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I like her voice, her design, her fierce and intense and vengeful personality...and I also like her because I feel for her a lot.

Why I like Zira? *thinks*

Her voice was Suzanne Pleshette from The Ugly Dachsund.

I just like her, I dunno why XD
She's vengeful, and...stuff. She's like Steele, she does her job well.
Oh, and she makes for an interesting subject.

Yeah, Suzanne did a super job.

i like the way Zira looks, and also her voice is sort of raspy, and makes he sound more bad! i also like that stripe she has going down her back, that makes her unique.

Why I love Zira? To much to write it down in short post. I can’t express my feeling better than:
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ps.
I’m gathering ideas for upcoming fanfic, called “The Previous Round (of the Circle of Life). It’s prequel of my earlier stories, where Zira plays the main role (it’s story of her cubhood and youth).

I love Zira. She's a villain with emotion, which is more than I can say for cookiecutter villains such as Clayton from Tarzan. Yes, Disney tried to make it look as though she didn't have feelings, but they didn't succeed in my opinion. You generally feel for her and her followers and recognise that Simba's attitude was unjust.

She must've been one of my favorite characters in this movie for a few reasons:

Her design: Her looks suited her personality very well :D I loved that stripe that ran along her head, it added to her character. I liked the way her muzzle was shaped and I felt as though her eyes showed a lot of emotion. She had awesome expressions :D

Her personality: I LOVE villains. They're one of the best aspects of stories, in my opinion. I loved her revengeful nature and all her plans. It also appeared as though she never gave up on trying to avenge Scar. She worked hard on training Kovu for the day he would save Kiara, she had such a brilliant plan [even though Kovu sort of thought of it first without knowing XD]

Her voice: I loved the raspy tone in her voice, I thought it suited her perfectly! I liked her singing, it sounded really cool ^^

Her affection for her children: Although she didn't show it a lot, I got all teary-eyed at the scene where Nuka was crushed by the logs. He thought that Zira didn't appreciate him, but you could tell she cared for him a lot when she began swiping the logs away, that frantic look on her face. It was really sad, but I just felt that that just showed how much she really did care for them, even if she did treat them badly.

I'm sure I had more points, but that's all I can think of at the moment XD. Oh, and she sort of relates to my angry side, so I guess that might be another reason why I like her a lot O_o