10 Reasons Why The Hyenas Are The True Heroes Of The Lion King

6. His Royal Highness Is A Privileged Brat

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Then, Simba actually meets the residents of the Graveyard, and he’s an entitled brat. He repeats his ingrained prejudice directly to their faces - that they are “nothing but slobbering mangy stupid poachers.” This bears repeating - he insults an entire species, to their faces, on the land that his own father segregates them to. 

The crowned prince is only a cub, but already, like his father, he’s a royal elitist. Perhaps the hyenas are deserving of their miserable fate - they are hyenas, after all. 

And for the lions, that's enough.

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