User blog comment:DragonDude83/Is Lion King's Scar a complete monster?/@comment-5967463-20150421180613/@comment-4708882-20150705154220

The "tragic past" by no means excused his actions. Even in the film they don't try to make him sympathetic or justified as they try and paint Mufasa as the brother who truly cares for and loves his brother. Scar's past may not even be canon anymore from what I'm hearing and even if you count it he tried to kill his brother at a young age showing he never cared for him and only interested in personal power and Taka was his name which when I just got done searching on Google I never found anything relating to trash and in Swahili according to what I read on the Disney wiki translates to "want" which fits him. He isn't given a strong excuse or even a redeemable traits just "I hate my brother because he became king and my young nephew for being born I'm going to kill them for the thrown".