I just have to get all of this out: how can Lion-O still find it in his heart to be nice to anybody?
He has a mother he never knew, a father who expected nothing but perfection from him, a brother who never once hesitated to give him a hard time, and he lived among a kingdom of people who had little to no respect for him. How can even still care for his father, his father obviously favor Tygra, you’d think Lion-O would hate Claudus by now.
And just when it seemed like he found someone who (possibly) could’ve understood him, it turns out he was just getting the wrong idea. I still think that Cheetara was at fault here too, i mean, think about it: if it was obvious that Cheetara didn’t like Lion-O, then why did Tygra and the Kittens all think the same thing? If Tygra was so much smarter than Lion-O, shouldn’t he have been able to figure out what was going on? Yet everyone is saying that it was just Lion-O getting the wrong idea.
Furthermore, as i said earlier, people who should be giving him respect, treat him like dirt: Panthro, Grune, the Wilys, those Alley Cats from the pilot, those Cats who torturing the lizards, they all had little to no respect for him. If Tygra approached those Cat groups, they would’ve done exactly what he said, if Tygra spoke to Panthro, he wouldn’t have insulted him. Personally, if i were Lion-O, i would’ve just forgotten about the other Cats, since it was obvious that i owed them nothing. I mean, Lion-O didn’t destroy Thundera, and his people never made him feel like royalty, what does he owe any of them? Answer: nothing!
Even in current times, everyone is still expecting Lion-O to be perfect. Whenever Lion-O comes up with a plan, everybody thinks it’s flawed, yet whenever Tygra or Cheetara comes up with a plan, it must be a good one because it didn’t come from Lion-O. Everyone gave Lion-O a hard time about getting revenge on Mumm-Ra, yet nobody gave Panthro a hard time about getting revenge on Grune.
Not even Mumm-Ra’s forces think Lion-O is qualified to be king. Mumm-Ra, Slithe, Grune, and virtually all the Lizards have all insulted Lion-O in some way and said that he was a fool and unfit to lead.
Finally, i’d say Pumyra was the proverbial last straw. All Lion-O wanted to do was help her and she nearly killed in response. This even continued after she was freed, if i were Lion-O, i would’ve just left her for the Lizards to kill in Mount Plun-Darr. And stopping Mumm-Ra from getting the SoP would have certainly have been more of a good idea than saving an insulting Cat like Pumyra.
And let’s not forget what happened in “Recipe for Disaster”, Tygra thought Lion-O was setting himself to get shot down, again. That implies that he thinks Lion-O should stay alone, that doesn’t sound very supportive to someone who recently got his heartbroken, and Cheetara just blew it off.
Now, given that Pumyra has revealed her true colors, i wouldn’t blame Lion-O if didn’t stop until that traitorous Puma was a stain on his sword. The worst part of it is, if the show does get a second season, Tygra and the others are probably just gonna treat the whole betrayal like it had no effect on Lion-O at all, paying his aching broken heart no mind.
I repeat my question: how can Lion-O still manage to be the nice guy after all that? After what he’s been through, you’d think he’d be as cold and detached as he briefly was in “Ramalak Rising”. Hardly anyone he’s met has proven themselves worthy of his kindness. And the worst part of it is that, after what happened in Avista, he’s probably feeling like he will never find true love, at least not from another of his own kind, and the others don’t even care about how he feels.