Board Thread:Lion Guard Discussion/@comment-33871435-20190805201303/@comment-43313582-20190806000322

Westerhouse wrote: FearTheBelle wrote: I feel more like it is simple friendship and friendly concern she has shown. I would be shocked if any of the Guard were canonically shipped with each other. Fuli's interactions with Azaad seemed to point more in the romantic interest direction to me. Also, there's the fact that a Kion and Fuli romance would be interspecies and that is not something I could see Disney approving, least of all on Disney Junior. I don't think there was anything romantic in their interaction. And besides, its unlikely they will even see Azaad again, except perhaps on the journey back to the Pridelands. And why WOULDN'T Disney do that? They are already pressuring Disney to make Timon and Pumbaa gay. And it sounds like Disney is going to go with it. Corporations are risk-adverse when it comes to children's programming. Anything that would be even slightly objectionable to any parents is probably going to be a hard sell. Especially when we aren't talking about mainstream Disney, but a show on their property/channel that is deliberately targetted to a younger audience than most of their shows or movies.

And LGBT relationships are far less taboo in today's world (at least in the more secular parts of it) than interspecies relations. I could easily see that happening in one of their shows or movies for mature audiences, and I'm sure it has; I could not in a million years see them doing the same with a cross-species romance. Though, for the record, I doubt they would have a gay or lesbian relationship on Disney Junior, either.