Talk:Disney Princess/@comment-26396081-20150621135425/@comment-1672596-20150712012129

Ah, Edward, Hercules in the ending actually RENOUNCED his birthright as being Prince of the Gods. He's not even a prince at the ending of the film. When he's cut off from the royal blood line, he's not a prince, even if he is genetically related to them. And if he's not a prince, that means Megara CAN'T gain the title of princess, either.

And anyways, I really think Esmerelda should not be added or reinstated or whatever into the franchise. She's not a princess, so she really doesn't deserve the spot. Heck, I still think Mulan really shouldn't have been included in the line up, and I'm not even sure now if Belle really should have been in the line up in the first place (the main events of the film don't really make it clear whether Beast was even a prince, as not even his servants address him as such. At best, he MIGHT be a marquis, which unless he has direct lineage to Louis XVI which he most likely doesn't, means Belle really cannot qualify as a princess). Not to mention even IF Beast actually were a prince, it's left really ambiguous as to whether he and Belle had even married in the ending of the film. Pocahontas at least is the daughter of a chieftain of a Native American tribe, the Native American equivalent of a king, in other words, so she's close enough to a princess. In case you've forgotten, they've got a Disney Heroes franchise anyways, so Mulan and Esmerelda are a better fit there.

Kida and Eilonwy might stand a chance at being princesses since at least they actually were that in the film.