My Lion King Forum

With Scar confirmed as a future villian what do you think his role will be like?

First off I'm not even sure if it'll be a one time thing or if he'll be recurrent in the series, but because of how big of a villian he is to the franchise I hope it's only for one long episode. It's easy to guess he'll appear as a spirit of the sorts, and I think it would be really interesting if he appeared only to Kion like Mufasa does. Maybe Scar could be a manifestation of Kion's fears, or just outright be a spirit trying to deceive Kion. Futhermore if Kion mentioned Scar to his parents I think it could be of great potential to see some character depth for both Simba and Nala.

Whatever it is the writers decided to do I hope Scar doesn't lose his serious dark element just because TLG has a child demographic. Timon/Chungu's voice actor did say after all that season 2 is darker. Maybe this was what he was talking about?

Anyways what are your thoughts?

he can be a spirit/ghost or as a zombie. or appear in flashbacks

Scar's dead. Mufasa is one thing, but what the FUDGE are the creators gonna play necromancers for?

When they say it will be darker it could be that the writers are aware that the older are into the show and they realize we treat it like MLP?

[quote="gothprincesskiara"]When they say it will be darker it could be that the writers are aware that the older are into the show and they realize we treat it like MLP?[/quote]

It's difference between making a show "darker" and making it surrealistic. I mean... You make show fit for a wider audience by sophisticating the plots and themes, not by just throwing in some long dead villain because he's well-known to the fans. A Kion struggling against the legacy of Scar, the fact that he were so vile he could make people hurt even after he's gone, is taking the show WAY more seriously than having him fight a ghost.

^To that end, I really hope Scar appears more as a dream to Kion (like he did to Simba) than anything else. I don't think the writers would go as off the rails with this show as having Kion actually fight supernatural forces. I mean, what the heck would Scar's motive be anyway? He's dead. Boom, done.

[quote="Ninclow"]It's difference between making a show "darker" and making it surrealistic. I mean... You make show fit for a wider audience by sophisticating the plots and themes, not by just throwing in some long dead villain because he's well-known to the fans. A Kion struggling against the legacy of Scar, the fact that he were so vile he could make people hurt even after he's gone, is taking the show WAY more seriously than having him fight a ghost.[/quote]
You do know Kion has a magical roar, right? I think the show is already well-past any form of grounded realism that was established in the movies.

[quote="JackStover"]You do know Kion has a magical roar, right? I think the show is already well-past any form of grounded realism that was established in the movies.[/quote]

I try not to think about it too much...

I tend to skip those parts, close my eyes and envision some semi-epic fight scene and click play when the bad guys run off.

I think it's farily obvious and predictable that Scar is gonna show up as a ghost. An "evil form of Mufasa", if you will. Though, it will probably have a more vision/dreamy quality than your typical Mufasa encounter, where he just appears in the clouds. The Great Kings of the Past obviously are meant to live in the TLK universe's version of "Heaven", and I'd assume Scar would definitely therefore be in "Hell", so I'm basically imagining his appearance as a hellish version of Mufasa's appearance or something like that. It'd be awesome, too, if they somehow managed to stick a reference of Scar's reflection appearing in the water somewhere in there, like in TLK2. Of course, Kion and Scar share a connection because of the Roar, so his appearance could also have something to do with that, and therefore be quite different.

I also hope they won't overuse him as a villain, but I do hope for more than just one appearance throughout the whole series. Say, if he appears early/mid-Season 2, then anywhere before late S3 would be too early for him to appear again.

i was searching around for any concept or trailer footage of scar in season 2. nothing.
since it is obvious that he is dead, he won't appear in person, that's for sure. It would be hilarious when he came back as a zombie, though :p I know that the chance of that happening is around zero, but it would be so funny.
Further on, nothing new for two weeks on info about the 2nd season. It is time they leak some info, isn't it? Since it was stated that between june and july the second season would start?