The Disney Princess that's not a Disney Princess: Kida (Atlantis: The Lost Empire") I don't care how old she is (apparently Disney people think she's too old to fit in the mythology Princess category, hence she's not considered a Disney Princess.
Minnie Mouse - Steamboat Willie (1928) As one of Disney's original characters, Minnie Mouse has been around for decades. She never received the title of a princess since Mickey was never considered royalty. The two are just seen as mice just living their lives with their friends.
Heroines may also not qualify if they are from a Disney television series, like Kim Possible, or if they do not have their own cinematic movie, like Elena of Avalor. As well, female leads from Star Wars or Marvel cannot become Official Princesses because they are from a company acquired by Disney.
The original Disney Princess line-up consisted of Snow White, Cinderella, Tinker Bell, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Esmeralda, and Mulan. Tinker Bell was removed soon after; she would go on to headline the sister franchise Disney Fairies. Esmeralda was also removed.
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.
Although Elsa is not the only character with disability in the Disney canon, she is the first princess 1 to be designed with disability in mind, and one of only two human characters with visible disability to make the cut at all since Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).
Per Disney lore, this was because she committed an act of bravery worthy of a princess, but in reality, it was so the Mouse House could add a popular character to its lucrative line of toys. Commercial reasons were also behind Tinker Bell's removal as a princess.
According to Sara Franks-Allen of ScreenCrush, Meg was excluded from the official Disney Princess franchise due to Hercules' underperformance in theaters, describing her as a "forgotten Disney princess".
Disney Debuts First Plus-Size Main Character in Animated Short Film “Reflect” It's a story about body image and self-love. Say hello to Bianca, Disney's first-ever plus-size heroine.
Today, we celebrate one of Disney's most adventurous princesses, Moana. Moana is a curious and driven princess who sails out on a daring mission to prove herself as a master wayfinder.
5) In the film's novelization, Moana's age is given as 16. This makes her the only Disney princess to be voiced by an actress younger than herself. Moana was released on Cravalho's 16th birthday.
Tinker Bell is a fictional fairy based on the same name character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie, and one of the most popular characters adapted for film and television by The Walt Disney Company.
Anastasia meets all these and a bit more, such as having at least one musical number (which is mentioned as a requirement by many), and now that she's property of Disney, she's technically a Disney Princess, but she isn't part of that specific franchise, simply because she hasn't been chosen as one.
Wendy Darling is the deuteragonist in Walt Disney's 1953 feature film Peter Pan, based on the original character from Barrie's original novel. She is the 3rd Junior Disney Princess in the lineup She was voiced by Kathryn Beaumont in the first film and other appearances, and by Kath Soucie in Return to Never Land.
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.
In fact, there were also a significant number of Black commenters calling it Disney's "lazy" attempt at on-screen representation, with one person writing, "The reason studios make beloved characters black in the live action adaptations is so they don't have to go to the trouble of actually giving special, brand new ...
Pocahontas was not a princess in Powhatan culture, but the London Company presented her as one to the English public because she was the daughter of an important chief.
Anna's parents rush her to the sacred realm, where discussions with the trolls reveal that Elsa was born with her powers/ depigmentation and deafness, rather than them being due to illness or accident. Grand Pabbie troll heals Anna but removes her memories of Elsa's magic.
Wendy Darling is the deuteragonist of Disney's 1953 animated feature film Peter Pan. She is a young girl from London with a lifelong appreciation for the stories of Peter Pan, a flying boy from the isle of Neverland.
In a few attention-grabbing works shown here, two of Disney's most prominent characters, Cinderella and Snow White, use a wheelchair, while Pocahontas and Jasmine deal with their own circumstance.
