The Wildest Myths Viewers Have Been Led to Believe by Movies & Media

Myth #5 – Mufasa and Scar are Brothers

Spoiler alert: they aren’t siblings at all. In the wild, when a male lion gets old, another male comes and kills him and takes over the pride. Then the female lions go into heat and reproduce, and then the new younger lion kills the king and then he kills all the babies, making him the new leader of the pride.

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