The Selfish Lion | Story & Theories | The Lion King

The Selfish Lion, aka Choyo, is a villain present in the book "The Brightest Star" and is believed to be Mohatu's brother.

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[endojagon]

The story is insane. Scar promised choyo he will take over the pride lands and avenge him and that is what zira wanted to do for scar.

[leeonalequina]

I want to see Askari's (Original Lion Guard Leader's) story!
Since leaders of the Lion Guard are usually siblings of future rulers of the Pridelands, perhaps he could be the adopted/biological sibling of one of them, also focus on how the lion guard came to be, maybe as his idea, in the video!

[foxy]

Awesome story and theory!!! Also thank you for featuring my art at 9:40 ! Keep up the good work! ❤️

[alexandriadieter]

my story about him: (his real name is changa or you can call him the selfish lion). Changa follows in the pawsteps of his mother and grandmother in an attempt to win back the throne his family felt they deserved. he is harsh and gruff individual, constantly stalking the borders of the pride lands and even trespassing and causing trouble for the current king when he could get away with it. he is known throughout the land as the selfish lion for his arrogant and selfish nature. the only lions he shows any softness for is his small family.

[mirroringofthoughts-jyotis]

Two things I realised in the Lion King franchise:

1) All the bad lions look thin, weak and evil.

3) All the good lions look fit, strong and manly.

[megagodsavageredlion]

I think Choyo and Scar are related in my theory. Their striking resemblance in appearance is impossible to ignore. Choyo influenced his grandson Scar to become evil and to take over the pride lands. Scar did as his grandfather said. He did something that Choyo couldn't do in order to complete his mission which was killing his brother, Mufasa. I think Scar is more evil than his Maternal Grandfather because he killed Mufasa when Choyo didn't kill his older brother, Mohatu. Anyways, I think your theory is pretty accurate. In my theory, I think Choyo is Mohatu's younger biological brother, Ahadi's Parental Uncle and Uru's Parental Uncle-In-law or Ahadi's Parental Uncle-In-law and Uru's Parental Uncle, Mufasa and Taka/Scar's Parental or Maternal Great Uncle, and Sarabi and Zira's Parental or Maternal Great Uncle-In-law.

[legendarybluepegasus]

I like your story of The Selfish lion but I also like the idea of Choyo being Zira Grandpa. What if Choyo left to start his own Pride and that Pride end up being
Zira' s pride.

[skylafarrell]

It's funny he half hates his brother and half possibly love him for saving him as cub and nobody couldn't hate a person or anybody for that good and kind act

[carolyncline]

In my headcanon, Choyo was Mohatu's younger an biological brother. He was kicked out during the great drought, right before Mohatu got Uru with Asali (My OC mate for Mohatu).

edit: ik asali is someones oc but i didnt know until now

[themasteroflaughter]

I think it would have been very great that if Scar never became evil, when Choyo told Scar that he and his Lion Guard would have to take down even Scar and Mufasa’s own mother Uru along with Mufasa to take over the Pride Lands, Scar would be very shocked with horror at that Choyo would want to harm his (Choyo) own daughter and his and Mufasa’s mother and Scar would refuse as he loves his mother very much as well. And then Choyo would be forced to take matters into his own paws. But then upon Choyo being exposed, Ahadi would be forced to banish Choyo from the Pride Lands forever until the day Choyo dies of old age. Scar would then live happily with Mufasa, Uru, Ahadi, the Lion Guard, and the Pride and would live to see the respective births of Simba, Kopa, Kiara, and Kion.

[mudeidecanalleiaadescricao]

Can you make a theory from Chumvi and Kula? Chumvi and Kula are characters that appear in some books of the Lion King and are very similar to Scar. I would love to see some Lion King youtuber talking about them.

[joshualowe]

Choyo has the facial look of Scar and the red eyes of Zira

[bishernabulsi]

I watch Disney for villains and one of my favorite is scar and Zira I want to no what to no about Zira lions and scars hyena

[shenziness]

I think that he is brother of Mohatu since they have the same nose, similar fur color etc.That would explain why Taka looks a lot like Choyo, they are relatives to each other. My theory is that Mohatu was the father of Uru, cuz it doesn't always go like "it has to be Ahadi's father cuz he ruled before him." It could've been Uru and maybe Ahadi had a combat between Mohatu. And the book tells us that Ahadi had black mane and green eyes which we didn't see in Mohatu. Mostly the son will get the same mane as the father.

[laylakoker]

mohatu sounds so much like simba and kiara as cubs because they all was adventurous and brave

[mudeidecanalleiaadescricao]

Choyo, Scar, Zira, Nuka and Vitani. These are my favorite TLK characters.

[feliciaaubin-francis]

Hi there I love your theories about choyo aka selfish lion👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🤜🏼🤛🏼🤯

[thomashuffman]

My theory is that Mohatu banished this lion after what he did during the drought, and he ended up as the strange lion that gave Scar his scar.

[jayvonnoelsmith]

The story is insane Scar promised so great

[latishafowler]

My story
The selfish lion he met a lioness
Edit:sorry I forgot the lioness name
The lioness saw him running to hyenas she was worried but she saw was the lion and a cub she was happy that he was okay.that cub grow up and had a cub named zira the parents said kill the royal family when your older zira said yes but years later her cub kovu she saw him playing with kiara then she jumped out and simba too.years later there had cubs iron and tiff and willow