The Lion King

An animated line that folds back on itself, and a photoreal remake line that contradicts it.

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Where to start with The Lion King

Start with the 1994 film and take the animated line in the order below. The one thing to know in advance is that The Lion Guard does not come before or after Simba's Pride. It runs through it.

  1. 1
    The Lion King (1994) The Lion King

    The spine of everything. Nothing precedes it and nothing else makes sense without it.

  2. 2
    The Lion King 1½ (2004) The Lion King 1½

    Not a sequel despite what its international title claims. It retells the 1994 film from Timon and Pumbaa's point of view, literally framed as the two of them watching the film and rewinding it. Watch it second, never first: it is a joke about a film you need to have seen.

  3. 3
    The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998) The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

    Years on, with Simba's daughter Kiara grown. The film covers its own time jump internally, from Kiara as a cub to Kiara as an adolescent.

Then what? The Lion Guard, seventy four episodes plus a pilot film, is the awkward one. Its creator has said the first two seasons take place inside the time gap in Simba's Pride, the bulk of the third runs parallel to that film's second act, and only the last two episodes follow the film's ending. It is listed after Simba's Pride here because stopping a film halfway to watch four years of television is worse than watching slightly out of sequence. The Timon and Pumbaa series is eighty five episodes of gags with no chronology to place. The 2019 remake and Mufasa are a different continuity and are covered in the notes below.

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The Animated Line

  • The Lion King 1994
  • The Lion King 1½ 2004
  • The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa 1995, 3 seasons, 85 episodes
  • The Lion King II: Simba's Pride 1998
  • The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar 2015
  • The Lion Guard 2016, 3 seasons, 74 episodes

The Photoreal Line

  • The Lion King 2019
  • Mufasa: The Lion King 2024

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