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Kovu

2011-04-13T01:53:52Z

Amanda:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = AdultKovu.png
| Img_capt = Kovu
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Scar
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Mate of [[Kiara]], Adopted Son of [[Scar]], Son of [[Zira]], Brother of [[Nuka]] and [[Vitani]], Son-in-law of [[Simba]] and [[Nala]]
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]''
| Voice_Actors = Ryan O'Donohue (cub), Jason Marsden (adult), Gene Miller (adult singing voice)
}}

{{Quote|Kovu... I was wrong. You belong here.|[[Simba]]}}

'''Kovu''' is the son of [[Zira]] and the adopted son of [[Scar]]. He is also the half-brother of [[Nuka]] and [[Vitani]]. He was originally intended to be named ''Nunka'' and be the son of [[Scar]], but this was changed as this would make him [[Kiara]]'s cousin. Instead, he became Scar's adopted son and heir.

== Physical Attributes ==

Kovu is a brown-colored lion with a dark brown mane and tail-tip and a muscular build. His eyes are emerald green with yellow scleras. As an adult he has a scar over his left eye that he received from Zira.

== The Lion King II: Simba's Pride ==

{{Quote|Oh, haven't you met my son, Kovu? He was hand-chosen by [[Scar]] to follow in his pawprints, and become King!|[[Zira]] to [[Simba]]}}
[[File:ImKiara.jpg|thumb|left|Kovu and Kiara play tag]]

Kovu first appears in the movie when Kiara tumbles into him from falling off a log. Kovu reacts aggressively at first but soon begins to tease Kiara for being "daddy's little girl". As the two wander to a body of water they are attacked by crocodiles. The cubs evade the crocodiles and begin to play, but are interrupted by Zira and Simba. The two confront each other before picking up their cubs and leaving.

Later, Zira yells at Kovu for being friendly towards a [[Pridelander]]. Kovu tells his mother that he thought Kiara could become friends with him. Zira berates him at first, but then realizes that gaining Kiara's trust would be a great way to infiltrate Simba's pride.

Zira trains and conditions Kovu until he is a young adult. When she deems him ready, Zira sends Kovu out on his mission to kill Simba. Nuka and Vitani help by starting a fire while Kiara is out on her first hunt. Kovu is able to save Kiara from the fire and gain the trust of the Pridelanders.

Later that night, when the lions fall asleep, Kovu appears in Simba's nightmare. In the nightmare, Mufasa is slipping down into the gorge. Simba tries to help him, but Scar appears on the ledge, mocking and cackling. After Mufasa falls, Scar morphs into Kovu. Kovu then grabs Simba's arms like Scar did to Mufasa, and lets go. While Simba is falling down into the stampede, he wakes up from his nightmare, panting.

The next morning, Kovu prepares to attack Simba while he is drinking from the water hole, but Kiara interrupts him to begin the hunting lesson. The pair soon stumble upon Timon and Pumbaa who are trying to chase some birds away from their favorite feeding site. The two lions roar, scattering the birds. They all chase the birds until angering a crash of rhinoceroses. In escaping from the rhinos, Kovu and Kiara accidentally kiss.

That night, Kovu and Kiara lie under stars and look at star formations. This leads them to offhandedly talking about Kovu's past. Kiara starts to nuzzle him when he expresses his fear of becoming like Scar, but Kovu leaves when he is unable to tell her his true intentions. Rafiki intervenes and takes them to a place called Upendi, which means "love" in Swahili.

[[File:Kiko.png|thumb|250px|Kiara and Kovu]]

As they venture back to Pride Rock, Kovu has Simba on his own. Now seeing a better life with Kiara in the Pride Lands, he refuses to attack him. Vitani waits for Kovu to attack, and reports back to an angry Zira when he doesn't.

The next morning, Kovu resolves to confess to Kiara his true reasons for coming to the Pride Lands and that he has abandoned the plot. However, before Kovu can do so, Simba takes Kovu out for a walk through the fire-ravaged lands. As they walk, they discuss the true nature of Scar, but they are ambushed by Zira and the Outsiders. Zira congratulates Kovu, but Kovu panics as he realizes he inadvertently completed the plot he abandoned. Kovu attempts to save Simba, but one of the Outsiders knocks him into a rock, rendering him unconscious.

Simba is attacked and falls into a gorge where a log dam is holding back the river. Simba climbs the log dam to safety and Kovu has a chance to attack him, but doesn't. Nuka, wanting to impress Zira, climbs the log dam and manages to grab Simba's ankle, but is killed when some logs dislodge and crush him. Zira blames Nuka's death on Kovu and slashes him across the face, giving Kovu a scar resembling Scar's. As Zira demands to her son to admit his responsibility for killing his brother, Kovu's stands up to his mother for the first time and runs back to the Pride Lands, where he is promptly exiled by Simba.

Kiara, distraught, runs away to find Kovu. The two meet in the grasslands and proclaim their love that transcends their pride's rivalry. Kovu wishes to run away with Kiara to start their own pride. Kiara refuses, saying that they must return to try and unite their divided prides. They both run back to the Pride Lands, crossing the log dam that has now been weakened, attempting to stop a fight between the two prides. Kovu and Kiara stop the fight, but Zira leaps at Simba. Kiara knocks her aside and the two tumble into a gorge where Zira refuses to take Kiara's paw and falls into the river and drowns.

The now united prides return to Pride Rock where Kovu and Kiara are married with him becoming her prince consort. With order restored, Simba, Nala, Kiara and Kovu roar out across the kingdom while the spirit of Mufasa praises his son for his wisdom.

== Trivia ==

*Kovu is the only Outlander with permanently extended claws.
*He was originally scripted as the son of Scar, but realizing the incestuous undertones this would have had with his romance with Kiara (as Kovu would have been her first cousin, once removed), it was scrapped and clarified that he had no relation to Scar, and was his adopted son.

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Official characters]]
[[Category:Movie characters]]
[[Category:Characters from The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride]]
[[Category:Lions]]
[[Category:Outsiders]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Pridelanders]]
[[Category:Protagonist]]

Elephant Graveyard

2011-04-13T01:36:53Z

Amanda:

{{Infobox Place
| Img = Elephantgraveyard.jpg
| Img_capt = The Elephant Graveyard
| Home_to = [[Hyenas]]
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King (film)|The Lion King]]'', ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]'', ''[[The Lion King 1½]]''
}}

The '''Elephant Graveyard''' is a dry, barren land, mainly inhabited by hyenas. It is not known if it is the same place as the [[Outlands]], but it is assumed to be nearby. Like the Outlands, the Elephant Graveyard is not within the boundaries of the [[Pride Lands]], and is said described as a "shadowy place". It is full of bones and geysers.

== ''[[The Lion King]]'' ==
[[Simba]] and [[Nala]] secretly planned to sneak past [[Zazu]] so they could go to the Elephant Graveyard.The two cubs managed to lose Zazu.Then they fell into the Elephant Graveyard after playing a game.The two cubs decided to explore the graveyard but then Zazu caught up with them and told them to go back to the [[Pride Lands]] but Simba refuses.Suddenly,[[Shenzi]],[[Banzai]] and [[Ed]],three hyenas who were hired by [[Scar]] to kill Simba and Nala chased the cubs and then they caught Zazu and they boiled him in a geyser.The hyenas then chased the cubs again until they had them cornered.[[Mufasa]] then saves the cubs from the three hyenas.Scar,who was angered by the hyenas's failure to kill Simba and Nala,tells them to help him kill Mufasa and Simba and promised them that they will never go hungry again.When Scar became king after Mufasa's death.The hyenas left the Elephant Graveyard to take over the Pride Lands.

== ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]] ==
{{Quote|This place is even creepier since the hyenas ran off.|[[Nuka]]}}
[[Nuka]] and [[Vitani]] went to the Elephant Graveyard to light two sticks on fire by the geysers to set the Savanna on fire.

== ''[[The Lion King 1½]] ==
The Elephant Graveyard was visited by [[Timon]] and [[Pumbaa]] while they were looking for a new home. They see [[Mufasa]] rushing to save [[Simba]], who is being attacked by the native hyenas.

==Known Residents==
* [[Shenzi]]
* [[Banzai]]
* [[Ed]]
* Other Hyenas

[[Category:Locations]]

Pride Lands

2011-04-13T01:32:34Z

Amanda: /* Related Places */

{{Infobox Place
| Img = Simba and Mufasa walk through the Pride Lands.jpg
| Img_capt = [[Simba]] and [[Mufasa]] walk through the Pride Lands.
| Home_to = [[Pridelanders]]
| Appearances = [[The Lion King]], [[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]], [[The Lion King 1½]]
}}

The '''Pride Lands''' is the main setting for all three Lion King movies and for spin-off books, comics, etc. In the Pride Lands, a lion rules as king (called the [[The Lion King (title)|Lion King]]). The Lion King keeps the peace between the animals. When a Lion King dies, his eldest son usually takes his place.

== Residents and Visitors ==

The Pride Lands are inhabited by the [[Pridelanders]] for the entirety of The Lion King movies, books, comics and other media. In [[The Lion King]], the Pridelanders considered leaving because of a shortage of food under [[Scar]]'s rule, but when [[Simba]] returned as king, things returned to normal.

== Related Places ==

* [[Pride Rock]] is a mountain-like rock in the Pride Lands.
* The [[Elephant Graveyard]] lies beyond the northern border of the Pride Lands.
* The [[Outlands]] border the Pride Lands.
* The [[Zuberi River]] cuts through the Pride Lands.
* [[Zulu Falls]] is in the Pride Lands.

[[Category:Locations]]

Pridelanders

2011-04-13T01:28:19Z

Amanda: /* Physical Appearance */

{{Infobox Group
| Img = Pridelanders resting on a rock.jpg
| Img_capt = The Pridelanders sleeping in the den of [[Pride Rock]].
| Appearances = [[The Lion King]], [[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]], [[The Lion King 1½]]
| Home = [[Pride Lands|The Pride Lands]]
| Leader = [[Simba]]
| Notable_members = [[Mohatu]]

[[Ahadi]]

[[Uru]]

[[Mufasa]]

[[Scar]]

[[Sarabi]]

[[Simba]]

[[Nala]]

[[Kopa]]

[[Kiara]]
}}

The '''Pridelanders''' are a pride of lions that inhabit the [[Pride Lands]]. Their leader, the Lion King, rules the kingdom of the Pride Lands from [[Pride Rock]]. The Pridelanders are the pride of focus in all three movies as well as many spin-off books and comics. Their current leader, or Lion King, is [[Simba]], although there have been [[The Lion King (title)#List of Known Lion Kings|many Lion Kings before him]].

== Physical Attributes ==

Although there are exceptions, Pridelanders generally have golden fur, reddish manes, and pink or brown wedge-shaped noses. They tend to be bulkier than Outlanders due to the fact that there is a greater availability of food in the Pridelands.

{{stub}}

[[Category:Prides]]

The Lion King Series Movie Mistakes

2011-04-09T23:35:56Z

Amanda: /* Continuity Errors */

==[[The Lion King]]==
===Continuity Errors===

* When Timon rides Pumbaa through the vultures that are crowding around Simba, they run right over where Simba should be, but he's not there. Two seconds later, after all the vultures are gone, Simba is back.

* Nala's eyes change from blue to green quite often during the movie.

* When Simba and Nala fall through the dead elephant, there are some small rocks near them. But after the hyenas say, "Here kitty kitty kitty," Simba makes a small roar and the rocks are gone.

* During the stampede in the gorge, when Simba jumps up on the dead branch, he leaves very distinct claw scratches. Then in the following scenes they're gone, although other marks and details on the branch remain.

* When Rafiki is showing Simba where his father is, Simba is following Rafiki through the trees and they arrive at a river/lake. Rafiki says 'shh' and pulls the grass apart. The thing is, he pulls away one side of the grass and the other side parts as well without him moving it.

* Mufasa's eyes flicker from yellow to white briefly while he says, "Let an old pro show you how it's done," in the Morning Report scene.

* When Rafiki dips his fingers in the orange paint to put a mane on Simba's picture, the paint is not on his thumb. He raises his hand up close to the picture, then, a split second later in the next shot, the paint is on his thumb with which he starts to paint the mane. He did not have time to dip his hand in again.

* After Pumbaa kisses Simba's feet, Timon says, "Don't he's not the king," he puts his hands on the middle of Pumbaa's snout. But in the very next shot, Timon's hands are now at the top of Pumbaa's snout.

* The whites of Simba's eyes change frequently through the movie, from yellow to white. They're yellow up until the scene where Pumbaa, Timon, and Simba are stargazing; after that they change back and forth frequently. During the Mufasa-in-the-sky scene, when Simba asks, "How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be," they change from yellow to white and back within three frames.

* When Simba and the animals begin to tower up on each other towards the end of the song "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", a shot shows that the red elephants are close to the bottom of the tower. The camera begins to scan upwards and the antelope are towards the top where Simba and Nala show up. When the animals all fall and quick shots show how jumbled they get, a red elephant somehow ends up falling on top of an antelope's antlers which shouldn't be possible.

* When the three hyenas are chasing little Simba, Banzaii (a hyena) flies into a thorn patch. When he comes out, he is covered in thorns. Then he walks over to the edge with Shenzi, and all of the thorns are gone (the ones he didn't pull out).

* When Mufasa is showing Simba how to pounce, Zazu is facing backwards when Simba pounces on him, but when Simba has Zazu pinned to the ground, his paws are on Zazu's front. Simba would hardly have released Zazu to let him turn round. (In the new release of an Extended-Version DVD, Zazu sings a song called "Morning Report" which was deleted from the original release. Zazu's change in position comes from the material that was cut. Still a mistake, but there's the explanation.)

* During the scene where little Simba and Scar are talking about how Simba is "gonna rule it all" and Scar explains about the elephant graveyard, the pads of Scar's paws change shape several times. Sometimes the pads are as they should be, other times its covered with color.

* During the presentation of Simba, two elephants kneel down. In the overhead shots before and after, there is only a group of three and one apart from the others.

* When Scar pushes Shenzi and Banzi into the geysers, they go flying across the cave. But when Scar is tiptoeing up the ridge, Shenzi is right next to him. Then, when all three are in the bone pile, she's there as well (with the long skull in the middle).

* When Mufasa confronts Scar after the ceremony, Scar walks away and Mufasa follows. Zazu has disappeared from his hiding spot behind Mufasa's leg and reappears later.

* When the three hyenas are chasing Simba and Nala in the elephant graveyard, one of them is standing on top of a bone, then next second the bone is gone.

* This is hard to see, but look at the whiskers on all the lions, the number of them changes about 100 times, especially little Simba.

===Factual Errors===

* When Mufasa is showing Simba the kingdom from Pride Rock they are facing the sun, yet Pride Rock's shadow is visible below them. Also in the same position, you see that they have shadows behind them. Then a few seconds later when Simba sees the shadow area the shadows are in front of them while you can see part of the sun to their left side. They would be facing south when the sun is east. How are their shadows in front of them?

* When Simba and Nala meet as adults, they rub heads and begin to purr. Lions can purr, but they only purr when they exhale, and Simba and Nala were purring when inhaling and exhaling, like house cats.

* During the scene "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" when animals begin to tower up on each other with Simba revealed at the top, there are anteaters on the tower, flicking their tongues out. Giant Anteaters, in fact all anteaters are restricted to South America, none exist in Africa. A more appropriate choice would have been an Aardvark or even Aardwolf which both have long tongues, but this is probably as much for show as for ignorance.

* When Mufasa is initially showing Simba the pridelands they are facing the rising sun - in other words east. Simba asks about "that shadowy place" which is off to the right, and is told he must never go there. When Simba is later telling Scar about seeing the whole kingdom, Scar says "He didn't tell you what's beyond that rise on the northern border." It's the same place that Mufasa was talking about, as Simba says he's not allowed to go there, but if it was to the right as they faced east it would have been the southern border of the pridelands.

===Possibly Deliberate Errors===

* At the elephant graveyard, little Simba claws Shenzi in the face. When Mufasa saves Simba from the hyenas, the cuts are gone, a few seconds later. This may have been done intentionally for two reasons, the first being, Disney doesn't let fresh scars linger on the screen too long. Secondly, during that same scene when Mufasa rescues Simba and Nala, he claws Banzai in the rear. To stress the point later in the movie, that severe scar is shown too, but only briefly, it too disappears because of reason one.

* Rafiki is supposed to be a mandrill, but mandrill's do not have tails. In the recently released Extended-Version DVD, there is a commentary by an animator who specifically admits that he knew that mandrills don't have tails (at least not like the length that Rafiki sports throughout the movie), but he put one on him anyway to make him more monkey-like.

* As the rain extinguishes the fire at Pride Rock, Simba passes Zazu, who bows to him and you see him mouthing words to Simba. The words "your majesty" were cut out of the film, in order to have a poignant silent moment.

==[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]==
===Continuity Errors===

* Zira scratched Kovu across the face and gave him a scar on his left eye earlier in the film. As Zira plummets to her death, they show Kovu choking back tears. Look closely, and you will see that his scar has miraculously disappeared! In the next shot, he has his scar again.

* When Zira is singing "My Lullaby" the cut on her ear is on one ear, then the other, then back again. It does this four times by the end of the song.

* When Simba and adult Kovu are walking through the burnt forest, they are ambushed by the Outsiders. But when there is the aerial shot of them walking, the Outsiders are nowhere to be seen. (DVD widescreen).

* Toward the end of the song "One Of Us" when Kovu is running away and the birds are chasing him, Simba is standing on Pride Rock looking down at Kovu. In the next shot of Pride Rock, Simba is gone, but in the next shot, Simba is back, in the same position as in the first shot.

* In the scene where Zira and Kiara are rolling down the cliffs near the end, watch carefully and in one shot we see both of them roll over an edge, and then another Kiara rolls down and grabs on to stop falling.

* When Nuka and Vitani are at the Elephant Graveyard igniting their sticks to set the Pridelands ablaze, Vitani is first drawn with dark ear stripes. There is a close-up of her rolling her eyes at Nuka and the ear stripes are not coloured in, but the lines indicating where they are are present. When the stick ignites and Vitani grabs it, the stripes are back. The stripes disappear again when Vitani is setting some dry grass on fire. This mistake is repeated throughout the film.

* During the final battle, the number of lionesses changes dramatically. When the two clans are standing in line, there are dozens on both sides. However, when Kovu and Kiara see the battle from across the gorge, there only appear to be ten at most. Also, both Zira and Simba are gone as well as any of the existing land formations (Such as Zira's rock). *There was a mistake similiar to this that was corrected stating that Disney would not show dead lions or that some lionesses had run away, but this happens all in one quick sequence and all of the lions are back once Kovu and Kiara intervene. Also, that doesn't explain the missing characters or land formations.

* At the end, just before the final fight scene, Zira's pride is lined up with Zira in the center on a rock, placing her above the others. Shortly after you see a close up of her with a couple of lionesses beside her - at the same height as her. They disappear in the next shot of her.

* When Rafiki is in the tree and Mufasa formulates a plan, there is a gourd that falls and breaks and Rafiki then picks it up to symbolise the plan. Then he says "Are you crazy? This will never work!" and makes a hand gesture, meaning that he dropped the gourd pieces. However, they are not visible in the overhead shot when he says, "I just hope you know what you are doing!"

* The bite mark/scar on Zira's ear changes ears throughout the movie.

* After the song 'Love Will Find a Way' when Kovu and Kiara are peering into the water and Kovu says, "We are one," the scar on Kovu's face is on the wrong eye.

* During Simbas nightmare when Scar transforms into Kovu, One of Kovu's Whiskers is not attached to his face.

===Factual Errors===

* Near the end of the song "One Of Us" when Kovu is exiled, the beisa oryx at the front of the animal chorus (the one shaking her head slowly) has incorrect facial markings for her species. The other beisa oryx in the background has the correct markings. When she sings "He is not one of us," solo, she has correct facial markings, but lacks the correct leg markings, which she had when her facial markings were incorrect.

===Audio Errors===

* In the scene where Simba is being attacked by Zira and the other outlanders, he rolls down a small cliff. Zira then says, "Yes, we've got him", but if you watch her mouth she is actually laughing and her mouth isn't moving at all.

* During the song "My Lullaby" where Nuka makes his comment which at the end of it causes Vitani to push him off the rock/tree stump, he is still calmly singing his line about half a second after Vitani pushes him off.

* In the part where Zira and Kiara are falling down the cliff near the end, Kovu shouts 'Kiara' but with Nala's voice.

==[[The Lion King 1½]]==
===Continuity Errors===

* Throughout this movie, some of the characters from the first movie are given new scenes. The problem is that in these scenes they don't look very much like their first movie counterparts. The obvious example here is Nala when she's explaining the whole Simba VS Scar thing to Timon and Pumbaa - her face is not only a different shape, but she's a completely different colour.

* When Rafiki is telling Timon "It" means - Look beyond what you see", there is a glitch in the shading on Rafiki's left arm just before he moves his palm upwards and gestures. It disappears before he raises his hand.

* When Mufasa is shown racing to save Simba and Nala from the hyenas in the Elephant Graveyard, Zazu's white underbelly has not been drawn in.

* In the credits, Zazu, the hornbill that is adviser to King Mufasa, is incorrectly listed as "Zasu".

* While Simba and Scar do battle at the top of pride rock, Timon, his mother and his uncle take care of the hyenas. Banzai, Shenzi and Ed were also down there with Timon and Co. throughout the scene, while in the first movie they can be seen on top of pride rock while Scar tells Simba it is the fault of the hyenas, which subsequently leads to Scar being killed by the hyenas.

* When the tower of animals collapses in the "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" sequence and all of the animals are lying in a heap, the visible sable antelope is drawn incorrectly. His white facial markings that he had in the tower and when the elephant fell on his horns are gone, and he simply has a white muzzle instead. Also, the giraffe that is the middle of the heap has no horns.

===Factual Errors===

* This may have been considered before drawing it this way, but it's a mistake nonetheless: When Tinkerbell shows up at the end with all the other Disney characters to watch the movie, she is back lit and silhouetted just like everyone else, and so is the pixie dust she is trailing. This is done simply to resemble a dark theater full of patrons, not to play some sort of impromptu guessing game. Her pixie dust has always been luminescent so it should not appear as a shadow against the theater screen. It'd be impossible to be silhouetted to that degree if it gives off its own light.

* When Timon meets Rafiki for the first time, Rafiki is hanging upside down, yet his beard is not affected by gravity and remains pointed upwards.

* When Timon wakes up to Simba singing "[[I Just Can't Wait to be King]]", it is implied to be the morning after Simba's birth. Naturally it would take longer than one night for a lion cub to reach the size he is in the song.

===Audio Errors===

* When Timon and Pumbaa awake from their first dream home by the rocks, they look up to see the animals towering and singing "I just can't wait to be king", but their mouths don't match the words of the song. They are actually out of sync by a few seconds because in the first Lion King movie the chorus was already sung at this point.

==External Links==

* Some errors were taken with permission from [http://www.moviemistakes.com Movie Mistakes].

The Lion King Wiki talk:Community portal

2011-04-09T23:11:50Z

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== Hi everyone! ==

Hi everyone! Axx and I have been working really hard getting this wiki ready for the move. I have a few suggestions to the categories that we have. I suggest adding categories for "Characters from The Lion King", "Characters from The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride", etc. Thoughts? ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 03:17, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

I think we should thy to add all the pages into as many categories as we can just without going overboard. I mean a page with say 8 or 9 categories whould be great but if it got into like 15+ people are trying to hard. --[[User:Axx1000|Axx1000]] 04:28, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

== Lebo M ==

I request a [[Lebo M]] article! ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 06:14, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

== Welcome to The Lion King Wiki! ==

Hello there! This is the first post of (hopefully) many! Consider this as the discussion hub for the wiki :) ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 18:43, 9 December 2010 (PST)

:Hi! Great to see the wiki more active. By the way when i created the music infobox I at first thought that i could copy the music-template over from wikipedia but ended up creating alot of unneccessary sub-templates and such. Perhaps someone with the right permissions could delete them? I would if i could.
:Also the album-list in the current infobox is not very good, perhaps anyone knows how to make it better? :)
://[[User:Izikhulu|Izikhulu]] 05:53, 12 December 2010 (PST)

::Hi :D I noticed you are one of the only members besides me who knew some hardcore MediaWiki functionality. Awesome! Yeah I'm really excited to work on this wiki, and hopefully I can motivate other members to help, too. Link me to the templates that need to be deleted and I'll remove them. ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 15:03, 12 December 2010 (PST)

::I think members are staying away from helping out because the syntax of MediaWiki is confusing to newcomers. I installed a Rich Editor plugin but the link to turn it on is small and it actually does mess with some of the syntax that I lay out manually. I had to revert the main page because it messed some stuff up. It seems to work for simple pages, though. ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 20:48, 12 December 2010 (PST)

== Anonymous editing? ==

Well considering a few butthurt individuals used their free time to spam the wiki, do you think we should only allow members of MLK to edit the wiki? It would completely stop spammers from posting external links, and it would delay people that would just spam it. By the way, if you click "View history" on an article, you can undo recent changes. It's easier than going in and editing out what was added. ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 14:02, 9 April 2011 (PDT)
:I think that is a good idea, so far only spammers edited pages anonymously. And thanks for the tip :) --[[User:Nitrol|Nitrol]] 15:39, 9 April 2011 (PDT)
:I think that would defeat the purpose of this being a "wiki". Lots of wikis get bombarded by spam but the admins just delete them and move on with their lives. Getting spam is just one of the drawbacks that always comes with owning a wiki. Besides, the purpose of anonymous editing was to encourage a much more diverse array of people to contribute and not just limit it to 30 or so MLK members. --[[User:Amanda|Amanda]] 19:11, 9 April 2011 (PDT)

The Lion King Wiki talk:Community portal

2011-04-09T23:11:02Z

Amanda: /* Anonymous editing? */

The Lion King Series Movie Mistakes

2011-04-09T23:04:38Z

Amanda: /* Factual Errors */

==[[The Lion King]]==
===Continuity Errors===

* When Timon rides Pumbaa through the vultures that are crowding around Simba, they run right over where Simba should be, but he's not there. Two seconds later, after all the vultures are gone, Simba is back.

* Nala's eyes change from blue to green quite often during the movie.

* When Simba and Nala fall through the dead elephant, there are some small rocks near them. But after the hyenas say, "Here kitty kitty kitty," Simba makes a small roar and the rocks are gone.

* During the stampede in the gorge, when Simba jumps up on the dead branch, he leaves very distinct claw scratches. Then in the following scenes they're gone, although other marks and details on the branch remain.

* When Rafiki is showing Simba where his father is, Simba is following Rafiki through the trees and they arrive at a river/lake. Rafiki says 'shh' and pulls the grass apart. The thing is, he pulls away one side of the grass and the other side parts as well without him moving it.

* When Rafiki dips his fingers in the orange paint to put a mane on Simba's picture, the paint is not on his thumb. He raises his hand up close to the picture, then, a split second later in the next shot, the paint is on his thumb with which he starts to paint the mane. He did not have time to dip his hand in again.

* After Pumbaa kisses Simba's feet, Timon says, "Don't he's not the king," he puts his hands on the middle of Pumbaa's snout. But in the very next shot, Timon's hands are now at the top of Pumbaa's snout.

* The whites of Simba's eyes change frequently through the movie, from yellow to white. They're yellow up until the scene where Pumbaa, Timon, and Simba are stargazing; after that they change back and forth frequently. During the Mufasa-in-the-sky scene, when Simba asks, "How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be," they change from yellow to white and back within three frames.

* When Simba and the animals begin to tower up on each other towards the end of the song "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", a shot shows that the red elephants are close to the bottom of the tower. The camera begins to scan upwards and the antelope are towards the top where Simba and Nala show up. When the animals all fall and quick shots show how jumbled they get, a red elephant somehow ends up falling on top of an antelope's antlers which shouldn't be possible.

* When the three hyenas are chasing little Simba, Banzaii (a hyena) flies into a thorn patch. When he comes out, he is covered in thorns. Then he walks over to the edge with Shenzi, and all of the thorns are gone (the ones he didn't pull out).

* When Mufasa is showing Simba how to pounce, Zazu is facing backwards when Simba pounces on him, but when Simba has Zazu pinned to the ground, his paws are on Zazu's front. Simba would hardly have released Zazu to let him turn round. (In the new release of an Extended-Version DVD, Zazu sings a song called "Morning Report" which was deleted from the original release. Zazu's change in position comes from the material that was cut. Still a mistake, but there's the explanation.)

* During the scene where little Simba and Scar are talking about how Simba is "gonna rule it all" and Scar explains about the elephant graveyard, the pads of Scar's paws change shape several times. Sometimes the pads are as they should be, other times its covered with color.

* During the presentation of Simba, two elephants kneel down. In the overhead shots before and after, there is only a group of three and one apart from the others.

* When Scar pushes Shenzi and Banzi into the geysers, they go flying across the cave. But when Scar is tiptoeing up the ridge, Shenzi is right next to him. Then, when all three are in the bone pile, she's there as well (with the long skull in the middle).

* When Mufasa confronts Scar after the ceremony, Scar walks away and Mufasa follows. Zazu has disappeared from his hiding spot behind Mufasa's leg and reappears later.

* When the three hyenas are chasing Simba and Nala in the elephant graveyard, one of them is standing on top of a bone, then next second the bone is gone.

* This is hard to see, but look at the whiskers on all the lions, the number of them changes about 100 times, especially little Simba.

===Factual Errors===

* When Mufasa is showing Simba the kingdom from Pride Rock they are facing the sun, yet Pride Rock's shadow is visible below them. Also in the same position, you see that they have shadows behind them. Then a few seconds later when Simba sees the shadow area the shadows are in front of them while you can see part of the sun to their left side. They would be facing south when the sun is east. How are their shadows in front of them?

* When Simba and Nala meet as adults, they rub heads and begin to purr. Lions can purr, but they only purr when they exhale, and Simba and Nala were purring when inhaling and exhaling, like house cats.

* During the scene "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" when animals begin to tower up on each other with Simba revealed at the top, there are anteaters on the tower, flicking their tongues out. Giant Anteaters, in fact all anteaters are restricted to South America, none exist in Africa. A more appropriate choice would have been an Aardvark or even Aardwolf which both have long tongues, but this is probably as much for show as for ignorance.

* When Mufasa is initially showing Simba the pridelands they are facing the rising sun - in other words east. Simba asks about "that shadowy place" which is off to the right, and is told he must never go there. When Simba is later telling Scar about seeing the whole kingdom, Scar says "He didn't tell you what's beyond that rise on the northern border." It's the same place that Mufasa was talking about, as Simba says he's not allowed to go there, but if it was to the right as they faced east it would have been the southern border of the pridelands.

===Possibly Deliberate Errors===

* At the elephant graveyard, little Simba claws Shenzi in the face. When Mufasa saves Simba from the hyenas, the cuts are gone, a few seconds later. This may have been done intentionally for two reasons, the first being, Disney doesn't let fresh scars linger on the screen too long. Secondly, during that same scene when Mufasa rescues Simba and Nala, he claws Banzai in the rear. To stress the point later in the movie, that severe scar is shown too, but only briefly, it too disappears because of reason one.

* Rafiki is supposed to be a mandrill, but mandrill's do not have tails. In the recently released Extended-Version DVD, there is a commentary by an animator who specifically admits that he knew that mandrills don't have tails (at least not like the length that Rafiki sports throughout the movie), but he put one on him anyway to make him more monkey-like.

* As the rain extinguishes the fire at Pride Rock, Simba passes Zazu, who bows to him and you see him mouthing words to Simba. The words "your majesty" were cut out of the film, in order to have a poignant silent moment.

==[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]==
===Continuity Errors===

* Zira scratched Kovu across the face and gave him a scar on his left eye earlier in the film. As Zira plummets to her death, they show Kovu choking back tears. Look closely, and you will see that his scar has miraculously disappeared! In the next shot, he has his scar again.

* When Zira is singing "My Lullaby" the cut on her ear is on one ear, then the other, then back again. It does this four times by the end of the song.

* When Simba and adult Kovu are walking through the burnt forest, they are ambushed by the Outsiders. But when there is the aerial shot of them walking, the Outsiders are nowhere to be seen. (DVD widescreen).

* Toward the end of the song "One Of Us" when Kovu is running away and the birds are chasing him, Simba is standing on Pride Rock looking down at Kovu. In the next shot of Pride Rock, Simba is gone, but in the next shot, Simba is back, in the same position as in the first shot.

* In the scene where Zira and Kiara are rolling down the cliffs near the end, watch carefully and in one shot we see both of them roll over an edge, and then another Kiara rolls down and grabs on to stop falling.

* When Nuka and Vitani are at the Elephant Graveyard igniting their sticks to set the Pridelands ablaze, Vitani is first drawn with dark ear stripes. There is a close-up of her rolling her eyes at Nuka and the ear stripes are not coloured in, but the lines indicating where they are are present. When the stick ignites and Vitani grabs it, the stripes are back. The stripes disappear again when Vitani is setting some dry grass on fire. This mistake is repeated throughout the film.

* During the final battle, the number of lionesses changes dramatically. When the two clans are standing in line, there are dozens on both sides. However, when Kovu and Kiara see the battle from across the gorge, there only appear to be ten at most. Also, both Zira and Simba are gone as well as any of the existing land formations (Such as Zira's rock). *There was a mistake similiar to this that was corrected stating that Disney would not show dead lions or that some lionesses had run away, but this happens all in one quick sequence and all of the lions are back once Kovu and Kiara intervene. Also, that doesn't explain the missing characters or land formations.

* At the end, just before the final fight scene, Zira's pride is lined up with Zira in the center on a rock, placing her above the others. Shortly after you see a close up of her with a couple of lionesses beside her - at the same height as her. They disappear in the next shot of her.

* When Rafiki is in the tree and Mufasa formulates a plan, there is a gourd that falls and breaks and Rafiki then picks it up to symbolise the plan. Then he says "Are you crazy? This will never work!" and makes a hand gesture, meaning that he dropped the gourd pieces. However, they are not visible in the overhead shot when he says, "I just hope you know what you are doing!"

* The bite mark/scar on Zira's ear changes ears throughout the movie.

* After the song 'Love Will Find a Way' when Kovu and Kiara are peering into the water and Kovu says, "We are one," the scar on Kovu's face is on the wrong eye.

* During Simbas nightmare when Scar transforms into Kovu, One of Kovu's Whiskers is not attached to his face.

===Factual Errors===

* Near the end of the song "One Of Us" when Kovu is exiled, the beisa oryx at the front of the animal chorus (the one shaking her head slowly) has incorrect facial markings for her species. The other beisa oryx in the background has the correct markings. When she sings "He is not one of us," solo, she has correct facial markings, but lacks the correct leg markings, which she had when her facial markings were incorrect.

===Audio Errors===

* In the scene where Simba is being attacked by Zira and the other outlanders, he rolls down a small cliff. Zira then says, "Yes, we've got him", but if you watch her mouth she is actually laughing and her mouth isn't moving at all.

* During the song "My Lullaby" where Nuka makes his comment which at the end of it causes Vitani to push him off the rock/tree stump, he is still calmly singing his line about half a second after Vitani pushes him off.

* In the part where Zira and Kiara are falling down the cliff near the end, Kovu shouts 'Kiara' but with Nala's voice.

==[[The Lion King 1½]]==
===Continuity Errors===

* Throughout this movie, some of the characters from the first movie are given new scenes. The problem is that in these scenes they don't look very much like their first movie counterparts. The obvious example here is Nala when she's explaining the whole Simba VS Scar thing to Timon and Pumbaa - her face is not only a different shape, but she's a completely different colour.

* When Rafiki is telling Timon "It" means - Look beyond what you see", there is a glitch in the shading on Rafiki's left arm just before he moves his palm upwards and gestures. It disappears before he raises his hand.

* When Mufasa is shown racing to save Simba and Nala from the hyenas in the Elephant Graveyard, Zazu's white underbelly has not been drawn in.

* In the credits, Zazu, the hornbill that is adviser to King Mufasa, is incorrectly listed as "Zasu".

* While Simba and Scar do battle at the top of pride rock, Timon, his mother and his uncle take care of the hyenas. Banzai, Shenzi and Ed were also down there with Timon and Co. throughout the scene, while in the first movie they can be seen on top of pride rock while Scar tells Simba it is the fault of the hyenas, which subsequently leads to Scar being killed by the hyenas.

* When the tower of animals collapses in the "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" sequence and all of the animals are lying in a heap, the visible sable antelope is drawn incorrectly. His white facial markings that he had in the tower and when the elephant fell on his horns are gone, and he simply has a white muzzle instead. Also, the giraffe that is the middle of the heap has no horns.

===Factual Errors===

* This may have been considered before drawing it this way, but it's a mistake nonetheless: When Tinkerbell shows up at the end with all the other Disney characters to watch the movie, she is back lit and silhouetted just like everyone else, and so is the pixie dust she is trailing. This is done simply to resemble a dark theater full of patrons, not to play some sort of impromptu guessing game. Her pixie dust has always been luminescent so it should not appear as a shadow against the theater screen. It'd be impossible to be silhouetted to that degree if it gives off its own light.

* When Timon meets Rafiki for the first time, Rafiki is hanging upside down, yet his beard is not affected by gravity and remains pointed upwards.

* When Timon wakes up to Simba singing "[[I Just Can't Wait to be King]]", it is implied to be the morning after Simba's birth. Naturally it would take longer than one night for a lion cub to reach the size he is in the song.

===Audio Errors===

* When Timon and Pumbaa awake from their first dream home by the rocks, they look up to see the animals towering and singing "I just can't wait to be king", but their mouths don't match the words of the song. They are actually out of sync by a few seconds because in the first Lion King movie the chorus was already sung at this point.

==External Links==

* Some errors were taken with permission from [http://www.moviemistakes.com Movie Mistakes].

The Lion King Series Movie Mistakes

2011-04-09T23:03:56Z

Amanda: /* Continuity Errors */

==[[The Lion King]]==
===Continuity Errors===

* When Timon rides Pumbaa through the vultures that are crowding around Simba, they run right over where Simba should be, but he's not there. Two seconds later, after all the vultures are gone, Simba is back.

* Nala's eyes change from blue to green quite often during the movie.

* When Simba and Nala fall through the dead elephant, there are some small rocks near them. But after the hyenas say, "Here kitty kitty kitty," Simba makes a small roar and the rocks are gone.

* During the stampede in the gorge, when Simba jumps up on the dead branch, he leaves very distinct claw scratches. Then in the following scenes they're gone, although other marks and details on the branch remain.

* When Rafiki is showing Simba where his father is, Simba is following Rafiki through the trees and they arrive at a river/lake. Rafiki says 'shh' and pulls the grass apart. The thing is, he pulls away one side of the grass and the other side parts as well without him moving it.

* When Rafiki dips his fingers in the orange paint to put a mane on Simba's picture, the paint is not on his thumb. He raises his hand up close to the picture, then, a split second later in the next shot, the paint is on his thumb with which he starts to paint the mane. He did not have time to dip his hand in again.

* After Pumbaa kisses Simba's feet, Timon says, "Don't he's not the king," he puts his hands on the middle of Pumbaa's snout. But in the very next shot, Timon's hands are now at the top of Pumbaa's snout.

* The whites of Simba's eyes change frequently through the movie, from yellow to white. They're yellow up until the scene where Pumbaa, Timon, and Simba are stargazing; after that they change back and forth frequently. During the Mufasa-in-the-sky scene, when Simba asks, "How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be," they change from yellow to white and back within three frames.

* When Simba and the animals begin to tower up on each other towards the end of the song "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", a shot shows that the red elephants are close to the bottom of the tower. The camera begins to scan upwards and the antelope are towards the top where Simba and Nala show up. When the animals all fall and quick shots show how jumbled they get, a red elephant somehow ends up falling on top of an antelope's antlers which shouldn't be possible.

* When the three hyenas are chasing little Simba, Banzaii (a hyena) flies into a thorn patch. When he comes out, he is covered in thorns. Then he walks over to the edge with Shenzi, and all of the thorns are gone (the ones he didn't pull out).

* When Mufasa is showing Simba how to pounce, Zazu is facing backwards when Simba pounces on him, but when Simba has Zazu pinned to the ground, his paws are on Zazu's front. Simba would hardly have released Zazu to let him turn round. (In the new release of an Extended-Version DVD, Zazu sings a song called "Morning Report" which was deleted from the original release. Zazu's change in position comes from the material that was cut. Still a mistake, but there's the explanation.)

* During the scene where little Simba and Scar are talking about how Simba is "gonna rule it all" and Scar explains about the elephant graveyard, the pads of Scar's paws change shape several times. Sometimes the pads are as they should be, other times its covered with color.

* During the presentation of Simba, two elephants kneel down. In the overhead shots before and after, there is only a group of three and one apart from the others.

* When Scar pushes Shenzi and Banzi into the geysers, they go flying across the cave. But when Scar is tiptoeing up the ridge, Shenzi is right next to him. Then, when all three are in the bone pile, she's there as well (with the long skull in the middle).

* When Mufasa confronts Scar after the ceremony, Scar walks away and Mufasa follows. Zazu has disappeared from his hiding spot behind Mufasa's leg and reappears later.

* When the three hyenas are chasing Simba and Nala in the elephant graveyard, one of them is standing on top of a bone, then next second the bone is gone.

* This is hard to see, but look at the whiskers on all the lions, the number of them changes about 100 times, especially little Simba.

===Factual Errors===

* When Mufasa is showing Simba the kingdom from Pride Rock they are facing the sun, yet Pride Rock's shadow is visible below them. Also in the same position, you see that they have shadows behind them. Then a few seconds later when Simba sees the shadow area the shadows are in front of them while you can see part of the sun to their left side. They would be facing south when the sun is east. How are their shadows in front of them?

* When Simba and Nala meet as adults, they rub heads and begin to purr. Lions can purr, but they only purr when they exhale, and Simba and Nala were purring when inhaling and exhaling, like house cats.

* During the scene "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" when animals begin to tower up on each other with Simba revealed at the top, there are anteaters on the tower, flicking their tongues out. Giant Anteaters, in fact all anteaters are restricted to South America, none exist in Africa. A more appropriate choice would have been an Aardvark or even Aardwolf which both have long tongues, but this is probably as much for show as for ignorance.

===Possibly Deliberate Errors===

* At the elephant graveyard, little Simba claws Shenzi in the face. When Mufasa saves Simba from the hyenas, the cuts are gone, a few seconds later. This may have been done intentionally for two reasons, the first being, Disney doesn't let fresh scars linger on the screen too long. Secondly, during that same scene when Mufasa rescues Simba and Nala, he claws Banzai in the rear. To stress the point later in the movie, that severe scar is shown too, but only briefly, it too disappears because of reason one.

* Rafiki is supposed to be a mandrill, but mandrill's do not have tails. In the recently released Extended-Version DVD, there is a commentary by an animator who specifically admits that he knew that mandrills don't have tails (at least not like the length that Rafiki sports throughout the movie), but he put one on him anyway to make him more monkey-like.

* As the rain extinguishes the fire at Pride Rock, Simba passes Zazu, who bows to him and you see him mouthing words to Simba. The words "your majesty" were cut out of the film, in order to have a poignant silent moment.

==[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]==
===Continuity Errors===

* Zira scratched Kovu across the face and gave him a scar on his left eye earlier in the film. As Zira plummets to her death, they show Kovu choking back tears. Look closely, and you will see that his scar has miraculously disappeared! In the next shot, he has his scar again.

* When Zira is singing "My Lullaby" the cut on her ear is on one ear, then the other, then back again. It does this four times by the end of the song.

* When Simba and adult Kovu are walking through the burnt forest, they are ambushed by the Outsiders. But when there is the aerial shot of them walking, the Outsiders are nowhere to be seen. (DVD widescreen).

* Toward the end of the song "One Of Us" when Kovu is running away and the birds are chasing him, Simba is standing on Pride Rock looking down at Kovu. In the next shot of Pride Rock, Simba is gone, but in the next shot, Simba is back, in the same position as in the first shot.

* In the scene where Zira and Kiara are rolling down the cliffs near the end, watch carefully and in one shot we see both of them roll over an edge, and then another Kiara rolls down and grabs on to stop falling.

* When Nuka and Vitani are at the Elephant Graveyard igniting their sticks to set the Pridelands ablaze, Vitani is first drawn with dark ear stripes. There is a close-up of her rolling her eyes at Nuka and the ear stripes are not coloured in, but the lines indicating where they are are present. When the stick ignites and Vitani grabs it, the stripes are back. The stripes disappear again when Vitani is setting some dry grass on fire. This mistake is repeated throughout the film.

* During the final battle, the number of lionesses changes dramatically. When the two clans are standing in line, there are dozens on both sides. However, when Kovu and Kiara see the battle from across the gorge, there only appear to be ten at most. Also, both Zira and Simba are gone as well as any of the existing land formations (Such as Zira's rock). *There was a mistake similiar to this that was corrected stating that Disney would not show dead lions or that some lionesses had run away, but this happens all in one quick sequence and all of the lions are back once Kovu and Kiara intervene. Also, that doesn't explain the missing characters or land formations.

* At the end, just before the final fight scene, Zira's pride is lined up with Zira in the center on a rock, placing her above the others. Shortly after you see a close up of her with a couple of lionesses beside her - at the same height as her. They disappear in the next shot of her.

* When Rafiki is in the tree and Mufasa formulates a plan, there is a gourd that falls and breaks and Rafiki then picks it up to symbolise the plan. Then he says "Are you crazy? This will never work!" and makes a hand gesture, meaning that he dropped the gourd pieces. However, they are not visible in the overhead shot when he says, "I just hope you know what you are doing!"

* The bite mark/scar on Zira's ear changes ears throughout the movie.

* After the song 'Love Will Find a Way' when Kovu and Kiara are peering into the water and Kovu says, "We are one," the scar on Kovu's face is on the wrong eye.

* During Simbas nightmare when Scar transforms into Kovu, One of Kovu's Whiskers is not attached to his face.

===Factual Errors===

* Near the end of the song "One Of Us" when Kovu is exiled, the beisa oryx at the front of the animal chorus (the one shaking her head slowly) has incorrect facial markings for her species. The other beisa oryx in the background has the correct markings. When she sings "He is not one of us," solo, she has correct facial markings, but lacks the correct leg markings, which she had when her facial markings were incorrect.

===Audio Errors===

* In the scene where Simba is being attacked by Zira and the other outlanders, he rolls down a small cliff. Zira then says, "Yes, we've got him", but if you watch her mouth she is actually laughing and her mouth isn't moving at all.

* During the song "My Lullaby" where Nuka makes his comment which at the end of it causes Vitani to push him off the rock/tree stump, he is still calmly singing his line about half a second after Vitani pushes him off.

* In the part where Zira and Kiara are falling down the cliff near the end, Kovu shouts 'Kiara' but with Nala's voice.

==[[The Lion King 1½]]==
===Continuity Errors===

* Throughout this movie, some of the characters from the first movie are given new scenes. The problem is that in these scenes they don't look very much like their first movie counterparts. The obvious example here is Nala when she's explaining the whole Simba VS Scar thing to Timon and Pumbaa - her face is not only a different shape, but she's a completely different colour.

* When Rafiki is telling Timon "It" means - Look beyond what you see", there is a glitch in the shading on Rafiki's left arm just before he moves his palm upwards and gestures. It disappears before he raises his hand.

* When Mufasa is shown racing to save Simba and Nala from the hyenas in the Elephant Graveyard, Zazu's white underbelly has not been drawn in.

* In the credits, Zazu, the hornbill that is adviser to King Mufasa, is incorrectly listed as "Zasu".

* While Simba and Scar do battle at the top of pride rock, Timon, his mother and his uncle take care of the hyenas. Banzai, Shenzi and Ed were also down there with Timon and Co. throughout the scene, while in the first movie they can be seen on top of pride rock while Scar tells Simba it is the fault of the hyenas, which subsequently leads to Scar being killed by the hyenas.

* When the tower of animals collapses in the "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" sequence and all of the animals are lying in a heap, the visible sable antelope is drawn incorrectly. His white facial markings that he had in the tower and when the elephant fell on his horns are gone, and he simply has a white muzzle instead. Also, the giraffe that is the middle of the heap has no horns.

===Factual Errors===

* This may have been considered before drawing it this way, but it's a mistake nonetheless: When Tinkerbell shows up at the end with all the other Disney characters to watch the movie, she is back lit and silhouetted just like everyone else, and so is the pixie dust she is trailing. This is done simply to resemble a dark theater full of patrons, not to play some sort of impromptu guessing game. Her pixie dust has always been luminescent so it should not appear as a shadow against the theater screen. It'd be impossible to be silhouetted to that degree if it gives off its own light.

* When Timon meets Rafiki for the first time, Rafiki is hanging upside down, yet his beard is not affected by gravity and remains pointed upwards.

* When Timon wakes up to Simba singing "[[I Just Can't Wait to be King]]", it is implied to be the morning after Simba's birth. Naturally it would take longer than one night for a lion cub to reach the size he is in the song.

===Audio Errors===

* When Timon and Pumbaa awake from their first dream home by the rocks, they look up to see the animals towering and singing "I just can't wait to be king", but their mouths don't match the words of the song. They are actually out of sync by a few seconds because in the first Lion King movie the chorus was already sung at this point.

==External Links==

* Some errors were taken with permission from [http://www.moviemistakes.com Movie Mistakes].

Simba

2011-04-09T22:48:44Z

Amanda: /* Appearance */

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Simba.jpg
| Img_size = 180px
| Img_capt = Simba
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Lion
| Species = Lion
| Appearances = [[The Lion King (film)]], [[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]], [[The Lion King 1½]], [[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]] books, "[[The Brightest Star]]" (book), The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa (1995 TV series), ''[[A False Ancestor]]'', ''[[A Kinglike Hair-Do]]'', ''[[A Royal Fib]]''
| Voice_Actors = '''The Lion King (film)''' - Jonathan Taylor Thomas - (cub), Matthew Broderick - (adult), Jason Weaver - (cub singing voice), Joseph Williams - (adult singing voice), Evan Saucedo - ("The Morning Report") (''''See all at bottom of page'''')
| Close_Relations = Mate of [[Nala]], Son of [[Mufasa]] and [[Sarabi]], Nephew of [[Scar]], Father of [[Kiara]], Son-in-Law of [[Sarafina]]
}}

{{Quotelink|http://www.lionking.org/sounds/WAV/ThatHairballIsMySon.wav|That hairball is my son, and your future king.|Mufasa to Scar, when they're talking about Simba}}
'''Simba''' is the main character in the [[The Lion King (film)|Lion King]] series.

==Appearance==
As a young cub, Simba was golden-brown, with a tuft of fur on his head. In his adolescent years he started to grow more head hair. Now an adult, Simba is stronger and has a fully grown red-brown mane that is lighter than his father's.

==Personality==
{{Dialogue1link|http://www.lionking.org/sounds/WAV/BeforeSunriseHesYourSon.wav|Sarabi|Your son is awake.|Mufasa|Before sunrise, he's your son.|[[Sarabi]] and [[Mufasa]] when Simba is trying to awake his father}}
As a cub, Simba is curious, adventurous, and all too ready to become king. He is known to overstep his authority and attempt to order around the other creatures of Pride Rock. He suffers serious emotional trauma when Scar, his uncle, murders Mufasa. He didn't know this however, and Scar convinces Simba that he was responsible for his father's death, and says to flee from the Pridelands, never to return. He later picks up a happy, carefree lifestyle with Timon and Pumbaa in an idyllic jungle paradise.

As an adolescent, he has long since forgotten his old life, and once again acts as over-confident and adventurous as he did as a cub. Later, when Simba learns that Scar is ruling the Pridelands unjustly, he faces his past and returns to take his place as the rightful king. By having the responsibilities of being a king thrust upon him so suddenly, Simba is forced to mature greatly.

As a ruler and as a father, Simba makes good decisions and is more down-to-earth. However, he still retains some of his childhood innocence in the way he rules. Rather than rule by law and justice, Simba follows his heart and trusts the counsel of his friends, making him a very beloved king.

==Information==
===The Lion King===

====Cub Simba====
{{Quotelink|http://www.lionking.org/sounds/WAV/ILaughInTheFaceOfDanger.wav|Danger? Ha! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger!|Simba, at the [[Elephant Graveyard]]}}
[[Image:Babysimba.JPG|thumb|left|Simba as an infant being anointed by [[Rafiki]]]]

In the beginning of the first film, Simba is an infant curled up in his mother's paws during the royal ceremony, where all cubs of the king and queen are presented from the summit of Pride Rock. For the ceremony, [[Rafiki]] the baboon cracks open a gourd and  makes a red mark on Simba's forehead. He sprinkles sand on the newborn's head, causing baby Simba to sneeze. After his anointing, Rafiki picks him up and presents Simba to all the animals in the Pridelands who had gathered to see him.

Simba grows into a lively, playful cub. Waking up one morning at dawn, he begs his father to show him the whole kingdom. Simba and his father climb to the top of Pride Rock, where Mufasa explains to his son that everything the light touches is their kingdom, and after his passing, Simba will become the new king. The cub questions the "shadowy place", and Mufasa explains that it is beyond their borders, so he must never go there. His father takes him walking through the [[Pridelands]] and Mufasa tells Simba about the "great Circle of Life"; that is, that every living thing is connected, "From the crawling ant to the leaping antelope" to quote Mufasa. As they are walking, [[Zazu]], Mufasa's major-domo, gives the king the morning report. Simba, bored, tries to practice pouncing. After some instruction from his father, Simba succeeds in pinning down Zazu. As Zazu is on his back, a gopher pops up and tells Zazu and Mufasa there are dangerous [[hyenas]] in the Pridelands. Mufasa leaves to deal with the threat, forbidding Simba to come with him.

[[Image:SmileSimba.png|200 px|left|thumb|Simba as a cub]]

Disappointed, Simba returns to Pride Rock to find his uncle [[Scar]]. He gleefully informs Scar that he's will one day be King of Pride Rock, irritating Scar, who unenthusiastically replies, "Forgive me for not leaping for joy- bad back you know." and his uncle eventually asks him whether his brother showed him what lies beyond the northern border; Simba admits that he didn't, and Scar acts relieved, saying only the bravest of lions go there. Objecting, Simba says he's brave and demands to know what's there. Accidentally on purpose, Scar lets slip that "An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince," aware that Simba's curiosity will lead him there. Simba is excited at the prospect of an adventure, but promises his uncle that he won't visit the dreadful place.

Instead, Simba goes to his best friend [[Nala]] being bathed by her mother, [[Sarafina]], opposite his own mother, Sarabi; Simba tries to get Nala to accompany him somewhere, without giving away the location of their adventure. When asked where they are headed, he lies, "around the waterhole." Sarabi sends Zazu to accompany them, much to their dismay. On the way to the waterhole, Zazu makes a nostalgic comment on how the two are "betrothed, intended, affianced," meaning they are set to be mates and rule the Pridelands, but since they are just children, they find it too weird. The duo ditch Zazu by crushing him with a pile of animals set to Simba singing "I Just Can't Wait to Be King". The cubs tumble into the elephant graveyard, and after a quick exploration, Zazu catches up with the them before Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed show up. Simba tries to be brave in front of the hyenas, but realizing the danger, the cubs make a frantic effort to escape while Zazu alerts Mufasa, appearing to save the two cubs.

Going back to Pride Rock, Mufasa tells Simba he's very disappointed in him; Simba says he was trying to be brave like his father. After playing together under the sky, Mufasa talks to his son about the "Great Kings of the Past" looking down from the stars, and whenever he feels alone, the stars will always be there to guide him—and so will he.

The next day, Scar, who had been plotting to kill his brother and nephew to become king, takes Simba with him to a large gorge, saying his father has a surprise" for him. Simba begs his uncle to tell him what it is, but Scar walks away after teasing him about practicing his "little roar". Unknown to Simba, Scar signaled the hyenas to start a wildebeest stampede to chase the frightened herd down to the gorge below. While the cub practices his roar a little louder than usual, the wildebeest charge down the cliff face in the direction of Simba. Terrified, Simba runs for his life. Meanwhile, Scar runs to Mufasa panting Simba is in the stampede down in the gorge. Immediately, Mufasa runs to save his son, who desperately manages to jump and cling on to a branch while the wildebeest thunder below him. Just as his father arrives, a wildebeest collides with the branch and breaks it; Mufasa fights through the stampede to catch his son, then gets Simba to safety. Pulled back ito the crowd, the alpha lion fights and struggles and throws himself on to the ledge, clinging on for dear life. Seeing this, Simba runs to the top of the cliff. As he reaches the top, all he sees is his dad plummet into the stampede below, not knowing he was just thrown by Scar. He cries out and races down to the bottom of the gorge to find his father's body under the branch he was clinging to. Hoping that his father isn't dead, he tries to revive him. Knowing he's not waking up, he calls for help, but starts to cry and crawls under his father's fore paw.

Scar approaches and convinces him that he is responsible for the death of his father, since he roared and caused the stampede, but Scar really caused it. Asked what his mother would think, Simba doesn't know what to do, so Scar tells to run away and never return. Scampering away, Scar sends Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed once again to kill Simba. Panicked, scared, and now chased by the hyenas, he runs on some rocks up the gorge and comes out at the top of a steep cliff. With a patch of sharp thorns below, Simba has no choice but to jump down the cliff to escape the predators. He tumbles down and forces himself through, but the hyenas don't follow, thinking Simba is as good as dead out in the barren desert anyway.

Tired and dehydrated, Simba wanders into the desert; in the burning heat, he eventually faints. Waiting for him to die, vultures circle overhead, but a meerkat named [[Timon]] and a warthog named [[Pumbaa]] scare away the vultures and save the unconscious cub. They revive him and ask him if he's okay. He shakily replies, then starts to wander off; the two ask what he did, but Simba doesn't want to talk about it. Timon and Pumbaa take the cub into a jungle to teach him to forget the past and live by "Hakuna Matata", meaning "no worries." During the song "[[Hakuna Matata]]," Timon and Pumbaa have Simba eat bugs, explore his new home, and live without worry. The three walk across a log, which represents time elapse of a few years, during which Simba goes from a cub to a teenager to an adult.

====Adult Simba====
{{Dialogue2|Mufasa|Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life.|Simba|How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be.|Mufasa|Remember who you are. You are my son, and the one true king.|[[Mufasa]]'s ghost and Simba}}
Growing up in the jungle, Simba learns to be carefree and forget all about his responsibilities. Although happy in the jungle, he feels homesick when stargazing with his friends, recalling what his father told him all those years ago when they looked up at the stars. He gets more upset when Timon's comments mock the Great Kings of the Past. Simba leaves to flop down on the rock, wishing his father was still alive.

[[Image:Annoyedsimba.jpg|thumb|left|Adult Simba annoyed with Rafiki]]

A few days later, Simba hears his two friends calling for help in the jungle and immediately rushes to help, finding himself face-to-face with an angry lioness. The lioness easily flips Simba onto his back, a move he recognizes from his childhood friend Nala. They rejoice, and Nala tells Simba he's the rightful King. Simba rejects his responsibility and refuses to go back, still thinking's he's guilty of killing his father; still, he comforts Nala as she struggles with the reality of him being alive after all those years. Enjoying a peaceful sunset evening together, playing "[[Can You Feel The Love Tonight]]," the two lions realize their past friendship has now blossomed into love. That evening, Nala tries to persuade Simba to go back to the Pridelands, but he refuses, which leads to an argument. Simba marches away from Nala and, in a grassy field, yells to the sky, "You said you would always be there for me! But you're not... it's because of me. It's my fault."

After this, Simba notices a baboon singing in a tree. Trying to get away from him, Simba goes to lie down away from the monkey; the baboon, the same one from Simba's birth ceremony years ago, refuses to leave him alone, so Simba asks who ''he'' is. Simba doesn't know anymore, and after the monkey chants in his ear, he says that Simba is Mufasa's boy. He chases Rafiki and asks if he knew his father, but Rafiki says he knows his father, and explains to Simba that Mufasa lives inside of him, showing him his reflection. Simba's reflection becomes the face of Mufasa; at this, Mufasa's spirit appears in the sky, which Simba recognizes, but Mufasa accuses his son of forgetting him. His father says he has forgotten his father and his own place in the Circle of Life. He reminds Simba that he is his son and the one true King, before telling him to "remember". Simba chases his father's disappearing form in the sky; Rafiki approaches Simba again and, through whacking him on the head with his stick, teaches him the lesson that even though things are in the past, they can still hurt, but you should learn form them. This time, Simba dodges Rakiki's whack and leaves to take back his place as king.

[[File:Simba2.jpg|thumb|200 px|Simba Reclaiming the Pridelands]]

He is shocked at the dry, barren condition the once green and fertile land is in. Simba trudges through the Pridelands, where he is met by Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa, come to help him fight. After a diversion from Timon and Pumbaa, Simba and Nala sneak past the hyenas and look at Pride Rock, where he instructs Nala to rally the lionesses and turns to find Scar. Hidden as his anger mounts by watching Scar strikes his mother, Simba runs out of hiding down to her side. Not recognizing him at first, Sarabi eventually realizes it is her son, who turns on his uncle. Trapped, Scar resorts to accusing Simba of killing Mufasa, and Simba doesn't deny it. With the lionesses watching, Scar corners Simba on the edge of Pride Rock's promontory; Simba slips but manages to cling on. Certain he has won, Scar whispers in his ear that ''he'' killed Mufasa. Filled with anger, Simba jumps off the edge to pins Scar to the ground and forces him to admit to the lionesses. Hyena's close in and the lionesses, now on Simba's side, fight back, but Simba loses Scar in the confusion. He chases him to the summit of Pride Rock, where Scar pleads for mercy and tries to blame the hyenas; the hyenas turn away in disgust and anger. Simba does not kill Scar, but repeats the words his uncle told him all those years ago: "Run. Run away, Scar; and never return." Scar skulks away, but suddenly turns around and throws burning embers into Simba's eyes. The two lions fight bitterly, until Scar knocks Simba to the ground, when finally, Simba uses Nala's trick and flips Scar over his head and down to the rock below. Simba looks down and sees Scar being killed by the hyenas he betrayed. [[File:Simba smiling.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]
[[Image:Simbaconcept.JPG|thumb|right|Concept sketch of Simba]]

After the battle, Simba greets his mother, Zazu, Nala, and the rest of the pride before Rafiki tells him that "It is time". Simba then climbs up Pride Rock and roars out over his kingdom while rain falls over the ended battle. Seasons later, the Pridelands have grown back green, and all the animals return to Pride Rock once again to welcome the birth of a new cub. Simba and Nala, along with Timon and Pumbaa, proudly look on as Rafiki holds their cub up for all the kingdom to see.

===The Lion King 1½===
[[Image:Simbacub1.5.JPG|thumb|Cub Simba in ''The Lion King 1 1/2'']]

During Timon and Pumbaa's first try at a new home, they saw Simba's birth ceremony. Although they had no interest in it, they came to witness the event anyways. The two later found a small cave in the Pridelands, which they lived in for a month or two until Simba and Nala singing "[[I Just Can't Wait to be King]]" drove them out. Although not seen, we can hear Simba say "I'm okay" after the animal pyramid falls down. Later, after [[Mufasa]] is murdered and Simba runs away from the Pridelands, he wanders around the desert feeling guilty thinking he killed his father. Simba collapses of fatigue and exhaustion, lying under the sun with buzzards circling overhead.

The cub is found by Timon and Pumbaa, who carry him to shade and water and eventually let him live in the jungle with them. Growing up without worries, Simba soon proves to be a difficult cub to handle and Timon and Pumbaa find it hard to be adoptive parents. Living carefree in the jungle forest, Simba gets into all kinds of mischief that his parents would have never allowed: jumping down from dangerously tall trees, swimming down steep and deadly waterfalls backwards, and spinning Timon around like a play toy. He also keeps Timon up all night having to go to the bathroom, wanting a drink of water, and needing the bathroom again. One night, Simba was awakened by a nightmare, probably involving his father's death.

[[Image:Simbateen1.5.JPG|thumb|left|Teen Simba in ''The Lion King 1 1/2'']]

A few months pass and Simba is now a teenage lion, who seems to beat Timon and Pumbaa at all kinds of alliterative bug eating contests, including the longest bug belch, slug swallowing, cricket crunching, grub gulping, maggot munching, as well as the snail slurping contest shown in the film. He has grown a small mane on his head and looks even more hot-headed than as a cub. Months or maybe a year later, Simba has now grown to an adult lion who enjoys his life with Timon and Pumbaa in the jungle. Simba had an interesting conversation with Pumbaa about dung beetles before Nala appears and chases Pumbaa, causing Simba to attack her; he later realizes it's his old childhood friend. In "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?", we see that Simba takes Nala on a romantic evening in the jungle, unknowingly hurting Timon while the meerkat attempts to split the two lovers up. After the familiar scenes of Simba arguing with Nala about whether or not he should return to the Pridelands to be the [[The Lion King(title)|Lion King]], Simba runs off and sees his father's ghost, although the timing is a lot shorter after the argument, happening almost instantly after he runs off. This could be counted as a mistake, although it was probably sped up for the convenience of the filmmakers, who wanted to move the film on.

There are also some new views of Simba fighting against Scar, including a shot of him chasing Scar up to the top of Pride Rock and a different angle of Simba slipping off the cliff when Scar corners him. Simba's leaping up and forcing the truth out of Scar about Mufasa's death is also seen at a new angle. Once the violence is over, Simba thanks Timon and Pumbaa for their help against the hyenas before he climbs Pride Rock, roaring for all of the Pridelands to know they have won.

[[Image:Simbaadult1.5.JPG|thumb|Adult Simba in ''The Lion King 1 1/2'']]

===The Lion King II: Simba's Pride===
Seasons later, all the animals, including giraffes, elephants, gazelles, and other African wildlife in the savannah, return to Pride Rock to welcome the birth of a new cub in the pride, Simba and Nala's daughter, [[Kiara]]. The [[The Lion King(title)|Lion King]] looks on proudly as Rafiki holds his baby cub up for all of his kingdom to see, just as his father, Mufasa, did when Simba himself was born.

As his daughter grows up, Simba turns out to be an extremely over-protective father. One time when Kiara goes off to play, he warns her to stay away from the [[Outlands]] and to stay on the path he's marked for her. Nala teases Simba about Kiara's likeness to Simba when he was a cub. Simba confesses his feeling to Nala about how much trouble they got themselves into. Nala assures him that Kiara will be fine; but he sends Timon and Pumbaa after her to watch her anyway.

After he realizes that Kiara has sneaked away from her babysitters, he goes out to get her, finding her near the outskirts of the Outlands with a Outsider cub, [[Kovu]] growling at her. He jumps in front of Kiara, protecting her; at the same time, [[Zira]] launches herself in front of her son. Simba snarls at her, and Zira mockingly gives cover-up for punishment for straying into the Pride Lands. Simba growls at her, "Take him and get out—We're finished here." Zira laughs menacingly, and replies, "Oh no, Simba; we have barely begun!" Simba takes Kiara and walks away. Simba reminds Kiara that she has got to be Queen, even though she may not want to be; he reminds her of the "Great Circle of Life'. He tells her that they are part of each other, and sings to her that they are "one".

[[Image:Babyaduly.JPG|thumb|left|Simba as a king]]
Years later on (Kiara's first hunt), Kiara pleads with her father to let her hunt on her own. Simba promises, but sends Timon and Pumbaa to watch her anyway. A few hours later, Simba paces nervously on Pride Rock, where Zazu reassures him that Kiara will be fine. Suddenly, Simba notices smoke on the horizon as Zira's plan goes into action. He and Nala races to Kiara, only to find her talking to Kovu. Simba is roaring menacingly at Kovu when Rafiki appears and brings up the fact that Kovu saved his daughter's life. When Simba asks him why, Kovu asks to join his pride. Simba refuses; but Zazu tells him that his father's law demands all debts be paid. In repayment for his daughter's life, Simba lets Kovu join the pride on judgment, but doesn't allow him to sleep with the pride. That night, Simba has a dream similar to the scenario in which his father was killed by his brother, Scar in the wildebeest stampede. In the dream, Simba tries to save his father, who is hanging on a cliff face. As he reaches down, he realizes that he is also on the cliff face, and Scar is looking over him as Scar grabs his paw. Mufasa slips away. Simba looks up to see Kovu instead of Scar; then Kovu lets Simba fall, and he wakes up out of his dream.

The next morning, Simba has a drink at the waterhole. Unknown to him, Kovu is behind him, ready to kill. Luckily, Kiara turns up wanting her hunting lesson, so Kovu is drawn away. That night, Simba looks down on Kiara and Kovu stargazing together, and asks his father for guidance. Nala then walks beside him and tells him to trust Kovu more. That evening, Simba lets Kovu sleep with the other lions in the cave.

The next morning, Simba asks Kovu to walk with him. He explains to Kovu his side of the story about Scar. As they are walking, Zira and the other Outsiders surround them. Simba angrily snarls at Kovu, thinking this was his plan. The Outsider lionesses close in around him and he manages to throw them off. He runs into a gorge and climbs up the dam. Just as he's climbing, [[Nuka]] grabs his ankles, pulling him down. Simba pushes himself up, dislodging a log which tumbles down and crushes Nuka. Simba escapes and weakly makes his way back to Pride Rock, where he manages to whisper to [[Kiara]] what happened, before fainting. He is then carried back to Pride Rock by [[Pumbaa]], where he wakes up.

When [[Kovu]] returns, asking for forgiveness, Simba does not believe Kovu had nothing to do with the attack. He exiles Kovu, to which Kiara pleads with him to reconsider. When he refuses, she angrily yells at him, "You will never be Mufasa!"

That night, the rain falls down, and Simba asks [[Timon]] and Pumbaa where Kiara is. Just as he finds out she is missing, [[Zazu]] informs him the Outsiders are on the attack. He commands Zazu to find Kiara and assembles the lionesses, ready for battle. When they approach the Outsiders, Simba gives[[ Zira]] a chance to go home. Zira tells Simba that she is already home, and commands her troops to attack. After a bitter battle, Zira jumps down off her rock, ready to attack Simba herself. Just as they are about to go into combat, Kiara jumps in front of her father. She reminds him that they are "one", and there is no point fighting. Simba understands, and as his father shines down from the clouds, he nuzzles his daughter. Zira orders her daughter [[Vitani]] to attack Simba; She refuses to do so, and crosses onto his side. Zira, realising she's losing, attempts one more time to attack Simba; as she jumps for him, Kiara jumps in her way. Shocked, Simba jumps down after them, just as Zira slips away into the water below. Simba reaches his daughter and helps her back up the cliff, where a worried Nala is waiting. When Kiara is reunited with Kovu, Simba studies him and admits he was wrong, and accepts Kovu and all the Outsiders into his pride.

At the end, Simba, Nala, Kiara, and Kovu all walk to the top of Pride Rock and roar over their kingdom. As they do so, the sky opens up, and Simba hears [[Mufasa]] say to him, "Well done, my son. We are one." Although a very minor role in this movie, it gives the viewers an insight into what Simba's life was like while he was with Timon and Pumbaa in the jungle. Simba banished the dark lions, who became known as Outsiders, to a deserted place referred to as the Outlands for supporting Scar. The hyenas ran off, probably due to lack of support.

Due to his paranoia of losing Kiara, Simba became uptight and overprotective. One day in her early childhood, Kiara had gone off to the Outlands, and Simba had to go rescue her, where he met Scar's mate Zira, who taunted Simba with the implication of the death of another cub. Simba merely took his daughter and left, and did not meet up with Zira again until some years later.

When Kiara finally became an adult, Simba reluctantly allowed her to go on a hunt alone. Up until then, he would always send out Timon and Pumbaa to watch her, which he did again while Kiara was hunting.

After the Outlanders, Nuka and Vitani had set the grassland on fire and Kovu began his staged rescue, Simba noticed that Kiara was in danger and went off to get her, meeting Kovu, who at the time had been trained to assassinate him. Simba, reserving judgement of Kovu, allowed him to follow him home.
After finally gaining enough trust for Kovu to take a personal walk with him, Simba was ambushed by the Outlanders. Assuming Kovu had set it up, Simba regained his hatred towards dark lions, and banished Kovu.
The death of Nuka, who had been crushed by a log Simba hack kicked on him, stirred up enough hatred from the Outlanders for a war to break out. Kiara had run away, and the Outlanders were now in the vicinity of Pride Rock, and coming for him. Durning the climax of the war, Kovu and Kiara returned, and convinced Simba to let go of his distrust and hated towards [[The Outsiders]]. Zira, however, didn't fare too well. The Outlanders joined forces with Simba's pridelanders, and Simba allowed Kovu to become his heir.

==Other Roles==

===The Lion King Musical===
[[Image:TLKoB-YoungSimba.JPG|thumb|left|Scott Irby-Ranniar as Young Simba in "The Lion King on Broadway"]]
[[Image:Simbabroadway.jpg|thumb|right|Jason Raize as Adult Simba in "The Lion King on Broadway"]]

Following the success of ''The Lion King'', Julie Taymor created the musical ''The Lion King''. In this production, we have an insight into events that were not explored in the original film, as the main character, Simba, young and old, is in nearly all the musical numbers. But in the Broadway production, we see a slightly extended role, which includes scenes like Timon being trapped above a lake full of crocodiles, which was Simba's fault; and the song "Endless Night". Jason Raize plays Adult Simba, and Scott Irby-Ranniar plays Young Simba in the original Broadway cast of ''The Lion King''.

===Early Production===
In early sketches, Simba still has the same liveliness and playfulness as the Simba we see in the film, although the style changes when it came to Simba's final design. The early sketches show Simba's character and characteristics such are his earmarks. These sketches also have an original "Disney style" about them, which is softened down in the final designs of all the lions in ''The Lion King''. Interestingly enough, in the sketch on the right, Simba has cheeks similar to those of the Outsiders in ''Simba's Pride''.

An original storyline for Simba that was dropped was Teen Simba saving Nala's little brother Mheetu from a stampede in the gorge.

===Kingdom Hearts II===
In Kingdom Hearts II, when the main protagonists (Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy) explore the jungle in the Pride Lands world, Simba almost attacks them, not recognizing them as they were turned into animals due to Sora's enchanted clothes. Initially, Simba refuses to go back to the Pride Lands, stating he was "not who he used to be." His father, Mufasa, comes to him and tells him to go back; afterwards, he accompanies Sora, Donald, and Goofy to Pride Rock for a climactic battle with both the hyenas Shenzi, Banzai and Ed and Scar, who had been turned into a Heartless because of his anger and jealousy.

[[Image:Simba Char.jpg|thumb|right|Concept art for Simba from ''Kingdom Hearts II'']]
Sora left after the successful coronation of Simba. When Sora returned, Simba had been driven into doubt by rumors of Scar's ghost. He later gained confidence and stood up to Scar's ghost, which was a manifestation of Simba's uncertainty and fear.

Simba has a move with Sora that causes huge rocks to appear and strike opponents, after which he slashes foes - ending, finally, with his summon attack from the first game, Proud Roar.

Cam Clarke voices Simba in the above two appearances, with an archival recording of Jonathan Taylor Thomas used for Young Simba in a flashback sequence in Kingdom Hearts II.

==All Voice Actors==
*'''[[The Lion King|The Lion King (film)]] - (1994) - (film)''' - Jonathan Taylor Thomas - (cub), Matthew Broderick - (adult), Jason Weaver - (cub singing voice), Joseph Williams - (adult singing voice), Evan Saucedo - ("The Morning Report")
*'''[[The Timon and Pumbaa Show|The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa]] - (1995) - (TV series)''' - Cam Clarke (adult voice)
*'''[[The Lion King (musical)]] - (1997) - (musical)''' - Scott Irby-Ranniar (cub) (original actor), Jason Raize (adult) (original actor)
*'''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]] - (1998) - (film)''' - Matthew Broderick (adult), Cam Clarke (adult singing voice)
*'''[[The Lion King 1½]] - (2004) - (film)''' - Matt Weinberg (cub), Matthew Broderick (teenager and adult)
*'''[[Kingdom Hearts II]] - (2005) - (video game)''' - Jonathan Taylor Thomas (cub), Cam Clarke (adult voice, English)

==Songs==

* [[The Morning Report]]
* [[I Just Can't Wait to be King]]
* [[Hakuna Matata]]
* [[Can You Feel the Love Tonight]]
* [[We Are One]]

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