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Not to be confused with [[Disneyesque]].

== Disney ==

* The story of the ''[[Three Little Pigs]]'' originally had the first two pigs eaten by the wolf after their houses were blown down. The Disney cartoon of the story allowed them to run to the next house before the wolf could get his meal. The original has the big bad wolf being boiled alive after he attempts to gain access to the brick house via the chimney, whereas the Disney version simply has the wolf burning his hand and running away scared. Some other sanitized versions will have the wolf pass out from the exhaustion of trying to blow the third house down.

* ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'', as well done as it is, is drastically different from the original. In the story as presented in the ''[[Arabian Nights (Literature)|Arabian Nights]]'', Aladdin had ''two'' genies - a weaker one in a ring, and the stronger one in the lamp - and had ''no limit'' on the number of tasks he could set them to. Yes, he won the hand of a princess, but that was barely the midpoint of the story; the evil wizard who had first used Aladdin to try to retrieve the lamp (and who had no connection to the princess in any way) was not quickly disposed of but instead discovered Aladdin's success, and successfully stole the lamp (and the princess, and Aladdin's palace, and almost everything else) with the clever ruse of "New lamps for old!" Aladdin had to win everything back from the wizard using his wits and the lesser genie he still had in his ring. There weren't any cute animal companions, magic carpets hadn't been thought up when the story was written, and the princess didn't have much of a part - she ranged from ruining everything by giving away the lamp, all the way down to being eye candy only present for Aladdin to marry.

* Oddly enough, ''[[Newsies]]'' is not a particularly [[Egregious]] example of Disneyfication. It's safe to say that the New York newsboys of 1899 didn't burst into spontaneous well-choreographed musical numbers as they walked the streets, and the violence occurring as a result of the strike is a bit sanitized (no blood); but we do see newsboys sleeping on the streets, smoking cigars, betting on races, beating up strikebreakers, et cetera.

** Of course, one must point out that the newspapers ''never actually lowered their prices'' in the end; they came to an agreement with the newsies where they agreed to buy back their unsold papers. While this agreement was pretty mutually beneficial, clearly the idea of the rag-tag kids' union getting everything they wanted in the end was too good for Disney to pass up.

== Comicbooks ==

** The comic pays a lot of homage to the original myths even when changing them. In the case of Freyja, Odin (and the reader) are led to believe for most of the story that she did, indeed, sleep her way to getting the necklace. Odin (who, true to the myths, is often a [[Jerkass]]) gets Loki to steal it for him, intent on asking the same price for it as she originally paid if she wants it back. He wasn't expecting her to cut her finger and give him a few drops of her blood.

** The book dealing with Baldur's death takes this trope even further. Loki kills Baldur purely by accident (not on purpose, like in the original myth), and he spends much of the story trying to ''avoid'' commiting the prophesized murder, thereby setting up the very circumstances that lead to it. Granted, Baldur still dies, but when he comes to Helheim (the realm of the dead), his cheerful disposition makes the goddess Hel so happy that the dark and miserable Helheim spontaneously turns into a lush, green pasture!

** And then there's ''[[The Time Machine]]'' episode, wherein the Morlocks' only crime is being creepy, rather than {{spoiler|farming and eating the Eloi.}}

*** Does it ever make you wonder what happens if some of these kids get inspired to actually pick up one of those old books that have been "edited" by these shows?

* ''[[Clueless]]'' Even though Dionne and Murray had sex in the movie, they do not hook-up on the TV show until the last episode of the show.

** The original text reveals Moses as actively deciding to kill the Egyptian taskmaster for beating a Hebrew slave. And then he (unsuccessfully) tried to cover it up to avoid blame

** Moses was [[Badass Grandpa|80 years old]] and father of two sons when he came to see the Pharaoh. He also was "[[Speech Impediment|slow of tongue]]" and so Aaron did the talking. Moses as a younger man is probably more due to the influence of ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'' than this trope.

** Which is closer to being [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution historically correct]. Bolsheviks were not a major power until November in 1917. Well, except for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_(council) Soviets], given you [[Adaptation Displacement|recall what that word originally meant]].

** There was one Communism joke. One. "That's what I hate about this government: everything's in red!" They get out of the USSR about [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot|as fast as the plot can carry them]], saving it from any further inconvenient relevance to the cute-little-bugs musical numbers.

{{quote| '''Tom:''' ''"Don't... you... believe it!"''}}

** Nowadays, they are back to their usual characterization, but they were also portrayed in a more pleasant light in the 1970s TV show too, thanks to [[Moral Guardians]] trying to crack down on slapstick.

* ''[[Titanic the Legend Goes On]]'''s alters history so that (almost) everyone survives, including bad guys who would be considered an [[Acceptable Target]], and also shoehorns some really bad singing and dancing in. It's a ripoff of a bunch of more famous movies, such as like James Cameron's ''[[Titanic]]'', with comic scenes practically lifted wholesale from Disney movies.

** It's even worse in ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]'', released at the same time as the former in Italy, where the ship is rescued from sinking by a giant octopus [[The Atoner|atoning]] for having chucked the iceberg in the ship's way in the first place. And in this one, ''everyone survives'', even the captain and the band. The only possible saving throw is the ending, which implies that the narrator of the story, as a sailor, exaggerates and makes up stuff. This does absolutely nothing to excuse the ''sequel'', which involves mermaids, Atlantis, talking toys, and evil mice.

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