Nuka

Nuka is the son of Zira and Scar and the younger brother to Azra, Hasira, Hila, and Faida and the older brother of Vitani, and stepbrother to Kovu. He is also the uncle of Kosa, Aria, Loki, and Bellona and the great uncle of Giza. Nuka is a supporting character in Savu0211's comics and one of the secondary antagonists in The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride. He also appeared in one episode of The Lion Guard as a one-shot antagonist.

Life


Nuka was born during Scar's reign. He was born lanky build because Zira didn’t get to much food during the dry season. Zira showed Nuka to Scar to make sure if he shall be the new future king, however, Scar is disappointed when he sees that Nuka is not very strong. He reminds Scar about his cub self. As he grows to a cub, Nuka seems to care a lot about his older sister Azra, but his father didn’t get along with him. He then learned that he is going to have a new sibling, which Nuka was worried that the cub is a male and will gain more attention from his parents. Azra gave Nuka comfort, letting him know he is perfect as he is.

Soon the new sibling was born, and Nuka is relieved that it was a female cub, Vitani. He then went with Azra to stop Hasira, Hila, and Faida to not get into trouble. But they were seen by lioness's and the sister trio escaped to get help. Nuka experience the whole thing seeing Azra's former mate Valido betraying her to take Scar's pride. But Scar came just in time, and Valido was killed by Azra. Scar then see's Valido's mate name Shentani and her infant son named Kovu. Scar adopted Kovu and says he will become the future king and strong and smart, which Nuka grows sad about it. He is the only one to know that Azra is pregnant with Valido, and he promised Azra he well not tell anyone. Nuka grows hateful to Kovu, and he almost hurts him until Scar stops him and threatens Nuka. He then doesn’t like the fact that Scar cares more about Kovu then him and after he was alone, he wished that his father was dead. He then regrets his wish when Scar actually did die after losing the battle with Simba, and being devoured by the hyenas, because of Scar's betrayal to them. Nuka and his family mourns Scar's corpse, and Zira angrily said that she well break Scar's murderer every single bone, suffer, and die painfully which scared Nuka, because he think it was his fault that he wished his father dead. Nuka and his family were banished by Simba after Zira and her family refuse to accept Simba as their new King. Nuka as a teenager becomes paranoid, and after the fire incident, he has trouble as he becomes pretty afraid of Zira.

Nuka soon found out that Azra's son, Kosa was born. Kosa accidently said to Kovu that he was adopted, which he gets upset that now he will get in trouble. Nuka helps Azra find Kosa after he left the Outlands, however they didn’t find them. His hatred to Kovu grows more after Zira started to train him to kill Simba and return the throne. Zira ignores Nuka, even gets upset with him all the time for his stupid and neurotic behavior. He still has a good relationship with Azra, and she gave him some food to survive. When Nuka become a young adult, He and Vitani send fire in the pride (even giving a brief scene of Nuka's fear of fire.) As he heard about Kovu's failure and failed to get Simba during the ambush scene, Nuka seeds his chance to finally please his mother. He pursues Simba and as he about to kill him, Nuka slips on a log dam and was crushed by them.

Zira pulls the logs out of the way and see's the dying Nuka giving his final words to his mother. He dies in Zira's own paw. His family and all the other outsiders mourn Nuka's death and Zira told Scar to watch over Nuka.

Azra is devastated by Nuka's death and this helps fuels her hatred toward the Pridelanders.

He is seen briefly in one of the shorts as one of the good spirits.

Dark Times
In the alternate story Dark Times, Nuka is really Scar's grandson. His father is Chumvi. While his mother is Zira, like the previous comic, Nuka has the exact same cub appearence as he did in the previous comic. The only difference is the elbow tufts, hinting him to be older but not old enough to have a hair tuft. He seems to accept Vizuri, unlike his mother. When Kovu is born he promised Vizuri to always protect Kovu. He later tells Zira and Chumvi about it. Chumvi was thrilled while Zira could careless. Chumvi asks Zira why is she always nagging and she replies that a true king doesn't need a bodyguard.

Appearances

 * The Relatives Of The King Part 3: Scar's Reign
 * The Relatives Of The King Part 4: The Heirs (Flashback only and mentioned)
 * The Relatives Of The King Part 5: Outcasts
 * The Dark Times

Trivia

 * Nuka shares similarities with his grandniece Giza. They both are neglected by their own mothers and they try to gain their attention and make them proud. However, while Zira unintentionally neglects her son, Giza was deliberately neglected by her mother Baridi.