Fact #48: Dreadful Disney Pt 2

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by jakeptt

by jakeptt

(If you are a bit light-hearted you may not want to read this...)

DUN...DUN....DUNNNN!!!!!

Here: have a spoonful of dark disney:

4. Aladdin

The original Aladdin's source material is pretty tame, but the movie's second sequel has darker . In Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the character Cassim (Aladdin's father) is killed and dismembered and his body parts stacked around a treasure cave as a warning to travelers. Later, Cassim's body is stitched together by a tailor so his family will think he died of natural causes.

5. Sleeping Beauty

In Giambattista Basile's 1634 , the prince is unable to wake Sleeping Beauty from her slumber, which is caused by a flax splinter in her finger. So what does the prince do instead? He rapes her and leaves. Sleeping Beauty, still totally unconscious, becomes pregnant and gives birth to twins. One of the twins sucks on her finger, drawing out the splinter and waking his mother. Sleeping Beauty is like, "WTH, whose kids are these?" The end.

6. Hercules

The movie Hercules is based on Greek myths, which are pretty much uniformly. First of all, Zeus tricks Hercules' mother into having sex with him. Then, as a child, Hercules kills his music tutor with a lyre. Later, he marries Megara, but goes insane and slaughters all of their children. He marries three more times after that and he has countless male lovers.

7. The Fox and the Hound

(Oof, this one's heavy. Don't even read it. Just vote and go)

Anyway, in the original novel, Tod collapses from exhaustion during a hunt and dies. Copper's alcoholic owner decides to move into a retirement home, but shoots Copper with a shotgun before he leaves. Literally the worst ending imaginable.

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