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Zira's appreciation post
(NOTE: I originally started writing this on my Twitter but decided to expand my thoughts here. As the title says, these are just my personal, jumbled thoughts about a villain that I find surprisingly interesting and wish she wasn't so overlooked just because she came from a Disney sequel. In other words: yes, I prefer Zira over Scar xd). (NOTE 2: I'm not taking into account anything stated about Zira in The Lion Guard, this journal is only about the film Simba's Pride and Zira's role in it). Imma be real with you, I think Zira is one of the most interesting Disney villains out there, but since she comes from a direct-to-video sequel she's extremely underrated. I just love how unhinged she is from the beginning and how in her demented mind she thinks she's "avenging" Scar. I love the ambiguity around her character. We never find out what her exact relationship with Scar was in-universe, yet she declares that Scar chose Kovu as his heir before he died. Is she telling the truth? Or is
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Okay I just realized something about TLK (1994) and I don't know if this is common knowledge and I've just been too stupid to realize it, but... I'm analyzing the Stampede Scene for my thesis and.. The symbolic meaning of the gorge being so dark from the dust cloud not only works as a way to set the mood, it also refers directly back to what Mufasa told Simba: A King’s time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here and will rise with you as the new king. Throughout the Stampede-scene, the sun is visible. It gradually becomes less visible with the dust rising, but even as Mufasa falls, the blue sky is visible in the background, although faintly so. As soon as he dies, the sun stops being visible - the dusty, dark gorge is not only a setting for mood, the sun has litterally set on Mufasas time as ruler. When Simba escapes to the desert, the sun is setting. Realistically not enough time has passed for it to be sunset already, but the sun
