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[[File:Scar - The Lion King (1994).png|thumb|200px|left|Scar from ''The Lion King''.]]

Scar, formerly known as Prince Taka, originates from the Disney 1994 film {{w|The Lion King|''The Lion King''}}, voiced by Jeremy Irons. At the beginning of the film, Scar did not attend Mufasa's new-born cub Simba's presentation to the kingdom, much to Mufasa's disappointment. Resentful about having lost the throne to the Pride Lands to his older brother and now to his nephew, the next rightful heir, Scar's jealousy for the both of them intensifies over the years as he plots to kill them. In order to accomplish this, he begins to build an army of hyenas by bribing them with food. When a young Simba and Nala journey to the Elephant Graveyard, Scar sends his hyenas, Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, to eat them, but watches with displeasure as his plan was foiled by the timely arrival of Mufasa. Afterwards, he lures Simba into a gorge where a pack of wildebeest were migrating through. Mufasa was able to save Simba from being trampled to death, but he was struggling on the edge a cliff, where Scar confronts his brother and reveals his evil intentions before flinging Mufasa to his death in the stampede. Scar tricks Simba into running away from the Pride Lands by making him believe that he was responsible for the death of Mufasa. Simba does so, and Scar then sics his hyenas after him to guarantee Simba's death. Scar took over the Pride Lands, using the hyenas to ensure his reign goes undisputed. Under his tyranny, the Pride Lands became overrun by hyenas, and the excess of predators drove the herds away, while a drought deprived them of water. In addition, he passes a law to prevent the subjects from speaking about Mufasa. In spite of near starvation, Scar forbids anyone from leaving the Pride Lands.

A few years later, an adult Simba returns to the Pride Lands to reclaim the throne from Scar. Upon seeing his nephew alive (the hyenas lied to him that they killed Simba), a shocked Scar feigns relief of his nephew's survival and forces Simba to admit that he is responsible for his father's death. Scar backs Simba to edge of a cliff and reveals to him that he was truly responsible for Mufasa's death. Enraged, Simba coerces him into confessing the truth to the entire clan. In an act of desperation to preserve his life, Scar tries to blame the hyenas for Mufasa's death. When Simba chooses to exile Scar rather than kill him, Scar appears to concede, but then blinds his nephew by brushing embers into his face and fights his nephew. After a fierce battle between the two, Scar is thrown off a cliff and survives the fall, but is then mauled to death by the hyenas whom he had previously betrayed.