Viewers get to see the change from the innocent cub that Simba once was to a young adult lion who must confront his past and reclaim his rightful place as king. This is not a question of age ...

The Lion King has such a deep-rooted place in our hearts, that even as proud feminists, we admit we failed to see just how male-centred the story of Simba’s rise and fall in the pride always was.

Simba and Nala have a daughter, Kiara. Timon and Pumbaa are assigned to be her babysitters, but she easily escapes their care and ventures into the forbidden lands. There she meets a lion cub ...

In the original film, Simba was tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King.