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Anyone else notice how Ariel is the only princess who had the guts to physically attack her enemy? :)
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Well Mulan’s considered part of the princesses, and she did rather a lot of attacking.
And Tia, while I guess she didn’t technically physically attack Facilier, she did something that was actually worse and had him dragged into hell.
So uh
While I agree that Ariel is pretty fierce
she’s not the only one who is fierce.
To be honest they’re all pretty fierce in their own ways, not gonna lie.
Forgive me but I’m just gonna write up a bit in my drug addled mind. You see to me, every Disney Princess (I’m counting those of either royalty, or who eventually become princesses in their stories) has to put up with some kind of hurdle in their lives, and deal with some kind of confrontation some more powerful than others.
Snow White had a man hired by her step-mother to kill her, and cut out her heart to return to her, come up against her and that alone would have been absolutely terrifying for the young woman, then to end up running through those horrible woods all by herself, already scared from what she’d just encountered. That’s terrifying.
Cinderella had her step-sisters literally tear the dress she was wearing off of her while screaming insults at her; imagine going through that, not at the hands of people you don’t know, but family.
Belle is verbally abused and intimidated by the Beast, a monstrous man to be certain, but then she ends up surrounded by wolves who are about ready to tear her to pieces and eat her but she tries to fight back, remember the club?
Jasmine has her whole world thrown upside down thanks to Jafar’s magic and uses the only weapon she has at hand to try to bring him down; her body, and that gets her trapped in a timer full of sand that will eventually crush, and suffocate her. She almost does die, if Aladdin hadn’t smashed her out of there when he did.
Tiana confronted her villain as well; maybe not in a physical sense (how could she, she was a frog) but in a psychological sense. Dr Facilier is trying to lure her into doing things his way, the easy way. Telling her that her father never accomplished anything, that he had nothing but she turns the tables on him and has her own victory against him by smashing the voodoo necklace.
Then we have Ariel who felt like her father was controlling her life, like any teenager, she wanted to get out there and do things for herself. She’d fallen in love; and wanted so badly to be with the man she loved she made a deal with the devil. But look at her here, her father has just traded everything he has in the world (the sea, his kingdom, his own physical body) for her; his daughter. His daughter who ran away from home, who left without a word. That alone shows Ariel how much her father truly loved her, had always loved her despite his rules and so enraged is she at seeing her father turned into that… thing… I don’t blame her for physically attacking Ursula like that. That’s her father, and now she’s fighting for him, and not Eric.