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** ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh'' is the oddball of the Disney Animated Canon's "Revival Era". While every other movie in this era is either a full-on musical or a non-musical comedy/adventure with high emotional stakes, ''Winnie the Pooh'' is a throwback to [[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh its predecessor]], with very few songs and low to non-existent stakes.
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** ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh'' ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' is the oddball of the Disney Animated Canon's "Revival Era". While every other movie in this era is either a full-on musical or a non-musical comedy/adventure with high emotional stakes, ''Winnie the Pooh'' is a throwback to [[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh its predecessor]], with very few songs and low to non-existent stakes.
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** ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh'' is the oddball of the Disney Animated Canon's "Revival Era". While every other movie in this era is either a full-on musical or a non-musical comedy/adventure with high emotional stakes, ''Winnie the Pooh'' is a throwback to [[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh its predecessor]], with very few songs and low to non-existent stakes.
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** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' does with VideoGames what ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' does with {{Toon}}s and ''Franchise/ToyStory'' does with {{toys}}, crafting an original story about their relationship to humanity starring a cast of {{Exp|y}}ies, with {{Guest|Fighter}} {{Crossover Cameo}}s playing a supporting role.
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** ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' is a full blown ZanyCartoon that frequently [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]], has an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, a LaughablyEvil ButtMonkey villain, few major dramatic scenes, and intentionally nonsensical plot points. It feels more like a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon than a Disney one.
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** [[invoked]]Creator/VernaFelton only ever voiced either energetic characters/stuffy villains (''Dumbo'', ''Alice in Wonderland'', ''Lady and the Tramp'') or kindly matriarchs (''Dumbo'', [[TalkingToHimself again]]), ''Cinderella'', ''Sleeping Beauty'', ''The Jungle Book'').
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** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' does with VideoGames what ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' does with {{Toon}}s and ''Franchise/ToyStory'' does with {{toys}}, crafting an original story about their relationship to humanity starring a cast of {{Exp|y}}ies, with {{Guest|Fighter}} {{Cameo}}s playing a supporting role.
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** Creator/HansConried (''Peter Pan'', Sleeping Beauty'') who voiced Captain Hook/Mr. Darling and the announcing servant called Lord Duke (later a major character in the first segment of Aurora's story in ''WesternAnimation/DisneyPrincessEnchantedoTalesFollowYourDreams'') respectively, is best known for voicing and portraying villains, authority type figures, servants, or foils. Ironically, Conried modeled for King Stefan and initially auditioned for Stefan until that role went to the late Taylor Holmes, making an unsolved mystery of the herald's voice actor.
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** Creator/HansConried (''Peter Pan'', Sleeping Beauty'') who voiced Captain Hook/Mr. Darling and the announcing servant called Lord Duke (later a major character in his actual appearance for the first segment of Aurora's story in ''WesternAnimation/DisneyPrincessEnchantedoTalesFollowYourDreams'') ''WesternAnimation/DisneyPrincessEnchantedTalesFollowYourDreams'') respectively, is best known for voicing and portraying villains, authority type figures, servants, or foils. Ironically, [[note]]Ironically, Conried modeled for King Stefan and initially auditioned for Stefan until that role went to the late Taylor Holmes, making an unsolved mystery of the herald's voice actor.[[/note]]
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** ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' is unique in a number of ways: in that it's a CompilationMovie of three short films released over the course of a decade ago, it's the only CashCowFranchise to come out of the studio's DorkAge, and it's not under full ownership by Disney; the estate of Creator/AAMilne licenses the rights to Disney and receives credit for every production.
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** ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' is unique in a number of ways: in that it's a CompilationMovie of three short films released over the course of a decade ago, it's the only CashCowFranchise to come out of the studio's DorkAge, films from the 70's and 80's, and it's not under full ownership by Disney; the estate of Creator/AAMilne licenses the rights to Disney and receives credit for every production.
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** Villains who avert it (KarmaHoudini examples are marked with an *):[[labelnote:Click here]]Honest John and Gideon*, Stromboli*, the Coachman*, Monstro, Chernabog*, Man*, The Wolf, Willie the Giant, Mr. Winky, The Headless Horseman*, Lady Tremaine* (she got her karma in ''Cinderella III'', though), Queen of Hearts*, Captain Hook, Si and Am*, Cruella, Madam Mim, Shere Khan (until the sequel came around), Edgar, Prince John, Jafar (again, until the sequel), Governor Ratcliffe, Hades, Yzma (is [[spoiler:[[BalefulPolymorph stuck as a cat]]]] at the end, and possibly gets ''more'' karmic backlash in the sequel), Gantu (who suffers even more karma in the sequel films and TV series before [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn turning good]]]] in the final one), Alameda Slim, Bowler Hat Guy, The Backson, [[spoiler:Prince Hans]], The Duke of Weselton, [[spoiler:Yokai/Professor Callaghan]], [[spoiler:Dawn Bellwether]], Te Ka, Tamatoa, Double Dan, J.P. Spamley.[[/labelnote]]
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** Villains who avert it (KarmaHoudini examples are marked with an *):[[labelnote:Click here]]Honest John and Gideon*, Stromboli*, the Coachman*, Monstro, Chernabog*, Man*, The Wolf, Willie the Giant, Mr. Winky, The Headless Horseman*, Lady Tremaine* (she got her karma in ''Cinderella III'', though), Queen of Hearts*, Captain Hook, Si and Am*, Cruella, Madam Mim, Shere Khan (until the sequel came around), Edgar, Prince John, Jafar (again, until the sequel), Governor Ratcliffe, Hades, Yzma (is [[spoiler:[[BalefulPolymorph [[spoiler:[[ForcedTransformation stuck as a cat]]]] at the end, and possibly gets ''more'' karmic backlash in the sequel), Gantu (who suffers even more karma in the sequel films and TV series before [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn turning good]]]] in the final one), Alameda Slim, Bowler Hat Guy, The Backson, [[spoiler:Prince Hans]], The Duke of Weselton, [[spoiler:Yokai/Professor Callaghan]], [[spoiler:Dawn Bellwether]], Te Ka, Tamatoa, Double Dan, J.P. Spamley.[[/labelnote]]
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** ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', as both movies [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 preceding]] and [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood succeeding]] have antagonists who are far more threatening, as well as ironically also belonging to the Felidae family.
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** Prince John of ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' is depicted as cowardly manchild, and he and his forces most of the early half of the film suffering slapstick humiliation, to the point of ending up a laughing stock with the rest of Nottingham. He does ''not'' take this well however, and increases taxes and arrests to an extreme detriment and plans to have Friar Tuck executed simply to leave fear in the town. Robin intervenes, though still almost perishes after a far more fearsome battle from the equally buffoonish Sheriff of Nottingham.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Their movies are often based on {{fairy tale}}s, that are public domain stories.
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* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Often used as a justification to give the villains a KarmicDeath. If a villain is on the verge of death or defeat, the hero will try to spare them only to fail.
* InNameOnly: Some of their adaptations fall into this:
** Lampshaded in the original WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} in the Nutcracker Suite segment. The narrator says "You won't see any nutcracker on the screen. There's nothing left of him but the title."
** ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' bears little resemblance to [[Literature/TheJungleBook Kipling's original]] except for a few character names and the basic premise of a boy RaisedByWolves.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'': How Walt Disney Studios managed to look at [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound what reads like a fictionalized documentary about the life and times of a mongrel hunting dog and a human-reared wild fox who live through bear hunts, rabies epidemics, and the rise of suburbia among other things]] and thought it would make a wonderful talking animals musical about racism is a mystery for the ages.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Due to the sheer amount of changes made from the source material, the only things this movie has in common with the original Heracles myth is that they both star a super strong demigod protagonist and share a couple of similar plot points and settings. Heck, it feels less like an adaptation of the myth and more like ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' [[RecycledInSpace mashed up and set in Ancient Greece.]] See SadlyMythtaken for how the film differs in so many ways from the original myth.
** ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' dispenses with [[Literature/ChickenLittle the original tale]]'s plot of the title character believing TheSkyIsFalling and warning everyone when the townsfolk figure out it was an acorn all along a few minutes into the movie. The bulk of the movie is about Chicken Little trying to live down has poor reputation and [[WellDoneSonGuy connect with his father]]. And then there's an AlienInvasion of all things, but at least the fleet's CloakingDevice kind of looks like falling pieces of sky... It's worth noting that Disney released a more accurate adaptation of the tale long ago as part of their MiscellaneousDisneyShorts.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' was originally billed as an adaptation of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', but after several rewrites, it became InspiredBy the title. The original FairyTale was about a peasant girl trying to rescue her friend from an AmbiguouslyEvil member of TheFairFolk, with [[RandomEventsPlot random encounters]] along the way; the Disney movie is primarily about a good, human queen with [[PowerIncontinence uncontrollable]] [[AnIcePerson ice magic]] and her relationship to her sister, with the threat of EndlessWinter and a few original characters thrown in. They both include a reindeer sidekick, though. ''Series/OnceUponATime'' takes advantage of this divergence by establishing ''Frozen'' as its own tale and {{Retcon}}ing Anna and Elsa into the SpinOffspring of Gerda and Kai.[[note]]This is a small deviation of the film's canon, in which Anna and Elsa's parents were named Adgar and Idun, and the names of Kai and Gerda were given to some handmaids as an InspirationNod.[[/note]]
** Aside from the names, ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' has very little in common with the comics it's inspired by, including RaceLifting the entire team and moving the setting from Japan to the fictional city of [[{{Americasia}} San Fransokyo]]. A case of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, as the source material is not as well looked upon due to being a rather ShallowParody of Japanese media tropes.
* IWantSong: Starting with "I'm Wishing" in ''Snow White'', these songs became a staple of Disney musicals.
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* KarmicDeath: Happens to many if not most of the villains.
* KilledOffForReal: The films tend to [[DisneyDeath avoid this with good guys]], and [[DisneyVillainDeath greatly enforce this]] with villains.
** Villains who play it straight:[[labelnote:click here]]The Evil Queen, Maleficent, possibly Madame Medusa, The Horned King, Ratigan, Sykes, Ursula, Percival [=McLeach=], Gaston, Scar, Frollo, Shan-Yu, Clayton, The Carnotaurs, [[spoiler:Rourke]], [[spoiler:Helga]], Scroop, Dr. Facilier, Mother Gothel, King Candy [[spoiler:a.k.a. Turbo]], the viral Ralph clone monster.[[/labelnote]]
** Villains who avert it (KarmaHoudini examples are marked with an *):[[labelnote:Click here]]Honest John and Gideon*, Stromboli*, the Coachman*, Monstro, Chernabog*, Man*, The Wolf, Willie the Giant, Mr. Winky, The Headless Horseman*, Lady Tremaine* (she got her karma in ''Cinderella III'', though), Queen of Hearts*, Captain Hook, Si and Am*, Cruella, Madam Mim, Shere Khan (until the sequel came around), Edgar, Prince John, Jafar (again, until the sequel), Governor Ratcliffe, Hades, Yzma (is [[spoiler:[[BalefulPolymorph stuck as a cat]]]] at the end, and possibly gets ''more'' karmic backlash in the sequel), Gantu (who suffers even more karma in the sequel films and TV series before [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn turning good]]]] in the final one), Alameda Slim, Bowler Hat Guy, The Backson, [[spoiler:Prince Hans]], The Duke of Weselton, [[spoiler:Yokai/Professor Callaghan]], [[spoiler:Dawn Bellwether]], Te Ka, Tamatoa, Double Dan, J.P. Spamley.[[/labelnote]]
** Non-villainous characters (heroic, neutral and villain sidekick alike) who ''really'' did bite the dust:[[labelnote:Click here]]Bambi's mom, Willie the Whale, Slew Foot Sue, Cinderella's dad, Tod's mother, Bartholomew and Felicia the cat, Roscoe and [=DeSoto=], Flotsam and Jetsam, Mufasa, Kocoum, Quasimodo's mother, Kerchak, Mr. Arrow, Sitka, Tiana's father, [[spoiler:Ray the Firefly]], King Agdar and Queen Idun, and [[spoiler:Tadashi Hamada]].[[/labelnote]]
* KnightOfCerebus: Though some may still be somewhat comedic, a lot of villains have a very menacing tone (especially in the earliest examples) and are responsible for a lot of MoodWhiplash away from Disney's usual whimsy. See [[NightmareFuel/{{Disney}} this page]] for their rather haunting effect on many audiences.
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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: In the original Disney movies from ''Snow White'' to ''The Jungle Book'' (and several of the features afterward), getting the audience to suspend their disbelief was usually taken ''very'' seriously by Walt Disney--broad cartoony gags were often verboten, and what gags in the picture had to come strictly from personality and be internally consistent with the stories setting and tone (however, there were exceptions such as ''Saludos Amigos'' and ''The Three Caballeros''). From ''Aladdin'' and onward, Disney has become notably more lenient on broad gags and breaking the tone of a picture for cheap laughs. Also, whereas Walt went out of his way to avoid having anything topical or contemporary in his features to keep the feel of them timeless, the modern Disney features often have settings and stories that are heavily rooted in modern culture (e.g. both ''Wreck-It Ralph'' films, ''Zootopia'', ''Big Hero 6'').[[note]]Animator Andreas Deja said on his blog that he learned from Disney's Nine Old Men that if Walt had lived to see ''Aladdin'', he would've considered it his least favorite of the movies because of this and the former.[[/note]] Also, the majority of the animated features from the mid 2000s onward are done with CGI, not hand-drawn animation.
* LighterAndSofter: Some of the Disney animated films tend to be much, ''much'' lighter than others, in addition to some of their adaptations being lighter than their source material, despite the franchise generally being for young children.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' is this in comparison to ''Fantasia''. It was produced on a lower budget with less intricate animation, intended mainly to generate money and therefore more catered toward children, which resulted in a more kid aimed film than ''Fantasia''. ''Dumbo'' does an excellent job of proving [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]] in this case, however.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', as both movies [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 preceding]] and [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood succeeding]] have antagonists who are far more threatening, as well as ironically also belonging to the Felidae family.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' , seeing as in the [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound original book]] the title pair aren't friends and [[spoiler: die at the end.]]
** The original Creator/HansChristianAndersen version of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' ends on a by ''far'' darker note than [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 the Disney version]]. [[spoiler: The Prince marries another woman. The Mermaid is given a LastSecondChance to return to the sea by murdering him with an enchanted knife, but unable to murder the man she loves she throws herself into the sea and turns into foam. That's right, she ''dies''.]]
** Although ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' has some dark moments, it was created as a lighter followup to the infamously edgy ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''.
** ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' is very lighthearted and comedic, even by Disney film standards.
** The second ''WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh|2011}}'' movie in the Disney Animated Canon is this towards ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', faithful as both adaptations are to their source material.
* LightIsGood: Both this and DarkIsEvil are played straight in most of the movies.
* LightIsNotGood: This and DarkIsNotEvil are in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Tarzan}}'', ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''.
* LongRunner: The canon started with ''Snow White'' in 1937, has well over 50 films under its belt, and is showing no signs of slowing down to this day.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Ubiquitous; we might as well just focus on the [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast ones]] [[{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}} that]] [[{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}} avert]] [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog it]].
** [[spoiler:Deconstructed and later averted with ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}'']].
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* MaidAndMaiden: Several princesses have an older motherly character who isn't their birth mother to give them guidance.
** ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' kicked off the Disney universe with a bit of a subversion. Aurora was the Maiden, but the role of The Maid was split between [[PowerTrio three fairies]] -- [[ChromaticArrangement Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather.]] Future examples play it much straighter.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': The Fairy Godmother is the Maid who helps Cinderella, The Maiden. She's OlderAndWiser, rounder, and by way of being a MagicalGuardian is 'in the service' of Cinderella. The Fairy Godmother also gives her a sweet ride to the Ball behind the Evil Stepmother's back, and the iconic dress and shoes that entice PrinceCharming.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Mrs. Potts is the Maid to Belle the Maiden. She plays matchmaker in order to break the curse. Technically she's actually Beast's servant, but gives Belle motherly support at the castle.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'': Grandmother Willow is the Maid to Pocahontas, The Maiden. Willow's a spirit that helps everyone who comes her way, but does try to steer Pocahontas from her intended in favor of John Smith.
** ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Grandma Odie is the Maid who helps Tiana The Maiden. She tries to get her together with Naveen as soon as they meet, and even marries them at the end. Despite being a [[EccentricMentor little crazy,]] her role is a mix of the previous three Maids, being a helper to everyone in her realm like Willow, a matchmaker that breaks a curse like Potts, and a magical old lady that teaches tricks and gives gear like the Fairy Godmother.
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* MumLooksLikeASister: [[MissingMom If a mother appears at all]], odds are she'll look to be only in her twenties, even if she's still around when her child reaches his or her late teens. To whit:
** ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Aurora's mother.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': Post-time skip, Sarabi doesn't look any older than when Simba was a cub, even though he has grown up to strongly resemble his long-deceased father.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Averted for his [[MuggleFosterParents mortal foster mother]], [[JustifiedTrope justified]] for his immortal goddess birth mother.
** ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Sarah to Jim.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Invoked by Gothel, who uses Rapunzel's hair to keep herself looking young while posing as her mother. Played straight for her birth mother, who has no such round-the-clock access to de-aging hair, yet barely ages a day eighteen years after Rapunzel's birth. [[spoiler: Their resemblance is ''especially'' pronounced after Rapunzel's ImportantHaircut.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'': Elsa's and Anna's mother looks to be [[StrongFamilyResemblance a brunette version]] of her [[OnlySixFaces 21- and 18-year-old daughters]], even when she lived to see them reach 18 and 15 in the [[AMinorKidroduction prologue]].
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* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Surprisingly often, the hero/heroine or heroes have a connection to a relative who is greatly revered (in most cases, a royal parent; but in other cases, [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} a war hero dad]] or [[WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire a renowned scientist grandfather]] will do just as well).
** Only a handful Disney movies subvert or avert this trope. In some examples, [[WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} John Smith]] (explorer), [[WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron Taran]] (pigkeeper/peasant) and the main characters of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' (soldier, son of a gypsy, gypsy performer) are self-made heroes.
* NoAntagonist: There are several films with no real villains in them:
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'': Dumbo has no clear cut villains; the conflict came about mainly because Dumbo's ears made him a target for mockery—Dumbo lived in a selfish, rather than hostile, world that causes his problems. The other elephants simply looked down on him and his mother, the ringmaster had no idea what to do with Dumbo once he's forced to lock up his mother, the clowns had their own problems to deal with, and the kids that got Dumbo into the whole mess were just insensitive, not outright malicious.
** ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' have no villains either.
** Neither ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' nor ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' have a real villain in them -- they're just figments of the characters imaginations.
** ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'': Kenai blames a bear for the death of one of his brothers and kills her in revenge, but [[KarmicTransformation his own experience as a bear]] helps him realize that the bear was just a mother trying to get food and that killing her was a prime case of RevengeBeforeReason. Denahi, Kenai's own brother, keeps on trying to kill Kenai for most of the film, but that's because he doesn't know the bear he saw next to Kenai's [[EmptyPilesOfClothing empty clothes]] was Kenai and instead jumped to the logical conclusion that the bear must have killed his one remaining brother. The plot's major conflicts are essentially the product of multiple misunderstandings.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'': Meddlesome TV executives and dog catchers cause problems for the main heroes, and [[WindmillCrusader Bolt]] initially blames "[[ShowWithinAShow Dr. Calico]]" for everything, but in reality there is no central villain.
** ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' The movie has no villain [[spoiler:(though the closest things to villains are Arthur, the virus from the Dark Net and the clones of Ralph it creates)]], but rather a series of conflicts [[spoiler:caused mainly by Ralph himself, who acts out of concern that he and Vanellope might no longer be friends when she finds the Slaughter Race game more appealing and Vanellope looks up to Shank as a CoolBigSister figure.]]
** The closest thing ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' has to a villain is [[spoiler:King Runeard]], whose actions set up the plot of the film. The catch is, by the time the film takes place, [[spoiler:he's been dead for 34 years]], and as a result doesn't directly oppose the heroes in any way.
* NonHumanSidekick: Most of the main characters and/or their love interests have one, as do some villains.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Most of their films centering on a human cast (especially their princess ones) use this type of design formula: The lead characters, such as the prince and princess, and sometimes their parents, have hyper-realistic designs, while the rest of the cast have more cartoonish and exagerated proportions.
* NoSmoking: Since July 2007, Disney has banned onscreen smoking from being depicted in any of their films. Even before they enforced the ban, they edited a couple (but not all) of their older films to remove instances of smoking, such as Goofy lighting up a joint in ''Saludos Amigos'' (the uncut version was eventually released as a bonus feature on the ''Walt and El Groupo'' documentary) and any instance of Pecos Bill with a cigarette in ''Melody Time''.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: A lot of the less sinister villains of the franchise are known for being very fanciful, hammy and at face value outright buffoonish and vain, though during the climax can prove to be just as calculating and deadly as the more serious ones:
** Prince John of ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' is depicted as cowardly manchild, and he and his forces most of the early half of the film suffering slapstick humiliation, to the point of ending up a laughing stock with the rest of Nottingham. He does ''not'' take this well however, and increases taxes and arrests to an extreme detriment and plans to have Friar Tuck executed simply to leave fear in the town. Robin intervenes, though still almost perishes after a far more fearsome battle from the equally buffoonish Sheriff of Nottingham.
** The hyena clan of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' are at first set up as bungling {{Starter Villain}}s who are easily chased off by Mufasa. Then Scar utilizes them in his plan to kill Mufasa and take his place as ruler of the Pride Lands. [[spoiler:They later make a meal of Scar after he double-crosses them, quickly abolishing any suggestions of them being mere grovelling lackeys.]]
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* ObviouslyEvil: A great many of these films do this, even going so far as to base their color and shape schemes around it (as talked about in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' DVD documentaries). Just take one look at a character sheet for an average Disney film and you can immediately pick out the villains. This is kind of odd when it's done with AnimalStereotypes -- bears are painted as [[BearsAreBadNews horrible, deadly,]] {{kaiju}}-[[BearsAreBadNews like monstrous demons]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' and as [[BearyFriendly friendly and lovable heroes]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' and ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''. However, there have been subversions and aversions of this in the canon's more recent films, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''.
* OddballInTheSeries:
** ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' is unique in a number of ways: in that it's a CompilationMovie of three short films released over the course of a decade ago, it's the only CashCowFranchise to come out of the studio's DorkAge, and it's not under full ownership by Disney; the estate of Creator/AAMilne licenses the rights to Disney and receives credit for every production.
** Due to moviegoers tiring of the formula used throughout the Disney Renaissance era, their later "Post-Renaissance" era contained very few {{Animated Adaptation}}s / {{Animated Musical}}s and featured highly experimental storytelling (to the point that said era is also called the "Experimental Era"). Standout examples include:
*** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' was produced by a SpecialEffects company called the Secret Lab, using CGI characters, over photography-made backgrounds. It's also one of few pieces of DinosaurMedia made under the Disney banner. Because of these oddities, UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} doesn't even consider this a part of the Canon, instead replacing it with ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'', which was made by C.O.R.E. Feature Animation and distributed by Disney.
*** ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' is ''very loosely'' tied to ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes'', but not enough to be considered an adaptation. Instead, it's a DenserAndWackier "{{Buddy|Picture}} {{Road Trip|Plot}}" {{comedy}} in a {{Purely Aesthetic|Era}} {{Mayincatec}} {{setting}}. Since it more closely resembles a traditional Disney flick than ''Dinosaur'', the fact that it bucks most of the Canon's staples makes it stand out more.
*** ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' is an {{action|Genre}} SciFi epic, and the second film after ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' to be rated PG (this being before Disney started to AvoidTheDreadedGRating).
*** Disney was rather hands-off for the development of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', and it shows. Further information can be found on [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch its franchise's page]]. The fact that it was the only real success of Disney's "Post-Renaissance" Era makes its oddities stand out more, to the point that Disney really played up its oddness in comparison to other Disney films in its marketing. It's quite fitting that the film's protagonists are regarded as weird InUniverse.
*** ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' is an adaptation on ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', but is one of few Disney adaptations to use the RecycledInSpace treatment, and does so with such boldness.
*** ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' went down in history as Disney's ill-fated attempt at a more "sharp-edged" brand of humor not unlike that seen from Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. It's also one of few Canon films to be set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.
** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' does with VideoGames what ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' does with {{Toon}}s and ''Franchise/ToyStory'' does with {{toys}}, crafting an original story about their relationship to humanity starring a cast of {{Exp|y}}ies, with {{Guest|Fighter}} {{Cameo}}s playing a supporting role.
* OneWingedAngel: Their use of this trope is only surpassed by Creator/SquareEnix.
* OutsideContextProblem:
** [[spoiler:Prince Hans]] from ''Frozen'' is this for the entire canon. Unlike every other villain in the canon, there is no indication whatsoever that he is even morally suspect until the MotiveRant at the climax. In a canon defined by [[EvilIsHammy hammy]] {{Classic Villain}}s, he is entirely defined by PragmaticVillainy, a [[TheSociopath flawless mask]] and [[ManipulativeBastard skill at manipulation]] to which even the audience is not immune.
** [[spoiler:Hans]] would be followed by the villains of Disney's next two movies, [[spoiler:Robert Callaghan]] from ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' and [[spoiler:Dawn Bellwether]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', both of which are [[TheReveal revealed]] as being the main antagonist after only brief prior appearances in which they were helpful and supportive to the main protagonist, were not particularly hammy, and did nothing that would directly indicate anything morally suspicious about their character, and [[spoiler:Callaghan]] was even presumed dead by the time of his reveal as [[spoiler:Yokai]].
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* ParentalAbandonment: At least 28 of the features either have their parents missing, dead, or separated from their kids.
* PeriodPiece: While all of the films in the canon take place at some time in the past, there is only twelve films are set in ThePresentDay of when they were made: 1. ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' (early 1940s; according to the newspaper at the end of the film, which sets the film in March 1941), 2. ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' (late 1950's-early 1960s, setting the film in November 1958), 3. ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' (1970s), 4. ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' (1980s), 5. ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' (early 1970s), 6. ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' (early 2000s), 7. ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' (mid-2000s), 8. ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' (mid-2000s when not in the future), 9. ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' (late 2000s), 10. ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' (early 2010s), 11. ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' (mid-2010s) and 12. ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' (late 2010s). And then there are the relative indeterminates: ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' take place in an unknown time period (''Bambi'' can be narrowed down to anytime in the last 2-3 centuries), and ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' and ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' are set in a constructed universe.
* PigeonholedVoiceActor:
** Creator/PhilHarris (''The Jungle Book'', ''The Aristocats'', ''Robin Hood'') and [[Creator/CheechAndChong Cheech Marin]] (''Oliver & Company'', ''The Lion King'') are particularly glaring examples of this.
** Creator/KathrynBeaumont (''Alice in Wonderland'', ''Peter Pan'') who voiced both Alice and Wendy Darling (respectively).
** Creator/HansConried (''Peter Pan'', Sleeping Beauty'') who voiced Captain Hook/Mr. Darling and the announcing servant called Lord Duke (later a major character in the first segment of Aurora's story in ''WesternAnimation/DisneyPrincessEnchantedoTalesFollowYourDreams'') respectively, is best known for voicing and portraying villains, authority type figures, servants, or foils. Ironically, Conried modeled for King Stefan and initially auditioned for Stefan until that role went to the late Taylor Holmes, making an unsolved mystery of the herald's voice actor.
** Creator/BarbaraJoAllen (''Sleeping Beauty'', ''The Sword in the Stone'') who voiced both Fauna and Lord Ector's scullery maid, respectively.
** Tudor Owen (''101 Dalmatians'', ''The Sword in the Stone'') and Junius Matthews (''101 Dalmatians'', ''The Sword in the Stone, and ''The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'').
** [[invoked]]Creator/VernaFelton only ever voiced either energetic characters/stuffy villains (''Dumbo'', ''Alice in Wonderland'', ''Lady and the Tramp'') or kindly matriarchs (''Dumbo'', [[TalkingToHimself again]]), ''Cinderella'', ''Sleeping Beauty'', ''The Jungle Book'').
** Creator/PatButtram (''The Aristocats'', ''Robin Hood'', ''The Rescuers'', ''The Fox and the Hound'') used his own distinct rural Alabama accent for every character he voiced.
** Creator/AlanTudyk (''Wreck-It Ralph'', ''Frozen'', ''Big Hero 6'', ''Zootopia'', ''Moana'') is a more recent example, if only for playing [[spoiler:antagonists]] in four movies in a row, two of which were [[spoiler:examples of EvilOldFolks]]. A downplayed example as he brings a good deal of vocal variety to his characters and is being considered the "good luck" voice of the Disney Revival.
* PluckyComicRelief: A cute, goofy sidekick will show up a lot in these movies, from Dopey in ''Snow White'', to Olaf in ''Frozen''.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Several of the movies villains fall into this, such as the animal abusing, fur skinning Cruella De Vil, the misogynistic Gaston, the xenophobic John Ratcliffe and genocidal racist, and the religious zealot and would-be rapist Judge Claude Frollo.
%%* ThePowerOfFriendship: Several films in the canon show how a good close friendship can help resolve their conflicts.
* ThePowerOfLove: This is brought up in a few films, particularly true love's kiss, or other acts of true love.
* PragmaticAdaptation: A few films in the canon fall into this:
** ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'': Very much so in the Mr. Toad segment. It does avoid being an InNameOnly adaptation by keeping Toad's personality the same as in the book (even if other characters are very different) and staying true to the basic story structure of the Toad parts of Literature/TheWindInTheWillows, but it does change a few things up, attempting to turn Toad more sympathetic by [[AdaptationalHeroism having him actually innocent of the crime he's imprisoned for.]] The Sleepy Hollow segment on the other hand is quite true to [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow the original tale]], both story and character wise. A few liberties were taken, but none that really change the story or characters of the story.
** ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''; The film is actually a combination of the [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland original book and its sequel "Through The Looking Glass"]]. Keeping every character from the books would basically be impossible, so the movie uses the most iconic ones from each book, while the plot itself is based off Wonderland. Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The Walrus and The Carpenter and the singing flowers are originally from Through The Looking Glass.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': The [[Myth/ClassicalMythology original Heracles myth]] -- and Greek Mythology in general -- were as family unfriendly as you can get and had a ''lot'' of built-in ValuesDissonance (the basic conflict ''alone'' was unacceptable for a family film, since Hercules is a product of Zeus' adultery with a mortal, and Hera, Zeus' wife, is the villain who constantly makes Hercules' life miserable because of this), so the studio was forced to [[DisneyFication heavily rework the concept]]; it borrows the character names (not so much the personalities), story points and the setting from the myths, but [[AdaptedOut throws out]] and [[CanonImmigrant adds in]] things from other parts of Greek Myth (such as Pegasus and the Muses, who were not in the original Heracles story), and reworks everything else (such as expanding Hades role in the story [[EveryoneHatesHades by turning him into the main villain]]), ultimately making the film less an adaptation of Greek Mythology and more like a [[JustForFun/XMeetsY mashup of]] ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' [[RecycledInSpace set in a]] [[TheThemeParkVersion burlesque of Ancient Greece.]]
* PrinceCharming: Played straight for early Disney classics (to the point that the official marketed name of Cinderella's prince is this trope) and later played with in recent Disney films. They can be refusing their royal duties ([[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Simba]]), be jerks at first (though later [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold become better]]) ([[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Beast]], [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Naveen]]), actually start off as commoners who reach their role as prince through marriage ({{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}, [[{{WesternAnimation/Tangled}} Flynn Rider]]), [[spoiler: or even be the BigBad ([[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Hans]])]].
* PrincessClassic: The princesses before the renaissance are absolutely pure and good, but later princesses still could have these elements.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Their movies are often based on {{fairy tale}}s, that are public domain stories.
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* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Often used as a justification to give the villains a KarmicDeath. If a villain is on the verge of death or defeat, the hero will try to spare them only to fail.
* InNameOnly: Some of their adaptations fall into this:
** Lampshaded in the original WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} in the Nutcracker Suite segment. The narrator says "You won't see any nutcracker on the screen. There's nothing left of him but the title."
** ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' bears little resemblance to [[Literature/TheJungleBook Kipling's original]] except for a few character names and the basic premise of a boy RaisedByWolves.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'': How Walt Disney Studios managed to look at [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound what reads like a fictionalized documentary about the life and times of a mongrel hunting dog and a human-reared wild fox who live through bear hunts, rabies epidemics, and the rise of suburbia among other things]] and thought it would make a wonderful talking animals musical about racism is a mystery for the ages.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Due to the sheer amount of changes made from the source material, the only things this movie has in common with the original Heracles myth is that they both star a super strong demigod protagonist and share a couple of similar plot points and settings. Heck, it feels less like an adaptation of the myth and more like ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' [[RecycledInSpace mashed up and set in Ancient Greece.]] See SadlyMythtaken for how the film differs in so many ways from the original myth.
** ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' dispenses with [[Literature/ChickenLittle the original tale]]'s plot of the title character believing TheSkyIsFalling and warning everyone when the townsfolk figure out it was an acorn all along a few minutes into the movie. The bulk of the movie is about Chicken Little trying to live down has poor reputation and [[WellDoneSonGuy connect with his father]]. And then there's an AlienInvasion of all things, but at least the fleet's CloakingDevice kind of looks like falling pieces of sky... It's worth noting that Disney released a more accurate adaptation of the tale long ago as part of their MiscellaneousDisneyShorts.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' was originally billed as an adaptation of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', but after several rewrites, it became InspiredBy the title. The original FairyTale was about a peasant girl trying to rescue her friend from an AmbiguouslyEvil member of TheFairFolk, with [[RandomEventsPlot random encounters]] along the way; the Disney movie is primarily about a good, human queen with [[PowerIncontinence uncontrollable]] [[AnIcePerson ice magic]] and her relationship to her sister, with the threat of EndlessWinter and a few original characters thrown in. They both include a reindeer sidekick, though. ''Series/OnceUponATime'' takes advantage of this divergence by establishing ''Frozen'' as its own tale and {{Retcon}}ing Anna and Elsa into the SpinOffspring of Gerda and Kai.[[note]]This is a small deviation of the film's canon, in which Anna and Elsa's parents were named Adgar and Idun, and the names of Kai and Gerda were given to some handmaids as an InspirationNod.[[/note]]
** Aside from the names, ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' has very little in common with the comics it's inspired by, including RaceLifting the entire team and moving the setting from Japan to the fictional city of [[{{Americasia}} San Fransokyo]]. A case of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, as the source material is not as well looked upon due to being a rather ShallowParody of Japanese media tropes.
* IWantSong: Starting with "I'm Wishing" in ''Snow White'', these songs became a staple of Disney musicals.
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* KarmicDeath: Happens to many if not most of the villains.
* KilledOffForReal: The films tend to [[DisneyDeath avoid this with good guys]], and [[DisneyVillainDeath greatly enforce this]] with villains.
** Villains who play it straight:[[labelnote:click here]]The Evil Queen, Maleficent, possibly Madame Medusa, The Horned King, Ratigan, Sykes, Ursula, Percival [=McLeach=], Gaston, Scar, Frollo, Shan-Yu, Clayton, The Carnotaurs, [[spoiler:Rourke]], [[spoiler:Helga]], Scroop, Dr. Facilier, Mother Gothel, King Candy [[spoiler:a.k.a. Turbo]], the viral Ralph clone monster.[[/labelnote]]
** Villains who avert it (KarmaHoudini examples are marked with an *):[[labelnote:Click here]]Honest John and Gideon*, Stromboli*, the Coachman*, Monstro, Chernabog*, Man*, The Wolf, Willie the Giant, Mr. Winky, The Headless Horseman*, Lady Tremaine* (she got her karma in ''Cinderella III'', though), Queen of Hearts*, Captain Hook, Si and Am*, Cruella, Madam Mim, Shere Khan (until the sequel came around), Edgar, Prince John, Jafar (again, until the sequel), Governor Ratcliffe, Hades, Yzma (is [[spoiler:[[BalefulPolymorph stuck as a cat]]]] at the end, and possibly gets ''more'' karmic backlash in the sequel), Gantu (who suffers even more karma in the sequel films and TV series before [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn turning good]]]] in the final one), Alameda Slim, Bowler Hat Guy, The Backson, [[spoiler:Prince Hans]], The Duke of Weselton, [[spoiler:Yokai/Professor Callaghan]], [[spoiler:Dawn Bellwether]], Te Ka, Tamatoa, Double Dan, J.P. Spamley.[[/labelnote]]
** Non-villainous characters (heroic, neutral and villain sidekick alike) who ''really'' did bite the dust:[[labelnote:Click here]]Bambi's mom, Willie the Whale, Slew Foot Sue, Cinderella's dad, Tod's mother, Bartholomew and Felicia the cat, Roscoe and [=DeSoto=], Flotsam and Jetsam, Mufasa, Kocoum, Quasimodo's mother, Kerchak, Mr. Arrow, Sitka, Tiana's father, [[spoiler:Ray the Firefly]], King Agdar and Queen Idun, and [[spoiler:Tadashi Hamada]].[[/labelnote]]
* KnightOfCerebus: Though some may still be somewhat comedic, a lot of villains have a very menacing tone (especially in the earliest examples) and are responsible for a lot of MoodWhiplash away from Disney's usual whimsy. See [[NightmareFuel/{{Disney}} this page]] for their rather haunting effect on many audiences.
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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: In the original Disney movies from ''Snow White'' to ''The Jungle Book'' (and several of the features afterward), getting the audience to suspend their disbelief was usually taken ''very'' seriously by Walt Disney--broad cartoony gags were often verboten, and what gags in the picture had to come strictly from personality and be internally consistent with the stories setting and tone (however, there were exceptions such as ''Saludos Amigos'' and ''The Three Caballeros''). From ''Aladdin'' and onward, Disney has become notably more lenient on broad gags and breaking the tone of a picture for cheap laughs. Also, whereas Walt went out of his way to avoid having anything topical or contemporary in his features to keep the feel of them timeless, the modern Disney features often have settings and stories that are heavily rooted in modern culture (e.g. both ''Wreck-It Ralph'' films, ''Zootopia'', ''Big Hero 6'').[[note]]Animator Andreas Deja said on his blog that he learned from Disney's Nine Old Men that if Walt had lived to see ''Aladdin'', he would've considered it his least favorite of the movies because of this and the former.[[/note]] Also, the majority of the animated features from the mid 2000s onward are done with CGI, not hand-drawn animation.
* LighterAndSofter: Some of the Disney animated films tend to be much, ''much'' lighter than others, in addition to some of their adaptations being lighter than their source material, despite the franchise generally being for young children.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' is this in comparison to ''Fantasia''. It was produced on a lower budget with less intricate animation, intended mainly to generate money and therefore more catered toward children, which resulted in a more kid aimed film than ''Fantasia''. ''Dumbo'' does an excellent job of proving [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]] in this case, however.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', as both movies [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 preceding]] and [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood succeeding]] have antagonists who are far more threatening, as well as ironically also belonging to the Felidae family.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' , seeing as in the [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound original book]] the title pair aren't friends and [[spoiler: die at the end.]]
** The original Creator/HansChristianAndersen version of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' ends on a by ''far'' darker note than [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 the Disney version]]. [[spoiler: The Prince marries another woman. The Mermaid is given a LastSecondChance to return to the sea by murdering him with an enchanted knife, but unable to murder the man she loves she throws herself into the sea and turns into foam. That's right, she ''dies''.]]
** Although ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' has some dark moments, it was created as a lighter followup to the infamously edgy ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''.
** ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' is very lighthearted and comedic, even by Disney film standards.
** The second ''WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh|2011}}'' movie in the Disney Animated Canon is this towards ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', faithful as both adaptations are to their source material.
* LightIsGood: Both this and DarkIsEvil are played straight in most of the movies.
* LightIsNotGood: This and DarkIsNotEvil are in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Tarzan}}'', ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''.
* LongRunner: The canon started with ''Snow White'' in 1937, has well over 50 films under its belt, and is showing no signs of slowing down to this day.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Ubiquitous; we might as well just focus on the [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast ones]] [[{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}} that]] [[{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}} avert]] [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog it]].
** [[spoiler:Deconstructed and later averted with ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}'']].
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* MaidAndMaiden: Several princesses have an older motherly character who isn't their birth mother to give them guidance.
** ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' kicked off the Disney universe with a bit of a subversion. Aurora was the Maiden, but the role of The Maid was split between [[PowerTrio three fairies]] -- [[ChromaticArrangement Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather.]] Future examples play it much straighter.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': The Fairy Godmother is the Maid who helps Cinderella, The Maiden. She's OlderAndWiser, rounder, and by way of being a MagicalGuardian is 'in the service' of Cinderella. The Fairy Godmother also gives her a sweet ride to the Ball behind the Evil Stepmother's back, and the iconic dress and shoes that entice PrinceCharming.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Mrs. Potts is the Maid to Belle the Maiden. She plays matchmaker in order to break the curse. Technically she's actually Beast's servant, but gives Belle motherly support at the castle.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'': Grandmother Willow is the Maid to Pocahontas, The Maiden. Willow's a spirit that helps everyone who comes her way, but does try to steer Pocahontas from her intended in favor of John Smith.
** ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Grandma Odie is the Maid who helps Tiana The Maiden. She tries to get her together with Naveen as soon as they meet, and even marries them at the end. Despite being a [[EccentricMentor little crazy,]] her role is a mix of the previous three Maids, being a helper to everyone in her realm like Willow, a matchmaker that breaks a curse like Potts, and a magical old lady that teaches tricks and gives gear like the Fairy Godmother.
%%* MarryForLove
%%* MisplacedWildlife
* MumLooksLikeASister: [[MissingMom If a mother appears at all]], odds are she'll look to be only in her twenties, even if she's still around when her child reaches his or her late teens. To whit:
** ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Aurora's mother.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': Post-time skip, Sarabi doesn't look any older than when Simba was a cub, even though he has grown up to strongly resemble his long-deceased father.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Averted for his [[MuggleFosterParents mortal foster mother]], [[JustifiedTrope justified]] for his immortal goddess birth mother.
** ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Sarah to Jim.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Invoked by Gothel, who uses Rapunzel's hair to keep herself looking young while posing as her mother. Played straight for her birth mother, who has no such round-the-clock access to de-aging hair, yet barely ages a day eighteen years after Rapunzel's birth. [[spoiler: Their resemblance is ''especially'' pronounced after Rapunzel's ImportantHaircut.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'': Elsa's and Anna's mother looks to be [[StrongFamilyResemblance a brunette version]] of her [[OnlySixFaces 21- and 18-year-old daughters]], even when she lived to see them reach 18 and 15 in the [[AMinorKidroduction prologue]].
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* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Surprisingly often, the hero/heroine or heroes have a connection to a relative who is greatly revered (in most cases, a royal parent; but in other cases, [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} a war hero dad]] or [[WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire a renowned scientist grandfather]] will do just as well).
** Only a handful Disney movies subvert or avert this trope. In some examples, [[WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} John Smith]] (explorer), [[WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron Taran]] (pigkeeper/peasant) and the main characters of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' (soldier, son of a gypsy, gypsy performer) are self-made heroes.
* NoAntagonist: There are several films with no real villains in them:
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'': Dumbo has no clear cut villains; the conflict came about mainly because Dumbo's ears made him a target for mockery—Dumbo lived in a selfish, rather than hostile, world that causes his problems. The other elephants simply looked down on him and his mother, the ringmaster had no idea what to do with Dumbo once he's forced to lock up his mother, the clowns had their own problems to deal with, and the kids that got Dumbo into the whole mess were just insensitive, not outright malicious.
** ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' have no villains either.
** Neither ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' nor ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' have a real villain in them -- they're just figments of the characters imaginations.
** ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'': Kenai blames a bear for the death of one of his brothers and kills her in revenge, but [[KarmicTransformation his own experience as a bear]] helps him realize that the bear was just a mother trying to get food and that killing her was a prime case of RevengeBeforeReason. Denahi, Kenai's own brother, keeps on trying to kill Kenai for most of the film, but that's because he doesn't know the bear he saw next to Kenai's [[EmptyPilesOfClothing empty clothes]] was Kenai and instead jumped to the logical conclusion that the bear must have killed his one remaining brother. The plot's major conflicts are essentially the product of multiple misunderstandings.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'': Meddlesome TV executives and dog catchers cause problems for the main heroes, and [[WindmillCrusader Bolt]] initially blames "[[ShowWithinAShow Dr. Calico]]" for everything, but in reality there is no central villain.
** ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' The movie has no villain [[spoiler:(though the closest things to villains are Arthur, the virus from the Dark Net and the clones of Ralph it creates)]], but rather a series of conflicts [[spoiler:caused mainly by Ralph himself, who acts out of concern that he and Vanellope might no longer be friends when she finds the Slaughter Race game more appealing and Vanellope looks up to Shank as a CoolBigSister figure.]]
** The closest thing ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' has to a villain is [[spoiler:King Runeard]], whose actions set up the plot of the film. The catch is, by the time the film takes place, [[spoiler:he's been dead for 34 years]], and as a result doesn't directly oppose the heroes in any way.
* NonHumanSidekick: Most of the main characters and/or their love interests have one, as do some villains.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Most of their films centering on a human cast (especially their princess ones) use this type of design formula: The lead characters, such as the prince and princess, and sometimes their parents, have hyper-realistic designs, while the rest of the cast have more cartoonish and exagerated proportions.
* NoSmoking: Since July 2007, Disney has banned onscreen smoking from being depicted in any of their films. Even before they enforced the ban, they edited a couple (but not all) of their older films to remove instances of smoking, such as Goofy lighting up a joint in ''Saludos Amigos'' (the uncut version was eventually released as a bonus feature on the ''Walt and El Groupo'' documentary) and any instance of Pecos Bill with a cigarette in ''Melody Time''.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: A lot of the less sinister villains of the franchise are known for being very fanciful, hammy and at face value outright buffoonish and vain, though during the climax can prove to be just as calculating and deadly as the more serious ones:
** Prince John of ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' is depicted as cowardly manchild, and he and his forces most of the early half of the film suffering slapstick humiliation, to the point of ending up a laughing stock with the rest of Nottingham. He does ''not'' take this well however, and increases taxes and arrests to an extreme detriment and plans to have Friar Tuck executed simply to leave fear in the town. Robin intervenes, though still almost perishes after a far more fearsome battle from the equally buffoonish Sheriff of Nottingham.
** The hyena clan of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' are at first set up as bungling {{Starter Villain}}s who are easily chased off by Mufasa. Then Scar utilizes them in his plan to kill Mufasa and take his place as ruler of the Pride Lands. [[spoiler:They later make a meal of Scar after he double-crosses them, quickly abolishing any suggestions of them being mere grovelling lackeys.]]
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* ObviouslyEvil: A great many of these films do this, even going so far as to base their color and shape schemes around it (as talked about in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' DVD documentaries). Just take one look at a character sheet for an average Disney film and you can immediately pick out the villains. This is kind of odd when it's done with AnimalStereotypes -- bears are painted as [[BearsAreBadNews horrible, deadly,]] {{kaiju}}-[[BearsAreBadNews like monstrous demons]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' and as [[BearyFriendly friendly and lovable heroes]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' and ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''. However, there have been subversions and aversions of this in the canon's more recent films, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''.
* OddballInTheSeries:
** ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' is unique in a number of ways: in that it's a CompilationMovie of three short films released over the course of a decade ago, it's the only CashCowFranchise to come out of the studio's DorkAge, and it's not under full ownership by Disney; the estate of Creator/AAMilne licenses the rights to Disney and receives credit for every production.
** Due to moviegoers tiring of the formula used throughout the Disney Renaissance era, their later "Post-Renaissance" era contained very few {{Animated Adaptation}}s / {{Animated Musical}}s and featured highly experimental storytelling (to the point that said era is also called the "Experimental Era"). Standout examples include:
*** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' was produced by a SpecialEffects company called the Secret Lab, using CGI characters, over photography-made backgrounds. It's also one of few pieces of DinosaurMedia made under the Disney banner. Because of these oddities, UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} doesn't even consider this a part of the Canon, instead replacing it with ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'', which was made by C.O.R.E. Feature Animation and distributed by Disney.
*** ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' is ''very loosely'' tied to ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes'', but not enough to be considered an adaptation. Instead, it's a DenserAndWackier "{{Buddy|Picture}} {{Road Trip|Plot}}" {{comedy}} in a {{Purely Aesthetic|Era}} {{Mayincatec}} {{setting}}. Since it more closely resembles a traditional Disney flick than ''Dinosaur'', the fact that it bucks most of the Canon's staples makes it stand out more.
*** ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' is an {{action|Genre}} SciFi epic, and the second film after ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' to be rated PG (this being before Disney started to AvoidTheDreadedGRating).
*** Disney was rather hands-off for the development of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', and it shows. Further information can be found on [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch its franchise's page]]. The fact that it was the only real success of Disney's "Post-Renaissance" Era makes its oddities stand out more, to the point that Disney really played up its oddness in comparison to other Disney films in its marketing. It's quite fitting that the film's protagonists are regarded as weird InUniverse.
*** ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' is an adaptation on ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', but is one of few Disney adaptations to use the RecycledInSpace treatment, and does so with such boldness.
*** ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' went down in history as Disney's ill-fated attempt at a more "sharp-edged" brand of humor not unlike that seen from Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. It's also one of few Canon films to be set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.
** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' does with VideoGames what ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' does with {{Toon}}s and ''Franchise/ToyStory'' does with {{toys}}, crafting an original story about their relationship to humanity starring a cast of {{Exp|y}}ies, with {{Guest|Fighter}} {{Cameo}}s playing a supporting role.
* OneWingedAngel: Their use of this trope is only surpassed by Creator/SquareEnix.
* OutsideContextProblem:
** [[spoiler:Prince Hans]] from ''Frozen'' is this for the entire canon. Unlike every other villain in the canon, there is no indication whatsoever that he is even morally suspect until the MotiveRant at the climax. In a canon defined by [[EvilIsHammy hammy]] {{Classic Villain}}s, he is entirely defined by PragmaticVillainy, a [[TheSociopath flawless mask]] and [[ManipulativeBastard skill at manipulation]] to which even the audience is not immune.
** [[spoiler:Hans]] would be followed by the villains of Disney's next two movies, [[spoiler:Robert Callaghan]] from ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' and [[spoiler:Dawn Bellwether]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', both of which are [[TheReveal revealed]] as being the main antagonist after only brief prior appearances in which they were helpful and supportive to the main protagonist, were not particularly hammy, and did nothing that would directly indicate anything morally suspicious about their character, and [[spoiler:Callaghan]] was even presumed dead by the time of his reveal as [[spoiler:Yokai]].
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* ParentalAbandonment: At least 28 of the features either have their parents missing, dead, or separated from their kids.
* PeriodPiece: While all of the films in the canon take place at some time in the past, there is only twelve films are set in ThePresentDay of when they were made: 1. ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' (early 1940s; according to the newspaper at the end of the film, which sets the film in March 1941), 2. ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' (late 1950's-early 1960s, setting the film in November 1958), 3. ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' (1970s), 4. ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' (1980s), 5. ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' (early 1970s), 6. ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' (early 2000s), 7. ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' (mid-2000s), 8. ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' (mid-2000s when not in the future), 9. ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' (late 2000s), 10. ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' (early 2010s), 11. ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' (mid-2010s) and 12. ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' (late 2010s). And then there are the relative indeterminates: ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' take place in an unknown time period (''Bambi'' can be narrowed down to anytime in the last 2-3 centuries), and ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' and ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' are set in a constructed universe.
* PigeonholedVoiceActor:
** Creator/PhilHarris (''The Jungle Book'', ''The Aristocats'', ''Robin Hood'') and [[Creator/CheechAndChong Cheech Marin]] (''Oliver & Company'', ''The Lion King'') are particularly glaring examples of this.
** Creator/KathrynBeaumont (''Alice in Wonderland'', ''Peter Pan'') who voiced both Alice and Wendy Darling (respectively).
** Creator/HansConried (''Peter Pan'', Sleeping Beauty'') who voiced Captain Hook/Mr. Darling and the announcing servant called Lord Duke (later a major character in the first segment of Aurora's story in ''WesternAnimation/DisneyPrincessEnchantedoTalesFollowYourDreams'') respectively, is best known for voicing and portraying villains, authority type figures, servants, or foils. Ironically, Conried modeled for King Stefan and initially auditioned for Stefan until that role went to the late Taylor Holmes, making an unsolved mystery of the herald's voice actor.
** Creator/BarbaraJoAllen (''Sleeping Beauty'', ''The Sword in the Stone'') who voiced both Fauna and Lord Ector's scullery maid, respectively.
** Tudor Owen (''101 Dalmatians'', ''The Sword in the Stone'') and Junius Matthews (''101 Dalmatians'', ''The Sword in the Stone, and ''The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'').
** [[invoked]]Creator/VernaFelton only ever voiced either energetic characters/stuffy villains (''Dumbo'', ''Alice in Wonderland'', ''Lady and the Tramp'') or kindly matriarchs (''Dumbo'', [[TalkingToHimself again]]), ''Cinderella'', ''Sleeping Beauty'', ''The Jungle Book'').
** Creator/PatButtram (''The Aristocats'', ''Robin Hood'', ''The Rescuers'', ''The Fox and the Hound'') used his own distinct rural Alabama accent for every character he voiced.
** Creator/AlanTudyk (''Wreck-It Ralph'', ''Frozen'', ''Big Hero 6'', ''Zootopia'', ''Moana'') is a more recent example, if only for playing [[spoiler:antagonists]] in four movies in a row, two of which were [[spoiler:examples of EvilOldFolks]]. A downplayed example as he brings a good deal of vocal variety to his characters and is being considered the "good luck" voice of the Disney Revival.
* PluckyComicRelief: A cute, goofy sidekick will show up a lot in these movies, from Dopey in ''Snow White'', to Olaf in ''Frozen''.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Several of the movies villains fall into this, such as the animal abusing, fur skinning Cruella De Vil, the misogynistic Gaston, the xenophobic John Ratcliffe and genocidal racist, and the religious zealot and would-be rapist Judge Claude Frollo.
%%* ThePowerOfFriendship: Several films in the canon show how a good close friendship can help resolve their conflicts.
* ThePowerOfLove: This is brought up in a few films, particularly true love's kiss, or other acts of true love.
* PragmaticAdaptation: A few films in the canon fall into this:
** ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'': Very much so in the Mr. Toad segment. It does avoid being an InNameOnly adaptation by keeping Toad's personality the same as in the book (even if other characters are very different) and staying true to the basic story structure of the Toad parts of Literature/TheWindInTheWillows, but it does change a few things up, attempting to turn Toad more sympathetic by [[AdaptationalHeroism having him actually innocent of the crime he's imprisoned for.]] The Sleepy Hollow segment on the other hand is quite true to [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow the original tale]], both story and character wise. A few liberties were taken, but none that really change the story or characters of the story.
** ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''; The film is actually a combination of the [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland original book and its sequel "Through The Looking Glass"]]. Keeping every character from the books would basically be impossible, so the movie uses the most iconic ones from each book, while the plot itself is based off Wonderland. Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The Walrus and The Carpenter and the singing flowers are originally from Through The Looking Glass.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': The [[Myth/ClassicalMythology original Heracles myth]] -- and Greek Mythology in general -- were as family unfriendly as you can get and had a ''lot'' of built-in ValuesDissonance (the basic conflict ''alone'' was unacceptable for a family film, since Hercules is a product of Zeus' adultery with a mortal, and Hera, Zeus' wife, is the villain who constantly makes Hercules' life miserable because of this), so the studio was forced to [[DisneyFication heavily rework the concept]]; it borrows the character names (not so much the personalities), story points and the setting from the myths, but [[AdaptedOut throws out]] and [[CanonImmigrant adds in]] things from other parts of Greek Myth (such as Pegasus and the Muses, who were not in the original Heracles story), and reworks everything else (such as expanding Hades role in the story [[EveryoneHatesHades by turning him into the main villain]]), ultimately making the film less an adaptation of Greek Mythology and more like a [[JustForFun/XMeetsY mashup of]] ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' [[RecycledInSpace set in a]] [[TheThemeParkVersion burlesque of Ancient Greece.]]
* PrinceCharming: Played straight for early Disney classics (to the point that the official marketed name of Cinderella's prince is this trope) and later played with in recent Disney films. They can be refusing their royal duties ([[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Simba]]), be jerks at first (though later [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold become better]]) ([[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Beast]], [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Naveen]]), actually start off as commoners who reach their role as prince through marriage ({{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}, [[{{WesternAnimation/Tangled}} Flynn Rider]]), [[spoiler: or even be the BigBad ([[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Hans]])]].
* PrincessClassic: The princesses before the renaissance are absolutely pure and good, but later princesses still could have these elements.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Their movies are often based on {{fairy tale}}s, that are public domain stories.
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