#Pumbaa

[babyanimalgifs]

Timon and Pumbaa dog version.

(Source)

[yen-sids-tournament]

The Lion King: Animated (1994) v Live Action (2019)

You do not have to see both to vote, but it might have been helpful.

Feel free to share opinions or explanations with comments/tags/rbs

[punkeropercyjackson]

Madagascar 🤝 The Lion King

Animated animal franchises where the characters are explicitly from Africa yet people somehow denying the cast is black-coded

[valentinbelleyh505]

Bunga is Timon x Pumbaa's shipper 👀

[sukalaap]

Smiling Subjects

This monstrosity has been created. You're welcome.

[themischievousronster]

Don't mind me just combining the stuff I'm crazy abt

This is so stupid /pos

[spinnysocks]

you ever wonder

if the writers planned that?

[hyzenthlayroseart]

I got this cute idea in my head where Timon's mom realizes that since Timon and Pumbaa raised Simba after Mufasa's death then that means Simba's technically her grandson and she's his grandma. Timon's embarrassed but Simba thinks it's sweet lol.

[aretheyqueer]

Is he gay?

disclaimer: this is a hc, not speculating on what the writers intentions were.

reason: He and Timon are an inter-species gay couple.

[flowery-laser-blasts]

Reading an old KP comic and...

THIS MAN FUCKING SNATCHED

TIMON AND PUMBAA FOR HIS ANIMAL ARMY.

(Also he dropped his ponytail on the floor...)

Source: @un-fairway2003 - 'Naked mole robot!'

[timona-lisa]

#relationshipgoals

[aphrmoosun]

"Mufasa: The Lion King."

(DEC 20/2024)

[mister-hare]

Timon & Pumbaa - Safety Smart - Healthy and Fit

[artist-issues]

Can we talk about how neat it was that The Lion Guard, a Disney Junior series, didn’t just skip over or write out the characters from The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, which in many ways was darker and more mature than the first Lion King film?  I mean. They just said “‘Oh, you want us to make a series about Simba’s never-before-seen son, even though there’s already a canon sequel where it seems like Kiara is an only child? And that sequel also includes elements of betrayal and prejudice, and assassinations? And that sequel ends with one young son’s death and a mother who attacks her own children and would rather die than forgive and forget? Challenge accepted.”

They COULD HAVE just sent the main characters away to the Tree of Life and never brought them back. They could have left it with the one episode we got during Kiara and Kion’s cubhood where the Guard encounters Zira. Just throw the fandom a bone and carry on with their children’s show targeting 8 year-olds. But no. They really went for it and tried to wrap everything up neatly. I respect the effort at problem-solving. 

[kaythefloppa]

Everyone seems to be talking about the Simba's Pride scripts, production notes, early drafts, and concept art-work that were recently unearthed from eBay and all the headcanon/fanfic/family-tree material that it gives, but how come no one, FRIGGIN NO ONE talks about the deleted scene from The Lion King 1½ where Timon and Pumbaa meet and talk to Scar.

I'm not even kidding:

In the original plotline for The Lion King 3, Timon and Pumbaa (for whatever reason) were supposed to be looking for Mufasa, the Lion King. They would've come across the Elephant Graveyard and, mistaking Scar for Mufasa, come across Scar himself along with his hyena army after they have completed the Be Prepared musical number. Timon remarks that Scar is not Mufasa, to which Scar says "Must I forever be reminded of this," a nod to the original when the hyenas mistake Scar for Mufasa. The hyenas, wanting 'revenge' chase Timon and Pumbaa throughout the Graveyard before losing them.

And no, this isn't a recent discovery, (well sorta). The person storyboard artist, Amber Hollinger, (who worked on several direct-to-video sequels such as Belle's Magical World, Lilo and Stich 2, and Fox and the Hound 2) had this uploaded to her site in 2012, over 12 years ago. Since then it was added to the wiki in the concept gallery. I may have only recently found out about their source, but I knew this deleted scene existed for close to a decade. I can't be the only one who regularly thinks about this, right?

Personally, while I think the idea of Scar and Timon exchanging lines is sheer hilarity in of itself (tangent: Would they have gotten Irons back for this one-off line or would they have had Jim Cummings record some speaking lines for Scar like they did in Simba's Pride?), I can understand why it got cut, since it probably would screech the film to a halt if they had this one cameo from Scar and the hyenas drag out on and on when the movie is supposed to be an interquel with the main story and characters being a backdrop (at least during the second act that coincides with TLK's first act). To add to that, it also raises up a legitimate plot-hole in Scar knowing that there were witnesses to his conspiracy, witnesses who seemingly knew about he was about to kill, and did nothing, and in a movie filled with possibly deliberate inconsistencies, this in particular would be too tall to overlook.

But overall, it's pretty cool, and I think in a fandom that fascinates over deleted material, this is pretty underrated (then again, the 3rd movie in of itself is entirely underrated).

[sukalaap]

Hu-Kuna Man-Tata!

Designs are loosely inspired by/based on these ones! Special thanks to @silkward for influencing my depiction of Simba as well. <3

Also Happy 30th Anniversary to this absolute cinematic masterpiece that shaped me into the person that I am today! <3