If Disney had stuck to the Hans Christian Andersen version, every girl would have left the theater in tears and vowed to never fall in love. Instead of Ariel giving

up her voice to Ursula in exchange for legs, falling in love with royalty, defeating the villain through crab based warfare, and getting Dad's permission to become human and marry

the Prince, the original is not so cute. 

First of all, the witch physically cuts the mermaids tongue out, so she ain't singing ever again. Then, her new legs constantly hurt,

so when she walks, it feels like she's stepping on knives. Oh also, if she doesn't get the Prince to love her, she'll die.

How about the Prince? He must

be pretty awesome. Nope. He's boring, aloof and uninterested in the mute girl who walks weird, so the witch makes a new deal. If the mermaid kills him, she'll get to live.

But the mermaid cannot kill her love, so while the Prince marries another woman, the mermaid dies and turns into sea foam. 

Good Lord!!  That version of the movie would have made

the opening of "Up" seem like a comedy!

It's not surprising that Disney wanted to take the rape out of Sleeping Beauty. Yeah, the real story is pretty gross. 

In the original, Sleeping Beauty might have thought she was

waking up to a lovely Prince, but instead she was waking up to no drugs childbirth. Of twins! Turns out the Prince wanted to wake her up with his wang

and impregnated her as she slept. Then, he ghosted, cause he was already married to another Princess.

The now awake Beauty took her two kids to the Prince, where the

Prince's wife tried to kill her, but the King stopped the murder and allowed ol' SB to live happily ever after with her rapist. 

The Evil Queen really lives up to her evil name in the original Grimm's tale. Sure, she's not happy-go-lucky in the movie, but at least she doesn't delight in eating Snow White's

heart.

In the book, the huntsman didn't really kill Snow White and gave the Queen a deer's heart, but the Queen still ate it. Then, after all her plans are

foiled, the Queen is doomed to dance to death in hot irons. Look, she's a bitch, but dancing while your feet are burned off is pretty harsh.

Okay, this one doesn't involve rape or maiming, but the original story does make Robin more of a douche. In "The Gest of Robin Hood" from 1500, Robin was much

more petulant and violent. Little John beats him in an archery contest, so Robin beats him up. One of the Merry Men, while freeing Robin from jail, kills a kid.

Plus, there's no mention of stealing money and giving to the poor. He just steals and hates the Sheriff of Nottingham. Golly, what a day!

The Princess and the Frog was roughly based on the Frog Prince and The Frog Princess. We probably know the original Frog Prince, you know, the Princess has to kiss the

frog, he becomes a Prince. Well, in the original, the Prince only came to life when the Princess threw him across the room against a wall, trying to kill him.

Love comes from attempted murder!

The Frog Princess is a Russian story, where 3 brothers shoot arrows and wherever they land, that's their wife. Already problematic. 2 guys hit girls,

1 guy hits a frog. Though the frog is better at all of the tasks around the castle, cause she uses magic to bake bread and stuff and the two girls

are just lazy, the Prince is still pissed he's getting a frog. Then she magically uses to her magic to turn into a Princess. The Prince is less pissed. 

With

both stories, violence and hate towards their future mate take up much of the story and neither learn any lessons. The Princess gets her way by almost squishing the frog.

The frog in the other story does everything and is magical and the Prince gets awarded an awesome Princess for doing nothing and being a pissy brat. Great lessons all around.

In the movie, Clayton is an evil British dude, Jane teaches Tarzan English, and Tarzan learns what boners are. Okay, the last part was not in the movie, but probably

happened. In the end, Clayton doesn't get his way and Tarzan and Jane stay together forever.

In the original book, Clayton is still evil and he and Jane try to

civilize Tarzan. He learns English and all that and eventually travels to Wisconsin of all places, to get Jane back. But now, Jane is unhappily engaged to Clayton, mostly cause

her family needs the money. Tarzan finds out he is actually the rightful heir to the Clayton fortune, but instead of making it rain with old timey coins and swinging his

girl out of Clayton's lame mansion, Tarzan just caves. He doesn't do anything! He lets his fortune go, assumes Jane does want to marry the British villain, and just goes

on his merry way. 

In addition to having such a lame hero and downer ending, there's also lots of stuff in the book about teaching Tarzan to fit in with

white civilization, so you can image the racially problematic parts as well.

Mulan is this kick ass fighter, who says she won't be some dumb fancy lady and goes to protect her country.

Well, in the original, China loses the war and Mulan barely escapes

with her life. When she returns home, she finds her father has died and her mother married another man. Instead of crawling into bed and taking a well deserved nap,

Mulan says she wants to be with her father and kills herself. 

It's pretty widely known that Disney's Pocahontas is far from historically accurate. Though legend has it that Pocahontas used her body as a shield to protect John Smith from being killed

by the Chief, nothing else in the Disney movie happened. Plus, some historians think that the saving of John Smith didn't happen either.

Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, but

after she was captured years later, she converted to Christianity and married Englishman John Rolphe. Eventually, she toured England as an example of a "civilized savage" and died of unknown

causes around 22. 

Most importantly, she met John Smith when she was 11! That is gross, Disney. Just gross!

Disney is known for throwing in a talking animal to make things cuter. The original Pinocchio did feature a cricket as a talking conscience, but Pinocchio kills him almost immediately.

The ghost of the cricket comes back a few times and the blue fairy is also a dead spirit. Basically, a lot of weird crap goes down in this story.

You may have thought the whole "turning boys into donkeys" part was creepy enough in the movie, but that was just the tip of iceberg.

Pinocchio acts like a real

jerk through much of the story. He gets Gepetto jailed, gets his own feet burned off, and is hanged by the fox and cat, who only leave cause they get

bored of waiting for him to suffocate and die!

In the end, Pinocchio does become a real boy and stops acting like such a dill hole, but it's a pretty

violent and dark road to get there. We're happy Disney left all that out.

There's a lot in Greek Mythology that is questionable to say the least. First of all, Hercules is the bastard child of Zeus and some girl Zeus boned, so Zeus's

wife Hera never liked Hercules.

In the movie, Hercules grows strong and literally goes through hell to save his love Megara. In the story, after he marries Meg and has

two little boys, Hera makes Hercules go into a frenzy and kill his wife and children. And he does. "I Can Go the Distance" would not be so inspirational if

we knew it was mostly about killing your family.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast is one of the greatest animated films, ever! It definitely would not have been helped by adding Belle's bitchy sisters from the original.

In the original

story, Belle's father has to go on a trip and asks the family what gifts they'd like him to bring back. Belle's sisters ask for a bunch of fancy stuff

cause they're shallow and mean, but Belle just wants a rose.

Of course, Dad has to get the rose from a creepy castle, which happens to be run by the

beast, and gets imprisoned in the castle for stealing. Belle goes to save her Dad and trade places, just like the movie, though unlike the movie, no one else in

the family makes any effort to help the Dad, just Belle.

After learning to love each other, the Beast lets Belle visit her family. She returns home to realize that

her sisters didn't even know she was gone and they act like it's a real pain having Belle back in the house.

Belle returns to the Beast, says she loves him,

he turns to a Prince, all that stuff. The Beast asks if Belle would like her family to stay in the castle with them and she says yes. So, the

bitch ass sisters who were selfish, shallow and cruel and kinda hoped Belle would die, get to live happily ever after in a boss castle. Lame. 

Frozen was loosely based on The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. Don't worry, this one doesn't go full horrorshow like Little Mermaid. 

But, the Snow Queen has zero of

the girlpower in Frozen. It's more like this bitchy Snow Queen steal Kay, the love of Gerda's life and traps him in her Snow Castle. Gerda travels far and wide to

find him and after talking to streams, like you do in fairy tales, she finds Kay trapped in ice by the Queen. Kay's kiss of love melts the ice and they

run off and are happy. Nothing more is mentioned of the Snow Queen. 

Also, there's a storyline about a troll sending splinters throughout the world that stick in your heart

and eyes and make you hate everything and think everything is terrible. So, there's that. The Snow Queen is kind of a basic villain who's just evil cause she's a

powerful woman, which is not that cool of a message.

Though it's a little empowering that the original story had a girl coming to save a guy, it mentions nothing of

"Letting it Go," making it far inferior to Frozen.

Fantasia was based on lots of little stories and myths, but original gross version we're referring to, is the movie itself.

How could this be? This movie is just fairies dancing

around and Mickey fighting brooms. Well, in the original "Pastoral Symphony" segment where centaurs frolic about, there used to be a little servant centaur, Sunflower, animated to look like a African-American

stereotype.

In later versions of the movie, they just cut the character out and pretended it never existed. Seeing the 1940's racism of America in a Disney movie is

pretty jarring and sad and it's even shadier that Disney has denied Sunflower ever existed.