Simba

### Personality

Guilt-ridden, pessimistic, depressive, worrisome, prejudiced (all formerly), mischievous (as a cub), adventurous, brave, stubborn, heroic, caring, protective, kind-hearted, understanding, strong-willed, short-tempered, fatherly, dependable, selfless, remorseful, wise, intelligent

### Allies

Mufasa, Scar (formerly), Nala, Kion, Rafiki, Timon, Pumbaa, Zazu, Sarabi,Sawyer, Sirrea, Sam, Cinderella, King Charming, Chad, Dizzy Tremaine, Darren Tremaine, Sarafina, Pridelanders, Kiara, Ma, Uncle Max, Vitani, Kovu, Outsiders, Tiifu, Bunga, Beshte, Fuli, Ono, Makuu, Bupu, Ma Tembo, Makini, Kongwe, Twiga, King Sokwe, Hadithi, Ajabu, Basi, Dhahabu, Thurston, Jasiri, Anga, Shujaa, Janja, Cheezi, Chungu, Nne, Tano, Azaad, Rani, Baliyo, Belle, Beast, Fairy Godmother,

### Movies

The Lion KingLion King 2: Simba's Pride

Lion King 1/2

**Simba** is the protagonist of Disney's 1994 animated feature film, *The Lion King*, and the tritagonist of *its sequel* and *midquel*. He is the son of Mufasa, who was destined to rule the Pride Lands, as King. When Mufasa is killed in a wildebeest stampede, Simba is blamed for the tragedy and is exiled from the kingdom. He finds refuge in a jungle oasis with a meerkat and warthog, but the Pride Lands fall to disarray during his absence. With the kingdom in peril, Simba is forced to confront his troubled past to take his place in the "Circle of Life".Simba is one of the primary heroes and major characters in Descendants: The Night is Young

Upon entering adulthood, Simba marries his childhood best friend Nala and has two cubs named Kiara and Kion. Then later on had Sawyer and Sierra.

## Before Auradon

### *The Lion King*

At the break of dawn, the royal couple Mufasa and Sarabi welcome the arrival of their newborn cub, Simba, and, at his birth, is presented to the kingdom as their future king. Rafiki, a wise mandrill who was an old friend of Mufasa, heads the ceremony, performing a ritual before presenting Simba.

Months later, Simba grows up into a clever and kind playful cub, with a rambunctious attitude. He grows excited about being king someday after Mufasa shows him the kingdom. Mufasa explains that Simba will one day rule over everything they can see, but warns Simba not to go to a shadowy area beyond the borders of the Pride Lands. Though Simba initially believes that being king is about getting to do whatever he wishes, Mufasa teaches him about the responsibilities of being royalty. Suddenly, Mufasa is alerted by Zazu of hyenas in the Pride Lands. Mufasa goes to deal with the situation and tells Zazu to take Simba home, much to the cub's disappointment.

After Simba returns home, he tells his uncle Scar about the trip. Taking advantage of the cub's naive nature, Scar tells Simba what the forbidden place is (tricking him into going there). It is in fact, the elephant's graveyard, where only the bravest lions travel. Simba wants to prove himself brave, and Scar makes this their "little secret." As of that moment, Simba's journey to kingship had begun.

Later that afternoon, Simba meets his best friend Nala, and they travel to the graveyard. Unknown to them, Scar had placed his hyena henchmen there to kill the cubs, in an attempt to remove Simba from the line of succession so that Scar could become king and make every animal from Pride Rock obey him. Having been found by Zazu after the hyenas had their fun shooting him out of a geyser, Mufasa saves the two cubs, foiling Scar's plan, but is disappointed in Simba for disobeying him. After sending Nala and Zazu back to Pride Rock, Mufasa lectures Simba on the line between bravery and bravado, and he forgives and forgets. Afterward, Simba asks if they will always be together. Mufasa responds by telling Simba about the Great Kings of the Past, who look down from the stars. Mufasa tells Simba if he ever feels alone, the Great Kings will always be there to guide him, and so will he.

The next day, Scar tells Simba that his father has a surprise for him. Scar leaves him in a deep gorge, telling Simba that Scar will return with his father soon. In fact, the so-called "surprise" was another evil plot of Scar's, this time with the goal of killing both Simba and Mufasa. Scar's hyenas drive a herd of wildebeest toward Simba. Mufasa successfully saves Simba but does not survive. Mufasa had attempted to climb a sheer cliff to safety after dropping Simba on a safe ledge. Near the top, Mufasa called to Scar for help. Instead, Scar threw him off after saying with an evil grin, "Long live the king." However, this was unknown to Simba, who only saw his father fall to his death, to his shock and horror. Simba is later tricked by Scar into believing that Mufasa's death was his own fault (as Simba had practiced his roar on a lizard seconds before the stampede started). Scar tells Simba to leave the kingdom and never return, before secretly sending the hyenas to kill him. Simba is able to escape by rolling down a big hill into a bed of dense thorn plants that the hyenas were too afraid to enter. Simba then continues to run far away from home through a desert. As for Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed, they call after him that if he ever returns to the Pride Lands, they'll kill him, before returning to Scar and lie to him that Simba is dead (confident that he would probably die out in that desert anyway), leaving him clear to explain to the lionesses that Mufasa was killed in the stampede and claim the throne as the new king.

He runs far from home and while going through the desert he passes out from heat exhaustion. A flock of buzzards try to eat him, but Timon and Pumbaa chase the buzzards away and find Simba's unconscious body. They take Simba to the edge of the jungle where Timon splashes water in his face. When Simba regains consciousness he thanks them for their help and they offer to let him stay with them, as Simba was an outcast like they were. They teach Simba about their life in the jungle, and about their motto "Hakuna Matata", which means "no worries" and successfully cheer him up. Simba takes this to heart and survives by eating bugs. But they also teach him a very important life lesson, how to put your past behind you, which would become a key role later on in the young prince's life.

After years of living an enjoyable easygoing life in the jungle, Simba has grown up into a fairly carefree young adult lion but is reminded of his father's death one night while he, Pumbaa, and Timon are stargazing. One day, Simba is called upon to save Pumbaa from a mysterious lioness, only for him to discover that the lioness is Nala. Though Nala is happy, as Simba being alive means that Simba can become king, Simba is hesitant because he still feels guilt about Mufasa. After Simba and Nala spend time alone, they discover their friendship has blossomed into a romantic relationship. However, Nala tries to get Simba to return with her to the Pride Lands by telling him about Scar's tyrannical rule, but Simba still refuses. Only encounters with both Rafiki and the ghost of Mufasa are able to convince him to return, as Mufasa reminds him that he must accept his role in the Circle of Life and Rafiki demonstrates how you can either run from the past or learn from it when he hits him with his stick and Simba then avoids the second attempt.

Simba returns to the Pride Lands, where he discovers that the land has been destroyed during Scar's reign. As a result, the herds have moved on, leaving the pride with no food or water. Simba heads to Pride Rock, followed by Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa. While Timon and Pumbaa distract the hyenas and Nala rallies up the lionesses, Simba goes to find Scar. Simba reveals himself to his uncle after seeing Scar strike down Sarabi. Scar is fearful at first, mistaking Simba for Mufasa upon first seeing him, but is able to force Simba to admit guilt in Mufasa's death to the lionesses. Scar forces Simba over the edge of Pride Rock and pierces Simba's paws with his claws (just like he did to Mufasa) before revealing that he himself killed Mufasa, not Simba. Enraged upon learning the truth, Simba breaks free of Scar's grip, and pins him down, leaving Scar terrified for his life, and forces him to admit his treachery to the rest of the pride. Alongside the lionesses and his friends, Simba leads a subsequent battle against Scar and his hyenas. After a fight with Scar at the top of Pride Rock, Simba is able to flip his villainous uncle over the ledge. There, Scar is mauled to death and consumed by his hyena henchmen as revenge for pinning the death of Mufasa on them as well as his lies, derogatory treatment, and broken food promises. With Scar overthrown and deceased, Simba ascends Pride Rock as the lionesses Timon, Pumbaa, Zazu, and Rafiki watch on. With a roar, Simba ushers in his reign as king of the Pride Lands.

By the time the kingdom is restored to its former glory, Simba has taken his rightful place as king. He marries Nala, and the two have their own cub, who is presented to the kingdom in a similar manner to the beginning of the film.

### *The Lion King II: Simba's Pride*

In *The Lion King II: Simba's Pride*, Simba has grown into a mature adult and he and Nala have a daughter named Kiara. Though a loving father, he is extremely concerned and over-protective of Kiara due to his life experiences as a cub. One day Simba lets his daughter out to play with Timon and Pumbaa to watch her. Unknown to Simba, Timon and Pumbaa begin to argue about bugs and Kiara slips away from them unnoticed.

Kiara ends up crossing over into the Outlands, where she meets Kovu, an Outsider cub whose pride was exiled by Simba due to their loyalty to Scar. The two befriend each other until Simba leaps in to confront Zira, Kovu’s adopted mother, who was watching the two cubs. After the confrontation, Simba talks with Kiara and explains to her that they "are one."

When Kiara is an adolescent, she heads out into the Pride Lands alone for her first hunt. Simba is worried for her safety and sends Timon and Pumbaa out to watch her again. While Kiara is hunting, Simba paces nervously at Pride Rock. Zazu assures Simba that his daughter will be fine, but then Simba notices smoke from a wildfire and rallies the pride to go find Kiara. Kovu rescues her and asks to join the pride. Simba at first tries to send him away, citing his banishment alongside the other Outsiders. Nala, Rafiki, and Zazu convince him to accept Kovu into the pride, reminding that Pride Lands law states that debts must be repaid and they owe Kovu for rescuing Kiara. Simba agrees to these laws but says he will place judgment on Kovu and when the pride returns to Pride Rock, he makes Kovu sleep outside the cave out of distrust.

That night, Simba later has a nightmare of him trying to save his father Mufasa from the stampede but is prevented from doing so by Scar, who morphs into Kovu and is thrown off the cliff himself to share Mufasa's fate. Unknown to Simba, Zira has secretly trained Kovu to infiltrate Simba's pride and kill Simba. Simba gradually begins to trust Kovu and Kiara and Kovu begin to fall in love. Soon this led to Kovu questioning his loyalty to the Outsiders.

After a while, Simba takes Kovu out for a walk and tells him the real story about Scar. However, Zira and the other Outsiders ambush Kovu and Simba while they are walking and talking, automatically reigniting Simba's distrust in Kovu, after Zira congratulates Kovu for leading him into the ambush, "just like they always planned," leading Simba to turn his back on him. Kovu tries to convince Simba that he did not see the attack coming, and even tries to protect Simba, but is knocked down by his sister Vitani. Simba is injured, but leaps up a river dam to safety, making a few logs fall on Kovu's brother Nuka, who tried to stop him from escaping and dies from his injuries. Kovu is blamed for his death, and Zira strikes Kovu with her claws and gives him a scar over his eye that resembles Scar's. He then flees to the Pride Lands in shame, with Zira telling her pride to let Kovu go.

Simba, still believing Kovu had dark motives when he saved Kiara, exiles the lion after refusing to accept his apologies and silences his daughter when she requests her father to listen to Kovu. Kiara is hurt at this and pleads with her father to reconsider, but he responds by banning Kiara from leaving Pride Rock alone again and claims that Kovu used her just to get to him. Kiara says that Kovu loves her for who she is, to which Simba replies by saying that it's because she's his daughter. Simba also says that Kovu is following Scar's paw prints, and that Simba himself must follow his own father's. Fed up with Simba's stubborness, Kiara angrily defies her father and exclaims that he will never be Mufasa, which scares and hurts Simba deeply.

Later, Simba enters the cave and learns from Timon and Pumbaa that Kiara has run away before Zazu arrives and announces that the Outsiders have initiated a war. Simba heads out to fight with his lionesses, Timon, and Pumbaa while sending Zazu to find Kiara. Before the battle begins, Simba, in earnest, offers Zira a final chance to surrender and leave in peace, which the lioness, determined to see her goals to fruition, rejects. At this point, Simba leads the charge against the Outsiders.

After a lengthy battle, Simba and Zira confront each other directly. Just as the two are about to clash, Kiara and Kovu leap into the middle of the confrontation and Kiara reminds Simba of what he once told her when she was a cub: That they "are one", which includes the Outsiders. Hearing Kiara's words of wisdom, Simba takes a good look at the Outsiders and realizes she is right while also reconciling with her.

The Outsiders, after realizing what Kiara said is true and learning of their leader's true nature when she threatens to kill a defecting Vitani, abandon Zira entirely and join the Pridelanders. Simba urges Zira to put the past behind her, so that peace may come between them for a better life; however, she is too overcome with worship for Scar to accept his understanding.

Zira, enraged, tries to leap at Simba, when he is momentarily distracted as the dam breaks, only to be knocked aside by Kiara. The two lionesses tumble into the gorge, which rapidly begins filling with water. Simba jumps down the cliff after them while Zira, despite Kiara's offers of aid, slips and falls to her death into the swirling torrents of the river below. Simba reaches Kiara and gives her his paw to help her back up the cliff.

After Simba and Kiara climb back up to safety, he apologizes to Kovu for banishing him out of spite as he accepts him and the other Outsiders into his pride, finally trusting Kovu completely. The two united prides head back to Pride Rock, where Kiara and Kovu are married. In celebration, Simba, Nala, Kiara, and Kovu walk up to the promontory of Pride Rock and roar out across the kingdom, along with the rest of the pride, the rest of the animals of the Pridelands celebrating below. The disembodied voice of Mufasa congratulates him warmly for his wise decision, his deep voice rumbling through the air. *"Well done, my son. We are one."*