The Lion Guard

The Lion Guard are the titular central characters in 2015 TV movie The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar and it's 2016 TV series The Lion Guard.

They are a quintet who protect The Pride Lands and defend The Circle of Life. The group is traditionally led by the second-born child of the current King and Queen of the Pride Lands and have a power called The Roar of the Elders, which when used, causes the lions of the Pride Lands past to roar with them. However, the Roar can only be used for good as if it is used for evil, the user will lose the Roar forever.

Each member has a marking on their left shoulder shaped like a lion's head known as The Mark of The Guard.

The Lion Guard is currently led by Kion, the son of Simba and Nala.

Kion's predessesor was his great uncle Scar, who many years before Kion's birth, lost his ability to use The Roar of the Elders after he used it to kill the members of his Lion Guard after they refused to help him overthrow his older brother Mufasa as King.

Previous Lion Guards have had only lions in it, but Kion is the only lion in his Guard, as the other members are a honey badger (Bunga), a cheetah (Fuli), a hippopotamus (Beshte) and a egret (Ono).

Trivia

 * In the episode "Paintings and Predictions", it is revealed by Rafiki that a previous Lion Guard (possibly the one before Scar's) saved Nala's father when he was a cub, after he fell from a tree.