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okay i heard so much about kopa and how he dies but i want to hear your theory. the theory that makes sense is kopa is born and has a playday with nuka who is told by zira to kill him so nuka does and kopa dies. what is your theory.

for me Kopa was friend with Nuka but he wasn't the one that killed Simba's son, I heard that Nuka listened a conversation between Zira and another lioness about how to murder Kopa to take revenge on Simba since Zira knew that the little prince often came in the outlands to play with her son, so Nuka warned Kopa that didn't want to believe it but when he returned at home, Zira tricked him and attacked him...I want to believe that Kopa survived, maybe by falling in a river or such, I don't want to see Simba and Nala with a so dumb daughter, at least Kopa would be a better character.

This comic (( http://rinjapine.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2cc8ih )) is a really good theory on the missing parts in TLK, why things happened and when. Sure it's fan made but I strongly suggest anyone interested read it. It mostly focuses on Taka/Scar, why he became Scar and such but it does have reasons for how some of the book characters entered and exited from the ongoing plot of the LK movies, comics and books. Rin tried her best to make all the books and such match up but from what I've read the books often contradict each other so it's hard to make it all work correctly.

I didn't really have a 'set' theory to begin with and Rin's sounded much better then the formulated ones in my mind anyways. I follow her theories as if they were canon. XD

I've always thought that one day, Kopa just vanished without a trace. Both Simba and Nala were away for a while, and when they returned Kopa was just gone. A search is called when he doesn't come home, and for a day or so there's no sign of him. Eventually, he's discovered with a broken neck, with no clues as to what happened. Rumors start to spread among the lionesses that Zira had something to do with it, and also that she was Scar's mate, which was previously undisclosed. Simba confronts Zira, who initially denies everything, but her elder children spill the truth about Scar without realizing it. Simba, furious that he had been lied to, assumes Zira is lying about Kopa's death as well and banishes her, despite having no evidence to back up his verdict. Only Zira knows for sure; there are many other speculations (Hyenas, accident, another lioness, etc.) but no one has been able to pin anything down. Kiara was either unborn or too young to remember any of it, and doesn't even know her brother exists, as Simba forbade open talk about it.

I placed Kopa as closer in age to Vitani, though a little younger. But... yeah, that's the basis of my theory.