[quote="DGFone"]In a crazy kind of way, Timon is a lot like the deleted character "Fearless Buzz". Timon chose to abandon the relative comfort and safety of the colony, and while he did cry like a baby when he finally left Ma, the simple fact that he chose to venture out on his own proves that he is much braver than the vast majority of the other meerkats in the colony.[/quote]
I'm not sure if it can be said that Timon really is like Fearless Buzz given the fact that this deleted character mostly
impressed Timon's colony by fending off a predator and instructing the colony, while doing nothing more to truly benefit the colony itself and especially their already fearful way of life. He simply doesn't change it.
With Timon, his main goal is to change the way a meerkat merely survives and I quote exactly as he points the exact reality of this when he's with Ma in the beginning:
"I wanna be where we don't have to dig tunnels and live with our heads stuck in the sand.",
a second after this part.
By the way, where you wrote that Timon cries like a baby after he leaves Ma in the beginning (assuming you're talking about the scene just before he encounters Rafiki), now that I think of it, it's mainly for comedic effect and I don't think it is fully serious.
Because in the scene when he's with his mother for the last time in the beginning, I'm actually surprised that he keeps his composure firm here and gives hope and assurance to her by telling her:
"I'll be okay.", before he leaves, without welling up one bit here. While Ma actually does, when she watches Timon beginning to walk away to set off on his journey.
"I found a place that was beyond my wildest dreams. But..., it still wasn't home." - Timon; Lion King 1 1/2 (3)
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