General Disney Princess Discussion

First one...the second one has weird shadows and looks like bad rendering.

First and second what? :S

Sorry about the double post, but I had a thought. Would it be a good idea or a bad idea to add the trope Always Lawful Good to the franchise page?

I don't think Merida truly counts as Lawful Good, at least not for most of the movie.

What was she, then?

Hmm...

By the way, does anyone agree that the Princesses should really be listed on their own films' character pages rather than on the collective Disney Princess character pages? They're characters in their films first, and characters in the Disney Princess franchise second. The Disney Princess character pages should just link to the film character pages.

Chaotic Neutral pre-character development; ends up as Neutral Good.

edited 6th Jul '15 1:50:35 PM by DrDougsh

What said.

Yeah, I was asking the same thing a few pages back.

edited 6th Jul '15 1:51:07 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

Ariel, Jasmine and Mulan are also hardly all that "lawful".

Jasmine becomes a lot more lawful post-first movie (and from what I remember, so does Ariel), and Mulan was lawful until major circumstances forced her to defy conventions. Left to her own devices she'll try to be lawful even if she doesn't like it (like still trying to become 'proper' fiancee material).

edited 6th Jul '15 2:00:34 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

The last Pocket Princess (for the time being, at least)

Why the last? :S

Because the creator is busy with other stuff. Like actual, officially-published Disney Princess comics.

Bump, because I just had a funny thought. Were any of the Princesses ever friends with skunks?

Bambi was technically a prince.

And there was Giselle befriending cockroaches and rats.

Happy National Princess Week!

I've always found Mulan's motivation to be my favorite out of any "princess." Princesses like Ariel and Jasmine wants to sate their curiosity. Cinderella wants to find happiness. Mulan wants to freaking save another person's life.

A thoughtful way to put it. Usually criticism of Mulan's motive veers in the direction of "her motive is only about saving a man: her father". Which isn't an unnecessary claim, but I think it's justified for the film because 1. it'd take more story leaps to make it about her mother since women didn't go to war then, and 2. the whole story is about Mulan adopting masculinity then learning the strength of her own femininity. So the initial motive being masculine works since her goals shift from "saving father" to "saving friends". She even theorizes after the army abandons her that she may have had personal, more self-interested motives at play. Her "I Want" Song is about herself then about her father, after all.

It's just that the "saving the ones you love" narratives really strike a chord to me. What if her motive to save a man? That's still freaking noble! Of course along the way she is able to find her true self and earn respect from all China, but that's icing on top.

edited 24th Apr '16 5:50:48 PM by flameboy21th

Top 10 Greatest Disney Princesses By greatest they mean the most iconic. It's a good list.

This National Princess Week had a very nice ending.

I found a very cool crossover. :) And no, that's not a pun.

Great art!

On creating Disney Princesses.

-backs away slowly-

edited 9th May '16 4:55:23 PM by Demetrios

If they weren't born royalty, killing the parents won't do anything. The nieces have to marry some prince whose parents you have murdered instead. Or they can save China.

edited 9th May '16 5:35:04 PM by NapoleonDeCheese