Proof that Kopa is real!

It simply isn't what happened, and no it doesn't fit. Here's why:

The books featuring Kopa were released in 1994. Yet in 1995 the directors of the first movie referred to the cub as "Fluffy" and didn't state a sex/gender, on the commentary track released on the Laserdisc and later on DVD. If it was meant to be Kopa, they would have sinabi the name right there.

Then in 1998, in a magazine interview one of the creators of The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride literally stated that the cub at the end of the first film is a reyna (as in Kiara), in their movie.

In 2011 a tagahanga contacted Alex Simmons, the may-akda of the first book Kopa is featured in, and asked tanong about the character's status in the movies. Simmons replied that Kopa is his creation all the way and not Disney's. And that he created Kopa before the movie was even finished and had no idea if they were even going to write a cub for Simba and Nala. That he meant Mufasa and Scar's part of his book to be a backstory for the characters, but that the movie creators did not refer to the books as is often the case in movie business.

Simmons also sinabi that he was never contacted about the character sa pamamagitan ng the sequel's creators so he suspects they never even intended to use him in that movie either. He sinabi that based on also his nakaraan experience Pagsulat books for Disney, Disney considers the books an entirely separate entity as in not part of their movies' storylines.

All of that official facts proof of that Kopa has never ever been in the pelikula in any shape or form, has been collected into one simple video which I've attached to this reply.

So there. Kopa isn't and has never been a canon cub of Simba's.

And the Zira "theory" definitely would not make sense in the sequel's content. If Simba had a murdered child he would not leave the remaining child's life in the hands of Timon and Pumbaa. The movie keeps ipinapakita how completely useless they are, constantly losing Kiara because they're a couple of goofs. Plusxthere's absolutely nothing they could do to protect Kiara if she was attacked sa pamamagitan ng a lion or any other predator. No, if Simba had a cub that was murdered, Kiara's babysitters would be adult lions. But as sinabi sa pamamagitan ng thecmovie's creators the cub from the first movie is Kiara and thus in that movie Simba never had any other child but her.

And now there's Kion. As The Lion Guard's creators made him look just like the cub at the end I reckon they mean Fluffy to be Kion in the tv series' storyline. I mean, of course all the royal cubs would be presented. The first-born and first-in-line first (hence Kiara's presentation set at sunrise) and then the second-in-line later (hence Fluffy/Kion presented in full daylight.) But of course the cub still remains Kiara when only the first two pelikula combined are considered as neither movie's creators had any hand in creating The Lion Guard.

The ending of the film the cub isn't considered a boy but rather genderless until the sequel was released and the cub becomes a girl, Kiara. The filmmakers call the cub, Fluffy on the commentary of the 2003 DVD and the lazerdisk. Kopa is not canon in the film universe but a outsider character who ONLY exists in the set of books that are NOT Disney creation. Kiara is the only child of Simba and has no siblings but in the spinoff tv show, The Lion Guard, Kion who isn't Kopa. Kopa's existence only remains in the books.