Talk:Disney Princess/@comment-4075031-20130929200311/@comment-1416077-20130930144105

Brzoskwinia: You misunderstand; when the franchise started, there was no "official list" of membership; it was essentially a collection of female Disney characters designed to appeal to girls, centered around the Princesses.

It was only later, when it was decided to put Tinkerbell in her own franchise (around 2004-2005), that an "official list" was actually conceived, but the list actually was created in 2007, when the film Enchanted was released; it was announced that Giselle would be joining the franchise, but when this did not come to pass, the powers-that-be "carved the list in stone", so to speak; characters who had appeared in the franchise but had traits that might be deemed controversial (such as Megara's morality, Kida's willingness to kill or Esmeralda's status as an... exotic dancer) were not included in the new list.

Tiana was the first princess inducted into the franchise since then. She served as the model for inducting every princess since then.