Simba eventually corners Scar on the edge of Pride Rock, and the hyena trio overhear the helpless king telling Simba that the hyenas were the enemy and that the invasion was their fault and their idea. Shenzi and Banzai are ruthlessly beaten up by Pumbaa for calling him a 'pig,' and Zazu is freed from his bone trap. The main enemies of the hyenas in the battle are the lionesses, Rafiki, and Timon and Pumbaa. When Simba returns to overthrow Scar, the hyenas join the fight against the Pridelanders. Unconcerned by their hunger, he rebukes them sharply and does not allow them to complain nor compare his tyrannical reign to Mufasa's. Years into Scar's reign, they complain about a lack of food in the Pride Lands, but Scar ignores them. When Scar is accepting rule as king, he tells the lionesses of 'a new era, in which lion and hyena come together in a great and glorious future.' The hyenas swarm Pride Rock and reinforce Scar's corruption of the pride. It is assumed they lie to Scar about Simba's death, as Scar later announces both his brother and nephew's deaths to the lionesses.

They agree that Simba 'was as good as dead out there anyway,' and that if he came back, they'd kill him. But Simba eludes the clumsy hyenas by jumping into a thorn hedge in which they can't follow. Immediately after Scar tells Simba to run away and never return, he commands the hyenas to kill the young cub.

Later on, Banzai, Ed, and Shenzi help Scar carry out his plan to kill Mufasa by triggering the wildebeest stampede. Scar then goes on to sing ' Be Prepared,' in which more hyenas join the trio and they pledge their allegiance to Scar. Although disappointed in their failure to kill Simba, he gives them a leg of meat this either shows that the graveyard is barren or the hyenas are poor hunters. They complain about lions, but are rebuked by Scar, who appears on a ledge above them. They are later seen in a different part of the graveyard, in which most of the terrain is littered with geysers. Under the orders of Mufasa's brother Scar, they chase the cubs in an attempt to kill them, but are frightened off by Mufasa. They immediately recognize Zazu as 'Mufasa's little stooge,' and later find out that Simba is the future Lion King. Simba and his friend Nala wander into their territory and the hyena trio Shenzi, Banzai and Ed climb out of an elephant skull and surrounds the two cubs. The hyenas are first seen in the Elephant Graveyard. Mufasa's majordomo Zazu learns from a mole that hyenas are in the Pride Lands and he quickly relays the message to Mufasa, who rushes off to deal with them. The hyenas are first mentioned when Mufasa is showing his son Simba the Pride Lands. And then you can chase those slobbering, mangy, stupid poachers from dawn until dusk. Oh, young master, one day you will be king.

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