Board Thread:Lion Guard Discussion/@comment-39483724-20190903210014

Hello I am a fellow Lion Guard fan who has enjoyed the series. I would like to share an issue I have with season 3 which I’d like to know other people’s opinion on. I have watched every episode of season 3 and enjoyed them. As we are all aware the Lion Guard are meant to be teenagers for the majority of the season.

I have no issues with this as it’s very rare that Disney pays attention to their character’s teenage years. When the characters do age they normally go from kid straight to adult with nothing in the middle.

My guess for the ages of the Lion Guard, Jasiri, and Makini in seasons 1-2 is 10. The age of Kiara, Tifu and Zuri I’d say 12. For Jasiri’s sister I’d say 16. In season 3 I’d say The Lion Guard is meant to be 13-14. This will be relevant for later.

The first issue I have is with season 3 episode 1, Battle of the Pride Lands when the episode does the big reveal of the Lion Guard as teenagers. My problem with this is only Kion and Beshte seem to have aged. Fuli, Ono, Bunga, Makini and Jasiri look and sound exactly the same with no difference from the child versions. Even Kiara is still the same age as before, whilst her younger brother has aged. They haven’t even made her taller. She should be about 15-16 years old in Lion years at this point, however she is still 12 while her brother has aged 3-4 lion years.

Another problem I had was in the flashback in the episode Lake of Reflection. It shows a flashback of the Lion Guard about 3-4 years old. Janja, Chungu, Cheezi and Anga are also shown at the same age, despite the fact they’ve been adults from their first appearance in season 1-2. Remember in the first episode, Return of the Roar, Janja criticised Cheezi and Chungu for being afraid of Kion’s roar. He states, “you were scared of a roar from a lion cub?”, also Cheezi calls Kion “cub” several times. If the hyenas were the same age as Kion and his friends then why would they make these statements when they would still be cubs themselves? Why weren’t they cubs themselves? The same applies to Anga, why was she not a cub on her first appearance if she is meant to be the same age as the Lion Guard? In this flashback all four of these characters should have been at least the same age as The Lion Guard in seasons 1 and 2, if not teenagers.

The same problem also occurs with The Night Pride and Scar. The Night Pride has two young lions, Rani and Baliyo. It states Baliyo is younger than Rani, however he is taller and more physically developed than her. Rani is at the same development stage as young Kiara, so age 12. Baliyo is at the same development stage as Kion in season 3, so age 13-14. So why are they saying that Rani is older, she’s smaller than Baliyo and shows no sign of hitting puberty.

The issue I have with Scar was in Battle of the Pride Lands when Scar tells the story of how he got his scar. Scar states he wasn’t much older than Kion when it happened, however the flashback shows Scar as a young adult about 20 in lion years. This is at least 7 years older than Kion, a lot older. If Scar wasn’t much older than Kion he should’ve been shown as a teenager, taller than Kion, not a fully grown adult.

I wanted to discus this because it really bugged me in season 3 and I want to know other people’s opinion on this. I don’t mind ageing and flashbacks, in fact I enjoy it, but Disney should at least get this correct. 