Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3562042-20170828135409/@comment-4241330-20170909191839

Lord O&#039; Darkness wrote: People have brought up Scar teaming up with the other animals as confusing since he apparently chose Kovu to be his heir. This gives off a few possibilities:

1) Scar is just using the Outlander animals as a ruse to gain power, then he'll throw them all under the bus once his lion followers show up

2) Zira and her pride are a plan B. After being defeated the first time around, he will communicate with Zira telepathically about his next plan. There is actually a deleted scene from TLK2 where this occurs. 3) Scar didn't choose Kovu, Zira did. Male lions tend to kill cubs that aren't theirs. Zira, on the other hand, may have seen Nuka as unfit to be future king. So she took in this new cub and started a rumor that Scar chose him to be his heir (he'd be taken more seriously if chosen by the king rather than one of his lionesses). This would make make Nuka's jealousy all the more believable...