Talk:Kiara/@comment-28140330-20190728214417/@comment-43336725-20191006013119

Kopa isn't canon. He is a character created by an outsider source which got Disney's permission to write a sequel. Disney never created the books themselves. And the books were published before the film's production was finished, meaning Alex Simmons, (Kopa's creator) had never even known Simba and Nala would be given a cub at the end of the film. In 1995, the filmmakers gave the cub a placeholder name as "Fluffy" but did not give it a gender. Seeing as Kopa was already established as a character before the commentary tract, then this shows that Disney denied Kopa's existence