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* ''[[Bambi]].'' ([[Adaptation Displacement|Yes, it was based on a novel]]). True, Bambi's mother dies in the film, but its tone still is significantly lighter than the novel's (it was written for adult audiences), which was much darker and more brutal, including graphic death scenes. They also never included Bambi's cousin Gobo's death. [[Kissing Cousins|And they failed to mention Faline was his cousin!]]
* 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 film)|Aladdin]]'', as well done as it is, is drastically different from the original. In First off, in the story as presented in the ''[[Arabian Nights]]'', Aladdin is ''Chinese'', and the action all takes place in China. He 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 -- her name was [[w:Badroulbadour|Badroulbadour]], butnot Jasmine, and to do it he had to foil a wedding between her and the son of an [[Evil Vizier]]. 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 was not the [[Evil Vizier]], nor had noany 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.
* ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]''. Besides the minor [[Hijacked by Jesus]] elements, we also have the fact that the only precaution to protect the princess in the original was the outlawing of spinning wheels; the princess slept for one-hundred years, as opposed to just until [[Prince Charming]] returned home; speaking of the Prince, he wasn't introduced until ''after'' those one-hundred years had passed; and there's also that [[Egregious]] case of [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]], too, which ended up with a pregnant princess... And she also didn't wake up until one of her babies, more by pure, rotten luck, accidentally sucked out a cursed splinter from her finger... And then there's the version where it wasn't the Prince, but A BLOODY OGRE who did all of the above mentioned to her, and then planned on eating her AND the kids.
* 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.
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