Board Thread:Lion Guard Discussion/@comment-27393094-20160905181058/@comment-4241330-20180902034834

The Lion King franchise is basically a metaphor for conservation. Scar's hyenas overhunted and thus brought the Pridelands to waste. The Lion Guard is trying to prevent that from happening again.

The villains have a tendency to either overhunt animals - often trespassing and hunting without permission - or kill just for the sake of it, like poachers in real life ("slobbering mangy stupid poachers"). Heck, Makucha even has an interest in hunting rare animals - an okapi, a golden zebra, a tortoise. They don't know how to respect the Circle of Life. The 'good predators' hunt only what they need and allow their prey to fill their role in nature.

It could be that the hyenas hunted senselessly on their turf until there was nothing left, leaving them hungry. That may need more elaboration. This understandably painted hyenas in a bad light and TLG attempted to remedy this by adding Jasiri and to prevent similar stereotypes for other predators (Badili to Makucha).