Who is Kovu's father
It's said that Scar chose Kovu as successor, presumably because Scar had no sons because he's gay.
So, who's Kovu's father?
A rogue presumably, although given Zira's apparent loyalty to Scar, who was Kovu's real mother?
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This is the only real plot hole I see in TLK. Lions use to live in packs with 1 or 2 males and an haren of females, and these males are fathers of all kids. When a new male arrives and manages to kill current one, he kills all cubs and immediately starts breeding his own on all females.
So, in TLK, we see only 2 males in the pack, which are brothers. They should be fathers of all cubs and younger females, but disney shows it as a monogamy between Mufasa and Sarabi, Nala with no father, Scar with no children, and all other females happy with no children either. How would the pack sustain with only 2 kids?
Now in TLK2 we again see Simba with only 1 kid (and possibly another dead one lol), and Zira with 2 children, being 1 adolescent, both with no parent, and a pack of females with no children. And also Simba with a pack of chilrenless females, and apparetly no new lion (other than Kovu and his brother) being born after Simba, who is already an adult.
Sarabi was supposely dead, which opens the hipotesys that all other females of her age are also dead or very old (Zira herself shows her age).
Would Pride Rock pack be going to extinction??
Yes, the pride would most likely die out from starvation and thirst if Scar continued his policy to forbid anyone from leaving Pride Rock. The lions seen in the films are humanized so the male lions would have exclusively one mate. Lastly, Scar has never been confirmed to be a homosexual by the filmmakers or the Disney studios. It's a popular opinion based on his supposed effeminate characteristics.
As the topic, Kovu's father was originally meant to be Scar, but it was rewritten to avoid an incestuous relationship with Kiara so his father is an ambiguous male lion. The answer is left to the fanbase with several theories to throw around. Mine's is that Zira's pride actually had a male lion at one point who was Zira's mate, and upon entering the Pride Lands during Scar's reign, the male lion was ran out in order to prevent a potential overthrow of Scar. Afterwards, Zira grew increasingly infatuated with Scar, and by that time, she was already pregnant with her former mate's cubs, Vitani and Kovu.
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lol that's a fun theory
shareBut Zira's oldest cub, the adolscent one (don't remember his name), seemed to be Scar's son. He says to Vitani that he should be "the chosen one", and not Kovu, because Kovu isn't Scar's son.
shareSarabi wasn't in the sequel because Madge Sinclair died between the original film and the sequel
shareScar was gay? This is the first time I've heard about this. So why did he have a female mate then?
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It was said at the time, because of his way of walking.
On original movie he never had a mate. On movie 2 she says she was his mate, but in fact she was just in love with him. If she was his mate, Kovu would be his son.
Whatever, this disney movie breaks whole lion family structure. In reality we have 1 or 2 males with a harem of females, and they are fathers of all lions borns.
In TLK Mufasa had only 1 (2?) son, the only other male was Scar (similar to reality till now). But Mufasa had only 1 mate and ignored all other females and Scar had no children.
So who was Lala's father? Won't all other females have children? Who was the father of Kovu and all other lions younger than Simba?
Simply no answer.
In the original script and even drawn out but never put in, but in the broadway play it was kept, Scar went after Nala. When she rejected him he banished her.
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The only clue we have to Kovu's parentage is when Nuka mentions "Scar's not even his father, he just took him in" suggesting Scar adopted him. Aside from that, we only get vague references that suggest Kovu was supposed to be the chosen one, likely by Scar's choice or by Zira's.
However, Kovu appears to be the same age as Kiara, and Kiara wasn't born until the end of TLK, well after the Pride Lands has had time to recuperate and heal. Yet Scar would've been killed before that. Nuka's older than Kovu, yet we don't see Kovu, Nuka or Vitani at the end of TLK.
We are shown that Zira is an extremely unreliable and unstable character, so we must assume that everything Nuka, Kovu and Vitani were told as the grew up may or may not be true. Scar didn't seem to intent on establishing his own royal family (aside from the cut scene where he wants to take Nala as his "bride" or "queen," I forget which), so I don't doubt that Scar possibly "took him in." Maybe Kovu was orphaned and wandered into the Pride Lands, and Scar adopted him. Perhaps Scar killed Kovu's father, who knows. Any number of things could've happened.
Then again, as stated above Zira is extremely unreliable so she could've even made up the story that "Scar took him in," which explains why we don't see Nuka, Kovu or Vitani in TLK and why Kovu's the same age as Kiara, despite Kiara not being born until after Scar was killed. Perhaps Zira found an orphaned Kovu wandering the Outlands and adopted him. We don't see Zira in TLK despite supposedly being so devoted to him, so Scar could have even possibly even fathered Kovu with another lioness, whom Zira murdered and took as her own.
Long story short: we'll probably never know who Kovu's father is, nor his mother. If it was Zira, I feel like she'd proudly say so instead of Nuka's claim that Scar adopted him. There's also how Vitani and Nuka are both Zira's real children, and neither of them look like Kovu or Scar. In all likelihood either Scar adopted Kovu or Zira adopted Kovu and lied about Scar choosing him as his heir, while Kovu bearing such resemblance to Scar was sheer luck.
Can't be too careful with all those weirdos running around.
I read on another forum that a creator said that Zira adopted Vitani and Kovu. My only problem with that is, where did she get the milk from to feed them?! There don't seem to be any other females with cubs...
In "The Lion Guard", we find out there were many other male lions in the region. If we're accepting it as canon (I'm still on the wall about it), Kovu's father could be one of these males.
What scientists found out is, that males sometimes control a large area with several prides of females. So they transition from group to group with the females mating with all the males. Maybe there were more "Kings" in this pride who were in a different part?
Perhaps, the king allows his "subjects" to mate with these meandering or rogue males. The lions are nearly human, so some prides may have abandoned the whole "kill a cub who's not mine" tradition in favour of betrothal (Simba & Nala), exile (if the cub is male) or simply allowing them to stay.
Apparently, they were going to make him Scar's son until they realized that it would make him Kiara's cousin.
But it made it a mystery who Kovu's father is, except it never really was important to the story.