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* [[Pinocchio (Disney film)/Headscratchers|Pinocchio]]
* [[Fantasia (Disney)/Headscratchers|Fantasia]] and Fantasia 2000
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* [[The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney)/Headscratchers|The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad]]
* [[Cinderella (Disney film)/Headscratchers|Cinderella]]
* [[Alice in Wonderland (Literature)/Headscratchers|Alice in Wonderland]]
* [[Peter Pan (Literature)/Headscratchers|Peter Pan]]
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* [[Sleeping Beauty (Literature)/Headscratchers|Sleeping Beauty]]
* [[101 Dalmatians (Disney)/Headscratchers|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]
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* [[Robin Hood (TV series)/Headscratchers|Robin Hood]]
* [[The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Disney)/Headscratchers|The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]
* [[The Rescuers (Disney film)/Headscratchers|The Rescuers]] and The Rescuers Down Under
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* [[The Great Mouse Detective (Disney)/Headscratchers|The Great Mouse Detective]]
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* [[The Little Mermaid (Disney)/Headscratchers|The Little Mermaid]]
* [[Beauty and The Beast (Literature)/Headscratchers|Beauty and The Beast]]
* [[Aladdin (Disney film)/Headscratchers|Aladdin]]
* [[The Lion King (Disney)/Headscratchers|The Lion King]]
* [[Pocahontas (Disney)/Headscratchers|Pocahontas]]
* [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)/Headscratchers|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]
* [[Hercules (Disney film)/Headscratchers|Hercules]]
* [[Mulan (Disney)/Headscratchers|Mulan]]
* [[Tarzan (Disney film)/Headscratchers|Tarzan]]
* [[Dinosaur (Disney)/Headscratchers|Dinosaur]]
* [[The Emperor's New Groove (Disney)/Headscratchers|The Emperors New Groove]]
* [[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire (Disney)/Headscratchers|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]
* [[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)/Headscratchers|Liloand Stitch]]
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* [[Chicken Little (Disney)/Headscratchers|Chicken Little]]
* [[Meet the Robinsons (Disney)/Headscratchers|Meet the Robinsons]]
* [[Bolt (Disney)/Headscratchers|Bolt]]
* [[The Princess and Thethe Frog (Disney)/Headscratchers|The Princess and The Frog]]
* [[Tangled (Disney)/Headscratchers|Tangled]]
* [[Winnie the Pooh (Franchise)/Headscratchers|Winnie the Pooh]]
 
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*** [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show|Disney villains, most likely]].
* What's with the 1990's movies and parents? Every father in them is either a [[Bumbling Dad]] (Belle's father, the Sultan, Zeus, Fa Zhou, Jane's father), a Jerkass (Triton, Chief Powhatan, Fa Zhou again, Kerchak, and if he counts, Frollo), or a [[Disappeared Dad]] (Aladdin's father, Quazimodo's father, Tarzan's father). Only Hercules' human father and Mufasa don't fit either of them, but Herc's father is irrelevant and Mufasa, the only father with any real positive influence, dies. As for mothers, they are either a [[Missing Mom]] (Ariel's mother, Belle's mother, Aladdin and Jasmine's mothers, Pocahontas' mother, Quazimodo's mother, Tarzan and Jane's mothers) or irrelevent (Sarabi, Fa Li, Herc's human mother, and Hera). The only mother with any positive influence is Kala, and she's the only active positive parent in all ten films.
** The first reason would be that in a lot of the original fairy tales, the parents are either dead or [[Adults Are Useless|unhelpful]]. In "[[Beauty and The Beast]]", "[[The Little Mermaid]]", "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Literaturenovel)|Snow White]]", and "Literature/Cinderella", for example, there were no mothers, and the fathers themselves were virtually nonexistent. The second reason, if one wants to probe a little deeper than Disney probably was considering, is that a lot of Disney movies are coming of age, with characters in their late teens. If one looks at the movies from that perspective, then the point would be that the focus of the movie is on the protagonist learning to make a life away from his or her parents. The third reason is that many times, a bumbling or nonexistent parent is a step up from the parent in the source material. Belle's father in the fairy tale agrees to give his daughter to a monster. Belle's father in the movie is helpless to protect her, but still does his best to. Quasimodo's mother in the book really did abandon him because he was too ugly. Quasimodo's mother in the movie died trying to save his life. The final possible reason is the same reason that any story centered around children or teenagers don't have active parents in them. The children and teenagers watching use the story as a sort of fantasy escape, and they want to pretend for a bit that they're tough and on an adventure and don't have their parents along, while identifying with the protagonist.
** Fa Zhou was a [[Bumbling Dad]] and a [[Jerkass]]? Okay, there were times when he snapped at Mulan, but it was only about twice, and those could be more chalked up to his [[Honor Before Reason]] nature than to being a [[Jerkass]]. Chief Powhatan wan only a jerk when he thought his tribe was in danger, and seemed to be willing to reconcile with the settlers after Pocahontas gave her little speech at the end. And Sarabi did at least ''try'' to stand up to Scar, so she's hardly irrelevant. You do kind of have a point about everyone else, though.
* Is it just me, or do all these animated films seem to have its pacing really pick up in the last third of the movie? After the nice pace of so many of the movies, why is it that some of them feel rather rushed towards the end?
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