Fanfic / Princess Fantasy DX 2

Princess Fantasy DX-2 is a Fanfic written by Storysmith 112358, in which the climaxes of famous Disney Animated Canon films with prominent female characters are re-imagined with a twist: each Disney Princess gains a unique Final Fantasy X-2 Dressphere and battles the villain herself! Based on the works of Deviantart artist Skirtzzz[1], the Fic was started on October 23, 2013, and can be found on Fanfiction.net here [2]. It should be noted that not every character in this series is a Princess, or in the official Disney Princess line-up; any female protagonist will do, be they independent Disney characters like Sally Finklestein, or live-action characters like Quorra. However, as of 2016, the Fic has not seen any updates, so it must be considered a Dead Fic. Still, read and enjoy at your leisure!

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This Fanfic contains examples of:

• Acceptable Breaks from Canon: In Snow White proper, the Magic Mirror is large enough to be mounted on a wall. Here, it's small enough that Prince Frederick can fit it in his saddlebag, and carry it with him to consult.
• Adaptational Alternate Ending:
  • Pocahontas manages to defeat Governor Ratcliffe and prevent the Powhatans and the settlers from going to war, ushering in an age of peace between Native Americans and white settlers, and ensuring she and John Smith never get separated.
  • Instead of regaining his godhood and then giving it up to stay with Megara, Hercules stays a god and the Olympians grant apotheosis to Megara too, as a reward for her efforts against the Titans.
  • Kevin Flynn gets to escape from the Grid along with Sam and Quorra, instead of sacrificing himself to kill Clu.
• Adaptational Badass: All the Disney Princesses. It's the whole point of this fic.
  • Also Rajah the tiger, Ray the firefly, Drizella and Anastasia Tremaine, and the entirety of Olympus, who all join Herc and Meg in fighting the Titans whereas in canon, only Zeus and Hermes joined them.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • The Morrigan is a much more benevolent(though by no means friendly) figure than her mythological counterpart, a Blood Knight who would start wars between Celtic clans for her own amusement.
  • If you consider Gargoyles to be a part of the Disney Animated Canon, then Oberon and Titania are less capricious and more empathic towards humans than their counterparts there.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Shan Yu is a Bad Boss to his men, threatening and abusing them for not doing their job properly, and forcing them to fight Mulan just to test her strength.
• Adaptational Nationality: The royal families of Sleeping Beauty were presumably English in the original film, but here, Aurora's family is German, and Philip's is French.
• Adaptation Species Change: The Witch's corvid friend in the original Brave was a crow. Here, it's a raven.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: All the titles of the stories.
• All Myths Are True: Considering the nature of the Disney Animated Canon, this is to be expected. So far, the Fic has included references to Merlin, European Faerie Court, Classical Mythology, Christianity, Voudoun, Arabic Mythology, Atlantean mythology, Chinese Mythology, Celtic Mythology, and Algonquin Mythology.
• Animal Motif: Double subverted. The Witch from Brave is actually a God in Human Form. You'd expect her to be a Celtic goddess with a bear motif, like Artio, right? WRONG! She's actually the Morrigan, a goddess associated with crows and ravens. Apparently, the Witch's raven familiar is just a small clue as to her true identity.
• Animated Armor: Prince Adam's guards were turned into these by the Enchantress' curse. As an advantage, it means that being pushed over by Gaston leaves one of them in pieces but alive, provided they can put him back together before the curse is lifted.
• Ax-Crazy: Frollo's sanity has really taken a nosedive by the time he faces Esmeralda.
• Bad Boss:
  • Shan Yu forces his five Elite Huns into battle against Mulan to gauge her strength, after openly threatening and berating them for getting deceived by her and warning them that they'd be missing "a very important body part" if he didn't need them at that moment.
  • John Smith tells Governor Ratcliffe that the reason the settlers respect Smith instead of him is because he takes care of the men, while Ratcliffe just exploits and abuses them. Ratcliffe's reaction to this? Punch John and pull a sword on him, then attack Thomas and Ben when they try standing up to him.
• Bears Are Bad News: Subverted, Mor'du's a lot less dangerous to Merida after she obtains Three Kings.
• Berserk Button: Quite a few of these are pressed, either by heroes or villains.
• BFS: Merida's sword, Three Kings. Empowered by the souls of Mor'du's three brothers, such a sword is large and powerful enough to cut the Nigh-Invulnerable Demon Bear.
  • Mulan's family greatsword, empowered by her chi, and that of Da Longshi(the spirit of the Great Stone Dragon), Mushu, and all the Fa family guardians. It's large enough that Shan Yu doesn't think she can lift it.
• Bilingual Bonus: Merida's last attack has a Gaelic name based on a famous sword in Celtic Mythology, Esmeralda's attack names are in Latin(and her staff has a Romani name), Megara's attack names are in Greek, Mulan's are in Chinese, and Tiana's are in French.
• Blood Knight: Rajah and Paigu, being tigers, are naturally eager to fight and kill evil.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Brother Delbert is this, if his constant heckling of Maleficent is anything to go by.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Drizella, thanks to her mother's magic.
• Cain and Abel: Hades and Zeus, Kalfu and Legba, and Drizella and Anastasia, respectively.
• Calling the Old Man Out:
  • Sally Finklestein does a brief form of this to her overprotective creator Dr. Finklestein before knocking him out and leaving the house to save Jack.
  • Rapunzel to Gothel before she leaves her to die.
  • Quasimodo to Frollo after taking his dagger, as per canon.
  • Anastasia to her own mother Lady Tremaine, upon deciding she can't go through with marrying Prince Charming. And Cinderella joins her in cutting Tremaine up.
• Can't Take Criticism: The Queen of Hearts and Judge Claude Frollo.
• Cardboard Prison: Queen Grimhilde locked Prince Frederick in her dungeon, which was due to fill with water, to ensure he couldn't see Snow White again, but the chains she put him in couldn't hold a child, so he broke out and took the Magic Mirror with him to save Snow White.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Queen Grimhilde openly states that she hates Snow White's goodness and purity, which speaks volumes about Grimhilde's moral alignment, but Maleficent naturally takes the cake. She is the Mistress Of All Evil, after all.
• Cast from Lifespan: The power of the Arcana works like this: despite giving Megara the power to challenge the Titans, every time she uses it, she sends her soul one step closer to the underworld. And eventually, she dies blasting the Titans with it, so Hercules has to go fetch her soul back as per canon.
• I Call It "Vera": Kida has two daggers called Dem and Mar(the Atlantean for "Land" and "Sea").
• Combat Hand Fan: Both Drizella and Anastasia Tremaine fight with these when their mother empowers them with the Fairy Godmother's wand.
• Combat Pragmatist: Villains and heroes alike both use this.
• Creepy Good: The Morrigan, Damballah, Arcana-powered Megara.
• Creepy Monotone: Drizella talks like this when brainwashed by her mother's ill-gotten magic.
• Creepy Ravens: Diablo is an evil version of this trope. The Morrigan has one as her familiar, and her Animal Motif.
• Cruel Mercy: What Rapunzel subjects Gothel to: she won't kill Gothel directly, but she will happily leave her to age and die without Rapunzel's youth-restoring hair.
• Deal with the Devil: Maleficent made a pact with the Seven Princes of Hell, making her more magically powerful than Oberon and Titania.
• Death by Adaptation: All five of Shan-Yu's Elite Huns are killed by Mulan when Shan-Yu sends them in to test her strength before he confronts her himself.
• Deity of Human Origin: Megara becomes this as a reward from the gods for assisting them against the Titans.
• Didn't Think This Through: Hongshu the monkey locks the Elite Huns(and Hayabusa) in a room to keep them out of Mulan's battle with Shan-Yu. Sadly, it's a statue display room, so the Huns just use the statues as battering rams to break down the door. Lampshaded by Mushu.
  Mushu: Hongshu! Didn't you check to see what kind of room it was before you locked them in it?
  Hongshu: How was I supposed to know it was a statue display room?
  Mushu: You're supposed to be the smart one, that's how!
  • When Tiana destroys Facilier's amulet, Kalfu comes to collect Facilier in compensation- and gets lassoed by his brother Legba, who taunts him for thinking the other Loa would not notice what Kalfu was doing- especially when he tried taking the bokor in a church dedicated to Saint Anthony, of all places.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Queen Grimhilde falls off the mountain when she steps on a wet cliff-face instead of having a bolt of lightning bring down the cliff below her feet. Mor'du has the menhir brought down on him by Elinor and Merida's combined efforts. Clu is dropped into the Sea of Simulation instead of being reabsorbed by Kevin Flynn. Shan-Yu is carried into the munitions tower by a dragon construct made of flames, instead of a massive firecracker.
• Disney Villain Death: Played straight with Queen Grimhilde, as per canon. Subverted by Clayton, who just ends up unconscious instead of hanging himself. Subverted with Jafar, who levitates back onto the balcony in human form after being thrown off it as a cobra. Played straight with Clu, who falls into the Sea of Simulation, as well as Tron/Rinzler. Nearly played straight but subverted with Belle(thrown off the balcony by Gaston, but survives thanks to the Enchantress), Adam(jumps off the castle to catch her, but is also saved by Belle levitating him) and Gaston(Belle contemplates throwing him to his death like he tried to do to her, but ultimately decides he's Not Worth Killing).
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Narrowly subverted. Merida's shooting arrows at her enrages the Morrigan into revealing her true identity by shooting at her and blaming her for her problems, and the Phantom Queen reaches for a dagger- but then remembers she made a Side Bet with the Dagda to spend a week with him if she couldn't restrain her Hair-Trigger Temper for a year, and decides to let Merida live.
• Dragons Are Demonic: As per canon, Maleficent draws her powers from Hell, and she turns into a dragon to kill Philip and Aurora.
• Dragons Are Divine: The Chinese Divine Sovereign, Fu Xi, has a dragon's body below a human head.
• Dumb Muscle: Hongshu the monkey is incredulous when he sees the Elite Huns mistaking three male soldiers in Paper-Thin Disguises for "ugly concubines", concluding that Shan Yu must be the only Hun to actually be intelligent.
• Eastern Zodiac: The Fa Family Guardians are all animals from this (Mushu is the dragon, obviously, though he doesn't end up becoming a Guardian until after he assists in killing Shan Yu).
• Egomaniac Hunter: Clayton, as per canon. He furiously screams that "Africa was made for me!" whilst confronting Tarzan in the treetops.
• Even Evil Has Standards: The King of Hearts tries to convince his wife not to sentence Alice too severely, though that's mainly because he's lusting after Alice's Sexier Alter Ego.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Ratcliffe and Frollo both suffer from this.
• Evil Is Petty: Grimhilde hates Snow White for being more attractive than her. Gaston wants to hurt Belle for refusing to marry him. Maleficent cursed Aurora as a baby just for not being invited to her christening. In Maleficent's case, her pettiness is the whole reason queen Mab banned her from the Unseelie Court.
• Evil Old Folks: Queen Grimhilde turns herself into this in an attempt to kill Snow White. Instead, Snow White traps her in her old, ugly form by stripping her of her magic, and ensures that she spends the rest of her life as a powerless hag.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Ursula when she grows gigantic, as per canon.
• Everybody Hates Hades:
  • Hades is the Big Bad of Hercules, as per canon, but Erebus tells Nyx that the time he spends in the Pyriphlegethon will purge him of his hatred for his family so that he can redeem himself.
  • Subverted by Baron Samedi, who is apparently going to punish Facilier for his attempts at enslaving the entirety of New Orleans.
• Everyone Has Standards: The Unseelie Court is home to the darker varieties of The Fair Folk, so it speaks volumes that their Queen Mab found Maleficent too spiteful and cruel for them and banished her.
• Faerie Court: King Oberon and Queen Titania from the Seelie Court appear in Chapter 15. The Unseelie Court, ruled by Queen Mab, is alluded to- and apparently, Mab banned Maleficent from her Court for being too selfish, cruel, and spiteful.
• Fate Worse than Death: What Snow White subjects Grimhilde to: she deprives her of her magic, including the magic that could have restored her former youthful appearance, thereby confining her to the form of a powerless old hag. Subverted because Grimhilde then accidentally kills herself going into a helpless temper tantrum after Snow White leaves and she falls off the cliff anyway.
• Faux Affably Evil: Dr. Facilier tries his hardest to bribe Tiana into giving him his amulet back, but when she refuses, he decides to us force.
• Feathered Fiend: Iago, Diablo and Hayabusa, as per canon.
• Fiery Redhead: Ariel, Merida, and Brother Delbert, a Boisterous Bruiser of a fairy.
• Fire/Water Juxtaposition: Drizella and Anastasia use opposing elemental attacks on one another with their Combat Hand Fans.
• Flash Step: Kida can move so fast when she's empowered, she appears to be teleporting.
• Fur Bikini: Pocahontas' Dressphere consists of this. Still serves her pretty well against Governor Ratcliffe.
• God's Hands Are Tied: Often given as a reason why the gods who empower the Princesses can't take direct action themselves.
• God in Human Form: The Morrigan takes the form of the Witch/Woodcarver, and Lady Kritim takes the form of Kida's mother, Queen Idesha.
• God Is Good: Quite a lot of gods are portrayed as this: the Morrigan, the Olympians, Erebus and Nyx, Fu Xi and the Celestial Bureaucracy, Lady Kritim, Legba and Damballah, the Manitou and Ketanetuwit, the Virgin Mary (yes, the last one's not actually a god, but she's still an important holy figure, and she's certainly good).
• God of Evil: Hades starts out as this, but is implied to be set up for a Heel–Face Turn after the story finishes. Kalfu/Maitre Carrefour plays this straight, as the malicious Loa Facilier made a bargain with.
• Gold and White Are Divine: Rapunzel's powered-up costume is white, coupled with her glowing blonde hair: naturally, the injured Eugene thinks that he's already died, because how else could he be seeing an angel?
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: When Queen Grimhilde is torturing her, Snow White asks whether every cruel thing she's ever done is purely because Snow White is fairer than her.
• Good Is Not Soft: Snow White, Pocahontas, Merida, Rajah... Everyone in this Fic, really.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The Seven Princes of Hell in "The Sinister Spindle". We never get to see them, but they were responsible for giving Maleficent greater power than Oberon and Titania.
• Guile Hero: Aladdin, as per canon. He tricks Jafar onto the balcony so that Rajah can knock him off and kill him.
• Guns Akimbo: Snow White's Poison Pistols.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Played with. Snow White, Sally, Jane, and Cinderella use firearms(or a cannon, in Cinderella's case), but Ronin Merida ditches her bow for a sword(justified, because she's going up against Mor'du), and there are just as many Princesses with melee weapons.
• Healing Hands: Rapunzel has this taken up to eleven when she gains a Dressphere: she doesn't even need to touch Eugene to heal the stab wound Gothel gave him.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: Zeus tells the Titans to "Get the Tartarus off my mountain!" right before attacking them with lightning.
• Holy Burns Evil: After Frollo refuses a Last-Second Chance to repent his actions, Esmeralda sends him staggering off the balcony to his death with a scalding column of holy light.
• Hollywood Voodoo: Averted. Bayou Jeb teaches Tiana that there's more to voodoo than curses and shadows, like Facilier dabbles in.
• Honorable Elephant: Tantor, as per canon, who comes to help Tarzan escape Clayton's men.
• Hydra Problem: Not the actual Hydra, which Hercules has already killed long before Megara gains her Dressphere, but Jafar, who grows an additional head in response to Rajah giving him a massive wound in his neck.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Rajah the tiger. As The Beastmaster, Jasmine directs his attacks, but he's the one who names them and does the most damage to Jafar, and he's the one who empowered himself and Jasmine in the first place.
• Hypocrite: Judge Claude Frollo is explicitly called one of these. For all his professed piety and devotion to carrying out God's will, when he finds out that the Romani girl he's trying to murder derives her powers from the Virgin Mary herself, his mind can't process it.
• Hypocritical Humor: This bit from "Spirits and Savages":
  Ratcliffe: SMITH!! What is the meaning of this?! We come all this way to rescue you, and now we find you consorting with savages?! TRAITOR!
  Chief Powhatan(with Pocahontas translating for him): Governor Ratcliffe, I assume? Don't you think that someone who is howling up at us and frothing at the mouth while calling us savages is a little stupid?
• If I Can't Have You…: Gaston says this word-for-word before trying to kill Belle.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Anastasia Tremaine has this mindset, which is what encourages her to stand up to her mother and refuse to go along with marrying Prince Charming.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Snow White and Jane Porter are not used to their Striperrific costumes. Makes sense, since they're a (formerly) 14-year old girl and Victorian Proper Lady, respectively.
• Insult Backfire: When Maleficent calls King Oberon an "old goat" after he pokes holes in her Exact Words, Brother Delbert stands up for him:
  Delbert: Hah! Need we remind you, Maleficent, that Queen Mab is just as old as Old Man Oberon here? I don't recall you calling her an old goat when she threw you out of the Unseelie Court!
• Interchangeable Asian Cultures: As per canon, Hayabusa is a Hun falcon with a Japanese name.
• I Reject Your Reality: Frollo and Ratcliffe can't accept or process the fact that their deeds are not making God proud, or that the Powhatans are not savage, gold-hoarding barbarians, respectively.
• I Shall Taunt You: Aladdin does this to Jafar to lure the sorcerer-turned-snake onto the balcony so Rajah can knock him off. Brother Delbert heckles Maleficent while Oberon and Titania are "negotiating" with her, and only their presence keeps her from murdering him on the spot.
• It's All About Me: The Queen of Hearts, Gothel, Grimhilde, and Gaston are all defined by their self-centeredness.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Paigu and Wantan aren't the most vocally supportive of Mushu, but considering he made a mistake that cost Fa Deng his head, it makes sense.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Wantan warms up to Mushu after he proves he's no longer the selfish screw-up she saw him as.
• Jesus Was Way Cool: And so is his mother, Mary, as Esmeralda finds out.
• Jesus Taboo: Played with. Despite all the diverse pantheons, Jesus himself doesn't appear... but his mother, the Virgin Mary, does appear, to empower Esmeralda.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: When Alice irks her enough, the Queen of Hearts gets off her throne and prepares to cut off Alice's head herself, with a Cool Sword.
• "Just Joking" Justification: The Cheshire Cat gives this as an excuse for framing Alice for humiliating the Queen of Hearts. Alice doesn't buy it, so...
• Karma Houdini Warranty: The Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts both get punished for their actions towards Alice at her trial.
• Kick the Dog: Too many to count from the villains, but Grimhilde's actions towards Snow White and Maleficent's towards Aurora qualify.
• Kill It with Fire: Oogie Boogie and Shan Yu both die like this at the hands of Sally and Mulan, respectively. As for Frollo, he drowns in liquid copper, which is close enough.
• Kill It with Water: Conversely, Clu dies by being dropped into the Sea of Simulation and being derezzed.
• Kneel Before Frodo: The Chinese Emperor and everyone in the Imperial City to Mulan, as per canon.
• Kneel Before Zod: Shan-Yu wants all of China to do this for him. And he briefly succeeds in forcing Mulan to her knees. Emphasis on "briefly".
• Knife Outline: Alice pins the Cheshire Cat in place with throwing knifes without actually injuring him, but preventing him from vanishing in the process.
• Lack of Empathy: Quite a few villains, but Shan Yu and Lady Tremaine take the cake.
• Large Ham: Most of the villains qualify as this, but the Queen of Hearts more so than most, due to possessing a Hair-Trigger Temper and No Indoor Voice.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Mor'du killed his brothers after becoming the Demon Bear. Merida kills him with Three Kings, a sword empowered by the souls of his brothers.
• Lightning Bruiser: Invoked by Aladdin, who taunts Jafar for not being faster as a cobra than he was as a man to get him out onto the balcony.
• Loophole Abuse: Rajah becomes a master of this after briefly becoming the Genie's new master. When the Genie tells him that he can't be used to make people fall in love, Rajah points out that he can ensure they stay in love, and he makes his final wish to be that Aladdin and Jasmine's bond cannot be broken by any means mundane or magical.
  • The Virgin Mary uses this to justify empowering Esmeralda. If she used unnatural powers to hurt someone at the command of one person, that could be interpreted as witchcraft. If such acts were apparently carried out by nature itself, that could only be justified by divine intervention.
• Lord of the Ocean: Ursula declares herself to be this, after usurping King Triton. Ariel tells her to Shut Up, Hannibal! right before killing her.
• Lovable Lizard: Pascal, as per canon.
• Love Redeems: Mushu's platonic love for his friend Mulan makes him the first to volunteer to donate his chi to empower her enough to fight Shan Yu directly.
• Magical Native American: Pocahontas was already implied to be one of these in her home canon, but here, as a Berserker, she takes it up to eleven.
• Magic Mirror: The Trope Namer appears, siding with Prince Frederick after he took him from Queen Grimhilde's castle.
• Magic Music: Ariel's Dressphere abilities.
• Martial Pacifist: The author actually noted the difficulties in making Pocahontas, who's most well known for being an Actual Pacifist, The Berserker. And true to form, she doesn't kill Ratcliffe- but after beating him up like that, he'll probably wish she did.
• Mischief-Making Monkey: Hongshu the Monkey Guardian is less irritated by Mushu's hilarious antics than Wantan or Paigu.
• Mixed Animal Species Team: The Fa family Guardians, being based on the Eastern Zodiac:
  • Mifan, a rat(and not the dirty types).
  • Xiongrou, an ox.
  • Paigu, a tiger.
  • Jiangcai, a rabbit.
  • Mushu, though he's not officially restored to Guardianship until after Mulan defeats Shan Yu.
  • Pidan, a snake.
  • Doufu, a horse.
  • Dunyang, a sheep.
  • Hongshu, a monkey.
  • Kungpao, a rooster(not a funny one, though).
  • Wantan, a dog.
  • Charsiew, a pig(not a messy one, either).
  • The Manitou, messengers of Ketanetuwit, are Eagle-of-the-Central-Skies, Bison-of-the-Southern-Plains, Wolf-of-the-Western-Forests, Cougar-of-the-Northern-Mountains and Heron-of-the-Eastern-Rivers.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Mulan, when she's empowered by the chi of Da Longshi and the Fa Family Guardians-plus Mushu- gains the strength to wield not one, but two greatswords, without seemingly gaining larger muscles. Shan-Yu's men are certainly perplexed.
• Mythology Gag: Queen Grimhilde references two ways she used to try to kill Snow White in the books-"Poisoned by a cursed comb! Strangled by a corset!"- when Snow has her cornered on top of a mountain.
  • Also, Prince Frederick's exploits off-screen(Grimhilde imprisoned him in her dungeons, hoping to drown him, but he escaped and stole her Magic Mirror) are based on old script ideas for the original film.
  • Dr. Facilier's first name is given as Duval. In the original drafts of The Princess and the Frog, Facilier was going to be called Dr. Duvalier, after Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, the former dictator of Haiti and alleged Voodoo practicioner, but Disney changed the name to prevent offending Duvalier's remaining supporters.
• Named by the Adaptation:
  • Snow White's prince is called Frederick of House Hohenstauffen.
  • Kida's mother is called Queen Idesha.
  • One of Clayton's mutineers is called Crowe (and he's a bit sticky-fingered, appropriately).
  • The underworld river Meg ends up in is the Pyriphlegethon(based off an actual underworld river in Classical Mythology called the Phlegethon.)
  • Dr. Facilier's first name is Duval.
  • Tiana's last name is Marshall.
  • Mama Odie's full name is Mambo Assogwe Odelle(her title as a voodoo priestess).
  • The dark Loa who Facilier made his bargains with is Kalfu/Maitre Carrefour, the brother of Legba.
  • Gaston's last name is Legume(a Meaningful Name, since he's pea-brained).
  • Maleficent used to be called Carabosse before she made a Deal with the Devil.
  • Philip and Aurora's family houses are called Lothringen and Hapsburg, respectively.
  • Prince Charming's father is called King Audric.
  • Mulan's grandmother is called Fa Zhi, the First Ancestor Fa is called Elder Fa Yang, and the spirit of the Great Stone Dragon is called Da Longshi.
• Neck Lift: Gaston and CLU do this to Belle and Quorra in their respective chapters.
• Never My Fault: Frollo, as per canon, cannot take responsibility for his actions, and as for the Queen of Hearts:
  Queen of Hearts: Apologise... to you? What do you mean, apologise to you? I am the Queen of Hearts! You are supposed to apologise to me!
  • On a more heroic character, Merida refuses to take responsibility for cursing her mother, blaming the Witch/the Morrigan for giving her the spell, just like she did with Mor'du. The Witch replies, "As I recall, you're the one who asked for that spell, and so did he."
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Flounder gathers together random potion ingredients from Ursula's house in an attempt to have Ariel blow it on her and affect her negatively. Ursula, however, sees what she's doing and makes the powder backfire down Ariel's throat... and in doing so, gives her the power of the Dressphere, which directly results in Ursula's defeat.
  • Lady Tremaine, after using the Fairy Godmother's wand to brainwash Drizella into a Dark Action Girl, tries using the same magic on Cinderella. But Prince Charming deflects it with his sword, so the magic hits Anastasia instead... and Anastasia gains similar powers to her sister, but without getting brainwashed, so now Cinderella has another empowered ally.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Ratcliffe basically goes through one at Pocahontas' hands.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Gaston, of all people, once Belle presses his Berserk Button. He stops gloating and once he has her in a Neck Lift, he tries to kill her right away.
• Not The Face: Gaston screams this when Belle and Adam start attacking his face in their fight(breaking his nose, scratching him with Adam's clawed fingers/glass shards, bruising his eye). It proves to be one more Berserk Button for Gaston.
  Gaston(holding Belle in a Neck Lift after she hits him with the magic rose's bell jar): What. Did I say. '''About the FACE?!''
  Belle: I care about your face even less than I do about you, Gaston. At least now you're just as ugly outside as in.
• Not the Intended Use: The Opar Magitek that Jane Porter obtains was used by the Opar natives to give themselves the abilities of animals in order to have sex with them to produce desirable traits in both genders, but Jane just uses it to rally every jungle animal she can find to drive off Clayton and his mutineers.
• Not Worth Killing: Rapunzel decides this about Gothel(she'll die without Rapunzel's hair anyway), and Belle about Gaston(she has him imprisoned instead.)
• Oh, Crap!: Expect one from every single villain every single time they're about to fail.
• "Oh, Crap!" Smile: The Cheshire Cat's distinctive grin seems a little forced when confronted by an enraged and empowered Alice.
• Older and Wiser: Oberon and Titania are older fairies than Maleficent, and look like it, though they're still handsome in their own ways. And they're both a lot less arrogant and more concerned about human lives than the Mistress Of All Evil.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Granted, they're fairies, so they're Really 700 Years Old and so on, but Maleficent is centuries old, whereas Oberon and Titania are millennia old. And before them, Queen Mab was the Older Anti-Hero to Maleficent's Younger Villain when she banished her from the Unseelie Court.
  • Additionally, Rourke versus Kida. Rourke's in his fifties, which is by no means "young", but Kida is thousands of years old(even if she doesn't look it).
• One-Woman Army: Mulan against the Elite Huns and Shan Yu.
• Original Character: The rest of the Fa family Guardians, all themed on the Eastern Zodiac: male fairies Brothers Delbert and Clifford: Erebus and Nyx: the Virgin Mary herself: Fu Xi: Papa Damballah: Capitaine L'Ollonais, Prince Adam's Captain of the Guard: and Bayou Jeb, an old friend of Mama Odie's.
• Our Fairies Are Different: The Fairy Godmother, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, Maleficent, Oberon and Titania, and Brother Delbert and Brother Clifford.
• Our Gods Are Different: The Olympians, the Morrigan, the Atlantean Mother Goddess Lady Kritim, Fu Xi and the Celestial Bureaucracy, the Loa... take your pick.
• Our Titans Are Different: The four elemental giants faced by Hercules and Megara, obviously, but they're here identified as the Catastrophes, a separate race from the Titans proper, the parents of the gods.
• Panthera Awesome: Paigu, the tiger Guardian of the Fa Family, and Rajah, once he gets his proper age restored by the Genie.
  • Also, Cougar-Of-The-Northern-Mountains, one of the Manitou.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Snow White and Alice both grow from a 14-year-old princess and an 11-year-old girl, respectively, to women of at least 20, right before battling their queenly antagonists. Alice's age-up is temporary, so that she doesn't return to the normal world older than she left. Snow White's age-up is permanent, to remove the Squick implications of her romance with Prince Frederick.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Ratcliffe and Frollo are both massive misogynists/racists, as per canon. Which makes having their heads handed to them by an Algonquin/Romani all the sweeter.
• Power Makes Your Voice Deep: Rajah, once he powers up on his second wish to the Genie.
• Pragmatic Hero: Rajah is a tiger, so he naturally recommends killing Jafar will make getting the lamp off him much easier.
• Precision F-Strike: Three of them, one from a hero, two from villains. Here's one from Merida in "The Red-Haired Ronin":
  Merida: My family's being torn apart, and I'm doing all I can to save it, and now you and your torchlights are in the way! I'd say that bloody does make it your fault, just like it was with Mor'du!''
  • And another one from Governor Ratcliffe in "Spirits And Savages":
  Governor Ratcliffe: All those fat bastards in King James' court, royal backstabbers, the lot of them!
  • And a third one from Frollo in "The Wandering Wiccan":
  Judge Claude Frollo: ''You...YOU...BLASPHEMOUS BITCH! YOU FILTHY GYPSY WHORE! HOW DARE YOU DISGUISE YOUR EVIL BEHIND HIM AND HIS GLORY?! HOW DARE YOU CLAIM HIM AS YOUR PATRON?!
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Plenty of them.
  • Merida to Mor'du:
  Merida: The thread of fate that connects you to life is about to be severed!
  • Santa Claus to Oogie Boogie:
  Santa: Mr. Boogie! Consider this a coal substitute for making the top of my Naughty List!
  • Mulan to Shan Yu:
  Mulan: For the honor of my family, and the safety of my people!
  • Megara to the Titans:
  Megara: Through darkness comes the light. Through sacrifice comes power. Through death comes triumph!
  • Ariel to Ursula:
  Ariel: You're not the queen of anything, especially not the seas!
  • Esmeralda to Frollo after his rather foul-mouthed Redemption Rejection:
  Esmeralda: Then I shall consider that your final answer.
  • Prince Philip and the Fairy Godmothers to Maleficent:
  Philip and Fairies: Now Sword of Truth, strike swift and sure! Let evil die... AND GOOD ENDURE!
  • Kevin Flynn delivers a rather gentle one to CLU:
  Kevin Flynn: See you in the morning, man.
• Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Every. Single. Character.
• Psycopathic Womanchild: The Queen of Hearts is one of these, and it shows, with Alice, an actual child(though one currently under a Plot-Relevant Age-Up), being more mature than her.
• Ramming Always Works: Jane Porter channels the power of a charging rhinoceros into her head before attacking Clayton from the side, throwing off his aim so that he hits Kerchak's arm instead of his heart.

• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Heroes and villains exchange these rapidly.
• Redemption Rejection: Esmeralda offers Frollo a Last-Second Chance and shows him her powers come from the same holy patron he claims to represent. Frollo refuses to believe her and tries to kill her one last time, so Esmeralda decides he's Beyond Redemption and sends him to his Karmic Death in the liquid copper surrounding Notre Dame.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Played straight with Dragon!Maleficent and Cobra!Jafar, as per canon. Subverted by Mushu, Pascal, Louis, and Pidan and Papa Damballah. Also Fu Xi, but he's only half-dragon.
• Rhino Rampage: Jane Porter rams Clayton with a rhinoceros-themed attack to throw off his aim so that he doesn't kill Kerchak.
• Rhymes on a Dime: The Magic Mirror talks like this, and Prince Frederick talks to it in the same way to seek its advice.
• Sanity Slippage: Governor Ratcliffe and Frollo both go through this in their battles with Pocahontas and Esmeralda.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: A benevolent version. King Audric decides this in regards to letting Cinderella marry his son. He openly declares that she's proved her worthiness, and he doesn't hear anyone objecting...right? And he stares around the court as though daring anyone to speak against him.
• Serpent of Immortality: Papa Damballah, being a Loa in snake form, is naturally immortal. The same seems to apply to Pidan the snake, if she's as old as Mushu and the rest of the Guardians.
• Shared Universe: The ending of "Damself of Darkness" is supposed to tie in to Hope Springs Eternal, in which Hades escapes the underworld river and finds redemption and love. The chapter ends with Erebus and Nyx agreeing to send the Furies to fish Hades out as soon as his hatred for his family is purged from him.
• Snakes Are Sexy: It's implied that Mushu has a crush on Pidan the snake guardian.

• Snake Versus Mongoose: Invoked, when Snake!Jafar is about to snatch the lamp back from Rajah, so he only has moments to make another wish, the Genie begs Rajah to wish for a giant mongoose. Of course, he wishes for something different instead...
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Rourke and Helga have their hearts stolen by Kida instead of him being crystallized and reduced to pieces, and her being thrown from a great height and squashed by a falling balloon, respectively.
  • Jane rams Clayton and throws off his aim so that his bullet hits Kerchak's arm instead of his heart. The silverback still needs medical treatment to save his life, and afterwards his arm is rendered useless, so he must name Tarzan his successor as per canon, but at least he's still alive. Also, Jane cuts through the vines that hanged Clayton in canon, so he falls to the ground and knocks himself out. He's last seen being shipped back to England to stand trial for his crimes.
  • John Smith doesn't end up getting injured by Ratcliffe, so he doesn't have to go back to England and leave Pocahontas.
  • Hades never died in the original Hercules, but Nyx is going to have him fished out of the Pyriphlegethon as soon as his hatred for his family is purged. Additionally, Megara is granted godhood instead of Hercules relinquishing his own newly-regained godhood to stay on earth with her.
  • Rapunzel's healing powers are increased to the point that she heals Eugene without even touching him with her hair. Subverted for Mother Gothel: she's still alive at the end of the story, but Rapunzel makes it clear she knows that Gothel will eventually age and die without access to Rapunzel's hair, and she's good with that.
  • Ray the firefly doesn't get stomped on by Dr. Facilier. Zig-zagged with Dr. Facilier: he's not Dragged Off to Hell by Kalfu for getting his amulet broken, but he will be facing punishment at the hands of Baron Samedi, in a karmic but presumably less horrific way.
  • Adam doesn't get knifed in the back before Belle removes his curse, and Gaston doesn't fall to his death. He does get imprisoned for attempted regicide, though.
  • Diablo doesn't get petrified by Merryweather in the process of the fairies releasing Prince Philip from Maleficent's castle.
  • Kevin Flynn kills Clu without sacrificing his life in the process, and gets to return to the real world with his son and Quorra. He also plans to reconstitute Clu at some point in order to make him a more moral Program.
• Stupid Evil: Governor Ratcliffe's Bad Boss behavior ensures that not one of his men stays loyal to him when he tries to kill Chief Powhatan.
• Too Dumb to Live: Queen Grimhilde should've known better than to try threatening her stepdaughter with murder while cornered on the top of a mountain by said stepdaughter, along with a Warrior Prince and seven Papa Wolf dwarves. It earns her a Fate Worse than Death, and shortly after that, a Disney Villain Death.
• Took a Level in Badass: Quite a few Disney Princesses, mainly Snow White and Alice.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Anastasia, Mushu, Adam, and Kerchak have all done this by the climaxes of their respective stories.
• Translation Convention: Languages such as Atlantean and Algonquin are represented by underlined English. When John Smith and Pocahontas alternate between Algonquin and English, the underlining comes and goes.
• Truer to the Text:
  • The depiction of Greek mythical figures not included in the original Hercules, like Nyx.
  • Maleficent's old nickname was Carabosse, as per the original fairy tale.
  • Pocahontas' Fur Bikini is basically closer to what a historical Powhatan woman would wear on her top half- basically, she'd be topless.
• Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain: Deformed Quasimodo, animalistic Beast/Prince Adam, and heavyset middle-aged fairy Brother Delbert are the heroes to Frollo(not good-looking, but not deformed either), Prince Charming Wannabe Gaston, and attractive evil fairy Maleficent.

• Ungrateful Bastard: The Queen of Hearts doesn't thank Alice after she forces the Cheshire Cat to admit to pranking her.
• Villainous Breakdown: All the villains suffer from these at some point.
• Villainous Valor: Give Governor Ratcliffe credit, he's lazy, racist and greedy, but he's not cowardly. However hard Pocahontas hits him, he keeps trying to hit back, until she has to break his armor, weapons, and get him sent back to England bleeding and in chains. And he's still swearing to get his men hanged even as they haul him off, as per canon.
• Villain Respect: When Aladdin gives Jafar the idea to wish for geniehood to defeat the Genie-empowered Jasmine and Rajah by accident, Jafar says that he couldn't have come up with a better idea himself.
• Villains Want Mercy: Hades Ain't Too Proud to Beg, as he shows when he desperately tries to convince Hercules to put in a good word for him at Olympus. Right before Herc punches him into the Pyriphlegethon.
• What's Up, King Dude?: Brother Delbert is surprisingly informal with King Oberon, addressing him as "Old Man Oberon". The fairy king, to his credit, doesn't seem to mind.
• Wicked Stepmother: Queen Grimhilde and Lady Tremaine to their respective stepdaughters.
• Willing Channeler: Bayou Jeb serves as one to Legba so that he can escort Dr. Facilier off to face punishment for his actions.
• Witch Doctor: Dr. Facilier is an evil bokor, as per canon.
• Wizards Live Longer: Bayou Jeb and Mama Odie are practicioners of White Magic and voodoo priests(he's a houngan, she's a mambo), and they've lived for nearly two centuries thanks to the blessings of the Loa. That said, Odie's less weighed down by age than Jeb is.
• Would Hit a Girl: Given the nature of this fic, every single villain is willing to hurt the Princesses.
• You Monster!: Calling Gaston this serves as his Berserk Button and rant-inducing slight that drives him to stop trying to just kill Beast and actually try to kill Belle too.
• You're Insane!: Esmeralda says this, quite rightly, of Frollo.