Disney Princess/Headscratchers


 * I read somewhere (probably on this wiki) that Giselle wasn't included in the line because they couldn't get the rights to the actress's image. Why couldn't they just use the cartoon version from the beginning? Sure it's not how she is through most of the movie but hey, Rapunzal isn't 2D (I heard they're using 2D pictures in the line) and Mulan isn't a princess. It wouldn't be the first time they stretched to make someone fit.
 * Because the animated Giselle is based on Amy Adams' appearance and image so Disney would still be paying her life-long rights to use it.


 * Mulan. Just...why? Did they just forget the entire movie except...did they just forget the entire movie?
 * Why what? Why she was put in the franchise, because she's not a princess? Or something else?
 * OP was most likely referring to the fact that Mulan was a strong, independent character in her film. It sends a message that girls don't need to be girly/feminine if they don't want to. And yet in merchandise, she is either wearing the kimono she wore to the matchmaker (something she despised doing), or wearing a frou frou dress that didn't even exist in ancient China.
 * Well, this is the Disney Princesses line. She had to wear a dress, and the main reason Disney included her in the first place was because she was their most prominent Action Girl. Besides, she's sometimes advertised in the dress she wore when defeating Shan Yu at the end.
 * This troper blames it on a disconnect between the marketing people and the people who made the actual movie. The latter were interested in making an good movie with an enjoyable heroine who teaches kids a valuable lesson about gender roles and being yourself. The former probably were told "Find as many ways to sell dolls of this character to kids, or your fired".
 * Different poster, but for me, why put her in the line in the first place, to me that's lazy, so you don't have a Asian disney princess...why not make a movie that will have one. I'd LOVE to see that!
 * Takes time and money to make a film and a lot of the times these films either get cancelled or shelved.It would be nice to have an actual Asian princess but I think Mulan will do because in my opinion she is royalty at heart.And yes I just had to be just had to put on that old Disney corniness.
 * Well, also, given the way Asian cultures tend to work, if she did in fact marry general...pretty boy, she is nobility by marriage, just not an actual princess per se. If I'm recalling my history correctly, high ranking officers were nobles.
 * Disney was planning on doing an Asian fairytale, and the choice was between "Mulan" or "Journey to the West". If they had gone with "Journey to the West", Disney would have been put in the unusual position of having a princess who was a villian: The Iron Fan Princess.