The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

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[[Image:TLK2DVDcover.jpg|right|thumb|''The Lion King 2'' DVD cover.]]
'''''Simba's Pride''''' is the sequel to ''[[The Lion King]]'' movie. It was released as a direct to video in 1998 in the United States and 1999 in Europe.

==Synopsis==
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[[Simba (The Lion King)|Simba]]'s daughter, [[Kiara]], is born and will be the next monarch of the pridelands.

As a young child, Kiara goes off exploring the Pridelands, and decides to look in the Outlands, the place in which [[Scar]] and the hyenas once dwelled. She meets [[Kovu]], a dark lion who will be Scar's heir. The two form a friendship almost immediately, but are both caught by their feuding parents, [[Zira]] and Simba. They are then separated until adulthood.

By then, Kovu has been brainwashed to be an assassin to take out Simba so that the [[Outlander]]s can reign once more. A part of the plan to murder Simba involves getting his trust, so [[Vitani]] and [[Nuka]], Kovu's siblings, set the Pridelands ablaze while Kiara is hunting. Kovu must then go on a staged rescue to gain trust from Kiara and Simba. In the process, Kiara and Kovu recognise and remember each other, but Kovu is still intent on murder. Simba is not at all swayed by Kiara's rescue, but he allows Kovu to at least follow him home.

The next morning, Simba goes down to the water hole for a drink, alone, but Kovu is watching him and gettin in the ready position. However, Kiara is very much awake, and informs Kovu that he promised to teach her hunting last night. Grudgingly, Kovu goes with her to practice. While demonstrating on how to be sneaky, he stumbles upon [[Timon (character)|Timon]] and [[Pumbaa]], and the two being carefree, playful clowns, he gets caught up in a game and realises that he cares about Kiara and can't kill Simba.

Simba eventually warms up to Kovu, and while taking a private walk with him in the devastated grassland which the Outlanders burnt, the two are ambushed. Simba assumes that it was organised by Kovu, who is later banished. During the fight, Nuka is killed and Kovu is ostracized from his own pride.

Shortly afterwards, a war breaks out between the two prides. Kovu wants to run away, and Kiara states that they have to go convince their prides to at least have peace. They manage to stop the fighting, but Zira still wants Simba, as well as those who oppose her, dead. She accidentally falls off the cliff on which they are figting and drowns in the river below.

==Dropped ideas==
* Originally, Simba was going to die in the fight with the Outlanders in the burnt grassland.<ref name="rumor">[http://www.lionking.org/~vakasi/plot.html Plot Production Rumors]</ref>
* Kovu was originally going to be Scar's son, but that would have implied incest.<ref name="rumor"/>
* Nuka's last words would have been "At least I finally got your attention, didn't I?"<ref name=cut>[http://youtube.com/results?search_query=cut+scenes+lion+king&search=Search Deleted Scenes] on YouTube.</ref>
* Zira was going to commit suicide after dangling from the ledge while Kiara urged her to take her paw. Zira responded with "never!" and threw herself into the ravine.<ref name="cut"/>
* Kiara was once going to be named "Shani"<ref name="rumor"/> and have a brother named "Chaka".
* Vitani was originally named "Shetani".
* The hyenas would have been included.<ref name="rumor"/>
* Zazu was going to have a girlfriend named "Binti".<ref name="rumor"/>
* Nuka anid Vitani were originally going to attend Kiara's birth ceremony and report back to Zira.<ref name="cut"/>

== Multiplayer worlds ==

A number of [[:Category:The Lion King multiplayer worlds|multiplayer worlds]] have been set during or after ''Simba's Pride''. A currently-running RPG is [[Everything The Light Touches]]. Two [[MUCK]]s from years past are [[Lion King II: Simba's Pride MUCK]] and [[The Prides MUCK]].

== References ==

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== External links ==

* ''[http://imdb.com/title/tt0120131/ The Lion King II: Simba's Pride]'' at the [[wikipedia:Internet Movie Database|Internet Movie Database]]
* [http://www.lionking.org/sequels/TLK2/ Movie synopsis from lionking.org]

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