The Lion King Reborn/Transcript

This is the transcript for The Lion King Reborn, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney Animation Studios, as well as distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film serves as a extended version of Disney's animated classic The Lion King, combined with its sequels and spin-offs, as well as directed by Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers, and Howy Parkins. The film also stars an ensemble voice cast of well-known actors including Matthew Broderick as Simba, Jeremy Irons as Scar, Eden Riegel as Kiara, Nika Futterman as Zira, Gabrielle Union as Nala, Nathan Lane as Timon Berkowitz, Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa Smith, Jason Marsden as Kovu, Blair Underwood as Makuu, Rowan Atkinson as Zazu, Khary Payton as Rafiki, Andy Dick as Nuka, Lacey Chabert as Vitani, Madison Pettis as Zuri, Sarah Hyland as Tiifu, Joshua Rush as Bunga, Diamond White as Fuli, with Angela Bassett as Sarabi, and Max Charles as Kion.


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The Arrest of Ahadi
To be continued…
 * Young Taka: Baba…
 * Ahadi: Yes, my son.
 * Young Taka: Tell me a story.
 * Ahadi: Which one?
 * Young Taka: The story of home.
 * Ahadi: Millions of years ago, a meteorite made of vibranium, the strongest substance in the universe, struck the continent of Africa, affecting the plant life around it. And when the time of lion came, five tribes settled on it and called it Pride Rock. The tribes lived in constant war with each other until a warrior shaman received a vision from the lion Goddess, Olehea, who led him to the Heart-Shaped Herb, a plant that granted him superhuman strength, speed, and instincts. The warrior became king and the first Lion King, the protector of Africa. Four tribes agreed to live under the king's rule, but the crocodile tribe isolated themselves in the mountains. The Pride Landers used vibranium to develop technology more advanced than any other nation, but as Africa thrived, the world around it descended further into chaos. To keep vibranium safe, the lionesses vowed to hide in plain sight, keeping the truth of their power from the outside world.
 * Young Taka: And we still hide, Baba?
 * Ahadi: Yes.
 * Young Taka: … Why?

Prologue: Timon and Pumbaa are not Dead
What was what?! Shh! What was that?! What was that?! Where? What? Where? Where? Shh! What was that?! Shh! [silence as they look from side to side, listening] Quick, before the hyena come! Dig, digga tunnah When you're done ya dig a bigga tunnah Digga tunnah, Dig, dig a tunnah Quick, before the hyena come! DIG!
 * [Sounds of morning on the savannah. Cue lion roar in the background, calling the animals to gather to Pride Rock for the ceremony. Sunrise on African grassland (lightly treed), in time with opening chant to The Circle of Life. Animals of all types (rhinos, meerkats, cheetahs) raise their heads as the sun rises, preparing to march to Pride Rock. Titles words appear: AFRICA - PRESENT DAY]
 * Rafiki: It was a glorious sight! Old Rafiki could hardly believe his eyes: all the animals on the move, coming together from the Four Winds… [cut a view at Rafiki in his baobab tree; he views the animals heading to Pride Rock] …who could forget a day like that? [camera pan on Pride Rock in the distance. Light shines brightly on it] Everybody came to celebrate the birth of Simba, Mufasa's boy. [bounds down inside his tree. He grabs a turtle shell and breaks a fruit in half] You see… ♪ It was the Circle of Life… ♪ [suddenly halts for a beat and blinks at the audience] What? What's that you say? [while laughing, he bounds deeper into his tree and grabs his staff] You've heard of this before, yeah? [puts his hand in some fruit paint] You think you know the story?! [he draws a picture of Timon dressed in drag and doing the hula with Pumbaa dressed as cooked meat with a apple in his mouth] You don't know the half of it!
 * [Cracks appear across the screen image, and the screen shatters and falls from the field of view in fragments, leaving a view of Pride Rock in daylight]
 * Africalous: [narrating, reverently] Pride Rock. So majestic. So powerful. So…bizarrely named. This was Africa's most habitat-visited place in the mystic Pride Lands, full of wise animals, who respect known as the "Circle of Life". [camera pan to Mufasa watching over the Pride Lands] Mufasa, son of Ahadi, is currently the king of the Pride Lands, alongside his mate Sarabi as queen. [Sarabi comes up and nuzzles her husband's head. Rafiki and Zazu then come in on-screen] Rafiki was known to be their shaman…for a mandrill, while Zazu, who was a hornbill, worked as the king's majordomo. [camera pan back to Pride Rock] Our story does not start here. Rather it starts several hundred football yards away from the majestic proud land in Africa. [camera pan to Timon, walking up on-screen before looking at the camera] This is Timon. He was known to be a meerkat, dreaming to live in a better place. He was also an outcast from his colony, after failing to perform Sentry duty ordered by his mother Ma, and his uncle Max, who has gone a…little bit paranoid and eccentric. [camera pan back to Pride Rock] Forsaking, how can a rock be proud? It's a rock, because the animals think a "pride" is what they call a group of lions. But where meerkats come from, they didn't have nothing to be proud of. But maybe it'd be safer if I just show you where Timon came from. Please remain seated while the camera is in motion. [the camera does a super-high-speed truck-out from Pride Rock, past zebras, grasslands, the Elephant Graveyard, the gorge, marshlands, the desert, and finally stopping at a dry plain of low mounds of dirt, with a tumbleweed blowing across] Here we are: our story really begins from Pride Rock to locals known as the "Pit of Shame". They were so low on the food chain they were underground…but you don't have to take my word for it. I'll just let the fellow meerkats do the talking as one by one pop out of their holes like a game of Whack-a-Mole.
 * ["Digga Tunnah" music begins]
 * Meerkats: [chanting, nervously] What was that?!
 * Meerkat guard: [looks left, then right, listening; he then calls] CLEAR!
 * [Scenes of the colony of meerkats all busily digging a network of tunnels, singing as they work]
 * Meerkats: [singing] Digga tunnah,

Digga tunnah, Dig, digga tunnah You can dig and never get dunnah Digga tunnah, (Dig a little faster) Dig, digga tunnah What was that?! [pause to listen] Quick, before the hyena come! DIG!

Digga tunnah is what we do Life's a tunnah we're diggin' through Digga tunnah is what we sing Digga tunnah is everything! Mud and clay is a meerkat's friend Always more around every bend And when you get to your tunnah's end, Hallelujah! Let's dig again! DIG!

Digga tunnah, Dig, digga tunnah (Digga tunnah) When you're done, ya dig a bigga tunnah. Digga tunnah, (Dig a little faster) Dig, digga tunnah. What was that?! [pause to listen] Quick, before the hyena come! To be continued… To be continued…
 * Fred: DIG!
 * Ma: [searching for her son] Timon? Excuse me. Have you seen my son? Has he been through here? Timon?
 * Uncle Max: [singsonging] Digga tunnah, dig, digga tunnah…digga tunnah, dig, dig — Aahh!
 * Ma: Uncle Max? [pokes Max, scaring him out of his chant]
 * Max: [spooked] Aaahh!
 * Ma: Uncle Max, relax. Have you seen Timon?
 * Max: [pleased with himself] No, I haven't seen Timon. And what a day it's been! No fractures, no lacerations, no concussions, contusions or injuries of any sort. As a matter of fact, there's no sign of Timon's handiwork anywhere!
 * [The ground ceiling cracks and then comes crashing down around them; there's nothing left but a ring of dirt held up, with Timon standing under it]
 * Max: [fuming] That would be…TIMOOON!!!
 * Timon Berkowitz: [he turns back to the colony, feeling much embarrassed] Heh-heh. Hey, everybody!
 * Flinchy: Ha, ha. Nice work, Timon.
 * Swifty: Way to go, tunnel klutz.
 * Stumpy: Who else could break a hole?
 * Fred: Four in a week — a new record! You're a peeping Timon!
 * Ma: [quietly despairing] Not again…
 * Timon: What? [defiantly] It's called a "skylight"!
 * Africalous: [as the "skylight" crumbles to nothing] But as the "skylight" crumbled to nothing, Ma tried to salvage the situation her son caused.
 * Ma: Ho-ho. Wow…isn't that creative? A skylight. Oh, ha-ha. [seeking discretion as the better part of valor] I'll just have a word with him.
 * [Ma leads Timon away from the scene of the collapse. It dissolves to a view of Ma taking her son on a walk passing by the colony's castle, where their princess Tatiana emerges and watches. She takes a deep breath, then heads back inside her room]
 * Ma: [perking up with inspiration] That's it! That's it — my son on Sentry duty! Timon the Sentry!
 * [Cut to Uncle Max being told of this idea]
 * Max: [in horrified shock] Timon the Sentry?! Why don't you save the hyenas the trouble and kill me now? Just kill me now!
 * Timon: [to Ma] He has a point.
 * Ma: All you have to do is watch for hyenas and yell if you see one. Look at Iron Joe.
 * [Camera pan over to a meerkat named Iron Joe on Sentry duty in a nervous breakdown]
 * Iron Joe: [as a couple of meerkat orderlies carry him away, raving, from his post] Don't close your eyes! Don't look away! Somebody's gotta guard us! Somebody's gotta protect us! [breaks up into a hysterical cry]
 * Timon: Well. Now I'm convinced.
 * Ma: Listen. It's outside, up in the breeze, under the wide open sky — isn't that what you want? [to Max] Or maybe you would rather have him go back on the digging crew.
 * Max, Timon and everyone: NO!!!
 * [The entire colony of meerkats, listen intently, and now pretend nonchalance and clear their throats]
 * Ma: Good…then we all agree. Timon, listen to Uncle Max. He'll teach you everything you need to know. [earnestly] And honey, try to make this one work.


 * Timon: I'm never gonna fit in here. Nobody even likes me.
 * Ma: Sure they do, honey. Sure they do!
 * Timon: Besides you, Ma.
 * Ma: Uh, besides me? Um, there's, uh…
 * Timon: I have to find my place; but it isn't here. My place is out there, Ma. Oh, I may not know exactly where or how far, but I gotta go!
 * Ma: [pauses, then acquiesces] Well…I hope you find what you're looking for, honey.
 * Africalous: [narrating] Feeling sad of saying his last farewells, Timon gave his Ma one last hug.
 * [Music turns sweet as Timon comes back to embrace her]
 * Timon: I love you, Ma.
 * [Ma keeps hugging Timon, tighter and tighter until we start to hear crunching sound effects]
 * Ma: Oh, Timmy. My Timmy. Mmm-mmm…
 * Timon: [strained, muffled] Ma…choking…not breathing…
 * Ma: Ooh. Mmm. Mmm-mmm…
 * Timon: And people wonder why I have issues. [the embrace finally ends] I'll be okay!
 * Ma: Oh, I know you will! [wistful] You will.
 * Africalous: [narrating; Ma slowly lets go of Timon's hands] Timon turned away, then began striding purposefully away into the sunset.
 * [As Timon strides away into the sunset, "Timon's Traveling Theme" begins]
 * Ma: [calling after him] Be careful!
 * Timon: I will! [marches on a bit further]
 * Ma: Don't talk to strangers!
 * Timon: I know, Ma! [marches a bit more]
 * Ma: Remember, wash behind your ears!
 * Timon: [the music slows; he turns impatiently] MA! I'm not a kid anymore! [resumes marching]
 * Ma: Never go swimming without a buddy!
 * Timon: Got it…
 * Ma: [almost inaudible] Send us a message sometime! [indistinct]
 * Timon: [exasperated] Oy… [yells at the top of his lungs] WHAT?!
 * Ma: I said, send us a message sometime!
 * Timon: WHAT?!
 * Ma: I said, send us a —
 * Timon: [turning away from Ma] GOODBYE, MA! [sets off in earnest as African music plays triumphantly. He reaches the open grasslands]
 * Africalous: [narrating] And so, with high spirits, he boldly ventured off where no meerkat had dared to go before. He put my past behind him, and never looked back… [ends narrative]
 * [Nighttime in the Pride Lands; Timon suddenly breaks into sobbing]
 * Timon: Mommy! Mommy!
 * [Far shot to reveal that he is moaning in front of Rafiki's baobab tree]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Timon was moaning in front of what was known as "the Tree of Life". Inside, a mystic mandrill named Rafiki noticed the meerkat crying and then hurled down to ask.
 * Timon: [crying] I want my Mommy! [Rafiki starts to come down from his tree] What am I doing? Which way should I go?
 * Rafiki: [appearing hanging upside-down] That depends on what you seek.
 * Timon: [does a wild take, goes sprawling] Hey, where'd you come from?
 * Rafiki: [laughs] Oh, the better question is: where are you going?
 * Timon: Oh, someplace wonderful, mister, where…where y — you didn't happen to catch the song I sang a few minutes ago, did ya?
 * Rafiki: I didn't have the pleasure.
 * Timon: To recap: I want to live in some beautiful place, outside…a carefree place, where I don't have to hide or worry.
 * Rafiki: [jumps down next to Timon, laughing] Life, without worry. You seek Hakuna Matata.
 * Timon: Harpoon-a-tomato?
 * Rafiki: Hakuna Matata, it means "No Worries".
 * Timon: Perfect! Mind taking that stick of yours and drawing me a map, bub? [Rafiki smacks his head with his staff] Ow! Hey!
 * Rafiki: [goes into his mystic-monkey pose] To find it, you must look beyond what you see.
 * Timon: What the heck is that supposed to mean?
 * Rafiki: It means: Look beyond what you see.
 * Timon: [imitating Rafiki] "Beyond what I see." Ha. Get a load of the monkey, gettin' all existential on me. Beyond what I see… [pans over to a frog croaking on a rock] Hmm…beyond what I see… [pans to a tree stump a little farther away. Immense and meaningful music starts to rise] Beyond what I see… [pans to a tree in the distance; music swells louder]
 * Africalous: [narrating] While viewing his point of view in the distance, a musical swell began to play in Timon's head.
 * Timon: It's kinda hard to think with all this music! Beyond…what I see… [focuses in on Pride Rock in the far distance as the music rises to a climax] Oh, wait a second. It's comin' to me. It's either that slug I ate, or I'm having an epiphany!
 * [Camera zooms in on Pride Rock]
 * Africalous: [narrating] An angelic choir sang in Timon's head.
 * Timon: I'm going to the big, pointy rock! Right? [turns around, but Rafiki is gone]
 * Africalous: [narrating] But Rafiki had already disappeared.
 * Timon: Who was that strange monkey? Ah, well. Dream home, here I come!
 * [Dissolve to Timon entering a stand of tall grasses]
 * Africalous: [narrating] The sun was beginning to show the earliest signs of rising, when Timon heard hoof beats following him.
 * Timon: [a snapping sound startles him] Hello? Strange, but wise monkey? [a flock of birds take off and startles him again. He climbs up on a rock; then he hears a weird grunting roar, and sees a bulky shape rushing in his direction. He tumbles off the rock and rushes blindly through the grass as the ominous roaring sound pursues him. Timon then suddenly bumps into Pumbaa and the two start screaming]
 * Africalous: Timon crashed headfirst into a warthog as he thought he was a "scream".
 * Timon: [begs on his knees; to Pumbaa] Just eat me now…and please make it fast. I've got a low threshold to pain.
 * Pumbaa Smith: Easy, easy there, little guy. I'm not gonna eat you.
 * Timon: Then why were you stalking me!?
 * Pumbaa: Well, gee, I saw you go by and I figured a little fella like you shouldn't be out here all alone.
 * Timon: Hey, what about you? [suddenly apprehensive] You are all alone, aren't you?
 * Pumbaa: Yeah. Most animals give me a pretty wide berth.
 * Timon: [seeing the idea] They do? Even the hungry ones?
 * Pumbaa: People see me comin' and they run for cover. They can't get out of the way fast enough.
 * [As Pumbaa speaks, Timon holds up one of Pumbaa's hooves, playing with it like a pair of scissors]
 * Timon: [pulling Pumbaa's tusks down] Must be the gleam on those vicious tusks? Huh? Strikes fear into their hearts.
 * Pumbaa: Actually, they say I wreck their appetite.
 * Timon: Wow, it's like you have this — this…special power.
 * Pumbaa: [backing away nervously] Special power? Well, i—it's pretty powerful, alright. [gestures indistinctly at his rump]
 * Timon: Perfect! You're hired.
 * Pumbaa: … For what?
 * Timon: [indicating Pride Rock] To get me to a little worry-free haven out of that big pointy rock.
 * Pumbaa: And…you want me to come with you?
 * Timon: Do you see any other big, lovable chunk of warthog here? Who also happens to have razor-sharp tusks and the ability to repel predators? [grins ingratiatingly]
 * Pumbaa: I'm your pig.
 * Timon: You and me, I can tell we see eye-to-eye.
 * Pumbaa: [hopefully] You mean…like friends?
 * Timon: Whoa, easy there, big fella. I'd say more like [making "quotes" with his fingers] acquaintances.
 * Pumbaa: Oh. Well, it's a start.
 * Timon: Put 'er there, acquaintance. [they shake paws] I'm Timon.
 * Pumbaa: Pumbaa!
 * Timon: No, really. [Pumbaa grins sincerely at him]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Pumbaa sincerely grinned at Timon.
 * Timon: … Let's hit the road.
 * ["Timon's Traveling Theme" starts to play]
 * Pumbaa: You got it…acquaintance.
 * Timon: So clear up one thing for me. If you weren't gonna eat me, what kind of a wacky wild pig are you?
 * Pumbaa: I'm an insectivore.
 * Timon: Oh-ho! A bug-eater! Well, me too. I just never had a name for them myself. I'm partial to the crawling critters myself.
 * Pumbaa: I prefer the ones with wings.
 * Timon: Pumbaa, this could be the start of a beautiful…acquaintanceship.

The Circle of Life
Sithi uhhmm ingonyama
 * [Animals of all types make their way to Pride Rock in the night: Elephants, giraffes, wildebeest, antelope, hippos; it then zooms out to see Rafiki viewing the scene]
 * Rafiki: It was a glorious sight! Old Rafiki could hardly believe his eyes: all the animals on the move, coming together from the Four Winds, who could forget a day like that? Everybody came to celebrate the birth of Simba, Mufasa's boy. [he bounds down into his baobab tree, then comes to his turtle shell and breaks a fruit in half] You see… ♪ It was the Circle of Life. ♪
 * [Rafiki takes the juice from the fruit and hand-draws and completes the ceremonial crown on the painting of Mufasa. It soon zooms into Mufasa walking out of Pride Rock]
 * Mufasa: [voice-over] Everything exists together in a delicate balance. And so we must respect every living thing… [sudden cut to black] …because we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
 * [The sunrise begins again over the Pride Lands — Pumbaa and Timon enter the scene, walking across from left to right]
 * Chorus: ''Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba

Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyama Ingonyama

Siyo Nqoba Ingonyama'' Ingonyama nengw' enamabala Ingonyama nengw' enamabala Ingonyama nengw' enamabala Ingonyama nengw' enamabala'' And, blinking, step into the sun There's more to see than can ever be seen More to do than can ever be done
 * [Timon and Pumbaa freak out as the animals all bear down on them; Pumbaa then races out from under all the roaring and screeching animals as they rush past. Timon rides on his back and steers him to follow the animals]
 * Africalous: [narrating] All the animals were arriving at Pride Rock, narrowly hitting Timon and Pumbaa, as they ventured across the veldt, against the rising sun, and even against Mount Kilimanjaro.
 * [Various pans and camera views of several animals, all moving, even through Mount Kilimanjaro. A view of giraffes pans to a long shot of all the animals in their procession. Camera is panning and jumping to elephants, antelopes, zebras, ants, birds, storks, etc…]
 * Chorus: ''Ingonyama nengw' enamabala
 * MS: From the day we arrive on the planet

Some say eat or be eaten Some say live and let live But all are agreed as they join the stampede You should never take more than you give

Some of us fall by the wayside And some of us soar to the stars And some of us sail through our troubles And some have to live with the scars

There's far too much to take in here More to find than can ever be found But the sun rolling high Through the sapphire sky Keeps great and small on the endless round

It's the Circle of Life And it moves us all Through despair and hope Through faith and love Till we find our place On the path unwinding In the Circle The Circle of Life And it moves us all…
 * [When the "The Circle of Life" is mentioned, the long-distance pan centers on Pride Rock where all the animals are gathering. Mufasa is on Pride Rock. Long camera arc to Mufasa and Zazu. He bows to Mufasa, who smiles and nods at him. Rafiki arrives and walks through a group of animals who bow to him. He embraces Mufasa before they go in to see Mufasa's wife Sarabi and her newborn cub Simba]
 * Africalous: [narrating] In the lap of Sarabi, was baby Simba. [Rafiki uses his staff for Simba to play] Rafiki smiled and waved his staff over the tiny cub. [Rafiki puts fruit juice and sand he collects on Simba's brow — a ceremonial crown. Simba sneezes and his parents embrace heads] He took a gourd, broke it, and spread some of the juice on the cub's forehead. Then he sprinkled some of the sand at his feet on the juice. The baby sneezed, but his parents smiled.
 * [Timon and Pumbaa finally arrive. Pride Rock rises before the two of them as the crest a small hill]
 * MS: It's the Circle of Life
 * Timon: Whoo-hoo! There it is, the big pointy rock! Oh, baby, we're almost there.
 * [A record-needle scratching sound accompanies them screeching to a halt as the suddenly see that Pride Rock is surrounded by hundreds of animals]
 * Pumbaa: I think we're little late.
 * Timon: It's a land rush. That loudmouth monkey must've blabbed it to the whole world!
 * Pumbaa: What did he say?
 * Timon: [imitating Rafiki] Look beyond what you see.
 * Pumbaa: So maybe you're supposed to look beyond the big pointy rock.
 * Timon: [as though he came up with it himself] Maybe I'm supposed to look beyond the big pointy rock! Well…let's have a little look, shall we? Beyond what I see…beyond what I see…beyond what I see… [the screen pans past Pride Rock and all the gathered animals to a small hill with a little cave] Oh-ho! What do you know? The monkey's got an eagle eye for real estate!
 * Pumbaa: [indicating Rafiki walking outside Pride Rock] Timon, look!
 * Timon: He-he-hey! It's the monkey!
 * Pumbaa: What's he doin'?
 * Timon: Aw, who cares? It's not important. Come on! My dream home awaits.
 * [They approach the gathering of animals from behind, rising in front of them like a wall. Pumbaa nervously shrinks back away from them]
 * Pumbaa: Uh…I don't do so well in crowds. Maybe we better go around.
 * Timon: Don't you know the shortest distance between me and my dream home is a straight line? Follow me! [he leads Pumbaa straight into the breach]

To be continued…

It's the wheel of fortune It's the leap of faith It's the band of hope Till we find our place On the path unwinding In the circle The circle of life And it moves us all Through despair and hope Through faith and love Till we find our place On the path unwinding In the Circle The Circle of Life
 * Zazu: Look, sire, how they kneel before the royal son.
 * MS: It's The Circle of Life
 * [Bass drum hit (fff) and immediate switch to black screen with title "The Lion King" in blood-red caps]

Life's Not Fair
To be started…

Zazu: Pity. Why not?
 * Zazu: Yes, well, as slippery as your mind is, as the king's brother, you should have been first in line!
 * Scar: [clicks his teeth at Zazu, who takes cover behind Mufasa's foreleg] Well, I was first in line…until the little hairball was born.
 * Mufasa: That "hairball" is my son…and your future king.
 * Scar: [sarcastically] Ohh, I shall practice my curtsy. [he turns to leave]
 * Mufasa: [becoming angry] Don't turn your back on me, Scar.
 * Scar: Oh, no, Mufasa. Perhaps you shouldn't turn your back on me.
 * Mufasa: [roars and literally leaps in front of Scar] Is that a CHALLENGE?
 * Scar: Temper. Temper. I wouldn't dream of challenging you.
 * Scar: As far as brains go, I got the lion's share. But, when it comes to brute strength, I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool. [sulks away slowly from the den]
 * Zazu: [to Mufasa; deep sigh] There's one in every family, sire…two in mine, actually. [perching onto Mufasa's shoulder] and they always manage to ruin special occasions.
 * Mufasa: [about Scar] What am I going to do with him?
 * Zazu: He'd make a very handsome throw rug.
 * Mufasa: [smiling] Zazu!
 * Zazu: And just think! Whenever he gets dirty, you could take him out and beat him.
 * [Mufasa laughs]

To be continued…

I Just Can't Wait to Be King
To be continued…

The Elephant Graveyard
To be continued…

Be Prepared

 * Mufasa: [thinks silently for a moment, then finally turns to his son] Simba, I'm very disappointed in you.
 * Simba: I know.
 * Mufasa: You could have been killed. You deliberately disobeyed me! And what's worse: you put Nala in danger!
 * Simba: [on the border of crying; voice cracking] I was just trying to be brave like you!
 * Mufasa: I'm only brave when I have to be. Simba…being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.

To be continued…


 * Mufasa: Simba, let me tell you something my father told me…look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
 * Simba: Really?
 * Mufasa: Yes. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you…and so will I.

To be continued…

… To Die For
To be started…
 * Timon: Beyond what you see…beyond what you — [suddenly shudders] Hey, how am I supposed to look beyond what I see, beyond that?
 * [The camera reveals Timon looking straight at Pumbaa's butt]
 * Pumbaa: Huh? Oh, sorry.
 * [Pumbaa moves aside to reveal the gorge in all its splendor]
 * Africalous: [narrating] When Pumbaa moved out of Timon's way, it was revealed there was a gorge. Inside, Scar toke Simba near a rock, underneath a small tree in the middle of his upcoming trap.
 * [Camera zoom inside the gorge with Simba underneath the tree, with Scar watching him]
 * Scar: Now, you wait here. Your father has a marvelous surprise for you.
 * Simba: Oooh. What is it?
 * Scar: If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise, now would it?
 * Simba: If you tell me, I'll still act surprised.
 * Scar: You are such a naughty boy. This is just for you and your daddy. You know, a sort of…father-son…thing. Well! I'd better go get him.
 * Simba: I'll go with you.
 * Scar: No! [regaining composure] No. Just…stay on this rock. You wouldn't want to end up in another mess like you did with the hyenas…?
 * Simba: [shocked] You know about that?
 * Scar: Simba, Simba. Everybody knows about that. Lucky Daddy was there to save you, eh? [puts a paw on Simba's shoulder] Oh…and just between us, you might want to work on that little roar of yours. Hmm?
 * Simba: Oh. Okay.
 * Africalous: [narrating; Scar pats Simba's head roughly, then moves off] Scar patted Simba's head before moving off.
 * Simba: Hey, Uncle Scar! … Will I like this surprise?
 * Scar: Simba, it's To Die For.

To be continued…


 * Pumbaa: Hang on, Timon!
 * Timon: This is it! Goodbye, cruel world!
 * [The wildebeest screeches to a halt at the edge of the cliff, pitching Timon and Pumbaa off in slow motion, screaming. After a few midair tumbles, they land lightly in a slow-moving river. Timon stands on Pumbaa's belly]
 * Timon: That's it? [scoffs] That wasn't so bad. You can't knock old Timon down that easy! Yeah. Bring it on!
 * Africalous: [narrating] Timon spoke too soon. [as Timon notices an increasing roar of rushing water] Timon noticed an increasing roar of rushing water, seeing that they were on top of a waterfall.
 * Timon: Uh…Pumbaa? Question: is it possible to fall off the edge of the Earth?
 * Pumbaa: Uh, technically, no. The Earth is round like a sphere, Timon, so it doesn't actually have an edge.
 * [The camera pulls back once, twice, three times to reveal an absurdly high waterfall. Timon and Pumbaa both scream as they hurtle over the edge and plummet down the waterfall]
 * Africalous: [narrating] The duo fell off of the waterfall and into a oasis below. Timon fell unconscious and began to think back to his days with his late Pa. [it fades into a flashback as the background, Sentry meerkats, Fearless "Pa" Buzz, and Timon are drawn in pencil] Yes, indeed. Timon was 15 in meerkat years. He was following his father out to a ledge overlooking their fraction of the veldt. This would go on until Ma would then arrive with cooked termites…again. Much to Pa's suprise.
 * [Cut to Timon walking with his Pa]
 * 15-year old Timon: Look Pa, I know we're pretty low on the food-chain and all, but why do we have to dig tunnels all of the time? [gets into a boxing pose] Where's our pride? Where's our — [Pa holds Timon back as if there was a predator. A small bunyoro rabbit hops by] — dignity?
 * Fearless "Pa" Buzz: [letting go of his son] Timon, let me tell you something about dignity. [gestures at the grasslands] Son, look out to the horizon…past the trees, over the grasslands. [music swells louder] Everything the light touches…belongs to someone else. [a record needle scratches before Timon's smile drops to a frown. Light shines brightly on a big pointy rock in the distance] I'm sorry, pal. But that's just the way it is. Dignity has nothing to do with it! [holding onto Timon's shoulders] It's nature's designs — we are what we are. And what we are is food for other animals. A consummate prey. A moveable feast. Feared by no-one and eaten by all! [clutches Timon as if he was a security blanket]
 * 15-year old Timon: But when they die, they become the grass. And we eat the grass, right?
 * Pa: Not exactly; we can't digest grass. We have sensitive stomachs.
 * 15-year old Timon: See, Pa? That's what I'm talkin' about. Maybe there's a place out there with no hyenas. A place where we don't have to hide or dig tunnels!
 * Pa: Look, Timon! This is our home, and I'm proud of those tunnels! Your Uncle Max and I dig those tunnels to keep you and your Ma safe. We dig those tunnels because we love you!
 * 15-year old Timon: You dig tunnels because you're just afraid of everything!
 * [Pa gives Timon a pouty face. Ma then arrives with a leaf tray of termites]
 * Ma: Oh, there you boys are! I've got some nice fresh termites all ready for you.
 * Pa: Termites again?
 * Ma: Oh, feeling braver now, aren't we? [cracks a termite queen along the thorax]
 * Pa: [having no response] I'll be home late. I've got a tunnel to repair…
 * [Pa sulks off. Reflective music then starts playing]
 * 15-year old Timon: [sits down on a rock, then turns to Ma] Was I adopted?
 * Ma: Timon! You two are as different as dawn and dusk!
 * 15-year old Timon: I'm tired of doing everything his way.
 * Ma: [frizzling his hair] Oh, sweetie, you've almost grown now. And whether your Pa likes it or not…you'll be making your own way soon. [giving her son a reassuring hug] Oh, whatever you do, I know you're going to make me proud.
 * 15-year old Timon: Do you really think so?
 * Ma: I know so! Even Pa will.
 * Pa: [a loud thud shakes the air. He stubbed his toe] See! It's a jungle out here!
 * Ma: [turns miserably to Timon] … Well, if he lives that long…
 * [Ma gives Timon a termite; he gulps it before Ma leaves]

To be continued…


 * Shenzi: [seeing Simba running off far into the distance] Hey, there he goes. There he goes!
 * Banzai: [plucking out the thorns from his skin] Well, so go get 'im!
 * Shenzi: There ain't no way I'm goin' in there. What, you want me to come out lookin' like you, Cactus-Butt?
 * Banzai: [while spitting thorns onto Ed's nose] But we gotta finish the job.
 * Shenzi: Well. He's as good as dead out there anyway. And if he comes back, we'll kill 'im.
 * Banzai: [yelling to Simba] Yeah! You hear that?! If you ever come back — we'll kill ya!
 * [As Simba is still running into the desert, the hyenas laugh before making their way back to the Pride Lands]

Hakuna Matata

 * [Camera dissolve to Scar addressing the lionesses by the moon on Pride Rock]
 * Africalous: [narrating] As night fell over the Pride Lands, Scar was present at Pride Rock to give a eulogy for both Mufasa and Simba to the lionesses and Zazu.
 * Scar: Mufasa's death was a terrible tragedy; but to lose Simba…who had barely begun to live… [the lionesses, with Zazu, are comforting Sarabi and Sarafina, who bend their heads in extreme pain. Nala is crying on her mother's leg] …For me, it is a deep personal loss. And so, it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era in which lion and hyena come together, in a great and glorious future. [as the hyenas emerge, casting eerie green shadows and laughing hollowly, he ascends Pride Rock]
 * Africalous: [as the camera pans to Rafiki, who shakes his head in deep pan] Scar's speech made way for the hyenas to move into Pride Rock. Rafiki began to mourn too: the balance in the Circle of Life was broken. [the scene changes with Rafiki in the same position in his baobab tree] He sat in the Tree of Life… [Rafiki wipes away a tear, and reaches up and rubs his hand across the cub painting, smearing it] …and rubbed away the painting of Simba.
 * [The smeared painting overlaids sad music across the night sky through the Pride Lands as the chorus takes up the song "Rafiki Mourns"]
 * Chorus: Mi-Leh-Leh

Mbyani Mpoka Kumuyini

Kembe Ntsembele Mbiyani Mpoka Lundila Mwana Hosanna

Hosanna Oh Mama

Na Wu Detsa Kambe Kontsari

Dela Mama Kabantsa Kari

Mbyari Mbyari Mbyari
 * [Dissolve back to the river's edge where Pumbaa emerges out, gasping for air. Timon is seen clutched onto Pumbaa's tail]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Back in the oasis, Pumbaa emerged from the water, gasping and wheezing. Timon clutched Pumbaa's tail and was dragged to safety, but otherwise limp. [Pumbaa collapses and coughs out some water] Pumbaa collapsed and coughed up some water. [Pumbaa hears Timon groaning, who is lying on the beach clutching a lily in a classic death pose. Mournful violin music plays] Timon came to and groaned, holding a lily.
 * Pumbaa: Timon, you okay?
 * Timon: I give up!
 * Pumbaa: But you can't give up! We still haven't found our dream home.
 * Timon: Forget it, Pumbaa. I've been dragging you down long enough. I'm going home…and I suggest you do the same.
 * Pumbaa: Oh, I — I would if I could, but I can't.
 * Timon: Oh, sure you can, buddy. I won't stop you.
 * Pumbaa: No, I mean…I don't have a home.
 * Timon: You don't? What happened — are you lost? [Pumbaa shakes his head, his snout flapping side to side] No place good enough for ya? [Pumbaa shakes again] What, you're all alone in this big empty world?
 * [Pumbaa turns to face Timon, with huge dewy eyes]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Timon realized the truth: Pumbaa's special power also drove away his own family, where it forced him to be alone.
 * Timon: Truth is…I'm all alone too. [takes Pumbaa's foreleg] Pumbaa, you're the only friend I've ever had. And friends stick together to the end.
 * Africalous: [narrating] Both of them smiled.
 * [The two gaze at each other; Timon's reflection appears in Pumbaa's eyes as the music swells. Dissolve to the two of them asleep on the beach; gradually the scene changes to daylight]
 * Africalous: The next morning, Pumbaa started to open his eyes just as Timon was about to head back to look for Rafiki.
 * Timon: [he wakes up, then cracks his back] Uhh! [stretching] Uhh! Ooh! Aw, well. It's too bad we never found that perfect place. Why'd we ever listen to that stupid monkey?
 * Pumbaa: [waking up, gasping] I think maybe you're giving up too soon, Timon.
 * Timon: [sneering] Beyond what you see… [Pumbaa grabs his head and spins it around to face what he sees] Huh?
 * [The camera rotates to show a gorgeous jungle panorama: Waterfalls, woods, distant mountains, lush lakes and rivers]
 * Pumbaa: [triumphantly] Remember that place I told you about?
 * Timon: Forget about your place. Get a load of what I found! Talk about "beyond what you see"! [Samba music plays] Pumbaa, this is our dream home! [he pulls aside vines to demonstrate] Dramatic views! [he pulls vines taut for Pumbaa to swing in them] Your very own porch swing! [the two of them relax in a pool which is bubbling merrily] Hot tubs and spas! [he pulls open a tree to reveal dozens of bugs] Well-stocked cupboard!
 * Pumbaa: [he slurps up all the bugs] Let's celebrate!

To be continued…

What a wonderful phrase Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passin' craze
 * Timon: [relaxing on a vine stretched across the water] The monkey was right. We found it: the perfect life. [dives into the water, then emerges out to dry himself with a leaf] He had the perfect name for it, too. [cut to Timon, where he sits on a rock] Such a wonderful phrase. It had this rhythm: Laduda Ladada…
 * Pumbaa: [adding each dishes of his cooked bugs] Try this: Hot tuna frittata. The spinach armada. A spoon of ricotta. A wormy piccata. Kahuna colada. A blue enchilada. Legumes on a platter.
 * Timon: Think, think, think.
 * Pumbaa: [poking one of the dishes] This outta be hotter.
 * Timon: I forget.
 * Pumbaa: I got to lambada! [starts dancing, trotting sideways until he bumps into Timon]
 * Timon: [grabs Pumbaa's snout and starts yelling] Hey! How can you dance at a time like this? I'm dyin'  here! [realizing he's gone a bit too far, he lets go and backs off] Ooh. Sorry about that, pal.
 * Pumbaa: [nonchalantly] Hakuna Matata.
 * [Timon shakes his head in confusion; cartoonish "Obbidy-obbidy-obbidy" sound effect]
 * Africalous: [narrating] That was it!
 * Timon: Come again?
 * Pumbaa: Hakuna Matata. It means "No Worries". Eh — [realizes] Ohhhh.
 * [Epiphany music plays, hinting at "Hakuna Matata". Wipe to the two of them swinging on vines into the water. It shows a montage of Timon and Pumbaa enjoying their carefree life: the two lying on their backs looking at the stars, having snail beers, charging through the jungle, bungee-jumping on jungle vines, parachuting on leaves, slurping up a long worm and ending in a kiss as in "Lady and the Tramp"]
 * Timon and Pumbaa: Hakuna Matata!

It's our problem-free Philosophy Hakuna Matata! Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata…
 * [It becomes a chant as they shuffle along the now-famous log, dancing and singing]
 * Timon and Pumbaa: Hakuna Matata
 * [Sudden cut to a close-up of Ma]
 * Ma: Hahuna Mawhata?
 * [Rafiki is talking to Ma under the meerkats' tree by the rock]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Back at the colony, Rafiki decided to visit and to speak with Ma in the same spot where she said goodbye to Timon.
 * Rafiki: It means "No Worries".
 * Ma: I see…
 * Rafiki: So, I told the boy: to find Hakuna Matata, you must look beyond what you see.
 * Ma: A metaphor…
 * Rafiki: Well, actually, it's not a meta —
 * Ma: [suddenly clocks Rafiki in the head with his own staff] You used a metaphor on Timon?! He takes things literally! [panicking] That's it. He's starving out there. I just know it! Uncle Max, Timon's out there, chasing metaphors. We've gotta go find him.
 * Max: [calling from inside a hole, which shakes the ground] ARE YOU NUTS?!?!?
 * Ma: [sarcastically to Rafiki] Nice to have a supportive family, isn't it? Well, here I go.
 * Rafiki: Remember, the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.
 * Ma: Thanks. Here's my first step: [lands squarely onto Rafiki's foot]

To be continued…

Trouble in Paradise
To be started…


 * Pumbaa: [speaking through the quill] Guess bowling for porcupines [he spits the quill out] wasn't the best idea, huh?
 * Timon: Yeah. Gotta be right up there for bobbling for snapping turtles. [Pumbaa plucks out another quill] Aah-ha-ha-ha-ha-hoo!
 * Pumbaa: [under his breath] Ohh, that's gonna leave a mark. [just then, after hearing the sounds of vultures in the distance, he spits the quill out. Pumbaa then walks to the right to see vultures circling around their prey] Hey, look, Timon. Buzzards! What do you say? One more round?
 * Timon: One more run won't change our lives!
 * [Timon grabs onto Pumbaa's ears and rides on him, charging towards the vultures]
 * Timon and Pumbaa: Yaaaaah!
 * [Cut to a different view of the desert where Simba is stumbling to keep walking]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Meanwhile, Simba ran far away from Pride Rock, to escape his guilty past. He ran, but can't hide from himself. After being a sandy storm, it circled around him, forcing him to be thirsty. Hungry. Being an outcast. And to survive. [Simba finally faints onto the desert floor. Mzingo and the vultures then start circling around him] As Simba finally fainted, a group of vultures, led by their leader Mzingo, came in and start to gather up on their prey. Just then, right as they were about to eat, Timon and Pumbaa arrived in the scene.
 * [Timon, riding Pumbaa, appears and dives into the midst of the vultures. They slap and kick Mzingo and the vultures all away]
 * Timon: Get out! Get out! Get outta here!
 * Pumbaa: I love bowling for buzzards! [Timon laughs, while dusting himself off. Pumbaa then notices Simba, who is lying with his paw over his face] Uh-oh. Hey, Timon, you better come look. I think it's still alive.
 * Timon: [walks to the front of Pumbaa, then turns at Simba] Alrighty, what have we got here? [smells Simba, then tries to lift Simba's paw. He can't. He gets under it and with a great push gets it above his head. He sees Simba's face] Geez! It's a lion! Run, Pumbaa! Move it!
 * Pumbaa: Timon, it's just a little lion. Look at him. He's so cute, and all alone. Can we keep him?
 * Timon: Pumbaa, are you nuts?! We're talking about a lion. Lions eat guys like us!
 * Pumbaa: But he's so little!
 * Timon: He's gonna get bigger!
 * Pumbaa: Maybe he'll be on our side!
 * Timon: A — huh! That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Maybe he'll be — Hey, I got it! What if he's on our side? You know, having a lion around might not be such a bad idea.
 * Pumbaa: [while lowering himself down to scoop Simba up on his tusks] So we keeping him?
 * Timon: Of course. Who's the brains in this outfit?
 * Pumbaa: Uhhh…
 * Timon: My point exactly. Jeez, I'm fried. Let's get outta here and find some shade.
 * [Pumbaa trots off with Timon on his back and carrying Simba. Camera switch to Pumbaa, Timon, and Simba near a pool of water and oasis. Simba has been laid near the water. Timon splashes some water in Simba's face. Simba stirs]
 * Africalous: [narrating] At the edge of the jungle, Timon and Pumbaa watched closely as Simba's eyes opened. Timon moved in closer.
 * Timon: You okay, kid?
 * Simba: I guess so.
 * Pumbaa: You nearly DIED.
 * Timon: I saved you. [Pumbaa angrily oinks] Well, Pumbaa helped. A little.
 * Simba: Thanks for your help. [heads off quietly back out towards the desert]
 * Timon: Hey. Where you going?
 * Simba: Nowhere.
 * Timon: [watching Simba, talking to Pumbaa] Gee. He looks blue.
 * Pumbaa: I'd say brownish-gold.
 * Timon: No, no, no, no. I mean he's depressed.
 * Pumbaa: Oh. [trots up to Simba] Hey, kid, what's eatin' ya?
 * Timon: Nothin'. He's at the top of the food chain! [breaks into hysterical laughter] The food chain! [sees no reactions from Pumbaa and Simba silently, making him to realize his joke flopped] So? Where're you from?
 * Simba: Who cares? I can't go back.
 * Timon: Aaaaaah, you're an outcast. That's great, so are we!
 * Pumbaa: What did you do, kid?
 * Simba: Something terrible. But I don't want to talk about it.
 * Timon: Good. We don't wanna hear about it.
 * Pumbaa: Come on, Timon. [to Simba] Anything we can do?
 * Simba: Not, unless you can change the past.
 * Timon: Look, kid. Bad things happen, and you can't do anything about 'em. Right?
 * Simba: Right.
 * Timon: [pokes Simba's nose] Wrong! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world.
 * Simba: Well, that's not what I was taught.
 * Timon: Then maybe you need a new lesson. Repeat after me. [clears his throat] Hakuna Matata!
 * Simba: [still lethargic] What?
 * Pumbaa: Hakuna Matata. It means "No Worries."

To be continued…

The Madness of King Scar
To be started…

Ninga dinwa Ninga phelelwa nga mandla
 * [The chorus takes up in the next scene where colorful African kites and birds are seen flying in the orange sky. Fade into "One by One"]
 * Chorus: Ibambeni njala bakithi

Siya ba bona Bebe fun' ukusi qeda

One by One Ngeke ba lunge One by One Sizo nqoba

One by One Ngeke ba lunge One by One

Ibambeni njala bakithi Ninga dinwa Ninga phelelwa nga mandla

Siya ba bona Bebe fun' ukusi qeda

One by One Ngeke ba lunge One by One Sizo nqoba (2x) Ngoba thina Siya zazi (2x)

Ibala lami Elimnyama Ndiya zidla Ngalo Ibala lami Elimnyama Ndiza kufa Nalo (2x)

Kumnandi Kwelakakith Eafrica Diddely-dee-dee There they are a-standing in a row…'' Some as big as your head'' A flick of the wrist That's what the showman said!'' [speaking] Alas, poor Yorick. I hardly knew him…Zazu? Zazu, why am I not loved? I'm every inch a king Yet I feel a twinge of doubt As I go walkabout But how about some lunch? It doesn't matter if it's fresh I need a fix of flesh My bones have moved to where they've never been They are on the outside looking in… Oh, you are so adored! Of wildebeest kielbasa Or maybe hornbill on the spit… I'm revered, I am reviled I'm idolized, I am despised, I'm keeping calm, I'm going wild!
 * [The camera switches to a far view of Pride Rock. Almost all of the coloring is in gray. Most of the plants and trees appear to be dead. The scene switches to a view of Zazu and Scar. Zazu is in a cage made of some animal's ribcage, singing. Scar is laying out on a rock picking his teeth with a bone]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Back in the Pride Lands, things had taken a turn for the worse since Mufasa's death. Scar's reign transformed the once lush Pride Rock into a desolate wasteland. Once was once wildlife, before there was now bones. Mufasa's former den had become nothing but a lounge for Scar, with Zazu locked up in a bone cage made from the ribs of a long dead elephant.
 * Zazu: Nooooobody knows the trouble I've seen. Nooooobody knows my sorrow…
 * Scar: Oh, Zazu, do lighten up. [he tosses the bone at Zazu and it clatters against the cage] Sing something with a little bounce in it.
 * Zazu: … It's a small world after all…
 * Scar: NO! No! Anything, but that.
 * Zazu: … ''I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts
 * [Scar is enjoying this and starts to join in; he picks a meerkat skull and starts to play with it]
 * Scar and Zazu: ''Big ones, small ones
 * Scar: ''Give them a twist
 * [Fade into the song "The Madness of King Scar"]
 * Scar: I am that rare and awesome thing
 * Banzai: [off-screen] Hey, boss!
 * Scar: When my name is whispered through the pride…is this talk of love or regicide?
 * Shenzi: [off-screen] Reggie who?
 * Scar: Tell me I'm adored…please tell me I'm adored?
 * Banzai: [off-screen] Hey, boss!
 * Scar: [exasperated] Oooh, what is it?
 * [The hyenas walk inside the den]
 * Banzai: We got a bone to pick with you!
 * Shenzi: There's no food, no water…
 * Banzai: Yeah. It's dinnertime, and there ain't no stinkin' entrées!
 * Scar: You and your petty complaints. You don't know what real hunger is. Day after day, it gnaws at the very core of my being…
 * Banzai: I had that once. It was worms… [pronounced as "woims"]
 * Scar: No, no, no. It's like an itch. Deep, persistent, profound…
 * Banzai: That's it! Worms! When they get really bad, all you gotta do is…hunker down and scoot!
 * [Banzai and the hyenas burst into laughter]
 * Scar: Thanks for the tip. Ingrates! If it weren't for me, you'd be beating off buzzards for your next bite!
 * Hyenas: [singing] Yeah, you're our savior, thanks a bunch
 * Scar: Are you blaming me?!
 * Hyenas: Oh, no! It's the lionesses!
 * Scar: … Oh.
 * Hyenas: You are so adored!
 * Scar: That's more like it!
 * [Shenzi and Ed dance around Banzai as they continue to sing; other hyenas then dance along to the song]
 * Hyenas: But what I'd give for one more hit
 * Zazu: Oh, how I miss Mufasa!
 * Scar: [snaps at Zazu quickly with anger] What?! What did you say?
 * Zazu: Oh, nothing!
 * Scar: You know the law: Never, ever mention that name in my presence. I am the king!
 * Zazu: Yes, sire. You are the king. I, I…well, I only mentioned it to illustrate the differences in your royal managerial approaches.
 * Banzai: [whispering to Shenzi and Ed] I thought things were bad under Mufasa.
 * Scar: What did you say?!
 * Banzai: [Shenzi elbows him] I said, uh…"Que Pasa"?
 * Scar: Even in death, his shadow looms over me… [milkweed suddenly flies around his body, looking from each direction, much to his horrified shock]
 * Africalous: [narrating] In his mind's eye, Scar saw the ghostly spirit of Mufasa manifest itself in the den.
 * Scar: There he is. No! There he is! [he finally sees Mufasa's spirit in the night sky much to his horror] AND THERE!
 * Zazu: Calm yourself, sire, or you'll get another one of your splitting headaches!
 * Scar: I am perfectly fine!
 * [The music swells louder as Scar suddenly goes berserk singing]
 * Scar: I'm better than Mufasa was

I tell myself I'm fine! Yes, I am, no, you're not. Yes, I am, no, you're not. I tell myself I'm fine!

No, you're not, yes, I am, no you're not. Yes, I am! No, you're not! Yes, no, yes, no, who am I talking to…?! It's written in the stars You all belong to me!
 * [The music continues to swell even louder]
 * Zazu: Oh, pull yourself together, sire!!
 * [The music finally stops]
 * Scar: [turns to Zazu, calmly] Oh, very well. Zazu?
 * Zazu: Yes, sire?
 * Scar: Nobody loved me. There's the rub…not even as a cub! What did my brother have that I don't have?
 * Zazu: Do you want the short list or the long?
 * Scar: Whatever.
 * Zazu: Well, he had adoring subjects…
 * Scar: No…
 * Zazu: A loving family…
 * Scar: No…
 * Zazu: A devoted queen…
 * Scar: That's it, I need a queen! Without a queen, what am I? A dead end, no line, no descendants, no future. With a queen, I'll have…cubs … Immortality will be mine! [slinks down and grabs a bone to chew]
 * Africalous: [narrating] While getting a bone to chew on, Scar began to think over for which lioness he should mate with. Can it be Sarafina? No, she already has a mate. Or his widow Zira? Maybe, but couldn't she be probably too eccentric? He lastly thought of Sarabi. But he knew she would never accept him as her mate. Just then, Scar realized in the form of a familiar face.
 * Nala: [a full-grown Nala walks up to Scar on-screen] Scar…
 * Scar: [back in form] Nala! Your timing couldn't have been more perfect. My how you've grown!
 * Nala: Scar, you have to do something. We're being forced to overhunt!
 * [Scar gets up; fade back into the song]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Scar didn't care.
 * Scar: She's got those assets feminine
 * Nala: You're the king. Control the hyenas
 * Scar: I have to make her mine
 * Nala: You're destroying the Pride Lands
 * Scar: Nobility in every gene
 * Nala: If we don't stop now…don't you see…
 * Scar: She has to be my queen
 * Nala: …there's still a chance for things to be all right again…
 * Scar: Come, sweet Nala
 * Nala: Wait…W-What are you doing? Are you listening to me?
 * Scar: We'll create a host of little Scars
 * Nala: What are you talking about?
 * Scar: Tell me I'm adored
 * Nala: Get away from me!
 * Scar: Tell me I'm adored! [Nala swipes her claw in Scar's face] Oh, Nala ~ you know how I loathe violence…one way or another, you will be mine!
 * Nala: Never, Scar! Never! [she flees out of the den]
 * Scar: You belong to me

To be continued…

"Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
To be continued…

"The Storm Comes to a Head"
Dark is the day How can I find my way home?
 * [Dissolve to the fog-shrouded hills at twilight. Camera descends to show Timon and Pumbaa walking dejectedly by a waterfall]
 * Timon: Ah, that's it, buddy. We gave it our best shot, but he's a goner.
 * Pumbaa: [hearing something in the distance] Maybe not…!
 * Timon: You never give up, do you?
 * Pumbaa: Look!
 * [Timon looks, aghast. Camera switch to Nala arguing with Simba, who lays on a "hammock" of vines]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Simba was convining Nala to stay in his jungle paradise, but she wanted him to return to Pride Rock.
 * Nala: [voice catching, as though barely under control] We've really needed you at home.
 * Simba: Nala, we've been through this. I'm not the king. Scar is.
 * Nala: Simba, he let the hyenas take over the Pride Lands.
 * Simba: He did?!
 * Nala: Everything's destroyed. There's no food. No water. Simba, if you don't do something soon, everyone will starve.
 * Simba: I can't go back. You wouldn't understand.
 * Nala: What wouldn't I understand?
 * Simba: [hastily] No, no, no. It doesn't matter. Hakuna Matata.
 * Nala: [confused] What?
 * Simba: It's something I've learned out here. Look, sometimes bad things happen, and there's nothing you can do about it! So why worry?
 * [Simba trots away from Nala, walking on a fallen tree. She trots back up to her childhood friend]
 * Nala: Because it's your responsibility!
 * Simba: Well, what about you? You left.
 * Nala: I left to find help! And I found you. Don't you understand? You're our only hope. What's happened to you? You're not the Simba I remember.
 * Simba: You're right, I'm not. Now, are you satisfied? You know, you're starting to sound like my father.
 * Nala: Good. At least one of us does.
 * Simba: [cut by the comment about his deceased father, he tears into Nala with his next words] Listen! You think you can just show up, and tell me how to live my life?! You don't even know what I've been through!
 * Nala: I would if you'd just tell me!
 * Simba: FORGET IT!
 * Nala: FINE!
 * [Simba storms off. Timon and Pumbaa watch from the sidelines]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Timon started to jump for joy.
 * Timon: [excitedly] Pumbaa! Do you know what this means?
 * Pumbaa: Uhh…he can't express his feelings, and she has commitment issues?
 * Timon: [cheers] We won! [laughs] We split 'em up!
 * Pumbaa: And, uh, that's a good thing?
 * [Reflective music plays. Pumbaa follows Timon out into the grasslands, where Simba is wrestling with himself]
 * Pumbaa: Uh, he seems to be taking it kinda hard.
 * Timon: Yeah, I know. Look, I…heh. But it's the best thing for us. I mean, for him.
 * [The clouds gather on the horizon; as Timon turns away, they form into the face of Mufasa]
 * Timon: Ooh, let's go, Pumbaa. I think the storm's coming to a head…
 * [Timon and Pumbaa head back to the oasis. Camera cut to Simba pacing in a field]
 * Simba: She's wrong. I can't go back. What would it prove, anyway? It won't change anything. You can't change the past.
 * ["Endless Night", the sister song to "Lala", fades in]
 * Simba: Where has the starlight gone?

Home is an empty dream Lost to the night Father, I feel so alone

You promised you'd be there Whenever I needed you Whenever I call your name You're not anywhere

I'm trying to hold on Just waiting to hear your voice One word, just a word will do To end this nightmare

When will the dawning break Oh, endless night Sleepless I dream of the day

When you were by my side Guiding my path Father, I can't find the way

You promised you'd be there Whenever I needed you Whenever I call your name You're not anywhere

I'm trying to hold on Just waiting to hear your voice One word, just a word will do To end this nightmare And that the sun will rise And that the sun will rise
 * Simba / Chorus: I know that the night must end

I know that the clouds must clear And that the sun will shine And that the sun will shine We baba ngivelelwe We baba ngivelelwe Busa le lizwe Busa le lizwe Busa lomhlaba Sabusa le lizwe Sabusa le lizwe Sabusa le lizwe Busa lomhlaba
 * Simba: [looks up at the stars] YOU SAID YOU'D ALWAYS BE THERE FOR ME! But you're not. And it's because of me. It's my fault. It's my fault…
 * [Simba bows his head, choking back tears. The camera backs to a far view and then zooms over to Rafiki in a nearby tree; he then starts chanting]
 * Rafiki: Asante sana, squash banana, wewe nugu, mimi apana!
 * [Simba seems slightly annoyed by the chant. He moves away. Rafiki, elated by the sight of Simba, follows him. Simba lies down on a log over a pond. A rock disturbs the water; Rafiki, now in a nearby tree, starts his chant again. He then does random acrobatics in the trees nearby]
 * Simba: Come on. Will you cut it out?
 * Rafiki: Can't cut it out. It'll grow right back!
 * Simba: [starts walking away, which Rafiki follows after him] Creepy little monkey. Will you stop following me! Who are you?
 * Rafiki: [in front of Simba's face] The question is: Whoooo…are you?
 * Simba: [sighs] I thought I knew. Now I'm not so sure.
 * Rafiki: Well, I know who you are. You don't even know who you are!
 * Simba: And I suppose you know?
 * Rafiki: Sure do. You're Mufasa's boy! [Simba turns around to look at Rafiki from this revelation, shocked] Bye! [disappears from Simba's view]
 * Simba: Hey, wait!
 * [Simba chases after Rafiki. Cue to the "Lala" theme]
 * BS: We sangoma ngi velelwe
 * [As Simba catches up to Rafiki, he is in a meditative lotus position on a rock]
 * Simba: You knew my father?
 * Rafiki: Correction. I know your father.
 * Simba: I hate to tell you this, but he died, a long time ago.
 * Rafiki: Nope. Wrong again! [leaps off the rock to a dense jungle area] He's alive! I'll show him to you. You follow old Rafiki; he knows de way. C'mon!
 * [Rafiki leads Simba through the area. Simba has trouble keeping up due to his size. The music slips into African chant]
 * Rafiki: Don't dawdle. Hurry up!
 * Simba: Hey, whoa. Wait, wait. Would you slow down?
 * [Rafiki is seen flitting through the canopy ahead of Simba, laughing hollowly and whooping. Simba struggles to keep up. Suddenly, Rafiki appears with his hand held up right into Simba's face]
 * Rafiki: Stop! Shhh… [motions to Simba near some reeds] Look down there.
 * Simba: [quietly and carefully works his way out. Rafiki uses his staff to motion the pool, showing Zazu's face] Zazu?
 * Rafiki: Oops! [bonks himself in the head with his own staff] Silly, wrong clue… [pushes Simba the other direction] Now…look.
 * Simba: [looks over the edge and sees his reflection in a pool of water. He first seems a bit startled, perhaps at his own mature appearance, but then realizes what he's looking at] That's not my father. That's just my reflection.
 * Rafiki: No. Look harder. [motions over the pool. Ripples form, distorting Simba's reflection; they resolve into Mufasa's face] There, you see? He lives in you.
 * Mufasa: Simba.
 * Simba: Father?
 * [Simba sees his father's spirit in the sky]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Just then, from the heavens above, the ghost of Mufasa appeared.
 * Mufasa: Simba, you have forgotten me.
 * Simba: No. How could I?
 * Mufasa: You have forgotten who you are, and so forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life.
 * Simba: How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be.
 * Mufasa: Remember who you are. You are my son, and the one true king. Remember who you are. Remember. Remember. Remember . . .
 * [Mufasa disappears rapidly back into the clouds. Simba then tearfully runs into the fields trying to keep up]
 * Simba: No! Please, don't leave me! Father! Don't leave me.
 * [Simba is left out in the fields. The wind tosses the grass restlessly. Rafiki approaches]
 * Rafiki: What was that? [laughs] The weather. [scoffs] Very peculiar, don't you think?
 * Simba: Yeah. Looks like the winds are changing.
 * Rafiki: Ahhh, change is good.
 * Simba: Yeah, but it's not easy. I know what I have to do. But going back means I'll have to face my past. I've been running from it for so long.
 * [Rafiki whacks Simba in the head with his staff]
 * Simba: Oww! Jeez, what was that for?!
 * Rafiki: It doesn't matter. It's in the past.
 * Simba: Yeah, but it still hurts.
 * Rafiki: Oh, yes, the past can hurt. But from the way I see it, you can either run from it, or…learn from it. [swings his staff again at Simba, who ducks out of the way] Ha. You see? So, what are you going to do?
 * Africalous: [narrating] Simba knew it was time for him to head back home.
 * Simba: Well, first…I'm gonna take your stick. [tosses Rafiki's staff to the side]
 * Rafiki: No, no, no, no! Not the stick! [picks up his staff, then notices Simba running back] Hey! Where are you goin'!?
 * Simba: I'm going back!
 * [Music rises into celebratory "Busa" theme. A few shooting stars zing across the sky]
 * BS: Busa le lizwe

The Battle for Pride Rock
To be started…
 * Nala: Have you guys seen Simba?
 * Timon: I thought he was with you.
 * Nala: He was, but now I can't find him. Where is he?
 * [We hear Rafiki's laugh. He's sitting in a tree above them]
 * Rafiki: [chuckles] You won't find him here. The king…has returned.
 * Nala: I don't believe it. He's gone back!
 * Timon: Gone back? What do you mean? [he looks to the tree. Rafiki has disappeared] Hey! What's goin' on here? Who's the monkey?
 * Nala: Simba's gone to challenge Scar.
 * Timon: Who?
 * Nala: Scar.
 * Pumbaa: Who's got a scar?
 * Nala: No, it's his uncle.
 * Timon: The monkey's his uncle?
 * Nala: No. Simba's gone back to challenge his uncle to take his place as king.
 * Timon and Pumbaa: Ohhh…
 * Timon: [aghast] He's gone? Whaddaya mean, he's gone?!
 * Nala: It's just like the baboon said. The king has returned. [fluttery music plays as Timon and Pumbaa stare at her, looking completely dumbfounded] Okay, look: Simba's the rightful king. But after he disappeared, Scar proclaimed himself the king and formed an alliance with the hyenas… [continues unintelligibly off-screen]
 * [Pumbaa and Timon are thinking, with concerned expressions]
 * Pumbaa: Poor, Simba. The treachery…the villainy…the sheer indescribable horror!
 * Timon: Blah, blah, blah. Why is she toying with us? Oh, this crazy chick is gonna eat us!
 * Africalous: [narrating; about Timon and Pumbaa] Again, the two were dumbfounded. Nala then finally got frustrated.
 * Nala: [crickets chirp in the background for a beat] Ooooh, don't you get it? Simba needs us! Now! [she runs off after Simba]
 * Timon: He needs us? Then he shouldn't have left us! If he wants to run off to be "His Highness", well, I say, don't let the branches hit you on the way out! Leave Hakuna Matata to someone, who appreciates it. [he strides off stubbornly]
 * Pumbaa: But, Timon…it's not really Hakuna Matata without Simba.
 * Timon: Not Hakuna Matata? That's crazy talk. Crazy talk, I tell ya! Nothing's changed here. We had Hakuna Matata before Simba, and we've still got it now.
 * Pumbaa: We gotta go help our friend, Timon.
 * Timon: Et tu, Pumbaa? You're just gonna walk away, give up on all this? What happened to "friends stick together to the end"? Huh? Huh? Huh?
 * Pumbaa: [incisively] I was about to ask you the same thing. [he turns and stalks off. He then looks back over his shoulder to see Timon flopping down in the bed]
 * Timon: [stubbornly] I got everything I ever wanted right here.
 * [Pumbaa stares at Timon lying in the bed, tapping his toe for a beat; sad music playing. He finally turns and trots off, a tear in his eye. Timon begins to soliloquize to convince himself he's doing the right thing]
 * Timon: Now, this is more like it. ELBOW ROOM!
 * ["Elbow room" echoes an absurd number of times as the camera pulls back repeatedly; Timon collapses in despair]
 * Timon: Uhhhh. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy.

To be continued…


 * [Cut to the sun beating down on the dunes across the desert. As the "Busa" theme plays, Pumbaa gallops in slow-motion across the desert sands. A layover is faded in of Pumbaa's feet pounding the sand]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Pumbaa began to gallop through the blistering desert into a gorge where, years earlier, he was caught in a stampede. [Timon dashes at normal speed past the slow-motion Pumbaa; Pumbaa skids to a stop in confusion] Timon suddenly ran past him at a higher speed. Pumbaa skid to a halt and Timon turned to him. [Timon looks back at Pumbaa, who looks at him questioningly]
 * Timon: [with humility] Friends stick together to the end.
 * Africalous: [narrating; Pumbaa gasps joyfully, then he with Timon rush together and embrace, sobbing] The two embraced. But there was a question on Timon's mind.
 * Timon: What was with the running? If you can call that "running".
 * Pumbaa: I was giving you time to catch up. [lowers himself so that Timon can hop on] We got a fight to catch!
 * Timon: Let's whip some grass. [grabs Pumbaa's ears; Pumbaa rears up and paws the air like a mustang and gallops off (at full speed now) toward the dark and drought-ravaged Pride Lands] This is the stuff of legends. An epic struggle — the place where heroes are born. Pumbaa…this could be our finest hour.
 * [Cut to Simba where he slowly crosses the desolated land. He reaches the lip of a cliff and looks out over his former home]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Simba had already made his way through the desert to the Pride Lands. As he noticed all the animals eaten grey, Simba seemed to have a new power within him just as Nala came up.
 * Nala: [off-screen] Simba, wait up! [she trots up next to Simba on the ledge] It's awful, isn't it?
 * Simba: I didn't want to believe you. I finally got some sense knocked into me. And I've got the bump to prove it. Besides, this is my kingdom. If I don't fight for it, who will?
 * Nala: I will.
 * Simba: It's gonna be dangerous.
 * Nala: [quoting young Simba] "Danger? Ha! I laugh in the face of danger." [laughs in determination]
 * Timon: [he with Pumbaa arrive behind the two lions] I see nothing funny about this.
 * Simba: Timon? Pumbaa? What are you doing here?
 * Pumbaa: At your service, my liege.
 * Timon: [of the decimated Pride Rock] We're gonna fight your uncle … for this?
 * Simba: Yes, Timon. This is my home.
 * Timon: Whoa. Talk about your fixer-upper. Well, Simba, if it's important to you, we're with you to the end.
 * [Simba smiles appreciatively. Nice scene with the four of them on the ledge viewing the work ahead of them. Camera switch to Simba, Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa sneaking up to the edge of Pride Rock to observe hordes of hyenas eating bones]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Simba led his friends on the edge of Pride Rock. Timon then made a face when they saw…
 * Timon: Hyenas. I hate hyenas. [to Simba, whispering] So what's your plan for getting past those guys?
 * Simba: Live bait.
 * Timon: Good idea. [suddenly realizes what Simba means] Hey!
 * Simba: Come on, Timon! You guys have to create a diversion.
 * Timon: [incredulous] What do you want me to do? Dress in drag, and do the hula?!
 * Pumbaa: I don't think that would apply to this particular situation.
 * [Camera switch to Timon in a hula outfit. The music sung is "The Hawaiian War Chant" much like the Spike Jones arrangement. Pumbaa is set up like a roast pig, even with an apple in his mouth. Jungle drum riff as the hyenas turn to notice Timon and Pumbaa]
 * Timon: Luau!

If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat, Eat my buddy Pumbaa here, 'cause he is a treat!

Come on down and dine, On this tasty swine, All you hafta do is get in line. Oy!
 * [The drooling hunger hyenas approach. Parenthetical parts are Pumbaa singing; the apple is at his feet]
 * Timon: Ahh, ya achin'?
 * Pumbaa: Yep, yep, yep.
 * Timon: For some bacon?
 * Pumbaa: Yep, yep, yep.
 * Timon: He's a big pig!
 * Pumbaa: Yep, yep.
 * Timon: You could be a big pig, too.
 * [They run off screaming to lead some of the hyenas away. Simba and Nala make it by]
 * Simba: Nala, you find my mother and rally the lionesses. [determinedly] I'll look for Scar…
 * [The two lions split ways. Timon and Pumbaa lead the hyenas over a rise and into a cave, screaming. Silence falls as the hyenas search for them inside the cave, holding for a beat]
 * Pumbaa: I'm feeling gassy!
 * [A powerful explosion suddenly sounds inside the cave, with a cloud of gas billowing out the cave entrance]
 * Hyenas: Aaaaahhh! Get outta the way!
 * [The hyenas flee the cave in a panic. Timon and Pumbaa emerge triumphantly; Pumbaa snorts like a bull. Timon rides on top of his head, looking like General Patton. "Ride of the Valkyries" by Wagner echoes in the score]
 * Timon: [inhales deeply] Ahh…I love the smell of Pumbaa in the morning.

To be continued…


 * Scar: Sarabiiiii!
 * Africalous: [narrating] Simba founded Scar, just as he also spotted his mother.
 * Scar: [Sarabi ascends Pride Rock. She only glares disdainfully at the hyenas. They growl and snap at her heels] Where is your hunting party? They're not doing their job.
 * Sarabi: [calmly] Scar, there is no food. The herds have moved on.
 * Scar: No! You're just not looking hard enough.
 * Sarabi: It's over. There is nothing left. We have only one choice. We must leave Pride Rock.
 * Scar: We're not going anywhere.
 * Sarabi: Then you have sentenced us to death!
 * Scar: So be it.
 * Sarabi: [shocked] You can't do that!
 * Scar: I am the king! I can do whatever I want!
 * Sarabi: If you were half the king Mufasa was, you would never have made this choice!
 * Scar: [angrily backhands Sarabi, knocking her to the ground] I WAS TEN TIMES THE KING MUFASA WAS!
 * [Simba appears on the ledge, visibly angry and growling loudly at Scar for hitting his mother. Scar mistakes Simba as Mufasa and is understandably frightened]
 * Scar: Mufasa? No. You're dead.
 * Sarabi: [awakens at her son's nudge, but mistakes him as Mufasa as Scar did] Mufasa?
 * Simba: No. It's me.
 * Sarabi: [delighted] Simba? You're alive? [confused] How can that be?
 * Simba: It doesn't matter…I'm home.

To be continued…

To be continued…
 * Scar: [walks around Simba in a circle as he accuses him] If it weren't for you, Mufasa would still be alive. It's your fault he's dead. Do you deny it?
 * Simba: No.
 * Scar: [severely] Then…you're…guilty.
 * Simba: No. I'm not a murderer!
 * [Lightning switch to Timon, his family and Pumbaa in their viewpoint to show Simba being backed toward the precipice by Scar]
 * Pumbaa: Look! There's Simba! And that must be his uncle Scar!
 * Timon: Oh, good, they're talking things out. Which is how it should be. You know, I have a feeling everything's gonna be just fine.
 * [Lightning switch back to Scar, who is backing Simba up the length of Pride Rock]
 * Scar: Oh, Simba, you're in trouble again. But this time, Daddy isn't here to save you. And now everyone knows why!
 * [After Scar's last sentence, Simba slips over the edge and is clinging to the ledge by his forepaws. Lightning strikes below, igniting a fire. Scar sits back and pretends to think]
 * Scar: Now, this looks familiar. Hmm. Where have I seen this before, let me think. Oooh, yes, I remember! This is just the way your father looked before he died. [grabs Simba with his claws as he did Mufasa. He whispers into Simba's ear] And here's my little secret: I killed Mufasa!
 * [Simba has a quick memory flashback to that fateful instant. His voice blends with his younger voice in the scream of when his father fell]
 * Africalous: [narrating] Simba suddenly had a memory flashback to the very last time where he saw his father.
 * Mufasa: Scar! B-Brot-other! HELP ME!
 * Scar: [grabs Mufasa's paws] Long live the king!
 * Simba: [seeing Mufasa falling into the stampede to his death] Nooooooooo!
 * Simba: [with full rage, he lunges up and pins down Scar] NOOOOOOOOOO!
 * Africalous: [narrating] As full rage, Simba lunged up and pinned down his uncle. Scar was caught understandably very nervous and shaken.
 * Pumbaa: [cut back to him alongside Timon and his family seeing Scar pinned down] The hyenas are up there protecting Scar. What do we do?
 * Timon: Well, I've got a plan… [in pep-talk mode] Ma, Uncle Max: You're going to dig a trap. We're going to need — dare I say it? — tunnels…lots and lots of tunnels. And Pumbaa. You and me…we've gotta get those hyenas away from Simba. Come on, Pumbaa! Let's ride! [hops onto Pumbaa; they gallop off as heroic music rises]
 * Ma: [reflectively] You know, there's something different about Timon…
 * Max: You think? [frantically yelling] He's wearing a dress!
 * [Lightning switch back to Simba, who has pinned down Scar]
 * Simba: Murderer! [the lionesses are startled by this new revelation] Tell them the truth!
 * Scar: Truth? But, truth is in the eye of the beholder… [Simba starts to choke him] Alright. Alright. [quietly, venomously] I did it.
 * Simba: So they can hear you.
 * Scar: I KILLED MUFASA!
 * [Nala and Sarabi start towards Scar, the hyenas attack Simba in a wall of teeth. The lionesses join in. We see Pumbaa and Timon come in. Pumbaa is charging with Timon riding him. Hyenas are flying everywhere]
 * Pumbaa: Heeeyyyy-yaaaaah!
 * Timon: 'Scuse me. Pardon me. Comin' through. Hot stuff. Whoo!
 * [Bowling strike sound effect as hyenas fly. Rafiki whacks a hyena off Simba. Camera switch to him; with a battle scream, he joins the fray. As a bit of comic relief, Rafiki is fighting in kung-fu "B-movie" style, complete with cheesy sound effects. Camera switch to Timon running from Shenzi. He runs into the cave. Zazu spots him. Timon runs into his cage for safety from the hyenas]
 * Zazu: Let me out! Let me out!
 * Timon: Lemme in! Lemme in! [to the snickering hyenas, pleading] Please, don't eat me.
 * Pumbaa: [appearing at the cave's entrance] Drop 'em!
 * Banzai: Hey? Who's the pig?
 * Pumbaa: You talkin' to me?
 * Timon: Uh-oh! They called him a pig.
 * Pumbaa: You talkin' to me?!
 * Timon: They shouldn'ta done that.
 * Pumbaa: ARE YOU TALKIN' TO ME?!
 * Timon: Now they're in for it!
 * Pumbaa: They call me MISTER PIG!
 * [With full rage, Pumbaa screams and plows at the hyenas, also freeing Zazu and Timon from breaking the bone cage. Off-screen, the three then start to yell and attack the hyenas. Ed, who hears the attack, get thrown by Shenzi and Banzai, and the three then flee in a panic. Timon, Pumbaa and Zazu start the Arsenio Hall "Ooh, ooh" chant. Cut to Scar running away from Simba, with the hyenas chasing after, while sparks from the fire fly all around. They all wind their way to an area near the top of Pride Rock, where the hyenas corner Simba, who snarls at them. Timon and Pumbaa look down on them from a ledge above them]
 * Timon: Hey, Pumbaa! What do you call a hyena with half a brain?
 * Pumbaa: [laughs] Beats me, Timon. What?
 * Timon: Gifted!
 * [Timon and Pumbaa laugh. Shenzi and Banzai, who heard the punchline, scowl angrily. Ed bursts out laughing before Banzai smacks him]
 * Banzai: They're talkin' about us.
 * Shenzi: [menacing, advancing on them] For your last meal, you're gonna eat those words.
 * [Pumbaa and Timon are grinning from the ledge above; suddenly they both zip away, leaving dust clouds in their own shapes that linger for a few moments. They scream as they run down the side of Pride Rock, until they reach a tunnel entrance]
 * Timon: [calling into the hole] Ma! I think we got their attention!
 * [Camera pans down into the underground, where Uncle Max is busily digging, and Ma is carrying support beams]
 * Ma: Not yet! Keep stalling!
 * Max: [singing obsessively] Digga tunnah, dig, digga tunnah...
 * [Cut back to Timon and Pumbaa, backed up against a rock wall and illuminated by the red firelight]
 * Timon: [panicked] Okay…
 * [Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" plays; Timon begins juggling sticks and dishes, while Pumbaa gestures toward him and grins. The hyenas stop dead, bewildered]
 * Banzai: [nonplussed] You gotta be kidding me.
 * [The music stops; Timon stands with the dishes balanced on the sticks on his nose and hands, spinning]
 * Timon: [even more panicked] Now, Ma?
 * Ma: [from underground] Need more time, honey!
 * [Offenbach's "Cancan" plays. Timon and Pumbaa link arms and dance, grinning tensely. The music peters out as the hyenas glare at them and look insulted]
 * Timon: [grasping at straws] Uh…freestyle!
 * [Hip-hop music plays as Timon and Pumbaa start breakdancing. The hyenas laugh and applaud]
 * Shenzi: Ooh, encore, encore!
 * Banzai: No, no, no. You mean, "entree, entree!"
 * Shenzi: No, you right. Let's just eat 'em. [she with the hyenas advance on them]
 * Timon: [at the edge of his wits] Is it ready yet, Ma?!
 * Ma: [from underground] Not yet! Keep stalling!
 * [Timon nervously drums his fingertips together, chatters his teeth, and bites his nails as the hyenas approach with sinister laughter. Timon gets an idea; he waves his arms in a "time-out" signal]
 * Timon: Waaait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on a second.
 * Pumbaa: [confused, then severe] Uh, Timon? What are you doin'?
 * Timon: [theatrically, down on one knee, proposal-style] Shenzi Marie Predatora Veldetta Jacquelina Hyena. Would you do me the honor of becoming my "bride"?
 * Africalous: [narrating; Pumbaa gulps, his mouth falling wide open and Shenzi looks dumbfounded] Both Pumbaa and Shenzi were dumbfounded.
 * Shenzi: … I don't think so!
 * Timon: Shenzi Marie, please. I know what you're thinking: "We're too different." "It'll never work." "What will the children look like?"
 * [Pumbaa is still frozen in shock]
 * Shenzi: Ooh, that violates so many laws of nature.
 * Timon: Listen to me! The problems of a couple of wacky kids like us don't amount to hill of termites in this nutty Circle-of-Life thing. And so I ask you: If not now, when? If not me, who? I'm lonely.
 * Pumbaa: [tapping Timon on the shoulder; sniffling, putting the best face on his shattered emotions] Can I be your best man?
 * Banzai: I say we skip the wedding, and go straight to the buffet!

"He Lives in You"
To be started…


 * Timon: Pumbaa, look at the little guy. A chip off the old block! And you gotta know who's gonna raise him…
 * Pumbaa: His parents?
 * Timon: But who's gonna teach him the really important stuff? Like how to belch… [lets out a loud belch] …and dig for grubs? [hops off of Pumbaa] I'm tellin' ya, buddy, it's gonna be like old times. You, me…and the little guy.
 * Rafiki: [chuckling] It is a girl.
 * Timon and Pumbaa: GIRL!? Oy!
 * [Timon and Pumbaa collapse with dead faint]

We Are One
To be started…

Return of the Roar
To be started…
 * Kion: Got you now, Bunga.
 * [The baobab fruit comes rolling down in front of Kion and Bunga; the two then rush to get it]
 * Bunga: Not yet! [as Kion grabs it, Bunga tackles Kion, forcing him to spit the fruit out. Bunga then starts tickling Kion's tummy] Cheka, cheka, cheka!
 * Kion: [laughing] Stop it! Bunga!

To be continued…

Zuka Zama
To be started…
 * Kion: [turns to Kiara] Hey, Kiara. How'd the gazelle tracking go?
 * Kiara: [groans] We never got to the gazelles, Zuri got her claws stuck in a tree.
 * Pumbaa: [munching the bugs inside the log] Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah! [pops his head out, mouthful of bugs with Timon riding on top while eating some of his] And then, she fell facefirst into a log full of bugs!
 * Timon: Mmm…
 * Zuri: Bugs are so…gross.
 * Timon: Mmm…and so delicious. Ooh, look! [rushes over on Zuri's back and pulls a green beetle behind her ear] Another one!

To be continued…


 * Pumbaa: Oh, Bunga! I'm so proud, I could…! [he suddenly passes out gas, which makes some tallgrass pass away instantly] Oops. Sorry…
 * Kiara: Zuri…let's get you back to Pride Rock.
 * Zuri: We're outta here!
 * Kion: I…better go assemble the rest of the team. [he backs away from the scene]
 * Bunga: Wait, Kion! [he starts to chase after Kion] The Lion Guard needs to stick together!
 * Pumbaa: … Was it something I said?

"Tonight, We Strike"
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The Rise of the Lion Guard
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 * Rafiki: See, Simba? You see? Huh? Heh-ha, he is ready. It is time!
 * Nala: Simba?
 * Simba: Yes. Kion is ready. It is time…time for the new Lion Guard.

Put a Queen in Charge
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 * Kion: [groans] Yeah, Queen Kiara's decree. She's only been queen for a day. I've been leading the Lion Guard for a lot longer than that. Kiara can tell me to do something. But she can't tell me how to do it. I say we move the bees.
 * Ono: Move the bees?
 * Bunga: Yeah! Let's move the bees! What could go wrong?
 * [Sudden cut to the Guard (except Bunga) all screaming while being chased by a huge herd of buzzing bees; the music rises. Ono chased by the bees; tries to fly in a circle to lose them, but he can't]
 * Ono: [trying to lose the bees] Aaaahh!
 * [Bunga is eating honey from one of the hives as angry bees swarm around him]
 * Bunga: What are you guys running for? Bees taste even better when they're mad! [he munches the honey on his hand]
 * [Cut back to the Guard where Fuli runs up to Kion]
 * Fuli: Maybe we should've diverted the eland herd after all!
 * Kion: Don't worry about the elands! [the Guard continue to run; they turn around on a corner. Suddenly, their eyes bug out when they notice…] The elands!
 * Kion, Fuli, Beshte, and Ono: Aaaaahhh!
 * [The eland herd and the Guard start to screech for a halt, screaming. They suddenly smash into each other; they then groan in pain]
 * Fuli: Ow!
 * [Kion turns after noticing the sound of the incoming bees, who fly into the scene]
 * Kion: Hevi kabisa! INCOMING!

Amanifu's Memorial Service
To be started…

Utamu
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All Hail the Vultures
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 * Ono: Hapana. Kion! Mizngo and his vultures; they're circling!

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 * Ono: No, nothing. I…oh, no! IT'S FULI! [he sights to see Fuli down while the vultures are cornering her] She's down, and she's surrounded by vultures!
 * Kion: Hevi kabisa! Til the Pride Lands' end…
 * Kion, Bunga, Ono, and Beshte: …LION GUARD DEFEND!
 * Mzingo: [Fuli growls menacingly at his vultures while continuing to prey on her] Oh, don't worry, my dear. It will all be over soon. After all, we are not uncivilized. Now…parliament, ATTACK!
 * [Just as Mzingo is about to feed on Fuli, the Guard arrive in the scene]
 * Kion: VULTURES! Get away from her!
 * [Kion leaps and pins down Mzingo. Bunga does stunt moves before he back kicks Zusia]
 * Bunga: Zuka zama!
 * Ono: [he flies by Fuli while using his beak to hit Mwoga in the head multiple times] LEAVE FULI ALONE!!!
 * [The Lone Gunslinger Vulture and Twotia fly in to attack Fuli but suddenly get bounced back by Beshte]
 * Beshte: Twende kiboko!
 * Mzingo: [to his other vultures] Reconvene! Reconvene!
 * [The Lone Gunslinger Vulture, Mwoga, Twotia, and Zusia then fly up with Mzingo]
 * Kion: [he growls menacingly before he turns to the vultures] Mizingo! When you and your vultures take on one member of the Guard, YOU TAKE ON US ALL! [he then uses the Roar, which soon blows Mzingo and the vultures away into the sky, squawking. Kion then turns to Fuli] You okay?
 * Fuli: Yeah. Thanks for saving me, guys. Even though I feel kind of lame for needing it.
 * Kion: We're always there for each other. We're a team.
 * Bunga: Even I've been in trouble once or twice. [short beat] Okay, lots of times.
 * Fuli: Well, I wasn't helping the team by going off alone and getting worn out. Next time I really will wait for the rest of you. Just try to move a little faster so I won't have to wait so long.

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The Kupatana Celebration
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 * Ono: It's Janja and his hyenas! They are chasing a little jackal pup though the Outlands!
 * Kion: [sighs] The Outlands. I wish the Lion Guard defended the Circle of Life out there, too. But we don't…
 * Simba: Kion. Today is Kupatana, and not just here in the Pride Lands. The spirit of Kupatana extends to all the animals in the Circle of Life. Even those in the Outlands.
 * Kion: Of course. You're right, Dad. [he turns to his friends] Lion Guard, let's go! We're going to save that pup!
 * Beshte: You got it, Kion!
 * Bunga: Zuka Zama!
 * [The Guard start to head towards the Outlands]
 * Kion: Til the Pride Lands' end…
 * Kion, Bunga, Fuli, Beshte, and Ono: …LION GUARD DEFEND!
 * [Back in the Outlands, Dogo continues to run away from the hyenas, passing by some animal bones]
 * Janja: There he goes! C'mon, fellas!
 * [Janja laughs evilly. Dogo then runs to the right, to which Janja and his hyenas suddenly skid into a gorge wall with a "BANG". The hyenas groan in pain before Janja gets up and growls at Dogo]
 * Dogo: Hmm?
 * Janja: Oh, you jackals are so annoying. We just chased ya out of our den yesterday. And now you're back? Guess I need to make an example of ya!
 * Dogo: [while whining, he smiles with big, dewy eyes] Hmm!
 * [Janja charges at Dogo to attack. Kion suddenly leaps in and pins down Janja]
 * Kion: Not today, Janja!
 * Janja: Hey, hey! Easy on the fur! [Kion growls in his face, fiercely] What're you doin' in the Outlands, anyway?
 * Kion: Making sure you let that pup go.
 * Bunga: [he with Fuli, Ono and Beshte are on top of the gorge's cliff] Don't you know today's Kupatana?
 * Janja: Ku…Ku…Kupatana? [he bursts into evilly laughter] Okay, Kion. You want the jackal? He's all yours.
 * Kion: Uh…okay…
 * Janja: C'mon, fellas. The Lion Guard's doin' us a favor today! [he laughs before he gets up and runs the other way with his hyenas] Merry Kupatana!
 * [The hyenas laugh with the Guard watching in confusion]
 * Ono: So. That was…different.
 * Beshte: You think Janja celebrates Kupatana, too?
 * Fuli: I seriously doubt it.
 * Dogo: [excited, he turns to each member of the Guard] Thanks, you guys! You were awesome! You were like, "Let the jackal go." And they did!
 * Kion: Well, I'm glad we could help. Umm…
 * Dogo: I'm Dogo. And you guys must be the Lion Guard! You're the coolest! You just looked at the hyenas and they ran away!
 * Bunga: Yeah, we have that effect on no-goods.
 * Kion: You're safe now, Dogo. But…I'd stay away from Janja's territory if I were you.
 * Dogo: Are you guys going back to the Pride Lands? I know I'd be safe there.
 * Beshte: Don't you need to get back to your family, Dogo?
 * Dogo: [sighs] I'm all by myself. But I know there are lots of friendly animals in the Pride Lands! Can I please come with you?
 * [Dogo starts to act adorable with having big, dewy eyes, and wagging his tail]
 * Bunga and Beshte: Awwwww!
 * Kion: Well…it is Kupatana. [Dogo smiles brightly with big, dewy eyes] Okay, Dogo. You can come.
 * [Dogo starts yipping in excitement]

Jackal Style
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 * Bunga and Beshte: KION!!!
 * Fuli: [gasps] That was Bunga and Beshte!
 * Kion: Ono, what do you see?
 * Ono: [he looks straight ahead and sights what he sees] Hapana. Kion, I think you need to see this for yourself!
 * Kion: Uhh…okay, Ono, lead the way.

To be continued…

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 * Reirei: It's such a lovely den.
 * Goigoi: [he slurps, then crunches on a baobab fruit] And the fruit's delicious!
 * Muhangus: We didn't say you could eat it!
 * Muhanga: You took our stuff without asking! You're thieves!
 * Reirei: "Thieves"?! Us?! Never!
 * Kion: Enough. [he then turns to Dogo's brothers to ask] Which one of you is Dogo?
 * Dogo: [walks up, then sits in front of Kion] I'm right here, Kion!
 * Kion: Dogo, I thought you said you didn't have any family.
 * Dogo: Uh, no. I said, I was all by myself!
 * Reirei: Which he was! [Dogo walks up to his mother before she pats his head] At the time. My son always tells the truth. But when he went into the Pride Lands, we had to follow him. You can't expect a little pup to live in a strange place without his mom and dad. Right…Goigoi?
 * Goigoi: [he is seen suddenly snoring deeply. Reirei then uses her hindleg to kick Goigoi's face to make him gasp, then to stutter] W-Whatever you say, dear.
 * Reirei: And we couldn't leave our other kids alone in the Outlands. What kind of parents would do that?
 * [Reirei, Dogo, and his brothers sadly start to whine with big, dewy eyes]
 * Kion: Okay, yeah. I can see that.

The Kupatana Celebration
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Janja's New Crew
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 * Janja: Get off of me, furbrains! Another plan ruined! And do you know why?
 * Cheezi: 'Cause you slipped…
 * Chungu: And slided into the Lion Guard?
 * Janja: No! It's because of you two!
 * Chungu and Cheezi: Us?!
 * Janja: That's right! Every time I come up with a brilliant plan, you two mess it up!
 * Cheezi: We do?
 * Chungu: Uh…I thought we messed it up together.
 * Cheezi: Yeah! We're great at that!
 * Janja: [he finally groans with frustration] You know what? I can't take it anymore! You're. Both. FIRED!
 * [Janja turns back to Nne and Tano with Cheezi and Chungu, not understanding what Janja meant, following him behind. Janja turns back and notices Cheezi and Chungu]
 * Janja: Weren't you two furbrains listenin'? I said, "YOU'RE FIRED"!
 * Cheezi: We're on fire?! AAAAHHH!!!
 * [Cheezi starts running around in a panic with Chungu patting himself all over, checking for smoke]
 * Chungu: Hey, I don't even smell smoke!
 * Janja: [shakes his head and rolls his eyes with disbelief] You're not on fire. You are fired! That means you're finished! Done! Through! Don't need ya!
 * Cheezi: Of course you don't need us!
 * Chungu: Yeah. So, what's the new plan?
 * Janja: THERE AIN'T NO NEW PLAN! YOU'RE NOT IN THE CREW ANYMORE! GET OUTTA THE OUTLANDS! [he turns to Nne and Tano] You two, I'm giving you a promotion!
 * [Nne and Tano look at each for a beat before he turn to join Janja]
 * Nne: Okay.
 * Tano: Thanks!
 * Janja: And here's your first job: [he points at Cheezi and Chungu] Get rid of those two furbrains!
 * Nne: You got it, boss!
 * Tano: [he turns angrily to Cheezi and Chungu] You heard Janja!
 * [Nne and Tano start to snarl menacingly at Cheezi and Chungu]
 * Nne: Get lost!
 * Cheezi: [laughing nervously] Uh, sure! Ah-heh-ha, no problem!
 * Chungu: Yeah. Uh, we're lost most of the time already!
 * [Cheezi and Chungu finally flee from the Outlands. Janja smirks evilly as Nne and Tano continue to snarl]

To be continued…

Why did he tell us to go? The only family we know? And why send both of us here? [sobbing] Cheezi, why? Why?! Now, what? What do we do? And who… [the song suddenly gets interrupted when Chungu notices a herd of antelope eating] Oh, look! Antelope!
 * Cheezi: It just ain't the same.
 * ["Chungu's Lament", a parody song of "Kion's Lament" fades in]
 * Chungu: Why?
 * Cheezi: Ah-ha! That's what Janja would have us do! Hunt antelope!
 * Chungu: And you know what he'd say?
 * Cheezi: Uh, "Get those antelopes, furbrain."

Babysitter Bunga
To be started…

The "Dark" Roar of the Elders
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Lions of the Outlands
To be started…
 * Nuka: It should be three against one! What kind of lion are you? Siding with a hyena!
 * Kion: What are you two lions doing in the Outlands? Why aren't you in the Pride Lands?
 * Nuka: Like our family's welcome here.
 * Kion: Why wouldn't you be? I'm sure my dad would welcome you there.
 * Nuka: And whooo's your dad?
 * Jasiri: [laughs] You know. The king of the Pride Lands. Simba.
 * Kovu and Nuka: [suddenly surprised by the hear of the name] Simba?!
 * Kovu: [excitedly] You really think he'd allow us into the Pride Lands?
 * Kion: I don't see why not. Especially if you give Jasiri's family their watering hole back.
 * Kovu: Back to the Pride Lands? That means I could see Kiara again…
 * Kion: You know Kiara?
 * Kovu: Yeah! Uh, it was a while ago. We gotta take him to see Mom.
 * Nuka: [walks up close to Kion] Oh, yeah, she's gonna want to meet the son of Simba.
 * Kion: [walks up closer to Nuka] The name's Kion.
 * Nuka: Okay. Kion, hyena, let's go.
 * [Nuka and Kovu then start to walk to the watering hole. Kion turns to Jasiri]
 * Kion: C'mon, Jasiri. This whole watering hole thing's gotta be a misunderstanding!
 * [Jasiri follows after Kion, while following after Kovu and Nuka]

Lions Over All
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Kuishi ni Kucheka
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Kenge's New Attack
To be started…

The Kumbuka Celebration
To be started…
 * Scar: You know what to do, Sumu.
 * Sumu: And do it, I will!

To be continued…

The most wondrous victory Let everyone participate From Pride Rock to the tallest tree He return to make things right So every time that you see him You can shout with delight for Hail, hail, hail to the king! Hail, hail, hail to the king!
 * Rafiki: Royal Family! Lion Guard! Herds of the Pride Lands! WELCOME TO THE GREAT KUMBUKA CELEBRATION!
 * [The Pride Landers cheer as the elephants blow their trunks and the monkeys screech. Fade into the song "Good King Simba"]
 * Rafiki: Today is the day we celebrate
 * [Rafiki uses his staff to point at the tallest tree in the Pride Lands, which birds then fly out of it afterwards]
 * Rafiki: Before pray we for freedom
 * Pride Landers: Good King Simba!
 * Rafiki: Takes care of everything
 * Pride Landers: Good King Simba!
 * Rafiki: The true and rightful king
 * Pride Landers: Good King Simba!
 * [As the Pride Landers and Rafiki continue to sing, Sumu crawls up from underneath Pride Rock; sudden intense music plays. Sumu then crawls up on Simba's tail, ready to sting]
 * Rafiki and the Pride Landers: Hail, hail, hail to the king
 * [Sumu finally stings Simba on the tail]
 * Rafiki: Hail, hail, hail to the king
 * [Simba, feeling very ill, suddenly faints much to Rafiki's surprise. The Pride Landers, including Ma Tembo, Mtoto's mother, Mbeya, Thurston, and Twiga, gasp with horrified shock at the ceremony that's going on]
 * Nala: Simba!
 * Rafiki: Your Majesty!
 * Kion: DAD!
 * [The Guard start to head up towards Pride Rock]
 * Bunga: The king!
 * Fuli: Oh, no!
 * Timon: No, our baby!
 * Pumbaa: We're coming, Simba!
 * [Timon and Pumbaa then run after the Guard]

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 * Scar: Well done, my scorpion friend. Only volcanic ash can help Simba now. Which means the Lion Guard will be on their way here to get it. Ushari! Tell the others to get ready. The plan is in motion.
 * Ushari: [hissing] C-C-C-Certainly.
 * Sumu: You want the Lion Guard to come here?
 * Scar: Yes, Sumu. You've helped me set the perfect trap. [laughs evilly]

Rescue in the Outlands

 * [Cut back to Pride Rock where Timon and Pumbaa are circling around while tearfully sobbing loudly. When the Guard comes up on screen, Kion turns to Timon and Pumbaa]
 * Kion: How is he?
 * Timon: [as Pumbaa whines loudly] Don't ask! Don't ask!
 * [Kion, Fuli, Ono and Beshte head inside Pride Rock as Bunga comes up to his adoptive uncles]
 * Bunga: Is it that bad?
 * Pumbaa: Actually, we have no idea. But that's why you shouldn't ask us!
 * [Pumbaa and Timon look at each other for a beat, then continue to sob loudly]

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 * Kion: Beshte!
 * Beshte: You got it, Kion! [he charges at Nduli] TWENDE KIBOKO!
 * [Beshte pushes Nduli at Kiburi, Tamka, and Sulvrie, which all soon get knocked into a pond of water. As the Guard and Makini passes by, the crocodiles effort grunt]
 * Bunga: Later, croc-iddy crocs!

To be continued…


 * Reirei: Sure. Come this way! I dare ya!

To be continued…

Main cast

 * Matthew Broderick … Simba
 * Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Matt Weinberg … Young Simba
 * Jeremy Irons … Taka / Scar
 * Seth Carr … Young Taka
 * Eden Riegel … Kiara
 * Riegel and Michelle Horn … Young Kiara
 * Nika Futterman … Zira
 * Gabrielle Union … Nala
 * Niketa Calame … Young Nala
 * Nathan Lane … Timon Berkowitz
 * George A. Mendoza … Young Timon
 * Ernie Sabella … Pumbaa Smith
 * Sabella as Himself (uncredited)
 * Jason Marsden … Kovu
 * Marsden and Ryan O'Donohue … Young Kovu
 * Blair Underwood … Makuu
 * Rowan Atkinson … Zazu
 * Khary Payton … Rafiki
 * Andy Dick … Nuka
 * Lacey Chabert … Vitani
 * Cheech Marin … Banzai
 * Jim Cummings … Ed
 * Whoopi Goldberg … Shenzi
 * Landry Bender … Makini
 * Maia Mitchell … Jasiri
 * Dusan Brown … Beshte
 * Joshua Rush … Bunga
 * Pierce Gagnon … Baby Bunga
 * Diamond White … Fuli
 * Quvenzhané Wallis … Baby Fuli
 * Atticus Shaffer … Ono
 * Peyton Elizabeth Lee … Rani
 * Julie Kavner … Ma
 * Jerry Stiller … Uncle Max
 * Angela Bassett … Sarabi
 * Max Charles … Kion
 * Jacob Tremblay … Baby Kion
 * Sterling K. Brown … Ahadi
 * Christian Myers … Africalous
 * Madison Pettis … Zuri
 * Sarah Hyland … Tiifu
 * Christian Slater … Ushari
 * Andrew Kishino … Janja
 * Ana Gasteyer … Reieri
 * Common … Kiburi
 * Greg Ellis … Mzingo
 * Chris Pratt … Star-Quill
 * Meghan Strange … Shupavu
 * Adam Driver … Sumu
 * Kath Soucie … Sarafina
 * James Earl Jones … Mufasa