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The Wild Robot, Elio and Mufasa: The Lion King do not make a world inhabitable in the same way. This itinerary asks what bodies, edges, surfaces and tasks do to make a space seem to exist before a character arrives and to continue once they leave.
The number in the title announces a chronology, but the film makes it legible in another way: as a culture forced to rebuild its gestures, its stories and its sense of danger. This analysis is limited to documented formal decisions and avoids treating franchise continuity as an automatic explanation.