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* 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.
* ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]]''. In the [[The Fox and The Hound (novel)|original book]], {{spoiler|Tod and Copper were never friends to begin with, Tod loses his mate to a trap, Chief doesn't survive his encounter with that train, and at the end Tod dies of exhaustion while being relentlessly chased by Copper and Slade. And then Copper is [[Shoot the Dog|literally shot in the head]] by his owner to avoid having to abandon him.}}
* Disney's dulling-down of subject matter actually extends into the physical world -- real estate, in particular. The differences between New York City's Times Square before Disney took over most of 42nd Street and Times Square afterward are profound and at times somewhat depressing. Yes, it's cleaner and more family-friendly, but sometimes it seems about as real as Main Street USA.
* The story of [[Robin Hood]] had been thoroughly bowdlerised before Walt Disney was born, and [[Robin Hood (Disney film)|their take on it]] is actually far from the worst abuse of the mythos.
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