9 Movie Prequels That Created Massive Plot Holes

2. Rafiki Teaches Contradictory Lessons - The Lion King 1½

Ah, Disney sequels. The rushed straight-to-video cash-ins from the nineties and noughties that saw the Mouse House desecrate the legacy of their animated classics. It's so hard to treat these films as anything other than a depressingly unfunny joke - The Fox And The Hound 2 sees Todd and Copper join a band of singing dogs and try and win a talent contest - but out of the lot, The Lion King is the one that comes across the most sincere.

The second actually widens the mythology of lion politics, while the third acts as an alternate take on the original events with a sense of reverence. Well, for the most part.

The Lion King 1½ is Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead to The Lion King's Hamlet, detailing the lives of Timone and Pumba before they met Simba, seeing them unwittingly interact with earlier events in the movie. Like Star Wars, it changes assumed facts - the duo only been living in their oasis home for a short time before the lion cub shows up - but one key plot point goes too far and mucks the whole series up.

Turns out Hakuna Matata, the catchy manta that totally waylays Simba from facing his past, was given to Timone by Rafiki, the same baboon who'd later convince an older Simba it was the wrong outlook on life.

Does he just go around throwing out random, contradictory philosophy to anyone who'll listen?