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All of my yes. ^^

The 'Zira murdered Kopa' thing is only a theory. It's just an opinion others have. I mean, I've read the SNA Books; and authors of children's books usually don't put gore or death in their stories and books. Just thought I'd mention that.

Anyway, thanks for the pointers AnimalLover! I don't think AS would make it without these wonderful pointers and correct statements.

Why did Zira get banned from the pride lands if Kopa never existed in the movie?

Kopa Never existed in TLK universe... He is fanfiction as It was made and written by a way different company that had no connection to Disney... Disney didn't want Kopa or any of the SNA characters to be official so they gave that company permission to publish them as Advertisements to get others to watch TLK..... The cub at the end of TLK was a genderless cub(AKA Known as Fluffy) because they didn't think they were gonna make a sequel.... These are true statements as I've read what Disney had to say about TLK and its fiction stories..... and Zira being exiled she was one of Scars followers all the Lioness that followed Scar we're banished to the outlands

~Aleu

true but maybe she did kill their first cub kopa if he wasn't mentioned right?

No. Kopa only exists in the "Six New Adventures." He is not a character in the film universe.

Well technically, there is no wrong answer to why Zira was exiled. You could use Kopa, say because she was a follower, or even have some absurd theories, and they would still not be incorrect or correct. Disney left this to our imagination, how can there be an incorrect theory if there are no correct theories at all? There's a reason they're called theories, it's all just fanfiction and "what if's"

I like to classify Kopa as fanfiction that just happened to be published. It was the author's interpretation of Simba and Nala's cubs before the second movie came out. Only the movies can be considered canon in my opinion, as they were made by Disney, but some people like to take all books as canon. In that case, I'm not stopping you, everyone has different views, but some people take it too far with acting like Kopa is a canon character that disappeared, and try to cram their opinion down other's throats, though that fortunately doesn't happen much here if at all.

As to his "disappearance", how can he disappear if he was never in the movies? Why would Disney mean for there to be a son of Simba and Nala who got murdered by Zira, and never mention it? If you want to make your own fanfiction where Simba and Nala have a son called Kopa before Kiara, and he gets murdered by Zira, fine. If that fills up as an explanation to Zira's exile for you, go ahead. We all have theories. If you take the books into your TLK universe, so therefore think of an explanation to why Kopa disappears in your universe, fine. But people need to understand he wasn't a character in the movies. That is solid fact, the rest is to your interpration.

And no, Kopa isn't the cub at the end of TLK. He can be in your fanfiction, but Disney-wise, that is just "fluffy", as he was nicknamed, and probably meant to be Kiara as well. After all, "fluffy" was only put in to complete the circle of life in the movie, while no one really thought about the second movie, but when they made SP, they put more thought into the design, made Kiara less of a Simba look-alike than "fluffy", and probably expected us to just shrug our shoulders and take the cub at the end of TLK as Kiara. Wonder if they knew there would be on-going arguments and debates about the random cub thrown at the end of TLK and a cub in a book written by totally different people xDDD

*If you read all of that, I'm so sorry. I really am. I always go into rants TT_TT*

I really have no clue where the idea a guy who worked on TLK wrote those books. xD The books aren't canon, Kopa only exists in the book universe, while Kiara is their ONLY [well i guess they could have some later] cub in SP. Therefore, the name Taka for Scar and all that isn't canon either. None of the filmmakers knew of Kopa because the books were obscure, only one out of piles of TLK books being published at the time. :3

No. Only In 6 Books.

Kopa Exsisted in Fanfics but never really in the cannon. Though he was fluffy that the animators teased on at the end of the first film and then became Kiara in the second.

I always thought it was kopa until I found Disney's number on there website they officially said it was genderless so it wasn't kiara or kopa.

Kopa is not created by Disney and he never existed in canon (canon = things created by Disney = 3 Disney movies).