Board Thread:Lion Guard Discussion/@comment-33104295-20180628162903/@comment-5488183-20180628174735

As far as I know, TLG has been confirmed to be 100% canon.

Regarding Kion's absence, Ford Riley has hinted that he will be revealing that soon. I think Season 3 shows reasonable signs of being the season that will explain that (especially with the season 3 finale title).

I'll answer your other bullet points too (these ones are my own opinion!):


 * There was no need to include those locations in the movies.
 * No need to have it mentioned if the Guard are absent during the movies.
 * So far, Zira doesn't seem to be aware of Scar's return. If it remains that way, she wouldn't have a reason to bring it up.
 * Again, the movie focuses on the Pride Lands/Outlands only.
 * Focus was on Simba/Kiara in the movies, no need to show them.
 * I think Ford Riley unfortunately missed more than one detail in that episode. All I can think of is that Simba warned his kids away from all Outsiders at the time, so Kion assumed that he meant the hyenas specifically.
 * I'm pretty sure that article was a mistake. A lot of news sites are notorious for screwing up like that.

Also, just a reminder that SP wasn't free from plot holes:
 * The cub at the end is different to Kiara. You can only argue now that it could be Kion. Before, it was 100% a plot hole. Even if it was intended to be Kiara, the designers/animators/what-have-you did not think it through.
 * Zira is never seen/heard of at any point during TLK.
 * Neither are her lionesses which are different in appearance to the other lionesses. There's no way you wouldn't see at least one of them during the first movie at some point.
 * Kovu being hand picked by Scar would make him older than Kiara. He should be taller than her by a fairly large height.
 * Nuka also should definitely be around at that point at least, but we never see him.
 * It's also really hard to believe that, during the final fight in the first movie, NONE of Zira's lionesses would fight against the Pride Landers.

Much like TLG, you can create reasons for why this is, but the bottom line is that these aspects of the universe only existed after they had been thought up.