These scenes are also meant to foreshadow Scar not pulling Mufasa up and letting him fall and be stampeded to death in The Lion King. After the Outsiders' defeat, Mufasa becomes the Lion King ...
The original The Lion King sets up Mufasa and Scar as blood brothers, but are they really? Mufasa: The Lion King clarifies their relationship. By connecting himself to the ancestors in the sky ...