What makes it all the more terrible is watching young Simba go to his father, not fully registering what has happened.
While the characters in The Lion King may be talking animals, that doesn’t make Mufasa’s death any less relatable, or his son’s grief any less palpable.
Mufasa’s death was terrible, at the hands of his own brother, but the thing that made it even more awful was that we witnessed it, right there on the screen.
Scar claws his brother and knocks him off the ledge into the animal stampede.