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TIL that Mulan's nemesis, the depraved Mongol leader Shan Yu, has the highest kill count of any Disney villain. His scorched earth war tactics appear bloodier than Scar's brutal, hyena-backed leadership of the savanna and subsequent ecological collapse.

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