Disney Animated Canon/YMMV


 * Adaptation Displacement: When Disney adapts a story or fairy tale, their version tends to become the best known and may influence future adaptations. The most remarkable examples are the fairy tale films from the Renaissance era, such as Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. The stories were already Adaptation Overdosed and the Disney versions are only about 20 years old, yet they still manage to be the best-known versions. Averted in some cases, mainly when the Disney version flops. When most people think of Robin Hood, they don't picture him as a fox.
 * Complete Monster: Enough Disney villains are this that the studio has its own section under that trope.
 * Ear Worm: Quite a few, particularly the songs from the 90's films during the The Renaissance Age of Animation.
 * Evil Is Cool/Love to Hate: Clearly several of the villains invoke these tropes in the eyes of many fans, at least enough to have their own line of merchandise.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Has its own section.
 * Seinfeld Is Unfunny: The later Renaissance age films - particularly Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and |Hercules - were criticized for Bowdlerizing legends, classic literature and mythology and relying too heavily on a formula of All Star Casts, goofy sidekicks and Alan Menken ballads. Mulan and Tarzan largely escaped this due to being viewed as Adaptation Distillation. Ultimately, this opened the door for Dreamworks Animation to make edgier fare that spat in Disney's face such as Shrek. That said...
 * Vindicated by History: Hunchback and Herc, at least, have been vindicated by kids of the 90's, mostly thanks to having one of the most evil and one of the most genuinely likeable villains in the canon (Frollo and Hades, respectively). In addition, they have some of Alan Menken's finest soundtracks and, in the case of Hercules, being one of the funniest films in the canon. Pocahontas isn't quite as lucky, and is often viewed as the nadir of the Renaissance - even then, it's still somewhat popular. Ironically, it's Shrek that gets panned now thanks to Dreamworks Animation endlessly rehashing the Shrek formula and continually copying Pixar.
 * It really says something that Disney's big attempt at bringing back traditional animation was a George Lucas Throwback to the Renaissance films - The Princess and the Frog. And their next film, Tangled, was basically a Renaissance-age hit In CGI, complete with good old Alan Menken providing the soundtrack!
 * More than a few Disney films have ended up Vindicated by History: Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi and Sleeping Beauty were all box office failures. In the case of Alice, Bambi and Fantasia, they were also critical failures - you heard right, Fantasia and Bambi, films considered to be the strongest contenders for Uncle Walt's Magnum Opus, were panned by critics when they were first released. Some other Box Office Bomb Disney films, such as The Black Cauldron, The Rescuers Down Under, Treasure Planet, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire have become Cult Classics, while other low performers such as The Emperor's New Groove and The Great Mouse Detective have garnered wide acclaim - The Emperor's New Groove is often viewed as being funnier than Shrek nowadays.
 * Visual Effects of Awesome: This was the codifier (nay, maker) of sophisticated 2D animation as we know it, but the Golden Age films really stand out.
 * While the Renaissance Age films were some of the first to prove the potential of CGI.