While often our protagonists don't have parents due to them, unfortunately, passing away at some point before the main story, there have occasionally been a few parents present either at the start of the story or throughout it. This list will look at some of the best parents in Disney movies.

What Disney movies have both parents?

Two-Parent Families: Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955), 101 Dalmatians (1961), Mulan (1998), The Emperor's New Groove (2000), Zootopia (2016), Moana (2016)

Is there a Disney movie where the parents are alive?

Aurora – Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty's Aurora was the third princess to join the Disney Princess franchise and the first to have both parents alive and well.

Why do most Disney movies not have parents?

In shorthand, it's much quicker to have characters grow up when you bump off their parents. Bambi's mother gets killed, so he has to grow up." For the newer animated works, there's been an emphasis on keeping both parents alive in projects like Tangled, Moana, and Encanto.

Which Disney princesses have parents?

Of the 12 characters officially under the Disney Princesses (i.e. Anna and Elsa are still under the Frozen brand), we see that 6 (i.e. Moana, Rapunzel, Mulan, Aurora, Tiana & Merida) have mothers depicted to be alive at the end of their movies. Of the remaining 6, two have step-mothers (i.e. Snow White & Cinderella).

This Is Why So Many Disney Characters Don't Have Parents

Which Disney Princess has no mother?

Pocahontas is supposedly based on a real person, and she is thought to have lost her mother in childbirth. The only mention of both parents is in Sleeping Beauty, and even there, Princess Aurora is raised by three fairies instead of either parent.

Why does no Disney princess have a mom?

Many speculate that Walt channeled his grief and guilt over his mother's death into his subsequent films. However, many of his movies before his mom's death featured missing maternal figures, Snopes reports. Many Disney movies are also based off fairy tales where the mother wasn't present.

Why Disney is not R rated?

Films containing an R (restricted under 17) rating by the MPA. Disney never releases R-rated films under the "Disney" brand; all of these films are published by subsidiaries and thus only indirectly Disney-related, and will generally not receive in-depth coverage here beyond pages on the films themselves.

What's the most unpopular Disney movie?

What was Disney's last movie before he died?

December 1, 1966 saw the release of Walt Disney's Follow, Me Boys! only two weeks before the visionary storyteller would pass away at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank.

Is there a Disney film where no one dies?

There are plenty of Disney animated movies where no one dies nor any key characters (like parents) are mentioned to have died before the start of the movie. To name a few: Pinocchio. Dumbo (the father is never mentioned one way or another)

Did Mulan have a mom?

Fa Li is Mulan's mother. She initially stays with the dresser waiting for Mulan to come. She is Zhou's wife and Mulan's mother.

Does Sleeping Beauty have a mom?

Queen Leah is the mother of Princess Aurora and the wife of King Stefan, allegedly voiced by Verna Felton, who also voiced Flora in the same film.

Who is the best Disney parent?

What Disney movies have orphans?

There's Elsa and Anna from Frozen, Cinderella, Bambi, Penny in The Rescuers, Simba in The Lion King, Lilo & Stitch, Mowgli in The Jungle Book, Todd in The Fox and the Hound, Snow White, Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Nemo, Tarzan and Koda in Brother Bear.

What is G on Disney Plus?

G — General Audiences

Nothing would offend parents for viewing by children.

What is worse than rated R?

The NC-17 rating is the highest rating (even higher than the R-rating) that a film can be given, and it means the movie is for adults only (ages 18 and older) and no one age 17 or younger will be admitted. This rating, prior to 1990, was previously rated X.

What was Disney's first rated R movie?

Through Touchstone, Disney's first R-rated film, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, was released on January 31, 1986, and was a box office success. Ruthless People followed on June 27, 1986, and was also very successful.

What Disney character has no dad?

Cinderella's dad died when she was young, as did Tiana's in Princess and the Frog. The resilience and work ethic that's normally attributed to male characters was transferred to them in their fathers' absence.

Why is Elsa not a Disney Princess?

The easiest answer for why the Frozen women don't count is simply that Elsa is a queen in the first movie, and gives up her crown for Anna to take over in Frozen 2. They are therefore Queens and not Princesses. But, as we've seen, royalty isn't even a condition of entry, so that alone shouldn't rule them out.

Who is the only Disney Princess with a daughter?

Ariel appears as an adult in Return to the Sea and gives birth to a daughter named Melody, becoming the first, and currently, only, Disney princess to become a mother. Ariel is protective of her daughter, as Triton was of Ariel in the first film.

Who is a forgotten Disney Princess?

Princess Eilonwy has been nicknamed by fans as the "Forgotten Disney Princess" because of her little-known status and the fact she is not an "official" Disney Princess, despite being a princess by birth, like Kida Nedakh from Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

What Disney Princess is missing?

That is meant to help explain why several actual Disney princesses are missing including Ariel's six older sisters: Attina, Alana, Adella, Aquata, Arista and Andrina, as well as Ariel's daughter Melody who didn't appear in a theatrical release but a straight-to-video feature.

Which Disney Princess has no royal ties?

So far, only four of the Disney Princesses aren't born into royalty: Cinderella, Belle, Mulan and Tiana. Mulan's the only one of the who doesn't become a princess by marriage either, as Cinderella, Belle and Tiana all end up marrying princes.