Malaika Aman
We Are All Aware Of The Dark Inspirations Behind Disney Movies.
Thankfully however, Disney tends to stray from its source material. The following movies might be family friendly. Their inspirations however are not. Most of these include violence and cold blooded murder.
So we have compiled some of our favorite Disney movies that have a truly dark source material. You might not be able to see these characters the same way ever again.
#1 In The Original Story Of The Fox And The Hound, Tod Dies Of Exhaustion While Being Hunted By Copper And Copper Is Shot By His Owner.
#2 The Prince Marries Another Woman And Ariel Has To Kill Him To Regain her Tail. Instead She Walks Into The Water And Turns Into Sea Foam.
#3 The Prince Is Blinded By A Thorn Bush By Dame Gothel But He Does End Up Finding Rapunzel Who Restores His Vision.
#4 The Movie Mulan Is Based Upon An Ancient Chinese Legend Where Her Father Dies And Her Mother Remarries. Mulan Is Then Forced To Become A Concubine When She Returns. She However Chooses To Kill Herself.
#5 Hercules Does Marry Megara But Ends Up Killing Her And Their Children Because Of Hera (His Step-Mothers) Madness.
#6 Pinocchio Squashes His Virtuous Side-Kick Jiminy Cricket With A Mallet. He Does However Turn Into A Full Fledged Boy At The End.
#7 In Barry’s Version Peter Pan Is Shown To Loathe Adults So He Kills The Lost Boys As Soon As They Start Getting Too old.
#8 Quasimodo Rats Out Esmeralda To The French Police When She Rejects Him. However, Ridden With Guilt He Sneaks Into Esmeralda’s Grave And Starves To Death.
#9 Pocahontas Was Raped And Impregnated By John Smith When She Was Only 12 And He Was 30. She Was Later Married To A British Man Who Showcased her As A Civilized Savage.
#10 Belle Has Two Wicked Sisters Who Want The Beast To Be Angry With Her So When he Allows Her To Go Home. Her Sisters Attempt To Keep Her Past The Seven Day Deadline In Hopes That He Will Eat Her.
#11 In The 18th Century Storybook The Father Of Aladdin Is Murdered By A Group Of Bandits Rather Than Re-Uniting With His Son.
#12 The King Overcome By Her Beauty Rapes Her And Leaves. Aurora Later Gives Birth To Twins In Her Sleep Who Suck Out The Splinter Thereby Waking Her. Aurora Also Marries The King (Rapist).
#13 In The Brothers Grimm Version, Cinderella’s Step-Sisters Cut Of Their Toes To Try To Fit In The Heel. To Top It All Off, Cinderella Orders Her Birds To Peck Out Her Sisters Eyes At Her Wedding.
#14 Snow White Is Much More Vengeful In The Original Story As She Invites Her Step-Mother To Her Wedding And Forces Her To Dance To The Death In Hot Iron Shoes In-Front Of The Wedding Party.
#15 The Source Material Behind The Lion King Is A Play Named Hamlet Written By Shakespeare. We All Know That Everyone Ends Up Dead At The End.
