Line #37 YMMV/SleepingBeauty


1	!![[Literature/SleepingBeauty The original]]
2	* CompleteMonster: The [[OurOgresAreHungrier Ogress Queen Mother]] is left to look after her daughter-in-law and grandchildren when her son, the prince, is called away to war. [[ForTheEvulz For no apparent reason]], she decides to [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalize them]], starting with her [[WouldHurtAChild four-year-old granddaughter]], Dawn, ordering her chief steward to kill and cook her. The Steward hides Dawn away and kills and cooks an animal instead, repeating the process with the three-year-old grandson, Day, and the princess. When [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the queen]] realizes the trick, she gathers the princess and her children along with the steward and his wife and servant girl, deciding to drop all six into a vat full of snakes and poisonous toads.
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4	!![[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty The Disney version]]
5	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
6	** What is Aurora's real motivation for going to the castle when she clearly doesn't want to? Is she just spineless? Doing the right thing for the sake of her long-lost parents and their kingdom? Which is she really more sad over- losing Phillip, being told her happy peasant life is a lie and having to leave it forever, having a major career (ruling) forced on her? Or (most likely) '''[[BreakTheCutie all of the above]]'''?
7	** The idea that Maleficent and the Three Fairies are members, respectively, of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classifications_of_fairies Unseelie and Seelie Court.]] Stefan paid the Seelie fairies due respect, referring to them as ''most exalted'', and they responded with gifts in return, as many Seelie fairies were thought to do. However, like all Unseelie Court fairies, Maleficent was AlwaysChaoticEvil and more or less just existed to wreck people, and the Seelie Court had no power or influence over her; they could not reverse Maleficent's curse directly.
8	** Was Maleficent ''really'' offended at not being invited? Or did she just curse Aurora [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]? If she ''were'' invited, would she inevitably have found another excuse?
9	** Some have suggested that Queen Leah, as she's sometimes known, was originally barren, which is why she and Stefan had longed for a child for many years. So Queen Leah made a deal with Maleficent for her to use her powers to give her a child. But out of fear for what the reactions of others would be, she welched on the deal. Maleficent viewed this as a serious snub and decided that, in her mind, if she was refused credit for helping in Aurora's birth, then the deal was off, and Aurora had to go.
10	** There are quite a few people who consider Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather to be the ''true'' MainCharacters of the film. Considering how much focus they get and the fact that they, to an extent, are the ones who really save the day, this isn't an unreasonable viewpoint. It doesn't help that Aurora come off as comparatively simplistic minor characters. This was intentionally placed by Disney to differentiate the film from most of his films at the time.
11	** Flora and Merryweather going a little nuts with the magic during their argument over the dress's colour. Are they just experiencing a rush after being without it for sixteen years? It would explain how easily they get carried away.
12	** As the years have gone by, people are starting to suggest that Aurora is more of a SilkHidingSteel persona -- pointing to how quickly she seems to accept her fate (despite clearly not wanting it) and being able to briefly resist Maleficent's mind control right before she pricks her finger.
13	** When the goons are celebrating after Aurora's curse has come true, Maleficent herself looks morose and miserable. She only perks up when savoring her cruelty to Phillip. Is it just that VictoryIsBoring and Maleficent doesn't enjoy a victory after she has it, or is Fauna correct in that Maleficent is only happy when causing harm, even if it's something as small as causing a frost to destroy Flora's plants.
14	** The three fairies clearly had the power to stop Maleficent, given that they were able to make the sword that Phillip used in the first place. So why weren't they able to use such a power before? Was Maleficent protected against direct magical attack and this was a way around it? Are fairies unable to use their magic against each other in a direct fashion, given how Maleficent makes no attempt to harm the good fairies. Could it be that Maleficent never committed to a full throated battle like she did before and that made her vulnerable? Was Phillip sufficiently motivated by ThePowerOfLove and that strengthened the fairies's magic to the point where it was enough?
15	* AngstWhatAngst: Aurora has a meltdown when she's told she can't see a boy (she literally just met outside of infancy) again. On the other hand, she doesn't give two spits that her aunts are fairies hired to protect her, she's now required to go live as a princess after years of freedom as a peasant, and her parents are actually alive and well. If the happy dance at the end is any indication, Phillip is all that matters.
16	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The film's animation style is quite unusual for Disney and too ahead for ''1959'', feeling more like a Disney Renaissance film and with Eyvind Earle drawing on medieval tapestries to create highly detailed backgrounds that lie somewhere between two- and three-dimensional. Even the people who don't care for the film tend to agree it's amazing to look at.
17	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
18	** Aurora has been criticized for years as one of the weakest and most passive Disney Princesses -- as she's a DamselInDistress who needs to be saved by a man. But the hate Aurora has received a lot of backlash as the years go by, with some finding that she is a good character that gets OvershadowedByAwesome (Maleficent, the fairies, and even Phillip), for stuff that isn't even her fault in the first place. Despite Aurora often being the first princess to get criticized by detractors, she's still one of the most popular princesses among certain fans.
19	** Prince Phillip, to some small extent. Half the people find him just as dull as the princes from ''Snow White'' and ''Cinderella''. Others find him to be likewise an interesting love interest and appreciate his well developed traits, especially in the third act where he took a proactive role in defeating Maleficent in order to free the kingdom their slumber, including his love interest (Aurora), her parents (King Stefan and Queen Leah), and his father (King Hubert).
20	** Aurora’s father, King Stefan, can count. Half of the people criticize him for being almost as dull as Aurora is [[note]]and his personality can be quite inconsistent since he’s still prone to having anger issues and being temperamental/argumentative as King Hubert is, as shown when he went too far in hypocritically offending him about their children not being good enough and almost threatened to declare war with him over their children for no good reason that neither he or Hubert fully apologized to each other, even if he’s supposed to be soft spoken and debonair father[[/note]]. Some people also blame him and Queen Leah for causing the conflict of the movie by failing to invite Maleficent and not confessing their mistake to her about their lack of invitation, while others like him for not being killed off like some Disney Fathers and is actually shown to be a supportive, caring and protective side character to his own daughter, the Three Good Fairies, and son-in-law, even if it meant for him to be OvershadowedByAwesome (Prince Phillip, the Three Fairies and of course, Maleficent) [[note]]Other fans also find Stefan as a comic relief as King Hubert is[[/note]].
21	** Aurora’s mother, Queen Leah, is another good example as well. Some people find her as dull as her daughter is, as well as having little to no personality and lack of screen time, dialogue and active role. Others appreciate her for being OvershadowedByAwesome and not being killed off like most Disney Mothers, as well as being shown to be caring and protective to everyone, including Aurora.
22	* BrokenBase:
23	** Over what colour the dress looks better in -- blue or pink. It spends most of the film blue but is pink in most of the merchandise. This is mostly to distinguish Aurora from WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} whose dress is blue (but is silver in her original film). ''Kingdom Hearts'' offered a compromise and showed the dress being purple.
24	** The movie itself. Some fans dismiss it as being sexist for having the PrincessClassic being a DamselInDistress who "doesn't do anything" and has little to no character development, preferring the villain herself to most of the characters. Other fans praise it as one of Walt's best works of art for its animation and music, with some seeing it as [[http://excellent-show-of-patience.tumblr.com/post/67003045977/sleeping-beauty-review very progressive for its day]], for its female-driven narrative, diverse female characters, a princess who doesn't want to be a princess, and an open-minded prince who dismisses arranged marriages in favor of love.
25	* CantUnHearIt: After seeing this movie, try hard not to imagine hearing "I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream" upon listening to "The Garland Waltz" from Tchaikovsky's ''Sleeping Beauty'' ballet.
26	* CommonKnowledge:
27	** An often used criticism of the movie is that Aurora is asleep for half the movie. This is false. She is enchanted about two-thirds into the movie, right before the climax, with about 25 minutes of the movie remaining. While it is true she has very few lines, she is awake for the majority of the movie.
28	** Aurora really likes sleeping. [[SarcasmMode It's not as though she was cursed to sleep without her consent or knowledge.]] Some even think she touched the spindle on purpose, because... she's dumb?
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30	%%MOD NOTE: Don't add Maleficent as a Complete Monster. She has been ruled out by the Special Efforts forum.
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32	* CoveredUp:
33	** It becomes difficult to watch the ballet once one is familiar with the film, as the same score cues two completely different events in the ballet and film. Hearing the waltz would probably also cause several viewers to mentally hear the lyrics to "Once Upon a Dream" and/or "I Wonder" despite no one actually singing them.
34	** The effect is most notable in the "Characteristic Scene" music. In the film, a ''creepy'' tune where poor ensorcelled Aurora is led to her fate. In the ballet, a funny and flirty dance between Puss-in-Boots and the White Cat.
35	%% A major character--such as the main villain and the fairies--cannot be an EnsembleDarkhorse
36	* EstrogenBrigade: Prince Phillip has quite a lot of fangirls, stemming no doubt from the fact that he was the first human male that Disney was able to produce without putting him into the UnintentionalUncannyValley. There's also his courage, romantic personality, and showing he cares about Aurora's feelings when he sings her song back to her.
37	* EvilIsCool: Maleficent is famous for being a villain JustForFun/MadeOfWin, so popular in her own right that she got [[{{Film/Maleficent}} her own movie]] and a leadership position over the Disney villains in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''. Even her non-canon daughter is the ringleader of [[Film/{{Descendants}} an alternate universe!]]
38	* FairForItsDay: In many ways, ''Sleeping Beauty'' treats its female characters with extreme respect, even when considering that Aurora is a classic DamselInDistress for the last third of the movie. Aurora does not like the idea of being a princess destined to live unhappily in an ArrangedMarriage to a man she doesn't even know, effectively preceding Disney's first "[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 real]]" RebelliousPrincess by three whole decades. And she handles the entire affair with grace and dignity. All three of the good fairies are treated as well-rounded, competent women: Fauna being the nice one does not stop her from saving the day, Flora liking a pink dress does not stop her from being a badass, and Merryweather being a tomboy does not make her [[RealWomenDontWearDresses superior]] to the other two nor does it make her [[VasquezAlwaysDies inferior]]. Even further, the story never shies from the Fairies' flaws, which they overcome to save the day. Maleficent, for her part is powerful and commanding. None of the fairies, nor Maleficent, [[SatelliteLoveInterest function primarily to act as a love interest]] or to provide [[MsFanservice gratuitous fanservice]]. Lastly, gender is never seen as an obstacle: The three good fairies are never seen as weak or weaker for being female, nor is Phillip demeaned for taking assistance from women.
39	* {{Fanon}}:
40	** As Merryweather never gets to give her gift at the christening, fans like to wonder what it might be. A poll on the Disney Princess site saw that 'intelligence' was the most popular opinion, although some [[WordOfStPaul spin-off material]] claims it would have been 'happiness.'
41	** In fan-works, Aurora is [[DoNotCallMePaul often not fond of being called "Aurora"]]. As a result, Phillip often calls her "Briar Rose" in private.
42	** After the events of the film, Aurora suffers from insomnia and frequent nightmares.
43	** Some fans like to attribute any of the fairies' moments that caused Maleficent's plan to succeed (forgetting to block the chimney, leaving Aurora alone) to the curse itself influencing them to do so -- ensuring that Maleficent would discover them before the deadline.
44	* FanonDiscontinuity: Aurora's segment from the CompilationMovie ''WesternAnimation/DisneyPrincessEnchantedTalesFollowYourDreams'' hasn't gotten much love from the public. Its crimes include turning the princess into a ditz, and boasting animation that fails at evoking "a moving illustration." Even Aurora's original voice actress, Mary Costa, believes it justifies Disney's refusal to make a full-length sequel. (read the second page of [[http://www.dvdizzy.com/sleepingbeauty-interview.html this interview]])
45	* FriendlyFandoms: Fans of this tend to also be very fond of ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', and vice versa, as they were all made by Walt Disney himself, are close to the original stories they were based on, have the same elements of magic and charming characters. Fans of Aurora tend to like Snow White and Cinderella as well, for being sweet young women who get through hardship through love and faith.
46	* FoeYayShipping: While they are less popular than the OfficialCouple, Maleficent/Aurora have a decent following. When [[Film/{{Maleficent}} the remake]] got released and put a new spin on their relationship, the popularity of the cartoon version of the ship grew as well.
47	* HilariousInHindsight:
48	** A deleted scene on the Diamond Edition UsefulNotes/BluRay portrays Aurora as almost a proto-[[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jasmine]]: A princess who spends her life cooped up in a castle and desires freedom so strongly, she releases her pet bird from its cage, then sneaks to the marketplace disguised as a peasant, whereupon she meets the love of her life.
49	** For Spaniard audiences there was a big one in the Latin American Spanish dub, of all places. Prince Phillip's name was localized in Spanish as "Felipe"[[note]]Which is the Spanish equivalent of "Phillip". Thus why this isn't quite a DubNameChange[[/note]], and thus remained as his official name in Spain as well. Fastforward 22 years later, when Spain became a democratic monarchy once again after Franco's dictatorship. And just so happened that the heir to the throne was Felipe de Borbón, who was born 12 years after the movie came out. Right until he was crowned king in 2015, Spaniard audiences couldn't help but chuckle hearing "Príncipe Felipe" in this movie's Spanish version.
50	** Fauna suggests that they attempt to reason with Maleficent because she can't be all bad; Fauna also speculates that Maleficent isn't very happy, knowing nothing about love, kindness, and joy of helping others. In this movie, Maleficent is of course evil, but Fauna sort of predicts the remake, ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'', in which the titular character is [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds driven to villainy as a result of being physically and emotionally broken]]; she unexpectedly finds herself helping Aurora, learns to be kind and love again, and pulls a HeelFaceTurn because of that.
51	** Flora and Merryweather have a fight over whether Aurora's dress should be pink or blue. Years later, when the anime adaptation of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' was announced, Giorno's outfit being changed from dark blue to bright pink triggered a similar debate.
52	** When Prince Phillip announces that he loves a peasant girl and intends to marry her, King Hubert exclaims "Give up the throne, the kingdom, for some, some nobody? By Harry, I won't have it!" (Presumably the phrase "By Harry" refers to Saint Henry, a medieval Holy Roman Emperor.) Decades later, [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex]] would marry a commoner, Creator/MeghanMarkle, and give up his duties and status as a senior royal for her sake.
53	* JustHereForGodzilla: Let’s not get started on all those [[EvilIsCool Maleficent]] fans and her role in the film being VindicatedByHistory.
54	* MagnificentBitch: [[EvilSorceress Maleficent]], the [[CardCarryingVillain Mistress of All Evil]], is a [[TheFairFolk wicked fairy]] who takes [[SacredHospitality hospitality seriously]]. Upon being slighted by a refusal to invite her to Princess Aurora's birthday, Maleficent curses her to prick her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle and die at age 16. When the good fairies Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather counter the curse and spirit Aurora off to raise, Maleficent later uncovers how bad her minions have botched the search and handles it herself. Easily luring Aurora to prick her finger, Maleficent then sees Prince Phillip caught by her trap so that none can wake the princess for a century. Upon Phillip getting free, Maleficent assumes the [[OneWingedAngel form of a mighty dragon]] to face him, boasting that facing her, he faces all the powers of hell itself.
55	* MemeticLoser: Aurora sadly, given that she's in a coma for a chunk of the movie. She's typically attacked for being the weakest or most passive Disney Princess.
56	* MemeticMutation:
57	** The internet has not been kind to Aurora. She's typically portrayed as a Mean Girl of some sort in her interactions with the other princesses. [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/sassy-sleeping-beauty-is-the-queen-of-disney-princesses#.bg0XDK940 Here]]'s a pretty good example.
58	** During United States elections, it's become a meme to represent the constant shifting between Democrat and Republican majority votes through Merryweather and Flora's debacle of "make it blue" vs. "make it pink".
59	* MoralEventHorizon: Maleficent crosses this when she condemns Princess Aurora (as a baby no less) to her doom by pricking her finger on a spindle needle on her sixteenth birthday -- [[DisproportionateRetribution and all because she wasn't invited to the party]]. Partially this and likely partially [[ForTheEvulz just for fun]], with even the not being invited thing as a mere direction towards whom was she going to destroy.
60	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound:
61	** The noise of Maleficent's staff tapping off the ground, because a) it usually means she's about to dish out some delicious villainy, and b) it's the same noise she makes when she's a dragon.
62	** Mary Costa showing off her beautiful soprano voice as Aurora sings "I wonder..."
63	* {{Narm}}: The StockSoundEffect of Dopey's sobbing from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' is reused for Aurora's when she arrives in the castle. It's not ''painfully'' bad when she's onscreen, at least, but once it cuts to the fairies and they start talking over it, it's pretty hard not to envision Dopey himself sitting there crying instead of Aurora, and that just takes all the seriousness and tragedy out of the scene. Besides, it’s ''clearly'' obvious that it’s a male voice in falsetto (presumably either Eddie Collins or Jimmy [=MacDonald=]) and not Mary Costa.
64	* NeverLiveItDown: Flora and Fauna's hilariously disastrous efforts at dressmaking and cake-baking. They've made many fans assume that all three fairies are completely incompetent without magic (as opposed to Flora and Fauna just being bad at sewing and cooking, respectively) and consider it FridgeLogic that they managed to raise Aurora. This is probably what led to their {{Flanderization}} as imbeciles in {{Film/Maleficent}}.
65	* OlderThanTheyThink: Much of the music and songs were heavily borrowed from Tchaikovsky's music for the ballet of the same name. For instance, "Once Upon a Dream", the movie's most notable song? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDbt_2oMFEk Boom.]] In some parts, it's actually taken a step further: some parts of the movie's incidental music actually use movements from Tchaikovsky's original ballet with slight reorchestrations in some places! One of the most prominent examples is the use of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omIZgkAPsPU Puss in Boots and the White Cat]] as the music with which [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNjfdkZy0E Aurora pricks her finger.]]
66	* OnceOriginalNowCommon:
67	** It's arguably the TropeCodifier for what many consider the "Disney Princess formula" of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and its many imitators, especially compared to the films of the MediaNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, particularly regarding its characters like Aurora for PrincessClassic and RebelliousPrincess (albeit a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed one]]), Phillip for PrinceCharming and KnightInShiningArmor, the Three Fairies for FairyCompanion and SpotlightStealingSquad, Maleficent for CardCarryingVillain and OneWingedAngel, and Samson for CoolHorse and NonHumanSidekick.
68	** It's hard to watch ''Sleeping Beauty'' nowadays and ''not'' think of the Creator/{{Rankin Bass\|Productions}} animated adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit'' from the late Seventies, or of the many [[HighFantasy "sword and sorcery"]] animated kids' shows of The80s (the best example probably being ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983''), whose collective aesthetic and tone echoed a lot of what was seen and heard in this film.
69	* PopularWithFurries: Maleficent's dragon form has a decent amount of fan art by furries.
70	* RetroactiveRecognition: A Young [[Creator/FilmRoman Phil Roman]] got his start in animation as an assistant animator here, albeit [[UncreditedRole uncredited.]]
71	* RootingForTheEmpire: Maleficent, by virtue of being by far the most entertaining and memorable part of the film, gets many people rooting for her just because she's that cool, especially compared to the fairly bland and vanilla Aurora and Phillip.
72	* [[HesJustHiding She's Just Hiding]]: Many fans believe that Maleficent is still alive, mainly because [[NoBodyLeftBehind she apparently left no corpse]]. In the AlternateUniverse ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' canon they use this to reintroduce Maleficent, as thinking about her when her cloak is nearby resurrects her. In fact, during the recreation of the movie's climax in the prequel ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', Maleficent actually ''SURVIVES'' being stabbed by Phillip, albeit weakly limping away while clutching her chest back in fairy form, though only [[ActionGirl Aqua]] knows of her survival. And in ''{{Film/Maleficent}}'' she is [[spoiler: SparedByTheAdaptation]].
73	* SignatureScene: The epic confrontation between Prince Phillip and dragon-form Maleficent.
74	* SignatureSong: "Once Upon A Dream" of course. Although there aren't that many other songs in the movie.
75	* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The 1959 Latin American Spanish dub -- the acting is almost perfect. However, it was redubbed in 2001 and... [[SubbingVersusDubbing Well...]]
76	* ValuesResonance:
77	** The fact that the driving force of the film are, well, the three good fairies and Maleficent -a meaning that the film's driven primarily ''by'' women. Even at the end, Phillip only succeeds ''with'' the aid of the fairies.
78	** Phillip's "This ''is'' the fourteenth century!" line wherein he decides to marry for love, rather than politics is a line that has aged fairly well in that he shows a much more modern portrayal of marriage. A plot point is that Phillip and Aurora were betrothed to one another, something that when the film was set ''was'' actually common, especially amongst royalty and nobility.
79	* VanillaProtagonist: Aurora and Phillip represent on a grand scale fairy tale archetypes--PrincessClassic and PrinceCharming. This is fairly obvious at the start of the film, but by the time the third act has begun, unique personality and even dialogue are cut out to leave behind only the archetypes. That is if you believe they ''are'' the focus of the movie in the first place.
80	* VindicatedByHistory:
81	** This film did not recoup its budget (in spite of grossing well enough to come second in the box office during its opening) and, at best, garnered mixed results from critics, who praised the visuals but criticized for feeling too similar and/or inferior to ''Snow White'' and ''Cinderella''. Its failings were a crushing disappointment to Walt Disney himself and nearly killed off the studio's production of animated feature films. Although the process used to make it helped lower the costs of future animated movies and keep it going, no fairy tales would come out of the studio until MediaNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation hit with ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid\|1989}}''. Nowadays, however, the film is considered a classic that proved that the studio was able to make a genuinely dark fairy tale and helped to give the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon canon]] one of its greatest villains.
82	** As far as feminist theory goes, the movie was once seen as a typical "Prince rescues Princess" flick with the female lead having no agency of her own. While Aurora is still seen as one of the flatter Disney Princesses, it's now common to view this movie as FeministFantasy once one remembers the ''other'' four main female leads. Maleficent is the mistress of ''all'' evil and far more powerful than most Disney villains. Prince Phillip meanwhile is guided by the three Fairies who in turn have their own individual quirks, ambitions and dynamics outside that of any male. It's still uncommon to find female leads that don't end up in love, [[MenGetOldWomenGetReplaced or are at least somewhat elderly]], so there's a sentiment that Disney was ahead of the curb at the time, even if unintentionally. Most importantly is the fact that the fairies who give Phillip the powers needed to smite Maleficent, who would have clearly won were it not for the magical aid. In essence, Phillip acts as more of a proxy for a fight between the fairies and Maleficent, and their cooperation brings her down.
83	* {{Wangst}}: It's not hard to see Aurora's misery about not seeing the boy she met a half hour before and going to live with her parents in a castle and be a princess as being overly dramatic. Made somewhat HilariousInHindsight when Maleficent gets [[Film/{{Maleficent}} her own movie]], which actually touches on the fact that Aurora and Phillip have only just met. [[spoiler: Since genuine love cannot exist after only a single meeting, Prince Phillip doesn't end up being the one to break Aurora's curse.]] Others are more charitable to her and believe her angst is pretty understandable since the revelation about being a princess and going to the castle overlaps with her ''finding out that her entire life has been a total lie'' and on top of it, doesn't even get any agency over her romantic life!
84	* TheWoobie: Poor Aurora. In many scenes, she looks like a kicked puppy. Because of the fairies' (understandable) protectiveness, she's never been able to go far from her home or meet many people. Then in just one day -- which also happens to be [[ABirthdayNotABreak her birthday]] -- she finds out that she's actually a princess who was separated from her real parents to protect her from an evil sorceress, that she's been betrothed since birth to a bloke she (supposedly) has never met and is expected to marry him soon, has to leave the only home and family she's ever known to live in an unfamiliar place with strangers, is told she can never again see a young man she's fallen in love with (and who appears to be the first friend she's made outside of a bunch of forest critters), and ''then'' she gets hypnotized and rendered comatose.

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