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1* AllStarCast: Although not as blatantly advertised and abused as Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, the movies in the canon will occasionally have a staggering roster of A-list celebrities lending their vocal talent. Before 1992's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' introduced Creator/RobinWilliams as the Genie, Disney preferred actual voice actors, with the oldest films having actors who were theater mainstays or those who were experienced with singing and providing voice work on radio shows. After that, they started to increasingly advertise celebrity roles. Some of the more blatant examples: Music/MandyMoore and Creator/ZacharyLevi as the leads in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', Music/MileyCyrus in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' (particularly egregious because she replaced [[Creator/ChloeMoretz a voice actor]] who had already recorded most of her lines) and perhaps Creator/MelGibson in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''.
2** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' is practically a "Who's Who" of popular film, stage and television personalities of 1994.
3** The pre-''Aladdin'' films weren't safe from this either. We have Creator/MickeyRooney, Creator/KurtRussell and Creator/SandyDuncan in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', Creator/JohnHurt in ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', Creator/VincentPrice in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', and Music/BillyJoel and Music/BetteMidler in ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany''.
4** The main cast of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' are all well-known Broadway stars (plus Creator/KristenBell, though she's done Broadway, too).
5* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Averted until ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' came along in 1985. Since then there have been a fair few other PG-rated canon entries, such as ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', etc. though the vast majority of the canon remains G-rated. This is becoming more and more common, though, as the G rating is increasingly seen as unprofitable.
6* BannedEpisode: ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' eventually became this because of "The Martins and the Coys". Out of every film in the canon, this is the only one unavailable on Creator/DisneyPlus.
7* CanonForeigner:
8** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' is the only entry in the canon that was not made by Feature Animation - they produced the film, but it was animated by Disney's Secret Lab (formerly Creator/DreamQuestImages), a short-lived special effects department that worked on CG imagery and was intended to be a sort-of cross between Creator/{{Pixar}} and Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic. Secret Lab was shut down long before [[HilariousInHindsight Disney bought both of those companies]], and ''Dinosaur'' was the only animated film they ever worked on.
9** ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'' is included in the canon in the UK, even though Disney didn't work on it ''at all''. They just distributed it.
10* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Played straight for 90% of the canon. In fact, ''Pinocchio'' is arguably the TropeMaker.
11* CreatorBacklash: Several of the films have gotten this.
12** Creator/WaltDisney didn't think much of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'', seeing it as a filler feature to make up for the losses of ''Pinocchio'' and ''Fantasia'' and to get the money to allow ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' to be completed. That he was very hands off with it compared to his other films, combined with it being made during the devastating 1941 studio strike didn't help either.
13** ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' was another film Walt was dissatisfied with, feeling the film was cold. He even said he was glad it failed at the box office.
14--->"I think Alice got what she deserved. I never wanted to make it in the first place, but everybody said I should. I tried to introduce a little sentiment into it by getting Alice involved with the White Knight, but they said we couldn't tamper with a classic. So we just kept moving it at circus pace."
15** ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' was another one he didn't care for, mainly because he felt Peter was a cold and unlikable character. Disney animator Marc Davis said in an interview that he feels this way toward the Indians in the film, saying that they would have portrayed them differently if the film were made today.
16** According to "Before the Animation Begins", Walt absolutely hated the Xerox process and art direction of ''101 Dalmatians'', mainly because he felt it went against one of his goals--to convince the audience they aren't seeing drawings on screen.
17** In [[http://www.animatormag.com/archive/issue-26/issue-26-page-24/ issue 26]] of the magazine "Animator", Creator/DonBluth expressed dissatisfaction with working on ''WesternAnimation/{{Robin Hood|1973}}''.
18--->"I drew with great excitement, thinking how good it was to work on a Disney feature. When ''Robin Hood'' was completed I decided it did not look the greatest of films. The heart wasn't in it. It had technique, the characters were well drawn, the Xerox process retained the fine lines so I could see all of the self indulgence of the animators, each one saying, "Look how great I am," but the story itself had no soul."
19** ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'': Several notable animators, including [[Creator/{{Pixar}} John Lasseter]], Creator/DonBluth and Creator/TimBurton, rarely speak kindly of this film, citing its tight-budgeted animation, which all but did away with the innovative technology the company had invented, as the final sign that Disney had become a [[{{Flanderization}} shell of its former self]]. Bluth, in particular, took it the hardest by leading a walk-out of several other animators who followed him to work on ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'' during this film's production, beginning a long and bitter rivalry between him and the studio which went on until he retired in 2000. Burton also bailed during production of this film, which is the last one made before the 1984 management shift
20** ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' is not held in high regard by either its staff or the company as a whole, not helping that it was one of the biggest flops that Disney ever experienced and destroyed the careers of its producer, Joe Hale (who had an editing run-in with Jeffrey Katzenberg that didn't help his chances), and co-directors Ted Berman and Richard Rich. It's so bad that Disney will rewrite their own history by saying WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective was the first film to use CGI, not Cauldron.
21** Animator Will Finn enjoyed working on ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', but he stated on his Small Room blog that he wasn't happy with his animation of Grimsby, saying there are only one or two scenes he did that don't make him cringe today.
22* DisownedAdaptation:
23** The nephew of Carlo Collodi, the author of the original ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' book, hated the [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Disney adaptation]] for playing fast and loose with his uncle's story, and even unsuccessfully tried to sue the studio for misrepresenting his uncle's work.
24** Per word of Creator/ChuckJones (who did his own animated adaptations of Kipling's stories) in his book ''Chuck Jones Conversations'', Kipling's daughter hated [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 the Disney adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' for being an InNameOnly adaptation of her father's work.
25--->"Before we started our film, I discovered that Kipling's daughter was still alive and called her. In an elegant, British Dowager-like voice, she confirmed my pronunciation (of Mowgli's name) and added, 'And, I hate Walter Disney.' It was the only time I ever heard anybody call him Walter. In her lifetime, she said nobody ever pronounced anything but Mauwgli."
26** The descendants of Creator/VictorHugo bashed Disney in an open letter to the Libération newspaper for their ancestor getting no mention on the advertisement posters for [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney the Disney adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', and they harshly criticized the film itself as a vulgar commercialization of Victor Hugo's story.
27* DVDCommentary: Half of the Walt Disney movie canon have made commentary for their films:
28** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': Commentary by animation historian John Canemaker, with archival audio excerpts by Walt Disney
29** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': Commentary by film critic Leonard Maltin, Disney animator Eric Goldberg, and Disney historian J.B. Kaufman, with archival audio excerpts by animators Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Eric Larson
30** ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'':
31*** First commentary by animation historian John Canemaker, with archival audio excerpts by Walt Disney
32*** Second commentary by Roy E. Disney, conductor James Levine, and restoration supervisor Scott [=MacQueen=]
33*** Third commentary by Disney historian Brian Sibley
34** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'':
35*** First commentary by animation historian John Canemaker
36*** Second commentary by Pixar director Pete Docter, Disney historian Paula Sigman, and Disney animator Andreas Deja, with archival audio excerpts by writers Dick Huemer and Joe Grant, animators Ward Kimball, and Wolfgang Reitherman, sound designer Jim [=MacDonald=], and layout artist Ken O’Conner
37** ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Commentary by Roy E. Disney, animation historian Jeff Kurtti, with archival audio excerpts by Walt Disney, animators Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Marc Davis, and Ward Kimball, live-action reference model Margaret Kerry, voice actor/live-action reference model Kathryn Beaumont, film historian Leonard Maltin, and animation historian John Canemaker
38** ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'':
39*** First commentary by Disney historian Jeff Kurtti, with archival audio excerpts by production designer/background artist Eyvind Earle, voice actor Mary Costa, supervising animators Ollie Johnston and Marc Davis, background artist Frank Armitage, Pocahontas director Mike Gabriel, and Pocahontas art designer Michael Giaimo
40*** Second commentary by Disney historian Leonard Maltin, Pixar director John Lasseter, Disney animator Andreas Deja, with archival audio excerpts by Walt Disney, production designer Eyvind Earle, and supervising animators Marc Davis, Ollie Johnston, and Frank Thomas
41** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'': Commentary by composer/song-writer Richard M. Sherman, supervising pencil animator Andreas Deja and voice actor Bruce Reitherman, with archival audio excerpts by director Wolfgang Reitherman, directing animators Ollie Johnson and Frank Thomas, and co-screenwriter Larry Clemmons
42** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'': Commentary by writers/directors Ron Clements and John Musker, and composer Alan Menken
43** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': Commentary by producer Don Hahn, directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale and composer Alan Menken
44** ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'':
45*** First commentary by producer Amy Pell and writers/directors/producers Ron Clements and John Musker
46*** Second commentary by supervising animators Andreas Deja, Will Finn, Eric Goldberg, and Glen Keane
47** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': Commentary by producer Don Hahn and directors Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
48** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'':
49*** First commentary by producer James Pentecost, directors Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, composer Alan Menken, lyricist Stephen Schwartz, art director Michael Giaimo, and co-writer Carl Binder
50*** Second commentary by producer James Pentacost and directors Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg
51** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Commentary by producer Don Hahn and directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale
52** ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'': Commentary by producer Pam Coats and directors Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook
53** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': Commentary by producer Bonnie Arnold and directors Kevin Lima and Chris Buck
54** ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'':
55*** First commentary by executive producer Roy E. Disney, conductor James Levine, and producer Don Ernst
56*** Second commentary by directors and artists Don Hahn, Pixote Hunt, Hendel Butoy, Dean Gordon, Bill Perkins, Eric Goldberg, Susan Goldberg, Michael Humphries, Roy Disney, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, and Carl Jones
57** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'':
58*** First commentary by directors Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag, visual effects supervisor Neil Krepela and digital effects supervisor Neil Eskuri
59*** Second commentary by producer Pam Marsden, music composer James Newton Howard, co-producer Baker Bloodworth, and art director Cristy Maltese.
60** ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Commentary by producer Randy Fullmer, director Mark Dindal, art director Colin Stimpson, character designer Joseph C. Moshier, story supervisor Stephen Anderson, and supervising animators Nik Ranieri and Bruce W. Smith
61** ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': Commentary by producer Don Hahn and directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale
62** ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': Commentary by writers/directors Creator/ChrisSanders and Creator/DeanDeBlois and producer Clark Spencer
63** ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Commentary by writers/directors/producers Ron Clements and John Musker, producer Roy Conli, supervising animators Glen Keane and John Ripa and art director Ian Gooding
64** ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'': Commentary by Rutt and Tuke
65** ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'': Commentary by producer Alice Dewey and writers/directors Will Finn and John Sanford
66** ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'': Commentary by director Mark Dindal, producer Randy Fullmer and visual effects supervisor Steve Goldberg
67** ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': Commentary by director Stephen J. Anderson
68** ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Commentary by co-writers/directors Ron Clements and John Musker and producer Peter Del Vecho
69** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Unofficial commentary by animators Amy Smeed, Adam Dykstra, Jennifer Hager, Miyuki Kanno-Long, Adam Green, Daniel Peixe, John Wong, Zach Parrish, Marlon Nowe, Doug Bennett, Joel Reid, Mark Mitchell, Kira Lehtomaki, Patrick Osborne, Darrin Butters, Becky Bresee, Chris Cordingly, Chadd Ferron, Clay Kaytis, John Kahrs, Chad Sellers, Jason Figliozi, and Malcon Pierce
70** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Deleted scenes commentary by director Rich Moore, writer Phil Johnson, and story supervisor Jim Readron
71** ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': Commentary by directors Ron Clements and John Musker
72* FandomLifeCycle: Ranges from 2 to 5, depending on the film. Most of the Creator/WaltDisney-era films, [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation 1990s films]] and [[TheNewTens more recent films]] get to 4-5, but the lesser-known films of the canon have their fair share of defenders.
73* FranchiseKiller: There have been at least five close calls where Walt Disney Animation Studios was nearly shut down.
74** The first were the triple failures of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''; mixed with the onslaught of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the studio lost a lot of money. The post-WWII years found Disney in a position where it was too financially risky to make full-length feature animated films, but also too financially risky to ''not'' have the steady stream of feature animation revenue that cartoon shorts alone couldn't provide. They compromised by releasing [[AnthologyFilm package films]] until they felt that they'd recovered enough to tackle a full-length film again with ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' - if ''Cinderella'' had bombed, Walt Disney admitted that the studio probably wouldn't have survived. Luckily for them, it became a massive hit, ushering in a new decade of Disney feature films.
75** The second was after ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' flopped. The rise of television meant that people weren't going to the theaters to see animated films they way that they used to, meaning it was no longer cost-effective to make animated films traditionally. The development of the Xerox animation technology ended up lowering costs and preventing Disney from shutting down completely, but they still had to lay off a lot of animators in the early 1960s in the wake of ''Sleeping Beauty'''s financial failure. It didn't help that Walt's personal interest in animation had long since waned, having become more interested in other ventures, especially [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]].
76** The third was after the death of Creator/WaltDisney in 1966. The other executives felt that theatrical animation was no longer viable, particularly since the studio had proven in the 1950s that it could make successful live action, television and theme park projects to carry the company (the short animated film division had already been shut down in 1962). There were plans to close the division after the completion of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'', but director Ken Anderson was able to convince the executives to keep it open a little longer, claiming that Walt had plans to make ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', previously a live-action short film intended for television, into a full-length animated movie. Wanting to honor Walt they agreed. And luckily, when ''The Jungle Book'' became a huge hit in 1967, it convinced them that there was a future for animated movies, leading them to green-light more.
77** The fourth was ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', which was such a huge [[BoxOfficeBomb financial misfire]] that it nearly took the studio down with it (it was still able to kill the Disney careers of directors Ted Berman and Creator/RichardRich and producer Joe Hale, plus it's one of the factors that forced Ron Miller to leave and allowed Jeffrey Katzenberg into Disney). Thankfully, the modest success of ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' managed to keep the studio afloat until ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' came in and started the Renaissance.
78** The fifth wasn't a single film but the large amount of commercial and/or critical disappointments that lasted for years after Jeffrey Katzenberg left Disney and started Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. [[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/business/media/at-disney-a-celebration-that-was-a-long-time-coming.html Once Pixar was officially integrated into Disney, there were once again talks of permanently shutting down the studios]]. Thankfully, [[Creator/{{ABC}} Bob Iger]], Creator/JohnLasseter, and Ed Catmull decided to work on reviving the studios with the Pixar charm instead of shutting it down [[ToughActToFollow out of being]] [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadowed by Pixar]]. Years later, ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' were released, showing that the studios was once again at the top of their game.
79* GenreKiller:
80** ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', and in particular its [[DuelingMovies duel]] with ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE''--a duel which everybody lost--was basically the tipping point when people began to think traditional animation just couldn't be successful anymore.
81** Some suspect that ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' was deliberately designed to ''induce'' traditional animation's final death.
82** The canon attempted to un-kill the art form several years later, but only got as far as ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh|2011}}'' before deciding that yes, traditional animation was dead. As a rather bitter Creator/{{Jim Cummings|VoiceActor}} pointed out, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork they brought the revival's death on themselves]] by putting the new traditionally-animated movies into duels [[CurbStompBattle they couldn't possibly win]] with ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' and ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallowsPart2''. Some even think that the canon already believes that traditional animation was dead and decided to duel with those films.
83* MagnumOpusDissonance: ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' has been criticized for being the most "through the motions" movie of Walt Disney's nineteen animated films, and admittedly the artists (excluding Bill Peet) weren't that interested in the project from the onset. However the animators who worked on the film were incredibly proud of it, feeling that it had the most technically accomplished character animation of any of the films that they'd worked on.
84* OrwellianRetcon: Some of the racist imagery of their earlier films is downplayed or completely removed in contemporary times. A particularly egregious example is the removal of a black servant pony during a segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''.
85* ProductionPosse: Check any of the credits in the Disney Animated Canon starting with ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' and you'll begin to notice several recurring names in both the cast and crew. Here's a small rundown:
86** The Dark Age Of Disney:
87*** Phil Harris, Creator/PatButtram, Creator/SterlingHolloway (a remnant from the studio's Golden Age) and Creator/GeorgeLindsey.
88*** If the film had a male child protagonist during that period, he was probably voiced by one of animator/director Wolfgang Reitherman's sons.
89** The Renaissance Age of Disney:
90*** Music/AlanMenken and Music/RandyNewman.
91*** Creator/GlenKeane, Creator/AndreasDeja, Ruben Aquino, Mark Henn, Tony Fucile.
92*** Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, Don Hahn, Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff.
93** The Millennium Age of Disney:
94*** Creator/JohnLasseter, Peter Del Vecho, Roy Conli, Clark Spencer
95*** Byron Howard, Don Hall, Jennifer Lee, Stephen J. Anderson, Chris Williams, Creator/RichMoore, Nathan Greno, Jin Kim
96*** Creator/AlanTudyk, Henry Jackman, Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
97* RecycledTheSeries: As mentioned under CanonDiscontinuity on the main page, a number of DAC films got SequelSeries and SpinOff shows:
98** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': ''WesternAnimation/The7D'', a spin-off produced in TheNewTens.
99** ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'': ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheThreeCaballeros'', also a spin-off produced in The New '10s. Oddly, it debuted on a streaming service in the Philippines first.
100** ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': Two; ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'', which ran in on ABC and in syndication from [[TheNineties 1997 to 1998]] (with ''both'' its seasons running concurrently, with season two first airing ''before'' season one) and is set in an AlternateContinuity given that it's based on both the original animated film and [[Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996 its 1996 remake]], and ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'', which aired for one season from 2019[[note]]following a "sneak peek" airing in 2018[[/note]] to 2020 and is set in its own separate continuity decades after the original film.[[note]]Much of the dalmatian characters are descendants of Pongo and Perdita through the family matriarch.[[/note]]
101** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'': Two; ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', which is set in its own universe, and ''WesternAnimation/JungleCubs'', which is a SpinOffBabies version of the original film.
102** ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': While [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh the Disney franchise]] has a number of TV shows, ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' was the only one to be in the style of the original film. That series even had its own sequel direct-to-video holiday specials.
103** ''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid'': [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1992 A prequel TV series of the same name]] that ran in the '90s. The direct-to-video prequel ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'', however, retconned some of the show's elements.
104** ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin|TheSeries}} A successful sequel series]] in the '90s that was bookended by the movie's [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar two]] [[WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves sequels]].
105** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': Two; ''[[WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa]]'', a spin-off which came in the '90s, focuses on the original film's supporting characters. Like ''The Little Mermaid'' TV series above, some of the show's elements are retconned by the direct-to-video POVSequel ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf''. ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'', which came in TheNewTens, is primarily set during the TimeSkip of the [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride first direct-to-video sequel]].
106** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': [[WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries Its TV series]] in the late 90s was [[{{Midquel}} set in the title protagonist's teenage years]] and had a number of contradictions to the original film.
107** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'', which followed up on the 1999 Disney film and also adapted from a number of Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's material.
108** ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'', which came a few years after the film's 2000 release, had the protagonist attend a high school in order to reclaim his throne.
109** ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': ''Three'' of them within fifteen years from its 2002 release, although they're all quite different from one another.
110*** ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', bookended by ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'', ran during [[TurnOfTheMillennium the mid 2000s]] and was the only one of the three shows to truly follow up on the original. This is the possible exception to CanonDiscontinuity that we noted back on the main page since Disney has been significantly and somewhat uncharacteristically more open to incorporating this series' characters in their marketing and merchandise years after the show ended, even in the [[FirstInstallmentWins more puristic]] United States.[[note]]The show's main BigBad Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel made a cameo in the original film, [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments Stitch's cousins]] were briefly alluded to in the beginning of ''Lilo & Stitch'' (and actually appeared in [[ComicStrip/ComicZoneLiloAndStitch supplementary]] [[VideoGame/StitchExperiment626 material]] released ''before'' the original film), one of said cousins--Splodyhead (Experiment 619)--actually made a cameo in ''Big Hero 6'', ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' incorporated Sparky (Experiment 221) in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', and Zap (X-603) is a spell in ''VideoGame/DisneySorcerersArena''. Most prominently, however, Disney's current marketing and merchandising for the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise involves Stitch's love interest from the show, Angel (Experiment 624). She's even become a playable/unlockable character in several Disney crossover mobile games including ''VideoGame/DisneyTsumTsum'' (and later on, so has WesternAnimation/{{Leroy|AndStitch}}/X-629 and Dr. Hämsterviel), ''VideoGame/DisneyMagicKingdoms'', ''Disney Getaway Blast'', ''VideoGame/DisneyHeroesBattleMode'', ''VideoGame/DisneyEmojiBlitz'' (which also has Sparky, Reuben/X-625, and Cannonball/X-520 making a cameo), and ''VideoGame/DisneySpeedstorm'' (which also has Reuben as her Epic Crew Member). And adding on to all that, Disney has even made her, some of Stitch's other cousins, and Dr. Hämsterviel costumed characters at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks, and Angel appears at Disney's Hawaiian resort Aulani alongside Stitch.[[/note]] All the more fitting, considering that Stitch is known to be a rule-breaker.
111*** ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'', an anime series that ran from the late 2000s to the early 2010s (with two later post-series specials), initially seemed to be set in an AlternateContinuity, but then one third-season episode officially made it a TimeSkip StealthSequel to all the Western animated stuff before it, although the show's heavily-edited English dub established it as a sequel much sooner.
112*** ''Animation/StitchAndAi'', a Chinese animated series, came out in 2017. It was partly produced by Americans (including those from the first series) and established itself from the get-go as taking place after ''Leroy & Stitch'', albeit on its own timeline separate from ''Stitch!''. Unlike the first two shows, this one didn't get a second season.
113** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' (later renamed as ''Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure''), a 2D animated sequel series [[{{Interquel}} set between both]] the CGI original film and [[WesternAnimation/TangledEverAfter its sequel short film]].
114** ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'', which is another 2D animated sequel series to a CGI film. The guys behind ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' created this show. Another series, a short series called ''WesternAnimation/{{Baymax}}'', was also produced by WDAS for Creator/DisneyPlus.
115** ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': ''WesternAnimation/ZootopiaPlus'', which told stories from the perspectives of other characters during the events of the film, was produced by WDAS themselves for Disney+.
116** ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Tiana}}'' is also being produced by WDAS for Disney+.
117* ReferencedBy: ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'' is a CampaignComic using the animated films (and others) as source material.
118* TransAtlanticEquivalent: The UK does not consider ''Dinosaur'' as part of the canon. Instead, they include ''The Wild'' (which, unlike ''Dinosaur'', was not produced by a Disney-owned studio; Disney simply distributed it) as part of the canon, which the US does not.
119* UncreditedRole: Until 1984, there was a rule that animators had to draw at least 100 feet of film (roughly 68 seconds) in order to be credited. There are other specific examples on their own work pages.
120* UnisexSeriesGenderedMerchandise: Although Disney films are for everyone, merchandising isn't so lenient. Many of the toys released are aimed at girls, especially the Franchise/DisneyPrincess canon.
121* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
122** Two books have been written on the subject, ''The Disney [[StealthPun That]] [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII Never Was]]'' and ''Disney Lost and Found'' (focusing on My Peoples and Wild Life specifically alongside deleted segments from completed works).
123** ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' was apparently supposed to be Disney's 32nd animated film, to have been released during the 1993 holiday season, with ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', then Disney's 33rd animated film, being scheduled for the 1994 holiday season. Then ''Nightmare'' was rebranded as a Touchstone film due to being DarkerAndEdgier even by Disney's standards (and some of the animated canon's entries are more mature than others) and ''Lion King'' found itself pushed forward to summer 1994 and directly replacing ''Nightmare'' as Disney's 32nd as a direct result of said rebranding. Had things gone as planned, ''Nightmare'' would've been Disney's first non-hand-drawn film, as well as the first and so far only stop-motion entry, in the animated canon.
124** ''Bambi'' and ''The Jungle Book'' were long considered for sequels, but were ultimately turned down, allegedly due to Walt Disney's wariness towards sequels (he only shown considerable interest in following onto ''Fantasia'', though in the form of adding new separate segments to rereleases of the first). While the second films of all three franchises were eventually made decades later, only ''Fantasia''[='=]s made into Disney Animated Canon. Note that had ''Bambi's Children'' came to fruition it would have been the first sequel to be inducted.
125** One of the most intriguing potential films that we may never see is an adaptation of ''Terry Pratchet's Literature/{{Mort}}, [[https://twitter.com/ArtofLostandCan/status/1133389968125116416 and even got up to concept art!]]'' The story goes that after ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', Musker and Clements wanted to adapt the book as a traditionally 2D animated film, but there were a few main factors that meant they couldn't:
126*** The Disney executives were a little apprehensive of ''Death'' becoming a Disney character.
127*** When ''The Princess and the Frog'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh|2011}}'' underperformed, combined with the smash success of ''Tangled'', it made the financial prospects of doing another 2D film uncertain.
128*** The Pratchet estate would only sell the rights to Discworld as a whole, meaning that Disney would have to basically option the entire ''[[LongRunner 34]]'' book series just to adapt one story.
129** A few RecycledTheSeries were considered but never left the cutting room floor [[https://animatedviews.com/2013/o-brother-bear-where-art-thou-why-disney-channel-turned-down-brother-bear-the-series/]].
130*** Some of these shows were developed for a proposed Disney Heritage project, in which shows based on the films would be promoted globally in hopes of increasing the films' popularity. While execs for Disney Channel International was enthusiastic about it, [[ExecutiveMeddling Disney Channel USA was not]] as it would have to finance half of the project and wanted to focus more on tween programming as they believed that genre would be more successful domestically. ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' was an exception, presumably partly because its premise fit what the Disney Channel was aiming for.
131*** ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear: The Series'': Set after the first movie, Koda would've tried to add more orphaned animals to his and Kenai's family — a hyper husky puppy, two owlets, and Doohickey, the last surviving member of an elephant/platypus hybrid species. Koda, Rutt, and Tuke would've had their voice actors reprise their roles, though Kenai would've been [[TheOtherDarrin voiced]] by Creator/WillFriedle. The series got as far as an animatic pilot and was a hit with test audiences, though ''The Emperor's New School'' was greenlit over it due to the above reason as well as its mother film being a slightly bigger hit in the box office and buzz in the U.S. over ''Brother Bear''.
132*** A ''Robin Hood'' animated series and a ''Mulan'' animated series called ''Mulan and the Treasures of Qin'' were also considered.

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