MUFASA: Simba, let me tell you that my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
SIMBA: Really?
MUFASA: Yes. So whenever you feel alone, just remember, that those kings will always be there to guide you ... and so will I.

Scar sets a trap for his nephew, luring Simba into a gorge and having the hyenas drive a large herd of wildebeest into a stampede that Scar hopes will trample him.

Zazu finds himself trapped under a rhinoceros.

Unlike the other lions, Scar displays his claws throughout the movie.

"I don't think you really deserve this," he says as he dangles the zebra leg above them.

Disney originally planned to call Simba's epic story King of the Jungle, but there was one little problem.... Contrary to the age-old epithet, lions actually live on the savannah, not in the jungle. Oops.

The meerkat is a small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family.

The original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, with a score by Hans Zimmer.

There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round

There are only three male lions in the movie: Mufasa, Simba, and Scar.