Lion King Part VII

Introduction to three characters, the major hyenas: Shenzi, the oldest and only female of the trio.Bonzai, and Ed, not best known for his mental capacity. They are introduced coming out of the eyesockets of the gigantic elephant skull behind Simba in his moment of over-selfconfidence. Zazoo places his mall frame bravely in front of the two cubs. Shenzi speaks first, "What have we here?" Bonzai with, "I don't know, what do you think, Ed?" Ed merely laughs in response. Bonzai says, "just what I was thinking... a delicious trio of trespassers." We get a hint of their morbid sense of humor as they torment and tease the three they have caught. Zazoo tries to excuse them and says, "my, my, my look at the sun! It's time to go." (After Simba has already insulted them with Zazoo's own words.) Shenzi jumps in and blocks them while saying, "Wait, we'd love to have you stick around for dinner." this starts a battle of puns between the two. "Yeah, we could have whatever's... lion around." Shenzi retorts with, "wait, wait, wait I got one, make mine a cub sandwich. What' chu think?" Ed jumps in and awkwardly tries to tell them something, Shenzi grumpily asks, "What, Ed?" Bonzai seeing and folloeing Ed's motions asks, "hey, did we order this dinner to go?" "No, why?" Bonzai shouts, "'cause there it goes!"

The two cubs followed by Zazoo make their escape as the threesome play a game of puns. The cubs are fast enough to get further away while Shenzi, Bonzai and Ed are destracted by "dancing" Zazoo over to the "birdy boiler". After he is launched off in a burst of geyser steam the trio are interrupted in their gleeful laughing by Simba asking, "hey, why don't you pick on someone your own size?" This leaves it wide open for Shenzi, "like you?" Simba recognizes his mistake pretty quickly, "oops." And thus commences the chase scene.

This seen effectively covers what is recognized at the persecution of the followers of Jesus Christ. For thousands of years the prophets and disciples of God have been mocked, persecuted, and martyred for their beliefs. Among the names of the prophets; Noah, Moses, John the Baptist, Paul, John the Beloved, Jesus Christ Himself. And more modernly is Joseph Smith and the missionaries have similar stories of such persecutions. 1 Nephi 13:9 "And also for the praise of the world do they destroy the saints of God, and bring them down into captivity." The hyenas are trying to capture and kill Simba and Nala, much like those against the disciples of Jesus Christ target the saints.