Pixielicious wrote:I don't mean to be insulting, I just realised this while I was reading your post. Simba and Kiara are very similar and I think the reason why people don't like her is that she is a girl!
Pardon me for dredging up an older topic, but I don't think Simba and Kiara are that similar at all. Yes, they both disobey their parents and run away from home, but the similarities don't go much further than that.
As a cub, Simba is excited as can be when he learns that he's going to be king, while Kiara does nothing but complain about the prospect of being queen, saying "it's no fun". Simba also seems to respect his father for the most part, quietly listening to his lessons and becoming thoroughly cowed when Mufasa intends to "teach him a lesson." Kiara, on the other hand, constantly interrupts her father and starts playing with a butterfly as he is telling her to be careful during the first scene we see her as a cub. She also doesn't seem to take her father's words seriously at all during the lecture he gives her after catching her with Kovu. (
(Case in point.)As adults, when Simba is told by Nala that he must help save his homeland and take his place as king, he refuses to do it until his father's ghost appears and commands him to and Rafiki whacks him on the head with his stick. Conversely, when Kiara reunites with Kovu and he asks her to run away with her and start a pride of their own, Kiara decides that they have to face their families and stop the war in what seems like less than a minute.
