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*** King Triton was deliberately made to misunderstand the fact that not all humans are barbarians, so it's safe to say that Ariel's motives for "disobeying" her father are [[YourMileageMayVary more or less]] justifiable. Thus, Ariel's DealWithTheDevil didn't entirely help her get her man. In case you've forgotten, towards the end, King Triton realizes that not all humans are the same and decides to make Ariel permanently. So I guess you could say that the most major theme intended here is peace.
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*** And in Ariel's defense, regarding the points referring to her disobeying her father, King Triton simply refused to understand that not all humans are like what her repeatedly refers to them as, thus marking this an example of how some parents aren't always right. [[ThisIsReality It's quite common in real life, you know]].
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*** And in Ariel's defense, regarding the points referring to her disobeying her father, King Triton simply refused to understand that not all humans are like what her he repeatedly refers to them as, thus marking this an example of how some parents aren't always right. [[ThisIsReality It's quite common in real life, you know]].
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*** And in Ariel's defense, regarding the points referring to her disobeying her father, King Triton simply refused to understand that not all humans are like what her repeatedly refers to them as, thus marking this an example of how some parents aren't always right. [[ThisIsReality It's quite common in real life, you know]].
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment / HilariousInHindsight (depending on your sense of humor): Listening to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB-P2M32CU4 the Japanese version of "Under the Sea"]] following the 2011 Tohoku tsunami.
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* CrazyAwesome: Eric does a ''LOT'' of stuff that no reasonable person would do, and comes off as a major BadAss because of it.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Especially some of the new pieces from TheMusical.
** Ursula's awesome VillainSong, "Poor Unfortunate Souls".
** Ursula's awesome VillainSong, "Poor Unfortunate Souls".
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Astonishingly, Rene Auberjonois (aka [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Odo]]) as Eric's singing chef, Louis.
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* HilariousInHindsight: "Oh Eric, don't believe in any of this [[SpongeBobSquarepants nautical nonsense]]."
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* EvilIsSexy: Ursula in her Vanessa status. [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]] but some viewers found Ursula sexy even in her original form. "Don't underestimate the importance of BODY LANGUAGE!"
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1. because /u/ is the yuri board. 2. \'\'that\'s\'\' the thing you have a problem with?
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* FanPreferredCouple: For some bizarre reason, whenever Disney pops up on Imageboards /U/, they ship Ariel with Meg from Disney/{{Hercules}}''
** But... Ariel's heterosexual... Disney even made her heterosexual... Why would she and Meg have a romantic relationship when she can't even feel attraction for the same sex?
** But... Ariel's heterosexual... Disney even made her heterosexual... Why would she and Meg have a romantic relationship when she can't even feel attraction for the same sex?
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* FanPreferredCouple: For some bizarre reason, whenever Disney pops up on Imageboards /U/, [[GirlsLove /u/]], they ship Ariel with Meg from Disney/{{Hercules}}''
** But... Ariel's heterosexual... Disney even made her heterosexual... Why would she and Meg have a romantic relationship when she can't even feel attraction for the same sex?Disney/{{Hercules}}''
** But... Ariel's heterosexual... Disney even made her heterosexual... Why would she and Meg have a romantic relationship when she can't even feel attraction for the same sex?
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** But... Ariel's heterosexual... Disney even made her heterosexual... Why would she and Meg have a romantic relationship when [[WallBanger she can't even feel attraction for the same sex]]?
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** Don't forget that because Ariel needs help more than once, she's also a stupid and whore-ish FauxActionGirl. Nevermind that if not for her Eric would be dead, to start. Apparently if a lady isn't invincible, she's always open for bashing and hate coming from people who call themselves "concerned feminists".
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** Don't forget that because Ariel needs help more than once, she's also a stupid and whore-ish FauxActionGirl. Nevermind that if not for her her, Flounder, Sebastian, and Eric (both times) would be dead, to start. Apparently if a lady isn't invincible, she's always open for bashing and hate coming from people who call themselves "concerned feminists".
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* ManipulativeBastard: Ursula.
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* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: For many "feminists", Ariel is not a "good role mode" because she ''gasp'' actually wants a man. People disregard the fact that she saved Eric herself from a storm on her own and that she was interested in the human world long before Eric came along (which ''gasp'' also was in the original source!). The song "Part of That World" is sung '''before''' Eric is introduced. She even gets criticised for disobeying her father when a good part of the mess was '''his''' fault, since in when he was in OverprotectiveDad mode he [[KickTheDog kicked the undersea puppy]] by destroying her little corner in which she had all the human keepsakes. Forget that she tries to fight Ursula to save her father ''even when she was in physical disadvantage'' due to being in mermaid shape while not under the sea, as well as all the brave things she does in the TV series and sequel, because she wanted to find romantic love among other things, she cannot be feminist.
** Don't forget that because Ariel needs help more than once, she's also a stupid and whore-ish FauxActionGirl. Nevermind that if not for her Eric would be dead, to start. Apparently if a lady isn't invincible, she's always open for bashing and hate coming from people who call themselves "concerned feminists".
** Don't forget that because Ariel needs help more than once, she's also a stupid and whore-ish FauxActionGirl. Nevermind that if not for her Eric would be dead, to start. Apparently if a lady isn't invincible, she's always open for bashing and hate coming from people who call themselves "concerned feminists".
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** It was Hal Sparks in the "I Love the 80's 3-D" [=VH1=] special who put it best:
-->"And the lovely little moral of this story is: Girls, give up your voice so you can have legs that you can spread for your man. ...What!?"
** Also, Ariel essentially disobeys her father's every command, runs away from home and makes a DealWithTheDevil, all to snag herself a husband. And they marketed this movie towards young girls!
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8xCgC3w1zs "If you have a father that loves you, run away from him!"]]
*** Fathers that destroy all your prized possessions, because they love you.
** The oft-cited "throw away your life for some stranger" moral was actually meant to be ''averted'' by the movie; the writers noticed it in the original story and decided to give Ariel a fascination with human culture so she ''already'' kind of wanted to be human before she even met the guy. Eric just tipped the balance.
** It was Hal Sparks in the "I Love the 80's 3-D" [=VH1=] special who put it best:
-->"And the lovely little moral of this story is: Girls, give up your voice so you can have legs that you can spread for your man. ...What!?"
** Also, Ariel essentially disobeys her father's every command, runs away from home and makes a DealWithTheDevil, all to snag herself a husband. And they marketed this movie towards young girls!
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8xCgC3w1zs "If you have a father that loves you, run away from him!"]]
*** Fathers that destroy all your prized possessions, because they love you.
** The oft-cited "throw away your life for some stranger" moral was actually meant to be ''averted'' by the movie; the writers noticed it in the original story and decided to give Ariel a fascination with human culture so she ''already'' kind of wanted to be human before she even met the guy. Eric just tipped the balance.
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* BadassDecay: Eric and Triton in both the sequel and musical.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Chef Louis and his musical number, "Les Poissons".
** {{YMMV}}: since looking at the song one can see from where King Triton gets his prejudice of humans as barbarious fisheaters. Note that while preparing the fish Louis not only sings about cooking but also goes in detail about chopping up & basically mutilating their bodies to his pleasure much to the disgust of Sebastrian. While we may not think too much about that scene, we can see why Triton or any other merfolk would consider HumansAreBastards.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Chef Louis and his musical number, "Les Poissons".
** {{YMMV}}: since looking at the song one can see from where King Triton gets his prejudice of humans as barbarious fisheaters. Note that while preparing the fish Louis not only sings about cooking but also goes in detail about chopping up & basically mutilating their bodies to his pleasure much to the disgust of Sebastrian. While we may not think too much about that scene, we can see why Triton or any other merfolk would consider HumansAreBastards.
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* GenreTurningPoint: Started the Animation Renaissance.
* GirlsNeedRoleModels: Ariel was created as a RebelliousPrincess in part because of this, especially compared to her predecessors in the canon. Then all her male supporting characters protect her and save the day, creating something of a BrokenAesop. ''Return to the Sea'' overcompensated for this -- Ariel and Melody got all the action scenes while the [[CharacterDerailment previously heroic and capable men]] [[BadassDecay were pretty much helpless.]]
* GirlsNeedRoleModels: Ariel was created as a RebelliousPrincess in part because of this, especially compared to her predecessors in the canon. Then all her male supporting characters protect her and save the day, creating something of a BrokenAesop. ''Return to the Sea'' overcompensated for this -- Ariel and Melody got all the action scenes while the [[CharacterDerailment previously heroic and capable men]] [[BadassDecay were pretty much helpless.]]
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** Ursula eating a sentient shrimp live. She later does something similar when meeting Ariel: When she is looking in the mirror, she essentially squishes a clam's insides up and uses it for her lipstick, meaning she was literally using clam guts/clam blood for lipgloss.
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** But... Ariel's heterosexual... Disney even made her heterosexual... Why would she and Meg have a romantic relationship when [[WallBanger she can't even feel attraction for the same sex]]?
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Ursula's character design in the stage musical is less "overweight drag queen", and in the original cast, she was played by Sherie Renee Scott.
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* EpilepticTrees: In ''TheDaVinciCode'', author DanBrown puts forth the theory that the directors and animators were pagan goddess worshippers and scattered clues and obscure references to the "Sacred Feminine" throughout the film, including Ariel's red hair. The reality is far less mystical though: the animators chose to make Ariel a redhead to avoid comparisons with Darryl Hannah's blonde mermaid character from ''{{Splash}}'', and also because it gave a nice contrast with the blue sea and her green tail.
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* EpilepticTrees: In ''TheDaVinciCode'', author DanBrown puts forth the theory that the directors and animators were pagan goddess worshippers and scattered clues and obscure references to the "Sacred Feminine" throughout the film, including Ariel's red hair. The reality is far less mystical though: the animators chose to make Ariel a redhead to avoid comparisons with Darryl Hannah's blonde mermaid character from ''{{Splash}}'', and also because it gave a nice contrast with the blue sea and her green tail.
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** [[YourMileageMayVary Sa]][[EvilIsSexy ys]] ''[[FetishFuel you.]]''
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: To some. "[[TheNostalgiaChick I sold my soul for a vagina and a man I don't know!]]"
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** Good Lord, Ariel in ''Return to the Sea'' is Ariel in name only no matter how much she's grown up.
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** Good Lord, Ariel in ''Return to the Sea'' is Ariel in name only no matter how much she's grown up.
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* CharacterDerailment: In the first movie, Flounder was a bit of a scaredy-cat and reluctantly followed Ariel on her adventures; In ''Ariel's Beginning'', he seems to have a mild love for adventure/danger. And there's no explanation given.
** Good Lord, Ariel in ''Return to the Sea'' is Ariel in name only no matter how much she's grown up.
*** In ''Ariel's Beginning'', her obsession with the human world is completely missing.
** Good Lord, Ariel in ''Return to the Sea'' is Ariel in name only no matter how much she's grown up.
*** In ''Ariel's Beginning'', her obsession with the human world is completely missing.
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** Ursula could been seemed as this as well.
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** Ursula could been seemed as this as well. Ursula.
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** Ursula could been seemed as this as well.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The final battle, especially Eric, who shows off how totally badass he is.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The final battle, especially Eric, who shows CrazyAwesome: Eric does a ''LOT'' of stuff that no reasonable person would do, and comes off how totally badass he is.as a major BadAss because of it.
** And the knife-slinging Chef Louis, with his pithy little ditty about dismembering and roasting dead fish.
** And the knife-slinging Chef Louis, with his pithy little ditty about dismembering and roasting dead fish.
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** [[TimCurry Evil Manta]].Manta]] from the TV series.
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** Undertow from the sequel. With Melody being a copy of her mother, Morganna and her sting rays being copies of Ursula, Flotsam, and Jetsam, and Tip and Dash being copies of...[[TheLionKing Timon and Pumbaa]], Undertow is the only new character with some originality. Doesn't help that he's voiced by ClancyBrown.
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* MagnificentBastard: The Evil Manta from the series. Voiced by TimCurry, no less. Though his fourth and final appearance puts him through BadassDecay; suddenly he's a father, Tim Curry voices him alot less creepily, and he ends up with some redeeming qualities.
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* MagnificentBastard: The Evil Manta from the series. Voiced by TimCurry, no less. Though his fourth and final appearance puts him through BadassDecay; [[BadassDecay Badass]] and VillainDecay; suddenly he's a father, Tim Curry voices him alot less creepily, and he ends up with some redeeming qualities.
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* MagnificentBastard: The Evil Manta from the series. Voiced by TimCurry, no less. Though his fourth and final appearance puts him through BadassDecay; suddenly he's a father father, Tim Curry voices him alot less creepily, and he ends up with some redeeming qualities.
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* {{Squick}}: The fact that Ariel is identical to her mother Athena in everything but eye color has not escaped some fans. Might explain why she's Triton's favorite.
** And Ursula. All the time. Especially when talking to Ariel.
** And Ursula. All the time. Especially when talking to Ariel.
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** [[JakAndDaxter Daxter]] is Tip, believe it or not.
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* FridgeHorror: Rewatching the movie years later and realizing the connotation of signing a contract, sealing you fate over to someone who you ''know'' is evil but is very persuasive, only to be rescued by your father, who takes the punishment upon himself...
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* FridgeHorror: Rewatching the movie years later and realizing the connotation of signing a contract, sealing you your fate over to someone who you ''know'' is evil but is very persuasive, only to be rescued by your father, who takes the punishment upon himself...
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** And Eric himself [[SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries sounds suspiciously like a certain wall-crawling hero...]]
** It's not actually very noticeable (because your voice does change as you age), but the actor who provided the voice of Grimsby was actually the same one who provided the voice of Roger, Pongo's "human pet" in Disney's ''101 Dalmatians'' a few decades earlier. He commented in an interview later that when he went to audition, none of the people he talked to had any idea who he was.
** And Eric himself [[SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries sounds suspiciously like a certain wall-crawling hero...]]
** It's not actually very noticeable (because your voice does change as you age), but the actor who provided the voice of Grimsby was actually the same one who provided the voice of Roger, Pongo's "human pet" in Disney's ''101 Dalmatians'' a few decades earlier. He commented in an interview later that when he went to audition, none of the people he talked to had any idea who he was.
