Mufasa Looks HILARIOUS - YMS Highlights

[@2devious724]

Glad to know Disney is canonizing early 2000's Deviantart fanfiction.

[@Duskool]

I'm probably gonna get hated for this, but the lion king's not stranger to this, because that's how The Lion Guard show thing felt like, some first draft fanfiction

[@dannykopp1992]

Proof we live in the best timeline.

[@lily_flower0686]

​@@Duskool I mean yeah, but at least that was a preschool show and not a multimillion dollar movie

[@WasatchWind]

Yeah this movie has a lot of "this is my lion king OC" energy

[@theoddbox]

Honestly the direct to video sequel from '98 feels really fanfictionish too

[@jackcade8790]

The lack of facial expressions is going to be explained in this one, it turns out that Mufasa got voted as king running on a policy of free botox for everyone. Pride Rock actually has a huge plastic surgery addiction problem. Its very tragic

[@wesshiflet2214]

but the framing device takes place after the last movie, and that’s where we first see everyone emote

[@JosephBlack]

The tragedy led to the creation of both an animation film and a musical. To recuperate the hurt the pridelands feel to this present day. I love Disney SO MUCH

[@fussanchez2716]

wow dude! pride rock!!

[@Joe_334]

I miss Nathan Lane as Timone. Bless that man, because he is hilarious. Just saw him in the third Austin Powers movie.

[@frostatine]

Pride rock is now canonically down river of a pharmaceutical company.

[@samhbricks3353]

Disney just loves answering questions we weren't asking.

[@NeonMagenta95]

We can all finally sleep at night.

[@WitchChangkyun]

They actually created more questions by breaking canon and now mufasa & scar aren’t related lol

[@HeyitsTom999]

I can't wait to find out where Pumbah learned how to fart.

[@michaelstrong5383]

Why, thank you, Beauty and the Beast 2017, for revealing to us that Belle's mother died during the plague. I always kind of not really wanted to know that.

[@SylentVoidkeeper]

​@@michaelstrong5383Don't forget changing the curse into "all of the inhabitants will literally die", turning a complicated emotional choice into a literal trolley problem.

[@lordtsweeble2898]

I'm betting that Timon & Pumbaa will self insert themselves into the story multiple times, and then Rafiki going "No no, that didn't happen at all!"

[@poofballoon]

Oh absolutely.

[@OriasRofocale]

Me too, it will essentially be a way to pay homage to Lion King 1 1/2 within the prequel.

[@losnfjslefn8857]

I was thinking that exact same thing!

[@theworldmushroom2581]

Mater's Tall Tales

[@gabrieldavis7128]

There’s one problem with that: that’s a clever idea. So that’s definitely not gonna happen.

[@Chronoplague]

Get ready to hear them say "brother" more than Full Metal Alchemist

[@matthewcrome]

But they say it like black people do... which makes it more meaningful, I think.

[@halima974]

@@matthewcromewtf r u talking about 😐

[@redfacegaming7727]

​@@halima974whoosh

[@Akitsunesceilingfan]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@halima974it’s a Zoolander reference

[@bearerofthecurse69]

Bets out that they’ll say it more than undertale fanfiction from 2016

[@happymoomoocow]

Making scar mufasa’s wacky marvel character sidekick and trying to have it be a wholesome plot line when we know it ends with him murdering mufasa is a choice

[@olliefaun]

one of the choices ever

[@thevvitch7585]

To be fair it's actually kind of funny

[@CaptLuser]

the choice of all time

[@becuaseimbored3481]

Honestly, I'm kinda digging the dramatic irony

[@SuperFloxes]

If that's done right, it can actually be really tragic watching two characters develop a bond while you know that the future will tear them apart anyway. Emphasis on the *done right* part.

[@jjsb1783]

glad they're FINALLY explaining why british lions exist. Now I can actually get into the lion king cinematic multiverse

[@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo]

2016 Lion King will have a sequel after this where the White Lions come back.

[@calistoyew1313]

@@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLoHmm, suspicious

[@ShadowRubberDuck]

Which will later join the MCU! Imagine Iron Man teaming up with mufasa to take down Thanos and we’ll know why his voice changed from the 1994 to the 2019 version

[@Ose-here]

And restablish the rule of the White Tiger Kingdom?​@@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo WHITE TIGER KINGDOM!!

[@InfernalPume]

i dont care what this movie says scar got the scar from a disastrous gay hookup its the one thing of value from the disney jr cartoon

[@rileyrobin2]

In our heart of hearts, we know this is the truth.

[@jeremybaker5452]

Wait did they really make scar gay?

[@constantanxietyattacks6878]

​@@jeremybaker5452Look up "When I Led the Guard" it's the backstory song The Lion Guard gives Scar, and he's got huge toxic yaoi energy with an evil lion that gives him his scar.

[@creekandseminole]

​@@jeremybaker5452they've never said it, but he's been claimed by the LGBTQ crowd because of his sass I guess idk lolz

[@jeremybaker5452]

@@creekandseminole the lgbtq will claim anyone. He cant be gay, He toltally lusted after simbas mom

[@ornix5761]

I love when prequels adds a bunch of new characters than dissapear and never are seen again without reason

[@PabloYaos]

I prefer that over every character in a prequel being from the original movie. did we really need the whole Darth Vader build C3PO thing ? I don't think so

[@HOTD108_]

I'd rather a prequel have a bunch of new characters than ruin existing characters from the original.

[@poppag8281]

@@PabloYaos I like the prequals but that element of them always bothered me

[@MollyMargolisBillCipherIsBae]

@@HOTD108_ Well, thanks to Disney, apparently we’re getting BOTH!

[@blackdragoncyrus]

Disappear, like your ability to spell.

[@hahu9088]

"With original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda" sent chills down my spine.

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

In a good way or bad way?

[@diegoxavier9107]

​@@BirdsandGhibliFanIn a sudden realization of the existential nature of the universe sort of way

[@hydriumstudio]

they should have recast awkwafina as zazu

[@punkysnarks]

We're gonna get Mufasa and Scar freestyling, aren't we?

[@nt_partlycloudy21]

@@hydriumstudiothen who will John Oliver and James Corden play?

[@ScultorsParadice]

Japan should release a "live action" Kimba movie in response to these

[@carolyns4519]

But actually live action. Yes, a lot of lions will have to be skinned so Kimba can play with his dad's corpse, but that's the price one pays for art.

[@deetvleet]

the country of japan

[@brookejon3695]

But with 100% less racism, eugenics, etc

[@leonardogomez8812]

​@@carolyns4519 Forget about the lions, where are they going to get all the elephants they'll blow to kingdom come?

[@carolyns4519]

@@leonardogomez8812 maybe if they were nicer, they won't have to be exterminated.

[@AbjectPermanence]

The elephant stampede is definitely the origin story for the elephant graveyard.

[@michaelstrong5383]

I hate how that's a possibility, knowing Disney and their obsession with answering questions no one ever asked.

[@GemGames3]

Watch me be not surprised that Mufasa caused the elephant stampede.

[@Simbala-bq5vy]

​@@michaelstrong5383I mean it kinda is interesting. Cause how the fuck did many elephants died at one spot? Unless the elephant genocide episode from kimba is canon

[@sindrevangenrobberstad2889]

@@Simbala-bq5vy Elephant graveyards are kind of a thing in real life though. It's not entirely sure why it happens, but a likely theory is that old or sick elephants will gather someplace with easy access to water, then die while staying in the same place, thus leading to the large, concentrated amount of carcasses.

[@its_destruggle2226]

An elephant graveyard. Where elephants go… to die.

[@kolonarulez5222]

Disney really wants it known Kovu and Kiara are not blood related lol

[@spinningpeanut]

Nuka: Kovu Kovu Kovu, scar wasn't even his father. He just took him in... Zira: He was hand chosen by scar to follow in his pawprints and become kinnnnnguuh Kovu: He wasn't my father but he was still..... part of me. Everyone on buzzfeed: Kiara and Kovu related?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[@BratzRockAngels]

That isn't even necessary when it was already established that Kovu is not Scar's son in the second film.

[@QueenAvacado]

Well, in the lion, King 2 kovu was never stated to be scars, biological son. They never actually tell you who his real father was. A lot of people assume that he’s related to him just because he looks similar to him.

[@aeddiefarmer]

​@@spinningpeanut well watching it as a dumb kid not paying attention to all the dialogue I followed the obvious visual cues of how Kovu has the same colour palette as Scar and totally thought Kovu was Scar's son. Luckily I was also too dumb to realise that means Kiara is related to Kovu. Tbh when I realised years afterward I just assumed they designed Kovu as if he was related to Scar and then realised later 'oh crap...quick add some dialogue about how he's an unrelated heir of Scar's' 😅

[@Wolf-Chalk]

@@aeddiefarmer Well in old drafts of TLK2 he was his biological son lol but then Disney realized they made incest.

[@BATASHALACKA]

Cockney chimney sweep Scar is an origin I didn't know we needed

[@AJ-HawksToxicFinger]

without him bands like Madness and The English Beat 😉 would have never existed, ole skar was all the rage in the 80's

[@AidenOcelot]

Homestuck

[@3bugsinatrenchcoat]

reading these replies back to back ruined my month. bravo

[@Lxkoxkoksolps]

it's more like a posh accent than cockney

[@TheEldritchHyena]

@@3bugsinatrenchcoat "gee, it's _madness_ in here!"

[@giorgimamalashvili4220]

If they made White lions the villains on purpose that'll be absolutely hilarious

[@JohnnyJustice777]

As we all know, white lions belong to the "superior race."

[@ching-jungyang62]

The white lion is actually a cub wearing his dead dad as a disguise. What a twist!

[@UrbanMedTurban]

If we fight we die

[@aviadd]

And kinda racist

[@al112v4]

@@aviadd how?

[@CaptLuser]

calling it now, there’s definitely gonna be a scene where taka says “long live the king”

[@mischr13]

of course. I'm not gonna watch it so hopefully adum let's us know

[@MarenWW]

It'll be the final line when Mufasa becomes king. It'll serve as both a triumphant capstone and a foreshadowing of the tragedy in the previous movie.

[@jakehyams8659]

Long live the lion king

[@MichaelSmith-fq6hz]

“He meets this strange lion.” Did the Lion Guard really go with the equivalent of waking up in a Vegas bathtub full of ice for Scar’s scar explanation?

[@dannykopp1992]

You write what you know.

[@richiethereal1236]

They stole the plot of the next hangover movie

[@spinningpeanut]

Scar didn't like hanging out with his lion cop team full of straight dudes so he went for a hookup and that lion tried to force scar into a throuple and scar threw a fit that killed the interspecies couple then killed the straight lion cops. What's not to understand?

[@4thSurviver]

From where your standing it must seem like an 18 karat run of bad luck... but the truth is this is where the monarchy was headed country out.

[@poppag8281]

@@4thSurviver Great reference

[@Hollyclown]

I feel like not making Mufasa and Scar blood brothers, really takes away from the whole “betraying your brother” thing.

[@karnagekarnival5127]

Yeah well it also takes away from the "are Nala and Simba siblings or cousins at best" from the first one. If Nala is Scar's cub, theyre unrelated. Except theres a deleted scene from TLK where Scar seems to want Nala as his queen so This is truly the darkest timeline

[@D3viant517]

Adopted brothers are still brothers yknow

[@purpledragon1945]

but it does help the incest of Kovu and Kiara

[@N.I.A23]

​@karnagekarnival5127 Simba told Scar, "I'm your only nephew," and I doubt any lionesse (outside of zira) wanted to mate with scar so.....

[@karnagekarnival5127]

@N.I.A23 yeah but the blood connection is retconned, so either Simba doesnt know Scar isnt related by blood or they just use familial terms anyway which still makes sense. People who are adopted dont go around saying "my adoptive uncle" all the time and what not

[@blackdragoncyrus]

I'm anticipating a scene in which Mufasa says the line, "Scar, there will eventually come a time where you must kill me, so that my offspring will become strong without me."

[@user-ow1bc4sx2r]

if I ever become too powerful, summon the wildebeests

[@JediMasterBaiter]

More like: "Scar, you can destroy the emperor. It is your destiny. Join me, and together we can rule the kingdom."

[@imaginaryfanboy]

dear lord. i don't think we're ready. i think we should beep repaired for this

[@AllyGatorAnimator]

If this movie ends with Mufasa wearing the skin of the Kimba-looking lion, or at the very least carrying him over his back, it will immediately be a 10/10.

[@WasatchWind]

Nah they need to lose the lion skin and then have Sirabi shout "Mufasa you are bad!"

[@ching-jungyang62]

Or explain the origin of the elephant graveyard was all because the elephants bullied Mufasa and are not nice.

[@thek2despot426]

​@@ching-jungyang62 ... and then got genocided for it.

[@aeric_]

Wow. Dude- Pride Rock!

[@tehdmanvids3]

Dude- RAFIKI!

[@aeric_]

@@tehdmanvids3 it's like his lightsaber

[@steinfieldseinfield]

Mufasa and Scar sit ontop a Rock. Mufasa: This rock shall be our new home. A place for our Pride to live and flourish. Scar: Say that again

[@DoctorHero]

@@aeric_ yEs

[@M0ONCommander]

I love disney so much 🤧

[@Nuvizzle]

The poster for this movie should just be the cringing cat meme in Joker makeup saying "You wanna know how I got this scar?"

[@victoriapulcifer6218]

This makes the "You could have jeaporadized the future of our Pride" addition from the remake even MORE wild 💀

[@nanopanda]

Disney: you know that movie the prince of egypt?? Well hear me out!!

[@mischr13]

lol

[@ChillaxingJay]

DreamWorks: Yeah, but our movie is actually good and it came out over 20 years ago.

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

@@ChillaxingJay Disney: Yeah, but yours didn't have fur glow though

[@PlatinumAltaria]

I like that you're attributing the story to the movie and not the BIBLE xD

[@TheMedicatedArtist]

@@PlatinumAltariaTo be fair, Rameses and Moses were actually a grandfather and grandson respectively. Dreamworks changed the relationship because it flowed better as brothers.

[@zachnoland155]

This movie has a morbillion dollar budget and they're legit going to do a "you were saying?" joke. Are you fucking kidding me?

[@karnagekarnival5127]

I out loud groaned when i heard that shit its current year COME ON 😭💀

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

Also, the line delivery is awful in certain places, especially Scar/Taka screaming, “This was a bad idea!” in the previous couple of seconds prior to the “You were saying?” joke.

[@sindrevangenrobberstad2889]

Taka's response: "She's right behind me, isn't she?"

[@Kink_Shaman]

Young Scar: “Right, wots all this, then?”

[@AllyGatorAnimator]

"Oi, Mufasa you cheeky sod, I hope you've got a license to join this pride, innit!"

[@carolyns4519]

*kicks a random elephant* oi, mistah, you me dad?

[@Duskool]

@@AllyGatorAnimator CAM ON PRIDE ROCK; SCORE SUM FACKIN' GOALS!!

[@Andromeda14161]

"please, sir, I want some boar."

[@StummerVogel]

In the original TLK2 they explicitly specified that Kovu was adopted by Scar, so his relationship with Kiara wouldn't be seen as incest. But now Scar isn't even blood related to Simba? WHY?

[@Duskool]

Wait, he's adopted? I didn't even pay attention to the potential incest somehow... So, are the other two lions, Nuka and Vitali(?), actual descendants of Scar or nah?

[@StummerVogel]

@@Duskool I'm not completely sure but I think none of them a Scar's. Iirc all three were originally meant to be his biological kids but then someone on the writing team pointed out that Kovu and Kiara being cousins might make viewers uncomfortable (I don't think lions care about that) and they shoehorned in some lines about Scar only adopting them.

[@sharrdx5956]

@@DuskoolNuka is scar’s direct son and vitani and kovu are litermates so adopted

[@primalycia]

@@sharrdx5956 This was never confirmed from an official source, only people headcanoning that he is.

[@bobtheball5384]

​@@primalycia Wait are you sure? I could've sworn Nuka mentioned being the rightful claim to Scar

[@TheProblem2025]

Imagine you’re at the movies, the ads are playing. Oh hey new Lion King movie! And the guy in front of you abruptly stands up and walks out. Fully leaves. Returning over after the ad.

[@Dynomafia139]

And he's wearing a scar shirt

[@TheMattLuigi]

I find it so funny that they finally put emotions in the faces of the characters. John must be crying himself to sleep at night.

[@foxxdoodles]

Wow, dude, pride 🏳️‍🌈

[@ΓιάννηςΧΔ-γ7γ]

Wow, dude, gay rock.

[@TheGuardianssorrow]

My experience with the trailer was "This is so dumb. I bet they will have a white lion." and then I was proven right a few seconds after. 😂

[@michaelstrong5383]

Cringy title drop from evil Kimba aside (Disney thinks they're so clever), it occurred to me that there really isn't any major conflict for us to care about here. We know Mufasa's going to take his place as king at the end because the original film *_OPENS WITH HIS SON BEING INTRODUCED TO THE WHOLE SAVANNAH!!_*

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Leo the jungle dictator!

[@Edax_Royeaux]

We know the Emperor will lose eventually by Return of the Jedi (before the Disney era). But there's still a major conflict to care about in Revenge of the Sith, even if the Emperor's rise to power is pre-ordained.

[@peanutgallery4]

​@Edax_Royeaux bruh really called Star Wars episode 6 Return of the King Nah but I agree with your point

[@Edax_Royeaux]

@@peanutgallery4 Brain misfire.

[@KatieeBug445]

@@michaelstrong5383 would have so much preferred if they would have left them as actual brothers and had the central conflict be Taka/Scar trying to challenge the way of things and prove he could be king. Maybe he comes up with a scheme to make himself look really good either by saving Mufasa or saving the pride lands, and it looks like he’s going to be rewarded, but either he’s found out or something happens that ends up with Mufasa saving the day by the end and seriously proving himself as the rightful king by saving his brother, and it poisons Scar’s mind because even when he was the hero, Mufasa still outshone him and he lost his chance when it was so close to being his.

[@cb8655]

The villains are basically Kimba… Lmao Also Zazu “knowing of a certain lion, always getting into scrapes” line bs better come full circle.

[@IAMA1]

At this point, I might start cheering for "Kimba" instead of the main characters😂

[@GothMusicLatinAmerica]

Hmm, suspicious

[@michaelstrong5383]

Zazu's line was originally from the Broadway musical in an added exchange between him and Mufasa before the stampede scene. This is Disney having its nostalgic pandering cake and eating it, too.

[@SirGrimLockSmithVIII]

WAIT SHIT NOW THAT YOU MENTION I CANT UNSEE IT

[@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo]

No no no, it's Ceasar before he has Kimba. He'll retreat from the Savanna to the Jungle, and all of Kimba will play out there. Kimba and Lion King are now a shared cinematic universe.

[@goodmanticore]

I really think that they are making the brothers unrelated by blood so they can make Kovu Scar’s son in the Lion King 2 remake we are inevitably getting. So many people already think Kovu was his son.

[@sara.rae08]

That's so stupid though.

[@goodmanticore]

@@sara.rae08 My assumption, or that they would do that? Lol

[@lagopusvulpuz1571]

In the movie Zira and Nuka said that Kovu is adopted. Also even if they were blood related it isn't far off of what happened in the past in Royal families.

[@AudreyCosmo13]

Kovu was supposed to be scar's son in the first versions of the scenario until they realised that "oopsie, isn't that inc*st guys?"and changed that part of the storyline. I mean, Kovu's design couldn't be more obvious,the guy's a scar clone

[@blueflare3848]

I thought that for the longest time.

[@jwnj9716]

Wow. Dude- Facial Expressions!

[@dalkbrolne]

When I went to see Alien Romulus they played this trailer. When they said there could be only one Lion King I started laughing like a maniac. The people in the back must of thought I was insane but the real insanity is that it's a real movie.

[@michaelstrong5383]

It's like one of those title drop memes _(i.e. "We truly are a Spy x Family")_ except it's in an actual film.

[@emanekaf1543]

The way he looked at the camera tho

[@fearful1139]

Oh god I wanted to see the new alien movie, I didn’t even think I might see this trailer… I’ll be late on purpose this time. I cannot sit through that…. Thanks for the warning.

[@abba9265]

It was you, Patrick! You’re the american psycho!

[@TheRadioSquare]

You're not insane, but you are so online that you might as well be.

[@xxTC-96xx]

the most annoying part is all we're going to hear now is people trying to justify Scar now for being a murdering psychopath because disney retconned their past lol it was already annoying enough back in my days in the lion king fandom before this

[@wilczus222]

This movie has "Scar apologist fanfic" written all over it xD

[@easolinas1233]

Well, Disney does love glorifying villains as the REAL good guys.

[@ZombieChicken1310]

Tbh Scar kinda had the right to be pissed off considering he was left alone eating nothing but mice and bones. Now, killing Mufasa, try and kill Simba, and taking over the "natural order" with a bunch of hyena minions is something else...

[@Scythe17]

Oh my god it's TC-96! Bro, you were one of the artists who made me join the furry fandom from WAY back (on DA before you started "Kiara's Reign"). Always been a fan of your art. Good lord that name just flipped a switch. Glad to see you are still around!

[@1805movie]

"Are these gay lions?" Well, this guy did direct _Moonlight_ .

[@stardoogalaxie9314]

The way this struck me like lightning 😭😭. Also you're right! And im also seein some parallels to Moonlight 👀👀👀

[@dexstewart862]

Mufasa and Scar not being biological brothers reminded me of that line from Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation where Leonardo or whoever assures Venus (The girl turtle they just met) that they aren't really brothers so it won't be weird if one of them gets with Venus.

[@creekandseminole]

Lolz I forgot about that show

[@dexstewart862]

@@creekandseminole it had two or three passable episodes but for the most part, yeah, pretty forgettable. The crossover with Power Rangers in Space was fun.

[@overtherenowaitthere]

@@dexstewart862 power rangers in space is the best, the worst episodes might be the the random ninja turtle crossover, it was like a some weird fever dream and then it's never mentioned again im pretty sure

[@guardianhirro]

So what you're saying is scar and mufasa are gonna fuck

[@Marcelis]

@@guardianhirroit’s not gay if it’s incest. Or is it the other way around 😅

[@strudelh]

The way they sing“I’ve always wanted a brother” sounds so weird..

[@amysel]

autotune from wish

[@rpg_neko1815]

It’s even worse if you listen to the full song. Someone on Twitter/X leaked the whole song from the Disney D23 convention, and it sounds really bad, definitely a Lin Manual song. They repeated “I’ve always wanted a brother” 3 times before shifting to new lyrics, and they do this like 2 or 3 times in the whole song

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

@@rpg_neko1815 Remember when people said that Lin-Manuel Miranda would’ve been the better choice for songwriter for “Wish”? Seems like he took a page from Julia Michaels’ playbook of repeating the same phrase over and over in the chorus (like the “This Is The Thanks I Get?” song). LOL 😂

[@gOat_GrandMa]

JonTron: "That one didn't age quite so well!"

[@QarlYogurt]

England accent

[@silvershocknicktail6638]

They're not going to do Scar's whole incel journey in this movie. They need to have a follow up movie called "Scar".

[@cowestgirl3746]

there's no way it hasn't been pitched alongside this, if not already in the works as a follow-up

[@brandonsimoncini]

7:06 *Adum thinking to himself he would finish his Lion King Part 2 before Mufasa would come out*

[@matthewcrome]

At "We Fight, We Die" someone commented in the chat "IF WE FIGHT WE DIE IN THE FOOKIN WAHAH" and I'm just glad someone else found that part of one of the Romulus trailers as hysterical as I did

[@BlazingBlackMage]

Taka has two meanings in Swahili, one is the very popular "Trash" but the other is "Want/Demand"

[@chandler7493]

The weirdest thing about this movie and its story is that none of the good guys, including Rafiki, knew that Scar was a true bad guy until the finale of the first movie. Now they're telling the origin story of Mufasa and Scar, so how does Scar appear in this story? They have to thread the needle of setting him up as a villain but not so much that it should've been obvious Mufasa shouldn't have kept Scar around. With this framing device, you can't reveal anything overtly evil about Scar but he still has to believeably be Scar. In the original, so much about Scar was revealed to us via scenes that did not include the good guys.

[@michaelstrong5383]

That's a really good point now that you mention it. The other lions didn't know that Scar killed Mufasa until he outright admitted it. The worst thing he did in their eyes was being a really bad king. No one knew about Scar's turn to evil except, well, Scar himself.

[@zander2758]

​@@michaelstrong5383 i don't think we even knew if there was a "turn to evil" maybe scar was always a asshole jelous evil guy in the first place, it never needed to be explained.

[@hydriumstudio]

BEEP REPAAAAIR!

[@mixwidman5458]

I feel it’d be interesting to if it treated him like Judas in the gospels: he seems pretty decent but is made to be shiftier because the narrator has the hindsight of his betrayal.

[@Yomi_Yuki]

"There will be ONE Lion King" Kimba returns to take his throne!

[@ovskii96]

It's so annoying how they're trying to give an in-universe explanation for Scar's British accent, as if it wasn't just a stylistic choice for the character.

[@acksawblack]

Does the accent upset you that much 😂? They didn’t have any mention of why the lions have accents, it’s just more British actors. If Mufasas father is American is that an explanation?

[@cowestgirl3746]

I think it's cause they have very little faith in a young audience to understand the idea of a stylistic choice (in line with the abandonment of traditional animation as 'unrealistic') plus they need to keep them vocally distinct in hopes of avoiding confusion while using basically the same character model for their two main characters

[@ovskii96]

​@@acksawblackNo, I mean they're making Scar unrelated to Mufasa to explain something that didn't need explaining.

[@teleportingpotatoe]

I thought it was quite an excusable trans-atlantic accent

[@biodock2003]

Scar: It’s bloody chusday now innit?

[@BloodSonicFlux]

So, lemme get this straight. Mufasa wasnt royalty, but his father still told him about the kings of the past for some reason, and taka WAS royalty, but somehow mufasa became king, and still let taka be next in line, but still didnt give him the crown that was rightfully his? Is this like... a colonialism thing? Are they going to justify scar in the lion king?

[@easolinas1233]

I think they cannot bear for the protagonist to be a "privileged" royal lion who merely inherited his position, so they have to make him an underdog rebel whom the audience can relate to, or some nonsense like that. As if there haven't been kings throughout history, from all across the world, who proved their awesomeness or at least their successfulness.

[@BloodSonicFlux]

@@mariatorres-by6du That might work if one of the first trailer lines hadn't indicated he had no royal blood at all.

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

They never give me what I want. Didn't we already have enough Lion's Kings? Wouldn't it be time for a "The Hyena Queen" movie?

[@Ezrablynx]

Knowing what I know about Hyena biology, that would be a VERY interesting film that would piss so many red-pillers off lol

[@carolyns4519]

4k closeup of Shenzi being born out her mother's peepeeclit in real time or it's not worth it

[@matthewcrome]

@@Ezrablynx Yeah don't female hyenas basically grow a sort of penis, which they then give birth through? And like half of them die from the birth process?

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

@@Ezrablynx Yeah, one of my favorite pieces of nature informations is the description of spotted hyena mating rituals in the German wikipedia. The English one just reads "Males will show submissive behaviour when approaching females in heat, even if the male outweighs his partner. Females usually favour younger males born or joined into the clan after they were born. Older females show a similar preference, with the addition of preferring males with whom they have had long and friendly prior relationships. Passive males tend to have greater success in courting females than aggressive ones" The German one goes: "The courtship behavior of the males makes it clear that, on the one hand, they are willing to reproduce, but on the other hand, they are afraid of the female and would rather run away. That's why the male carefully approaches the female with several bows and then backs away again. [...] If the female is not ready to conceive, she takes no notice of the male's courtship or even responds aggressively to him".

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

@@Ezrablynx And idk, maybe it could tell the story before the Pride Lands were ruled by lions and was instead ruled by a hyena clan with a queen and a female aristocracy and the males are basically the equivalent to Zazu. And since hyenas have both a higher success rate in hunting and can eat and digest a higher percentage of their prey, it was actually green and flourishing, not like in the second part of the original movie where the sheer presence of hyenas seems to destroy the entire ecology and even makes the weather bad. Then the lions invade and drive them into their elephant graveyard ghetto where they suffer hunger and disgrace, start to fight with each other more and more over food ect. and slowly turn into the kind of hyenas we know from the original movie.

[@Chronoplague]

32:46 I'm assuming the movie is going to start with Timon and Pumba telling the story of "how they single-handedly defeated Scar," and then Rafiki is going to interrupt and tell the story of Mufasa. Giving us the, "you're going to tell a story without us in it?" from earlier in the trailer.

[@hayleyhellbound9513]

Ala Lion King 1 1/2, yes

[@AttemptedVoices]

Adum, teaser trailer: "Ugh, this movie is DISGUSTANG!" Adum, official trailer: "Hahaha! What the hell? Facial expressions?? Accents?? BEAUTIFUL SKIES?? HA! I might see this in theaters. Holy *BEEP!*" Character development: 100!

[@TorosAndMakis53]

Kimba is finally in the "Live Action" Lion King canon!

[@Riptide27]

5:29 I thought Adam might like this change. Now they can be all like, “Step-brother, help! I’m stuck!”

[@mischr13]

😭 noooo

[@4thSurviver]

" And that's how I got my Sccccccaaaarrrrrr!"

[@goodmanticore]

The Timon and Pumbaa shots facing off against Scar have to be them telling an alternate version of the ending of the first movie. At the beginning, they’re talking about telling stories to Kiara.

[@amaravazquez8591]

Adum: "Why did you name your son trash?" Mufasa: "It smells like home."

[@Ace_Maus]

Scar got his scar from a lowkey gay rendezvous?! I love it

[@JorganGJorgan]

Flubbed Grindr meetup

[@admcleo]

Almost positive that the Timon and Pumba against Scar is going to be the first scene in the movie and then revealed to be a story they're telling to Kiara, if they even bother keeping her in.

[@michaelstrong5383]

That's what I think as well. It seems in character for Timon to pretend that he and Pumbaa were the ones who defeated Scar and saved the Pride Lands.

[@easolinas1233]

They're keeping her in, because they want to have Beyonce's first spawn voice her.

[@billygoatguy3960]

if I go a day without listening to Adam complain about a trailer not being in 4K I will perish in a very painful fashion, thank you for extending my lifeline

[@BurgermanForever-nh2vp]

Why isnt this comment in 4k?!?

[@thexbigxgreen]

24:10 "If we fight, we die!" It legit sounds like MaxMoeFoe delivering that line lol

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

Even funnier, he sounds like HeelvsBabyface. I’m expecting him to start screaming, “Feckin PRONOUNS!” 🤣

[@KH0LRA]

True 💀

[@IAMA1]

Now that they're Not Related By Blood™, are people gonna start shipping Mufasa vs Scar? Are we gonna get some Scafasa fanart?????

[@michaelstrong5383]

No No No No Please no!!

[@tamayako2000]

Alas that already exists, but now the fanbase has the excuse of "they're not BLOOD related so it's okay!!" ick

[@Goblineng]

I mean, in the original Scar did make reference to Mufasa's brute strength. I think we know what that meant.

[@IAMA1]

​@@GoblinengThey both might be Lions, but Scar knows who the BEAR is!!!

[@lowpolyzoe]

Christ they are also cartoon lions who walk on four legs. People have shipped them and are going to continue to ship them regardless of who's related or who's not related. Just ignore it and don't let it take space in your brain

[@eugeneimbangyorteza]

They should show Scar getting the scar because of his gay partner's snake.

[@foxykins]

"Taka, I've always wanted to try snakeplay."

[@gOat_GrandMa]

I think thats an alternate timeline, because there's the tale of two brothers book

[@SiggyTundra]

I like how they're literally just stealing the plot of moses and his brother for mufasa and scar's origin

[@michaelstrong5383]

To be fair, one of the inspirations of Lion King besides Hamlet was the story of Moses. I'm pretty sure this prequel is going to be like Moses and Rameses from Prince of Egypt, but without all the stuff that made that relationship so compelling.

[@Wraiven22]

It still won’t stop the troglodytes from calling it “woke” despite being from the book they claim to believe in (yet ignore 99% of).

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

@@michaelstrong5383 Also, I think the Biblical story of Joseph was another inspiration for the original “The Lion King”. With that said, I agree with the rest of your comment.

[@andybaer8]

Megan thee Stallion: Watashi wa Scar

[@catmerchant8699]

LOL

[@muizzsiddique]

Scaa-, Scaa-

[@Lemoncakelover678]

"i am a scar!"

[@KatieeBug445]

HOW DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE SENSE?! If they're not blood related how the FUCK does Mufasa have any right to be king? How is it possible for him to beat out Scar, the actual HEIR? And will Mufasa still be older than him, or is that out the window too???? Why can't they just be brothers and have that be that, why does Disney have to make everything so unnecessarily complicated just because? This is so stupid, oh my god. Why does a silly 61 page tie-in novel from 1994 make more sense and have a better storyline than this???? Ugh, i have so many questions and I'm angry. Disney needs to stop with these remakes, I'm so tired. Just let animation stay animation and if you want money that bad, just rerelease the originals in theaters for a limited time. Let it be a sing-along in the theater or SOMETHING other than this, I'm actually begging.

[@kaimiarts]

I think Disney is attempting to scratch any male lead from their royalty title at this point, starting from the Little Mermaid live action bs. Oh yeah, for that movie they even had to make Ursula and Triton blood-related? When the original characters scratched that idea because it made 0 sense. Then for the lion king, I don't know. This is a little weird take since they're lions, but it might be the trend for Disney. I have a feeling the guy in the live action Snow White won't be a prince either. Prince Florian no longer exist so. It's Jonathan now 💀. Who knows? I'm just theorizing really early with their odd decisions. Let's just all enjoy the classics as their modern company rots.

[@lemonmelon1883]

I’m dead sure it’s the unnamed psychopath at Disney making these changes. The same one who keeps insisting that everything be live action and “realistic”. I’m pretty sure the trends told them that people like “complex” stories, so they unnecessarily complicate an otherwise simple story and dynamic. Also, have a like for the Twisted Wonderland pfp, which unironically treats its Scar-like character better than this prequel movie.

[@Jackkara]

My guess is, how the trailer set it up, that Scar's father eventually wants to kick Mufasa out of the pride and Scar gets in the fight with the old man, having them both be exiled. "You and Taka together, that is home" is probably about the two not having a place in the pride anymore and they leave to find a home for themselves, where they eventually get to Pridelands and I guess fight Mads Mikkelsen over it.

[@user-ow1bc4sx2r]

My guess is they form a new pride separate from the pride taka came from and mufasa leads that one. So Taka would have been king if he stayed with the original pride, but since he went along with mufasa he ends up second fiddle and with a dope scar

[@cowestgirl3746]

​@@kaimiarts this is not a defense of live action little mermaid, but the idea of triton and ursula being siblings was cut from the original animated script and then resurrected in broadway adaptations (and I want to say was implied in the animated sequels but that I'm not sure of). Live action still handled it horribly though. The broadway version's extra songs go so hard I think it helps the changes in "canon" fade into the background; there was no notable audience reaction to it then because it was a good adaptation and justified it's decisions lol

[@thatguyseb8824]

Literally my first thought when I saw this trailer was, "Well, at least they actually emote this time."

[@SS-op9wt]

"sounds like a youtuber trying to fit in with classic newground animators/voice actors" is a roast I have thought in my head for years (with specific KZbinrs in mind) but have been too scared to say. Thank you, Adam speak the truth 😂

[@klarabellum]

notice that the cast list does NOT include John Oliver, because he’s been recast. hence why that one shot of Zazu sounded so weird!

[@stardoogalaxie9314]

I wouldnt be surprised if it were an AI rip of John Oliver

[@Mr_Mistah]

Preston Nyman is the voice actor for Zazu

[@Mr_Mistah]

​@@stardoogalaxie9314 Nah I looked up at the cast and Jon Oliver was replaced by Preston Nyman for Zazu

[@theknightikins9397]

No way are we getting Live Action Lion King 2 before part 2 of YMS’s analysis

[@shokre312]

Calling it, the scenes of Timon and Pumbaa attacking Scar will be a 5 second bit at the beginning of the movie where they're retelling the events from the end of the original film as if they were the heroes, akin to Lion King 1 1/2's opening

[@yammt3148]

Man... Look at all this live-action.

[@CreationSGame01]

I’m soooo happy Adam noticed that they atleast tried to give the animals expressions this time.

[@bradybales7067]

with the added expressions you could say that budget at disney went up

[@nomi_M]

Smiling Scar looks like bad taxidermy straight out of a nightmare.

[@autonomousAcquaintances]

Taka isn’t sultry at all. There’s no smoothness to the way he talks in the way Scar should. That’s not something you snap into. I don’t like to think he just suddenly became performative rather than just being a drama queen generally

[@4thSurviver]

You fokin fink wot you want mate but this is rite proper it is!

[@JojosCrazyChannel]

Wow, Dude Stick!

[@racquelmarsh1121]

*cough* Your "Oh my god!" to Scar's voice caught me off guard😂🤣

[@Missjunebugfreak]

That was exactly how I reacted when I first heard Scar's voice. It's so damn distracting 😆😂

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

@@Missjunebugfreak Me, too. What’s even more ridiculous are the people defending the voice in the comments section of the trailer because the voice actor for OG Scar was British. The problem is, Jeremy Irons did not have a thick Cockney accent when voicing Scar. It would be like if OG Scar was voiced by an actor with a Midwestern or Mid-Atlantic U.S. accent but young Scar is now voiced by an actor with a thick Southern U.S. accent and justifying it by saying, “But the original actor was also American”.

[@featherlight2652]

Theory: They made Scar not biologically related so that Kovu could actually be his son and it wouldn’t technically be incest when he gets with Kiara

[@dannykopp1992]

Ah, not technically incest. The best kind of incest

[@roosterboots4684]

Wow, dude Kovu!

[@Romanticoutlaw]

even though tlk2 explicitly makes kovu adopted, which makes this even goofier. I guess being adopted makes you evil

[@666kittycat666]

Okay but like, Nala and Simba are half siblings though

[@user-ow1bc4sx2r]

Theory, they made scar not biologically related to expand shipping options for people who don’t like incest

[@FTZPLTC]

Not sure if it's good that Disney listened to "all of the characters shouldn't have paralysed faces" criticisms, or bad that they needed to be told. Maybe the prequel will end with a rain of botox.

[@BurgermanForever-nh2vp]

Every bloated corporate production does the same exact thing: "what if the big evil was actually just a sad victim"

[@PikaPetey]

I know it's never going to happen... but I hope disney has the balls to make Mufasa an absolute back stabbing douche bag towards Scar, to the point that Scar's reasoning for killing Mufasa in the first film is justified. Like the audience says " oh.. oh god.. yeah.. I would have wanted to kill Mufasa too... f that guy"

[@hayleyhellbound9513]

That’s absolutely what’s going to happen. Take a look at every villain backstory we’ve gotten in the past decade. It always sympathizes with the villain. For God’s sake, they made Cruella “not evil” even though she wants to murder hundreds of puppies. They tried to imply that being raped means you can destroy a child’s life with Maleficent. Need I go own?

[@PikaPetey]

@hayleyhellbound9513 but those two examples, the movie is named after the villian. This movie is named "Mufasa" not "scar"

[@daliborjovanovic510]

I love how Adam hates Disney, yet he still debunked the Kimba controversy for them as a freebie. Then Disney goes and reignites the flames by making a tribe of white lions the villains of their sequel.

[@Hedgpig]

Forcing these photorealistic animals into completely bizarre human facial expressions might be worse than what they had before, it's uncanny in a new way. I think the editing in this trailer cut around it as much as possible and they also have every animal talking with their whole body like an Italian to distract from it, I guess time will tell.

[@zenbear9952]

Their obsession with hyper realisim needs to stop and just let Pixar do a normal lion king adaptation in their style if they wanna do 3d so bad.

[@M0ONCommander]

It's 'The Wild' all over again

[@builttoscalevideos]

The Kimba reveal lets gooo! We will see who is truly the most civilised lion.

[@sierrajohnson717]

I want Adam and Pals to make Mufasa Abridged

[@hexcodeff6624]

'twas not to be...

[@netlossmusic3745]

27:41 Love how the Mufasa impression devolved into Homer Simpson

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

A drunk Homer Simpson impression from Adum was definitely not something I had on my bingo card.

[@theSuper1Player]

Seeing Adum having so much fun with this trailer is so wholesome after seeing him agonize over part 1 of his Lion King 2019 review

[@HerHollyness]

I’ll tell you what’s hilarious - Disney has made a whole-ass prequel to the film you’ve taken over 2 years making a ‘Part 2’ of your criticism of.

[@easolinas1233]

But unlike the prequel, part two is worth waiting for.

[@1dareu2mov3]

When is part 2 of YMS’s Lion King (2019) review coming out? I’ve been waiting sooo long

[@MatecaCorp]

“You wanna know how I got this scar?” I wonder if they’re going to do a remake of the remake where they add facial expressions and even more piano. Also, baby Scar’s voice actor is so poorly cast. He only has TWO previous credits on IMDB. He sounds like he’s going to sing about magical elixirs and the tricks they do. Also also, love the reference at 20:55

[@gurysdoghouse]

Calling it now, Pumba is gonna fight Scar, somehow, and give him his scar with his tusk.

[@PeninsulaPaintings]

I'm going to predict that maybe they will end up being related due to some kind of twist, maybe 'Obasi' got aroooound. And it'll reveal that Mufasa really was the original crown prince.

[@ZacharyEntenman]

I got high as fuck right before walking into deadpool and i was fully crying laughing in the theater watching the mufasa trailer

[@plankcaller]

"oh they thought we were ripping off kimba in the og lion king? we'll show them actually ripping off kimba now!"

[@BirdsandGhibliFan]

With the amount of unnecessary flak Disney got for supposedly ripping off “Kimba The White Lion” (a mistruth that persists even to this day), I’m surprised they continued to go this route.

[@AlsoKnownAsTheOracle]

13:40 Jeremy Irons said WHAT

[@UnCreativeDeconstructionism]

Yeah he said that shit. Lmao

[@colin8770]

Yeah I just googled that. Didn't know Irons had said such crazy things.

[@acksawblack]

Men can’t have babies is the argument

[@stolenguts5566]

They’re doing a Prince of Egypt literally

[@DW-bk5nb]

To be fair scar is canonically British

[@foxygrin]

canonically cockey, though, that's another story

[@ps5056]

How

[@Goodbutevilgenius]

@@ps5056 Jeremy Irons

[@HowardLogan-gv5kc]

But lives in Africa? 🤔 kind of checks out

[@coolgirlraquel]

favorite Chat comments btw: “sad gay lions” 😔 “maybe they were inspired by that Jeremy Irons video, that’s why everyone is kissing and fucking” “YOOO pride STICK” “Scar was so emo it took everyone’s emotions away”

[@Schnubi]

I keep on thinking how great this would be in the cartoon style