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The Friendly Five
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| Name: | The Friendly Five |
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| Fandom: | The Lion King |
| Members: | Chumvi, Kula, Malka, Tama, Tojo |
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The Friendly Five refers to the five semi-canonical characters of Chumvi, Kula, Malka, Tama, and Tojo from the universe of The Lion King.
One source explains the characters inclusions thusly:
This explains why characters like Mheetu or Mtoto aren't part of the group and the number stops at five: Mheetu was omitted from the original film, and Mtoto has no illustration accompanying his name.
Source Texts
Fandom
there are other cubs around simba and nala’s age (when they were cubs, haven’t been seen since) in the pride; kula, a brown cub who likes to eat (relatable) ; chumvi, who thinks lions are The Shit ; tojo, who just looks like simba with blue eyes and a limp but unique in that he basically adopted 6 bird hatchlings as a cub; and tama, nala’s rebound bff when simba was being a shit one time. there’s also malka, the lost boy with a black mane tuft (and ear tufts!! he’s very cute) but a brown tail tip, but he’s actually part of a separate pride and was only in the pridelands for a little while.[2]
The Friendly Five are often accompanied in fanworks by the other lions of that generation, both in terms of canon characters, like Simba and Nala, and semi-canon, such as Mheetu.
Fanworks
Fanart
Links
- The Six (Jan 2011) by Artistic-Demise, with bonus Nala.
- color compairing (Feb 2011) by DJ88, featuring a colour comparison between the comics and the films of their work Cub Race.
- The octet (Oct 2013) by MalisTLK, with bonus Nala, Simba, and Mheetu.
- Boys (Aug 2015) by Solri-Elora, featuring the three boys. See here for their depictions as cubs.
- TLK Secondary Royal lions (Sept 2017) by NamyGaga, featuring the three boys with bonus Mheetu
Gallery
TLK - Ascension (Aug 2012) by RakPolaris, minus Malka.
semi-canon gang (Jan 2019) by tuherrus, minus Malka.
