Disney Princess Article: Why aren't Esmeralda and Megara Disney Princesses

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Why aren't Esmeralda and Megara Disney Princesses

posted by JNTA1234

Disney Heriones

The two most popular Disney women outside of the DP franchise. These two exotic beauties are definitely fan favorites when it comes to Animated Heriones, so why aren't they apart of the official line-up? The main reason people complain about Mulan being an official princess is that she gets recognized when these two ladies don't. Even though Megara is closer to royalty than her and Esmeralda is pretty much equal to Mulan. So basically I'm going to do the same thing I did with Merida. Look at the Pros and Cons of adding Esmeralda and Megara to the line-up. The only difference is, Merida still has a chance to be a Disney Princess. For these two that ship as sailed, but at least they get to be in merchandise every once in a while. You'll also notice that I'm alittle more detailed in this article, fully explaining my points. Let's get started.

Hopeless Romantic

Reasons Why
-Esmeralda's Spanish and Megara's Greek, adding alot more diversity to the line-up.
-Megara ends up with Hercules, the son of a God. She may not be a princess but she is royalty.
-Both girls sing in their films, God Help The Outcasts and I Won't Say I'm In Love are both popular songs.
-Both women are great role models for young girls to look up to.
-Megara is role model for young ladies in that she refuses to be a damsel in distress
-Esmeralda is a good role model for people as whole. She wants to put an end to prejudice.

Gypsy and Activist

Reasons Why Not
-Both of their films are failures by Disney's standards. They didn't do terrible by any means but in comparison to The Lion King and Aladdin it's pretty bad.
-Neither of them are the main character in their movies. Let's be honest here, Jasmine just got lucky because her film earned alot of money.
-Esmeralda's movie is rather dark, mature and not very suitable for a franchise for little girls.
-Megara's design is completely outta whack compared to the other princesses.

Dynamic Duo

Personally, I really want these two to be offiicial Disney Princesses and it really bothers me that they're not. With all the other heriones, like Jane, Alice, Kida, Nala, Lilo, it's easy to see why they're not apart of DP. But with Megara and Esmeralda, it's harder pinpoint why because they fit the criteria so well. They sing, they fall in love and they're from different cultures. I truly don't understand why Disney won't acknowledge these strong and beautiful ladies. I love Esmeralda's sex appeal and I love Megara's deadpan snarker attitude. Maybe one day Disney will see the errors of their ways. For now, I'm comfortable with the official line up but it could be much better with these two action girls.

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Safira-09 i don´t want them in the line up, because i love them to much for this and fear for girlish-turned versions of them...

Pikatogeon16 here's why: A. They aren't princesses B: The story is not about them (that's why Mulan, who didn't marry a prince,is a princess because shes the main character.) C. Neither one of their movies were very successful, not even vault worthy, I'm sure someday they will be but that day is not today D. Esmeralda is a character with high religious perspectives which is the riskiest characteristic you can have on a princess Sorry. But never say never

Jessikaroo I'd rather have Disney create the heroine line-up for Esmeralda, Meg, Jane, Alice, Kida, Lilo and whoever else I forgot. I know lots of kids who'd prefer the heroine's to the princesses, and you're right Esme and Meg are fan favourites. And having their own line-up would mean you could actually find merchandise! :o My dream shall live on... Good article though :) EDIT: I don't think the whole religious thin is a very good argument against Esmeralda being in the line-up, Snow White was seen praying in her movie.

alldisfan It can be argued that they're not the protagonists but if you know the real story of The Hunchback of Notre Dame you know that Esmerelda is actually the main character. Disney changed the focus. Also Esmerelda is not Spanish. Indian is closer though I believe "gyspy" is derived from the mistaken identification with Egyptians. I love Esmerelda (Megara-not so much) but a princess she is not. She didn't even get with the main character (which is closer to what actually happened in the book-arguably). Why should she matter so much? And more than Kida? Not in my book. You stated your point well though and that is all that matters.

TigerRanma One can't say that Esmeralda is Spanish. It's never confirmed that she is. If she really is a Gypsy, she would be considered Romani, whose ancestors are Indian. Hell, in the book, she's not even born a gypsy; she's a French girl adopted by gypsies. Other than that, I think you made a good article about why Esmeralda and Meg are not in the Disney Princess lineup.

JNTA1234 Well I read somewhere that the original character is Spanish, I think it was Wikipedia, I'm not sure. Plus she's played by Salma Hayek in another adaption. Esmeralda's ethnicity always confused me. Anyways, Thanks For Reading :)

coolsinger198 i agree so much with this article!

TigerRanma No. In the original story, Esmeralda was a French girl named Agnes who was adopted by Gypsies. In the Disney version, they actually made her a Gypsy, meaning she is Romani. That race's ancestry originates from India.

QueenElsa123 Megara actually is a princess because she was the oldest daughter of Creon, the King of Thebes in Greek mythology. So really Megara should be an official Disney princess.

greenfox411 Esmeralda should be a disney princess. I think just on the basis that in Once upon a princess she is adopted by Clopin who is considered the leader of the gypsies and in the books even called the King of Truands/King of the Gypsies. In many adaptions of the story Esmeralda is considered Queen of the Gypsies.

J3rs3yG1rl First off, saying they aren't in the Princess line up is a cop out because Mulan isn't one either. In fact, Disney even referenced Esmeralda as being Queen of the Gypsies. Being Clopin's heir in a way, she is royalty by that. She doesn't have to have nobility. Clopin is the leader/King of their people. Therefore, when she was taken under his wing, she became the equivalent to a Princess among her people. Also, the movie wasn't a failure. It's ignored by the company because of a grudge against former CEO Michael Eisner who's favorite film happened to be Hunchback.

Hempedu Good reasoning

Ariel

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Meet the Disney Critique Team!

posted by TheMusicalMolls

So, pretty soon I'm going to post some stuff me and my friends wrote awhile ago, rating different Disney things. You'll start seeing them soon. In the meantime, however, let's get to know the Disney Critique Team!

Sabrina- She's random, wild and crazy. She loves emojis, dinosaurs, llamas and more. She's totally unpredictable, yet is much smarter than she acts and has interesting perspective on things.

Alicia- She's the master of the selfie and her social networking game is #goals! She loves to listen to music and hang out with friends.

Kayla- She is athletic and a kind, good friend. She loves...

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·*·New DP icon contest 1 year anniversary·*· winners from rounds 1-60

posted by euny

The New DP icon contest it's not that new anymore, since it was created nearly a year and a half ago. The anniversary was actually on july, but I noticed I haven't done anything especial to celebrate it, so this article is the first of many surprises to come related to the New DP icon contest. Let's start!

Every ten rounds of the contest, I made a poll with all the winners from those rounds. These were voted the best icons by the fans.

Winner from rounds 1-10 ~ MissAngelPaws

This beautiful icon made by MissAngelPaws was voted the best out of the winners of the first ten rounds of the contest....

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snow white

posted by 220340

Snow white was like cinderella almost. cinderella and snow white both had to do all the chores. 1 difrince, snow white was born a princcess and cinderella was not. any way, snow white is 1 most famouse like ariel, cinderella (aready menchend her!), belle, etc........ It turns out that snow white is the youngest and has the shourtest hair, but her hair is not the only one black! Jasmine!

Here is a contest i did with my self the one day-

1) Who has black hair=snow white and jassmine. so who has magic carpit=JASSMINE!
2) who has blound hair=cinderella, arora,repunzle,elsa
who is my 1rst fav out of blound? REPUNZLE!!!!!!
3)who has red hair(this should be easy!)= ariel
and the answer is ARIEL!
4)who has orange/bown/red hair=anna, mrieda
none

the winners!
JASSMINE!
REPUNZLE!
ARIEL!

try it your self!
the end:D

Leaves' Eyes Songs That Best Suits Each Disney Princess

posted by sweetie-94

Leaves' Eyes with the amazing female front singer Liv Kristine, discoverd this band just a few months ago and they're already one of my new favorite bands

I've been wanting to write this for a while, but I've been skeptical because there aren't so many songs by them that suits the Disney Princesses so keep in mind when reading this that the songs are very unfitting in most cases, but I hope you'll like this article anyway

Snow White: link

This song actually suits Snow White quite well especially the refrain and most especially this part "Eleonore, the fairiest of them all, so young and vurnerable"

Cinderella: link

This song is very dreamy and one lyric goes "What do you dream?", that lyric totally suits Cinderella. Besides that very unfitting,...

How Aurora meets Cinderella (Part 2)

posted by dee389

"Well well, isn't it a coincidence that 2 princesses and 2 princes from 2 different eras meet each other. I'm not surprise at all!" said Maleficent coolly.
"Who are you?" asks Cinderella, frightened and trying to keep her voice as calmly as ever. "I'm Maleficent, the Mistress of all Evil." replied Maleficent with pride, Aurora suspects that this isn't the Maleficent that she always knew, as she can tell from the glow onto her eyes. This is an evil Maleficent!
Aurora immediately yelled "You are not Maleficent! You're the evil Maleficent!" At this point, Maleficent declares "It's true! I'm not your Maleficent anymore and I was the one who magically transported you here!" She cracks into her evil laughter and vanishes.
At this point, Aurora bursts into tears and Cinderella, Prince Philip and Kit came to comfort her. Saying that the evil fairy will be perished.

The Power Of Friendship 2: Happily Ever After (Chapter 26)

posted by mhs1025

After hours of rest, Mulan finally started feeling better. She got up to fix Ping something to eat. "We all got alittle worried about you." John said. "I'm fine, though." Mulan replied. "You didn't seem it this morning." John stated coyly. Mulan wanted to say "Why do you know us too well?!?", but she blew it off like a fly because she knew how concerned everyone was. "I just forgot to eat. It'll never happen again." she said simply. She went back to chopping up food.

John knew she was hiding a secret. Once he knew someone, he could read 'em like an open book. More like his favorite book actually....

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dimitri_'s Favorite DP Wardrobes

posted by dimitri_

I've never done a pictureless article before but as I am too broke to buy a functional laptop, this will just have to do. It's been a while since I haven't written anything! I'm not going to include sequel outfits, nor child outfits, heck I might even leave some outfits out so enjoy this ''lazy'' article :)

13. Rapunzel
I know Rapunzel's outfits are detailed and all but I'm not too impressed with her wardrobe, I don't think it is that much better in quality as it is in quantity. First off, her purple dress looks more like a costume than anything else. As for her pink one, it's not bad, it's cute...

The Power Of Friendship 2: Happily Ever After (Chapter 24)

posted by mhs1025

Pocahontas excitedly continued to climb the tree as Mulan and Merida reluctantly followed. Mulan had to be careful because of the baby. "We're almost there!" Pocahontas called. "Thank goodness!" Mulan said breathlessly. "Are you alright, Lass?" Merida asked. "Oh, I'm fine." Mulan answered. "We're here!" Pocahontas called again. She helped Mulan and Merida up into the "sacred place" up in the tall oak tree.

"Look closely." she instructed. "Nothing's happening." Mulan replied. "Look with your heart." Pocahontas stated. Mulan and Merida looked a the tree again. Suddenly, a face appeared! Mulan...

Ariel, The Little Mermaid

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Princess Jasmine

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My Top 13 Princesses!

posted by TrainerPonycat

Welcome to my first opinion list! I will try my best to do stuff and add my horrible sense of humor to do it. Well have fun reading this.

13. Belle

Belle is so boring. All she does is read books all the time. She's just not that interesting to me. That's all.

12. Ariel

Okay... she's stupid. Also watching her body move, thanks to the crappy animation is disturbing. She also wants to be part of a world where fish is eaten. Since she can understand most fish this is like humans wanting to be part of a world where humans are eaten. At least where it's okay. Our world humans are eaten but it's often...

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Why I love Fanpop and all of you guys.

posted by gigglingjasmine

Fanpop is a wonderful webside which is easy and enjoyable to use. You can tell your opinions, write your articles and you know people are always going to hear them carefully. The most amazing part of it is that you hear different opinions, negative or possitive, but in the end of the day the opinion you once have can change and be more possitive or more negative, but people will still be here to listen to your opinions. Every single one of us is a part of my world, we are a small family. We have polls and quizzes. Polls are very enjoyable, but believe me there's no such thing as writing articles...

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What we like and don't like about disney princess

posted by lililc

is like the things that made that princess our favorite, i´ll bassed on the comments i see in fanpop and another sites,i´ll try to don't put personal comments
We are looking at the princess as theirselfs ignoring their looks,the quality of the animation , the characters around them , their love story and (i speak specially for pocahontas;sequels)

1.snow white:
people who don't like snow white says:
she is the weakest of the princess , doesn't even have a sequel to show a rebel or strong side.And she is dump cause she was told to don't talk to strangers and it was the first thing she did

people...

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Opposing Woes, Part 29.

posted by avatar_tla_fan

Mulan had studied for all of her exams. She was ready to get the best grades possible. She didn't want her parents to be disappointed in her.

She went to school. She was talking to her friend Jasmine.

"I'm going to do the best I can on these exams. I studied all night last night." Mulan told Jasmine.

"You're really determined. Why?"

"I really want to bring some honor to my family."

"That's all?"

"What to you mean 'that's all'?"

"They don't get angry or something if you get bad grades?"

"No. But they get disappointed."

"Then who cares?"

"I do."

"Why? Why does bringing honor to your family matter so...

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Opposing Woes, Part 23.

posted by avatar_tla_fan

Aurora and her mother arrived at the hospital.

They walked in only to be alarmed.

"Please, evacuate the premises." Somebody told Aurora and her mother.

"My daughter needs help!" Aurora's mother yelled.

"We would love to help your daughter, but we're having a serious situation here."

"What kind of situation?"

"That is secret information. I'm sorry, but I can't tell you."

"Then at least let us in."

"It's not safe!"

"How is it not?"

"Because of our secret situation."

"This is the only hospital in town, we can't go anywhere else, and my daughter needs help."

"From the looks of her face, she's been scratched...

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Princess Analysis || Part 1: Elsa

posted by CRaZy_rawR

Eight months ago, I started an article series explaining my overall opinion on each princess in as much details as possible. I've decided to start over! :) Technically, we don't know if Anna and Elsa will even be included in the lineup, but like last time, I'm including them. The categories I will analyze are: original thoughts, thoughts now, beauty, wardrobe, singing/speaking voices. Also, I will be doing these in chronological order, form my least favorite princess to my favorite!

My Original Thoughts

Most of you new gents and ladies weren't around to witness my blindness to the "Frozen" hype....

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The Power Of Friendship 2: Happily Ever After (Chapter 9)

posted by mhs1025

Nightfall had come, but Shang and John still weren't back yet. "I'm getting worried." Mulan said. "John sometimes likes to explore the different scenes at night. He probably took Shang with him." Pocahontas reassured. Mulan thought for a minute. "You're right, Pocahontas. I'm sure if it becomes too late for them to come back, they'll set up camp and come back in the morning." she stated. Merida, however, got really nervous. *What if something happened to them?* she asked herself. Pocahontas stared at her as if she were a book.

"Merida, I know those boys. I'm sure nothing happened to them." she...

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The Power Of Friendship 2: Happily Ever After (Chapter 6)

posted by mhs1025

Merida was walking towards a teepee when John caught sight of her. "I was wondering where you went." he said. "Oh, I just wanted to explore the sights again." Merida lied. John chuckled. "Not much has changed." he said slyly. He and Merida walked back to the grounds. Suddenly, Shang ran up to them.

"Don't you scare me like that again!" he scolded. "Shang. I was just goin' for a stroll." Merida argued. "The tribe is safe." John replied. "MERIDA!" Pocahontas yelled out of nowhere. "Pocahontas. What might you want?" Merida greeted. "I need to talk to you." Pocahontas stated. She and Merida walked...

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The Power Of Friendship 2: Happily Ever After (Chapter 2)

posted by mhs1025

Merida hurried to her room and grabbed her bow. She was competing in a family friendly archery match. Why this occasion? Because it was her birthday! Princess Merida of the Dunbroch clan was finally turning 18! "Archers to your marks!" King Fergus called out. Merida excitedly ran to her marking point. (A/N: If you read the first chapter, you'll know a year had passed. Also, I forgot how to spell Dunbroch, so tell me if I spelled it wrong. :P)

Merida got out her arrow as fast as she could and placed it inside her bow. Since she was the birthday girl, she was first up, no surprise. Because of...