Mufasa leaves to deal with the threat, forbidding Simba to come with him.ĭisappointed, Simba returns to Pride Rock to find his uncle Scar. As Zazu is on his back, a gopher pops up and tells Zazu and Mufasa there are dangerous hyenas in the Pridelands. After some instruction from his father, Simba succeeds in pinning down Zazu. Simba, bored, tries to practice pouncing. As they are walking, Zazu, Mufasa's major-domo, gives the king the morning report. His father takes him walking through the Pridelands and Mufasa tells Simba about the "great Circle of Life" that is, that every living thing is connected, "From the crawling ant to the leaping antelope" to quote Mufasa. The cub questions the "shadowy place", and Mufasa explains that it is beyond their borders, so he must never go there. Simba and his father climb to the top of Pride Rock, where Mufasa explains to his son that everything the light touches is their kingdom, and after his passing, Simba will become the new king. Waking up one morning at dawn, he begs his father to show him the whole kingdom. After his anointing, Rafiki picks him up and presents Simba to all the animals in the Pridelands who had gathered to see him. He sprinkles sand on the newborn's head, causing baby Simba to sneeze. For the ceremony, Rafiki the baboon cracks open a gourd and makes a red mark on Simba's forehead. In the beginning of the first film, Simba is an infant curled up in his mother's paws during the royal ceremony, where all cubs of the king and queen are presented from the summit of Pride Rock. Simba as an infant being anointed by Rafiki I laugh in the face of danger!" -Simba, at the Elephant Graveyard
Information The Lion King Cub Simba "Danger? Ha! I walk on the wild side. Rather than rule by law and justice, Simba follows his heart and trusts the counsel of his friends, making him a very beloved king. However, he still retains some of his childhood innocence in the way he rules. By having the responsibilities of being a king thrust upon him so suddenly, Simba was forced to mature greatly.Īs a ruler and as a father, Simba makes good decisions and is more down-to-earth.
Later, when Simba learned that Scar was ruling the Pridelands unjustly, he faced his past and returned to take his place as the rightful king. He later picked up a happy, carefree lifestyle with Timon and Pumbaa in an idyllic jungle paradise.Īs an adolescent, he had long since forgotten his old life, and once again acted as over-confident and adventurous as he did as a cub. Scar told the young Simba to flee from the Pridelands and never return. He didn't know, however, that Scar was at fault and was convinced by Scar that he was responsible for his father's death. He suffered serious emotional trauma when Scar, his uncle, murdered Mufasa through a twisted scheme directly involving the unsuspecting Simba. He was prone to overstepping his authority and attempting to order the other creatures of the Pridelands around. Mufasa: "Before sunrise, he's your son." - Sarabi and Mufasa when Simba is trying to awake his fatherĪs a cub, Simba was curious, adventurous and all too ready to become king of the Pridelands. His eyes are more gentle and brighter than his father's. Now an adult, Simba is stronger and has a fully grown red-brown mane that is lighter in color than his father's. In his adolescent years he started to grow more head hair. As a young cub, Simba had golden fur with a slight golden tuft of fur on his head.
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