Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Mufasa: The Lion King! Simba and Nala have a new son ... only a tease of what was to come, with it being used to set up a much bigger slate of future The Lion ...

With the focus shifting from Simba and Nala, their children, Kiara and her newborn brother, are seemingly set up to carry future projects of the franchise by the end of Mufasa: The Lion King.

In the original film, Simba was tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King.