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* Characters/DisneyPrincess
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[[folder:Pocahontas]]
See {{Characters/Pocahontas}}.

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[[folder:Mulan]]
See {{Characters/Mulan}}.

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[[folder:Moana]]
See {{Characters/Moana}}.

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!!Disney/{{Pocahontas}}
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The daughter of the chief of the Powhatan tribe in Virginia, she's an adventurous and curious young woman who is immediately intrigued by the white colonists, led by Governor Ratcliffe, who newly arrive in the New World--unlike the rest of her tribe, who fears them. She meets John Smith, one of the settlers who has made a life of adventuring and killing "savages", whom she teaches to accept people that are different than he. They eventually fall in love, but are torn apart by the distrust and violence their two people have for each other. She later becomes an emissary for her people and travels to England, where she falls in love with John Rolfe.
->'''Voiced by:''' Irene Bedard (speaking), Judy Kuhn (singing)
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* AndZoidberg: Because of her being in BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins, she sort of has a hard time blending in well with the other princesses with their pimped out dresses. As such she is almost always the one who gets cut out of merchandise. The sequel does give her a reasonably pimped out dress when she first arrives in England.
%%* ArmorPiercingQuestion
* ArrangedMarriage: With Kocoum. Kocoum asks for Pocahontas' hand and her father bethrothes her to him - she has no say in it.
* BadassPacifist: She never picks up a weapon or gets into a fight, but accomplishes a great deal without it.
* BadassPrincess: Pocahontas is the daughter of the chief, technically making her princess; she's also a Disney Princess.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Her long, silky hair is never so much as mussed in the couple of scrapes she finds herself in, and she always looks majestic and noble.
* BlitheSpirit: To John Smith, whom she shows to treat nature with respect and learn to see the joy and beauty of the surroundings, which eventually she teaches all of the settlers and her tribe.
* TheChiefsDaughter: Follows most of the patterns, including her hand being offered in marriage to an important tribe member and her forgoing his affection for the white John Smith's, and eventually being found out for it. However, she's a bit of a variation in that she, instead of John, is the central protagonist.
* DaddysGirl: Pocahontas is very close to her father.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Her father would vastly prefer Kocuom, the skilled warrior, while she prefers John Smith, foreigner and "savage killer".
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Especially symbolic of her closeness to nature.
* DramaticWind: With her army of leaves at the ready.
* DudeMagnet: See the HelloNurse section. Plus, she has had three men fall in love with her.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She was the only one who could prevent the plot from going into a bloody massacre.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: She's shown communing with several different types of animals, but her animal sidekicks are Flit the hummingbird, and Meeko the raccoon. Later Percy the pug is added.
* AGirlAndHerX: Pocahontas, by the end of the first movie, has 3 animal besties:
** A Girl And Her Hummingbird: Flit is her personal bodyguard.
** A Girl And Her Pug: [[HairTriggerTemper Even Percy]] [[CharacterDevelopment took such a liking to her that he willingly stayed, leaving behind his pamper life.]]
** A Girl And Her Raccoon: Pocahontas has known Meeko her entire life.
* GoThroughMe: Near the end, when Pocahontas shields John Smith from the attempted blows of her father's club:
-->'''Pocahontas:''' If you kill him, you'll have to kill me too!
-->'''Powatan:''' Daughter, stand back!!
-->'''Pocahontas:''' I won't! I love him, Father.
* HelloNurse: Certainly John Smith's reaction when he first lays eyes on her.
* HeroicSecondWind: [[spoiler:After she finds her true path.]]
* IndianMaiden: She spends the movie attempting to prevent war between her tribe and the european settlers. Her first scene (cannoeing) shows her to be athletic and she falls for the thrill seeking European John Smith. In the sequel, she goes over to Europe for diplomacy.
* InexplicablyAwesome: Her shamanic powers go unnoticed for most of the characters, but she actually accomplishes quite the feats with them; she talks to trees, summons up spirits, leaps over ravines through neigh levitating, survives crashing down in the water from a cliff, and learns English within three seconds.
* InkSuitActor: Of Irene Bedard.
* IWantSong: "Just Around The Riverbend".
* MalignedMixedMarriage: While not a marriage, John and Pocahontas' relationship was not accepted because they were of different races who hated each other.
* MeaningfulName: Pocahontas means "little mischief" or "the naughty one" in Powhatan language.
* MissingMom: DVD commentary states that the wind that travels around her is meant to be the spirit of her deceased mother.
* NiceGirl: She's very friendly and polite, and doesn't flaunt her aforementioned InexplicablyAwesome powers.
* NobleSavage: The second half of the movie is mostly teaching John Smith about how to be one with nature and appreciate the beauty of it.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: In comparison of the Disney Princesses, Pocahontas looks more stylistically drawn (Smaller, realistically proportionate eyes, lankier limbs, and taller height).
* OfficialCouple: With John Smith. The first movie and most merchandise and other Disney media portray her with John Smith, even though the sequel hooks her up with John Rolfe, her historical husband, whom she is never seen with in merchandising or in other media.
* OutdoorsyGal: She's very InHarmonyWithNature.
* PimpedOutDress: In the sequel, and as part of some Franchise/DisneyPrincess merchandise.
* ThePowerOfLove: Utilizes it to stop a genocidal war.
* ProtagonistTitle: '''Pocahantas'''.
* RapunzelHair: She has long raven-black hair.
* RebelliousPrincess: She laughs at her father's assumption that the river is steady.
* SpiritedYoungLady: Pocahontas is courageous, opinionated and spirited.
* StarCrossedLovers: With John Smith. While they love each other, their relationship is inevitably doomed at the end of movie.
* StatuesqueStunner: Definitely (alongside Aurora of Sleeping Beauty), the tallest of the Disney Princesses.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: According to her father, she takes after her mother.
* TemptingFate: "Should I choose the smoothest course?" She should not.
* TomboyPrincess: She's athletic, scales mountains, climbs trees, jumps off cliffs, and steers her canoe into turbulent waters. After Merida, she's probably one of the most tomboyish Princesses.
* TookALevelInBadass: Under the guidance of Grandmother Willow, she goes from whining about her problems and sitting around, to taking action and defying her well-intentioned but ''very'' authoritative father.
* TragicKeepsake: Her deceased mother's necklace. Even more so after Kocoum destroys it while falling to his death.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: It's implied that she is taking Kocoum's place as her father's successor, especially in the closing scene.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: The only person in the entire movie, besides Grandmother Willow, to understand that war is not a plausible option, as it will leave both sides devastated and farther away from a peaceful resolve. Her father comes close to saying this trope word for word describing her. "My daughter speaks with wisdom beyond her years."
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Many fans indicate her age as 25 years old, enabling her romance with Smith (close to his thirties in this adaptation) furthermore. In actuality, the fact that she was still unmarried makes her 18 years old at best. Ironically, the real life figure she was based on was 11-12 years old at the time this story (allegedly) took place.

!!Disney/{{Mulan}}
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A flighty young woman who is the daughter of a retired soldier, and the black sheep of her ancestors. When her father is enlisted for an oncoming war, she secretly takes his place in the field of battle under the command of young general Li Shang as they train in preparations against the Huns and warlord Shan Yu.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MingNaWen (speaking), Lea Salonga (singing)
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* ActionGirl: The first chronological example in the line (that occurs within her own movie), she's also the most action-y of the girls, having saved China. She also has the highest canonical on-screen kill count of ''any'' Disney character. She finishes off an army of fifty thousand Hun nomads with the help of a cannon and a mountain full of snow.
* {{Adorkable}}: Easily the clumsiest of the princesses (including Rapunzel) at the start of her movie, as well as awkward and not entirely desirable. She's still the protagonist and sympathetic.
* AnimeChineseGirl: Averted on the ''anime'' part because this story takes place entirely in China before the Manchurian stuff (i.e. cheongsams). However, she does learn martial arts in the army.
* AttractiveBentGender: During the marching scene, a pair of nameless girls giggle in her direction.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: When the Emperor gifts her with his dragon pendant and Shan-Yu's sword.
* {{Badass}}: Saves China through her martial prowess, as well as topping her platoon in fitness, agility and skill.
* BadassAdorable: She does all her badass feats while remaining a darling girl.
* BadassPrincess: In her movie, no, but since she is part of the Disney Princess line-up...
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Such a friendly and family loyal girl and this is why she joined the army.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: The other soldiers comment what a handsome young boy she makes, and much to Mulan's embarrassment receives some flirtatious looks from women.
* ButtMonkey: Until she TookALevelInBadass, she is the butt of jokes and embarrasssment. She's humiliated in front of her family, bullied by the other soldiers (especially Ling and Yao, who later become two of her closest friends), and suffers ''a lot'' of [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender slapstick]] and AmusingInjuries.
* CassandraTruth: After she sees Shan Yu survive the avalanche, she tries to warn Shang of it, but no one believes her... until Shan Yu shows up with his army and personally takes the Emperor hostage right in front of everybody.
* CharacterDevelopment: Mulan becomes more assertive and confident as the movie progresses.
* CharacterTic: Plays with her hair after her early-movie humiliation.
* CoolSword: Her father's has a dragon face on the hilt. [[spoiler: Interestingly enough, she never gets around to using it. Instead, she improvises with other weapons, such as Shan Yu's cool sword.]]
* CuteClumsyGirl: Drops her father's teapot in her opening scene and later spills a cup of tea on the matchmaker, with [[DisasterDominoes predictable consequences.]] Her military training makes her vastly more coordinated.
* DaddysGirl: She initially joins the army because she loves her father and believes that he will die if he returns to the battlefield.
* {{Determinator}}: Never throws in the towel, no matter how dire her circumstances get.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Zigzagged. Mulan has to prove herself numerous times to some of the characters before they'll respect her, such as Li-Shang. Chi Fu however, remains an UngratefulBastard towards her the entire time, even after she's saved his life repeatedly.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She goes through a hell of a lot in the army, survives a brutal boot camp, is injured, and coming face to face with huns, she looks into the mirror and "sees someone worthwhile". [[spoiler: Her dad says that someone has been there all along.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Mulan shows she is resourceful and clever by making a way for her dog to feed the chickens so she has time to get change. Also, she is shown resorting to cheating and shows a lack of grace, even before meeting the matchmaker, suggesting that a quiet married life will not properly fulfill her destiny.
* FemininityFailure: She screws up the traditionally feminine "matchmaker" process. To be fair it was not ''completely'' her fault; the cricket shares partial responsibility.
* FlowerInHerHair: The comb in her hair has a flower decoration.
* FlowerMotif: Her name means "wood flower," which is used by [[GoodParents multiple]] [[CoolOldGuy characters]] and deliberately invoked in her HairDecoration.
* {{Folk Hero}}ine: For China in RealLife. There's a ballad called 'Ode to Mulan' and a large number of regions say 'Mulan was born here'. She demonstrates a model of ''filial piety''.
* FragileSpeedster: Stands no chance against Shan Yu in a straight fight, but manages to win through a combination of speed and guile.
* FriendToAllChildren: Proven during "Lesson Number One" in the sequel, and her defense of the little girl the other boys were picking on.
* GirlyBruiser: Despite disguising as a man for most of her movie, Mulan doesn't come anywhere close to renouncing her femininity, wearing dresses in her downtime and being ecstatic about getting married.
* GuileHeroine: While she achieves a degree of martial skill, her greatest achievements are by her wits. For example, using the canon to [[spoiler: trigger an avalanche and wipe out the entire army instead of Shan Yu.]]
* HairDecorations: The lotus comb that symbolizes her feminine roles, which she puts in place of the draft letter her father was given, and later returned to her when after she saves China with her sword and medal.
* HeartbrokenBadass: First in the sense of just how much she's let her family down [[spoiler: when her SweetPollyOliver disguise fails]], and then in the sequel after [[spoiler: Shang's HeroicSacrifice leaves her thinking he's dead. [[DisneyDeath For awhile]].]]
* HeroesLoveDogs: She has a puppy named Little Brother for a pet.
* HumbleHeroine:: When she's offered [[spoiler: the honorable position as a member of the emperor's council]], Mulan refuses and says that she just wants to go home.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: "I did it to save my father! It was the only way!"
* IdiotBall: A minor one, but the matchmaker probably wouldn't have been set on fire if Mulan hadn't ''fanned her butt while it was still smoldering from landing on hot coals.''
* ImportantHaircut: Cuts off half of her hair to tie into a topknot to disguise herself as a soldier.
* InNameOnly: The only Franchise/DisneyPrincess to not actually be a princess.
* JeanneDArchetype: She has a lot of the elements, being devoted to her country and posing as a man to join the army, despite being based on a ''Chinese'' legend a thousand years older.
* JourneyToFindOneself: Happens along the way, but she initially leaves to save her father.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: In the climactic battle, she ditches the armor in favor of more traditionally feminine Chinese attire due to disguising herself as a concubine, and ''then'' defeats Shan-Yu and saves China. Bonus points for using her attire in the fight. Fan defeats sword!
* MaybeEverAfter: With Shang, at the end of the first movie. [[spoiler:They're HappilyMarried by the end of the sequel.]]
* NiceGirl: She is loyal to her family and friendly to the other soldiers. Bonding through gruffness didn't work for her.
* NoCelebritieswereHarmed: Based on the actress Gong Li, as well as the original Hua Mulan from the legend.
* OfficialCouple: Shang becomes her husand in the sequel.
* OneOfTheBoys: By being [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only woman]] in the army, and pretending to be a man.
* OneWomanArmy: Single-handedly wiped out an entire army with some quick thinking and a well-aimed rocket.
* OppositesAttract: The rule-breaking, free-spirit Mulan fell in love with the rule-abiding, no-nonsense Shang.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her matchmaker dress, in contrast to the more subdued green-ish dress that she prefers later.
* ProtagonistTitle: '''Mulan.'''
* {{Sarashi}}: And yes, it's [[GenderReveal relevant]].
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: For reason for going to war.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Not that she wasn't good-looking before, but she looks really nice in her matchmaker ceremony dress. On an unkinder note, the matchmaker says that looking like a bride is the only attribute she has.
* ShipperOnDeck: Mulan immediately shouted with joy when she discovered that the princesses truly loved Ling, Yao, and Chien-Po.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Notably though, most of it happens while she's disguised as a man.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Mulan makes a successful move on a xiangqi (aka Chinese chess) board belonging to two old men during the Matchmaker scene after contemplating for only a moment.
* SpiritedYoungLady: She's very adventurous and brave.
* StealthPun: As a soldier she goes by the name "Ping," which in Mandarin Chinese means "peace."
* SweetPollyOliver: Probably the most famous example, Mulan impersonates a son to her father to take his place in the war.
* TechnicalPacifist: Very technical, since she's a soldier who kills people on purpose. Still, with the BigBad right in front of her, Mulan uses the sword she's holding for every purpose but the one it was built for.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Surprisingly averted for a Disney hero. In fact, Mulan currently holds ''the highest kill count out of any single Disney character''.
--> '''NostalgiaChick''': Mulan. The only Disney Princess with a body count... in the thousands.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to the princesses' Girly Girls in the sequel because she's still a soldier.
* TomboyPrincess: In her movie, no. But since she is part of the Disney Princess line-up. She is shown to be a brave warrior with other men, pretending to be a man, but is not particularly boyish herself.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She tries to be an ideal bride to bring her family honor and the sequel shows that she wears dresses when she's not working or training. She does, however, have some feminine qualities, such as her calm, caring, dutiful demeanor.tensifies her decision to impersonate a son. Later, once she's saved China, her father says:
-->'''Fa Zao:''' The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter.
* TookALevelInBadass: Justified; it ''is'' in boot camp, though her improvement to being equal to or perhaps even more skilled than [[FourStarBadass Shang]] really stands out.
* YamatoNadeshiko: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. She tries to be a completely straight version in the beginning, which only ends in disaster, but she does have more traits of it than at first glance. While she's not as ladylike as the traditional YN, she fits [[SilkHidingSteel the "core of steel"]] and "devotion to her family" parts '''perfectly''' - after all, the reason why she went to war as a {{Bifauxnen}} was not to get glory or escape her family situation, but to save her aging father from sure death as a conscript.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Most people would think she's at least eighteen, probably in her early twenties.. Nope, she's sixteen.

%%* NiceGirl

* ProtagonistTitle: The move is named after her.

A flighty girl who is the daughter of a retired soldier, and the black sheep of her ancestors. When her father is enlisted for an oncoming war, she secretly takes his place in the field of battle under the command of young general Li Shang as they train in preparations against the Huns and warlord Shan Yu.

* TookALevelInBadass: Justified; it ''is'' in boot camp, though her improvement to being equal to or perhaps even more skilled than [[FourStarBadass Shang]] really stands out.

* CoolSword: Her father's has a dragon face on the hilt. [[spoiler: Interestingly enough, she never gets around to using it. Instead, she improvises with other weapons, such as Xanyu's cool sword.]]
* CuteClumsyGirl: Drops her father's teapot in her opening scene and later spills a cup of tea on the matchmaker, with [[DisasterDominoes predictable consequences.]]

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Notably most of it happens while she's disguised as a man.

* TookALevelInBadass: Justified; it ''is'' in boot camp.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: In comparison of the Disney Princesses, Pocahontas look more stylistically drawn (Smaller, realistically proportionate eyes, lankier limbs, and taller height).

%%* ShesGotLegs

* {{Expy}}: Fa Mulan is based on actress, Gong Li and the ''Hua Mulan'' of Chinese legend.

* NiceGirl

* RebelliousPrincess: Though technically not a princess, she had no problem being married to a stranger if it meant pleasing/honoring her family, as opposed to some of the other princesses who fought against it.

* TomboyPrincess: In her movie, no. But since she is part of the Disney Princess line-up. She is shown to be a brave warrior with other men, pretending to be a man. She is also shown to having masculine traits, such as fighting and spitting.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She tries to be an ideal bride to bring her family honor and the sequel shows that she wears dresses when she's not working or training.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Her disappointment as being a poor bride intensifies her decision to impersonate a son. Later, once she's saved China, her father says:

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: In comparison of the Disney Princesses, Pocahontas look more stylistically drawn.

The daughter of the chief of the Powhatan tribe in Virginia, she's an adventurous and curious woman who is immediately intrigued by the white colonists, led by Governor Ratcliffe, who newly arrive in the New World--unlike the rest of her tribe, who fears them. She meets John Smith, one of the settlers who has made a life of adventuring and killing "savages", whom she teaches to accept people that are different than he. They eventually fall in love, but are torn apart by the distrust and violence their two people have for each other. She later becomes an emissary for her people and travels to England, where she falls in love with John Rolfe.

* [[MalignedMixedMarriage Maligned Mixed Relationship]]: John and Pocahontas' relationship was not accepted because they were of different races who hated each other.

* RebelliousSpirit: Pocahontas is rebellious and carefree at heart.

%%* RapunzelHair:

%%* StarCrossedLovers: With John Smith.

* RapunzelHair: One of her defining physical features.

* ShesGotLegs

* StarCrossedLovers: With John Smith.

* ShesGotLegs: Some very nice ones at that.

* OneWomanArmy: Single-handedly wiped out an entire army with some quick thinking and a well-aimed rocket. As ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' put it:
--> '''Chick''': Mulan. The only Disney Princess with a body count. In the thousands.

* {{Humble Hero}}ine:: When she's offered [[spoiler: the honorable position as a member of the emperor's council]], Mulan refuses and says that she just wants to go home.

* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: In the climactic battle, she ditches the armor in favor of more traditionally feminine Chinese attire due to disguising herself as a concubine, and ''then'' defeats Shan-Yu and saves China. Bonus points for actually using her attire in the fight.

* OfficialCouple: With Li Shang.

* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: In the climactic battle, she ditches the armor in favor of more traditionally feminine Chinese attire due to disguising herself as a concubine, and ''then'' defeats Shan-Yu and saves China.

* OneOfTheBoys: Being [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only woman]] in the army and pretending to be a man.

* OneOfTheBoys: Being [[TheSmurfettePrincipal the only woman]] in the army and pretending to be a man.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She tries to be an ideal bride to bring her family honor and the sequel shows that she wears dresses when she's not working or training.

--> '''NostalgiaChick''': Mulan. The only Disney Princess with a headcount... in the thousands.