by Carl » March 2nd, 2014, 4:54 pm
As some people have pointed out it kind of was a war. The hyenas were the enemy and they tried to eat his friend... Pumbaa would likely have tried to kill them even if Banzai hadn't called him a pig. I mean it's only natural. I like the hyenas myself, more than Timon and Pumbaa, but really, things need to be taken in the context of how they needed to be for the movie to work. The hyenas were on Scar's side, so of course the other characters aren't going to be nice to them, especially during the fighting.