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* [[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 [[wikipedia:Disney Villains#Merchandising|their own line of merchandise.]]
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Has [[Nightmare Fuel (Disney film)|its own section]].
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: The later Renaissance age films - particularly ''[[Pocahontas]]'', ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', and ''[[Hercules (Disney1997 film)||Hercules]]'' - were criticized for [[Bowdlerization|Bowdlerizing]] legends, classic literature and mythology and relying too heavily on a formula of [[All-Star Cast|All Star Casts]], [[Plucky Comic Relief|goofy sidekicks]] and [[Award Bait Song|Alan Menken ballads]]. ''[[Mulan]]'' and ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]'' largely escaped this due to being viewed as [[Adaptation Distillation]]. Ultimately, this opened the door for [[Dreamworks Animation]] to make edgier fare that [[Take 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 [[Complete Monster|evil]] and one of the [[Affably Evil|most genuinely likeable]] villains in the canon (Frollo and Hades, respectively). In addition, they have some of [[Alan Menken]]'s [[Awesome Music|finest soundtracks]] and, in the case of ''Hercules'', being one of the [[Funny Moments|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 Space|In CGI]]''', complete with good old [[Alan Menken]] providing the soundtrack!
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