Cliche Or Not?

We've all heard of Ariel, right?
She falls in love with a human prince, saves his life and her dad gets seriously pissed off?
He grounds her and she sneaks out, makes a deal with a shady witch on a dangerous condition and runs away to meet her prince?
Witch decides she cant let the princess win and decides to cheat?
The prince falls in the witch's trap but somehow finds out the truth before he makes possibly the biggest mistake of hes life?
But the lovers end up losing anyways, and the witch gloats her win?
The princess' dad, aka the king, worried for his daughter, offers the witch his life in place of her daughter's?
Witch goes over the moon, seeing as how she got what she wanted anyways and sets about tyrannizing every life in the sea?
But when all seems lost, the prince challenges the witch, and against all odds, wins (considering how the witch completely fooled him a few hours ago)?
The prince graciously returns the oceans to his (hopefully) future father in law?
When the king returns to power, he sees how much the two youngsters love each other and decides to give his blessings and even goes as far as to give his daughter human legs?

What a cliche, right?
I mean, no offense but if my father found out I fell in love with anyone, he'd probably kill me then and there...

But what if that wasn't what happened?