Talk:Merida/@comment-5933172-20141216033235/@comment-1672596-20150114231853

"Also note that I am not insulting the Disney Princesses. I have some respect for them. What I'm actually trying to say here is that Merida doesn't fit the group, much like Mulan (who is married to a general & not a princess by birth). She never had a prince (exclude Elsa on this), she acted like a man instead of a woman & disobeyed the 5th commandment just to teach her mother a lesson. I also use Robot Chicken's sketch Disney Princess War (originally it was posted as a video here but it was deleted due to polilcies so I re-upload it as a link) as a sample for this (Feel free to watch it at your own risk). Also note that for me, a far more preferable princess on Merida's position would be Eilonwy. Many fans wanted her to be remembered & I believe this is the perfect opportunity. Some Merida, Brave & Pixar fans feel uncomfortable with Merida being a Disney Princess. Disney should at least try to listen to some of them by the way."

Yeah, agreed. At least Mulan actually honored the 5th Commandment by taking her father's place and joining the military (especially when the alternative would have been to have her father die a senseless death due to not being fit for combat), and Mulan really didn't have an option but to act like a man because if she joined the military as is, she would have been executed, especially when the likes of Chi-Fu are running the military. Merida just acted like a man for no real reason other than as part of the film's misandric/militant feminist slant, and she if anything deliberately tried to off her mom, or at the very least drug her.

And yeah, Elionwy really should replace either Merida or Mulan (Belle's in the gray area as while the prologue does refer to Adam as a prince, the film itself doesn't actually refer to him as such directly, and besides which, other than Disney Princess Royal Weddings, there's no evidence that she and Adam even married at all.). At least Mulan was actually made by Disney, even if she was not a princess. Did Merida really need to be included? What do you think will happen if Pixar either decides to leave Disney or otherwise Disney cuts them loose? Unless Disney actually owns the rights to the movie (which, since it is Pixar-made, even if it was owned by Disney at the time, that's unlikely unless they specifically purchase the rights beforehand), Disney will be forced to remove Merida specifically because she belongs to Pixar. And frankly, they should also insert Melody (Ariel's daughter from Return to the Sea) into the Disney Princess franchise as well. Aside from the fact that she's actually a daughter of one of the Disney Princesses (the only one with that honor, in fact, not counting the upcoming Descendants) and is also extremely popular in SPITE of her movie being unpopular, she also works well in promoting some morality, certainly far moreso than Merida does in her film.