| “ | You win today, Kion. Next time won't be so easy. | „ |
| ~ Janja declares war to Kion. |
| “ | (Jasiri: Janja! What are you doing here? This isn't your territory.) Yeah, I know. I just, uh...(Jasiri: You what?) I've been thinking, 'bout something you said to me a while ago. (Jasiri: And, what's that?) Aw, you know...Sisi ni sawa means we're the same. (Jasiri: Well! I never thought I'd hear you say that.) You were right. Scar don't care about us hyenas. (Jasiri: And, what made you realize that?) The rest of my clan is trapped! In a fire at Pride Rock. (Jasiri: A fire at Pride Rock?) The Lion Guard's trapped, too. (Jasiri: And, you're standing here singing? There's no time to lose! Let's go!) Uh, uh, okay. Uh. Whatever you say Jasiri! | „ |
| ~ Janja's redemption. |
Janja is a hyena living in the Outlands and the (former) main antagonist turned supporting protagonist of the 2015-2019 Disney Channel TV Series, The Lion Guard. Formerly the sworn enemy of Kion and The Lion Guard, Janja and his clan have many conflicts with them but generally ended in failure, those which led him to summon the ghost of Scar so that he could helped defeat the guard. Under Scar's command, Janja has teamed up with all of the worst creatures in the Outlands to found an army to conquer Pridelands, but after nearly dying and being saved by his rival, Jasiri, Janja at the entanglement began to reject his diabolical lifestyle eventually accepting The Circle of Life which he had always despised and became a friend of Kion and the guard.
He was voiced by Andrew Kishino.
Personality
Janja was a cruel, greedy and ruthless hyena that eats more than his fair share, when he met Kion. they became enemies, but he reformed in Season 3, "Battle of the Pride Lands."
Appearance
He is a Brawny hyena, he is slender, handsome. and he has bushy eyebrows and a black mane with spots, he has a brownish grey underbelly. with yellow eyes, with a black nose.
History
Return of the Roar
Janja gnaws at a bone under the hungry gaze of her clan, until Bunga, Kion's best friend, enters the Outlands to recover a fruit he had dropped. Janja orders Cheezi and Chungu to grab the honey badger for the meal but they fail after Kion is awakened on the Roar of the Elders.
Janja later berates her two minions for failing because of a lion cub roar, despite claiming it was no ordinary roar. Janja's old friend Mzingo arrives at the lair of the hyenas and talks to Janja about the creation of a new Lion Guard, of which Janja knows the original story. Realizing that a new guard would make their lives and hunting more complicated and even impossible, Janja decides to launch a massive attack on Pridelands before the new guard is ready. He then sings "Tonigth We Strike" to make it clear that the Outlanders don't care about Cirle of Life and do what they want when they want. The song ends, Janja tells his henchmen to follow him and that the Pridelanders will never be the ones to bite them.
Janja's clan attacks a herd of antelope and manages to kill two off screen. Before they make other victims, the Lion Guard confronts the hyenas and succeeds in repelling them. Despite this, Janja continues to stand up to Kion and his friends because he is not afraid of them until Kion uses the Roar to repel the Outlanders. Forced to flee, the hyenas return to the Outlands but Janja stops briefly and warns Kion that he may have won this time but that the next time will not be as easy.
Season 1
Janja and her clan or sometimes just accompanied by Cheezi and Chungu make numerous incursions on Pridelands but are still confronted with the Lion Guard. Twice, Janja and the hyenas rubbed shoulders with two other members of the royal family, the first time it was Kiara who had appointed temporary queen and whom he had brought to the Outlands for a false request for peace but in truth for the trapped. The second time was when the hyenas pretended to be the guard that he was capitulating on returning to Outlands but immediately returned when the guard left and found themselves facing Nala, that they were nearly seriously injured if Kion had not not used the angry Roar.
Season 2
No longer able of their constant failures, Janja allies with the cobra, Ushari to invoke the ghost of Scar and thus finally won against his enemies. To summon Scar, they need the angry Roar and for that, Janja kidnaps Kiara to attract Kion but the rest of the successful guard saved the young lioness. As a last resort, Janja provokes Kion by spanking him to understand that he and his hyenas will never give up and that the next time they will hurt one of Kion's relatives, which pushes the lion cub to use angry roar on Janja and unknowingly invoked Scar. Now under the leadership of the most despicable lion of all time, Janja and his hyenas founded an army made up of all the vilest creatures of the Outlands (Except the Outsiders for an unknown reason).
Season 3
Janja and the rest of Scar's army spent a few years fighting the Lion Guard and the Pridelanders without ever taking advantage of them. While watching Mizimu Grove, Janja listens to the lamentations of his two minions over the groaning power of the guard before isolating herself to think about what Jasiri had told him a long time ago and finally began to sing "A New Way To Go ". At the end of the song, Janja begins to doubt his life.
Scar seeing that Janja begins to no longer be really reliable, summons him to entrust him with a mission consisting in invading the lair of the guard with his hyenas but which is in reality a trap for the guard and the hyenas. Knowing that he could possibly go out, Scar cheats on Janja with the way that Kion could beat him using the most powerful that there has ever been inside the volcano, when in reality it will only be harmful for the guard.
As expected, Janja and her clan infiltrate the repair located under Pride Rock and her chased by the Lion Guard but outside, the rest of Scar's army starts a fire on Pride Rock. Janja manages to get out while the other hyenas and the guard are stuck in the lair. Janja realizes that Scar wanted to double cross them and goes to look for the only person he can trust, Jasiri. As Jasiri sleeps, she smells the scent of Janja that shows up right after and she asks him what he is doing on his territory. Janja first admits having thought about what she had told him about Sisi Ni Sawa before revealing Scar's betrayal and the current situation of his hyenas and the guard trapped under Pride Rock.
The two hyenas find the Janja's Clan and the Lion Guard still alive, alongside the Pridelanders. Janja shows up and explains that he knows how to defeat Scar but Simba can hardly believe it because the hyena is a sworn enemy of Pride Lands. Encouraged by Jasiri, Janja tries to gain the lions' trust by clumsily singing Sisi Ni Sawa until Jasiri clarifies that he had better say what he knows. Janja tells Kion that to defeat Scar, he must use the most powerful roar in the volcano.
The next day, Janja is part of the Pridelanders army who will fight in the Outlands against Scar's army while Kion and his friends will face Scar for the last time. Scar is finally destroyed and Ushari falls into the lava of the volcano and the victorious guard leaves the volcano so that Jasiri and Janja join them and finds that Kion was scratched in the eye during the fight. When the Outlanders ask who will take care of them now that Scar is gone, Janja speaks up to say that Jasiri should lead them, which even Kion agrees to. When Kion and his friends leave, Janja lets out a sad look, probably still guilty for his old actions.
Some time after the departure of the Lion Guard, the hyenas discovered that Zira had returned and planned to invade Pride Lands, now deprived of its best defenders. Knowing that their clan has not the slightest chance against the Outsiders, Janja and Jasiri will seek Kion and the others at the Tree of Life, guided by an Asian leopard named Azaad.
Arriving at the Tree of Life, the two hyenas immediately notify the Lion Guard of the situation and without losing a moment they set off again for Pride Lands. The return trip is much faster thanks to the new mastery of the Kion Roar. Back in the Outlands and reunited with Madoa, Chungu and Cheezi, Janja and the others rush towards Pride Rock before being ambushed by Zira's daughter, Vitani and her lionesses. Janja, Bunga, Cheezi and Chungu surrounds Shabaha until the lioness throws Bunga at Janja before chasing the other two hyenas. Bunga compliments the style of the lioness while Janja finds that she does not cheerfully remind him of the honey badger. The battle ends when Kiara accompanied by Kovu arrives and put an end to the fight by revealing that Zira is dead and that all the Outsiders have joined their pride. Now relieved that all is well, the hyenas return to their territory, under the benevolent eye of the lions.
Later, Janja is among the many wedding / coronation guests of Kion and Rani.
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Trivia
- Janja and his clan are descendants of the Hyena Clan who served as antagonists in the original film, The Lion King.
- Janja is the first antagonist hyena in the The Lion King franchise to reform.
- In season 3, Janja does not seem to have aged physically, although he seems to be a little bigger as he is the same size as Teen Kion who is much bigger than when he was a cub. It is also difficult to know if Janja has become an adult since he is older than Kion and Kiara, but it should also be noted that lions and hyenas do not age at the same rate.
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