History Characters / TheLionKing2019

[[Characters/TheLionKingSimba The protagonist of the story]], Crown Prince of the Pride Lands.

[-[[Characters/TheLionKingFirstFilm First Film]] ([[Characters/TheLionKingSimba Simba]] | [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]]) | [[Characters/TheLionKingSecondFilm Second Film]] | [[Characters/TheLionKingMidquelFilm Midquel Film]] | ''Characters/TimonAndPumbaa'' | ''Characters/TheLionGuard'' | [[Characters/TheLionKingExtendedMedia Extended Media]] | '''2019 Film'''-]]]]]

* BassoProfundo: James Earl Jones lends his naturally deep, booming voice to the role one more time.

* BassoProfundo: Thanks to Chiwetel Ejiofor.

* FatalFlaw: Family. His love for his family is exploited by his brother Scar, who often tricks Simba into dangerous situations that force Mufasa to rescue him at the risk of his own life. And even though Mufasa knows of Scar's envy and rage thanks to a brutal fight between the two over the throne, he refuses to banish him because he is still family no matter what. This eventually leads to his own death.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Chiwetel Ejiofor has described his version of Scar as more "psychologically possessed" and "brutalized" than his 1994 incarnation, with the added implication that the relationship between he and his brother Mufasa is already "completely destroyed" by the time Scar even comes around to the idea of regicide/fratricide.

* EvilCounterpart: Both Simba and Scar are princes at the beginning of the story and display the same careless attitude about being king, believing it to be all about the power and the privilege and not the duties. However, Simba eventually outgrows such beliefs and is ready and willing to be the just ruler Mufasa taught him to be. Scar, on the other hand, never learned the responsabilities of being king and rules thinking it's all about him and he can do whatever he wants.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite their hatred of Mufasa, they do acknowledge that he is the ruler of the Pridelands and stay out of his territory[[note]]Although it's possible they simply don't want to be killed by Mufasa[[/note]]. Shenzi even reminds scar of this, until Scar convinces them to help him take over the Pridelands.

->'''Voiced by:''' JD [=McCrary=] (young), Creator/DonaldGlover (adult)

->'''Voiced by:''' Shahadi Wright Joseph (young), Music/{{Beyonce}} (adult)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JamesEarlJones, Aaron Pierre (young)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlfreWoodard

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor, Kelvin Harrison Jr. (young)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnKani
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JonFavreau and Creator/TerryNotary[[note]]both men served as motion capture reference[[/note]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnOliver

->'''Timon voiced by:''' Creator/BillyEichner (English), Creator/JamelDebbouze (European French)
->'''Pumbaa voiced by:''' Creator/SethRogen

[[folder:Shenzi, Kamari, and Azizi]]

->'''Shenzi voiced by:''' Creator/FlorenceKasumba
->'''Kamari voiced by:''' Creator/KeeganMichaelKey
->'''Azizi voiced by:''' Creator/EricAndre

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AmySedaris (guinea fowl), Music/ChanceTheRapper (galago), Josh [=McCrary=] (elephant shrew), Creator/PhilLaMarr (topi)

* WouldHitAGirl: Though he doesn't fight her for real, Simba is not afraid to pounce on his friend Nala and wrestle her. Too bad she's stronger than him and always gets the upper hand. It becomes a bit more serious when she attacks Timon and Pumbaa, but he stops after recognizing her.

* WouldHitAGirl: Not directly in Nala's case, but he would have her killed by the hyenas along with Simba. And then directly in the case of Sarabi, who he outright attacks in a rage when she says he is nothing compared to Mufasa.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Additionally, despite their hatred of Mufasa, they do acknowledge that he is the ruler of the Pridelands and stay out of his territory[[note]]Although it's possible they simply don't want to be killed by Mufasa[[/note]]. Shenzi even reminds scar of this, until Scar convinces them to help him take over the Pridelands.

* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** They're disgusted by Scar's using them as pawns and attempt to throw them under the bus to save his own skin.
** Additionally, despite their hatred of Mufasa, they do acknowledge that he is the ruler of the Pridelands and stay out of his territory[[note]]Although it's possible they simply don't want to be killed by Mufasa[[/note]]. Shenzi even reminds scar of this, until Scar convinces them to help him take over the Pridelands.

The protagonist of the story, Crown Prince of the Pride Lands.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AmySedaris (guinea fowl), Chance Bennett (galago), Josh [=McCrary=] (elephant shrew), Creator/PhilLaMarr (topi)

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Downplayed here. Though still beloved and mourned by everyone except his murderers, Mufasa wasn't vindicated in the hyenas' eyes like in the original. [[BreadAndCircuses Thanks to Scar giving them the royal treatment]] (as opposed to taking a hands-off approach), the hyenas never express belief that life was better under Mufasa.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: The pride still deeply respects her and views her as the true ruler of the Pride Lands after Mufasa's death. Her hold over the lionesses is strong enough that one of the reasons Scar tries to court her is so he can finally become the legitimate ruler in the pride's eyes.

* BerserkButton: Though he doesn't make a law against saying Mufasa's name here, he still gets angry when he gets compared to his brother, and claims to be "ten times" the king he was.

* CoolUncle: He acts as one to Simba in his childhood, always instigating his curiosity. Too bad he was too naive to see what his uncle really was.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. Scar is selfish and only thinks about himself and nobody else but, in contrast to his animated counterpart, seems to be actually a lion of his word. In the original film he told the hyenas they will never starve under his reign but it is implied he never lived to his word as Shenzi and Banazi moan there is no food and Scar wearily offers them Zazu as food instead. In this film he keeps to his side of the bargain after telling the hyenas they will get plenty of food once he is king and even goes as far to help them hunt. He even goes as far to punish Sarabi when she refuses to be his mate by having the hyenas have first dips of the food first while the pride starve. However, he still blames them for Mufasa's death once they have no more use to him. Scar was just being pragmatic.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a nasty one to Simba at the film's climax, mercilessy preying on his self-loathing and guilt over Mufasa's death. He almost succeeds, only to reveal his crimes himself and get exposed as the true murderer.

* RomancingTheWidow: An unsympathetic version of the trope. He wastes no time trying to make Sarabi his queen when she is likely still grieving Mufasa's death, and bluntly tells her to get over it. When she refuses, he punishes her and her pride of lioneses by denying them any food.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor

* AuthoritySoundsDeep / EvilSoundsDeep: Heartless pack leader Shenzi is depicted with a low, husky voice.

->'''Voiced by:''' JD [=McCrary=] as a cub, Creator/DonaldGlover as an adult.

->'''Voiced by:''' Shahadi Wright Joseph as a cub, Music/{{Beyonce}} as an adult.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JamesEarlJones

* ContraltoOfDanger: Heartless pack leader Shenzi is depicted with a low, husky voice.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the king of the Pride Lands and the strongest lion around in his time. In this version, he took on dozens of hyenas to save Simba and is implied to have fought Scar for the throne in the past, and won. Notably, his brother had to rely on treachery and a stampede to kill him.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She’s the largest, most powerful lioness in the pride befitting her status as queen. She is mentioned to already be leading the charge fending off a hyena intrusion early in the film. When she rejects Scar for the last time and he attacks her, she shows no visible difficulty in fighting back and later joins the final battle in earnest.

* BringIt: When Zazu warms her that eating Simba and Nala will start a war with Mufasa, Shenzi scoffs that hyenas and lions have always been at war and tried to go through with it. It turns out to be a bluff, however, once Mufasa comes to the cubs’ rescue and Shenzi doesn’t even try to fight him and vehemently swears they will never come near them again.

* NeverMyFault: When Simba walks off, clearly hurt by the pair laughing at his belief that the kings are watching them, Timon claims he didn't laugh and blames Pumbaa for everything. Later, he says Pumbaa invented the "meaningless line of indifference" take on "Hakuna Matata", but Pumbaaa immediately calls him out on it.

* TokenHuman: He is the only hominid in the film with a major role. As such, he is also the only character who had motion capture done for his face and body, since both mandrills and humans are apes and can be animated similarly without crossing into the uncanny valley.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Elephant shrews, bat-eared foxes, aardvarks, galagos, guineafowl and topi aren't exactly well-represented in cinema. Oddly, the topi is listed as "Impala" in the credits.

[-[[Characters/TheLionKingFirstFilm First Film]] ([[Characters/TheLionKingSimba Simba]] | [[Characters/TheLionKingMufasa Mufasa]] | [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]]) | [[Characters/TheLionKingSecondFilm Second Film]] | [[Characters/TheLionKingMidquelFilm Midquel Film]] | ''Characters/TimonAndPumbaa'' | ''Characters/TheLionGuard'' | [[Characters/TheLionKingExtendedMedia Extended Media]] | '''2019 Film'''-]]]]]

* VillainousBreakdown: After Sarabi delivers the ArmorPiercingQuestion in the form of "How did you see the look in Mufasa's eyes?!", therefore exposing him as the true murderer of Mufasa, Scar loses all composure and angrily orders the hyenas to [[KillThemAll "KILL THEM ALL!"]], culminating in him screaming this gem during his final fight against Simba: