• DragonTypeWyvern
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, the false and evil king who gaslights his subjects on the necessity of his tyranny. Scar was the rightful and honest ruler.

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        1 day ago

        The people are simply tired of Mufasa’s musical monarchism.

        Yes, the jackals march in unison while fire shoots ominously into the sky but,

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        He reined over a period of drought, but there’s no way he could have controlled the weather. That’s like blaming the government for there being car accidents. Simba exploited the working and noble classes into thinking that Scar was to blame for natural cycles. Thus he was able to lead a rebellion against their best interests and restored his line to the monarchy. Upper nobles playing everyone else against each other but, at the end of the day, the monarchical status quo was maintained. Feudalism in action.

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      If I had to choose between a king without scars, and one with them, I’d always go with the latter. Scarless bitch probably had everything handed to them, never even fought a real fight.