Talk:Belle/@comment-25097798-20141215130053/@comment-25692211-20150426155734

The "smartest" Princess is debateable, but she's definetly one of them. She's the first one who actually showed some kind of intelligence and talents, other than knitting clothes for mice, cleaning up after dwarves, talking to animals etc. and actually had a personality. I've got to admit, after Beauty and the Beast, they finally learned how to make their female characters  into actual characters instead of bland plot devices who wait around for the prince to rescue them. If it hadn't been for Belle, could you imagine how bland and boring Esmeralda, Mulan, Rapunzel, Anna and Elsa would have turned out? I doubt Disney would be as successful if they kept making Snow White-type characters.