Talk:Lady Tremaine/@comment-1672596-20140824162541

A horrifying thought occurred to me recently: Lady Tremaine may have been a victim of the French Revolution/Robespierre's Reign of Terror as a kid, in a similar manner to how Monsoon from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance had been a victim of the Khmer Rouge's rule in Cambodia. After all, the setting of Cinderella is in 1830s France, as implied by both the King and Duke's cameo in The Little Mermaid as well as the overall setting of her film (there are gas lamps in the village and yet it still possessing a monarchy, plus the narration may have mentioned it being set in France), and given her age, she probably was old enough to have witnessed the horrors as a child. Who knows, maybe she became extremely nihilistic from that experience, as she was shown to hate even her own children having any sense of hope, whether it be her stepdaughter or, in the sequels, even her own flesh and blood.