But then again, when Simba is walking up on the promontory after the battle, the storm (which could've actually been a multicellular type) was pretty much weakening overhead and "the hole in the sky" scene shows this well. The thunder rumbling in the background during when Mufasa says "Remember", was pretty awesome. And this is an iconic scene to me that I definitely remember seeing at the very beginning when I first saw TLK 1 in theaters back in '94.
What's interesting though is that turbulent weather happens in all three films and even more, the characters don't even seem to be affected or startled by the rain and lightning going on right around them at all! But I guess when you're physically a non-human animal, you don't need to worry about the weather in any way.
The thing about lightning hitting only the tallest object around is not accurate. Now, the tallest object around usually does have the greatest risk of being struck, but that doesn't mean everything else is protected from lightning unless it's grounded (eg. not allowing an opposite charge of the storm cloud to accumulate on it which allows something known as a "step leader" to form the actual lightning strike). I remember having to talk about this when I did a presentation for my speech class that I took about 1.5 years ago and boy, was that a trip.
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[quote="DGFone"]As a friend of mine pointed out: Sure, when Simba was roaring, he wasn't at the very top of Pride Rock. But when he was fighting Scar, the two of them were. Plus, the wood there was burned, so clearly lightning struck that place at least once before. How come no one got hit then?[/quote]
If both Simba and Scar were directly struck by a positively charged lightning strike in their final battle, then that would've been it for this TLK film's running time.
*lightning strikes them {1 second later, title logo pops up and boom}:
"THE LION KING" *
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