{MOD} Disney Princess Franchise

Yeah, I'm going to go in depth in this, sorry if you are offended or think I'm thinking too hard, but I like to think.

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• Disney
• Princess
• Franchise
• belle
• mulan
• ariel
• snow
• white
• pocahontas
• rapunzel
• jasmine
• cinderella
• hercules
• megera
• esmeraldasleeping
• beau
• little
• mermaid
• beauty

[WeegleFeegle]

I never minded Ariel going against her father, he's a racist ^.^

[MelinaPendulum]

@WeegleFeegle except you can't be racist against a different species

[WeegleFeegle]

@MelinaPendulum The human race. It was a joke : /

[MelinaPendulum]

@WeegleFeegle lol, I know sorry I forgot to put an lol at the end of my statement.

[DreamlessNights91]

Let me just say...I love Belle. She's my favorite, she always has been, she always will be, and she is one of the best princesses, if not the best, in the disney princess franchise. In my humble opinion.

[MelinaPendulum]

@DreamlessNights91 I agree :)

[TomMSTie1138]

I think SLEEPING BEAUTY is (at least somewhat) progressive. Sure, Aurora is a cut-and-paste Princess, but the Three Good Faeries are all strong, interesting female characters whose lives don't hinge on finding a man. Sure, Philip is the one who saves the day, but without the Faeries, he could not do so.

[MelinaPendulum]

@CherryFairy02 Oh I get that, but people project intelligence onto Belle because she reads and assume she is a highly-intellectual bookworm.

[JulianGreystoke]

Belle is my fave still. Not because she's the bookish one, but because she is able to see past outwards appearance and see beauty. I always hated the end though. I stop watching before the Beast transforms into the prince. I hate the handsome prince. I wanted him to stay the Beast. Heck, maybe then they could go on adventures together lol. Of course the themes are dulled down big time for Disney, but I can get behind the "don't judge others by their appearance" theme.

[GemGems3]

Totally agree with you, most Disney princesses are all Mary-sues and so they're "perfect" with no reason for character development.

[MizzDiamonds]

whateva, I do what i want lol

[MizzDiamonds]

what is your tumblr?

[errorsinconduct]

The whole movie of Mulan happens because Mulan loves her father, and the sequel pretends that Mulan would get married without her father present? Le sigh.

[JustAPrayer]

Oh my gosh, thank you! Best Disney rant ever! I seriously was hearing myself in some of your arguments, espechially when you brought up the need for a happily single female lead and how badly Mulan is marketed. Hell to the yes.

To be fair to Beauty And The Beast though, they do have Belle grow in the musical. They give her a number where she sings about how her feelings for 'adventure' and 'what she wants' has changed, called "A Change In Me".

[DeathCatEyes]

Honestly I'd rather my little sister and other little girls see the marriages in Disney movies and respond to them posivitively rather than having them see all these celebrities ruining marriage. Its a good contrast really, but I understand what you mean and I would like a disney movie where the female is on an adventure for something unique and doesn't end up with a guy. *shrug* Tis life though, hopefully ppl will start taking the hint, lol. ^_~

[TheLadyKaylah]

Ariel, she recieved no consequences for all her disobedience and when she finally does get punished they make the dad look bad. So no wonder she went off to a witch to get married and pregnant as a teen, because she never thought of any consequences.

[TheLadyKaylah]

MMM, that does bother me. I didnt notice that. They do have this need to go out and be bright intelligent women who break away from the 'norm'. But then they end up with a man who stops them dead in their tracks.

[hole1991]

@cakecrumb095

Hm, I never thought of Rapunzel as a faux action girl; in my head, she was just a girl who occasionally defended herself with a frying pan and she was never marketed as a action girl (unlike, to use a non-disney movie, Kayly from 'Quest for Camelot', where they had full trailers which suggested 'tom boy badass' and then it turned out she does nothing at all).

With regards to love interest, to me, it would make her ununique, purely because asexual females are never around ever.