History DisneyFication / Disney

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': The stories of the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' were definetely '''not''' family or kid aimed tales; they covered adult subjects like forced marriage, infidelity, serial uxoricide (murder of one's wife), and explicit descriptions of human anatomy ... and that's just in the ''frame story''! That's not even getting into the parts where Scheherazade starts rambling on about corpse-tearing ghouls, bestiality, or [[GagPenis penis humor,]] and the inherent ValuesDissonance and sometimes racist content in the stories. Disney's ''Aladdin'' removes all of this to make the film appropriate for kids and families.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound''. In the [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound original book]], [[spoiler: Tod and Copper were never friends to begin with, Tod loses his first mate to a trap and his second to the hunter, Chief doesn't survive his encounter with that train, and at the end Tod dies of exhaustion while being relentlessly chased by Copper and his master. And then Copper is [[ShootTheDog literally shot in the head]] by his owner to avoid having to abandon him.]]

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}} Although not an adaptation, rather it is inspired by the Snow Queen, Frozen is much lighter and family-friendly compare to the original story. The changes included the addition of the singing snowman and make the character that was inspired by the antagonist become good. In fact, most of the character have a different name and some of them are a composite character that they might as well be original separated characters.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}'' actually ''[[InvertedTrope inverts]]'' this trope, oddly enough. It does take a great deal of creative liberties with [[Literature/TheSnowQueen the source material]], to the point that the story is barely recognizable. However, the result is actually in many respects quite a bit darker than the original.

* Tinker Bell [[KilledOffForReal dies for real]] in [[Literature/PeterPan the original novel]] and can be quite heartless due to only having room for one feeling at a time. Though you do see some of it in the first ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' movie, all traces of traditional TheFairFolk are gone in her later appearances. By ''Franchise/DisneyFairies'' it is completely gone and Tinker Bell is a more mellow PluckyGirl.

--> Inside the packed twelve-hundred-seat theatre, the members of the audience responded to the movie with enthusiasm: they gave it a five-minute standing ovation. In the midst of the celebrating crowd, it would have been easy to overlook [[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/19/051219fa_fact1?currentPage=all the sixty-five-year-old woman sitting there, weeping.]] The film
** ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' tells the story of Travers' doomed attempts to make the production of the film stick to her conception of the characters. Ironically, this film Disneyfies the true story.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1'' gets a happy ending, unlike the bittersweet fate of the mermaid in [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid the original tale]] by Creator/HansChristianAndersen. Also, in the original story, the sea witch was a neutral character. In the movie, she's named Ursula and upgraded to the BigBad.

* ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'': A mild case for the Bongo half of the film. The original story also features a happy ending, but is still more cynical and violent. Notably, Bongo never becomes accepted by the other bears, his beloved rejects him for Lumpjaw, and the happy ending comes from another circus troupe finding him and re-introducing him to civilization.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': The story is drastically different from the original, and is a complete 180 in tone from the stories of the ''Literature/ArabianNights''. For starters, they were definetely '''not''' family or kid aimed tales; they covered adult subjects like forced marriage, infidelity, serial uxoricide (murder of one's wife), and explicit descriptions of human anatomy ... and that's just in the ''frame story''! And that's not even getting into the parts where Scheherazade starts rambling on about corpse-tearing ghouls, bestiality, or [[GagPenis penis humor,]] and the inherent ValuesDissonance and sometimes racist content in the stories. The Disney Aladdin removes all of this to make the film appropriate for kids and families. In the original story, Aladdin had ''two'' genies - a weaker one in a ring, and the stronger one in the lamp - and had ''no limit'' on the number of tasks he could set them to. Yes, he won the hand of a princess, but that was barely the midpoint of the story; the evil wizard who had first used Aladdin to try to retrieve the lamp (and who had no connection to the princess in any way) was not quickly disposed of but instead discovered Aladdin's success, and successfully stole the lamp (and the princess, and Aladdin's palace, and almost everything else) with the clever ruse of "New lamps for old!" Aladdin had to win everything back from the wizard using his wits and the lesser genie he still had in his ring. There weren't any cute animal companions, magic carpets hadn't been thought up when the story was written, and the princess didn't have much of a part - she ranged from ruining everything by giving away the lamp, all the way down to being eye candy only present for Aladdin to marry.[[note]]And while not Disneyfication, it should also be pointed out that the ''Aladdin'' story was originally set in ''China''.[[/note]]

* Disney's adaptation of ''Literature/TWitches'' tones down some of harsher elements of the novel; Aron is revealed to be alive in the Disney movie, while he's KilledOffForReal in the novel; Ileana is simply the twin's guardian in the movie, whereas in the book, she's also Thanatos' abandoned daughter, making her their cousin as well. She's also Karsh's distant cousin and foster daughter, rather than his eventual wife. The Disney movie also turns the twins' mother, Miranda, into the queen of Coventry, [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses making her daughters princesses]], when none of them are royalty in the books. Oddly though, the movie eventually kills off Thanatos, whereas the novels, he simply becomes an {{Unperson}}, making his fate arguably harsher

* Disney managed to do this to ''themselves'' by censoring some things in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts II'''s [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Port Royal]] level. Such as removing the part where Will aims a gun at his own head, giving the rifle-wielding [[GhostPirate undead]] {{pirate}}s crossbows instead, and toning down the special effects on Undead Pirates hit with magic spells. All of this was done in order to keep the game at a E10+ rating. An attempt which ultimately failed, because they left the scene where Undead!Barbossa drinks a bottle of wine to scare Elizabeth in the game.

** Not to mention, the movie tries to make Hercules more of an underdog by presenting his adoptive parents as common farmers and him as a farmer's son. In the original myth, his mother and stepfather were both royalty and so was he, with all the advantages that comes with.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Tarzan}}'' is a case where Disneyfication ''improved'' the original work. For instance, Burrough's virulent racist and xenophobic material was removed and a century's worth of scientific research about the true peaceful nature of gorillas was incorporated into the story.
** But to be fair, Borroughs didn't state that they were gorillas in the first place: The "Mangani" are a fictional species of big apes (which by the way also possess language). Most likely he pictured them as some sort of apemen cryptids (a staple in pulp literature) or rather primitive hominids (as evolution theory and anthropology were still totally rad at that time). But that doesn't excuse the "Bolgoni", which are actual gorillas and are portrayed as violent.

* ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. The original script was actually closer to the original fairy tale than the final film, but due to pacing, money issues, and worries over OffModel animation, a lot of scenes had to be cut, including the two other times the Queen tries to kill Snow White (by giving her a poisoned comb and suffocating her by pulling her corset strings too tight). An interesting case is with the witch's death. In the original story, the queen is exposed for her crimes at Snow White's wedding to the prince, and is burned to death. In the Disney film, she is chased to the top of a cliff by the dwarves; as she tries to send a boulder down to crush them, the cliff is struck by lightning, [[DisneyVillainDeath she and the boulder fall off]], and she is at least killed from the high fall, and is also presumably crushed by the boulder and eaten by vultures. While the latter is seemingly darker than the former, keep in mind, this way it is nature getting revenge on the witch, not any of the heroes.

* ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' already underwent this process when it was a book: There, Pinocchio is killed (still a puppet) by hanging, which author Carlo Collodi had planned to be the ending of the book. But on the publisher's demand Collodi added extra chapters in which Pinocchio not only is restored to life, but also becomes a real boy ([[EarnYourHappyEnding after a lot of hard and cruel life lessons, that is]]). When Disney made their ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' movie, they in turn cut out the hanging completely, as well as other dark elements like Pinocchio [[spoiler:killing the cricket]]. The original also had Pinocchio, after he had been turned into a donkey, [[spoiler:being tossed into the sea to drown by his owner, and surviving only because his wooden body was lighter than water.]] Of course, much like ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', the film is still noted for being much grimmer than the average Disney affair, most notably retaining the villain's {{Karma Houdini}}s (and even adding another in the case of Foulfellow). There are few LighterAndSofter adaptations that depict hundreds of children being captured, transformed, and [[TheBadGuyWins successfully]] sent to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'' compared to the novel its based on, ''Bambi: A Life In The Woods''. True, Bambi's mother dies in the film, but its tone still is significantly lighter than the novel's, which was much darker and more brutal, including graphic death scenes. They also never included Bambi's cousin Gobo's death. [[KissingCousins And they failed to mention Faline was his cousin!]]
* ''Disney/MakeMineMusic'': The story of ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'' is changed around a bit, giving names to the various characters among other things. Most significantly, the duck, which is devoured by the wolf in the original story, is alive and well at the end, being in hiding after the wolf attacks it.
* ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'': A mild case for the Bongo half of the film. The original story also features a happy ending, but is still more cynical and violent. Notably, Bongo never becomes accepted by the other bears, his beloved rejects him for Lumpjaw, and the happy ending comes from another circus troupe finding him and re-introducing him to civilization.
* The UsefulNotes/JohnnyAppleseed story as presented in ''Disney/MelodyTime''. His life was originally much harder than it was presented in the film. It also plays up his positive qualities more and glosses over the fact that in real life, Johnny was a shrewd businessman and promoted his own religion.
* Largely averted in ''Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'', at least in the [[Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow the "Ichabod"]] segment). Disney added a catchy musical number and some cartoon slapstick, and perhaps made Brom Bones a little meaner, but the GreyAndGrayMorality of the original story is largely preserved, and the end is still left ambiguous for the viewer to decide whether Ichabod really left town or was spirited away by the Headless Horseman. The [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows Mr. Toad segment]], on the other hand, changes the story so that Toad is innocent, whereas in the book he really did steal the car.
* ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''. Besides the minor HijackedByJesus elements, we also have the fact that the only precaution to protect the princess in the original was the outlawing of spinning wheels; the princess slept for one hundred years, as opposed to just until PrinceCharming returned home; speaking of the Prince, he wasn't introduced until ''after'' those one hundred years had passed.

* In T. H. White's ''Literature/TheSwordInTheStone'', young Wart's education by the wizard Merlin contains powerful moral lessons that will help the young man face his future role as [[spoiler:Myth/KingArthur]]. [[Disney/TheSwordInTheStone The Disney version]] throws away all of the moral messages and replaces them with (admittedly sometimes very good) visual gags. Pretty much all of Sir Ector and Kay's character development was dropped in favor of making them a Disney-typical abusive family--for example, Kay in the book was only a couple years apart from Wart in age and was a companion and playmate, whereas the film turns him into a [[JerkAss cynical, surly bully]] to Wart.

* The story of RobinHood had been thoroughly bowdlerised before Walt Disney was born, and [[Disney/RobinHood their take on it]] is actually far from the worst abuse of the mythos. To be fair, the narrator outright admits that everybody has their own version of the story (true enough) and that this was just the version that the animals tell.
* ''Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound''. In the [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound original book]], [[spoiler: Tod and Copper were never friends to begin with, Tod loses his first mate to a trap and his second to the hunter, Chief doesn't survive his encounter with that train, and at the end Tod dies of exhaustion while being relentlessly chased by Copper and his master. And then Copper is [[ShootTheDog literally shot in the head]] by his owner to avoid having to abandon him.]]
* ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' mishmashed plot elements from the first two books of Creator/LloydAlexander's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'' (''The Book of Three'' and ''The Black Cauldron''), gave the amalgamated villain an annoying sidekick, turned the truculent dwarves into cute little pixies, and made beast-man Gurgi a cutesy animal character. No songs, though, with many scary moments, and about 15 minutes of the film were removed that would have gotten the film an R rating if kept.
* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' gets a happy ending, unlike the bittersweet fate of the mermaid in [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid the original tale]] by Creator/HansChristianAndersen. Also, in the original story, the sea witch was a neutral character. In the movie, she's named Ursula and upgraded to the BigBad.
* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is a notable aversion of this, as the Disney adaptation is [[http://dettoldisney.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/beauty-and-the-beast-vs-la-belle-et-la-bete/ darker than the original fairy tale.]]
* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'': The story is drastically different from the original, and is a complete 180 in tone from the stories of the ''Literature/ArabianNights''. For starters, they were definetely '''not''' family or kid aimed tales; they covered adult subjects like forced marriage, infidelity, serial uxoricide (murder of one's wife), and explicit descriptions of human anatomy ... and that's just in the ''frame story''! And that's not even getting into the parts where Scheherazade starts rambling on about corpse-tearing ghouls, bestiality, or [[GagPenis penis humor,]] and the inherent ValuesDissonance and sometimes racist content in the stories. The Disney Aladdin removes all of this to make the film appropriate for kids and families. In the original story, Aladdin had ''two'' genies - a weaker one in a ring, and the stronger one in the lamp - and had ''no limit'' on the number of tasks he could set them to. Yes, he won the hand of a princess, but that was barely the midpoint of the story; the evil wizard who had first used Aladdin to try to retrieve the lamp (and who had no connection to the princess in any way) was not quickly disposed of but instead discovered Aladdin's success, and successfully stole the lamp (and the princess, and Aladdin's palace, and almost everything else) with the clever ruse of "New lamps for old!" Aladdin had to win everything back from the wizard using his wits and the lesser genie he still had in his ring. There weren't any cute animal companions, magic carpets hadn't been thought up when the story was written, and the princess didn't have much of a part - she ranged from ruining everything by giving away the lamp, all the way down to being eye candy only present for Aladdin to marry.[[note]]And while not Disneyfication, it should also be pointed out that the ''Aladdin'' story was originally set in ''China''.[[/note]]
* If you take ''Disney/TheLionKing'' as a version of Theatre/{{Hamlet}}, then it Disneyfies it in spades! Everyone has different names, and are portrayed as animals who can talk and sing. Additionally, none of the main characters die except for the protagonist's father and uncle. When the protagonist sees his father's ghost imploring him to avenge him, the movie makes it clear that the ghost really did appear to him, as opposed to acknowledging the possibility that the protagonist only hallucinated the spirit. The movie also ends with the protagonist and his love interest becoming king and queen and having a daughter, since the script doesn't kill them off.
** The DirectToVideo [[Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride sequel]] is, similarly, a Disneyfied ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Among other changes, the main couple directly help their feuding families make peace instead of killing themselves.
* ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' shredded everything we know about the historical woman. For one thing, she was between 10 and 12 years old when she first met John Smith, making a romantic relationship unlikely at best. Her father had fifty wives and many children. She was taken to Jamestown as a hostage and married before her trip to London, and no Armada was threatening to annihilate her people. John Smith was not a Prince Charming type, but in fact an unattractive, short man with a giant woolly beard. The only bit they got right was her saving Smith from execution, and even that is considered by some historians to be the enactment of a ritual (and thus Smith wasn't in any real danger). [[UnreliableNarrator Still other historians suspect Smith of making up the entire story, since it doesn't appear until he wrote his memoirs, four years after her ''death'']]. And she didn't actually marry John Smith. She married John ''Rolfe'' who definitely loved her (he expressed lots of times in his writings) but her feelings toward him are unknown. In real life, John Smith was more of a father-type figure to her than a love interest. ''Pocahontas II'' keeps in her marrying Rolfe, but is similarly toned down. Oh, and she died of tuberculosis at the age of 21 during her trip back to America although some people suspect she was actually poisoned. At least she did not live to see her tribe almost exterminated by smallpox and warfare.
* ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. You wouldn't think Creator/VictorHugo's [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame original novel]] would be suitable fare for a family friendly movie. Despite being one of Disney's darkest movies, they still made it much nicer than the book -- Esmeralda was nicer, Phoebus was nicer, Quasimodo was nicer, there was a clearer line between good and evil, and the good guys didn't all die or kill themselves at the end. Even more strangely, the Disney movie is actually ''darker'' than the novel in a few aspects: Gypsy genocide isn't on the agenda at all in the book, nor is Paris burned. Also, Disney changed Quasimodo's public humiliation from simple corporal punishment to the whim of a sadistic crowd. Frollo alone makes the movie ''incredibly'' dark for a Disney flick.
* ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' not only has a HijackedByJesus style, but also implies that the Greek gods had wholesome family values, when in the original mythologies, having extramarital relations, whether with mortals or other gods, was a boredom-relieving exercise. The [[EverybodyHatesHades Disneyfication of Hades]] from DarkIsNotEvil to BigBad is pretty amazing. They took the Greek concept of the Underworld and Hades (which was more or less a neutral judging point) and spun it to better resemble Hell and the Devil. Complete with imp minions. Luckily, Creator/JamesWoods is a great actor. They also made him quite [[DeadpanSnarker cynical]] (and possibly the OnlySaneMan), which only helped. In the original myth, not only was Heracles the product of an extramarital affair (with a mortal woman, Alcmene), but Hera loathed him and tried multiple times to torture and kill him. At one stage, she inflicted a madness on him that drove him to murder his children and his first wife, Megara - and it was Heracles who had to carry out penance for this in the form of the Twelve Labours. That's right, not only were the Gods petty and promiscuous; since they couldn't hurt their fellow Gods, they would attack the mortals who worshipped and championed them instead.

* ''{{Disney/Tarzan}}'' is a case where Disneyfication ''improved'' the original work. For instance, Burrough's virulent racist and xenophobic material was removed and a century's worth of scientific research about the true peaceful nature of gorillas was incorporated into the story.

* ''Literature/TheSteadfastTinSoldier'' was given a happy ending by Disney in ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'', partly from the SoundtrackDissonance that would occur if they did keep the original ending. The animators had storyboarded the sequence ending with the tin soldier and the ballerina melting into a heart-shape, but it was unused.

* ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'': Silver isn't anywhere as nice in the original ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' book. And Billy Bones was a most unwelcome guest at the Benbow, staying several months before he died. And Mr. Arrow was a drunk.

* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' skips the TeenPregnancy[[note]]The original fairy tale ''itself'' had actually already been Disneyficated - in the first version she reveals her visiting lover to her "mother" by asking "Why is my dress getting so tight around my belly?", indicating what kind of action they were getting on during his visits; in Grimm's second version this line was changed to "Mother, you are so much lighter to lift up than my lover!"[[/note]] and [[spoiler: has Flynn get a [[BloodlessCarnage rather clean]] stab wound at the end, instead of having his eyes gouged out. Although one could argue that the two balanced out, since Flynn actually ''dies'', only to be brought back.]] The film was originally much darker until directors changed partway, though it still lacked either of those aspects.
* {{Disney/Frozen}} actually ''[[InvertedTrope inverts]]'' this trope, oddly enough. It does take a great deal of creative liberties with [[Literature/TheSnowQueen the source material]], to the point that the story is barely recognizable. However, the result is actually in many respects quite a bit darker than the original.

** Another Disney example is Walt Disney World's ''Ride/ExtraTERRORestrialAlienEncounter'' becoming ''Ride/StitchsGreatEscape'' The original attraction, the theme parks' darkest, had the trapped audience menaced in the dark by a deadly Xenomorph-like alien. Because it fell firmly into WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids territory, it was revamped into a prequel to ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' in which the audience need not fear for its life and the worst thing Stitch does is belch in one's face. Since it didn't completely mitigate the frightening conceit of being trapped in the dark, however, the attraction not only alienated (so to speak) the original's fanbase but let down families hoping for harmless fun.

* Tinker Bell [[KilledOffForReal dies for real]] in [[Literature/PeterPan the original novel]] and can be quite heartless due to only having room for one feeling at a time. Though you do see some of it in the first ''Disney/PeterPan'' movie, all traces of traditional TheFairFolk are gone in her later appearances. By ''Franchise/DisneyFairies'' it is completely gone and Tinker Bell is a more mellow PluckyGirl.

* ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' shredded everything we know about the historical woman. For one thing, she was between 10 and 12 years old when she first met John Smith, making a romantic relationship unlikely at best. Her father had fifty wives and many children. She was taken to Jamestown as a hostage, according to the testimony of her sister who visit her during her captivity (the English allowed it because she was too depressed) she was raped by her captors and got pregnant (in fact is generally believed by her tribe that her only son Thomas Rolfe was a ChildByRape and that John Rolfe adopted him) and married before her trip to London, and no Armada was threatening to annihilate her people. John Smith was not a Prince Charming type, but in fact an unattractive, short man with a giant woolly beard. The only bit they got right was her saving Smith from execution, and even that is considered by some historians to be the enactment of a ritual (and thus Smith wasn't in any real danger). [[UnreliableNarrator Still other historians suspect Smith of making up the entire story, since it doesn't appear until he wrote his memoirs, four years after her ''death'']]. And she didn't actually marry John Smith. She married John ''Rolfe'' who definitely loved her (he expressed lots of times in his writings) but her feelings toward him are unknown. In real life, John Smith was more of a father-type figure to her than a love interest. ''Pocahontas II'' keeps in her marrying Rolfe, but is similarly toned down. Oh, and she died of tuberculosis at the age of 21 during her trip back to America although some people suspect she was actually poisoned. At least she did not live to see her tribe almost exterminated by smallpox and warfare.

* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'': The story is drastically different from the original, and is a complete 180 in tone from the stories of the ''Literature/ArabianNights''. For starters, they were definetely '''not''' family or kid aimed tales; they covered adult subjects like forced marriage, infidelity, serial uxoricide, and explicit descriptions of human anatomy ... and that's just in the ''frame story''! And that's not even getting into the parts where Scheherazade starts rambling on about corpse-tearing ghouls, bestiality, or [[GagPenis penis humor,]] and the inherent ValuesDissonance and sometimes racist content in the stories. The Disney Aladdin removes all of this to make the film appropriate for kids and families. In the original story, Aladdin had ''two'' genies - a weaker one in a ring, and the stronger one in the lamp - and had ''no limit'' on the number of tasks he could set them to. Yes, he won the hand of a princess, but that was barely the midpoint of the story; the evil wizard who had first used Aladdin to try to retrieve the lamp (and who had no connection to the princess in any way) was not quickly disposed of but instead discovered Aladdin's success, and successfully stole the lamp (and the princess, and Aladdin's palace, and almost everything else) with the clever ruse of "New lamps for old!" Aladdin had to win everything back from the wizard using his wits and the lesser genie he still had in his ring. There weren't any cute animal companions, magic carpets hadn't been thought up when the story was written, and the princess didn't have much of a part - she ranged from ruining everything by giving away the lamp, all the way down to being eye candy only present for Aladdin to marry.[[note]]And while not Disneyfication, it should also be pointed out that the ''Aladdin'' story was originally set in ''China''.[[/note]]

Creator/{{Disney}}, being the TropeCodifier for {{Disneyfication}}, frequently does this for their movies and works, especially ones that are based on a pre-existing story.

* ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' shredded everything we know about the historical woman. For one thing, she was between 10 and 12 years old when she first met John Smith, making a romantic relationship unlikely at best. Her father had fifty wives and many children. She was taken to Jamestown as a hostage and married before her trip to London, and no Armada was threatening to annihilate her people. John Smith was not a Prince Charming type, but in fact an unattractive, short man with a giant woolly beard. The only bit they got right was her saving Smith from execution, and even that is considered by some historians to be the enactment of a ritual (and thus Smith wasn't in any real danger). [[UnreliableNarrator Still other historians suspect Smith of making up the entire story, since it doesn't appear until he wrote his memoirs, four years after her ''death'']]. And she didn't actually marry John Smith. She married John ''Rolfe''. In real life, John Smith was more of a father-type figure to her than a love interest. ''Pocahontas II'' keeps in her marrying Rolfe, but is similarly toned down.

** But to be fair, Borroughs didn't state that they were gorillas in the first place: The "Mangani" are a fictional species of big apes (which by the way also possess language). Most likely he pictured them as some sort of apemen cryptids (a staple in pulp literature) or rather primitive hominids (as evolution theory and anthropology were still totally rad at that time).

* ZigZagged big time with ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh.'' As a first person shooter, it's still quite violent, but it manages a Teen rating. The franchise was already very good with sneaking a metric ton of violence and death past the Disney radar system by liberal use of BloodlessCarnage and the fact that [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman most of the casualties are Programs. There's even a plot point of Mercury being restored from backup, meaning DeathIsCheap may be in effect for Programs, though there may be FridgeHorror if you realize that being restored from backup does delete all their memories from that last save]]. When it ''does'' come down to human antagonists? [[spoiler: Jet wounds Thorne, but the Kernel is the one who finishes him. The Datawraiths are forcibly ejected back to analog upon defeat, unconscious ([[FridgeHorror though we don't know what happens to them after that]]), and the F-Con trio are forcibly imprisoned on an external hard drive until Alan can free them...and Alan is implied to be in ''no'' hurry to do that.]] This way, they managed to side-step the issue of having Team Bradley actually kill other humans. Oddly enough, this makes ''2.0'' actually one of the LighterAndSofter entries in the franchise.

Creator/{{Disney}}, being the TropeNamer for {{Disneyfication}}, frequently does this for their movies and works, especially ones that are based on a pre-existing story.

* The story of the ''Literature/ThreeLittlePigs'' originally had the first two pigs eaten by the wolf after their houses were blown down. The [[Disney/ThreeLittlePigs Disney cartoon]] of the story allowed them to run to the next house before the wolf could get his meal. The original has the big bad wolf being boiled alive after he attempts to gain access to the brick house via the chimney, whereas the Disney version simply has the wolf burning his hand and running away scared. Some other sanitized versions will have the wolf pass out from the exhaustion of trying to blow the third house down.

** Another Disney example is Walt Disney World's ''The [=ExtraTERRORestrial=] Alien Encounter'' becoming ''Stitch's Great Escape!'' The original attraction, the theme parks' darkest, had the trapped audience menaced in the dark by a deadly Xenomorph-like alien. Because it fell firmly into WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids territory, it was revamped into a prequel to ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' in which the audience need not fear for its life and the worst thing Stitch does is belch in one's face. Since it didn't completely mitigate the frightening conceit of being trapped in the dark, however, the attraction not only alienated (so to speak) the original's fanbase but let down families hoping for harmless fun.

* Oddly enough, ''Film/{{Newsies}}'' is not a particularly {{egregious}} example of Disneyfication. It's safe to say that the New York newsboys of 1899 didn't burst into spontaneous well-choreographed musical numbers as they walked the streets, and the violence occurring as a result of the strike is a bit sanitized (no blood); but we do see newsboys sleeping on the streets, smoking cigars, betting on races, beating up strikebreakers, et cetera. Of course, one must point out that the newspapers ''never actually lowered their prices'' in the end; they came to an agreement with the newsies where they agreed to buy back their unsold papers. While this agreement was pretty mutually beneficial, clearly the idea of the rag-tag kids' union getting everything they wanted in the end was too good for Disney to pass up.

* The anti-religious theme of Miramax Films' 2000 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film of the book]] ''Film/{{Chocolat}}'' was softened by replacing the bitter churchman of the book with a town representative. Also, the town itself was made to look drab and ugly in the opening acts, when the very first scene in the book describes the heroine and her daughter watching a bright parade through the streets of the same town. The most {{egregious}} change is the ending -- the novel contained a brief, drunken hookup between the heroine and a male supporting character, leaving her pregnant as she left the village to continue drifting. In the movie, the relationship between her and the man is developed into a full romantic subplot, he returns at the end, and the heroine decides she doesn't need to leave the village, breaking the cycle.

* ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' not only has a HijackedByJesus style, but also implies that the Greek gods had wholesome family values, when in the original mythologies, having extramarital relations, whether with mortals or other gods, was a boredom-relieving exercise. The [[EverybodyHatesHades Disneyfication of Hades]] from DarkIsNotEvil to BigBad is pretty amazing. They took the Greek concept of the Underworld and Hades (which was more or less a neutral judging point) and spun it to better resemble Hell and the Devil. Complete with imp minions. Luckily, [[ChewingTheScenery James Woods]] is a great actor. They also made him quite [[DeadpanSnarker cynical]] (and possibly the OnlySaneMan), which only helped. In the original myth, not only was Heracles the product of an extramarital affair (with a mortal woman, Alcmene), but Hera loathed him and tried multiple times to torture and kill him. At one stage, she inflicted a madness on him that drove him to murder his children and his first wife, Megara - and it was Heracles who had to carry out penance for this in the form of the Twelve Labours. That's right, not only were the Gods petty and promiscuous; since they couldn't hurt their fellow Gods, they would attack the mortals who worshipped and championed them instead.