Did Zira really die?

[DGFone]

Falling into water from Zira's height (fifty feet or so) is the same by then as landing on solid concrete. Which is the same as crashing at 50 MPH on a road. Seeing as Zira did not have any seat-belts or air bags to save her... She's a goner.

[PrincessKiara]

I thought it was heavily implied in the movie that Zira dies. We see her fall into the river from a great height, and although the fall alone wouldn`t kill her off, we do see her paw as Zira is dragged along with the strong current, logs floating everywhere.. I always took it to mean that she drowned. I mean, Disney doesn`t have a history with dealing with bodies.. Mufasa was the exception there.
We don`t see Ziras body being smashed by the logs or washed up on the shore or anything like that, I just personally assume that the writers intended to kill her off.

[FlipMode]

I thought it was heavily implied in the movie that Zira dies. We see her fall into the river from a great height, and although the fall alone wouldn`t kill her off, we do see her paw as Zira is dragged along with the strong current, logs floating everywhere.. I always took it to mean that she drowned. I mean, Disney doesn`t have a history with dealing with bodies.. Mufasa was the exception there.
We don`t see Ziras body being smashed by the logs or washed up on the shore or anything like that, I just personally assume that the writers intended to kill her off.

... And Nuka =P his death was probably one of the most well done scenes in the entire TLK franchise, and yet so under rated. I mean you actually get to see him die in front of his mother.

But yeah, its a Disney movie... the bad guys will always be defeated and in TLK the only way to really do that is to kill them off.

[Regulus]

Falling into water from Zira's height (fifty feet or so) is the same by then as landing on solid concrete. Which is the same as crashing at 50 MPH on a road. Seeing as Zira did not have any seat-belts or air bags to save her... She's a goner.

Not at all. Water is nothing like concrete. When you land in water, it slows you down at a much, much slower rate than when you land on concrete. If her surface area is minimized on impact and the river is deep enough, she could survive.