Top 10 Most Annoying Misinterpretations and Theories About Disney and Pixar Movies
Hello Disney fans, especially those who love to debate. Are you tired of people constantly saying false things about your favorite Disney movies? Are you ready to correct them?
Well, you've come to the right place!
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Belle fell in love with her kidnapper and was in an unhealthy relationship (Beauty and the Beast)
Belle chose to stay in the castle to save her father and did not fall in love with the Prince until after the fiasco with the wolves.
Belle offered herself up in exchange for her father. She was not kidnapped. She chose to stay in the castle and did not (officially) fall in love with him until after he set her free and saved her life multiple times. They were friends who learned to bring out the best in each other before they ever acted romantically.
Belle stood her ground and did not let herself be talked down to. She did not treat him with compassion until he did the same for her. Watch the movie, and please stop talking about falling in love with kidnappers.
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Ariel gave up her voice for a man and is a bad role model (The Little Mermaid)
Ariel didn't just "throw it all away for a crush." She gave up her voice to Ursula because she had already been silenced by her father. Long before she even knew about Eric, Ariel was collecting trinkets from the human world.
Ariel was not a "silly little girl with a crush." She was an anthropologist prohibited from exploring due to her father's species-ism. Eric was just the turning point for her father, who literally destroyed all of her research, which was the turning point for Ariel. Ursula was the one that made it about Eric with her conditions.
Ariel just wanted to be part of that world. Listen to the song and try to prove me wrong. I dare you.
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Anna and Elsa's parents are Tarzan's parents (Frozen and Tarzan)
This theory is incredibly flawed from a geographic standpoint. When you compare the pictures of Tarzan's parents to Anna and Elsa's parents, the differences are clear. If the king and queen of Arendelle were alive, why didn't they try to get back to their kingdom? Why would they set up a treehouse and become explorers? The only thing these two movies have in common is that they are both Disney productions and have epic soundtracks.
Tarzan's parents look nothing like Anna and Elsa's parents.
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Prince Charming had a thing for feet (Cinderella)
If this was true, he would have done the searching himself.
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Abuela was just as bad as Gothel (Encanto and Tangled)
Do not compare the woman whose unaddressed trauma unintentionally impacted her family to the woman who kidnapped a baby for the sake of beauty. Do not. Abuela apologized and wanted the best for her family. Gothel just wanted Rapunzel for her hair.
Abuela wanted the people in her family to have gifts, but she did view her family members as more than their gifts. She did still see them as people. Meanwhile, even Gothel's "cute pet name" for Rapunzel (my flower) was based on her ability. Gothel knowingly lied to Rapunzel (and tied her up), while Abuela, despite her many faults, unintentionally put too much pressure on her family - a pressure that she also unintentionally put on herself.
Abuela is a victim of her environment whose trauma (losing her husband, barely escaping with her children) took a toll on her family. Gothel is a villain through and through.
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The Rapunzel and Eugene Easter egg from Frozen means that Rapunzel is Anna and Elsa's cousin (Tangled and Frozen)
Please just let Easter Eggs be Easter Eggs. I have a link to a website that fully debunks this theory using historical fashion if you don't believe me.
http://satiricalifragilistic.blogspot.com/2015/01/frozen-tangled-fan-theoryhtml
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Belle is Jane's grandmother (Beauty and the Beast and Tarzan)
Belle, as the film reminds you countless times, is French. She lives in France, a France when there was still nobility, most likely well before Louis XVI (the one that got guillotined in 1793, just for historical reference). The fashion in the movie indicates that it takes place in the mid-1700s, which checks out.
Meanwhile, Jane, as the film reminds you countless times, is from England. The United Kingdom. Great Britain. Jolly Old England. Jane is British. And so is her father, so riddle me how her grandmother could be French, let alone French royalty.
Jane also has access to technology such as photography, which was not invented until the mid-to-late 1800s. Based on a quick Google search, Tarzan takes place in the 1890s-1900s. The timeline is nonsensical and the logic is flawed. Just let the Mrs. Potts Easter egg be an Easter egg!
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Marlin was just imagining Nemo, who died with Coral and the other eggs (Finding Nemo)
One of the most annoying film theories I've heard of, indeed. What's showcased in the movie already makes it dark without the fruitless idea that Nemo was a figment of Marlin's imagination. It also overall undermines what the movie was trying to showcase, which is the struggles of being a parent who has undergone loss and trauma, but needing to put true love for his son first over fear.
Why do fans have to take every single kid's movie and turn it grimdark? If they actually watched the movies, especially Pixar, they would see that the stories and subtexts are dark enough on their own. There's no need for any unnecessary "they were dead the whole time" theories that don't even add to the story.
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Anna and Elsa's parents' ship was the shipwreck in the beginning of The Little Mermaid (Frozen and The Little Mermaid)
This theory is annoying because it focuses on the countries where the stories were written, not the clues that the films provide. It assumes that the timeline would actually work. Based upon other clues given by the films, it would not. It is incredibly selective about what canon it accepts and rejects, all for the sake of a theory.
Frozen was set in the 1800s, while Tarzan was set in the 1900s.
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Cinderella's dress was blue (Cinderella)
Princess Cinderella is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' Cinderella (1950) and its direct-to-video sequels Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002) and Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007). She is voiced by Ilene Woods in the original film and by Jennifer Hale in the sequels... read more
Watch the movie from 1950. The dress was a translucent silver and even appears pink in some scenes. It just looks blue in other scenes because of the lighting.
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Charles Muntz was dead the whole time (Up)
This idea is not only outright silly, but would dilute the point the movie is trying to make if it were true. Charles Muntz not only being alive, but being the villain makes sense because, of course, being framed for fraud would drive him to trying to clear his name to the point of being driven insane, aside from being the influencer of Carl Fredricksen's goal to go to Paradise Falls. It also overall reflects how both men are not too different (even though they are technically moral opposites), trying to relive the past, yet Carl learns to let go, showcasing that he would have become like his (diabolical) former idol had he not learned to move on with his life. So yes, Charles being alive makes a lot more sense for the story, opposed to being dead this whole time and someone impersonating him.
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Scar ate Mufasa (The Lion King)
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The Witch from Brave is Boo (Brave and Monsters, Inc.)
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Bruce was the shark trying to eat Flounder at the beginning of The Little Mermaid (Finding Nemo and The Little Mermaid)
First of all, if you know Bruce well enough, you would know that he firmly believes the notion that fish are friends and not food (despite that one time he accidentally smelled Dory's blood and went into an involuntary feeding frenzy). So, him voluntarily hunting down Flounder like that would be grossly out of character for him. Also, Bruce is a great white shark, whereas the shark you saw in The Little Mermaid was a bull shark.
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Gaston shot Bambi's mother (Beauty and the Beast and Bambi)
Bambi was set in the 1940s, while Beauty and the Beast was set in the 1750s.
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Cri-Kee was once a human before he was cursed by an evil sorcerer or sorceress and turned into a cricket (Mulan)