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Hyenas are creatures that inhabit the Pride Lands. The hyenas are first mentioned when Mufasa is showing his son Simba the Pride Lands.

Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed is a featured article , which means it has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Disney Wiki community. If you see a way this page can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute. They are a trio of spotted hyenas who were loyal followers and minions of Scar. The hyenas were banished from the Pride Lands on account of their destructive eating habits, forcing them to take refuge in the Elephant Graveyard. By forming an alliance with Scar, they hope to usurp the lions and overrun the Pride Lands, thus allowing themselves and other hyenas the freedom to eat as much as they desire.

Hyenas lion king

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He also speaks and acts without thinking, complaining when the Pride Lands lacks food under Scar's rule " It's dinnertime, and we ain't got no stinkin' entrees!

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Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed is a featured article , which means it has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Disney Wiki community. If you see a way this page can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute. They are a trio of spotted hyenas who were loyal followers and minions of Scar. The hyenas were banished from the Pride Lands on account of their destructive eating habits, forcing them to take refuge in the Elephant Graveyard. By forming an alliance with Scar, they hope to usurp the lions and overrun the Pride Lands, thus allowing themselves and other hyenas the freedom to eat as much as they desire.

Hyenas lion king

Banzai , Ed , Scar formerly. Shenzi is a female hyena. She is the leader of a clan of hyenas. Initially, Shenzi and her clan lived in exile from the Pride Lands.

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Banzai even secretly confesses to both Shenzi and Ed that things were much better under Mufasa's reign than Scar's, despite the hyenas living in the elephant graveyard in exile, implying some remorse over their role in Mufasa's death. The hyenas were seen amongst the cast of The Lion King during the final scene of the short Once Upon a Studio , in which the Disney characters gather to take a centennial group photo. In the game, the trio and the Clan are desperate for food and try to eat Sora , Donald , and Goofy. Then they try to tunnel up under the egg, but end up tunneling to China, and get crushed by a cart. Too afraid to go down the cliff and believe that no cub would be able to survive that fall, Kamari and Azizi decide to tell Shenzi and Scar that they ate Simba. Maybe we should let them stay. They started an alliance with Scar only after Scar personally came to the Elephant Graveyard and revealed his plan to overthrow Mufasa with a promise that the hyenas will be allowed to hunt in the Pride Lands. He also unwittingly instigates Pumbaa's attack on them during the final battle, as when he notices Pumbaa behind them, he briefly asks Timon, his prey, who the "pig" was in reference to him, with the insult increasing Pumbaa's fury enough that he promptly charged that them and presumably managed to beat him and Shenzi severely enough to force them to retreat. Simba is hesitant to go down this hill at first, but when he sees the hyenas catching up with him, he is forced to jump down it. By forming an alliance with Scar, they hope to usurp the lions and overrun the Pride Lands, thus allowing themselves and other hyenas the freedom to eat as much as they desire. Shenzi can be just as heartless as Scar, but unlike him, her first duty is to strengthening her clan rather than the pursuit of personal power.

Inspired by African wildlife , the story is modelled primarily on William Shakespeare 's stage play Hamlet with some influence from the Biblical stories of Joseph and Moses , and follows a young heir apparent who is forced to flee after his uncle kills his father and usurps the throne. After growing up in exile, the rightful king returns to challenge the usurper and end his tyrannical rule over the kingdom.

Also, there is a running gag in the film where Azizi has a personal space issue with Kamari and keeps getting too close to him. Later while the hyenas are talking, Scar arrives in the elephant graveyard to berate the hyenas for failing to kill Simba. While still as vicious and threatening as they are in the movie, the hyenas become more neutral as the show progresses. Regardless of his shortcomings, not only does Jim Cummings insist that Ed "knows the score" and is only acting dumb, we have no strong reasons to believe otherwise. Mufasa's majordomo Zazu learns from a mole that hyenas are in the Pride Lands and he quickly relays the message to Mufasa, who rushes off to deal with them. They even appear during the first part of The Madness of King Scar in which Shenzi and Banzai give their complaints to Scar over a shortage of food and water and tell Scar that he is adored. King Ahadi comes to his rescue just in time, with his sons Mufasa and Taka Scar in tow, and demands that the hyenas leave. Her first name means "savage", "pagan", "uncouth", or "barbarous" in Swahili. A group of hyenas attempts to elect a witch doctor for their clan. In " House of Crime ", Shenzi can be seen in a cage along with other villains before they all disappear. When Shenzi comments that the hyenas would be running the show if the lions weren't around, he nods in agreement, listening to the conversation, and when Scar betrays the hyenas at the end, he understands that they have been betrayed just as well as Shenzi and Banzai, and is just as angry as they are. In another book Friends in Need , the teenage hyenas appear again at the beginning, where they are preparing to boil a teenage Zazu in the elephant graveyard , as in the first film. However, Simba is shown to have survived the fall much to the hyenas' lies. The Lion Guard. Overhunting for years, the Pride Lands became a wasteland with most of the surviving herds leaving the Pride Lands in a disastrous famine.