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** Triton has gotten this a ''lot'' more since ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'', with many fans now seeing him as an oppressive tyrant who randomly outlaws anything he doesn't like (music, the surface) because, [[FanonDiscontinuity in this film]], he outlaws his entire kingdom from singing or playing any music because of his grief for his own [[spoiler: dead wife]]. Of course, the fact that this is a direct-to-video prequel made ''years'' after the first film, by a completely different studio, with none of the original creative team from the first movie being involved, doesn't stop fans from forming this opinion.
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** Triton has gotten this a ''lot'' more since ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidArielsBeginning'', with many fans now seeing him as an oppressive tyrant who randomly outlaws anything he doesn't like (music, the surface) because, [[FanonDiscontinuity in this film]], he outlaws his entire kingdom from singing or playing any music because of his grief for his own [[spoiler: dead wife]]. Of course, the fact that this is a direct-to-video prequel made ''years'' after the first film, by a completely different studio, with none of the original creative team from the first movie being involved, doesn't stop fans from forming this opinion.
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* BrokenAesop: A main message of the tale is arguably "Don't place your hopes of spiritual salvation on another person; you can only earn it yourself through your own good deeds." The mermaid's attempt to gain a soul through the prince's love fails, but in the end she earns a second chance through her selfless love, and will earn her soul by invisibly doing good deeds as a Daughter of the Air. This was arguably Andersen's main motive behind the story, since he allegedly wrote it because he was dissatisfied with ''Literature/{{Undine}}'', where a water nymph gains a soul by marrying a human. BUT... to finally be allowed into heaven, the Daughters of the Air depend on children's good behavior, with their years of trial shortened each time they see a good child and lengthened whenever they see a naughty child. So they do depend on others for their salvation after all.
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** In ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'', the titular mermaid wants to gain an immortal soul like a human. A mermaid can gain a soul if they fall for a human. The mermaid just happened to fall for a prince. However, does the mermaid actually love her prince or is she using him to quell her fear of the CessationOfExistence?
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** In ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'', the The titular mermaid wants to gain an immortal soul like a human. A mermaid can gain a soul if they fall for a human. The mermaid just happened to fall for a prince. However, does the mermaid actually love her prince or is she using him to quell her fear of the CessationOfExistence?
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* ItWasHisSled: Possibly ironically due to Disney pulling NotHisSled with their adaptation, everyone knows this story ends with the mermaid dying while someone else marries her prince (fewer know about the BittersweetEnding in which she goes on to Heaven by a long way).
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* ItWasHisSled: Possibly ironically due to Disney pulling NotHisSled with their adaptation, everyone knows this story ends with the mermaid dying while someone else marries her prince (fewer know about the BittersweetEnding in which she goes on to Heaven by a long way).
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** The undersea world of the merfolk can be seen to represent the pagan world - the first stories of merfolk are from pagan Greek and Assyrian folklore, after all – while the human world represents Christianity with its promise of an immortal soul. Compared to the charming, carefree yet soulless "pagan" world of the sea, the humans' Christian world requires suffering and sacrifices, but with the ultimate reward of heaven.
** This can also be viewed as a story about growing up. In this interpretation, the merfolk's world represents childhood, while the human world represents adulthood. Like most 15-year-olds, the mermaid is eager to grow up and experience new freedom and adventures, especially romantic love. But when she actually enters the human/adult world, she faces tragic [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]], is subjected to pain and hardships she never expected, and is never able to go back to the safe, happy world of her childhood. In this light, the story can be seen as a warning to children and teenagers not to go chasing after adulthood too soon – and particularly to young girls not to [[DefiledForever throw away their innocence]] too soon for a man.
** This can also be viewed as a story about growing up. In this interpretation, the merfolk's world represents childhood, while the human world represents adulthood. Like most 15-year-olds, the mermaid is eager to grow up and experience new freedom and adventures, especially romantic love. But when she actually enters the human/adult world, she faces tragic [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]], is subjected to pain and hardships she never expected, and is never able to go back to the safe, happy world of her childhood. In this light, the story can be seen as a warning to children and teenagers not to go chasing after adulthood too soon – and particularly to young girls not to [[DefiledForever throw away their innocence]] too soon for a man.
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** The undersea world of the merfolk can be seen to represent the pagan world - the world--the first stories of merfolk are from pagan Greek and Assyrian folklore, after all – while all--while the human world represents Christianity with its promise of an immortal soul. Compared to the charming, carefree yet soulless "pagan" world of the sea, the humans' Christian world requires suffering and sacrifices, but with the ultimate reward of heaven.
** This can also be viewed as a story about growing up. In this interpretation, the merfolk's world representschildhood, childhood while the human world represents adulthood. Like most 15-year-olds, the mermaid is eager to grow up and experience new freedom and adventures, especially romantic love. But when she actually enters the human/adult world, she faces a tragic [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]], is subjected to pain and hardships she never expected, and is never able to go back to the safe, happy world of her childhood. In this light, the story can be seen as a warning to children and teenagers not to go chasing after adulthood too soon – and soon--and particularly to young girls not to [[DefiledForever throw away their innocence]] too soon for a man.
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** Another interpretation based on Andersen's own life is that the story is an early example of HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster The mermaid has feelings for someone she's not allowed to, literally can't speak of her feelings (e.g. "the love that dares not speak its name"), and the prince ultimately rejects her to be with someone more "conventional," his fiancée princess. Andersen himself was bisexual, and is thought to have written ''The Little Mermaid'' out of a similar experience in his life: he fell in love with a man he could never have, both because the man was already engaged and because back then, homosexual relationships were a taboo.
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** Another interpretation based on Andersen's own life is that the story is an early example of HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster The mermaid has feelings for someone she's not allowed to, literally can't speak of her feelings (e.g. "the love that dares not speak its name"), and the prince ultimately rejects her to be with someone more "conventional," his fiancée princess. Andersen himself was bisexual, bisexual and is thought to have written ''The "The Little Mermaid'' out of Mermaid" after having gone through a similar experience in his life: he fell in love with a man he could never have, both because the man was already engaged and because back then, homosexual relationships were a taboo.
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** It's a commonly held belief that the story is set in Denmark due to the author, Creator/HansChristianAndersen, being Danish and ''The Little Mermaid'' statue in Copenhagen. The truth is that the story never actually states where it takes place, and the statue has almost nothing to do with Andersen: it was commissioned in 1909 (decades after the author's death in 1875) by Carl Jacobsen, who had been fascinated by a ballet adaptation of Andersen's 1837 story, with Ellen Price, the lead ballerina, serving as the model for the statue's face. In fact, a careful examination indicates the story ''isn't'' set in Denmark: when the mermaid pulls the prince to shore, she sees orange, lemon, and tall palm trees (implying a tropical or subtropical climate) and snow-capped blue mountains (Denmark's highest point of elevation is a hill only 171m tall). Moreover, other descriptions used in the story mention vineyard-covered hills, crystal-clear cornflower blue seas, and marble statues and pillars reminiscent of Greco-Roman architecture, [[https://www.sevenseasmermaid.com/where-does-little-mermaid-take-place/ all of which accurately describe a Mediterranean setting (and particularly the Italian coast and countryside)]]. Hans Christian Andersen even visited Italy in 1833 and wrote extensively about his travels and what he saw in ''The Improvisatore'', a book published in 1835, about a year before he started writing "The Little Mermaid." The prince in the 1837 story is also described as having coal-black eyes and dancing slave girls in gold and silk, which [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stories_from_Hans_Andersen_with_illustrations_by_Edmund_Dulac/The_Mermaid an illustration by Edmund Dulac from a 1911 publication interpreted to mean the prince was Middle-Eastern]], some countries of which are Mediterranean.
** The ending to is frequently cited as a DownerEnding where the [[TheHeroDies mermaid]] [[CessationOfExistence dies]]. That only happens in the original ending. Anderson's revised ending is a BittersweetEnding where she dies but is revived as a "daughter of the air" and given a chance to get into Heaven if she can do many good deeds.
** A more minor case, but the story is frequently referred to as a book. It is actually a short story and as such, is frequently published alongside other Andersen stories.
** The titular mermaid is popularly thought of as either blonde or redheaded. The actual text, indicates that she is dark-haired.
* FairForItsDay: Contemporary readers reject the story for its BittersweetEnding, where the mermaid sacrifices everything and wins only the promise of a happy ending in the far future, thinking it would be better as a truly happy ending or a straight tragedy. But Andersen was responding to the story of ''Undine'', where a mermaid gains her soul through a human -- in the little mermaid's story, her eternal life was entirely in her own hands, and the Daughters of the Air tell her that now she will win her ''own'' soul, not have to share in someone else's.
** The ending to is frequently cited as a DownerEnding where the [[TheHeroDies mermaid]] [[CessationOfExistence dies]]. That only happens in the original ending. Anderson's revised ending is a BittersweetEnding where she dies but is revived as a "daughter of the air" and given a chance to get into Heaven if she can do many good deeds.
** A more minor case, but the story is frequently referred to as a book. It is actually a short story and as such, is frequently published alongside other Andersen stories.
** The titular mermaid is popularly thought of as either blonde or redheaded. The actual text, indicates that she is dark-haired.
* FairForItsDay: Contemporary readers reject the story for its BittersweetEnding, where the mermaid sacrifices everything and wins only the promise of a happy ending in the far future, thinking it would be better as a truly happy ending or a straight tragedy. But Andersen was responding to the story of ''Undine'', where a mermaid gains her soul through a human -- in the little mermaid's story, her eternal life was entirely in her own hands, and the Daughters of the Air tell her that now she will win her ''own'' soul, not have to share in someone else's.
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** It's a commonly held belief that the story is set in Denmark due to the author, Creator/HansChristianAndersen, author being Danish and ''The Little Mermaid'' statue in Copenhagen. The truth is that the story never actually states where it takes place, and the statue has almost nothing to do with Andersen: it was commissioned in 1909 (decades after the author's death in 1875) by Danish brewer Carl Jacobsen, who had been fascinated by Jacobsen in honor of a ballet adaptation of Andersen's 1837 story, story that Jacobsen had been personally fascinated by, with Ellen Price, the lead ballerina, serving as the model for the statue's face. In fact, a careful examination of the text indicates the story ''isn't'' set in Denmark: when the mermaid pulls the prince to shore, she sees orange, lemon, and tall palm trees (implying a tropical or subtropical climate) and snow-capped blue mountains (Denmark's highest natural point of elevation is a hill only 171m tall). Moreover, other descriptions used in the story mention vineyard-covered hills, vine-covered hills (likely referencing vineyards), crystal-clear cornflower blue seas, waters, and marble statues and pillars reminiscent of Greco-Roman architecture, [[https://www.sevenseasmermaid.com/where-does-little-mermaid-take-place/ all of which accurately describe a Mediterranean setting (and particularly the Italian coast and countryside)]]. Hans Christian Andersen even visited Italy in 1833 and wrote extensively about his travels and what he saw in ''The Improvisatore'', a book published in 1835, about a year before he started writing "The Little Mermaid." The prince in the 1837 story is also described as having coal-black eyes and dancing slave girls in gold and silk, which [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stories_from_Hans_Andersen_with_illustrations_by_Edmund_Dulac/The_Mermaid an illustration by Edmund Dulac from for a 1911 publication interpreted to mean the prince was Middle-Eastern]], is from the Middle East]], some countries of which are Mediterranean.
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** The ending to is frequently cited as a DownerEnding where the [[TheHeroDies mermaid]] [[CessationOfExistence dies]]. That only happens in the original ending.Anderson's Andersen's revised ending is a BittersweetEnding where she dies but is revived as a "daughter of the air" and given a chance to get into Heaven if she can do many good deeds.
** Many describe the story as being a Danish folktale. While Andersen was inspired by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's novella ''Undine'' and Paracelsus's writings on elemental beings, the only thing they have in common with "The Little Mermaid" is the idea that a water spirit can gain an immortal soul through marriage to a mortal. The overall plot of Andersen's 1837 is original and comes mostly from Andersen's imagination, meaning the story would not count as folklore, which is typically informally passed down until there is no single, discernable author.
** A more minor case, but the story is frequently referred to as a book. It is actually a short story and as such,is frequently tends to be published alongside other Andersen stories.
** The titular mermaid is popularly thought of as either blonde or redheaded. The actualtext, indicates text doesn't specify her hair color, but there are subtle hints that she is dark-haired.
dark-haired: the mermaid is said to greatly resemble the prince's betrothed, who is described as having long dark eyelashes.
* FairForItsDay: Contemporary readers reject the story for itsBittersweetEnding, where BittersweetEnding in which the mermaid sacrifices everything and wins only the promise of a happy ending in the far future, thinking it would be better as a truly happy ending or a straight tragedy. But Andersen was responding to the story of ''Undine'', where in which a mermaid water spirit gains her soul through a human -- in human--in the little mermaid's story, her eternal life was entirely in her own hands, and the Daughters of the Air tell her that now she will win her ''own'' soul, not have soul instead of having to share in rely on someone else's.else to allow her to gain one.
** The ending to is frequently cited as a DownerEnding where the [[TheHeroDies mermaid]] [[CessationOfExistence dies]]. That only happens in the original ending.
** Many describe the story as being a Danish folktale. While Andersen was inspired by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's novella ''Undine'' and Paracelsus's writings on elemental beings, the only thing they have in common with "The Little Mermaid" is the idea that a water spirit can gain an immortal soul through marriage to a mortal. The overall plot of Andersen's 1837 is original and comes mostly from Andersen's imagination, meaning the story would not count as folklore, which is typically informally passed down until there is no single, discernable author.
** A more minor case, but the story is frequently referred to as a book. It is actually a short story and as such,
** The titular mermaid is popularly thought of as either blonde or redheaded. The actual
* FairForItsDay: Contemporary readers reject the story for its
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* RainbowLens: The Little Mermaid is widely accept to have been written in response to a male crush and essentially reading as a tragic gay story with the "gay" (or, in more modern readings, the "trans") element being instead a mermaid.
* ItWasHisSled: Possibly ironically due to Disney pulling NotHisSled with their adaptation, everyone knows this story ends with the mermaid dying while someone else marries her prince. (Fewer know about the BittersweetEnding where she goes on to Heaven by a long way).
* ItWasHisSled: Possibly ironically due to Disney pulling NotHisSled with their adaptation, everyone knows this story ends with the mermaid dying while someone else marries her prince. (Fewer know about the BittersweetEnding where she goes on to Heaven by a long way).
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* RainbowLens: The "The Little Mermaid Mermaid" is widely accept accepted to have been written in response to a male crush and essentially reading as a tragic gay story with the "gay" (or, in more modern readings, the "trans") element being instead a mermaid.
* ItWasHisSled: Possibly ironically due to Disney pulling NotHisSled with their adaptation, everyone knows this story ends with the mermaid dying while someone else marries herprince. (Fewer prince (fewer know about the BittersweetEnding where in which she goes on to Heaven by a long way).
* ItWasHisSled: Possibly ironically due to Disney pulling NotHisSled with their adaptation, everyone knows this story ends with the mermaid dying while someone else marries her
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** Also, modern readers are not strict Christians like the author and have already trouble with that a mermaid has no soul - what is this "soul" anyway? Consequently, one adaption, from the German series ''Series/SechsAufEinenStreich'', redefined the whole shit the mermaid went through as a SecretTestOfCharacter - by sparing the prince, she proves she had a "soul" from the start (and lives on in varying states of happily ever after).
** Funnily enough, the story itself was inspired by Andersen's feeling of ValuesDissonance when he read the novel ''Undine'' - which has a similar plot of a mermaid gaining a soul when she marries a human. Andersen was not a fan of the idea that a random human being could be totally responsible for someone's salvation.
** Funnily enough, the story itself was inspired by Andersen's feeling of ValuesDissonance when he read the novel ''Undine'' - which has a similar plot of a mermaid gaining a soul when she marries a human. Andersen was not a fan of the idea that a random human being could be totally responsible for someone's salvation.
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** Also, modern readers are not strict Christians like the author and have already trouble with that a mermaid has no soul - what soul--what is this "soul" anyway? Consequently, one adaption, from the German series ''Series/SechsAufEinenStreich'', redefined the whole shit the mermaid went through as a SecretTestOfCharacter - SecretTestOfCharacter: by sparing the prince, she proves she had a "soul" from the start (and lives on in varying states of happily ever after).
** Funnily enough, the story itself was inspired by Andersen's feeling of ValuesDissonance when he read thenovel ''Undine'' - novella ''Undine'', which has a similar plot of a mermaid water spirit gaining a soul when she marries a human. Andersen was not a fan of the idea that a random human being could be totally responsible for someone's salvation.
** Funnily enough, the story itself was inspired by Andersen's feeling of ValuesDissonance when he read the
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* TheWoobie: Dear God, Hans, how much does this poor girl have to go through? For the crime of being born a fay being rather than an oh-so-lucky human, she has to suffer endless pain, has her tongue cut out, commit suicide, and then wait 300 years for her afterlife? And while happy children will take off a year, every tear shed for a bad one will add a day. The story was published in 1837. She could ''still'' be waiting for Heaven.
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* TheWoobie: Dear God, Hans, how much does this poor girl have to go through? For the crime of being born a fay being rather than an oh-so-lucky human, she has to suffer endless pain, has her tongue cut out, commit suicide, and then wait 300 years for her afterlife? And while happy children will take off a year, every tear shed for from a bad one will add a day. The story was published in 1837. She could ''still'' be waiting for Heaven.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Marina's song as well as its DarkReprise at the end of the film. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1su5u6bU7k Japanese version]] is a heartfelt song of love for the prince and how Marina feels incomplete without him, while the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nMGbOR0XsQ English version]] is similar but has a more bittersweet tone as Marina leaves her childhood and innocence behind, learning that the road to love is paved with broken hearts.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Marina's song as well as its DarkReprise at the end of the film. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1su5u6bU7k Japanese version]] is a heartfelt song of love for the prince and how Marina feels incomplete without him, him while the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nMGbOR0XsQ English version]] is similar but has a more bittersweet tone as Marina leaves her childhood and innocence behind, learning that the road to love is paved with broken hearts.
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* FandomRivalry: Between fans of this version and fans of the Disney version over which is a better adaptation. Some fans prefer this version for being a closer adaptation of the original story and preserving its DownerEnding and take issue with the Disney film for [[{{Disneyfication}} altering it]], while fans of the Disney film prefer it for giving the titular mermaid a [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding happy ending]]. Some fans enjoy both versions.
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* FandomRivalry: Between fans of this version and fans of the Disney version over which is a better adaptation. Some fans prefer this version for being a closer adaptation of the original story and preserving its DownerEnding and take issue with the Disney film for [[{{Disneyfication}} altering it]], it]] while fans of the Disney film prefer it for giving the titular mermaid a [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding happy ending]]. Some fans enjoy both versions.
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* TheWoobie: Marina gives up everything to become human and suffers constant pain on land, is tormented when the prince chooses the wrong princess over her and suffers suspicion and ridicule from the prince's parents and Jemmy the cat, and can't bring herself to kill him and save her own life. By the end of the film, you'll more than likely feel very sorry for her.
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* TheWoobie: Marina gives up everything to become human and suffers human, endures constant pain on land, is tormented when the prince chooses the wrong princess over her and her, suffers suspicion and ridicule from the prince's parents and Jemmy the cat, and can't bring herself to kill him and to save her own life. By the end of the film, you'll more than likely feel very sorry for her.
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** Ariel gets some of this in regards to her parenting towards Melody in the sequel. While Ariel was indeed wrong to lie to Melody regarding her mermaid heritage, many fans are a little too eager to shame her for how overprotective she was of Melody. This ignored the fact that Ariel did try to keep Melody from making the same mistakes she did. Also, Triton was being paranoid about humans in general when he tried to keep Ariel safe, while Ariel was trying to protect Melody from a ''definite'' threat in Morgana.
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** Ariel gets some of this in regards to her parenting towards Melody in the sequel. While Ariel was indeed wrong to lie to Melody regarding her mermaid heritage, many fans are a little too eager to shame her for how overprotective she was of Melody. This ignored the fact that Ariel did try to keep Melody from making the same mistakes she did. Also, Triton was being paranoid about humans in general when he tried to keep Ariel safe, while Ariel was trying to protect Melody from a ''definite'' threat in Morgana. This ''also'' ignores the fact that Ariel and Eric openly state that they never intended to keep Melody in the dark permanently, and were only waiting until she was old enough; it was bad luck that Melody ran away [[DramaticIrony the same night Ariel decided it was time to tell her everything]].
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* RainbowLens: The Little Mermaid is widely accept to have been written in response to a male crush and essentially reading as a tragic gay story with the "gay" (or, in more modern readings, the "trans") element being instead a mermaid.
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** It's a commonly held belief that the story is set in Denmark due to the author, Creator/HansChristianAndersen, being Danish and ''The Little Mermaid'' statue in Copenhagen. The truth is that the story never actually states where it takes place, and the statue has almost nothing to do with Andersen: it was commissioned in 1909 (decades after the author's death in 1875) by Carl Jacobsen, who had been fascinated by a ballet adaptation of Andersen's 1837 story, with Ellen Price, the lead ballerina, serving as the model for the statue's face. In fact, a careful examination indicates the story ''isn't'' set in Denmark: when the mermaid pulls the prince to shore, she sees orange, lemon, and tall palm trees (implying a tropical or subtropical climate) and snow-capped blue mountains (Denmark's highest point of elevation is a hill only 171m tall). Moreover, other descriptions used in the story mention vineyard-covered hills, crystal-clear cornflower blue seas, and marble statues and pillars reminiscent of Greco-Roman architecture, [[https://www.sevenseasmermaid.com/where-does-little-mermaid-take-place/ all of which accurately describe a Mediterranean setting (and particularly the Italian coast and countryside)]]. Hans Christian Andersen even visited Italy in 1833 and wrote extensively about his travels and what he saw in ''The Improvisatore'', a book published in 1835, about a year before he started writing "The Little Mermaid." The prince in the 1837 story is also described as having coal-black eyes and dancing slave girls in gold and silk, which [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stories_from_Hans_Andersen_with_illustrations_by_Edmund_Dulac/The_Mermaid an illustration by Edmund Dulac from a 1911 publication interpreted to mean the prince was Middle-Eastern]].
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** It's a commonly held belief that the story is set in Denmark due to the author, Creator/HansChristianAndersen, being Danish and ''The Little Mermaid'' statue in Copenhagen. The truth is that the story never actually states where it takes place, and the statue has almost nothing to do with Andersen: it was commissioned in 1909 (decades after the author's death in 1875) by Carl Jacobsen, who had been fascinated by a ballet adaptation of Andersen's 1837 story, with Ellen Price, the lead ballerina, serving as the model for the statue's face. In fact, a careful examination indicates the story ''isn't'' set in Denmark: when the mermaid pulls the prince to shore, she sees orange, lemon, and tall palm trees (implying a tropical or subtropical climate) and snow-capped blue mountains (Denmark's highest point of elevation is a hill only 171m tall). Moreover, other descriptions used in the story mention vineyard-covered hills, crystal-clear cornflower blue seas, and marble statues and pillars reminiscent of Greco-Roman architecture, [[https://www.sevenseasmermaid.com/where-does-little-mermaid-take-place/ all of which accurately describe a Mediterranean setting (and particularly the Italian coast and countryside)]]. Hans Christian Andersen even visited Italy in 1833 and wrote extensively about his travels and what he saw in ''The Improvisatore'', a book published in 1835, about a year before he started writing "The Little Mermaid." The prince in the 1837 story is also described as having coal-black eyes and dancing slave girls in gold and silk, which [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stories_from_Hans_Andersen_with_illustrations_by_Edmund_Dulac/The_Mermaid an illustration by Edmund Dulac from a 1911 publication interpreted to mean the prince was Middle-Eastern]].Middle-Eastern]], some countries of which are Mediterranean.
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* ValuesDissonance: Modern readers, both Non-Christin and Christian alike, often have trouble with the story's moral of "Even heathens can reach salvation if they suffer enough."
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* ValuesDissonance: Non-religious readers often have trouble with the story's moral of "Even heathens can reach salvation if they suffer enough."
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** How much does the prince actually care for the mermaid and in what manner? The story states he loved her "as he would love a little child" and that he never thought about making her his queen, though he also insists the mermaid almost drives the image of the temple maiden he longs for but believes he cannot be with from his mind. On the other hand, he also says how much she resembles the temple maiden when telling the mermaid how much her cares for her and how fortunate he is that the heavens sent her to him, hinting he might see her as a ReplacementGoldfish. While he did have a page's uniform made for her so that they can go riding into the mountains together, other times, he treats her more like a favored pet, calling her his "foundling" and having her sleep outside his door on a cushion.
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** It's a commonly held belief that the story is set in Denmark due to the author, Creator/HansChristianAndersen, being Danish and ''The Little Mermaid'' statue in Copenhagen. The truth is that the story never actually states where it takes place, and the statue has almost nothing to do with Andersen: it was commissioned in 1909 (decades after the author's death in 1875) by Carl Jacobsen, who had been fascinated by a ballet adaptation of Andersen's 1837 story, with Ellen Price, the lead ballerina, serving as the model for the statue's face. In fact, a careful examination indicates the story ''isn't'' set in Denmark: when the mermaid pulls the prince to shore, she sees orange, lemon, and tall palm trees (implying a tropical or subtropical climate) and snow-capped blue mountains (Denmark's highest point of elevation is a hill only 171m tall). Moreover, other descriptions used in the story mention vineyard-covered hills, crystal-clear cornflower blue seas, and marble statues and pillars reminiscent of Greco-Roman architecture, [[https://www.sevenseasmermaid.com/where-does-little-mermaid-take-place/ all of which accurately describe a Mediterranean setting (and particularly the Italian coast and countryside)]]. Hans Christian Andersen even visited Italy in 1833 and wrote extensively about his travels and what he saw in ''The Improvisatore'', a book published in 1835, about a year before he started writing "The Little Mermaid." The prince in the 1837 story is also described as having coal-black eyes and dancing slave girls in gold and silk, which [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stories_from_Hans_Andersen_with_illustrations_by_Edmund_Dulac/The_Mermaid an illustration by Edmund Dulac from a 1911 publication interpreted to mean the prince was Middle-Eastern]].
** The ending to is frequently cited as a DownerEnding where the [[TheHeroDies mermaid]] [[CessationOfExistence dies]]. That only happens in the original ending. Anderson's revised ending is a BittersweetEnding where she dies but is revived as a "daughter of the air" and given a chance to get into Heaven if she can do many good deeds.
* ''Literature/LittleWomen'':
** It's a commonly held belief that the story is set in Denmark due to the author, Creator/HansChristianAndersen, being Danish and ''The Little Mermaid'' statue in Copenhagen. The truth is that the story never actually states where it takes place, and the statue has almost nothing to do with Andersen: it was commissioned in 1909 (decades after the author's death in 1875) by Carl Jacobsen, who had been fascinated by a ballet adaptation of Andersen's 1837 story, with Ellen Price, the lead ballerina, serving as the model for the statue's face. In fact, a careful examination indicates the story ''isn't'' set in Denmark: when the mermaid pulls the prince to shore, she sees orange, lemon, and tall palm trees (implying a tropical or subtropical climate) and snow-capped blue mountains (Denmark's highest point of elevation is a hill only 171m tall). Moreover, other descriptions used in the story mention vineyard-covered hills, crystal-clear cornflower blue seas, and marble statues and pillars reminiscent of Greco-Roman architecture, [[https://www.sevenseasmermaid.com/where-does-little-mermaid-take-place/ all of which accurately describe a Mediterranean setting (and particularly the Italian coast and countryside)]]. Hans Christian Andersen even visited Italy in 1833 and wrote extensively about his travels and what he saw in ''The Improvisatore'', a book published in 1835, about a year before he started writing "The Little Mermaid." The prince in the 1837 story is also described as having coal-black eyes and dancing slave girls in gold and silk, which [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stories_from_Hans_Andersen_with_illustrations_by_Edmund_Dulac/The_Mermaid an illustration by Edmund Dulac from a 1911 publication interpreted to mean the prince was Middle-Eastern]].
** The ending to is frequently cited as a DownerEnding where the [[TheHeroDies mermaid]] [[CessationOfExistence dies]]. That only happens in the original ending. Anderson's revised ending is a BittersweetEnding where she dies but is revived as a "daughter of the air" and given a chance to get into Heaven if she can do many good deeds.
* ''Literature/LittleWomen'':
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** Also, modern readers are not strict Christians like the author and have already trouble with that a mermaid has no soul - what is this "soul" anyway? Consequently, one adaption redefined the whole shit the mermaid went through as a SecretTestOfCharacter - by sparing the prince, she proves she had a "soul" from the start (and lives on in varying states of happily ever after).
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** Also, modern readers are not strict Christians like the author and have already trouble with that a mermaid has no soul - what is this "soul" anyway? Consequently, one adaption adaption, from the German series ''Series/SechsAufEinenStreich'', redefined the whole shit the mermaid went through as a SecretTestOfCharacter - by sparing the prince, she proves she had a "soul" from the start (and lives on in varying states of happily ever after).
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Andersen had the mermaid transfigured into a daughter of the air, who after three hundred years of good deeds can go to heaven. The moral adds that every child listening to the story can make her labors shorter or longer depending on their own deeds. P.L. Travers snapped at Andersen in one of her folklore essays: "'But a year taken off when a child behaves and a tear shed and a day added whenever a child is naughty? Andersen, this is blackmail. And the children know it and say nothing. There's magnanimity for you."
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Andersen had the mermaid transfigured into a daughter of the air, who after three hundred years of good deeds can go to heaven. The moral adds that every child listening to the story can make her labors labor shorter or longer depending on their own deeds. P.L. Travers snapped at Andersen in one of her folklore essays: "'But a year taken off when a child behaves and a tear shed and a day added whenever a child is naughty? Andersen, this is blackmail. And the children know it and say nothing. There's magnanimity for you."
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** This can also be viewed as a story about growing up. In this interpretation, the merfolk's world represents childhood, while the human world represents adulthood. Like most 15-year-olds, the mermaid is eager to grow up and experience new freedom and adventures, especially romantic love. But when she actually enters the human/adult world, she faces tragic [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]], subjected to pain and hardships she never expected and never able to go back to the safe, happy world of her childhood. In this light, the story can be seen as a warning to children and teenagers not to go chasing after adulthood too soon – and particularly to young girls not to [[DefiledForever throw away their innocence]] too soon for a man.
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** This can also be viewed as a story about growing up. In this interpretation, the merfolk's world represents childhood, while the human world represents adulthood. Like most 15-year-olds, the mermaid is eager to grow up and experience new freedom and adventures, especially romantic love. But when she actually enters the human/adult world, she faces tragic [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]], is subjected to pain and hardships she never expected expected, and is never able to go back to the safe, happy world of her childhood. In this light, the story can be seen as a warning to children and teenagers not to go chasing after adulthood too soon – and particularly to young girls not to [[DefiledForever throw away their innocence]] too soon for a man.
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** Another interpretation based in Andersen's own life is that the story is an early example of HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster The mermaid has feelings for someone she's not allowed to, literally can't speak of her feelings (e.g. "the love that dares not speak its name"), and the prince ultimately rejects her to be with someone more "conventional," his fiancée princess. Andersen himself was bisexual, and is thought to have written ''The Little Mermaid'' out of a similar experience in his life: he fell in love with a man he could never have, both because the man was already engaged and because back then, homosexual relationships were a taboo.
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** Another interpretation based in on Andersen's own life is that the story is an early example of HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster The mermaid has feelings for someone she's not allowed to, literally can't speak of her feelings (e.g. "the love that dares not speak its name"), and the prince ultimately rejects her to be with someone more "conventional," his fiancée princess. Andersen himself was bisexual, and is thought to have written ''The Little Mermaid'' out of a similar experience in his life: he fell in love with a man he could never have, both because the man was already engaged and because back then, homosexual relationships were a taboo.
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* FairForItsDay: Contemporary readers reject the story for its BittersweetEnding, where the mermaid sacrifices everything and wins only the promise of a happy ending in the far future, thinking it would be better as a true happy ending or a straight tragedy. But Andersen was responding to the story of ''Undine'', where a mermaid gains her soul through a human -- in the little mermaid's story, her eternal life was entirely in her own hands, and the Daughters of the Air tell her that now she will win her ''own'' soul, not have to share in someone else's.
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* FairForItsDay: Contemporary readers reject the story for its BittersweetEnding, where the mermaid sacrifices everything and wins only the promise of a happy ending in the far future, thinking it would be better as a true truly happy ending or a straight tragedy. But Andersen was responding to the story of ''Undine'', where a mermaid gains her soul through a human -- in the little mermaid's story, her eternal life was entirely in her own hands, and the Daughters of the Air tell her that now she will win her ''own'' soul, not have to share in someone else's.
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* ItWasHisSled: Possibly ironically due to Disney pulling NotHisSled with their adaptation, everyone knows this story ends with the mermaid dying while someone else marries her prince. (Fewer know about the BittersweetEnding where she goes on to Heaven by a longer way).
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* ItWasHisSled: Possibly ironically due to Disney pulling NotHisSled with their adaptation, everyone knows this story ends with the mermaid dying while someone else marries her prince. (Fewer know about the BittersweetEnding where she goes on to Heaven by a longer long way).
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** Also, modern readers are not strict Christians like the author and have already trouble with that a mermaid has no soul - what is this "soul" anyway? Consequently, one adaption redefined the whole shit the mermaid went through as a SecretTestOfCharacter - by sparing the prince, she proves she had a "soul" from the start (and lives on in varying state of happy ever after).
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* ValuesResonance: On the other hand, unrequited, selfless love resonates in any era. Also, the fact that it can be read as an allegory for homosexuality resonate with many for whom love is taboo.
* TheWoobie: Dear God, Hans, how much does this poor girl have to go through? For the crime of being born a fay being rather than an oh-so-lucky human, she has to suffer endless pain, have her tongue cut out, commit suicide, and then wait 300 years for her afterlife? And while happy children will take off a year, every tear shed for a bad one will add a day. The story was published in 1837. She could ''still'' be waiting for Heaven.
* TheWoobie: Dear God, Hans, how much does this poor girl have to go through? For the crime of being born a fay being rather than an oh-so-lucky human, she has to suffer endless pain, have her tongue cut out, commit suicide, and then wait 300 years for her afterlife? And while happy children will take off a year, every tear shed for a bad one will add a day. The story was published in 1837. She could ''still'' be waiting for Heaven.
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* ValuesResonance: On the other hand, unrequited, selfless love resonates in any era. Also, the fact that it can be read as an allegory for homosexuality resonate resonates with many for whom love is taboo.
* TheWoobie: Dear God, Hans, how much does this poor girl have to go through? For the crime of being born a fay being rather than an oh-so-lucky human, she has to suffer endless pain,have has her tongue cut out, commit suicide, and then wait 300 years for her afterlife? And while happy children will take off a year, every tear shed for a bad one will add a day. The story was published in 1837. She could ''still'' be waiting for Heaven.
* TheWoobie: Dear God, Hans, how much does this poor girl have to go through? For the crime of being born a fay being rather than an oh-so-lucky human, she has to suffer endless pain,
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* CultClassic: While less-known than the Disney version, this film has a devoted fanbase.
* FandomRivalry: Between fans of this version and fans of the Disney version over which is a better adaptation. Some fans prefer this version for being a closer adaptation of the original story and preserving its DownerEnding and take issue with the Disney film for [[{{Disneyfication}} altering it]], while fans of the Disney film prefer it for giving the titular mermaid a [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding happy ending]]. There are also fans who enjoy both versions.
* FandomRivalry: Between fans of this version and fans of the Disney version over which is a better adaptation. Some fans prefer this version for being a closer adaptation of the original story and preserving its DownerEnding and take issue with the Disney film for [[{{Disneyfication}} altering it]], while fans of the Disney film prefer it for giving the titular mermaid a [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding happy ending]]. There are also fans who enjoy both versions.
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* CultClassic: While less-known less known than the Disney version, this film has a devoted fanbase.
* FandomRivalry: Between fans of this version and fans of the Disney version over which is a better adaptation. Some fans prefer this version for being a closer adaptation of the original story and preserving its DownerEnding and take issue with the Disney film for [[{{Disneyfication}} altering it]], while fans of the Disney film prefer it for giving the titular mermaid a [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding happy ending]].There are also Some fans who enjoy both versions.
* FandomRivalry: Between fans of this version and fans of the Disney version over which is a better adaptation. Some fans prefer this version for being a closer adaptation of the original story and preserving its DownerEnding and take issue with the Disney film for [[{{Disneyfication}} altering it]], while fans of the Disney film prefer it for giving the titular mermaid a [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding happy ending]].
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** [[ThreateningShark Undertow]] from the sequel. With Melody being a copy of her mother, Morgana and her sting rays being copies of Ursula, Flotsam, and Jetsam, and Tip and Dash being copies of...[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Timon and Pumbaa]], Undertow is the only new character with some originality. Doesn't hurt that he's voiced by Creator/ClancyBrown.
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** [[ThreateningShark Undertow]] from the sequel. With Melody being a copy of her mother, Morgana Morgana, and her sting rays being copies of Ursula, Flotsam, and Jetsam, and Tip and Dash being copies of...[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Timon and Pumbaa]], Undertow is the only new character with some originality. Doesn't hurt that he's voiced by Creator/ClancyBrown.
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** Triton has gotten this a ''lot'' more since ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'', with many fans now seeing him as an oppressive tyrant who randomly outlaws anything he doesn't like (music, the surface) because, [[FanonDiscontinuity in this film]], he outlaws his entire kingdom from singing or playing any music because of his grief for his own [[spoiler:dead wife]]. Of course, the fact that this is a direct-to-video prequel made ''years'' after the first film, by a completely different studio, with none of the original creative team from the first movie being involved, doesn't stop fans from forming this opinion.
** Ariel gets some of this in regards to her parenting towards Melody in the sequel. While Ariel was indeed wrong to lie to Melody regarding her mermaid heritage, many fans are a little too eager to shame her for how overprotective she was of Melody. This ignored the fact that Ariel did try to keep Melody from making the same mistakes she did. Also that Triton was being paranoid about humans in general when he tried to keep Ariel safe, while Ariel was trying to protect Melody from a ''definite'' threat in Morgana.
** Ariel gets some of this in regards to her parenting towards Melody in the sequel. While Ariel was indeed wrong to lie to Melody regarding her mermaid heritage, many fans are a little too eager to shame her for how overprotective she was of Melody. This ignored the fact that Ariel did try to keep Melody from making the same mistakes she did. Also that Triton was being paranoid about humans in general when he tried to keep Ariel safe, while Ariel was trying to protect Melody from a ''definite'' threat in Morgana.
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** Triton has gotten this a ''lot'' more since ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'', with many fans now seeing him as an oppressive tyrant who randomly outlaws anything he doesn't like (music, the surface) because, [[FanonDiscontinuity in this film]], he outlaws his entire kingdom from singing or playing any music because of his grief for his own [[spoiler:dead [[spoiler: dead wife]]. Of course, the fact that this is a direct-to-video prequel made ''years'' after the first film, by a completely different studio, with none of the original creative team from the first movie being involved, doesn't stop fans from forming this opinion.
** Ariel gets some of this in regards to her parenting towards Melody in the sequel. While Ariel was indeed wrong to lie to Melody regarding her mermaid heritage, many fans are a little too eager to shame her for how overprotective she was of Melody. This ignored the fact that Ariel did try to keep Melody from making the same mistakes she did.Also that Also, Triton was being paranoid about humans in general when he tried to keep Ariel safe, while Ariel was trying to protect Melody from a ''definite'' threat in Morgana.
** Ariel gets some of this in regards to her parenting towards Melody in the sequel. While Ariel was indeed wrong to lie to Melody regarding her mermaid heritage, many fans are a little too eager to shame her for how overprotective she was of Melody. This ignored the fact that Ariel did try to keep Melody from making the same mistakes she did.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Triton has even more of a point if you've seen ''Ariel's Beginning'' and consider it to be canon. [[spoiler:Ariel's mother was killed when human fishermen came to steal mermaid relics and accidentally(?) rammed their boat into her.]] Even if Triton accepted her passing in the end, that doesn't necessarily mean that he thinks highly of humans. It's no wonder he doesn't like humans--they [[spoiler:killed his wife]]!
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Triton has even more of a point if you've seen ''Ariel's Beginning'' and consider it to be canon. [[spoiler:Ariel's mother was killed when human fishermen came to steal mermaid relics and accidentally(?) rammed their boat into her.]] Even if Triton accepted her passing in the end, that doesn't necessarily mean that he thinks highly of humans. It's no wonder he doesn't like humans--they [[spoiler:killed [[spoiler: killed his wife]]!
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** King Triton in ''Ariel's Beginning''. The guy lost his wife Athena in a pirate attack, and many years later he still can't listen to music without being reminded of that tragic happening. Through the whole movie he looks so sad and depressed of what he had lost, and his strained relationship with Ariel ain't helping him.
** It gets worse: by the first movie, his relationship with Ariel is so damaged that she prefers trying her luck with Ursula than trusting him again, he's visibly distraught and blaming himself for her escape and, when finally after years of bickering manages to patch his relationship with his daughter, he's grimly reminded that Ariel forgave him ''at her own marriage''. When he realizes that ''he's going to miss her'', he also realizes that now Ariel has her own family to care for, and he can never, ever get back the time they spent bickering. And then, in the second movie, we find out that he didn't even get to be a grandfather for his (possibly) first granddaughter until she was 12.
** It gets worse: by the first movie, his relationship with Ariel is so damaged that she prefers trying her luck with Ursula than trusting him again, he's visibly distraught and blaming himself for her escape and, when finally after years of bickering manages to patch his relationship with his daughter, he's grimly reminded that Ariel forgave him ''at her own marriage''. When he realizes that ''he's going to miss her'', he also realizes that now Ariel has her own family to care for, and he can never, ever get back the time they spent bickering. And then, in the second movie, we find out that he didn't even get to be a grandfather for his (possibly) first granddaughter until she was 12.
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** King Triton in ''Ariel's Beginning''. The guy lost his wife Athena in a pirate attack, and many years later he still can't listen to music without being reminded of that tragic happening. Through Throughout the whole movie movie, he looks so sad and depressed of about what he had lost, and his strained relationship with Ariel ain't helping him.
** It gets worse: by the first movie, his relationship with Ariel is so damaged that she prefers trying her luck with Ursula than trusting him again, he's visibly distraught and blaming himself for her escape and, when finally after years of bickering manages to patch his relationship with his daughter, he's grimly reminded that Ariel forgave him ''at her own marriage''. When he realizes that ''he's going to miss her'', he also realizes that now Ariel has her own family to care for, and he can never, ever get back the time they spent bickering. And then, in the second movie, we find out that he didn't even get to be a grandfatherfor to his (possibly) first granddaughter until she was 12.
** It gets worse: by the first movie, his relationship with Ariel is so damaged that she prefers trying her luck with Ursula than trusting him again, he's visibly distraught and blaming himself for her escape and, when finally after years of bickering manages to patch his relationship with his daughter, he's grimly reminded that Ariel forgave him ''at her own marriage''. When he realizes that ''he's going to miss her'', he also realizes that now Ariel has her own family to care for, and he can never, ever get back the time they spent bickering. And then, in the second movie, we find out that he didn't even get to be a grandfather
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Marina's song as well as its DarkReprise at the end of the film.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Marina's song as well as its DarkReprise at the end of the film. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1su5u6bU7k Japanese version]] is a heartfelt song of love for the prince and how Marina feels incomplete without him, while the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nMGbOR0XsQ English version]] is similar but has a more bittersweet tone as Marina leaves her childhood and innocence behind, learning that the road to love is paved with broken hearts.
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The prince thinks the temple maiden was “the one who saved [him] when [he] lay like a dead man beside the sea” — which she did do and has a right to take credit for. She’s not taking credit for fishing him out of the water; he probably thinks he just washed up on shore by happenstance. Ergo, there’s nothing manipulative about her.
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** It's possible to read the princess who marries the prince as quite manipulative. The prince mistakenly thinks she's the one who rescued him from the shipwreck, and it's implied he fell in love with her for this reason. Did she just carry on letting him believe she did that? It's not surprising the Disney version made it so that this character is really the sea witch hypnotising the prince.
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* FairForItsDay: Contemporary readers reject the story for its BittersweetEnding, where the mermaid sacrifices everything and wins only the promise of a happy ending in the far future, thinking it would be better as a true happy ending or a straight tragedy. But Andersen was responding to the story of ''Undine'', where a mermaid gains her soul through a human -- in the little mermaid's story, her eternal life was entirely in her own hands, and the Daughters of the Air tell her that now she will win her ''own'' soul, not have to share in someone else's.
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** Bordering with a major case of ItRunsInTheFamily and AdultFear: Triton may have been paranoid, but his heart was in the right place, and he proved to love her daughter so much to sacrifice everything, including himself, to keep her safe and happy. Exactly what Ariel did: she just needed to be a mother herself to understand how hard being a parent is.
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** Bordering with a major case of ItRunsInTheFamily and AdultFear: parental worries: Triton may have been paranoid, but his heart was in the right place, and he proved to love her daughter so much to sacrifice everything, including himself, to keep her safe and happy. Exactly what Ariel did: she just needed to be a mother herself to understand how hard being a parent is.
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* ItWasHisSled: Possibly ironically due to Disney pulling NotHisSled with their adaptation, everyone knows this story ends with the mermaid dying with unrequited love.
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* FanPreferredCouple: [[WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet Jim Hawkins]] and Melody.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The English dub had the Sea Witch and Jemmy the cat voiced by the same actress, Jane Woods, which gave some viewers the idea that Jemmy was an avatar for the Witch trying to spoil Marina's future.
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** Ariel gets some of this in regards to her parenting towards Melody in the sequel. While Ariel was indeed wrong to lie to Melody regarding her mermaid heritage, many fans are a little too eager to shame her for how overprotective she was of Melody. This ignored the fact that Ariel did try to keep Melody from making the same mistakes she did. Also that Triton was being paranoid about humans in general when he tried to keep Ariel safe, while Ariel was trying to protect Melody from a ''definite'' threat in Morgana. Although, it doesn't help that Ariel doesn't explain to Melody what the "''definite'' threat" ''is'', [[ParentalHypocrisy but simply tells her to stay away from the ocean because]] "it's dangerous," just like when her father told her to stay away from humans because "they're dangerous."
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** Ariel gets some of this in regards to her parenting towards Melody in the sequel. While Ariel was indeed wrong to lie to Melody regarding her mermaid heritage, many fans are a little too eager to shame her for how overprotective she was of Melody. This ignored the fact that Ariel did try to keep Melody from making the same mistakes she did. Also that Triton was being paranoid about humans in general when he tried to keep Ariel safe, while Ariel was trying to protect Melody from a ''definite'' threat in Morgana. Although, it doesn't help that Ariel doesn't explain to Melody what the "''definite'' threat" ''is'', [[ParentalHypocrisy but simply tells her to stay away from the ocean because]] "it's dangerous," just like when her father told her to stay away from humans because "they're dangerous."
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* FanonDiscontinuity: The various endings. Some readers and scholars would have preferred for the story to end tragically with the mermaid being changed into foam and dying, rather than the slightly cloying BittersweetEnding of the mermaid being changed into a daughter of the air with a chance at Heaven.
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* FanonDiscontinuity: The various endings. Some readers and scholars would have preferred for the story to end tragically with the mermaid being changed into foam and dying, rather than the slightly cloying BittersweetEnding of the mermaid being changed into a daughter of the air with a chance at Heaven.
