Why didn't he just kill Simba and feed him to his Hyenas

Why didn't he just kill Simba and feed him to his Hyenas

The lionesses would have smelled dead samba on him.

He knew the MPAA was watching and didn't want to hurt ticket sales with a harder rating.

Uhm, he basically did, OP. The hyenas just failed to eat Simba.

Killing Simba would have violated NAP

He hates his brother and therefore Simba too. He could have literally strangled Simba to death.

Scar is a bitch-nigga. He could've ganged up with hyenas to kill Mufasa, but killed him indirectly. He definitely could have killed Simba himself, but he was too much of a bitch.

The only reason he fought Simba at the end was because he had to.

Simba WAS his nephew, there might have been some love there

Not enough to save the cub's life, but enough for Scar to think "I'll probably feel bad if I do this myself."

Because then, it wouldn't be Hamlet.

Why don't the lions just kill and eat the hyenas?

He tried, idiot. Simba escaped

Its a bit of as well as the fact that he's an massive egomaniac who is above doing any of the real work himself, leaving it to the lowly peons. He could have killed Simba, but that would have been dirtying his paws too much. He's just too good for that familicide.

Because that would've been 1. A casualty filled war 2. A dick move. They just don't want those faggots on their territory is all.

He can only get off by killing indirectly.

Scar is a way bigger dick than Claudius

It's not even these really. Remember that Zazu is the key witness to the whole event. Zazu sees the stampede. Scar does the whole "knock him out when he's not looking" schtick. So when Scar comes back to the pride with news of both Mufasa and Simba dying to a wildebeast stampede, the lionesses can't question his story because the majordomo confirms Scar's story. Zazu is beloved and considered a straight shooter. No one trusts Scar.

That doesn't explain why he didn't kill Simba himself when he had the chance

It took rewatching the 3D release to realize the reason Simba would conceivably believe the stampede was his fault was because he roared.

And if Zazu was awake he would have seen Scar tell Simba to fuck off and never return.

"The hyenas did it!" was his back up plan which he fell back on when confronted by Simba later in the movie.

The stampede was over. He can't kill him indirectly without soiling his own hands, so he sends the hyenas to do it. He COULD have killed him there but he'd have to explain why Simba's corpse was found right next to Mufasa's, and why his wounds could only have been inflicted by an adult lion.

He couldn't just kill Simba and let the hyenas eat both their corpses to destroy the evidence because it's a PG movie.

Why doesn't Batman just kill the Joker?

>He couldn't just kill Simba and let the hyenas eat both their corpses to destroy the evidence because it's a PG movie.
It's also pretty boring from a dramatic standpoint. Elaborate villainous plots are more fun.

As someone already said, Scar did tell the hyenas to kill Simba, but they failed and reported back that they did. If he was too much of a pussy to challenge his own brother for alpha status, he's too much of a pussy to directly kill Simba.

Also, such a scene might have made kids cry even harder and raise the rating.

Probably just didn't want to get his paws dirty. As we can see throughout the film, Scar isn't really the type for direct violence. He only even fights Simba at the end after the hyenas are defeated and he literally can't escape

Why doesn't Simba just rape Scar into submission?

Scar doesn't like dirtying his hands.

Plus, who the fuck would think a distraught lion cub could escape from 3 adult hyenas. At the bottom of a canyon. He was aided by Mufasa and Zazu last time they chased him.