Zira

Zira is Scar's mate, and mother of Azra, Hasira, Hila, Faida, Nuka, and Vitani. She is the main antagonist in The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride. She also appeared as the antagonist in The Lion Guard episode, "Lions of the Outlands".

She appears as one of the main characters in Savu0211's comics, The Relatives of the King. She is the deuteragonist in Part 1: Taka's Story, the main antagonist in Part 2: Parental Sorrow, the anti-villain in Part 3: Scar's Reign, the supporting antagonist in Part 4: The Heirs, and the secondary antagonist in Part 5: Outcasts. She also appears as the secondary antagonist in the one-shot alternate story, The Dark Times. She also appears as the supporting protagonist and antagonist respectfully in short stories.

Family
In the original comics, Zira is the daughter of Bianka and niece to Leza. She becomes a mate to Taka/Scar and is the mother to Chaka, Azra, Hila, Hasira, Faida, Nuka and Vitani. She is also the adoptive mother of Kovu. She is the grandmother of Kosa, Aris, Bellona, Loki, and Great-grandmother of Giza.

Dark Times Family
In the dark times comic Zira is still the daughter of Bianka and an unnamed father. But she has a sister named Tama, and becomes mates with scar's son, Chumvi, and is now scar's daughter in law. And is the mother of Nuka and Vitani. And adopts Kovuon scar's command.

Bio
Zira was born and raised by her mother, Bianka. Her father is unknown. The leader of the pride Leza, was jealous of her sister's joy of motherhood, and after a quarrel between Bianka and Leza, she banished her and Zira out of her pride, and they went to find a better pride. Bianka becomes weaker and weaker when she hasn’t hunted or eaten, and when Leza's sisters came, she wasn’t able to defeat them and was killed. Zira ran off and for days she can't find anyone to care, until one day when she founded teen Taka/ Scar. At first, he ignores her, but Zira begs him to don't go, and Scar agrees to let her stay for a while, but she has to be hidden because his parents don't accept any strangers in the pride. Zira grows fascinated and is smitten to Scar and she tells him her past. Sarafina walked inside Scar's cave when she has seen a strange cub in the Pridelands.

Scar hides Zira from her, but she saw her and Scar is worried that she will tell the others about her, so he coldly threatens her that he will inform the Hyenas about Riku's younger sister. Zira developed a hatred towards Sarabi when she overhears that she has a crush on Scar. Later, Zira is attacked by the vengeful lioness named Sina, who was angry at Scar because she thinks it was his fault that her son Riku was killed and she hears about the cub Scar hides. She told Scar who arrived just in time, that it feels terrible to be helpless. Sina than rips out Zira's ear, leaving a hole in her ear. Scar is furious and threatens to attack her but she starts to attack Scar first by punching him. Sina was caught by Ahadi and the Pridelanders and was banished for her actions against Scar and Zira. Sarafina goes with Sina so she won't be alone. Scar told his family that Zira will become Scar's future mate. Zira and Uru are very happy about this, however, Ahadi becomes bothered by this and does not trust Zira. She later appeared as a teenaged lion. She is more serious and rude, but still playful and caring, especially to the young-adult Scar. She then sees her old pride led by her old enemy Leza coming to the Pridelands and she is planning to attack them as revenge for her mother's murder. When Scar refuses to help her get her revenge, Zira becomes infuriated at him. She overheard Scar being attacked by Leza and her pride and she comes just in time to save him. Leza recognized and mocked Zira and tries to kill both her and Scar. Ahadi and Mufasa arrived in time after they were chasing Freya, a hyena leader, and Scar's friend.

Leza noticed Scar and Zira are trying to escape at a nearby cliff and she told her pride to take care of Ahadi and Mufasa while she goes after Scar and Zira. Ahadi and Mufasa tried to convince Leza's pride to leave. They agreed but Scar and Zira were confronted by Leza. Before she strikes, Scar grabs her by the tail. Mufasa and Zira tried to save him, but Scar disagrees as he saw Mufasa and Zira together and he lets go of Leza's tail and throws her off the cliff. Before she falls, Leza grabbed Scar's back and said that if she dies, he will die with her, and both fell off a cliff. Scar survived but is unconscious and suffered a back injury. Leza, being too old, didn’t survive.

Zira has grown worried of Scar. Days later Scar gains consciousness, and he scolds Zira for making him look like a fool in front of others. Zira angrily stated that she does not wanna be treated like a cub, and Scar then apologizes to Zira.

Years past and Zira becomes a young adult. She becomes much more serious, harsh, sarcastic, and more cold-hearted like Scar. She then born a cub name  Azra, but their other child, Chaka , died after an accidental confrontation between Mufasa and Zira. This happened because Zira is tired of Mufasa mocking Scar and she attacked him, but Mufasa pushed her off to save himself, which accidentally injures her stomach. Mufasa is very guilty and tries to apologize to Zira, which she declined his apology. Sadden by the loss of their son, and Azra's weakened state, she despised the Pridelanders even more than before and then plans with Scar to overthrow their enemies so she will become the Queen of the Pridelands. Later, Scar killed both Ahadi and Mufasa and becomes the King of the Pridelands and Zira becomes Queen. During Scar's reign, Zira had born more cubs,  Hasira ,  Hila ,  Faida, Nuka, and Vitani. She also helped Scar attack  Valido, who uses her daughter Azra to take over the Pridelands. Azra kills Valido and Scar adopts Valido's son, Kovu, as his future king. He then invites Kovu's mother and Valido's mate, Shentani, and her pride for a better hunting party.

Zira disagrees with Scar's decision and she developed a hatred toward Shentani when she flirted with Scar and wanted to become the Queen so she can protect and be with her cub. Zira planned to kill her, and when the Pridelanders failed to hunt, Scar ordered Zira and her own hunting party to hunt. During the hunt, Zira and her family set a clever trap for Shentani and killed her. Afterward, Zira lied to Shentani's pride that she died from being attacked and eaten by a pack of hungry wild dogs. Zira returns to Pride Rock but was shocked to see that her home is on fire and her mate Scar was killed. She is unaware that it was the Hyenas who killed Scar and not the Pridelanders. She refused to accept the son of Mufasa, Simba, as her new Queen and threatens to attack them. But Sarabi overpowers her and Simba banished her, her family, and her new followers to a barren wasteland called the Outlands. She fell into depression and ignores her family and her followers. The infant Kovu tries to cheer her up and Zira pushes him away at first. But she noticed Kovu's eyes are green, similar to Scar's green eyes, and she finally saw the potential to use Kovu to get revenge against her enemies. So she begins to train him until he was ready to go to Pridelands, kill Simba and his allies, and become the new King of the Pridelands.

She heard that Azra has a cub named Kosa and is disgusted by the fact that the cub was Valido's and Azra's son and Kovu's step-brother. Zira reluctantly accepts Kosa into her pride but warns Azra not to tell anyone about it or there will be consequences. Years past and Kosa inadvertently told Kovu that he is adopted after an argument. After Kovu learns this and cries to Zira, she comforts him and tells him that even if they're not related she will still care for him and train him. She then goes to Azra and punishes both her and her son. She also orders Azra to not give her son milk for days and that he needs to learn how to hunt so he can become a useful member of her 'Pride'. Later, Zira learns that Kosa met Kopa, Simba and Nala's oldest son, who got lost in the Outlands and befriended Kosa. Zira confronts the two cubs and threatens to kill Kopa. Before she kills Kopa, the ghost Scar whispers in her ear not to kill him, foreshadowing that Kopa will save Zira's life later.

So she leaves them alone and Kosa leaves the Outlands with Kopa to escape the psychopathic Zira. Simba and the Pridelanders arrived in the Outlands in their search for Kopa, but Zira confronts them and lies to them that she did kill Simba's son. The sorrowful and devastated Simba and his pride leaves the Outlands but not before Zira mocks him to take better care of his children, especially his daughter Kiara. She later scolds Nuka and Azra for being at the Pridelands, however, Azra told Zira that they were looking for Kosa. Later on, Kovu leaves the Outlands, out of Nuka's sight, and befriended a Pridelander cub, who is actually Kiara, Simba's daughter. Simba appeared and roars at Kovu, but Zira roars back and introduces Simba to Kovu and tells him that he was chosen by Scar to become his rightful heir. After the confrontation between Simba's pride and Zira, she takes Kovu home, and scolds Nuka for failing to watch him as instructed; however, she is unaware that it was Azra's fault for yelling and scaring Kovu away. She then scolds Kovu for leaving the Pridelands, but she comes up with an evil plot to train Kovu to get close to Simba and his family and kill him. She begins training Kovu until he is a young adult and sends Nuka and Vitani to send fire in the Pridelands for Kiara's first hunt so Kovu can save her as part of her devious plan.

The plan isn’t going as Zira hoped it would because Kovu begins to fall in love with Kiara and fails to kill Simba many times. So she and her Outsiders ambushed Simba and Kovu. Simba mistakes Kovu for betraying him to the Outsiders and that he planned the whole thing. They attacked Simba but before he could escape, Nuka (who has tried to please his mother all his life) tries to kill Simba, after Kovu failed to do so. Unfortunately, he slips and falls, ending up being crushed under several logs. Kovu rushes forward to dig him out but is knocked aside by the frantic Zira, who finishes the job herself. Nuka succumbs to his injuries, after apologizing to his mother for his failure. Ironically, through his death, he finally gains his mother's attention and affection. After Zira asks the late Scar to watch over her "poor" Nuka, she blames Kovu for his brother's death and slashes him across the face, which leaves him with a scar on his face.

After Kovu leaves the pride, Zira begins to declare war on the Pridelanders. She and her followers attacked the Pridelanders later that night. Before Zira and Simba can face off in what will inevitably be a blood-soaked skirmish, Kovu and Kiara intervene, confronting their respective parents from killing the other which she and Simba tell them to step aside. Kiara is able to make Simba stop the battle by telling him that their two factions, despite their ethical scale and deep hate they have for one another, are the same.

When Vitani sees the truth of Kiara's words and joins Simba, Zira tells her daughter that she will die as well. These words visibly shock and disgust her lionesses, who as a result, leave her and join Simba. Simba tells Zira to let go of the past, but Zira is none too convinced and leaps at him, still intent on killing Simba to avenge Scar. Kiara jumps in front, causing the two lionesses to go over the cliff. At this point, the dam breaks, and the river begins to flow rapidly.

Kiara tries to reach out to help her, and Zira is shown trying to choose between death or accepting Kiara's help. However, Zira's pride and hate will not allow her to be rescued by her enemy's daughter, and she rejects Kiara's help, only to finally fall off the cliff and into the water and washed away with the current. Having witnessed this, Kovu then sighs in deep pain at her departure.

It is revealed later on that she survives the fall but has an injured leg. She is spotted by Kosa, Kopa, and Jalia and Kopa pulled out of the water. She awoke and as Kosa put his paw on her chin, she asked him if she saved him. Kosa lied that he saved her, which angers Jalia and Kopa. Jalia is afraid of Zira, and soon breaks up with Kosa, with Kopa. Saddened by this, Kosa goes to Zira. In a similar fashion to her treatment to Kovu, Zira comforts Kosa and tells him that this is the last time a Pridelander tortures an Outsider. Later, Zira and Kosa meet a Coldlander named Baridi, who is infamously known as the 'devil on earth' by other lions who met her.

Zira convinces Baridi to capture the cubs of the lions around the Valley so they will fall in line. Soon, Kosa and Baridi kidnapped cubs from their families in the Valley, and kill some of their parents. As she gets older, she is surprised to hear that Azra, Hasira, Hila, and Faida didn’t betray her and informs them that Kosa saved her life. She then tasked Azra to go the Pridelands to fool the Pridelanders that she is redeemed and willing to accept their rule. She also informs her to watch over Vitani. Azra agrees and she does as she was told. Happy to hear that Vitani isn’t enjoying the Pridelands, Zira and Azra planned to make the Pridelanders suffer. Vitani came back to her own mother and apologized to her for what she did, Zira forgives her. She then appears in the Pridelands and surprised the Pridelanders that she is still alive and that they have already failed to notice that her daughters, Baridi, and Kosa, has already kidnapped Kiara's and Kovu's two cubs, Kesar and Nuru.

She leaves with her family back to the North. Later on, Zira tells Azra and Vitani that she is dying, says farewell to them, and leaves. Before she dies, Kopa appeared and Zira realized that Kopa saved her from the ravine and the true reason why she didn't kill him. Kopa leaves before Zira dies and her dark spirit happily reunites with her mate Scar.

Dark Times
In the alternate comic Dark Times, she was born in the strange pride. She was a daddy's girl, and when her father dies and she has to stay in the Pridelands, she is very grumpy. She doesn't like anyone, but soon, when Sarabi offers her that she can be the leader of the second hunting group, She starts to be at least a little bit nicer. But she still doesn't accept Sarabi as her queen, because she doesn't sleep in the king's cave and she doesn't have a cub with him. So, this forces Sarabi to become Scars mate and have a cub with him. She did this only for Zira, only for that that Zira will accept her as her queen... Zira is then impressed that she is with kings cub. Zira then tries to seduce Scar, after he has his romance with Thamani, but he rejects her and says that she is not matured enough and that she is "little lolita". Then, she says to her mother that she could try to seduce him, but her mother rejects and pays more attention to Tama. Zira then feels neglected and becomes very grumpy and furious. One day, she attacks her king and then she apologizes and asks for betrothal to Scars son, Chumvi, the future king. Scar agrees, but he wants absolute loyalty from her. And then, she is totally loyal to him and ignores her mother, who does everything to stay with her daughter, but fails and runs away with her daughter an some friends. Later she gives birth to Nuka, but he is not perfect in scars eyes so he is often neglected. After Vizuri Kovu's mother dies, and Scar instructs her to take care of him. She leaves for a hunting trip but when she returns she finds scar bleeding to death and Shenzi gives her her signature ear hole. She is then banished taking Nuka and Kovu with her, and later giving birth to Vitani, breaking Chumvi's heart

Scraped story
In the original version of Savu0211's comics she would convince Scar that she was was a better queen than Sarabi and, supposedly Azra, Hasira, Faida, and Hila would not exists only Nuka Vitani, and later an adopted Kovu.

Trivia

 * Her portrayal in Savu0211's comics is similar to Lady Macbeth.
 * She has appeared in every part of Savu0211's comics except for Part 0.
 * Zira serves as the main antagonist in Part 2 as she is the cause of many of the bad events that happened in Part 2, and it was thanks to Zira attacking Ahadi for trying to banish them that Scar decided to have his hyenas kill his own father in cold blood. Plus, she is a terrible mother to Azra, telling her lies about the Pridelanders.
 * In Dark Times, she first wants to be Scar's step daughter. However, seeing that his mother has no interest for Scar, she wants to be her mate. When she talks about that to Scar, Scar calls her "Creepy Cub". Later it sees as if Scar is going to rape Zira, but it is revealed that Scar was joking. Scar states that he is not interested in cubs like her. Later Zira wants to be Scar's daughter in law.
 * Old witch.jpg her supposed death, she was known as "The Old Witch of Scar".