Makunga thinks of using him as an advantage to finally become the Alpha lion. Years later, an adult Alex and his friends wind up in Africa, and Alex reunites with his parents. And I want everyone else to do what I say.' While Zuba fights Makunga (and defeats him rather easily), Alakay wanders off, and gets captured by poachers, eventually ending up in New York and being renamed Alex. Zuba asks Makunga why he wants to become Alpha Lion to which he responds 'I'm better looking, I have better hair. Makunga replies that once he becomes Alpha Lion, Zuba will have more time to spend with his 'pathetic excuse of a son'. Zuba is annoyed and questions Makunga if he is challenging him again. Makunga reveals himself and says that it is disappointing that Alakay is not growing up the way that Zuba also wants him. Makunga is seen at the beginning of the film, watching Zuba training his young son Alakay, who is more interested in dancing, much to Zuba's dismay. Makunga is an overweight dark tan lion with green eyes and a black mane with a gray streak in it (when he is older). All in all, Makunga's supreme ego leads to his downfall when Alex tricks him by giving him Nana's purse as a gift, and then he releases the old lady, who proceeds to give the conceited jerk the beating that he deserves. When Makunga takes the role of the alpha lion, he's not very good at it, due to his incompetence he tries to hide and he comes up with nutty solutions to the drought (like having to fight for the water or leaving the reserve to find it). His manipulative tendencies stemmed from the fact that at the beginning of the movie, he failed to best Zuba in a challenge to be the Alpha Lion in a physical battle, so he mostly relied on his wits to get what he wants. Makunga is also especially shrewd, sneaky, deceitful, and manipulative, as he tricked Alex into challenging the huge bulky lion Teetsi, knowing well enough Alex would easily fail and Zuba wouldn't have it in him to exile his son for his failure, thus Zuba resigns the alpha lion position and Makunga takes it. Makunga is very stingy, mean, tricky, egotistical, and overall cocky in nature.

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