We all know how much you like to have your childhood memories tainted beyond repair with a big dose of weird, horrible truth, so we’ve got more for you! Disney, that juggernaut of bowdlerized children’s stories, draws from a pretty extensive list of tales, but, as usual, they’re all actually kind of disturbing. Yikes.
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1. Peter Pan
The character of Peter Pan always weirded me out, even as a kid. I’m not going to lie. His first appearance shows him tricking Wendy into kissing him, which is a big red flag. Furthermore, the charming, charismatic, and ruthless Peter runs a cultish colony where young, impressionable boys follow his every command, where he takes credit for others’ contributions, and generally acts like a despotic sociopath. Wendy, luckily, figures out that living under the thumb of a childish ruler might not be so great, and goes home. And ironically, pirates, the main enemies in Barrie’s tale, were known to run their ships democratically.
2. Hercules
At the end of the Disney version, Herc ends up with heroine Megara, who is actually a figure in classical mythology. Unfortunately, they couple does not live happily ever after. At some point, Hercules goes mad and kills her and their children. To atone, he performs the 12 Labors of legend. Later, his second wife tricks him into putting on a poisoned cape, killing him, and later he becomes a god, so it’s okay. Also, his birth wasn’t quite so kid-friendly, either. The ever-philandering Zeus fathered him with a mortal woman, and Hera, Zeus’s jealous wife, constantly tormented him out of spite.
3. Snow White (again)
4. The Princess and the Frog
Disney reimagined this tale, setting it in 1920s New Orleans. Tiana, as the princess here is named, is made out to be a very nice girl, but in the original, the (nameless) princess is a terrible brat, constantly trying to weasel her way out of responsibilities and breaking promises. The tale becomes one about being responsible, but it still ends weirdly. Instead of kissing the frog, she tries to kill him by smashing him against a wall, which somehow turns him back into human form. Then, even after suffering abuse at her hands, he marries her. Poor guy must have had Stockholm syndrome.
5. Pocahontas
6. Mulan
7. Frozen
8. Robin Hood
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