Disney Dark Stories

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1. The Little Mermaid
    
When mermaids die, they turn to sea foam and cease to exist. In the original fairy tale, the prince falls in love with a different girl, breaking the Little Mermaid's heart. She's faced with a dilemma: If she slays the prince and lets his blood drip on her feet, she'll turn back into a mermaid. Ultimately, she can't bring herself to do the deed, and instead flings herself into the ocean, transforming into sea foam.

2. Cinderella

The original Cinderella fairy tale is completely disgusting. When neither of her stepsisters can fit into Cindy's slipper, one of them cuts off her toe and the other cuts off her heel to fool the prince. Later, Cinderella has her magic birds peck out her sisters' eyes as punishment for their deceit. Oh, and she also slams the lid of a chest on her stepmother's neck, breaking it and killing her. Damn, Cinderella, you bad.

3. The Lion King

Even though The Lion King is completely plagiarized from a Japanese cartoon, Disney claims it's based on Shakespeare's Hamlet — a play in which pretty much everybody dies. In the climax, Hamlet (the character Simba is based on) is stabbed to death with a poison blade. Hakuna matata!

4. Aladdin and the King of Thieves

The original Aladdin's source material is pretty tame, but the movie's second sequel has darker origins. InAli 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 work, 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, "WTF, whose kids are these?" The end.

6. Hercules

The movie Hercules is based on Greek myths, which are pretty much uniformly messed up. 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.

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