Top 10 Most Common Disney Movie Clichés

egnomac Many Disney movies has featured many over used cliches.

The Top Ten

1 Death of Parents

Perhaps the oldest and over used cliche dating back to when Walt Disney's mother died resulting in almost every Disney movie having one or no parents or parents dying in the movie. - egnomac

The exception is Hercules. His parents are gods so they can't die and therefore don't die and is alive the entire movie

2 Musical Numbers

It wouldn't be a Disney movie without characters breaking out into song for no reason. - egnomac

3 Female Characters Having a Ridiculously Unrealistic Body
4 Trusting Strangers

So many characters in Disney movies are too trusting when it comes to strangers which why they end up in the trouble that they get into, for example Snow White biting into the poison apple from the Queen disguised as the old woman dispite warnings by The Dwarfs against strangers, Pinnochio trusting Honest John not once but twice, Tarzan foolishly trusting Clayton and getting his ape family captured. - egnomac

5 Love at First Sight
6 Brutal Death of Main Villain

Disney really loves killing off their villians in the most horrific and violent ways possible. - egnomac

7 Everyone Lives Happily Ever After
8 Animal Sidekick
9 Female Characters Needing to Be Rescued

A Lot of female mostly princess characters end up having to be saved by a guy for example: Ariel in The Little Mermain, Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella only on a few occasions do the girls save the men. - egnomac

10 Changes from the Original Source Material

They do this to make it family friendly. A lot of stuff in the original source material are really inappropriate for kids.

For example in Disney’s Hercules, Hera is his mom. In actual Greek mythology, she is his worst enemy. She wasn’t even his mom! She would try to kill him in every way possible and turn him into a mentally ill guy. If the actual myth was in the movie, it would scare kids.

The Newcomers

? Everything is Alive And/or Has a Face
? Girly Girl Princesses

Except for Mulan

The Contenders

11 Movies Being Based on Fairy Tales
12 Good Species, Bad Species
13 Annoying Comic-Relief
14 Animal Stereotypes
15 Heroes Being Associated with "Light", Villains Being Associated with "Darkness"
16 Heterosexual Main Protagonists
17 Characters Always Sing Songs

With a few exceptions...

18 Hero is a Baby at the Beginning of the Movie
19 Disney Couples Kiss at the End
20 Good vs Evil
21 Something Happens to Baby in Movie
22 Baby is Adopted
23 Hero Almost Gives Up
24 Gender Stereotypes
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