Lotor was trying to draw energy from the space between realities in season four after all so who knows? Maybe the White Lion in Legendary Defendercomes from that space. The White Lion was supposed to help unite the universes in Robotech/Voltron and traveling across universes has become a crtical element in Legendary Defender. Perhaps the “real” Shiro when he disappeared at the end of season two was drawn to the spirit of the white lion. After all, he did connect with the Black Lion on a sort of spiritual plain before. Maybe the real Shiro (and not the possible Clone Shiro who’s been with the team for awhile) is communicating with Allura with the power of the white lion’s spirit. Going from the Paladin of the Black Lion to the White Lion would be some nice symmetry.
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Or, fitting somewhat closer to the original episode, Haggar builds a lion for Zarkon to pilot against the Paladins. Perhaps that extra lion is the White Lion? While Kolivan’s dialogue, “word of Voltron’s triumph is spreading”, implies this was only drawn recently perhaps this carving was from years ago. After they win, Kolivan points to a Puig carving with Voltron and an extra Lion. In the Legendary Defender episode, “Changing of the Guard”, Lance and Hunk defend the planet Puig.
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What if he made it in secret? There is one small bit of evidence another Lion exists. So could we see the robot White Lion in Voltron: Legendary Defender? For all we know so far Alfor only made five lions but there’s nothing to say he couldn’t have made another. All it really did was finally give an official version of the sixth lion fans had wanted to see for so long. The White Lion sadly doesn’t combine with Voltron and honestly doesn’t do that much in the plot. In the final issue Rick appears with little fanfare in the white lion which he calls “Kimba”, an obvious reference to the 60’s anime Kimba the White Lion. At the end of issue #4 King Alfor’s ghost appears to Rick Hunter (the lead character of Robotech) and says he has a way to get everyone back home. Uniting two of the biggest robot anime’s of the 80’s, main plot of the comic concerns the two unvierse’s bleeding into one another and the team’s attempts to get everything back to the way it was. While one never showed up in any of three previous Voltronseries, one did appear in the crossover comic Robotech/Voltron. Of course with another lion being glimpsed fans are already scrambling to create theories about there being a sixth robot lion. It could also tie into Haggar perhaps blaming Allura and her family for the events that turned her into what she is today. That would be pretty enticing perhaps enough to distract her from her attempts to stop the Galra. Perhaps insetad of Haggar sending a vision of Allura’s father, perhaps she sends one of her mother. We briefly saw her in the season three-flashback episode, “The Legend Begins” but we know very little about her.
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Voltron: Legendary Defender hasn’t done much with Allura’s mother.