History Trivia / Descendants

* ActingForTwo: For the Latin Spanish dub, Braian Pavón provided the voices of Ben and Harry in the sequels.

** In ''The Rise of Red'', Creator/{{Brandy}} and Creator/PaoloMontalban reprise their roles as Cinderella and Prince Charming from the 1997 film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''[[Film/Cinderella1997 Cinderella]]''.

* RoleReprise: Sergio Zaldivar returned as Lumiere in the Latin Spanish dub of the second film, after previously dubbing him in the live-action remake of ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017''.

* CreatorBacklash: Annie Rojas, who dubbed Lonnie in the Latin Spanish version, openly declared that she disliked the film as she thought it was a rehash of ''WesternAnimation/EverAfterHigh''.

* TheOtherDarrin: Once China Anne [=McClain=] got cast as Uma in the films, her real-life sister Lauryn [=McClain=] took over voicing her previous role as Freddie.

* IKnewIt: ''Descendants 3'' confirms that popular fan theory/joke that [[spoiler:Hades and Maleficent were a couple and that Mal is their daughter]] and [[spoiler:Audrey is indeed the villain of the film.]]

** This is Disney's answer to the ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' and ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' multimedia franchises, which deal with the offspring of mythical/literary monsters and fairy tale characters respectively. ''Descendents'' ended up overshadowing the two to the point that both franchises were killed by the end of 2018.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://descendants.wikia.com/wiki/Descendants_Wiki The Descendants Wiki]], and another [[http://disney-descendants.wikia.com/wiki/Descendants_Wiki Descendants Wiki]].

* VoiceOnlyCameo: In the second movie, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg played [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Ursula]]. However, she's only heard shouting at Uma from off-screen in one scene, and never seen beyond a single tentacle.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://descendants.wikia.com/wiki/Descendants_Wiki The Descendants Wiki]], another [[http://disney-descendants.wikia.com/wiki/Descendants_Wiki Descendants Wiki]], and another [[http://the-descendants.wikia.com/wiki/The_Descendants_Wiki Descendants Wiki]].

* CastingGag:
** Before being sent to Auradon, Jay barks like a dog to scare Carlos. Booboo Stewart portrayed one of the werewolves in the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' film saga.
*** This also happens in one episode of the ''Wicked World'' spinoff: after Mal and Evie mistakenly cast a spell that makes everyone act and bark like dogs -- except Carlos, oddly enough, Carlos decides to amuse himself by having an entranced Jay to do dog tricks and taking pictures of him doing them before reversing the spell.
** This isn't Keegan Connor Tracy's [[Series/OnceUponATime first time being in a story based on fairy tales.]] It's also rather fitting that she plays Belle, considering that her OUAT character played an essential role in the story of that show's version of The Beast.
** Anna Cathcart, the actress who played Drizella Tremaine's daughter Dizzy, also portrayed a young Drizella in Series/OnceUponATime.
** The Evil Queen isn't the first time Kathy Najimy's played a villainous Disney spellcaster, having previously played Mary Sanderson in ''Film/HocusPocus''.

* NamesTheSame: No, it's not related to ''Film/TheDescendants''. This is a reason why it's titled as ''Disney'' Descendants.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: French dub: Creator/MaiaBaran (Belle) and Creator/NathalieHons (Cruella de Vil) have also worked together on ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAFashionFairytale'' and ''WesternAnimation/The7D''.

* UnderminedByReality: The main theme is that you don't have to be defined by your parents. Yet numerous characters are introduced, most well-known, and have their personality based off being the offspring of [[CashCowFranchise [insert popular Disney character]. ]] This is later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when the series got into the GrowingTheBeard and CharacterDevelopment areas.

* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Jane is a spitting image of the Fairy Godmother. Their actresses could easily pass for mother and daughter in real life.

* ActorSharedBackground: Carlos is shown to be at least half-black (as Cruella is played by African-American actress Wendy Raquel Robinson), like his actor, Creator/CameronBoyce.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: It's heavily implied in the Royal Wedding animated special that Carlos died at some point since the third movie, reflecting how his actor died in 2019 from an epileptic seizure.

* UnderminedByReality: The main theme is that you don't have to be defined by your parents. Yet numerous characters are introduced and most well-known to the audience as the offspring of [[CashCowFranchise [insert popular Disney character]. ]] This is later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when the series got into the GrowingTheBeard and CharacterDevelopment areas.

* UnderminedByReality: The main theme is that you don't have to be defined by your parents. Yet numerous characters are introduced and most well-known to the audience as the offspring of [[CashCowFranchise [insert popular Disney character]. ]] Especially notable with Mulan's daughter who is a total copy of her. This is later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when the series got into the GrowingTheBeard and CharacterDevelopment areas.

* FakeNationality: Arabian Jay is played by multiracial Native American, European, and Asian Booboo Stewart.

* FakeNationality: Arabian Jay is played by Native American (among several ethnicities) Booboo Stewart.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Not outright stated, but it's heavily implied in the Royal Wedding animated special that Carlos died at some point since the end of the third movie.

* SeperatedAtBirthCasting: Jane is a spitting image of the Fairy Godmother. Their actresses could easily pass for mother and daughter in real life.

** The film was originally not intended to be a musical, with the songs being added after Kenny Ortega officially took over as director.