Board Thread:Lion Guard Discussion/@comment-5488183-20170220040848/@comment-31440266-20170621045939

Lionkingiscool wrote:

Gracekim12 wrote: Kid, the cub at the end of the first movie was GENDERLESS but it was revealed to be Kiara in LK2 since that movie starts from the end of the lion king but the presentation is just done differently.

The cub at the end of the lion king is called fluffy
 * Sigh* No, the cub at the end of TLK1 is most definitely not Kiara, nor is the scene Kiara's presentation. It's a completely different scene, and it's a completely different cub. It's physically very clearly a different cub, very clearly a male cub, and it was intended to be a male cub in the original script (which admittedly they later scratched away the cub's gender in the script, but there's no reason to believe it'd have changed at any point for any reason). Simba's Pride just completely ignored that ending scene in TLK1, because they decided to throw away continuity or at least didn't bother to explain anything that happened between the movies off. The cub's name is indeed Fluffy, though not canonically. It's just a placeholder name (I forget if he was actually called that by the movie's creators or if it was a fandom given name). Even Ford Riley, the creator of The Lion Guard, got it all messed up thinking Fluffy was Kiara. Which doesn't surprise me, since I'm pretty sure he was never a HUGE Lion King expert anyway. It'd make the most sense, at least within the canon of The Lion Guard, that Fluffy is Kion, and that scene at the end of TLK1 is actually Kion's presentation, taking place AFTER Kiara's presentation... as messy as that makes the timeline. Either that, or it's another cub born before Kiara, who died, like the long-time fandom theory is. That's why a lot of people, when TLG came out, started thinking that if Kion is Fluffy, then maybe he'll be killed by Zira at the end of the series. While I think that's another completely crazy theory because the show would never get that dark, people still thought/think that because the accepted long-time fan theory is that Zira killed Fluffy.

Also, don't "kid" me, Grace. Rude. I'm probably older than you anyway lol (not bragging, just stating). I'm just trying to correct misinformation, cause a lot of people here seem to throw out theories/ideas/opinions as facts, when in reality it seems they don't know at all what they're talking about. You yourself said a lot of the stuff written here seems like fanfic. And now you yourself wrote that "the presentation at the end of TLK1 was Kiara's" as if it were fact, when it's just your random theory. A theory that goes against quite a few things. I'm simply trying to objectively make the most sense out of things, while attempting to connect the canon between TLK1, TLK2 and The Lion Guard. And personally, I've yet to come across a better explanation than Fluffy and Kion being the same character.