The Lion King's central trauma is not Mufasa's death. It is the transfer of guilt to a successor. The screenplay engineers Simba's exile through internalized blame rather than external banishment. Scar does not simply remove Simba. He installs a false narrative that Simba accepts as truth. This is a sophisticated use of psychological causality in a family film. Structurally, this is guilt-driven character removal. Simba exits the story not because he is defeated, but because his identity collaps

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