The character of Mulan is loosely based on the heroine from the well-known ancient Chinese poem "The Ballad of Mulan" (木蘭詩). She is the only Disney Princess who is not royal by blood or marriage.
Who is the first princess to not be of royal descent?
Of all of the Disney princesses, Mulan is one of the only ones who isn't technically a princess. It's Mulan! She was neither born into royalty nor did she marry into it, but her heroism and spirit gave her princess status. The least they could do for the lady who saved all of China!
Mulan is not the only inconsistency. Anna and Elsa, of “Frozen,” are princesses by birthright and yet are not included in the official list of Disney princesses, but Mulan, who isn't even royal by marriage, is.
Who was the first Disney Princess to not have a prince?
2012: Merida
If you want to see just how far Disney princesses have come since Snow White, just look at Brave. The young and headstrong Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) refuses to marry a prince, and competes for her own hand in marriage instead.
Princess Jasmine opened a much needed door for racial diversity in the Disney princess realm. By being the first non-white princess, and being so popular amongst audiences, Disney started to venture off in telling stories of female characters with different cultures and ethnicities.
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However, the filmmakers were willing to say one thing definitively: "Elsa's not going to have a romantic relationship in this," writer-director Jennifer Lee told a group of journalists gathered at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Voiced by Auli'i Carvalho, Moana is a young woman with great navigational talents with a love for adventure and the sea. A once-powerful demigod, Maui is the courageous hero who accompanies Moana on her adventure. Seeing how Maui is so bulky, it's only appropriate that he's voiced by Dwayne Johnson.
This period is the foundation of the 'Princess' genre as a whole. In this generation, Snow White (1937), Cinderella (1950), and Sleeping Beauty (1959) were created.
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".
Mulan is without a doubt Disney's most iconic warrior woman. She arguably influenced the many other Disney princess characters who came after her awe-inspiring story.
The movie is loosely based on the fairy tale, so Disney has the freedom to give Ariel any skin color they want. In the 1989 movie, Ariel was born in the fictional underwater kingdom of Atlantica, which technically makes her Atlantican, not Danish.
Alexandrine was known by the nickname of "Adini" within her family. It became clear shortly after Alexandrine's birth that she was affected with Down syndrome. Unlike other disabled royal children, Alexandrine was not hidden away. She appeared in official family photographs and at events.
As for whether Elsa and Anna are white … the Northuldra are modeled on the Sami, an indigenous people scattered across northern Scandinavia and northwestern Russia who have faced a great deal of discrimination, but there's a lot of disagreement about the genetic and linguistic origins of Sami to this day.
Merida and Pocahontas are the only Princesses to not be seen married, or have wedding dresses in the franchise. Belle and a few others were featured in Disney's Beautiful Brides book.
In the Disney film Moana, the relationship between Moana and Maui is not romantic because Moana is a sixteen year old girl and Maui is thousands of years old. This is a step up from prior Disney movies.
On February 8, 2023, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that Frozen 3 is in the works, along with Toy Story 5 and Zootopia 2. While news of a third Frozen film was a welcome one, we have yet to hear more details about the movie or see a trailer. Here's everything we know about Frozen 3.
Elsa is never properly identified as asexual or aromantic, something that would help immensely to increase visibility and awareness. Considering Disney's record with LGBT characters (remember the underwhelming 'gay moment' in Beauty and the Beast?)
Although Elsa's disability is encoded as a magical ice power, the language the film uses to talk about her condition maps on to the experiences of people with physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities in recognizable ways.
According to a Disney spokeswoman, Sofia has a mixed fairy-tale heritage; her mother and father are from Galdiz (which is based on Spain) and Freezenburg (which is based on Scandinavia), respectively.
Asha is Disney's first Afro-Hispanic heroine to headline a feature film. This makes Asha the second character to be of African descent, Tiana being the first.
