Scar (The Lion King) their victims' fears. The original plot of "The Lion King" revolved around a rivalry between lions and baboons. A baboon himself, Scar was their leader. After this plot was abandoned, Scar was re-written into a rogue lion lacking any blood relation to both Mufasa and Simba. The writers eventually decided that making Scar and Mufasa brothers would make the film more interesting. An abandoned character, at one point Scar owned a pet python as a sidekick. Because the film was originally intended to be much more adult-oriented, Scar was to have become infatuated with Simba's childhood friend and eventual love
Nala (The Lion King) also ranked Nala eighth on the website's "Definitive Ranking of Disney Cats" list. In a 2014 interview, actor Eddie Redmayne admitted that Nala was his first "celebrity crush", having been specifically attracted to the character's "sweet" face and singing voice, referring to the experience as his "sexual awakening". Nala (The Lion King) Nala is a fictional character who appears in Disney's "The" "Lion King" franchise. Introduced in the animated film "The Lion King" in 1994, Nala subsequently appears as a less prominent character in the film's sequels "" (1998) and "The Lion King 1½" (2004), and serves as a recurring