Why is Kovu brown?

[Buffy]

[quote="Banana"]Oh my god Titanics Captain, you can't just ask people why they're brown.[/quote]

Gotta love them Mean Girls references. XD

[AdAstrα]

Lol.

[PrincessKiara]

What DGFone said.

As we all know, Kovu has no relation to Scar, which can only lead us to believe that his real father had similar colourings.. and now I can`t stop wondering why/how Vitani looks the way she does.

[SlayerOfLight]

Why he is brown? Because obviously the designers wanted him to have brown fur...

[TheLionPrince]

Just for fun, here is Kovu's original design from a scan from a Disney TV Animation brochure back in 1996:

Spoiler: show

Here is a colorized version of it taken from this website:

As for the topic, Regulus, DGFone, and Princess Kiara have basically stated what I would have posted.

[OneTrueKing1]

I found coloured version of the one you posted TLP, Sorry if this has been posted but I love the original design of Kovu.

[MooLion]

[quote="Banana"]Oh my god Titanics Captain, you can't just ask people why they're brown.[/quote]

Hahaha. XD


I just figured he was brown to be similar to Scar (for comparisons like in Simba's nightmare and Kovu seeing Scar as his reflection), but show that not all lions of that darker look are all bad.

[TheLionPrince]

[quote="OneTrueKing1"]I found coloured version of the one you posted TLP, Sorry if this has been posted but I love the original design of Kovu.

[/quote]

Well, that was nice, though I already had the colorized version in my post. Click on the spoiler beneath the picture.

[cleargreenwater]

"Why is Kovu brown?"

Cuz he's FULL OF IT! At least that's what Simba was thinking.....

[Amy43]

[quote="PrincessKiara"]What DGFone said.

As we all know, Kovu has no relation to Scar, which can only lead us to believe that his real father had similar colourings.. and now I can`t stop wondering why/how Vitani looks the way she does. [/quote]
I'm thinking Kovu and Vitani's father was darker colored like Kovu, and from a genetics point of view, Kovu got his father's coloring, and Vitani got a lighter coloring like Zira. Well, Zira isn't very gold, but she's light compared to Kovu.

I think that even though Kovu and Scar aren't related, it made the story more interesting for Kovu to be darker like Scar so they could compare them.