TLK FAQs

[Moka]

So I just had an idea: How about we compile a list of Frequently Asked Questions in The Lion King Universe to get newcomers caught up on all the cool little facts. I figure that we can post a bunch of FAQs in this topic and when it looks full enough, I could make it a page on MLK. So submit some FAQs!

I'll start with one (your answers don't have to be quite so long...I picked a disputable topic >.<).

Is Scar Kovu's Father?
Kovu and Zira both say that Scar was not the father of Kovu. But since its a matter of trusting their word, its a pretty often disputed issue among fans. If we look on the more natural side of things, lions do not inbreed (they do not mate with related members of the pride). One could argue that, because Kovu and Kiara might be unaware of their relation, it would be as if they were unrelated to begin with. Which means they would have no idea they were mating even though they were cousins. Even so, most fans agree with the characters of Simba's Pride stating that Scar is not Kovu's father.

[Zeke]

Thats a great idea Moka. Ill start thinking of some

[Panda-chan]

Who is Kopa/Tanabi?
He is the cub you see at the end of the first film. In the second one, a girl cub is presented instead. Disney keeps saying that the cub in the first film is Kiara, but everyone knows that can't be true because they look too different. Kopa also appears in a few of the stories in the Lion King: Six New Adventures Series. In the series, he is Simba's son. He looks exactly like cub Simba except that he has a tuft of brown hair on his head like Kovu.

[Simba]

ooo, here's one:

Are there missing scenes that were in theaters that weren't in the video?

Possibly. Most say that it's exactly the same. However, Erin Hughes claims he remembers different scenes from a very early release that might have been ultimately cut from the overall release:

[quote]I saw TLK when it first premered in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) in theaters. There is missing footage from the VHS version! It is not easy to remember all the parts from that long ago, but here are the parts that are very clear in my memories...
"In the scene where Pumbaa trails off from Timon after a horned beetle, he comes across the fallen log. After hiding behind a tree and crouching under one side of the log, he slowly rises his head and stares at the beetle right before he attempts to eat it. At this point, seconds before Nala enters the picture, the beetle squirt black ink in Pumbaa's face then flies off. At this point, Nala is shown stalking & preparing to pounce from the shrubs. As Pumbaa screams, the ink is gone."
"When Simba decides on returning to the Pridelands; in the VHS version he is shown racing across the desert, then appearing in the Pridelands on a cliff. In the theater, this part was much longer running. It showed Simba racing out of the jungle, then faded to the desert, then faded to the thorns (by the gorge) then Simba arrived on the rock in the Pidelands."
This part was more confusing...
"When Simba confronts Scar at the end of the movie at Pride Rock, Scar points up to the many hyenas on the cliffs and says, "You see them?" Then the hyenas all dive off the cliff and attack Simba.
(The part where the hyenas are on Simba is in the VHS movie).
"Scar looks over to the lionesses and says, "They think I'm king." I cannot back that up, it is just in my memory from the theater experiance. Because after Scar says, "They think I'm king" Nala says, "Well, we don't". I do not remember that part in theaters.
I may be one of a select ,many to have seen TLK in theaters upon the first day of release. Approximately 6 months later a griend of mine went to a theater in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick and saw TLK in a theater. She did not see the parts that I have stated above. When the VHS version came out on VHS, she said that there was no difference between that of the VHS & the theater.[/quote]

[Moka]

Personally I think he was disillusioned
I've seen it in theatres but have no recollection of those scenes...I saw it very early in its theatre life, too. But I dunno, maybe I just have a bad memory!

[Simba]

I'm not sure either, I saw within a week or 2 of release...but then I was 2 so it's a little fuzzy. that's why I only put possibly. but he saw it the first day, so maybe by the end of that week they decided to cut it down a few minutes for more convenient timing or to add another preview? the only thing that I might, I'm not sure, recall of what he saw is the extended running scene......but that's pushing the limits of my brain's memory, as TLK is my earliest memory ever.

[Moka]

Well it'd be tough to edit the rolls of film. Disney can't just give the command to cut parts of the TLK film roll and *magically download* the new film slides. I mean, once a theatre gets a film roll that's it. Thats the theatrical version and they can't change it.

[Simba]

true, I didn't think of that. either this guy has a bad memory, or the theater he went to had a different roll of footage which is highly unlikely.

[Arani]

Which cub is shown at the end on TLK 1?

A: It's debatable. Some people say that it's Kopa because of the little tuft of hair at the top of it's head and it's look is dfferent. Other's say that it's Kiara, and some say that TLK people just got lazy! (These are things I've read on random sites that I probably wont be ble to find again, lol.)

[LionKing4EVR96]

Erin Hughes claim is ambiguous, but I actually believe him.