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* [[Misaimed Marketing]]: Mulan's placement in the [[Disney Princess]] franchise might already count as this, but it reached a new low when the DVD joined the "Royal Wedding Collection".
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Shan Yu and the Huns slaughtering of an entire village, including an innocent child, is horrific enough on its own, but it becomes more than just business for them when you remember than Shan Yu had mentioned "returning the little girl's doll" with a gleeful smile of anticipation of what was to come. The little girl wasn't a causality - she was killed by a ''planned attack on her life.'' Shan Yu murdered her in cold blood and then laid her doll down by her body as a mocking gesture. Just ''for fun.''
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The Huns can be downright creepy. Not only did they climb over the Great Wall without much effort (despite what Chi Fu thought), but it was quickly established that they were planning to head towards the Imperial City and invade his palace.
** Shan-Yu has enough [[Nightmare Fuel]] on his own, even without his soldiers backing him up.
** "Besides, the little girl will be missing her doll. We should return it to her."
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** Mulan is clearly horrified after hearing the family name being called meaning that her elderly father will have to go to war and will probably die.
** Mulan and her comrades coming across the charred remains of a village with dead bodies sprawled all over the ground. Especially jarring since they discover it right when they're finishing a rather cheerful musical number. It's pretty impressive how Shan Yu can alter the scene so dramatically.
** When Mulan is revealed as a girl, Chi Fu reveals that he had always been suspicious of her. And he actually wants to go through with the execution.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: When Mulan returns home after being humiliated in her meeting with the matchmaker and can't even look her father in the eye, then singing "Reflection".▼
* Shan Yu not only decides to kill the Emperor, but he decides to do so in front of his own people. Thankfully, Shang prevents the execution.
▲* [[Tear Jerker]]: When Mulan returns home after being humiliated in her meeting with the matchmaker and can't even look her father in the eye, then singing "Reflection". The life of an ''[[Extreme Doormat]]'' just isn't something that she can handle.
** Shang's army finding the burned down village with everyone in it dead, including the little girl with the doll.
** When Mulan is abandoned by the army after her gender has been revealed. Especially her expressing of disappointment in herself afterwards. "I see ''nothing''." It doesn't last long (and Shang decides to spare her life, likely due to the fact that she saved his and he had previously let her out of her conscripton notice), but it certainly makes Mushu and the lucky cricket feel depressed along with her.
* [[Sequelitis]]: The second movie wasn't well-received by critics, though it has a better reception by audience members.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The entire bad-guy army, whom the script always refers to by their ethnicity, is drawn as hulking, gray-skinned, yellow-eyed goons. Probably explains why 'Huns', who no longer exist as a self-identified ethnic group, were used instead of Mongols, who actually still exist as a country. If no one is still around to protest, a [[Historical Villain Upgrade]] becomes much smoother.
** Nevertheless, some nationalist groups in Turkey objected, due to the historically-somewhat-shaky belief that Huns are the ancestors of Turks.
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