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It’s no secret that a lot of Disney’s most famous movies are based on fairy tales they didn’t originally write.
OurDisneyheroes often ride off into the sunset to live happily ever after — but what exactly has been missed from the picture-perfect tale we see on screen?
So, here are several things that happened in the original fairytales, stories, and more that didn’t make it into theDisney movies:
1.First, the storyThe Little Mermaidis based on,titledDen Lille Havfrueby Hans Christian Andersen, one of thebiggest changesis that when the little mermaid is given her legs by the sea witch, it feels like knives are impaling her feet every time she walks. Oh, and if she doesn’t win over the prince, she’ll turn into sea foam and die.
2.In the original story ofMulan, her parents are totally in on the plan for Mulan to replace her father in the war.
3.The storyFrozenis based on has a lot of similarities, but there’s a character called Kai who isn’t really replicated in Disney’s version
4.Disney’sHerculeshad Hera as a loving mother, but the OG myth saw Hera on a mission to kill him.
5.The Evil Queen tried to eat Snow White in the originalSnow White and the Seven Dwarfsstory.
6.In Disney’s version ofSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Queen only tries to kill Snow once after the huntsman fails, but in the Brothers Grimm version, she attempts it three times.
7.Also in the originalSnow White, the prince didn’t awaken Snow White with true love’s kiss, he justboughther corpse and carried it with him everywhere he went.
8.In the originalCinderellastory, one of Cinderella’s step-sisters cuts off her toes to try and fit into the slipper for the prince.
9.In the originalSleeping Beauty,the princess is dead, and the king impregnates her corpse.
10.Also in the originalSleeping Beautyfairytale, the princess’s newborns accidentally resurrect their mother when some fairies teach them how to breastfeed wrong, and there’s even a storyline where they try to cook and eat the children.
11.There’s a lot more death in the originalHunchback of Notre Dame,but one of the other big differences is that the original book follows a character named Pierre Gringoire, not Quasimodo.
12.In the original Rapunzel story, after Rapunzel doesn’t come to see the prince following her stepmother finding out about them, he leaps from the tower and is blinded by thorns.
13.Theoriginal storyof Aladdin has two genies, and Aladdin is motivated by greed, instead of his love for Jasmine.
14.In theoriginal storyofThe Beauty and the Beast, Belle, who is named Beauty, arrives at the Beast’s castle and he basically treats her like royalty.
15.Also, in Disney’s version ofBeauty and the Beast, Belle’s father’s potentially tragic fate forces Belle back home, but theoriginalsees Beauty get bored of living the high life and she asks to visit her family as she’s so homesick.
16.Unlike Disney’s Pocahontas, Pocahontaslikely never hada romance with John Smith, and the marriage she did have was not a case of star-crossed lovers bridging two cultures.
17.And finally, in the originalThe Princess and the Frogstory, the princesstries to kill the frog.
