Art: While at that place's always something a niggling scrap off about the series' artwork, it'due south clearly trying very hard to emulate the look of a piece of work made in The Renaissance Age of Animation while running on Flash and mostly succeeding, which gives information technology major props in an era where that kind of animation scarcely exists anymore.
• Crawly Music: Has a whole section here.
• Award Snub: The prove has been nominated for several awards, particularly in the Emmys, only it has always lost.
• Badass Decay:
  • Nala is depicted equally requiring Kion to salvage her from a group of low-level young hyenas, when in the films she was a very agile participant in the various battles (one of which takes identify after the series).
  • The Outsiders are presented every bit quite a bit less dangerous than in the original film, every bit they're able to be pinned by the much smaller and younger members of the Lion Guard. In Simba'due south Pride, they proved to be dangerous enough to overwhelm the Pridelanders and Simba himself.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Kion is the most debated original character by far. Him being a previously unheard of younger brother to Kiara, and having more than a few similarities to Simba's previous non-canon son Kopa, has irked fans who come across him as an unneeded character. On the other side people think he's a charming and flawed just likable grapheme who's undergone a lot Character Development and deserves a chance; plus, they like the concept of Kiara having a younger sibling.
  • Bunga is either an annoying Scrappy or really a funny and likable character.
  • Hafifu and Majinuni, the gorilla princes. Some people love them simply for their voice actors while others find them even more than annoying than Bunga.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The song "Tonight We Strike". In information technology, Janja outlines his plan to assail the Pride Lands at nighttime and kill all the animals while they're sleeping. What really happens is that the hyenas sneak in to the Pride Lands during the day and cause a gazelle stampede. Nigh probable what happened is the song was not revised later the plot for the episode was rewritten, probably due to time or budget constraints, causing the song to non mesh well with the rest of the episode.
• Broken Base:
  • Rob Lowe as Simba. While the fans are more or less okay with the other characters existence re-casted, some feel that Rob Lowe is miscast equally the vocalism of Simba and feel that his voice doesn't adapt the grapheme while others do not mind him in the role.
  • Kiara's portrayal in this series. Some like it, some tin't stand it. Kiara is brattier and awaits condign queen one twenty-four hours, which irks old time fans who feel that it'due south out-of-character for Kiara, who was apprehensive and generally kind and didn't desire to become queen in her youth, non to mention that she was sheltered past Simba and thus had no friends, which was why she befriended Kovu and sought to mend the ties between the prides. Others contend, nevertheless, that it makes Kiara multifaceted (maybe she doesn't actually experience like her true self around her friends?) and her modify in personality could just indicate she's growing as a person and trying to figure out what she wants in life.
• Consummate Monster: Scar, Mufasa's envious younger brother, is just as vile as he was in the original film. Once the leader of the original King of beasts Guard, Scar decides to overthrow and kill Mufasa when the latter playfully nicknames his brother "Scar" when Scar tried to seek praise for killing a traitorous panthera leo and cobra who scarred him—non revealing that he had been perfectly willing to work with them to overthrow Mufasa. When Scar'south fellow Lion Guard members refused to help him overthrow Mufasa, Scar uses the Roar of the Elders to kill them, but ends upward losing the Roar in the process. In season 2, years afterwards his initial death, Scar is brought back as a fiery spirit and tries to lead the animals of the Outlands on a brutal conquest of the Pride Lands, first by cutting off the river and entire water supply of the whole Pride Lands, and eventually merely trying to accept them burn the savannah and all its inhabitants. In the flavour 3 premier, Scar attempts to burn the new Lion Guard, Simba, Nala, Kiara, and the hyena clan to expiry, the latter for one of them considering on defecting to the Pride Lands, earlier planning on tricking Kion into erupting the volcano with his roar, which will impale everyone in the Pride Lands. When confronted past the Panthera leo Baby-sit, Scar has Ushari scar Kion, with the ophidian'due south venom slowly turning Kion evil as Scar declares that Kion volition now be simply like him. Even afterwards the death of his physical trunk, Scar remained a hateful creature driven by spite.
• Critical Research Failure: The reason this show has an Artistic License – Biological science entry half a mile long. For every legitimate instance of artistic license (for example, Fuli'south coloration), in that location tends to exist a few cases of this trope (for example, the female ostriches' coloration). Even the Un-bunga-lieveable skits, which ostensibly exist to pad out the testify'southward educational content, present blatantly incorrect data such every bit "crocodiles are bad parents" and "lions purr".
• Crosses the Line Twice: Bunga farting at Mama Binturong? Squick. Bunga doing it to her repeatedly to the betoken she runs away from him? Funny. Bunga and Binga doing it to her at the same time? Hilarious.
• Designated Villain:
  • Makucha the leopard in "The Imaginary Okapi". While he'due south a ruthless hunter and undoubtedly a jerk, he's not hunting Ajabu the okapi for mindless blood sport — he has every intention of eating him.
  • Janja and his crew at times; In "The Kupatana Celebration", the Lion Baby-sit attacked them for going later Dogo, but the jackals had repeatedly tried to take their den, so the hyenas were simply defending their home. Even if Janja was planning on making an example out of Dogo, he still had reason to practise and then. And and then there's "The Traveling Baboon Testify". Janja's clan were well within their rights to attack the titular baboons for trying to steal from them (something the baboons had been completely unrepentant well-nigh doing at that indicate).
• Draco in Leather Pants: Janja strikes a fiercely protective cord inside the fandom. Janja is a poacher and a cluttered rulebreaker, but the Lion Guard's trend to drive his association off when they're doing zippo more egregious than hunting normally occasionally leads to him being portrayed every bit a poor infant who's starving to death. Episodes such as "Tin can't Wait to exist Queen" and "The Mbali Fields Migration" take the fans divided on whether or not he was sympathetic in those episodes. Withal, other episodes from Season two, where Janja tries to gleefully and brutally murder the Guard, Jasiri and innocent hyena pups without remorse, effectively show the dissimilarity betwixt woobiefied fanon Janja and the actual canon Janja.
• Ensemble Night Horse:
  • Jasiri has gained a very large following out of the characters. She'due south a skilful hyena character, has an interesting sassy grapheme, and people like her voice.
  • The leopard Makucha is becoming quite pop for his cool design and being voiced by Steven Blum.
  • Badili, some other leopard, is also getting good reception due to his social awkwardness and cuteness in full general.
  • Nne and Tano became popular due to being introduced as the virtually competent, cunning hyenas in the entire franchise, and for bringing about an interesting subplot in which Janja'due south hyena association is growing weary of his repeated failures.
  • The Outsider lions as well authorize, since this is their beginning major advent since Simba'due south Pride and all of them (barring Zira, as Suzanne Pleshette passed away) were voiced by their original VA'due south from the motion-picture show.
  • Quite a lot of fans wished for Pua to make another appearance in the show, due to being a kind-hearted and wise crocodile grapheme.
  • Kenge has gained popularity due to being a formidable adversary against the Baby-sit and voiced by Kristofer Hivju.
  • Hodari the gecko has gotten a very warm reception considering of his cute design and his singing phonation (helped by his voice actor being Justin Hires). It also helps that he is the offset named cadger character who is by no means abhorrent (granted, geckos are among the reptiles usually associated with practiced).
  • Dhahabu for her cute design, uniqueness (she'due south an extremely rare aureate striped zebra, (which actually are possible in existent life) and great singing voice.
  • Kinyonga for being a clever spy for the Panthera leo Guard, her adept design (resembling a real-life chameleon), and having the same voice as Ruby (helped by their voice histrion beingness Meghan Foreign).
  • Kuchimba for his Ugly Beautiful blueprint and existence voiced by AJ McLean.
  • Shujaa being an Expy of the Blob and voiced by Christopher Jackson earned him a lot of fans.
• Epileptic Trees:
  • The Baby-sit'south absence from the latter parts of Simba's Pride has many people assuming the worst.
  • A growing number of fans suspected that Scar would brand a concrete appearance in the serial, either in a flashback or in a supernatural way like his blood brother. The lingering shot of Scar over Janja's volcano with ominous music in the airplane pilot, mentions of Flavor 2 becoming Darker and Edgier, and a running theme of Kion professing a desire to not end up like his great-uncle all add fuel to the fire for this. ''The Ascent of Scar'' finally confirmed it.
  • There's as well the assumptions on what's going to happen to Ushari in one case Scar is defeated. He burns to death trying to cease Scar from being destroyed, obscured by a Gory Discretion Shot.
• Fan-Disliked Explanation:
  • Kovu's origins were already a colossal mess among the fandom in the second motion picture, merely the statement that he really was live after Scar'southward fall is widely disliked precisely because Kovu could not have been alive during that time and still be Kiara's age, non to mention Simba and Nala had absolutely no idea who he was when they met him before the events of the bear witness, with many preferring to disregard that statement and instead preferring to make him an adopted kid who has no relation to either Scar or Zira.
  • How did Scar go his scar? Some evil lion got his snake friend to surprise slash Scar in the eye when they were lone... with the Fridge Logic of how the ophidian somehow didn't bite out his eye and how Scar got his name. It's strongly disliked for diminishing the emotional background backside the scar that other material gives (the books explain he got it from existence attacked by a buffalo while trying to secretly kill Mufasa in their youth and was given the nickname as a punishment from their male parent, which has since been conflated by fans as their father beingness abusive; fifty-fifty the 2019 figurer-animated adaptation, which is heavily criticized for being a bland and exact accommodation of the original picture show, gives the implication that Scar got scarred from heedlessly challenging Mufasa. Nonetheless, after Season 3 episodes showed that the serpent venom merely removes morals, and the person bitten still possesses full command of their actions, showing that Scar still possessed full ability to know what he was doing was wrong and did those things because of his own evil desires rather than being under the influence of cobra venom.
• Fanon Aperture:
  • At that place's a section of the Lion King fandom that hates the show for various reasons, such every bit its Fridge Logic moments, its Disquisitional Research Failure, it existence Lighter and Softer, it being Trade-Driven, it retconning (namely the existence of Kion, the Roar, and the Lion Baby-sit), its usage of Same Character, but Dissimilar (especially towards Kiara and Zira), and generally They Changed It, So It Sucks, and then they would rather like to pretend that information technology doesn't exist.
  • Nala'south father beingness an unknown ruby-maned king of beasts has been ignored by many people who adopt older theories (Scar, various comic-only or book-simply lions, etc).
• Franchise Original Sin:
  • Kion'southward bright scarlet and mohawk-similar mane for a immature cub is criticized as a design selection comparable to deviantArt animal OCs made to make information technology obvious that he'south the protagonist. The Lion King Two: Simba'due south Pride too had Kovu with a budding blackness mane. Information technology'due south besides Truth in Tv that manes may come out looking similar to these as cubs grow them in and The Panthera leo Male monarch franchise always took liberty with how the lions of Pride Stone have red manes (which is likely a Hair Color Dissonance of brownish-red).
  • The Lion Guard pulling an unnecessary Remember the New Guy? with the existence of Kion and the Lion Guard is something that also happened with Zira and her pride in The Lion King Ii: Simba's Pride.
  • The Carnivore Confusion and other similar issues (namely the complaint that the testify's characters seem very keen on saving other animals from being overhunted yet are never seen eating or killing and most predators are depicted as evil murderers) is an inevitable issue that stems from the movies, where prey animals are besides shown to be sentient in some of their trivial screentime (which was probable to prevent such Fridge Logic moments in the first identify).
• "Funny Aneurysm" Moment: Bunga getting bitten by Ushari in Fuli'south New Family, and the try to explain Ushari's seize with teeth as poisonous with it being played equally comedy gets much less funny when Ushari bites Kion in the Season three opener, and information technology is revealed that his bite is much more than just poison as it threatens to send him insane.
• Genius Bonus:
  • The vulture flock in "Eye of the Beholder" act like a bunch of bureaucrats in parliament. A grouping of vultures resting in a tree, as they were doing, can be referred to every bit a "committee".
  • In "The Lost Gorillas", Simba mentions King Sokwe and his gorilla troop made a peace treaty with him during the moisture flavor. Contrary to their feared reputation, gorillas are non-vehement animals preferring to solve problems diplomatically.
  • As well in "The Lost Gorillas", viewers might observe it strange to encounter gorillas, animals that are mostly associated with tropical jungles, living in snowy mountains. However, mountain gorillas actually alive in montane forests where information technology is relatively common cold, and may go all the way up to the subalpine zone to observe food (although going up to the alpine zone, where there is constant snow, is a bit of a stretch).
  • Azaad from "The Race to Tuliza" is a cheetah who speaks Persian, complete with emphasis. Asiatic cheetahs are also known as Persian or Iranian cheetahs, especially considering current populations exist only in Iran.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Star Wars Rebels fans might notice that both Kallus and Scar were in a band of brothers in their youth, only for things to go horribly wrong, resulting in them being the Sole Survivor of their team. For Kallus, he watched them dice and was helpless to practise anything. For Scar, he killed them himself because they didn't stand past him to betray Mufasa and appears to have no regret doing so.
  • The scene where Mtoto is worried about his female parent gets much more than difficult after Russi Taylor, her vocalism extra, died in 2019.
• He Really Can Act: Or sing, in this case.
  • Nika Futterman singing "Lions Over All".
  • David Oyelowo is a high-profile Emmy-nominated thespian for a reason, though this is the first time he's had to sing (non counting a joke vocal from a Robot Chicken skit), and information technology is glorious. Simply hear him sing "I Accept a Programme" and "When I Led the Guard."
  • Max Charles'due south performance as Kion is widely considered one of the highlights of the show. He has managed to maintain the same voice for Kion over the years and blended it to fit the grapheme'due south emotions, despite the Schedule Skid meaning that he has to increasingly rely on manipulating his vox to go along it the aforementioned. While at that place take been a few episodes where Kion's voice is notably deeper, cheers to Max growing older, by large, the phonation for the character has managed to stay the aforementioned.
  • Steve Blum has proven over the years he is a very proficient vocalisation actor, but many people were surprised at his singing skills when Makucha gets his own song in The Harmattan.
  • Shohreh Aghdashloo manages to give a stellar performance as Queen Janna in her last moments, making it sound like the dying Queen is really struggling to get her final words out to her family before she calmly accepts her death.
  • Peyton Elizabeth Lee's functioning in the scene is just equally praised equally the scene where Rani really begins to realize that she is now the new Queen and breaks down crying for managing to make the scene an emotional gutwrencher. Several fans have admitted that their doubts virtually whether or not she could effectively portray a character with but her voice were put to rest with that scene.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Khary Payton was cast every bit the wise, staff-wielding Rafiki here. A twelvemonth after the serial premiere, he began starring in The Walking Dead as the wise, staff-wielding King Ezekiel.
  • Christopher Jackson beingness cast as Shujaa when you lot consider that the original clarification for his almost famous part, George Washington in Hamilton, was described as "John Legend meets Mufasa".
    • He's likewise played Simba in The Lion King on Broadway, and he came back in Season iii to phonation Makini's begetter Kitendo, opposite Heather Headley (who originated the office of Nala) as her mother Fikiri.
  • Janja and his Crew defects to join the heroes. Ironically to fight confronting the tyrant, which Scar himself does to bring together the heroes subsequently he's being discovered by his enemies. Since Mufasa's is evil until episode 6.
  • A number of episodes accept lines that are hilarious to look at now that Kion is King of the Tree of Life.
    • In the opening film, Kiara asks Kion what he will exist, pointing out that she volition be queen.
    • In Deceit Await to be Queen, Tiifu and Zuri say they don't have to take orders from Kion as he is non a queen.
  • In Season 3, Kion meets his dear interest, Queen Rani, voiced by Peyton Elizabeth Lee. Lee would go on to play an identical character to Kion, a 2d born member of the throne with a superpower to protect their kingdom, in Secret Society of 2nd-Built-in Royals.
• Ho Yay: Timon and Pumbaa go along exist targets of this in this testify. Their human relationship is almost the aforementioned as it was in the original film and their ain series just this time they decide to raise another child together with that child being Bunga the badger. Bunga refers to them both as his uncles, simply they refer to both Bunga and Simba as their babies.
• Idiot Plot:
  • In "Can't Wait to be Queen", Simba leaves Kiara in accuse when he needs to exit for a few days, instead of leaving Nala or another adult in charge. She promptly falls for a obvious trap set up by the hyenas and goes solitary.
  • "Bunga the Wise" is most the chaos that ensures when the animals hear simply part of Rafiki's judgement and think he said beloved badgers are the wisest animals. They then proceed to follow Bunga's foolish advice, such as "ostriches should coffin their heads in the sand to avert being eaten by hyenas". Nobody questions whatsoever of what Bunga says, Bunga himself lacks the self awareness to realize he doesn't know everything and is and giving dangerous advice, Rafiki somehow doesn't realize all this is happening (he must exist in his tree the entire time?).
  • The plot of the "The Imaginary Okapi" hinges on the herd animals of the Pride Lands not recognizing leopards as a threat. Interestingly, some real prey species have been known non to recognize predators of species non native to the area, simply "leopards declining to register equally a threat in an area where lions and cheetahs are common" is a definite stretch.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Ushari the cobra just wants to be left in peace to practise normal snakey things like nap or eat luncheon, but Bunga seems to always exist getting in the way of that. This has included taking prey from Ushari's mouth and hurling him into a tree. Even during his Face–Heel Plough in "The Rising of Scar" he is portrayed sympathetically, being fed up of the Guard causing bad things happen to him and getting forced to work with the hyenas or else he'll exist eaten. However, he is starting to lose sympathy equally he keeps descending into villainy as the series goes on, during which in "The Scorpion'south Sting" he goes after the Guard and Makini with murderous glee as the balance of Scar's Legion of Doom. But and so the Flavor 3 premiere came, and fans mourned for his gruesome expiry.
  • Mjomba the aardwolf from "Too Many Termites" could be seen equally a mild example. He'south very grouchy and irritable but he was likewise mistakenly chased out of the Pridelands and forth with his pack, left to fend for themselves in the Outlands.
  • After beingness pushed off a cliff and betrayed by Nne and Tano in "Janja's New Crew", Janja is now on the route to condign this.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Interest in the series spiked when it was appear that Zira, Nuka, Vitani, Kovu, and the Outsiders would exist actualization in the series.
  • Scar'south render in the second flavour equally a major antagonist as well attracted many viewers to the series, including some fans of Star Wars Rebels, due to Scar's The Other Darrin being David Oyelowo.
• Launcher of a K Ships: Kion, who throughout the series' run has been shipped with Jasiri, Janja, Bunga, Fuli, Tifu, Zuri and Rani (his canon dear involvement).
• Memetic Mutation: Simba knocking Rafiki off of Pride Rock. Rafiki does survive by falling into a cobweb, but still, goddamn. They really are trying to circular out the Hamlet analogies, aren't they?
• Moral Consequence Horizon:
  • The backstory behind the Lion Guard suggests that Scar touched upon the line even earlier than killing his brother when he massacred his comrades in the King of beasts Baby-sit because they wouldn't assistance him betray Mufasa. It'southward even seen as this in-universe seeing as Scar was never able to use his special roar ever again after having committed this act.
  • Nne and Tano cross this when they endeavour to kill Janja simply because they see him every bit a liability.
  • Kiburi and his iii followers cantankerous the line when they attempt to assassinate Simba during the Mashindano in the episode "Let Sleeping Crocodiles Lie". It`s fifty-fifty seen every bit this In-Universe as this action gets them banished from both their float and the Pridelands. You know you're evil when Makuu is taken aback by this heinous deed.
  • After helping in bringing back Scar, Ushari crosses this by agreeing to take Lion Guard murdered along with their friends and family under Scar's command, and showing delight well-nigh it. He further crosses the line in "Battle For the Pride Lands" where he willingly goes forth with Scar's plan to destroy the Pride Lands in a volcanic eruption, bites Kion infecting him with Sanity Slippage-inducing venom in the process, and then outright attempts to kill the lion out of rage in finally destroying Scar's spirit and ruining all of his plans.
• Narm:
  • Janja proverb that Scar died in the burn... despite likely being descended from one of the hyenas who ate Scar. What, is he not in the loop or something?
  • Several people have noted that Simba always seems to exist sporting the same expression and has the same vocalism tone regardless of the situation. While this could be viewed every bit Simba condign more calm regarding ruling a kingdom, whenever Simba is asked to do something emotional in this show, it fails miserably.
  • While it is understandable that overt romantic amore would be toned downwardly for a preschool testify, many people accept noticed just how rare love is brought up at all, fifty-fifty in completely justified circumstances. Simba and Nala are both married, but aside from the occasional nuzzle, there is no appreciating or familial lick, fifty-fifty if Kion or Kiara have simply been put in extreme danger. This really gets notable in Flavour 3, where the Guard starts meeting beloved interests, and the show adamantly uses the term "friend", rather than use the term honey involvement. In the finale, set after Simba'due south Pride, where Kion and Rani get married, no one ever in one case calls it a nuptials, instead calling information technology a coronation.
• Never Live It Down: Simba is striking with this trope again, similar to the reaction to how he was characterized in "Simba's Pride". For the kickoff couple of episodes of Season 1, Simba is shown to be doubtful virtually whether or not Kion tin really handle the responsibility of being leader of the lion baby-sit, compared to Kiara, who he has complete trust in. And in the airplane pilot pic, Simba initially reprimands Kion for not recruiting an elite team of lions like he was supposed to instead of picking his friends - taking it every bit a sign that Kion is not taking his duty seriously. Simba and Kion grow beyond this conflict and really become quite close as a father and son throughout the serial, to the betoken where Simba ironically gives Kion more freedom and back up on average than his sister by Season 2. This still didn't end Simba from being portrayed as a neglectful, abusive racist of a rex and father in many Lion Guard fanfics, who would evidence farthermost Parental Favoritism towards Kiara and hands disown Kion if he did anything taboo similar befriending a hyena, driving his son towards the night side.
• Nightmare Retardant: Deliberately invoked. I of the episodes has the animals thinking Beshte is a monster and their descriptions of his antics and their unwitting consequences is meant to exist played as nightmare inducing to them, but the audition is but supposed to laugh at information technology considering they know Beshte did not do anything incorrect.
• Older Than They Think:
  • The show depicting both prey and predator as sapient is something that originated from the movies, although having the show exist most the heroes protecting prey from evil overhunting predators while non being seen eating anything themselves certainly doesn't help the unavoidable Carnivore Confusion/"murder is okay when it's soft survival" event.
  • The primary conflict of Season iii — the successor to Scar's position wrestling with the fear of turning into him and beingness branded with an identical scar — comes from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. Given that Season 3 was designed to explain why the Guard is not in said film, this was likely intentional.
  • The show'south recurring theme of sisi ni sawa ("we're the same") and how you can find common ground with the terminal people you would accept thought originates in the second film, where it'southward phrased equally "we are one."

  Kiara: They, us... look at them. They are usa. What differences exercise you run into?

  • This isn't the first time in history that a franchise has consisted of three animated movies and an animated series ready betwixt them which includes a whole cast of characters that never appear in said films despite officially all being role of the same continuity. DreamWorks previously did the same with its How to Train Your Dragon franchise.
• Paranoia Fuel: Especially in Season 2 after Scar's spirit returns, the fact that the Skinks are always watching Pridelanders, identifying if whatever other animal as well the King of beasts Guard presents a threat to Scar, and they will tell him. They're very stealthy and most no creature has ever spotted or foiled them. If you are an animal with a skill that'south in dandy need (unparalleled intelligence, connections to spirits, etc) they'll be really good at convincing you lot and tricking you into helping them, and you won't know until it's too late. But, that also means they tin can place your weaknesses too, and they will pass that on to Scar, and if he wants you killed, yous better pray the Lion Guard volition save you on fourth dimension. If you lot're a friendly neighborhood reptile, you're at even greater gamble.
  • "The Hyena Resistance" ends with the skinks planning to tell Scar that Janja hesitated quite a chip before rejecting Jasiri's offering to go out Scar's collective and join the Hyena Resistance which will nigh certainly mean trouble for him later. Yep, not even Scar'south cronies are spared from the skinks' watchful eyes, and Scar could potentially end them if they prove signs of wavering loyalty.
• Periphery Demographic: While at that place is a articulate Audience Shift towards younger audiences with this evidence compared to the picture with it fifty-fifty ambulation on Disney Inferior, in that location'southward still plenty of stuff thrown in for older people to savour and the show can get surprisingly Darker and Edgier at times like Simba being saddened over the death of an sometime friend or the Family unit-Unfriendly Violence depicted in the crocodile mashindano. Because of this, the prove has quite a big following of older viewers and chances are, this was writer's intention.
• Replacement Scrappy:
  • While Timon and Pumbaa are in the series, it probably does non help that it seems like the makers of the testify are trying to make Bunga the next Timon & Pumbaa, especially considering Timon and Pumbaa themselves take a mixed reaction with the fans.
  • Kion is well-disliked amongst casual Disney fans who grew upwards in the 2000's and longtime The Panthera leo Rex fans for supposedly trying to replace the well-beloved Kiara (and Kovu) and retconning the sequel volume series that introduced Kopa, who was Simba's son before the official sequel film came out.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
  • Makuu was considered a 1-note villain who went and then far every bit to directly threaten the lives of Nala and Basi and received little love from the fandom. Even so, his Character Development and pragmatic, gradual Heel–Confront Turn in Season ii as he begins genuinely working to be a good leader for his float accept won over many of his detractors.
  • Bunga's chilly reception has warmed over time. Some argue that Bunga is headed this route subsequently several episodes showcasing his better qualities, like "The Search For Utamu", "The Mbali Fields Migration", "Bunga and the King", "Bodyguard Bunga", "The Ukumbusho Tradition", and "The Bite of Kenge".
• The Scrappy:
  • When the series launched, Bunga was hated by a lot of fans, mainly because he seemed to be the biggest source of forced "comedic" conflicts in every episode. Non helped past the fact that he shared several traits of Scrappy-Doo himself, and had a catchphrase some perceived as annoying; "un-Bunga-lievable". Bunga's hatedom seems to take died down as the evidence has actively made a betoken to portray him as both brave and occasionally insightful and also very grating. He's just that friend that'southward difficult to get along with, but a valuable fellow member of the team notwithstanding.
  • Tiifu and Zuri are loathed by fans for several reasons. The first one is their consummate and utter obliviousness regarding the situations that they appear in. A 2nd one is their narcissim and vanity, which overrides whatever peril they just happen to exist in whenever they show up. The final ane is the fact that they are completely disrespectful to Kion despite the fact he has saved them multiple times from danger, something Kiara has called them out on.
  • Thurston is hated by many fans for his accent, the fact that he frequently tends to be made a large part of episodes fifty-fifty when he really shouldn't, and also for his willingness to needlessly put himself in danger and have the Lion Guard bail him out, not to mention he is very willing to be incredibly disrespectful to them or disregard their warnings.
  • Majinuni and Hafifu also have their fair share of haters, with many people finding their goofy and devil-may-care attitude annoying rather than funny. The fact that they are voiced past a pair of internet celebrities rather than professional actors also does not help.
• Signature Vocal:
  • "Lions Over All", Zira'south Villain Song, is currently the nearly popular original vocal of the serial.
  • " Sisi Ni Sawa", the first song in the series proper, is too best-selling equally the best song, to the betoken it got nominated for an Emmy award.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Bunga eventually gets bitten past Ushari for landing on his caput. Information technology is implied that the bite given was a dry bite (Ushari seems to exist aware that honey badgers are highly resistant to venom), but some fans notice the moment satisfying after Bunga bullied Ushari a few episodes prior. He later gets an official i equally a group of young animals playing and pretending to be the Guard state that whoever is the slowest to choose becomes Bunga, much to his annoyance and probably to the fans' amusement. He also gets this in "Bunga And The King" when Kion admits that Bunga can be abrasive at times. And that's saying something, given their friendship and all. Later in that same episode, Simba chews him out for his crazy ideas and full general unhelpfulness, maxim "Do you lot have whatsoever IDEA how annoying it is to exist stuck downwardly here with You lot?" Mind you, considering what Simba himself was like as a cub, his experience with Bunga in this episode can experience less similar misfortune and more like Laser-Guided Karma. Some fans likewise establish Kion lashing out at Bunga in Season 3 due to his venom satisfying and wished that he went farther.
• They Inverse Information technology, Now It Sucks!:
  • Jeremy Irons non reprising as Scar with David Oyelowo every bit The Other Darrin instead. At least two of the reactions to this alter are that while Oyelowo is certainly a skillful actor and good vocalisation actor, he can't channel the same feel of Irons'south vocalisation, while the other reaction is that it is outright terrible (with a strange argument that it's because the new voice actor is American... when he's actually British like just Irons). Although it should exist noted that Irons has never played Scar in anything post-obit the original motion-picture show, so this wasn't unexpected. Of class, as Jim Cummings has always been available as Scar'due south The Other Darrin and is likely more cheaper than a Celebrity Voice Actor, this conclusion seems to be more of an Advertising by Association choice.
  • Nika Futterman'due south operation as Zira as been criticized for not having gotten Zira'south signature phonation actress, Suzanne Pleschette, to reprise her function on the show... ignoring the fact that Pleschette passed away in 2008.
  • Zira's characterization and slight redesign have been critiqued for being tame and out-of-character.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Practiced Character:
  • In the episode, Paintings and Predictions Nala'due south begetter is revealed to have been saved from the Panthera leo Guard later on falling from a tree. In improver, it is unsaid that Kion bears some resemblance to his maternal grandfather. At first, it would seem like perhaps Nala's father would be shown in more than particular given the attending his grapheme got in the episode, possibly giving Nala herself more than focus; nonetheless, he'south never mentioned again nor is he even given a proper name or official appearance.
  • Mpshi. Harrier-hawks are omnivores: they're one of the just predatory animals that could realistically pull off a Vegetarian Carnivore Heel–Face Plow, and in doing so, might have taught kids something about Harrier-hawks. But she determinedly remains a villain until she's summarily booted from the Pridelands.
  • All we learn of Scar's Lion Guard is what they looked like when they make a brief cameo in Scar'south backstory flashback in the Flavour 3 premiere. And with Scar's vanquishing in the same episode and the show moving on to the Tree of Life arc, it is unlikely that we'll learn any more virtually Scar's Lion Guard.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • When the serial was first announced, about of the fandom assumed that it would have place later on Simba's Pride and feature Kiara as Kion's adult sister. Sadly, this wasn't the case.
  • Both Zira and Scar make appearances in the serial and it was widely anticipated that the 2 would accept some sort of interaction with each other, even at least an acknowledgement, but aught of the sort happens past the beginning of Season 3, where Scar is defeated and the testify is nigh to exist concurrent with the events of Simba's Pride. Unless yous call up this still fits with the Epileptic Trees/Fridge Brilliance theory that Zira is an Unreliable Narrator regarding her connections to Scar.
  • Kion and his brother-in-law Kovu meet for the kickoff time since their childhood in the series finale, afterward they've both gone through extremely similar arcs of fearing they're doomed to end upwardly similar Scar. Do they talk about it? No. Do they notice they both now take scars in the aforementioned identify? No. Do they have any significant interaction whatsoever? Nope.
• Toy Transport:
  • Information technology was inevitable simply this is pretty mutual. Fuli and Kion, Zuri and Tiifu, Tiifu and Kion, Zuri and Kion, Jasiri and Kion, etc. Some age them upwards only some fans similar the Puppy Honey or rather Cubby Beloved attribute.
  • With the appearance of Jasiri, people of begun to ship her heavily with Kion. Also because she is one of the just recurring females not related to Kion.
  • When Fuli beats Kion in their training, Kion compliments Fuli stating that she is skilful, and she replies in an really not-snarky "I know"; nonetheless the camera cut away to Beshete and Mtoto ruins us seeing the residual of the conversation.
  • No sooner had Kovu been confirmed to return in the show, fans began shipping him with Kiara hard. Though it's justified given the Foregone Conclusion of the serial, the two never interact as cubs outside of their initial encounter.
• Ugly Cute: Cheezu and Chungu solidified their status every bit this in "Janja's New Coiffure".
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The Panthera leo Guard, for regularly stopping predators from getting their meals even when it seems like the predators aren't breaking whatever of the Circle of Life's rules. All of them aside from Beshte are carnivores themselves (and fifty-fifty hippos have been known to eat meat in a pinch), so this makes them seem hypocritical. Further compounding this effect is Kion and the guard'south habit of roaming beyond the boundary of the Pridelands and enforcing their rules on the predators who alive there — something the first movie portrayed in a very, very negative calorie-free.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Janja is the leader of his clan, even so, he is a male hyena. This has confused some.
• What Do You lot Mean, It's for Kids?:
  • Oh, no 1 doubts information technology'south aimed at children. However fans are stumped equally to why it'due south supposedly a preschooler-aimed prove. Information technology doesn't really compare to near others and features some material that could be considered mature for the early childhood target demographic. For example, yous know what is apparently just fine for preschoolers? A backstory for the bear witness'southward central concept in which Scar commits mass murder on members of his own species.
  • Seeing equally how "The Lion King" franchise started with regicide, "The Lion Guard" serial, despite being aimed at even younger kids, does non shy away from the fact that the villains want the heroes expressionless and/or eaten. Predation and attempted murder happen quite oftentimes, with the most disturbing example so far beingness the fourth dimension Mzingo and his vultures tried to feast on Fuli while she was nonetheless alive.
  • In the movie, members of the before long-to-be King of beasts Baby-sit comment that Janja and his clan have already "scored" more than plenty gazelles to feed themselves. While it was explained in no uncertain terms that predators like the protagonist eat gazelles in the original Lion Male monarch movie, they were also content to give them a less anthropomorphic and more than realistic depiction. In the this series however, Gazelles and other prey animals have speaking roles.
  • In the episode "Can't Expect to exist Queen", the dead body of an elephant is shown onscreen; though the imagery isn't graphic, since the character has passed away from age, and the focus of the scene is more on the funeral itself than it is on the body. He's also been covered in flowers and plant life, which is a not bad bit of Truth in Television for elephants.
  • Similar to how Scar and his goose-stepping regular army of hyenas that he'd promised to improve the living conditions of in The Lion King brought to mind the Nazis, Zira and the Outlanders on this show invoke Neo Nazis, the alt-right, and racial supremacists with Zira'south rhetoric of how lions are meant to rule over all the other animals. There'south also the implication that Scar and Zira mated.
  • The King of beasts Baby-sit has a complicated human relationship with the Prideland crocs that starts in "The Ascension Of Makuu", with Kion having to accept thuggish and combative Makuu equally the rightful leader of the float and feeling conflicted almost the right mode to handle him (more bad claret forms betwixt Makuu and the Guard in "Never Roar Again" and "Beshte And The Hippo Lanes", the one-time of which has Makuu assault Kion's family while Kion is at his near vulnerable and the latter has Makuu attack Beshte's dad while Basi is injured). "The Savannah Summit" deals with some rather circuitous politics of the Pride Lands, touching on topics like diplomatic immunity, having to deal with national leaders who take been hostile to your ain in the past (by manner of herd leaders in the Pride Lands), and Kion making the situation worse thanks to his own prejudice towards Makuu. In "Let Sleeping Crocs Lie", Kion, Simba and Makuu have to deal with even farther complications involving the dry season, insurrection in the crocodile ranks, and somewhen an assassination attempt on Simba. "The Piddling Guy" has Makuu'south float being conflicted with their Proud Warrior Race Guy and Social Darwinist views when Hodari and the Guard save them from an attack past the rogue crocs, in which said rogues' leader came close to murdering Makuu while he's injured. Basically, whenever the crocs get an episode devoted to them, the show's sense of morality seems to become greyer than usual.
  • When Scar returns to get the show'due south Big Bad, he is summoned from the depths of Hell, appearing as a demonic peppery entity within a volcano.
  • Flavour iii has Kion explicitly bleeding, Ono nearly gets blinded, and there are much more overt hints at romantic angel than in either of the prior seasons along with Usharii burning to death with it only covered by steam, not to mention the fact that Kion is openly struggling with a Sanity Slippage, and anyone who has seen Simba'southward Pride knows he does not come back. Over again, this is a bear witness aimed at four-year-olds.
  • "Long Live the Queen" starts with a Content Warning, cautioning viewers that the episode contains themes about the Circle of Life and that parents may accept to picket it with their younger children. What happens in the episode is Rani'due south grandmother, Janna, passes away from old historic period, which is and then accompanied by Rani and the others grieving over her expiry. How's that for a Disney Junior show?
  • In the penultimate episode, Rani asks Kion to become king, maxim that as queen, she could utilise him as a rex. She is request Kion to marry her, fifty-fifty though the word wedlock is not used, and both of them are merely teenagers at best. This is the first fourth dimension an overt wedlock proposal occurs on a Disney Junior show.
• The Woobie:
  • Badili is this despite being only a one-shot character so far. He's quite possibly the most Adorkable character in the Lion Male monarch franchise but he's too a bullying victim with self-esteem issues. You lot kind of only want to attain into your screen and give the poor leopard a hug.
  • Cheezi and Chungu in "Janja'due south New Coiffure". Even though they're technically villains, both are too dumb to even qualify as Jerkass Woobie, even bordering on Kindhearted Simpleton at times despite following Janja. The surprise revelation that Janja'southward the only family they've ever known contributed immensely to this.
  • A lot of fans felt bad for Kovu by the stop of "Lions of the Outlands".
  • The aardwolves from "Too Many Termites", especially Ogopa and Haya. They were kicked out of the Pride Lands past the Baby-sit due to a misunderstanding, which left them terrified of them even equally the Guard tries to help them get back domicile until Mjomba discovers what really happened and sorts it out for them. And and then all of them end upward in danger of getting eaten by Reirei and Goigoi afterwards existence tricked with a warm welcome, though luckily the Guard arrives just in time to salve them from the jackals.
• WTH, Casting Agency?:
  • Not casting Cam Clarke as the voice of Simba (who normally voices him outside of the movies) came out of left field for many longtime fans especially since he already did vocalization work for the series.
  • Many mutter nigh Jason Marsden reprising his office as Kovu in "Lions of the Outlands" because he voiced adult Kovu in the sequel. While he has voiced child characters in other animated films and shows, many hoped he would attempt to emulate young Kovu's voice a bit more than.
  • Fans were not happy to see that Max Charles was replaced by Aaron Daniel Jacob for singing Kion's final two songs, primarily because Max Charles had shown himself to be an incredibly capable vocalizer in Kion'south other songs throughout the prove, and especially for the fact information technology was just two songs well-nigh the end of the testify.

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