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* When people think of Myth/RobinHood, they usually don't picture him as a fox. However, ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' remains a CultClassic, especially for the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom who view it as a [[GatewaySeries gateway]]. However, unlike some of the other aversions, the Disney version stays generally true to most of the popular myths, making it difficult to distinguish what people who've seen the film remember from Disney and what they don't.
* 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 still a 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 be because he was in the book too.
* WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} is well known as a figure of Myth/GreekMythology, and most people are familiar with aspects of his story not (strictly) in the Disney movie, such as his twelve labors and his being half-god, half-human instead of full-god turned human. The Disney version is in many ways a SpiritualAdaptation of ''[[Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981 Clash of the Titans]]'' starring Perseus, who was very clearly the son of Zeus and a mortal woman like the classical Herakles/Hercules, so parents who grew up on the older movie could easily pick up on the differences (plus it was remade years later as well).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', though much better received than the rest of 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 shock over Tarzan's father being brutally killed by the apes instead of a leopard which only started with Disney, although previous films that showed the origin story didn't show the apes killing him either. 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 Jane being American instead of British like in older films including Disney's. (The similarly TruerToTheText live-action movie ''Film/GreystokeTheLegendOfTarzanLordOfTheApes'' from the 1980s retained the Clayton name, Jane being American, and the apes killing his father.)

** That said, it's not uncommon to see ''The Black Cauldron'' lumped in as one of Disney's "original ideas" by fans unaware of its source material, or for its source to be misattributed as "Celtic fairy tales"

* ''WesternAnimation/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 not as critically or commercially well received (although the book on which the film was based was nominated for a Newbery Medal, with the last book in the series even ''winning'' said award).

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'', is decently known, and most people are aware (however vaguely) that the movie is based on ''The Jungle Book'' by Creator/RudyardKipling; what most aren't aware of is that there were actually Jungle '''[[Literature/TheJungleBook Books]]''' -- in which Baloo was the serious one and Bagheera the playful one, as well as Kaa being Mowgli's third mentor.

* While ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is a classic fairy tale, [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the Disney adaptation]] is far more well known in the public mind than the original story. Most obviously, post-1991 adaptations of the story tend to feature a Beast design that's as close to Disney's as possible without stepping on copyright. Additionally, there will probably be counterparts for the servant characters Disney invented, such as Lumiere and Cogsworth. More subtly, the Beauty character was, prior to the Disney version, almost invariably portrayed as blonde for the sake of HairOfGoldHeartOfGold. Disney decided to make her a brunette, and now that's the default.
* Many people know that ''WesternAnimation/{{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 [[note]]Albeit an InNameOnly version of China that has more in common with the Middle East [[/note]]! On the other hand, most of these changes were already present in most Aladdin adaptations before the Disney version came along.
* A curious example, but still true. Outside of America, you'd be surprised how many people will act shocked that [[WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} Pocahontas and John Smith]] were real people and met and interacted in real life. People are often further surprised when they find out the movie is based on a completely fabricated story that John Smith wrote himself, that Pocahontas was a teenager when when he was already middle aged, and the two only saw each other once (at a greeting ceremony the natives held) before Smith went back to England!

* How many of people know that ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' was based very loosely 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 heroine turning into a frog as well after kissing the prince and the main characters going into a journey throught the swamp in search of a way to reverse the spell that turned them into frogs. The New Orleans setting was something made up for movie, as the novel takes place in the Middles Ages, and voodoo as a plot device was also made up, meaning that Mama Odie and Dr. Facilier did not exist in the novel. Another major difference between book and movie is that the protagonist is a princess and a young witch in training, while in movie she's a waitress dreaming with opening a restaurant, [[spoiler:althought in the end she becomes a princess and the owner of her own restaurant]]. The novel has multiple sequels, too, collectively known as ''Tales of the Frog Princess''.

* Many people know well the Disney adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', but how about the original ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi? And did you know that in that book, the Cricket character (whom the Disney film's Jiminy Cricket was based on) was ''killed off'' early on -- by '''Pinocchio himself'''? Of course, 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 Collodi fairy tale when you mention "Pinocchio" in Italy, just as much as the Disney movie).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' is very loosely based on [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound a much darker novel]] in which the title characters are written as being [[BlueAndOrangeMorality extremely inhuman in their thought processes]] to the point of not having anything resembling human morality, since they're animals. For some this is an AudienceAlienatingPremise that makes the title characters, let alone their [[HumansAreCthulhu perspective on the bizarre ways of humans]], come across as unsympathetic at best and EvilVersusEvil at worst. [[spoiler: The novel also has a DownerEnding in which [[KillEmAll the two title characters are both dead and their world has been destroyed by advancing suburbia.]]]] None of this would be particularly suitable for a children's musical, so the story of the Disney film is much LighterAndSofter. It's telling that it still manages to be one of Disney's darker films. Not helping is that the original book has been [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes out of print for decades and is quite rare, and only recently got a rerelease as an ebook.]]

* When most people think of Myth/RobinHood, they don't picture him as a fox]]. However, ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' remains a CultClassic, especially for the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom who view it as a [[GatewaySeries gateway]].
** However, unlike some of the other aversions, the Disney version stays generally true to most of the popular myths, making it difficult to distinguish what people who've seen the film remember from Disney and what they don't.

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

* WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} is well known as a figure of Myth/GreekMythology, and most people are familiar with aspects of his story not (strictly) in the Disney movie, such as his twelve labors.

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'', is decently known, and most people are aware (however vaguely) that the movie is based on ''The Jungle Book'' by Rudyard Kipling; what most aren't aware of is that there were actually Jungle '''[[Literature/TheJungleBook Books]]''' -- in which Baloo was the serious one and Bagheera the playful one, as well as Kaa being Mowgli's third mentor.

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'', is decently known, and most people are aware (however vaguely) that the movie is based on ''The Jungle Book'' by Rudyard Kipling; what most aren't aware of is that there were actually Jungle '''[[Literature/TheJungleBook Books]]''' -- in which Baloo was the serious one and Bagheera the playful one, as well as Kaa being Mowgli's third mentor.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' is based on two [[{{Understatement}} '''extremely''']] obscure children's stories, so little-known that neither they nor their authors (Tom [=McGowan=] and Tom Rowe) have Wikipedia pages.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' is based on two [[Understatement '''extremely''']] obscure children's stories, so little-known that neither they nor their authors (Tom [=McGowan=] and Tom Rowe) have Wikipedia pages.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' is based on two '''extremely''' obscure children's stories, so little-known that neither they nor their authors (Tom [=McGowan=] and Tom Rowe) have Wikipedia pages.

* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' is remembered by some people more for the [[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Disney animations]] than for [[Literature/WinnieThePooh the books]] by Creator/AAMilne, which is rather ironic 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, as well as because (in the first film, at least) Gopher wants you all to know that "[[BreakingTheFourthWall he's not in the book]]".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' is based on two '''extremely''' obscure children's stories, so little-known that neither they nor their authors (Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe) have Wikipedia pages.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' is based on two '''extremely''' obscure children's stories, so little-known that neither they nor their authors have Wikipedia pages.

* ''WesternAnimation/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?

* How many of us know -- and how many of our kids will know in the future -- that ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' was based very loosely 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 heroine turning into a frog as well after kissing the prince and the main characters going into a journey throught the swamp in search of a way to reverse the spell that turned them into frogs. The New Orleans setting was something made up for movie, as the novel takes place in the Middles Ages, and voodoo as a plot device was also made up, meaning that Mama Odie and Dr. Facilier did not exist in the novel. Another major difference between book and movie is that the protagonist is a princess and a young witch in training, while in movie she's a waitress dreaming with opening a restaurant, [[spoiler:althought in the end she becomes a princess owner of her own restaurant]]. The novel has multiple sequels, too, collectively known as ''Tales of the Frog Princess''.

* The original treatment for ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' (then know as ''Kingdom of the Sun'') was based on Creator/MarkTwain's novel ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', before the original concept was ditched and it was turned into a meta-parody of itself, full of LampshadeHanging, instead. It also borrowed it's title from ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes''.

* The original treatment for ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' (then know as ''Kingdom of the Sun'') was based on Creator/MarkTwain's novel ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', before 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.

* Many people know that ''WesternAnimation/{{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! On the other hand, most of these changes were already present in most Aladdin adaptations before the Disney version came along.

* The original treatment for ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' was based on Creator/MarkTwain's novel ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', before 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 ''WesternAnimation/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 heroine turning into a frog as well after kissing the prince and the main characters going into a journey throught the swamp in search of a way to reverse the spell that turned them into frogs. The New Orleans setting was something made up for movie, as the novel takes place in the Middles Ages, and voodoo as a plot device was also made up, meaning that Mama Odie and Dr. Facilier did not exist in the novel. Another major difference between book and movie is that the protagonist is a princess and a young witch in training, while in movie she's a waitress dreaming with opening a restaurant, [[spoiler:althought in the end she becomes a princess]]. The novel has multiple sequels, too, collectively known as ''Tales of the Frog Princess''.

* The original concept for ''WesternAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/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''.

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

* Almost every retelling of ''Literature/SnowWhite'' since [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs 1937]] has the dwarfs described as individual characters, while the original story doesn't describe them that way, and even non-Disney versions of Snow White depict her nearly identically to the Disney version. The original story has the WickedStepmother try two other tactics (the poisoned comb and the magical corset) to unsuccessfully kill Snow White, before she finally tries to use the poisoned apple. In Disney's version, they 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...").

* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' is remembered by some people more for the [[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Disney animations]] than for [[Literature/WinnieThePooh the books]] by Creator/AAMilne. And Disney is [[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011 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]]".

* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' certainly counts, as it is InspiredBy on the obscure picture book ''A Day with Wilbur Robinson'' by William Joyce. The 29-page book is about an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] protagonist ([[NamedByTheAdaptation "Lewis" in the film]]) who visits his best friend's quirky family and helps the grandfather find his teeth; the movie made up everything about Lewis being an orphaned ChildProdigy, the time travel aspect, the villains, and Wilbur being [[spoiler:Lewis' KidFromTheFuture]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' is very loosely based on [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound a much darker novel]] in which the title characters are written as being [[BlueAndOrangeMorality extremely inhuman in their thought processes]] to the point of not having anything resembling human morality, since they're animals. For some this is an AudienceAlienatingPremise that makes the title characters, let alone their [[HumansAreCthulhu perspective on the bizarre ways of humans]], come across as unsympathetic at best and EvilVersusEvil at worst. [[spoiler: The novel also ends on a downer where [[KillEmAll the two title characters are both dead and their world has been destroyed by advancing suburbia.]]]] None of this would be particularly suitable for a children's musical, so the story of the Disney film is much LighterAndSofter. It's telling that it still manages to be one of Disney's darker films. Not helping is that the original book has been [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes out of print for decades and is quite rare, and only recently got a rerelease as an ebook.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' was also based on a book series, ''Basil of Baker Street'', which was obviously inspired by Literature/SherlockHolmes--many viewers just assume the film itself is a parody of the Holmes stories and aren't aware of its source books.
* The Disney adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' is more well known in the public mind than [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid the original Hans Christian Andersen story]], which is a much darker story [[BittersweetEnding that doesn't have a clear cut happy ending.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' is derived from [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound a much darker novel]] in which [[spoiler: [[WorldOfJerkass everyone is a jerk who]] [[KillEmAll dies in the end]]]]. Obviously, since [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy most audiences can't sympathize with the characters in the original book]], the lighter Disney adaptation with more-sympathetic characters is the one everyone remembers. Not helping is that the original book has been [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes out of print for decades and is quite rare, and only recently got a rerelease as an ebook.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' is derived from [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound a much darker novel]] in which [[spoiler: [[WorldOfJerkass everyone is a jerk who]][[KillEmAll dies in the end]]]]. Obviously, since [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy most audiences can't sympathize with the characters in the original book]], the lighter Disney adaptation with more-sympathetic characters is the one everyone remembers. Not helping is that the original book has been [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes out of print for decades and is quite rare, and only recently got a rerelease as an ebook.]]