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I Just Can't Wait To Be King

2010-12-03T02:08:50Z

Pridelander:

'''I Just Can't Wait to be King''' is a musical number from the [[The Lion King|first Lion King movie]], sung by [[Simba]], [[Nala]] and [[Zazu]].

==Lyrics==
Simba:

I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!<br/ />

Zazu:

I've never seen a king of beasts<br/ />
With quite so little hair<br/ />

Simba:

I'm gonna be the main event<br/ />
Like no king was before<br/ />
I'm brushing up on looking down<br/ />
I'm working on my roar<br/ />

Zazu:

Thus far a rather uninspiring thing<br/ />

[[File:Mighty king.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|''I'm gonna be the main event Like no king was before!'']]

Simba:

Oh, I just can't wait to be king!<br/ />

Simba

No one saying do this

Zazu: Now when I said that--<br/ />

Nala:

No one saying be there

Zazu: What I meant was--<br/ />

Simba:

No one saying stop that

Zazu: What you don't realize--<br/ />

Simba and Nala:

No one saying see here!

Zazu: Now see here!<br/ />

Simba:

Free to run around all day

Zazu: That's definitely out--<br/ />

Simba

Free to do it all my way!<br/ />

Zazu:

I think it's time that you and I<br/ />
Arranged a heart-to-heart<br/ />

[[File:Zazu, Simba, and Nala.jpg|thumb|200 px|right|''No one saying stop that!'']]

Simba:

Kings don't need advice<br/ />
From little hornbills for a start<br/ />

[[File:Everywhereyoulook.jpg|thumb|200 px|''Everywhere you look I'm....'']]

Zazu:

If this is where the monarchy is headed<br/ />
Count me out<br/ />
Out of service, out of Africa<br/ />
I wouldn't hang about<br/ />
This child is getting wildly out of wing<br/ />

Simba:

Oh, I just can't wait to be king!<br/ />

[[File:standingspotlight.jpg|thumb|right|''Standing spotlight!'']]

Simba:

Everybody look left<br/ />
Everybody look right
Everywhere you look I'm--<br/ />
Standing in the spotlight<br/ />

Zazu:

Not yet<br/ />

Animals:

Let every creature go for broke and sing<br/ />
Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing<br/ />
It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling<br/ />

Simba:

Oh, I just can't wait to be king!<br/ />
Oh, he just can't wait to be king!<br/ />
Oh, I just can't wait...<br/ />
Just can't wait...<br/ />
To be king!<br/ />

== External Links ==
*[http://www.kideos.com/content/i-just-cant-wait-be-king-lion-king-0 I Just Can't Wait to be King]

[[Category:Songs]]
[[Category:The Lion King]]

I Just Can't Wait To Be King

2010-12-03T02:07:57Z

Pridelander:

'''I Just Can't Wait to be King''' is a musical number from the [[The Lion King|first Lion King movie]], sung by [[Simba]], [[Nala]] and [[Zazu]].

==Lyrics==
Simba:

I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!<br/ />

Zazu:

I've never seen a king of beasts<br/ />
With quite so little hair<br/ />

Simba:

I'm gonna be the main event<br/ />
Like no king was before<br/ />
I'm brushing up on looking down<br/ />
I'm working on my roar<br/ />

Zazu:

Thus far a rather uninspiring thing<br/ />

[[File:Mighty king.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|''I'm gonna be the main event Like no king was before!'']]

Simba:

Oh, I just can't wait to be king!<br/ />

Simba

No one saying do this Zazu: Now when I said that--<br/ />

Nala:

No one saying be there Zazu: What I meant was--<br/ />

Simba:

No one saying stop that Zazu: What you don't realize--<br/ />

Simba and Nala:

No one saying see here! Zazu: Now see here!<br/ />

Simba:

Free to run around all day Zazu: That's definitely out--<br/ />

Simba

Free to do it all my way!<br/ />

Zazu:

I think it's time that you and I<br/ />
Arranged a heart-to-heart<br/ />

[[File:Zazu, Simba, and Nala.jpg|thumb|200 px|right|''No one saying stop that!'']]

Simba:

Kings don't need advice<br/ />
From little hornbills for a start<br/ />

[[File:Everywhereyoulook.jpg|thumb|200 px|''Everywhere you look I'm....'']]

Zazu:

If this is where the monarchy is headed<br/ />
Count me out<br/ />
Out of service, out of Africa<br/ />
I wouldn't hang about<br/ />
This child is getting wildly out of wing<br/ />

Simba:

Oh, I just can't wait to be king!<br/ />

[[File:standingspotlight.jpg|thumb|right|''Standing spotlight!'']]

Simba:

Everybody look left<br/ />
Everybody look right
Everywhere you look I'm--<br/ />
Standing in the spotlight<br/ />

Zazu:

Not yet<br/ />

Animals:

Let every creature go for broke and sing<br/ />
Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing<br/ />
It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling<br/ />

Simba:

Oh, I just can't wait to be king!<br/ />
Oh, he just can't wait to be king!<br/ />
Oh, I just can't wait...<br/ />
Just can't wait...<br/ />
To be king!<br/ />

== External Links ==
*[http://www.kideos.com/content/i-just-cant-wait-be-king-lion-king-0 I Just Can't Wait to be King]

[[Category:Songs]]
[[Category:The Lion King]]

Kopa

2010-11-27T19:34:27Z

Pridelander: /* Trivia */

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Kopa.png
| Img_capt = Kopa
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Heart shape
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Great-Great-Grandson To [[Mohatu]], Great-Grandson To [[Ahadi]] And [[Uru]], Grandson to [[Mufasa]] and [[Sarabi]], Son To [[Simba]] and [[Nala]], Brother To [[Kiara]], mate to [[Vitani]]
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]''
}}

{{Quote|Great uncle [[Scar]] was a real creep!|Kopa, after hearing Rafiki's story, ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]''}}

'''Kopa''' is the son of [[Simba]] and [[Nala]].

==Physical Attributes==
Kopa is very similar to his father in appearance when he was a child. Kopa has a few differences, like slightly darker golden-colored fur and a brownish-red tuft of hair on his head. Other than that, he looks almost identical to his dad from his cubhood, even with the same reddish-brown eye color.

==Info==
[[File:Kopa_nala_dare.png|thumb|left|Kopa, as shown in [[Nala's Dare]].]]

Kopa is a [[lion]] character in [[Disney|Disney's]] ''[[The Lion King]]'' universe. According to the set of books titled ''The Lion King: Six New Adventures'' he is the son of Simba and Nala, although he didn't appear in [[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride|''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'']] - instead, Simba and Nala have a daughter named [[Kiara]], and Kopa's existence was never mentioned again. Disney has also asserted that the cub seen at the end of the first ''Lion King'' film is Kiara; Because the books and the second movie were produced by different writers, there would understandedly be inconsistencies between the book series and second film but many fans have tried to explain the differences, asserting that Kopa is in fact the cub seen at the end of the first movie due to the fact that the cub seen at the beginning of the second movie (Kiara) looks slightly different. The word ''kopa'' has multiple meanings in Swahili, perhaps the best of which is "heart shape".<ref>http://research.yale.edu/cgi-bin/swahili/lookup.cgi?Word=kopa&EngP=0&SUBMIT2=Look+Up</ref>

In the first draft of the script for ''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'', Kiara had a brother named Chaka, but Chaka was removed from the story before production of the second film began.

==The Lion King: Six New Adventures==

In the book series, much of the time Kopa is listening to a story by various people like Zazu or Rafiki, but he probably appeared most prominently in ''[[The_Lion_King:_Six_New_Adventures#Vulture_Shock|Vulture Shock]]''. He also had a few minor roles in some of the other books in the set of six. According to the illustrations, he looked almost exactly like Simba as a cub, except for a small tuft of brown fur on his head. He is described as loving to hear stories, but is also curious and playful, like his father was.

During ''Vulture Shock'', Kopa wanted to find his family tree, which he thought was an actual tree with fruit and leaves. After being embarrassed by [[Mega]], [[Leo]], and the other lions, the cub asks Simba to take him to it, but his father was too busy dealing with a greedy hippo, so Kopa decided he would find his family tree by himself. Finding a lizard and chasing it, trying to eat the lizard, Kopa ended up wandering too far off and was in a dry, barren land; lost and afraid that he would never find his way back to [[Pride Rock]], he curled up and fell asleep. In the morning he was found by two vultures, and realizing that the cub was the Lion King's son, the vultures knew Simba would trade anything for him, including a feast so large they would never go hungry again. They kept him prisoner high up in a tree so he couldn't escape, where Kopa was later found by the Buzzard Boyz, a group of rapping vultures who sang horribly. They befriended Kopa after the tiny cub said he liked their singing, and the gang brought Simba and Nala to him. Kopa was then rescued, and his captors were forced to listen to the Buzzard Boyz concert.
[[File:Zazukopa.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Kopa in ''How True, Zazu?'']]

In ''[[The_Lion_King:_Six_New_Adventures#A Tale of Two Brothers|A Tale of Two Brothers]]'', Rafiki tells the back story of [[Mufasa]] and [[Scar]] to Kopa, and teaches him that we shouldn't be jealous of others.

In ''[[How True, Zazu?]]'', Zazu tells Kopa about his life when he was young and how he became the King's majordomo.

==Trivia==
* According to some websites, the name ''Kopa'' wasn't ever considered as a name for the cub at the end of the first movie, which suggests Kopa may never have been the cub at the end of ''The Lion King'', and may have just been implemented into the books by the authors only, and not officially by Disney.
* Some fans theories state that Kopa is Kiara's older brother and that he was either killed by one of the [[Outsiders]] (more specifically, [[Zira]], Scar's mate) or that he ran away in a theme similar to young Simba's flight from the Pride Lands in the first film. Some state that he survived and stayed in some jungle until adulthood, then returning to his home.
* A less widespread theory is that Kopa was born after the events of ''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'', making him Kiara's younger brother.
** Some fan theories state that Kopa is the mate to Vitani.

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/The_Lion_King/Who_was_the_cub%3F The Lion King/Who was the cub? at WikiFur]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Lions]]
[[Category:Male Characters]]
[[Category:Book/Comic Only Characters]]

Kopa

2010-11-27T19:31:58Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Kopa.png
| Img_capt = Kopa
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Heart shape
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Great-Great-Grandson To [[Mohatu]], Great-Grandson To [[Ahadi]] And [[Uru]], Grandson to [[Mufasa]] and [[Sarabi]], Son To [[Simba]] and [[Nala]], Brother To [[Kiara]], mate to [[Vitani]]
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]''
}}

{{Quote|Great uncle [[Scar]] was a real creep!|Kopa, after hearing Rafiki's story, ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]''}}

'''Kopa''' is the son of [[Simba]] and [[Nala]].

==Physical Attributes==
Kopa is very similar to his father in appearance when he was a child. Kopa has a few differences, like slightly darker golden-colored fur and a brownish-red tuft of hair on his head. Other than that, he looks almost identical to his dad from his cubhood, even with the same reddish-brown eye color.

==Info==
[[File:Kopa_nala_dare.png|thumb|left|Kopa, as shown in [[Nala's Dare]].]]

Kopa is a [[lion]] character in [[Disney|Disney's]] ''[[The Lion King]]'' universe. According to the set of books titled ''The Lion King: Six New Adventures'' he is the son of Simba and Nala, although he didn't appear in [[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride|''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'']] - instead, Simba and Nala have a daughter named [[Kiara]], and Kopa's existence was never mentioned again. Disney has also asserted that the cub seen at the end of the first ''Lion King'' film is Kiara; Because the books and the second movie were produced by different writers, there would understandedly be inconsistencies between the book series and second film but many fans have tried to explain the differences, asserting that Kopa is in fact the cub seen at the end of the first movie due to the fact that the cub seen at the beginning of the second movie (Kiara) looks slightly different. The word ''kopa'' has multiple meanings in Swahili, perhaps the best of which is "heart shape".<ref>http://research.yale.edu/cgi-bin/swahili/lookup.cgi?Word=kopa&EngP=0&SUBMIT2=Look+Up</ref>

In the first draft of the script for ''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'', Kiara had a brother named Chaka, but Chaka was removed from the story before production of the second film began.

==The Lion King: Six New Adventures==

In the book series, much of the time Kopa is listening to a story by various people like Zazu or Rafiki, but he probably appeared most prominently in ''[[The_Lion_King:_Six_New_Adventures#Vulture_Shock|Vulture Shock]]''. He also had a few minor roles in some of the other books in the set of six. According to the illustrations, he looked almost exactly like Simba as a cub, except for a small tuft of brown fur on his head. He is described as loving to hear stories, but is also curious and playful, like his father was.

During ''Vulture Shock'', Kopa wanted to find his family tree, which he thought was an actual tree with fruit and leaves. After being embarrassed by [[Mega]], [[Leo]], and the other lions, the cub asks Simba to take him to it, but his father was too busy dealing with a greedy hippo, so Kopa decided he would find his family tree by himself. Finding a lizard and chasing it, trying to eat the lizard, Kopa ended up wandering too far off and was in a dry, barren land; lost and afraid that he would never find his way back to [[Pride Rock]], he curled up and fell asleep. In the morning he was found by two vultures, and realizing that the cub was the Lion King's son, the vultures knew Simba would trade anything for him, including a feast so large they would never go hungry again. They kept him prisoner high up in a tree so he couldn't escape, where Kopa was later found by the Buzzard Boyz, a group of rapping vultures who sang horribly. They befriended Kopa after the tiny cub said he liked their singing, and the gang brought Simba and Nala to him. Kopa was then rescued, and his captors were forced to listen to the Buzzard Boyz concert.
[[File:Zazukopa.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Kopa in ''How True, Zazu?'']]

In ''[[The_Lion_King:_Six_New_Adventures#A Tale of Two Brothers|A Tale of Two Brothers]]'', Rafiki tells the back story of [[Mufasa]] and [[Scar]] to Kopa, and teaches him that we shouldn't be jealous of others.

In ''[[How True, Zazu?]]'', Zazu tells Kopa about his life when he was young and how he became the King's majordomo.

==Trivia==
* According to some websites, the name ''Kopa'' wasn't ever considered as a name for the cub at the end of the first movie, which suggests Kopa may never have been the cub at the end of ''The Lion King'', and may have just been implemented into the books by the authors only, and not officially by Disney.
* Some fans theories state that Kopa is Kiara's older brother and that he was either killed by one of the [[Outsiders]] (more specifically, [[Zira]], Scar's mate) or that he ran away in a theme similar to young Simba's flight from the Pride Lands in the first film.
** A less widespread theory is that Kopa was born after the events of ''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'', making him Kiara's younger brother.

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/The_Lion_King/Who_was_the_cub%3F The Lion King/Who was the cub? at WikiFur]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Lions]]
[[Category:Male Characters]]
[[Category:Book/Comic Only Characters]]

Simba

2010-11-23T01:53:06Z

Pridelander: /* The Lion King 1½ */

{{spoiler}}

{{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 = [[Nala]] (mate), [[Mufasa]] (father), [[Sarabi]] (mother), [[Scar]] (uncle), [[Kopa]] (son), [[Kiara]] (daughter), [[Sarafina]] (mother-in-law)
}}
{{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 fully grown a red-brown mane, with side bangs and 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. (Many fans believe this is because his son [[Kopa]] was killed by Zira, although the theory is not official.) 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, [http://lionking.wikia.com/wiki/Kovu 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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Mufasa

2010-11-23T01:25:43Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Mufasa.png
| Img_capt = Mufasa
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = King
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Son of [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]], brother to [[Scar]], mate of [[Sarabi]], father of [[Simba]], grandfather of [[Kiara]] and [[Kopa]]
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King (film)|The Lion King]]'', ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]'', ''[[The Lion King 1½]]'', ''[[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]'', ''[[A False Ancestor]]'', ''[[A Royal Fib]]''
| Voice_Actors = James Earl Jones
}}

{{Quote|Why, if it isn't my big brother descending from on high to mingle with the commoners.|[[Scar]], when he sees Mufasa after [[Simba|Simba's]] ceremony}}

'''Mufasa''' is the king of the [[Pridelands]] at the start of ''The Lion King'', he is the father of [[Simba]], and the older brother of [[Scar]].

==Physical Attributes==
'''Mufasa''' is a large, powerful [[lion]] with golden fur, a thick, red mane, and reddish-brown eyes.
[[File:MufasaInTrouble.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Mufasa clinging to the side of a cliff.]]

== Personality ==
Mufasa is a very wise and noble king. He always thinks about what's in the best interest of the Pridelands, and is completely selfless. He cares very much for his son, Simba, and even sacrifices his own life for him.
[[File:Mufasa in the clouds.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Mufasa watching the presentation of Kiara.]]

==Information==
Mufasa is a large powerful male lion. He is the father of [[Simba]], the mate of [[Sarabi]], and the older brother of [[Scar]]. He is son of [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]], and the king of [[The Pridelands]] in the begining of the movie. He is wise and caring, often portryed as the ideal king and wishes to pass those traits down to Simba. Mufasa tells Simba about the great kings of the past after saving [[Nala]] and Simba from Scar's [[Hyena]]s. Since Scar's first plan fails, he comes up with a new plan: to kill Mufasa and to scare Simba off for his hyena's to chase down and kill.

After setting his son safely on a ledge; Mufasa is carried off into the stampede, but jumps up climbing the ledge to save himself. When he reaches the top he pleads for his brothers help before Scar pierces Mufasa's paws with his claws, saying "Long live the king." Scar then throws Mufasa in the stampede. Mufasa is seen again when [[Rafiki]] explains to Simba that 'He lives in you'. Mufasa, who's spirit is in the clouds, tells Simba that he must return to the Pridelands to save his pride. Also, beefore Simba claims his kingship, Mufasa can be heard saying "''Remember''".

Mufasa only makes two appearances in Simba's Pride. Once during [[Kiara]]'s presentation, and the last time in Simba's nightmare. He also says "Well done my son. We are one." at the end of Simba's pride. He is also menturned during the exile of [[Kovu]], where Kiara yells at Simba "''You will never be Mufasa!''", possibly referring to the fact, in Kiara's eyes, Mufasa may have forgiven Kovu and seen the ambush was not his fault. Simba is taken aback by the statement for a moment, suggesting he had been trying to live up to the "greatness" Mufasa had achieved in his time as ruler of the Pridelands.

== Broadway Musical ==

Mufasa's role is more bigger into the musical based on the first film. He sings "They live in you!" to young Simba when they are looking up at the stars. There is also an scene in which Mufasa tells Zazu about Simba's daring behavior. Zazu then reminds him on his early years as a cub.

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Lions]]
[[Category:Pridelanders]]
[[Category:Male Characters]]
[[Category:Deceased Characters]]

Mufasa

2010-11-23T01:25:16Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Mufasa.png
| Img_capt = Mufasa
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = King
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Son of [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]], brother to [[Scar]], mate of [[Sarabi]], father of [[Simba]], grandfather of [[Kiara]] and [[Kopa]]
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King (film)|The Lion King]]'', ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]'', ''[[The Lion King 1½]]'', ''[[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]'', ''[[A False Ancestor]]'', ''[[A Royal Fib]]''
| Voice_Actors = James Earl Jones
}}

{{Quote|Why, if it isn't my big brother descending from on high to mingle with the commoners.|[[Scar]], when he sees Mufasa after [[Simba|Simba's]] ceremony}}

'''Mufasa''' is the king of the [[Pridelands]] at the start of ''The Lion King'', he is the father of [[Simba]], and the older brother of [[Scar]].

==Physical Attributes==
'''Mufasa''' is a large, powerful [[lion]] with golden fur, a thick, red mane, and reddish-brown eyes.
[[File:MufasaInTrouble.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Mufasa clinging to the side of a cliff.]]

== Personality ==
Mufasa is a very wise and noble king. He always thinks about what's in the best interest of the Pridelands, and is completely selfless. He cares very much for his son, Simba, and even sacrifices his own life for him.
[[File:Mufasa in the clouds.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Mufasa watching the presentation of Kiara.]]

==Information==

''Scar! Brother! Help me!

—Mufasa begging [[Scar]] to help him during the stampede, just before his death.''

Mufasa is a large powerful male lion. He is the father of [[Simba]], the mate of [[Sarabi]], and the older brother of [[Scar]]. He is son of [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]], and the king of [[The Pridelands]] in the begining of the movie. He is wise and caring, often portryed as the ideal king and wishes to pass those traits down to Simba. Mufasa tells Simba about the great kings of the past after saving [[Nala]] and Simba from Scar's [[Hyena]]s. Since Scar's first plan fails, he comes up with a new plan: to kill Mufasa and to scare Simba off for his hyena's to chase down and kill.

After setting his son safely on a ledge; Mufasa is carried off into the stampede, but jumps up climbing the ledge to save himself. When he reaches the top he pleads for his brothers help before Scar pierces Mufasa's paws with his claws, saying "Long live the king." Scar then throws Mufasa in the stampede. Mufasa is seen again when [[Rafiki]] explains to Simba that 'He lives in you'. Mufasa, who's spirit is in the clouds, tells Simba that he must return to the Pridelands to save his pride. Also, beefore Simba claims his kingship, Mufasa can be heard saying "''Remember''".

Mufasa only makes two appearances in Simba's Pride. Once during [[Kiara]]'s presentation, and the last time in Simba's nightmare. He also says "Well done my son. We are one." at the end of Simba's pride. He is also menturned during the exile of [[Kovu]], where Kiara yells at Simba "''You will never be Mufasa!''", possibly referring to the fact, in Kiara's eyes, Mufasa may have forgiven Kovu and seen the ambush was not his fault. Simba is taken aback by the statement for a moment, suggesting he had been trying to live up to the "greatness" Mufasa had achieved in his time as ruler of the Pridelands.

== Broadway Musical ==

Mufasa's role is more bigger into the musical based on the first film. He sings "They live in you!" to young Simba when they are looking up at the stars. There is also an scene in which Mufasa tells Zazu about Simba's daring behavior. Zazu then reminds him on his early years as a cub.

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Lions]]
[[Category:Pridelanders]]
[[Category:Male Characters]]
[[Category:Deceased Characters]]

Mufasa

2010-11-23T01:24:15Z

Pridelander: /* Information */

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Mufasa.png
| Img_capt = Mufasa
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = King
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Son of [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]], brother to [[Scar]], mate of [[Sarabi]], father of [[Simba]], grandfather of [[Kiara]] and [[Kopa]]
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King (film)|The Lion King]]'', ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]'', ''[[The Lion King 1½]]'', ''[[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]'', ''[[A False Ancestor]]'', ''[[A Royal Fib]]''
| Voice_Actors = James Earl Jones
}}

{{Quote|Why, if it isn't my big brother descending from on high to mingle with the commoners.|[[Scar]], when he sees Mufasa after [[Simba|Simba's]] ceremony}}

'''Mufasa''' is the king of the [[Pridelands]] at the start of ''The Lion King'', he is the father of [[Simba]], and the older brother of [[Scar]].

==Physical Attributes==
'''Mufasa''' is a large, powerful [[lion]] with golden fur, a thick, red mane, and reddish-brown eyes.
[[File:MufasaInTrouble.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Mufasa clinging to the side of a cliff.]]

== Personality ==
Mufasa is a very wise and noble king. He always thinks about what's in the best interest of the Pridelands, and is completely selfless. He cares very much for his son, Simba, and even sacrifices his own life for him.
[[File:Mufasa in the clouds.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Mufasa watching the presentation of Kiara.]]

==Information==

''Scar! Brother! Help me!

-Mufasa begging [[Scar]] to help him during the stampede, just before his death.''

Mufasa is a large powerful male lion. He is the father of [[Simba]], the mate of [[Sarabi]], and the older brother of [[Scar]]. He is son of [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]], and the king of [[The Pridelands]] in the begining of the movie. He is wise and caring, often portryed as the ideal king and wishes to pass those traits down to Simba. Mufasa tells Simba about the great kings of the past after saving [[Nala]] and Simba from Scar's [[Hyena]]s. Since Scar's first plan fails, he comes up with a new plan: to kill Mufasa and to scare Simba off for his hyena's to chase down and kill.

After setting his son safely on a ledge; Mufasa is carried off into the stampede, but jumps up climbing the ledge to save himself. When he reaches the top he pleads for his brothers help before Scar pierces Mufasa's paws with his claws, saying "Long live the king." Scar then throws Mufasa in the stampede. Mufasa is seen again when [[Rafiki]] explains to Simba that 'He lives in you'. Mufasa, who's spirit is in the clouds, tells Simba that he must return to the Pridelands to save his pride. Also, beefore Simba claims his kingship, Mufasa can be heard saying "''Remember''".

Mufasa only makes two appearances in Simba's Pride. Once during [[Kiara]]'s presentation, and the last time in Simba's nightmare. He also says "Well done my son. We are one." at the end of Simba's pride. He is also menturned during the exile of [[Kovu]], where Kiara yells at Simba "''You will never be Mufasa!''", possibly referring to the fact, in Kiara's eyes, Mufasa may have forgiven Kovu and seen the ambush was not his fault. Simba is taken aback by the statement for a moment, suggesting he had been trying to live up to the "greatness" Mufasa had achieved in his time as ruler of the Pridelands.

== Broadway Musical ==

Mufasa's role is more bigger into the musical based on the first film. He sings "They live in you!" to young Simba when they are looking up at the stars. There is also an scene in which Mufasa tells Zazu about Simba's daring behavior. Zazu then reminds him on his early years as a cub.

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Mufasa

2010-11-23T01:23:54Z

Pridelander: /* Information */

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Mufasa.png
| Img_capt = Mufasa
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = King
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Son of [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]], brother to [[Scar]], mate of [[Sarabi]], father of [[Simba]], grandfather of [[Kiara]] and [[Kopa]]
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King (film)|The Lion King]]'', ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]'', ''[[The Lion King 1½]]'', ''[[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]'', ''[[A False Ancestor]]'', ''[[A Royal Fib]]''
| Voice_Actors = James Earl Jones
}}

{{Quote|Why, if it isn't my big brother descending from on high to mingle with the commoners.|[[Scar]], when he sees Mufasa after [[Simba|Simba's]] ceremony}}

'''Mufasa''' is the king of the [[Pridelands]] at the start of ''The Lion King'', he is the father of [[Simba]], and the older brother of [[Scar]].

==Physical Attributes==
'''Mufasa''' is a large, powerful [[lion]] with golden fur, a thick, red mane, and reddish-brown eyes.
[[File:MufasaInTrouble.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Mufasa clinging to the side of a cliff.]]

== Personality ==
Mufasa is a very wise and noble king. He always thinks about what's in the best interest of the Pridelands, and is completely selfless. He cares very much for his son, Simba, and even sacrifices his own life for him.
[[File:Mufasa in the clouds.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Mufasa watching the presentation of Kiara.]]

==Information==

''Scar! Brother! Help me! Mufasa begging [[Scar]] to help him during the stampede, just before his death.''

Mufasa is a large powerful male lion. He is the father of [[Simba]], the mate of [[Sarabi]], and the older brother of [[Scar]]. He is son of [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]], and the king of [[The Pridelands]] in the begining of the movie. He is wise and caring, often portryed as the ideal king and wishes to pass those traits down to Simba. Mufasa tells Simba about the great kings of the past after saving [[Nala]] and Simba from Scar's [[Hyena]]s. Since Scar's first plan fails, he comes up with a new plan: to kill Mufasa and to scare Simba off for his hyena's to chase down and kill.

After setting his son safely on a ledge; Mufasa is carried off into the stampede, but jumps up climbing the ledge to save himself. When he reaches the top he pleads for his brothers help before Scar pierces Mufasa's paws with his claws, saying "Long live the king." Scar then throws Mufasa in the stampede. Mufasa is seen again when [[Rafiki]] explains to Simba that 'He lives in you'. Mufasa, who's spirit is in the clouds, tells Simba that he must return to the Pridelands to save his pride. Also, beefore Simba claims his kingship, Mufasa can be heard saying "''Remember''".

Mufasa only makes two appearances in Simba's Pride. Once during [[Kiara]]'s presentation, and the last time in Simba's nightmare. He also says "Well done my son. We are one." at the end of Simba's pride. He is also menturned during the exile of [[Kovu]], where Kiara yells at Simba "''You will never be Mufasa!''", possibly referring to the fact, in Kiara's eyes, Mufasa may have forgiven Kovu and seen the ambush was not his fault. Simba is taken aback by the statement for a moment, suggesting he had been trying to live up to the "greatness" Mufasa had achieved in his time as ruler of the Pridelands.

== Broadway Musical ==

Mufasa's role is more bigger into the musical based on the first film. He sings "They live in you!" to young Simba when they are looking up at the stars. There is also an scene in which Mufasa tells Zazu about Simba's daring behavior. Zazu then reminds him on his early years as a cub.

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[[Category:Pridelanders]]
[[Category:Male Characters]]
[[Category:Deceased Characters]]

Mufasa

2010-11-23T01:23:20Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Mufasa.png
| Img_capt = Mufasa
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = King
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Son of [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]], brother to [[Scar]], mate of [[Sarabi]], father of [[Simba]], grandfather of [[Kiara]] and [[Kopa]]
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King (film)|The Lion King]]'', ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]'', ''[[The Lion King 1½]]'', ''[[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]'', ''[[A False Ancestor]]'', ''[[A Royal Fib]]''
| Voice_Actors = James Earl Jones
}}

{{Quote|Why, if it isn't my big brother descending from on high to mingle with the commoners.|[[Scar]], when he sees Mufasa after [[Simba|Simba's]] ceremony}}

'''Mufasa''' is the king of the [[Pridelands]] at the start of ''The Lion King'', he is the father of [[Simba]], and the older brother of [[Scar]].

==Physical Attributes==
'''Mufasa''' is a large, powerful [[lion]] with golden fur, a thick, red mane, and reddish-brown eyes.
[[File:MufasaInTrouble.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Mufasa clinging to the side of a cliff.]]

== Personality ==
Mufasa is a very wise and noble king. He always thinks about what's in the best interest of the Pridelands, and is completely selfless. He cares very much for his son, Simba, and even sacrifices his own life for him.
[[File:Mufasa in the clouds.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Mufasa watching the presentation of Kiara.]]

==Information==

{{Quote|Scar! Brother! Help me!|Mufasa begging [[Scar]] to help him during the stampede, just before his death.

Mufasa is a large powerful male lion. He is the father of [[Simba]], the mate of [[Sarabi]], and the older brother of [[Scar]]. He is son of [[Ahadi]] and [[Uru]], and the king of [[The Pridelands]] in the begining of the movie. He is wise and caring, often portryed as the ideal king and wishes to pass those traits down to Simba. Mufasa tells Simba about the great kings of the past after saving [[Nala]] and Simba from Scar's [[Hyena]]s. Since Scar's first plan fails, he comes up with a new plan: to kill Mufasa and to scare Simba off for his hyena's to chase down and kill.

After setting his son safely on a ledge; Mufasa is carried off into the stampede, but jumps up climbing the ledge to save himself. When he reaches the top he pleads for his brothers help before Scar pierces Mufasa's paws with his claws, saying "Long live the king." Scar then throws Mufasa in the stampede. Mufasa is seen again when [[Rafiki]] explains to Simba that 'He lives in you'. Mufasa, who's spirit is in the clouds, tells Simba that he must return to the Pridelands to save his pride. Also, beefore Simba claims his kingship, Mufasa can be heard saying "''Remember''".

Mufasa only makes two appearances in Simba's Pride. Once during [[Kiara]]'s presentation, and the last time in Simba's nightmare. He also says "Well done my son. We are one." at the end of Simba's pride. He is also menturned during the exile of [[Kovu]], where Kiara yells at Simba "''You will never be Mufasa!''", possibly referring to the fact, in Kiara's eyes, Mufasa may have forgiven Kovu and seen the ambush was not his fault. Simba is taken aback by the statement for a moment, suggesting he had been trying to live up to the "greatness" Mufasa had achieved in his time as ruler of the Pridelands.

== Broadway Musical ==

Mufasa's role is more bigger into the musical based on the first film. He sings "They live in you!" to young Simba when they are looking up at the stars. There is also an scene in which Mufasa tells Zazu about Simba's daring behavior. Zazu then reminds him on his early years as a cub.

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Nala

2010-11-23T01:13:13Z

Pridelander: /* Trivia */

{{spoiler}}

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Happy Nala.jpg
| Img_capt = Nala
| Meaning = Gift
| Species = Lion
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King (film)|The Lion King]]'', ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]'', ''[[The Lion King 1½]]'', ''[[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]''
| Voice_Actors = See below
| Close_Relations = Mate of [[Simba]], mother of [[Kiara]] and [[Kopa]], daughter of [[Sarafina]], sister of [[Mheetu]]
}}

{{Quotelink|http://www.lionking.org/sounds/WAV/PinnedYah.wav|Pinned ya'!|[[Nala]], teasing [[Simba]]}}

'''Nala''' is Simba's best friend and mate.

==Physical Attributes==
Nala is a pale tan lioness with blue-green eyes, as both a cub and adult.

==Info==
Nala is the daughter of [[Sarafina]]. She is the mate of [[Simba]] and the mother of [[Kiara|Kiara in]] [[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]], however in Six New Adventures, she is also mother to [[Kopa]]. While the first Lion King movie was in production, a cub named [[Mheetu]] was supposed to appear in the film as her younger brother, but his character was dropped during production.
[[Image:NalaPeersQuestioningly.jpg|thumb|left|Nala]]

==== The Lion King ====

===Cub Nala===
{{Dialogue|Simba|I can't marry her; she's my friend.|Nala|Yeah. It'd be too weird.|Simba and Nala, as Zazu speaks of marriage}}
Nala is first seen asleep when Simba tries to wake up his father. The next day Nala is being bathed by her mother, Sarafina, after Simba's first shown dialogue with [[Scar]]. Simba appears and asks [[Sarabi]] to let them go to the waterhole, when Simba was really going to the elephant graveyard. They are allowed to go, but [[Zazu]] had to watch over them. Along the way, the cubs plot to distract Zazu by singing a song called [[I Just Can't Wait to be King]]. They succeed. The cubs play wrestling, together, resulting in Nala pinning Simba. After they wrestle a second time, they roll down the hill and they discover that they arrived at the elephant graveyard. They are soon chased by Scar's three hyenas, [[Shenzi]], [[Banzai]], and [[Ed]]. Suddenly, [[Mufasa]] comes to the rescue and saves Simba and Nala from the three hyenas.

===Adult Nala===
{{Q|Nala? Is that really you?|Simba, after Nala flips him over}}
Later on in the movie, Simba and Nala are both adults. They are reunited when Nala tries to eat Simba's warthog friend [[Pumbaa]]. They are both overjoyed to see each other and they discover that their friendship has turned into love for both of them. Soon, Simba refuses to return to go back to the Pride Lands with Nala to defeat Scar, which leads to a quarrel between he and Nala, as she believes he is the true king and their only chance to restore the Pride Lands from Scar's tyranny.
[[Image:Nala_the_LOOK600.jpg|thumb|200px|Nala during ''[[Can You Feel the Love Tonight]]'']]
Later, Simba has a change of heart and he, Nala, [[Timon]], and Pumbaa return to the Pride Lands so Simba could defeat Scar for the throne. Simba battles Scar for the throne and Simba succeeds when Scar is thrown from a cliff to a pack of angry hyenas. The Pride Lands go back to normal with Simba and Nala as the new king and queen. They look on proudly as [[Rafiki]] presents their newborn cub to the Pride Lands.

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

{{Dialogue4|Nala|Simba, who does she remind you of?|Simba|Huh? What? Who?|Nala|She's just like you were when you were young.|Simba|Exactly. Do you remember the dangers we put ourselves in?|Nala|You mean the dangers YOU put ourselves in.|Simba and Nala talking about Kiara}}

[[File:Tlksp-nala.png|thumb|left|Nala]]

Nala has a slightly smaller role in the sequel to The Lion King. In Simba's Pride, she has visibly aged and her frame is heavier, but larger. She is still young, being a whole generation younger than the villain named [[Zira]]. Her personality is different since becoming queen. Nala has been calm, mild-mannered, and motherly in the sequel.

Simba and Nala now have a rebellious daughter named [[Kiara]]. Nala's parenting approach contrasts with Simba's need to know that his daughter is safe. She believes that his concerns are groundless and somewhat paranoid.

Nala first appears in the film as Rafiki presents Kiara to the animals. She looks on proudly as the animals admire her. She appears in most of the first scene when she tells Kiara to mind her father. She then has a discussion with Simba after Kiara runs off to play by herself. However, Nala's advice is ignored and Simba sends Timon and Pumbaa to look after Kiara. She then appears when she and Simba come to rescue Kiara from the Outlands.

Soon after, Kiara has grown into a young adult. Nala talks to Kiara before her first hunt and nuzzles her after that. She next appears when Kiara is rescued by [[Kovu]] and reminds Simba that he owes Kovu 'Kiara's life' due to royal protocol. She is present that night when Simba has a nightmare about trying to rescue his father during the stampede. She is asleep and remains silent after the nightmare.

As Kiara and Kovu spend time together in the grasslands, that night, Nala finds Simba on a hill, desperately trying to seek advice from the great kings of the past. She consults her husband, seeing the good in Kovu that Simba can not see past due to Kovu's links to Scar.

Nala is present in the final battle when she confronts [[Vitani]]. Vitani taunts her about Kiara's disappearance. Later Nala gives directions as Simba leaps into the gorge to rescue Kiara, who is stranded above the swollen river. Once the Pride Lands go back to normal, she journeys back to Pride Rock and stands atop the promontory with Simba, Kiara, and Kovu, roaring alongside them.

[[File:Tlk3nala.jpg|thumb|Nala in The Lion King 1½]]

Nala is the most powerful lioness in the Pride Lands. She was able to fight Vitani, even though Vitani was younger and trained to kill. Before Simba's confrontation with Zira, Nala was able to outmatch Vitani.

==[[The Lion King 1½]]==
{{Dialogue4|Timon|This is a disaster, Pumbaa. A disaster, I tell ya!|Pumbaa|You mean because they've finally found each other like two soul-mates joined across the years by the bonds of true love?|Timon|Sweet, innocent, little Pumbaa, she's going to put a stake right through the heart of our Hakuna Matata!|Pumbaa|Oh! Then I guess we ought to do something.|Timon|And I know just what it is. Pumbaa, we can't let them feel the love tonight!|[[Timon]] and [[Pumbaa]], as they witness [[Simba]] and [[Nala]] falling in love}}
Nala plays a minor role in The Lion King 1½. She is seen in scenes like during the [[Can You Feel The Love Tonight]] sequence and in an extension of the scene where she explains to Timon and Pumbaa about Simba's whereabouts. Although a minor role, Nala was still voiced by Moira Kelly in this film.

==Kingdom Hearts II==

Nala is seen in the video game [[Kingdom Hearts II]]. The young Nala was never seen in the video game, and only Nala as an adult had a role in the game. She is only seen in the Pride Lands with Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Vanessa Marshall replaced Moira Kelly as Nala's voice in the game.

==''The Lion King'' musical==

In the musical based on the same film, Nala's role is considerably expanded, with the events leading up to Nala leaving the Pride Lands under Scar's tyranny depicted in detail.

Nala first appears in the musical as she is hunting with the other lionesses, replacing the scene from the film in where she was bathed by her mother, Sarafina. Later during the song, ''I Just Can't Wait to be King'', she sings quite a few extra lines that do not appear in the film version of The Lion King.

In the scene, ''The Madness of King Scar'', the lonely, mentally ill Scar decides to take Nala as his mate, despite the fact that she is angrily opposed to the idea. This leads to the song scene, ''Shadowland'', where Nala's character sings the lead about her need to leave the Pride Lands and find help. The other lionesses sing supporting choir and Rafiki sings a blessing. At the end of the song, Nala bids her pride a sad farewell and leaves.

Tony-Award winning actress Heather Headley portrayed her in the original Broadway cast. In the London West End production, she was originally portrayed by Paulette Ivor.

The song ''Shadowland'' was based on the song ''Lea Halalela (Holy Land)'' from the Rhythm of the Pride Lands CD.

==Songs==
* [[Can You Feel the Love Tonight]]
* [[I Just Can't Wait to be King]]

==Voice Actors==
===The Lion King===
* [[Niketa Calame]] (cub).
* [[Moira Kelly]] (adult).
* Laura Williams (singing cub).
* Sally Dworsky (singing adult).

===The Lion King II: Simba's Pride===
* [[Moira Kelly]].

==Trivia==
* Nala's eyes are change from blue to green in the first film and yet stay blue in the second.

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[[Category:Protagonist]]

User:Pridelander

2010-11-23T01:09:05Z

Pridelander:

Hi there! I'm Pridelander. I'm a very big Lion King fan. My favorite characters are:

[[Nala]] Meaning "dream" or "gift".

[[Simba]] Meaning "lion."

[[Sarabi]] Meaning "mirage"

[[Kiara]] Meaning "dark" in Irish

[[Vitani]] Meaning "war-demon." Vitani's name is a combination of Shetani and Vita, meaning "demon or devil" and "war."

[[Mufasa]] Proper name

[[Mohatu]] Proper name

[[Kopa]] Meaning "hearts"

[[Mheetu]] Proper name

[[Sarafina]] Meaning "Fiery One"

I try to do my best on this sight. My hobbies are watching birds and drawing Lion King lions.

Give me chirp on my talk page! I rarely get visiters. (Fine with me).

User:Pridelander

2010-11-23T01:08:29Z

Pridelander:

Hi there! I'm Pridelander. I'm a very big Lion King fan. My favorite characters are:

[[Nala]] Meaning "dream" or "gift".

[[Simba]] Meaning "lion."

[[Sarabi]] Meaning "mirage"

[[Kiara]] Meaning "dark" in Irish

[[Vitani]] Meaning "war-demon." Vitani's name is a combination of Shetani and Vita, meaning "demon or devil" and "war."

[[Mufasa]] Proper name

[[Mohatu]] Proper name

[[Kopa]] Meaning "hearts"

[[Mheetu]] Proper name

[[Sarafina]] Meaning "Dark One"

I try to do my best on this sight. My hobbies are watching birds and drawing Lion King lions.

Give me chirp on my talk page! I rarely get visiters. (Fine with me).

Boga

2010-11-17T03:09:51Z

Pridelander:

{{spoiler}}

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Boga.png
| Img_capt = Boga
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Gourd, Pumpkin<ref>http://www.lionking.org/characters/TLK_Character_List.html</ref>
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations =
| Appearances = ''[[Vulture Shock]]''
| Voice_Actors =
}}

{{Dialogue1|Leo|Did I ever tell you about the time my great-grandfather chased a herd of elephants?|Boga|About a hundred times!|Boga and [[Leo]]}}
'''Boga''' is a lioness in [[Simba]]'s [[Simba's Pride|Pride]].

== Physical Attributes ==
'''Boga''' is a sandy-brown lioness.
== Personality ==
Boga's personality is unknown.

== Information ==
When [[Kopa]], [[Simba|Simba's]] son, is looking for his father, Boga is seen resting under a clump of acacia trees with the rest of the pride. Leo is asking the other lions if they had ever heard the story about his great-grandfather chasing away a herd of elephants, and Boga groans, saying, "About a hundred times!". Later, after Kopa approaches the pride, Boga laughs along with the other pride members. This is the only time she is seen in ''Vulture Shock''.

{{endspoiler}}

== References ==
<references/>

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[[Category:Lions]]
[[Category:Pridelanders]]
[[Category:Book/Comic Only Characters]]

Babu

2010-11-17T03:08:46Z

Pridelander: /* Information */

{{spoiler}}

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Babu.png
| Img_capt = Babu
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Grandfather<ref>http://www.lionking.org/characters/TLK_Character_List.html</ref>
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations =
| Appearances = ''[[Vulture Shock]]''
| Voice_Actors =
}}

{{Quote|'Does it have leaves?' he asks. 'Or fruit'?|Babu, laughing at [[Kopa]]}}

'''Babu''' is a [[lion]] mentioned in ''[[Vulture Shock]]''.

== Physical Attributes ==
Babu is a sandy-colored lion with a tuft of darker brown fur on the end of his tail.

== Personality ==
Babu's personality is unknown.

== Information ==
When [[Kopa]], [[Simba]]'s son, is asking [[Leo]] about "his family tree", he asks if it has any leaves or fruit on it. Babu giggles at this, obviously amused at Kopa's confusion. This is the only time he's seen in ''Vulture Shock''.

{{endspoiler}}

== References ==
<references/>

Babu

2010-11-17T03:08:20Z

Pridelander:

{{spoiler}}

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Babu.png
| Img_capt = Babu
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Grandfather<ref>http://www.lionking.org/characters/TLK_Character_List.html</ref>
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations =
| Appearances = ''[[Vulture Shock]]''
| Voice_Actors =
}}

{{Quote|'Does it have leaves?' he asks. 'Or fruit'?|Babu, laughing at [[Kopa]]}}

'''Babu''' is a [[lion]] mentioned in ''[[Vulture Shock]]''.

== Physical Attributes ==
Babu is a sandy-colored lion with a tuft of darker brown fur on the end of his tail.

== Personality ==
Babu's personality is unknown.

== Information ==
When [[Kopa]], [[Simba]]'s son, is asking [[Leo]] about "his family tree", he asks if it has any leaves or fruit on it. Babu giggles at this, obviously amused at Kopa's confusion. This is the only time he's/she's seen in ''Vulture Shock''.

{{endspoiler}}

== References ==
<references/>

Babu

2010-11-17T03:08:02Z

Pridelander: /* Physical Attributes */

{{spoiler}}

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Babu.png
| Img_capt = Babu
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Grandfather<ref>http://www.lionking.org/characters/TLK_Character_List.html</ref>
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations =
| Appearances = ''[[Vulture Shock]]''
| Voice_Actors =
}}

{{Quote|'Does it have leaves?' he asks. 'Or fruit'?|Babu, laughing at [[Kopa]]}}

'''Babu''' is a [[lion]]/lioness mentioned in ''[[Vulture Shock]]''.

== Physical Attributes ==
Babu is a sandy-colored lion with a tuft of darker brown fur on the end of his tail.

== Personality ==
Babu's personality is unknown.

== Information ==
When [[Kopa]], [[Simba]]'s son, is asking [[Leo]] about "his family tree", he asks if it has any leaves or fruit on it. Babu giggles at this, obviously amused at Kopa's confusion. This is the only time he's/she's seen in ''Vulture Shock''.

{{endspoiler}}

== References ==
<references/>

Lion

2010-11-17T03:05:42Z

Pridelander: /* Lion/Lioness Characters in the Books/Comics */

'''Lions''' and '''Lionesses''' (scientific name ''Panthera leo'') are the main characters in the Lion King movies, aside from [[The Lion King 1½|the third movie, which focuses on Timon and Pumbaa]]. Lions are known as the "King of the Jungle" and are the second largest "big cat".

==Information==
[[File:Lion.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|An Adult Male]]

[[File:Mufasa.png|right|thumb|200 px|[[Mufasa]], a lion, as portrayed in the ''[[The Lion King]]'']]

Lions are found Africa, and India (although are considered critically endangered in India), in Africa they are considered "vulnerable". Lions used to be found in Western Asia and the Middle East, although they have long since disappeared from those regions. A Lion may live for around 10 to 15 years in the wild, and have been known to live for up to 20 years in captivity. The Lions and Lioness are physically different, the male has a large mane, and a large build, where as the female is a lighter colour and lacks a mane. In Africa, they are mainly found in Grassland or on the Savanna. The are the second largest big cat (with the Tiger being first).

==Lions are portrayed in the Lion King==
The "evil" characters in the Lion King are portrayed as having darker fur, and the males as having black manes ([[Scar]], [[Nuka]], [[Kovu]]), although this is impossible, there has never been a sighting of a lion with a fully black mane, only partly black.

Overall, throughout the movie, the Lions are portrayed as ruling over the other wild animals of Africa.

==Lion/Lioness Characters in the Movies==
*[[Mufasa]]
*[[Sarabi]]
*[[Sarafina]]
*[[Simba]]
*[[Nala]]
*[[Kiara]]
*[[Scar]]
*[[Zira]]
*[[Nuka]]
*[[Vitani]]
*[[Kovu]]

==Lion/Lioness Characters in the Books/Comics==
*[[Kopa]]
*[["King" Joe]]
*[[Malka]]
*[[Tama]]
*[[Tojo]]
*[[Chumvi]]
*[[Kula]]
*[[Ni]]
*[[Mega]]
*[[Leo]]
*[[Kianga]]
*[[Sabini]]
*[[Babu]]
*[[Boga]]

Outsiders

2010-11-17T01:20:33Z

Pridelander: /* Physical Difference's to Simba's Pride */

[[File:Outsiders.png|thumb|200px|[[Vitani]] and other Outsiders at the battle between the Pridelanders (Simba's pride) and the Outsiders (Zira's pride).]]
[[File:Outsiders2.png|thumb|200px|left|[[Nuka]] and other Outsiders in the [[My Lullaby]] sequence.]]
{{Dialogue1|Zazu|Nothing there but a bunch of back-stabbing, murderous Outsiders....|Simba|Zazu's right. You can't turn your back on them.|Simba and Zazu talking to Kiara}}

'''The Outsiders''' are a pride of lionesses (as well as two known lions, [[Kovu]] and [[Nuka]]) that still follow Scar's wishes; because of this, [[Simba]] banished them to [[The Outlands]], a near-waterless wasteland neighboring [[the Pridelands]]. The leader of the outsiders is [[Zira]], who is the mother of Kovu, Nuka, and Vitani. The Outsiders only appear in ''The Lion King II''. In the end all the Outsiders (with the exception of Zira, who dies during the battle against the Pridelanders) join Simba's pride. They could be referred to as "Scar's pride" or "Zira's pride".

As almost all of the Outsiders are shown to be female, Kovu and Nuka are likely the only two males in the pride. There also appears to have been no cubs after Kovu was born, which is odd seeing as there was [[Nuka|one male able to breed]] for the majority of the time, and [[Kovu|one male who eventually matured]], thus gaining the ability to breed.

==Physical Difference's to [[Simba]]'s [[Simba's Pride|Pride]]==
[[File:DotEyedOutsider.png|thumb]]
While the lionesses in Simba's pride have a golden coloured fur, the Outsider lionesses have slightly more muted and dull fur tones, and in comparison, the Outsider lionesses are much thinner than the ones in Simba's pride, possibly due to the fact the Outlands have "little food... less water..." (as stated by Zira). They also appear to bare their teeth more, and while this isn't much of a physical difference, it does show that characters like Zira appear to have sharper teeth, and more of them then the Pridelanders.

The male lions shown (Kovu and Nuka) take on Scar's colour scheme; this makes sense for Nuka (being Scar's son), however this means that other lions have the same colour scheme, as Kovu is only Scar's ''adopted'' son and heir.

Throughout the movie, some of the Outsider lionesses have been shown to have unique facial markings or small scars. Two such lionesses appear twice, known by some fans as Spotty and Dotty, although they never speak, they have a distinct pattern of spots under their eyes, making them readily discernible from their fellow Outsiders. Other lionesses with unique facial features have also been seen, such as one with tufts of fur around her neck and head, and one with a small spot on her lower right chin, known as Beauty-Spot, and one with a hair tuft very similar to [[Vitani]]'s.

==Notable members==
*[[Zira]] (Pride Leader)
*[[Vitani]] (Could be considered second in command, as well as a scout for Zira)
*[[Nuka]] (Dies in an attempt on Simba's life midway through ''The Lion King II'')
*[[Kovu]] (Defects in ''The Lion King II'')

==External Links==
*[http://www.lionking.org/~vakasi/outsiders.html A list of all of the current known Lioness with facial differences/abnormalities].

Outsiders

2010-11-16T01:17:50Z

Pridelander: /* Physical Difference's to Simba's Pride */

[[File:Outsiders.png|thumb|200px|[[Vitani]] and other Outsiders at the battle between the Pridelanders (Simba's pride) and the Outsiders (Zira's pride).]]
[[File:Outsiders2.png|thumb|200px|left|[[Nuka]] and other Outsiders in the [[My Lullaby]] sequence.]]
{{Dialogue1|Zazu|Nothing there but a bunch of back-stabbing, murderous Outsiders....|Simba|Zazu's right. You can't turn your back on them.|Simba and Zazu talking to Kiara}}

'''The Outsiders''' are a pride of lionesses (as well as two known lions, [[Kovu]] and [[Nuka]]) that still follow Scar's wishes; because of this, [[Simba]] banished them to [[The Outlands]], a near-waterless wasteland neighboring [[the Pridelands]]. The leader of the outsiders is [[Zira]], who is the mother of Kovu, Nuka, and Vitani. The Outsiders only appear in ''The Lion King II''. In the end all the Outsiders (with the exception of Zira, who dies during the battle against the Pridelanders) join Simba's pride. They could be referred to as "Scar's pride" or "Zira's pride".

As almost all of the Outsiders are shown to be female, Kovu and Nuka are likely the only two males in the pride. There also appears to have been no cubs after Kovu was born, which is odd seeing as there was [[Nuka|one male able to breed]] for the majority of the time, and [[Kovu|one male who eventually matured]], thus gaining the ability to breed.

==Physical Difference's to [[Simba]]'s [[Simba's Pride|Pride]]==
[[File:DotEyedOutsider.png|thumb]]
While the lionesses in Simba's pride have a golden coloured fur, the Outsider lionesses have slightly more muted and dull fur tones, and in comparison, the Outsider lionesses are much thinner than the ones in Simba's pride, possibly due to the fact the Outlands have "little food... less water..." (as stated by Zira). They also appear to bare their teeth more, and while this isn't much of a physical difference, it does show that characters like Zira appear to have sharper teeth, and more of them then the Pridelanders.

The male lions shown (Kovu and Nuka) take on Scar's colour scheme; this makes sense for Nuka (being Scar's son), however this means that other lions have the same colour scheme, as Kovu is only Scar's ''adopted'' son and heir.

Throughout the movie, some of the Outsider lionesses have been shown to have unique facial markings or small scars. Two such lionesses appear twice, known by some fans as Spotty and Dotty, although they never speak, they have a distinct pattern of spots under their eyes, making them readily discernible from their fellow Outsiders. Other lionesses with unique facial features have also been seen, such as one with tufts of fur around her neck and head, and one with a small spot on her lower right chin, and one with a hair tuft very similar to [[Vitani]]'s.

==Notable members==
*[[Zira]] (Pride Leader)
*[[Vitani]] (Could be considered second in command, as well as a scout for Zira)
*[[Nuka]] (Dies in an attempt on Simba's life midway through ''The Lion King II'')
*[[Kovu]] (Defects in ''The Lion King II'')

==External Links==
*[http://www.lionking.org/~vakasi/outsiders.html A list of all of the current known Lioness with facial differences/abnormalities].

User:Pridelander

2010-11-15T01:49:07Z

Pridelander:

Hi there! I'm Pridelander. I'm a very big Lion King fan. My favorite characters are:

[[Nala]] Meaning "dream" or "gift".

[[Simba]] Meaning "lion."

[[Sarabi]] Meaning "mirage"

[[Kiara]] Meaning "dark" in Irish

[[Vitani]] Meaning "war-demon." Vitani's name is a combination of Shetani and Vita, meaning "demon or devil" and "war."

[[Mufasa]] Proper name

[[Mohatu]] Proper name

[[Kopa]] Meaning "hearts"

[[Mheetu]] Proper name

I try to do my best on this sight. My hobbies are watching birds and drawing Lion King lions.

Give me chirp on my talk page! I rarely get visiters. (Fine with me).

User talk:Moka

2010-11-15T01:44:34Z

Pridelander: /* Quick question. */

{{Talk_page_rules}}

test ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 01:16, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

== Quick question. ==

Hey, when will this wiki be announced/released to the public, per say? Just wondering. [[User:Takoto|*Takoto*]] 17:58, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
: Whenever you guys want, I think we need to talk a little bit more about what we can do with the wiki. On MSN or something. ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 00:51, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
::What is your MSN? I'll add you and we can discuss about the wiki. :3 [[User:Takoto|*Takoto*]] 01:34, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
:::My MSN is moka@mylionking.com ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 03:22, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Moka! I've found pictures of Uru on the internet. On Google, look up "uru lion king" then click images. Pictures of Uru will appear. Also, I found a picture of Zinaro, too. *:*

Hi there!

I noticed a mistake on the pages [[Mega]] and [[Leo]]. Leo is actually Mega, and Mega is actually Leo. Consider changing the pictures and information! Write back if I confused you!

Sincerely, --[[User:Pridelander|Pridelander]] 01:23, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
:Hi, actually no one knows which of those lions is which. It doesn't say in the books which is which. I will consider adding a sentence explaining this on each article :) ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 03:10, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!!

Sincerely, [[User:Pridelander|Pridelander]] 01:44, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

User talk:Pridelander

2010-11-12T00:49:17Z

Pridelander:

[[User:Moka|Moka]]

User talk:Pridelander

2010-11-12T00:49:05Z

Pridelander:

~ [[User:Moka|Moka]]

User:Pridelander

2010-11-10T01:30:12Z

Pridelander: Created page with 'Hi there! I'm Pridelander. I'm a very big Lion King fan. My favorite characters are: Nala Meaning "dream" or "gift". Simba Meaning "lion." Sarabi Meaning "mirage"…'

Hi there! I'm Pridelander. I'm a very big Lion King fan. My favorite characters are:

[[Nala]] Meaning "dream" or "gift".

[[Simba]] Meaning "lion."

[[Sarabi]] Meaning "mirage"

[[Kiara]] Meaning "dark" in Irish

[[Vitani]] Meaning "war-demon." Vitani's name is a combination of Shetani and Vita, meaning "demon or devil" and "war."

[[Mufasa]] Proper name

[[Mohatu]] Proper name

[[Kopa]] Meaning "hearts"

[[Mheetu]] Proper name

I try to do my best on this sight. My hobbies are watching birds and drawing Lion King lions.

User talk:Moka

2010-11-10T01:23:34Z

Pridelander: /* Quick question. */

Leo

2010-11-03T00:21:52Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Leo.png
| Img_capt = Leo
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Lion
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = [[Kianga]] (sister)
| Appearances = "[[Vulture Shock]]"
| Voice_Actors =
}}

'''Leo''' is a [[lion]] who lives in [[the Pridelands]].

==Physical Attributes==
Leo is a large, fully-grown male lion with light fur and a tan mane.

==Info==
Leo appears in "[[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]" series in the story titled ''[[Vulture Shock]]''. He lived in the time of [[Mufasa]], and was said to be some-what self-centered, for he always goes around saying he wants 'Simba's family tree'.

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Lions]]
[[Category:Male Characters]]
[[Category:Pridelanders]]

Kula

2010-11-03T00:05:02Z

Pridelander:

{{spoiler}}

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Chumvi.jpg
| Img_capt = Middle Cub Is Kula
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Cat
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Possible sister or mate of [[Chumvi]]
| Appearances = "[[Nala's Dare]]"
| Voice_Actors =
}}

'''Kula''' is one of [[Nala]]'s friends.

==Physical Attributes==
Kula is a female cub with caramel brown fur, a pink nose, red eyes, colorless paws and a dark brown tuft at the end of her tail. Her anatomy is pretty similar to that of Nala. She is pretty much a [[Kiara]] clone as a cub with different colors. She also enjoys eating.

==Info==
One of [[Nala]] and Chumvi's friends during [[Scar]]’s reign. Kula would rather eat than anything else. Many fans think her and [[Chumvi]] might have been litter-mates because of their similar appearance despite their gender.

{{endspoiler}}

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[[Category:Book/Comic Only Characters]]

User talk:Pridelander

2010-10-21T00:36:32Z

Pridelander: Blanked the page

Mohatu

2010-10-21T00:36:13Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Mohatu.jpg
| Img_capt = Mohatu
| Nicknames =
| Meaning =
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = [[Ahadi]] (son), [[Mufasa]] (grandson), [[Scar]] (grandson), [[Simba]] (great-grandson), [[Kopa]] (great-great-grandson), [[Kiara]] (great-great-granddaughter)
| Appearances = [[The Brightest Star]] (book and audio set)
}}

'''Mohatu''' was the father of [[Ahadi]], he was the grandfather of [[Mufasa]] and Scar and is the great-grandfather of [[Simba]]. That makes him a great-great-grandfather to [[Kiara]] and [[Kopa]]. He was a great king, perhaps the wisest and the greatest Pride Rock has ever seen, and according to "The Brightest Star", he is the brightest star of the kings in the sky.

== Physical Attributes ==

By far the largest lion ever to rule, Mohatu has a thick brown mane with an almost unnoticeable curl at the top, a large nose and chin, small sandy-brown eyes, and is has a very stock anatomy. His fur is dark, but more of a dark gold than his grandson Scar's orange. Mohatu greatly resembles his grandson Mufasa in general, being stocky and large.

== Information ==

Not much is known about Mohatu except what [[Mufasa]] tells [[Simba]] in the book, "[[The Brightest Star]]", however, it is known that he settled many disputes among the animals of his kingdom, both trivial and titanic. A large argument he resolved was one concerning waterhole rations during a great drought, as well as many prejudice against other animals. For a while, Mohatu was at a loss of how to save his subjects from dying of thirst, until he set out on a quest to locate another river the Prideland animals could drink from. The king wandered for some time before he discovered the Great River, which appears to be a part of the oasis [[Timon]] and the meerkats make their home, meaning that young Simba may have walked the same path as his great-grandfather while running away from the Pridelands.

Another issue the ruler dealt with was that of a selfish lion, known to some fans as Choyo, though never actually named. The lion refused to share the waterhole with any of the other animals, and if they tried to get some water from him, he would force them away. Mohatu came to him and resolved the matter, keeping the peace and allowing the other animals to use the waterhole.

The lion ruled for a very long time, perhaps the longest of any lion king, and one winter night, he died. That night was on of the only nights it ever snowed in the savanna, and on that night, as it was snowing, a new star formed in the sky. Mohatu died, but lived on in the sky as the greatest king of Pride Rock and the brightest star.

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Lions]]
[[Category:Male Characters]]
[[Category:Book/Comic Only Characters]]
[[Category:Deceased Characters]]

Mohatu

2010-10-21T00:35:46Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Mohatu.jpg
| Img_capt = Mohatu
| Nicknames =
| Meaning =
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Either [[Ahadi]] (son), [[Mufasa]] (grandson), [[Scar]] (grandson), [[Simba]] (great-grandson), [[Kopa]] (great-great-grandson), [[Kiara]] (great-great-granddaughter)
| Appearances = [[The Brightest Star]] (book and audio set)
}}

'''Mohatu''' was the father of [[Ahadi]], he was the grandfather of [[Mufasa]] and Scar and is the great-grandfather of [[Simba]]. That makes him a great-great-grandfather to [[Kiara]] and [[Kopa]]. He was a great king, perhaps the wisest and the greatest Pride Rock has ever seen, and according to "The Brightest Star", he is the brightest star of the kings in the sky.

== Physical Attributes ==

By far the largest lion ever to rule, Mohatu has a thick brown mane with an almost unnoticeable curl at the top, a large nose and chin, small sandy-brown eyes, and is has a very stock anatomy. His fur is dark, but more of a dark gold than his grandson Scar's orange. Mohatu greatly resembles his grandson Mufasa in general, being stocky and large.

== Information ==

Not much is known about Mohatu except what [[Mufasa]] tells [[Simba]] in the book, "[[The Brightest Star]]", however, it is known that he settled many disputes among the animals of his kingdom, both trivial and titanic. A large argument he resolved was one concerning waterhole rations during a great drought, as well as many prejudice against other animals. For a while, Mohatu was at a loss of how to save his subjects from dying of thirst, until he set out on a quest to locate another river the Prideland animals could drink from. The king wandered for some time before he discovered the Great River, which appears to be a part of the oasis [[Timon]] and the meerkats make their home, meaning that young Simba may have walked the same path as his great-grandfather while running away from the Pridelands.

Another issue the ruler dealt with was that of a selfish lion, known to some fans as Choyo, though never actually named. The lion refused to share the waterhole with any of the other animals, and if they tried to get some water from him, he would force them away. Mohatu came to him and resolved the matter, keeping the peace and allowing the other animals to use the waterhole.

The lion ruled for a very long time, perhaps the longest of any lion king, and one winter night, he died. That night was on of the only nights it ever snowed in the savanna, and on that night, as it was snowing, a new star formed in the sky. Mohatu died, but lived on in the sky as the greatest king of Pride Rock and the brightest star.

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Lions]]
[[Category:Male Characters]]
[[Category:Book/Comic Only Characters]]
[[Category:Deceased Characters]]

Mohatu

2010-10-19T01:08:03Z

Pridelander:

Uru

2010-10-19T01:06:56Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img =
| Img_capt =
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Diamonds
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Mate of [[Ahadi]], Mother of [[Mufasa]] and [[Scar|Taka]], Grandmother of [[Simba]], Great-Grandmother of [[Kopa]] and [[Kiara]]
| Appearances = ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]'' (Mentioned Only)
| Voice_Actors =
}}

'''Uru''' is the mother of [[Mufasa]] and [[Scar]], and the mate of [[Ahadi]].

== Physical Attributes ==
Uru is a dark red brown lioness, with a creamy belly, chin, and toes.
==Info==
Mainly absent from the story ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]'', searching for a source of food and water during a drought. It is hinted that she encouraged Taka not give up hope in the possibility of becoming king.

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Lions]]
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[[Category:Book/Comic Only Characters]]
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[[Category:Deceased Characters]]

User talk:Moka

2010-10-19T01:05:14Z

Pridelander: /* Quick question. */

User:Moka

2010-10-19T01:04:13Z

Pridelander: /* Blog */

Hello, I'm the founder and webmaster of [http://www.mylionking.com My Lion King]. I'm also an admin here, but I sort of made myself one so it doesn't count. The real admins are the wonderful Honeyfur, Takoto and Axx1000, who were the admins of the original Lion King Wikia.

I'm an avid Lion King fan and I'm always willing to lend a helping paw to anyone...but it might take me a while because I have my paws full at the moment managing MLK. ^^

[http://www.mylionking.com/forum/ucp.php?i=pm&mode=compose&u=2 Send me a PM] or leave a message in my discussion page if you need to contact me.

== Blog ==

Whew, Axx and I just finished copying all the articles from The Lion King Wikia, now we just gotta do some finishing touches, get everyone on board for sure, and announce the move. Can't wait! ~ [[User:Moka|Moka]] 03:38, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Moka! I've found pictures of Uru on the internet. On Google, look up "uru lion king" then click images. Pictures of Uru will appear. Also, I found a picture of Zinaro, too. Sincerely, Pridelander

User:Moka

2010-10-19T01:03:50Z

Pridelander:

Vitani

2010-10-04T00:21:49Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Adult_Vitani.jpg
| Img_capt = Vitani
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = War/Demon Of War
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = [[Zira]] (Mother), [[Kovu]] (Younger Brother), [[Nuka]] (Older Brother), [[Zinaro]] (Mate), Kucha (Son)
| Appearances = [[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]
| Voice_Actors = Lacey Chabert (cub), Jennifer Lien (adult).
}}

{{Quote|Nuka, where's Kovu? Did you leave him out there on his own again?|Vitani}}

'''Vitani''' is the daughter of [[Zira]], and the sister of [[Nuka]] and [[Kovu]].

==Physical Attributes==
[[File:VitaniPub.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Cub Vitani]]
Vitani has light tan-colored fur, electric blue eyes with dark circles around each, and a tuft of hair on her head. As a cub, she was roughly the same size as Kovu. She has brighter fur compared to the other Lioness' from the Outlands, most likely to make her stand out as an important character, and as Kovu's sister and Zira's daughter.

==Personality==
Vitani, up until the final act of the movie, remains loyal to [[Zira|her mother]], and often acts as a spy; scouts out in the Pride Lands, or watches over Kovu when he is on his "mission". It is only at the final act where she betrays her mother and decides to stop fighting, in which her mother threatens to kill her. She is shown to be very loyal to whomever stands on her side.

==Information ==

{{Dialogue2|Zira|Vitani, now!|Vitani|No, mother....Kiara's Right. (Walks To Simba's Side And Turns To Face Zira) Enough.|Zira|If you will not fight, then you will die as well.|Zira and Vitani in the Battle Against the Pridelanders}}

She was originally named Shetani, but since the word means "demon" in Swahili, her name was changed to "Vitani". "Vita" means "war" in Swahili, so it is suggested that her name is a portmanteau meaning "demon of war".
However, during the fight scene at the end of the film, Nala appears to say "Shetani" rather than "Vitani", pointing out the potential that the name was changed after production had already begun. The actual name "Vitani" has no meaning in Swahili but the comparison was logical because the makers thought that "Shetani" sounded rude and was insulting to the character.
[[File:VitaniKovu.jpg|thumb|right|Vitani (Left) Wrestling Her Brother, Kovu (Right)]]

Vitani has a somewhat minor role in the film. Near the beginning, she and Nuka have a brief conversation about Kovu, and a little later she participates in Zira's song "[[My Lullaby]]". Unlike her older brother, she does not seem bothered by the fact Kovu is Scar's heir despite him not being related by blood.

As an adult, Vitani is sent with Nuka to light a fire in the Savannah so Kovu can save [[Simba]]'s daughter Kiara and get close to Simba. This is part of Zira's plot for Kovu to infiltrate Simba's pride. Later on Vitani discovers that Kovu no longer wishes to assassinate Simba and reports this to Zira.

Vitani bears a close resemblance to Zira as an adult. She constantly argues with Nuka, though she is upset when he dies. Vitani also is Zira's "right hand girl". She is a spy for her, and she also sticks close to Zira at all times, except at the end, in which she defies Zira and goes to Simba's side.

[[File:VitaniDefects.png|thumb|left|200px|Adult Vitani decides to side with the [[Pridelanders]].]]

During the battle between the Outlanders and [[Pridelanders]], when Kiara reminds Simba that they "are one", Vitani is the first of the Outlanders to realize that the fighting is pointless and that the Outlanders must attempt to become accepted by the Pridelanders and prove themselves worthy of forgiveness to survive. Zira says "Vitani, now!" expecting her to attack, but Vitani walks slowly over to the Pridelanders and says "No, Mother, [[Kiara]] is right. Enough".

She is the first to cross over to Simba's side and defend his cause. Furthermore, when Zira then threatens Vitani for her defection ("''If you will not fight, then you will die as well''" ~ Zira), that act backfires into disgusting the other Outlanders enough to desert her entirely.

It is implied that there is some connection between Vitani and Nala, as during the fight, the two speak each others names, then engage in combat, whereas none of the other lions speak the others names. The two could be seen as rivals, due to the fact Nala is queen, and therefore second-in-command to Simba, and Vitani could be considered second-in-command to Zira (especially after the death of [[Nuka|her brother]]) as she would be the eldest son or daughter still working along side Zira (Kovu at that point had left the Outsiders).

==Songs==
* [[My Lullaby]]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Lions]]
[[Category:Female Characters]]
[[Category:Outsiders]]
[[Category:Antagonists]]

Zira

2010-10-04T00:17:40Z

Pridelander: /* The Lion King II: Simba's Pride */

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Zira.png
| Img_capt = Zira
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Hate
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Mother of [[Kovu]], [[Nuka]], and [[Vitani]]
| Appearances = ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]''
| Voice_Actors = Suzanne Pleshette (speaking and singing)
}}

{{Quote|Oh no, Simba, we have barely begun.|Zira to [[Simba]], after their first encounter}}
==Physical Attributes==
Zira has pale brown fur with a darker brown stripe running down her face, a cream chest, brownish-red eyes, and a notch in her left ear (possibly from a previous fight).

==Info==
Zira is the main antagonist in ''[[The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]]''. She's extremely loyal to Scar through the film. She bore three cubs with an unknown lion: [[Nuka]], [[Vitani]], and [[Kovu]]. Zira mentions that [[Kovu]] was the last born before they were exiled, but his father's identity is unknown. It is speculated that Nuka and Vitani's father was Scar, however, it is stated that none of Zira's cubs were related to Scar in any way.

===Personality===
Like Scar, she is bitter to the point of murder, though acts through her son, Kovu. All her hopes are placed in rearing Kovu as Scar's replica, caring little for his or her other children's welfare if it gets in the way of her plans to retake Pride Rock.

[[File:Zira in grass.jpg|thumb|right|Zira Watching Kovu And Kiara]]

In the end she is the only one left standing in her meaningless alliance to Scar and tries to kill Simba in front of everyone. She dies without redemption or regret except for herself and Scar. However despite her predominately evil traits and her harshness to her own children, she still treated them with some affection. When Nuka was in his dying breaths she soothed him and showed genuine grief once he died.

==The Lion King II: Simba's Pride==
Kovu becomes affectionate with Simba's daughter Kiara after the two cubs escape from crocodiles on the Outland borders. Simba and Zira clash over this, but the two leave without fighting. Zira plots to train Kovu so he can easily kill Simba at the right moment (the "My Lullaby" song scene). Kovu was to save Kiara from a fire (of Nuka and Vitani's own making) so he could get closer to her and in turn, Simba. Then, when Simba was alone, Kovu would kill him.

The plan starts well, but [[Kiara]] and Kovu fall in love, which causes Zira to plan an ambush on Simba and Kovu while the two lions are out walking. Simba falls into a gorge during the ensuing fight, but escapes via a log dam piled up against one end of the gorge. The logs fall and crush Nuka, killing him. Zira pauses to mourn her son's demise, but quickly takes out her anger on Kovu, giving him a scar identical to Scar's. Kovu, defiant for the first time, flees for the Pride Lands as Zira declares war on Simba.

Zira rallies her lionesses and they travel to the Pride Lands for the final battle. At the battle's climax, Simba and Zira are about to fight each other when Kiara and Kovu intervene and stop the battle before it can begin, convincing the Outlanders and the Pridelanders that "they are one." [[Vitani]] is the first to realize this and switch sides. Zira threatens to kill Vitani if she doesn't come back, disgusting the other lionesses, who subsequently abandon her.

[[File:Zira and vitani.jpg|thumb|left|Zira With Vitani Behind Her]]

Enraged, Zira charges at Simba, stating that "this is for you, Scar." Kiara leaps into Zira's path, causing Zira to knock Kiara and herself off the edge of a nearby cliff, sending them both tumbling into the gorge. Kiara lands safely on a ledge, but Zira slides off the edge and hangs precariously onto it. Kiara makes an attempt to rescue Zira, but Zira swipes at her, rejecting help. Zira, having rejected aid, slips and falls into the river below and drowns. It was probable she wanted to be with Scar again.

==Zira's Death==
In a scene that survived to the rough animation stage, Zira in effect committed suicide: Kiara offers Zira aid, but Zira, with a twisted grin, replies "''No, Never.''" and releases her claws from the cliff, falling into the swollen river below. This was considered too dark for a Disney film and was cut.

Similarly, Daisy Duck's suicide plot used for Donald Duck's short Donald's Dilemma has often suffered the same fate. Surprisingly, a suicide theme was used later in the 2004 Disney/Pixar film The Incredibles (however in this case it should be considered that the person wished to end his life due to emotional stress while Zira's act was a gesture of spite, as well as the fact the suicidal man in The Incredibles was a very minor character, seen twice, and Zira was a major character throughout the second Lion King film).

Outside of Disney films, the exact same suicide theme was used for Naga, one of the chief villains in the anime, [[wikipedia: Monster Rancher (anime)|Monster Rancher]]. The episode in which he falls over the cliff on his tower in a similar fashion to Zira was skipped by the Fox channel.

==Songs==

* [[My Lullaby]]

==Trivia==

* The notch in Zira's left ear occasionally changes sides during the movie- this is most likely an error on the animators part.

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Simba

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{{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 = [[Nala]] (mate), [[Mufasa]] (father), [[Sarabi]] (mother), [[Scar]] (uncle), [[Kopa]] (son), [[Kiara]] (daughter), [[Sarafina]] (mother-in-law)
}}
{{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 fully grown a red-brown mane, with side bangs and 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 wheter 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. (Many fans believe this is because his son [[Kopa]] was killed by Zira, although the theory is not official.) 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, [http://lionking.wikia.com/wiki/Kovu 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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Ed

2010-10-04T00:07:44Z

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{{Infobox Character
| Img = Ed.jpg
| Img_capt = Ed
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = ''None''
| Species = [[Hyena]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Friend of [[Banzai]] and [[Shenzi]]
| Appearances = [[The Lion King (film)]], [[The Lion King 1½]], "[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]" ([[The Lion King: Six New Adventures]]), [[The Timon and Pumbaa Show]] (tv series)
| Voice_Actors = Jim Cummings (speaking) Original Broadway cast- Kevin Cahoon (speaking)
}}

'''Ed''' is one of [[Scar|Scar's]] loyal henchmen.

==Physical Attributes==
Bulging, crossed eyes, large ears with bite marks, big tongue, crazy smile, small hair on top of his head. Ed often takes a lot of ribbing from his pals but he just keeps laughing all the time. He is the only hyena whose name doesn't have a Swahili meaning.

==Info==
[[File:Banzai And Ed.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ed (Left) and Banzai (Right)]]
One of the hyena trio, which includes [[Shenzi]], [[Banzai]], and Ed. Ed is not the smartest hyena, and is known for his wild, maniacal laughter. Although many people think that Ed hasn't ever said anything, watch "Be Prepared" end very closely. When the hyenas sing "Yes, my teeth and ambitions are bared", then as you watch Ed, you can clearly see him say these lines. Even though he was not that smart, he was the first to notice that Simba and Nala were escaping and was already aware that Simba is Mufasa's son (of course, he did forget to tell Shenzi and Banzai that until they said his name when they were cornered by Mufasa). He also made a low, sinister laugh when Scar said that the hyenas were the enemy. Ed is also a resident of the Elephant Graveyard along with Shenzi and Banzai. Along with Shenzi and Banzai, Ed is one of the confirmed hyenas to have survived the fire at Pride Rock.

==Songs==

* [[Be Prepared]]

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Mheetu

2010-09-09T22:12:34Z

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{{Infobox Character
| Img = Mheetu.png
| Img_capt = Mheetu
| Nicknames =
| Meaning =
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Son of [[Sarafina]], Brother to [[Nala]], Brother-in-law to [[Simba]], Uncle to [[Kiara]] and [[Kopa]]
| Appearances =
| Voice_Actors =
}}

'''Mheetu''' is [[Nala]]'s younger brother.

[[File:Mheetu2.png|thumb|left|Early Sketches]]
[[File:Mheetu3.png|thumb|left|Early Sketches]]

==Physical Attributes==

Mheetu is a pale lion. As a cub, he is a dark off-white color with an off-white belly, and chin. His nose is a carnation pink color. He has a tuft about the size of Simba's. His tail tuft is gray. On his hind leg are some gray spots that disappear as he grows older. As an adult, his mane is gray.

==Information==

Mheetu was supposedly Nala's younger brother in ''[[The Lion King]]'', but did not appear in the film due to time constraints; little is known about him or what role he would have played in the film other than his relation to Nala. In some stories they say that [[Scar]] killed him. Concept sketches of him still remain however.

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Mheetu

2010-09-09T22:12:14Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = Mheetu.png
| Img_capt = Mheetu
| Nicknames =
| Meaning =
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Son of [[Sarafina]], Brother to [[Nala]], Brother-in-law to [[Simba]], Uncle to [[Kiara]] and [[Kopa]]
| Appearances =
| Voice_Actors =
}}

'''Mheetu''' is [[Nala]]'s younger brother.

[[File:Mheetu2.png|thumb|left|Early Sketches]]
[[File:Mheetu3.png|thumb|left|Early Sketches]]

==Physical Attributes==

Mheetu is a pale lion. As a cub, he is a dark off-white color with an off-white belly, and chin. His nose is a carnation pink color. He has a tuft about the size of Simba's. His tail tuft is gray. On his hind leg are some gray spots that disappear as he grows older. As an adult, his mane is gray.

==Information==

Mheetu was supposedly Nala's younger brother in ''[[The Lion King]]'', but did not appear in the film due to time constraints; little is known about him or what role he would have played in the film other than his relation to Nala. In some stories they say that Scar killed him. Concept sketches of him still remain however.

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Zuzu

2010-09-08T18:26:08Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img = http://fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Missy/Zuzu.jpg
| Img_capt = Zuzu
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Foolish, Ignorant, Inexperienced
| Species = Red-Billed Hornbill
| Gender = Female
| Close_Relations = [[Zazu]] (son)
| Appearances = ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]''
| Voice_Actors =
}}

'''Zuzu''' was a character in ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]''.

==Physical Attributes==
Her appearance is similar to that of Zazu, but with purple feathers.

==Information==
Zuzu was [[Ahadi]]’s majordomo. She was a very maternal, pleasant bird, and never passed the chance for some juicy gossip, much like her son, [[Zazu]]. Ahadi appoints her and her family to be stewards to all the future lion kings.

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Zuzu

2010-09-08T18:22:37Z

Pridelander:

{{Infobox Character
| Img =
| Img_capt = Zuzu
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Foolish, Ignorant, Inexperienced
| Species = Red-Billed Hornbill
| Gender = Female
| Close_Relations = [[Zazu]] (son)
| Appearances = ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]''
| Voice_Actors =
}}

'''Zuzu''' was a character in ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]''.

==Physical Attributes==
Her appearance is similar to that of Zazu, but with purple feathers.

==Information==
Zuzu was [[Ahadi]]’s majordomo. She was a very maternal, pleasant bird, and never passed the chance for some juicy gossip, much like her son, [[Zazu]]. Ahadi appoints her and her family to be stewards to all the future lion kings.

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Mohatu

2010-09-08T18:01:07Z

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Uru

2010-09-07T23:45:25Z

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{{Infobox Character
| Img =
| Img_capt =
| Nicknames =
| Meaning = Diamonds
| Species = [[Lion]]
| Gender =
| Close_Relations = Mate of [[Ahadi]], Mother of [[Mufasa]] and [[Scar|Taka]], Grandmother of [[Simba]], Great-Grandmother of [[Kopa]] and [[Kiara]]
| Appearances = ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]'' (Mentioned Only)
| Voice_Actors =
}}

'''Uru''' is the mother of [[Mufasa]] and [[Scar]], and the mate of [[Ahadi]].

== Physical Attributes ==
Uru is a dark reddish-brown color. She has cream colored toes, mouth, and belly.

==Info==
Mainly absent from the story ''[[A Tale of Two Brothers]]'', searching for a source of food and water during a drought. It is hinted that she encouraged Taka not give up hope in the possibility of becoming king.

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