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** The [[Everybody Hates Hades|Disneyification of Hades]] from [[Dark Is Not Evil]] to [[Big Bad]] is pretty amazing. They took the Greek concept of the Underworld and Hades (which was more or less pretty much a neutral judging point) and spun it to better resemble Hell and the Devil. Complete with imp minions. Luckily, [[Chewing the Scenery|James Woods]] is a great actor. They also made him quite cynical (and possibly the [[Only Sane Man]]), which only helped.

** In the original myth, not only was Heracles the product of an extramarital affair (with a mortal woman, Alcmene), but Hera loathed him and tried multiple times to torture and kill him. At one stage she inflicted a madness on him that drove him to murder his children and his first wife, Megara - and it was Heracles who had to carry out penance for this in the form of the Twelve Labours.

* Another [[Hans Christian Andersen]] story, "[[The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Literature)|The Steadfast Tin Soldier]]", was given a happy ending by Disney in ''[[Fantasia]] 2000'', partly from the [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] that would occur if they did keep the original ending. The animators had storyboarded the sequence ending with the tin soldier and the ballerina melting into a heart-shape. (Yes, Andersen [[Creator Breakdown|had issues]].)

* ''[[Pinocchio]]'' actually underwent this process by the original author: Pinocchio is killed (still a puppet) by hanging in the original tale, and the author, Carlo Collodi, added extra chapters in which Pinocchio not only is restored to life, but also becomes a real boy ([[Earn Your Happy Ending|after a lot of hard and cruel life lessons, that is]]). Guess which version Disney went with, in addition to cutting out Pinoke {{spoiler|killing the cricket}}. The original also saw him {{spoiler|getting turned into a donkey and drowned. He survived because his wooden body remained intact inside the donkey body and thus climbed out of the water after fish ate the donkey skin away.}}