History AdaptationDisplacement / Disney

* ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' is a unique example among aversions, as ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'' doesn't have the same mythic quality built around it as the others, likely owing to being neither critically nor commercially well received.

* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' is remembered by some people more for the [[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Disney animations]] than for [[Literature/WinnieThePooh the books]] by Creator/AAMilne. And Disney is [[Disney/WinnieThePooh working hard]] to keep it that way (much to the disgust of a number of fans in Britain - although curiously, [[Literature/TheJungleBook other Disney movies]] [[Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians based on British books]] escape that reaction in the UK). Which is sad since the main reason that Walt Disney adapted the books in the first place was because his daughters were big fans of them, and he wanted to help introduce the stories to a larger American audience. Also unusual, because (in the first film, at least) Gopher wants you all to know that "[[BreakingTheFourthWall he's not in the book]]". However over time they seem to be doing the opposite upon the release of the 2017 biopic ''Goodbye Christopher Robin''.

* Almost every retelling of ''Literature/SnowWhite'' since [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs 1937]] has the dwarfs described as individual characters, while the original story doesn't describe them that way. The original story has the WickedStepmother try two other tactics to unsuccessfully kill Snow White, before she finally tries to use the poisoned apple. In Disney's version, he only focused on the apple narrative. Also, the Prince doesn't kiss Snow White back to life, but decides to take her coffin with him, whereupon the thing drops on the ground making the piece of apple that Snow White swallowed fall out of her mouth. Give all this, it's ironic that the tale's one most remembered line ("Mirror, mirror, on the wall...") was worded differently in the Disney version ("Magic mirror on the wall...").

* The original concept for ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' was based on Creator/MarkTwain's novel ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper''. It's understandable that nobody remembers this, since the original concept was ditched and it was turned into a meta-parody of itself, full of LampshadeHanging, instead. It also borrowed many elements from ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes'', starting from the name.

* The story of Rapunzel was pretty well known before ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', but the film's popularity seems to be eclipsing the story. Many people still know that the film was based on a fairy tale and that Rapunzel doesn't spend nearly as much page time out of the tower in it as she does on screen, but some may be surprised to hear that the original Rapunzel ''wasn't'' a princess at birth or that her parents willingly gave her up to the witch as part of a trade.

* When most people think of Myth/RobinHood, they don't [[Disney/RobinHood picture him as a fox]]. Though the film remains a CultClassic, especially for the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom who view it as a [[GatewaySeries gateway]].
* While ''The Sword in the Stone'' is more well-known than the individual book, when most people picture Myth/{{Merlin}} and Myth/KingArthur, they won't necessarily go to the Disney version by default. Though this is more due to Merlin being a fairly generic WizardClassic (understandable, as the legendary Merlin was the TropeCodifier) and Arthur, or Wart, is your typical young boy (squire) who hasn't become king yet. Merlin's owl [[TalkingAnimal Archimedes]] is arguably more individually memorable, even getting a ShoutOut in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', though this could easily be since he was in the book too.
* ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' failed to overshadow the books it adapted, ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain''. Princess Eilonwy has even been ignored by the Franchise/DisneyPrincess brand, though this could be for licensing issues.
* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', though much better received than these, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Franchise/{{Tarzan}} in live-action thanks to the many older films. Though this is arguable past a certain age. When Creator/WarnerBrothers put out ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' which was fairly [[TruerToTheText closer to]] [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} the original books]], a surprising number of online comments were mainly about the lack of Music/PhilCollins, as well as Jane being American instead of British which only started with Disney. More understandable were surprised comments about Tarzan's real surname being "Clayton" like the Disney film's villain, since past Tarzan movies tended to just call him "Lord Greystoke" which is [[BlueBlood his title]], and Tarzan's father getting brutally killed by the apes instead of a leopard, since older films showing the origin story didn't show this. (The similarly TruerToTheText live-action movie ''Film/GreystokeTheLegendOfTarzanLordOfTheApes'' from the 1980s retained both the Clayton name and the apes killing his father.)

* When most people think of Myth/RobinHood, they don't [[Disney/RobinHood picture him as a fox]]. Though the film remains a CultClassic, especially for the FurryFandom who view it as a [[GatewaySeries gateway]].

** Also, there were probably more people familiar with ''Mr. Toad's Wild Ride'' (before it closed down) than ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'' segment of ''Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' ... which was adapted from the novel ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'', naturally.

* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' is remembered by some people more for the [[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Disney animations]] than for [[Literature/WinnieThePooh the books]] by Creator/AAMilne. And Disney is [[Disney/WinnieThePooh working hard]] to keep it that way (much to the disgust of a number of fans in Britain - although curiously, [[Literature/TheJungleBook other Disney movies]] [[Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians based on British books]] escape that reaction in the UK). Which is sad since the main reason that Walt Disney adapted the books in the first place was because his daughters were big fans of them, and he wanted to help introduce the stories to a larger American audience. Also unusual, because (in the first film, at least) Gopher wants you all to know that "[[BreakingTheFourthWall he's not in the book]]". However over time they seem to be doing the opposite upon the release of the 207 biopic ''Goodbye Christopher Robin''.

* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' is remembered by some people more for the [[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Disney animations]] than for [[Literature/WinnieThePooh the books]] by Creator/AAMilne. And Disney is [[Disney/WinnieThePooh working hard]] to keep it that way (much to the disgust of a number of fans in Britain - although curiously, [[Literature/TheJungleBook other Disney movies]] [[Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians based on British books]] escape that reaction in the UK). Which is sad since the main reason that Walt Disney adapted the books in the first place was because his daughters were big fans of them, and he wanted to help introduce the stories to a larger American audience. Also unusual, because (in the first film, at least) Gopher wants you all to know that "[[BreakingTheFourthWall he's not in the book]]". However over time they seem to be doing the opposite upon the release of ''Film/GoodbyeChristopherRobin''.

* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' is remembered by some people more for the [[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Disney animations]] than for [[Literature/WinnieThePooh the books]] by Creator/AAMilne. And Disney is [[Disney/WinnieThePooh working hard]] to keep it that way (much to the disgust of a number of fans in Britain - although curiously, [[Literature/TheJungleBook other Disney movies]] [[Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians based on British books]] escape that reaction in the UK). Which is sad since the main reason that Walt Disney adapted the books in the first place was because his daughters were big fans of them, and he wanted to help introduce the stories to a larger American audience. Also unusual, because (in the first film, at least) Gopher wants you all to know that "[[BreakingTheFourthWall he's not in the book]]".

** Thanks to Creator/{{Disney}} [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes suppressing the source material]], few people realize that the ''Splash Mountain'' ride is actually inspired by ''Disney/SongOfTheSouth''.

* Disney's animated short version of ''Disney/TheThreeLittlePigs'' is another example that's completely taken over the original fairy tale. The pigs all flee to the third pig's house, while in the original the Big Bad Wolf just eats the two of them.

* ''Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound'' is derived from [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound a much darker novel]] in which [[spoiler: [[DeathByNewberyMedal everyone dies]]]].
* ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' was also based on a book series, ''Basil of Baker Street'' (which was obviously inspired by Literature/SherlockHolmes). Ratigan's Basil doll closely resembles Basil from the original book's illustrations.
* The Hans Christian Andersan ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' doesn't have a happy ending. The mermaid becomes part of the sky and never marries her prince. Also, the Sea Witch is, in contrast with [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid the Disney movie]], not a real villain and more of a simple, amoral saleswoman who grants magical favors for a hefty price (like in the Disney movie, the price here is the mermaid's voice but it's done by taking her ''tongue'' away).

* ''Disney/BigHero6'' has easily eclipsed the Marvel comic it was based on, a small title set in the main Franchise/MarvelUniverse. It replaced several of the existing Marvel characters with new ones, altered other characters just made for the comic, and polished the whole thing into something new.

* ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' and its [[EvilIsCool memorably cool]] villain Maleficent have become so iconic that few people know that in the original fairy tale, the fairy who cursed the baby princess [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never appears again after her introduction]]. Even other ''Sleeping Beauty'' adaptations that differ greatly from the Disney film otherwise will ''always'' give the fairy who curses the princess an expanded role and personality similar to Maleficent's (ex: Robin [=McKinley=]'s ''Spindle's End''). Additionally, the good fairy who softened the evil fairy's curse in the original tale didn't do so by making it breakable by TrueLovesKiss but by changing it into a century-long sleep and the prince who eventually wakes up the princess doesn't do so via any thorn-cutting or dragon-slaying heroics but by [[ContrivedCoincidence just happening to be near the wall of thorns at the exact time the kingdom's century of sleep ended]].

* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', though much better received than these, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Franchise/{{Tarzan}} in live-action thanks to the many older films. Though this is arguable past a certain age. When Creator/WarnerBrothers put out ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' which was fairly [[TruerToTheText closer to]] [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} the original books]], a surprising number of online comments were mainly about the lack of Music/PhilCollins, as well as Jane being American instead of British which only started with Disney. More understandable were surprised comments about Tarzan's real surname being "Clayton" like the Disney film's villain, since past Tarzan movies tended to just call him "Lord Greystoke" which is [[BlueBlood his title]], and Tarzan's father getting brutally killed by the apes instead of a leopard, since older films showing the origin story didn't show this. (The similarly TruerToTheText live-action movie ''Film/GreystokeTheLegendOfTarzanLordOfTheApes'' from the 1980s retained both the Clayton name and the killer apes.)

* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', though much better received than these, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Franchise/{{Tarzan}} in live-action thanks to the many older films. Though this is arguable past a certain age. When Creator/WarnerBrothers put out ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' which was fairly [[TruerToTheText closer to]] [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} the original books]], a surprising number of online comments were mainly about the lack of Music/PhilCollins, as well as Jane being American instead of British which only started with Disney. More understandable were surprised comments about Tarzan's real surname being "Clayton" like the Disney film's villain, since past Tarzan movies (except for ''Film/GreystokeTheLegendOfTarzanLordOfTheApes'') tended to just call him "Lord Greystoke" which is [[BlueBlood his title.]]

* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', though much better received than these, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Franchise/{{Tarzan}} in live-action thanks to the many older films. Though this is arguable past a certain age. When Creator/WarnerBrothers put out ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' which was fairly [[TruerToTheText closer to]] [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} the original books]], a surprising number of online comments were mainly about the lack of Music/PhilCollins and Jane being American instead of British. More understandable were surprised comments about Tarzan's real surname being "Clayton" like the Disney film's villain, since past Tarzan movies (except for ''Film/GreystokeTheLegendOfTarzanLordOfTheApes'') tended to just call him "Lord Greystoke" which is [[BlueBlood his title.]]

* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', though much better received than these, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Franchise/{{Tarzan}} in live-action thanks to the many older films. Though this is arguable past a certain age. When Creator/WarnerBrothers put out ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' which was fairly [[TruerToTheText closer to]] [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} the original books]], a surprising number of online comments were mainly about the lack of Music/PhilCollins, Tarzan's real surname being "Clayton" like the Disney film's villain, and Jane being American instead of British.

* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', though much better received than these, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Franchise/{{Tarzan}} in live-action thanks to the many older films. Though this is arguable past a certain age. When Creator/WarnerBrothers put out ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'', a surprising number of online comments were mainly about the lack of Music/PhilCollins, and Jane being American instead of British, whereas she's American in [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} the original books]] and virtually all other adaptations.

* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', though much better received than these, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Franchise/{{Tarzan}} in live-action thanks to the many older films. Though this is arguable past a certain age. When Creator/WarnerBrothers put out ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'', a surprising number of online comments were mainly about the lack of Music/PhilCollins, etc.

This happens in some cases, mainly when the Disney version flops, or at least doesn't make as big an impact for some reason.

* While ''The Sword in the Stone'' is more well-known than the individual book, when most people picture Myth/{{Merlin}} and Myth/KingArthur, they won't necessarily go to the Disney version by default. Though this is more due to Merlin being a fairly generic WizardClassic (understandable, as the legendary Merlin was the TropeCodifier) and Arthur, or Wart, is your typical young boy (squire) who hasn't become king yet. Merlin's owl [[TalkingAnimal Archimedes]] is arguably more individually memorable, even getting a ShoutOut in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', though he was in the book too.

* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', though much better received than these, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Franchise/{{Tarzan}} in live-action [[AdaptationOverdosed thanks to the many older films.]] Though this is arguable past a certain age. When Creator/WarnerBrothers put out ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'', a surprising number of online comments were mainly about the lack of Music/PhilCollins, etc.

* While ''The Sword in the Stone'' is more well-known than the individual book, when most people picture Myth/{{Merlin}} and Myth/KingArthur, they won't necessarily go to the Disney version by default. Though this is more due to Merlin being a fairly generic WizardClassic (understandable, as the legendary Merlin was the TropeCodifier) and Arthur, or Wart, is your typical young boy (squire) who hasn't become king yet. Merlin's owl [[TalkingAnimal Archimedes]] is arguably more individually memorable, even getting a ShoutOut in ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}, though he was in the book too.

* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', though much better received than these, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Franchise/{{Tarzan}} in live-action [[AdaptationOverdosed thanks to the many older films.]] (Though this is arguable past a certain age. When Creator/WarnerBrothers put out ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'', a surprising number of online comments were mainly about the lack of Music/PhilCollins, etc.)

* ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'' is also much more well known than the book its based on. Most people don't even realize that the book was part of a tetralogy of stories called ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing''.

* {{Averted|Trope}} in some cases, mainly when the Disney version flops. When most people think of Myth/RobinHood, they don't [[Disney/RobinHood picture him as a fox]]. ''Tarzan'', though much better received, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Tarzan in live-action thanks to the many older films.

** Also, there were probably more people familiar with ''Mr. Toad's Wild Ride'' (before it closed down) than ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'' segment of ''Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' ... which was adapted from the novel ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'', naturally.

* Many people know well the Disney adaptation of ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''. How about ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi, or that in the book, the Cricket (named Jiminy in the film) was killed off by ''Pinocchio himself'' early on? However this is averted in its native Italy, where the book is still pretty well-known and read (and depending on whom you ask, people think of the Collody fairy tale when you mention "Pinocchio" in Italy, just as much as the Disney movie).

* Many people know well the Disney adaptation of ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''. How about ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi, or that in the book, the Cricket (named Jiminy in the film) was killed off by ''Pinocchio himself'' early on?

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', based on the 1981 novel ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit'' by Gary Wolf. The original novel is about comic strip cartoon characters who speak in word balloons, and Eddie Valiant is in fact investigating Roger's ''murder''. Even Wolf acknowledged that the movie was superior to the original, and wrote two sequels to ''the film'', in which [[{{Retcon}} Jessica says that the original novel was]] [[AllJustADream a dream]].

* ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'' certainly counts, as it is [[InNameOnly very loosely based]] on the obscure picture book ''A Day with Wilbur Robinson'' by William Joyce.

When Disney adapts a story or fairy tale, their version tends to [[AdaptationDisplacement become the best known]] and [[LostInImitation may influence future adaptations]].

** ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'' certainly counts, as it is [[InNameOnly very loosely based]] on the obscure picture book ''A Day with Wilbur Robinson'' by William Joyce.

** Almost every retelling of ''Literature/SnowWhite'' since [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs 1937]] has the dwarfs described as individual characters, while the original story doesn't describe them that way. The original story has the WickedStepmother try two other tactics to unsuccessfully kill Snow White, before she finally tries to use the poisoned apple. In Disney's version, he only focused on the apple narrative. Also, the Prince doesn't kiss Snow White back to life, but decides to take her coffin with him, whereupon the thing drops on the ground making the piece of apple that Snow White swallowed fall out of her mouth. Give all this, it's ironic that the tale's one most remembered line ("Mirror, mirror, on the wall...") was worded differently in the Disney version ("Magic mirror on the wall...").
** Many people know well the Disney adaptation of ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''. How about ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi, or that in the book, the Cricket (named Jiminy in the film) was killed off by ''Pinocchio himself'' early on?
** Most of Creator/{{Disney}}'s films are based on previous sources, even less obvious ones. The most notorious of these displacement sources is ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'', which is based on a experimental children's book (a scroll with pictures) that had an insanely low print run that Disney himself hand-picked out of a bookstore for a couple bucks. They share a basic plot and not much else.
** ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'' is also based on a book, ''Bambi: A Life In The Woods'', but most people only remember the Disney adaptation, which is hilarious when you consider the original poster was ''a picture of the book''. Also an example of {{Disneyfication}}: the novel was intended for adult audiences.
** ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'': Averted for the ''Mickey and the Beanstalk'' segment, as the non-Disney version of the ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' fairy tale is still pretty ubiquitous in American childhoods. Played straight for ''Bongo'' - it's already obscure by Disney standards, but pretty much no one knows about the original 1930 short story penned by Creator/SinclairLewis.
** While not entirely Disney's fault, their 1951 adaptation of ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' forever linked the events of ''Through the Looking Glass'' with the very different book it was a sequel to. However, several adaptations in film and theater before it had been doing this well before. In fact, very few people even realize that characters like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum never appeared in the book ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and it's not uncommon to hear people complain about their absence in works that are more faithful to the source material because they have become so accustomed to seeing the two books presented as ''Alice in Wonderland''. It doesn't help that the two books are often published as a single volume under that title.
** There are those who think that Disney created ''Disney/PeterPan'' from whole cloth in 1953, with their still-classic animated motion picture. People (usually children, it must be said), are surprised to hear it was [[Literature/PeterPan a book]] back in 1904... based off the original stage play that debuted in 1902. There is a rather larger section of the populace who believe that [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope Disney currently own the copyright]] on Peter Pan. They don't, that belongs to Great Ormond Street Hospital in perpetuity; [[note]]in the U.K.; it's in the public domain in the U.S.[[/note]] they get royalties on all derivative works, but cannot stop anybody from making something they don't want made (hence Disney rolling out its new ''Tinker Bell'' movies).
** ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'', which was based on a short story called ''Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog''. Walt read it in ''Cosmopolitan'', bought the rights, and actually had the author write a novelization of the planned movie which came out two years before the film itself. This was so people would be familiar with the story, since most people associated the Disney studio with adapting famous tales, and it was thought that people wouldn't watch the film if they didn't know there was a book. How many of you knew there was a book?
** ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' and its [[EvilIsCool memorably cool]] villain Maleficent have become so iconic that few people know that in the original fairy tale, the fairy who cursed the baby princess [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never appears again after her introduction]]. Even other ''Sleeping Beauty'' adaptations that differ greatly from the Disney film otherwise will ''always'' give the fairy who curses the princess an expanded role and personality similar to Maleficent's (ex: Robin [=McKinley=]'s ''Spindle's End''). Additionally, the good fairy who softened the evil fairy's curse in the original tale didn't do so by making it breakable by TrueLovesKiss but by changing it into a century-long sleep and the prince who eventually wakes up the princess doesn't do so via any thorn-cutting or dragon-slaying heroics but by [[ContrivedCoincidence just happening to be near the wall of thorns at the exact time the kingdom's century of sleep ended]].
** ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' is based on the 1950s British junior novel ''Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians'' by Dodie Smith, which also inspired a sequel, ''The Starlight Barking''. Many believe the animated Disney movie was the story's source.
** ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'' is also much more well known than the book its based on. Most people don't even realize that the book was part of a tetralogy of stories called ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing''.
** Disney's ''Disney/TheJungleBook'' is decently known, some people aren't aware that there really were Jungle '''[[Literature/TheJungleBook Books]]'''. Or that Baloo was the serious one, and Bagheera the playful one. And Kaa was Mowgli's third mentor. Not too mention that the entire plot of the Disney adaptation has next to nothing to do with the book.
** ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' is remembered by some people more for the [[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Disney animations]] than for [[Literature/WinnieThePooh the books]] by Creator/AAMilne. And Disney is [[Disney/WinnieThePooh working hard]] to keep it that way (much to the disgust of a number of fans in Britain - although curiously, [[Literature/TheJungleBook other Disney movies]] [[Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians based on British books]] escape that reaction in the UK). Which is sad since the main reason that Walt Disney adapted the books in the first place was because his daughters were big fans of them, and he wanted to help introduce the stories to a larger American audience. Also unusual, because (in the first film, at least) Gopher wants you all to know that "[[BreakingTheFourthWall he's not in the book]]".
** ''Disney/TheRescuers'' were based off of [[Literature/TheRescuers Margery Sharp's books]], specifically, two of them. There are actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Sharp nine books]] in the series. ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'', however, was an original story.
** ''Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound'' is derived from [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound a much darker novel]] in which [[spoiler: [[DeathByNewberyMedal everyone dies]]]].
** ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' was also based on a book series, ''Basil of Baker Street'' (which was obviously inspired by Literature/SherlockHolmes). Ratigan's Basil doll closely resembles Basil from the original book's illustrations.
** The Hans Christian Andersan ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' doesn't have a happy ending. The mermaid becomes part of the sky and never marries her prince. Also, the Sea Witch is, in contrast with [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid the Disney movie]], not a real villain and more of a simple, amoral saleswoman who grants magical favors for a hefty price (like in the Disney movie, the price here is the mermaid's voice but it's done by taking her ''tongue'' away).
** While Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast is staple fairy tale, the Disney adaptation is far more well known in the public mind than the original story.
** Many people know that ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' was originally from ''[[Literature/ArabianNights The Arabian Nights]]'', but not very many know that [[Literature/{{Aladdin}} the original tale]] gave Aladdin ''two'' genies (he had a magic ring in addition to the lamp) and unlimited wishes instead of a ThreeWishes limit. Plus, there's nothing in the tale about FreeingTheGenie. And it is all set in China!
** A curious example, but still true. Outside of America, you'd be surprised how many people will act shocked that [[Disney/{{Pocahontas}} Pocahontas and John Smith]] were real people and met and interacted in real life.
** The original concept for ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' was based on Creator/MarkTwain's novel ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper''. It's understandable that nobody remembers this, since the original concept was ditched and it was turned into a meta-parody of itself, full of LampshadeHanging, instead. It also borrowed many elements from ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes'', starting from the name.

** How many of us know -- and how many of our kids will know in the future -- that ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' was based on a 2002 children's novel called ''The Frog Princess'' (itself a variant on ''The Frog Prince'', a story collected by the Brothers Grimm)? The novel only has a few similarities with the movie, such as the New Orleans setting, voodoo as a plot device and the heroine turning into a frog as well after kissing the prince. The novel has multiple sequels, too, collectively known as ''Tales of the Frog Princess''.
** The story of Rapunzel was pretty well known before ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', but the film's popularity seems to be eclipsing the story. Many people still know that the film was based on a fairy tale and that Rapunzel doesn't spend nearly as much page time out of the tower in it as she does on screen, but some may be surprised to hear that the original Rapunzel ''wasn't'' a princess at birth or that her parents willingly gave her up to the witch as part of a trade.
** ''Disney/BigHero6'' has easily eclipsed the Marvel comic it was based on, a small title set in the main Franchise/MarvelUniverse. It replaced several of the existing Marvel characters with new ones, altered other characters just made for the comic, and polished the whole thing into something new.
** {{Averted|Trope}} in some cases, mainly when the Disney version flops. When most people think of Myth/RobinHood, they don't [[Disney/RobinHood picture him as a fox]]. ''Tarzan'', though much better received, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Tarzan in live-action thanks to the many older films.

** Many people know well the ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''. How about ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi, or that in the book, the Cricket (named Jiminy in the film) was killed off by ''Pinocchio himself'' early on?

** {{Averted|Trope}} in some cases, mainly when the Disney version flops. When most people think of Myth/RobinHood, they don't [[Disney/RobinHood picture him as a fox]]. ''Tarzan'', though much better received, is also an exception because people are just as likely to picture Tarzan in live-action thanks to the many older films.