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Have you ever wondered where some of the Disney movie stories
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came from? Or the real story
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behind our favorite fairy tales?
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They're not as glamorous as we remember them
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to be.
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Mirror, Mirror, on the wall.
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Who is
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fairest
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of them all?
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I have those true stories coming right up.
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Hey guys,
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and welcome back to daily list.
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I'm Azalea Hart.
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What are your favorite fairy tales?
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And did you ever find out the true meaning behind them?
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Not only the true meaning, but did it creep you out?
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Well I have some creepy stories for you coming right up.
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Before we get into the episode
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I just want to give a daily list fan shout out to...
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all of you!
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You guys are so awesome.
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I love reading your comments and talking with you guys.
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You guys make my day every time.
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With that said, let's get right into the list.
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Twelve real stories behind our favorite Disney movies:
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[clock chimes]
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So we all know the story behind Cinderella, right?
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Her mom dies, but then her dad remarries a wicked woman
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with wicked daughters
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[rips] [gasps]
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You shall not go to the ball
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[sobs]
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Then her father dies and then she becomes
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the house maid
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The way we know the movie to end
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is that Cinderella gets the prince,
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they get married,
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and live happily ever after.
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It's truly a story that warms our hearts.
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But do you know how it really ends
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according to Grimm's fairy tales?
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While the step sisters don't get to live happily ever after and go about their lives,
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you know, except being jealous forever
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they actually meet a pretty gross and bloody end.
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One of the step sisters wanted to fit into the slipper so bad,
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that she cut off her toes.
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The other one,
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sliced off her heel.
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How do you even do that?
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That's not all either.
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They attend the wedding
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and doves flew down from heaven.
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Aw so sweet
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Doves at a wedding right?
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Except these doves
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pecked the eyes out of the sisters
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Ow
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In The Little Mermaid
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we know that Ariel's father, King Triton
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turned her into a permanent human being and gave her her legs.
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Then she was able to live happily ever after
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with her husband, Prince Eric.
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Romantic right?
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[choir singing]
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But according to story teller Hans Christian Andersen,
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his mermaid not only wished for legs to get the prince,
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she wished for legs because mermaids don't get to go to heaven
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like humans do.
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Also in this version of the story,
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every time our Ariel took a step,
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it felt like she was stepping on knives.
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Also in this version, the prince didn't fall in love with her.
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♪♪
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I mean that does happen sometimes ya know
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like everyone you love is not going to love you back.
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But if he had,
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his kiss would breathe part of his soul into her body
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allowing her to have an afterlife
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but anyway, on the day of his wedding,
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she threw herself into the sea
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and died.
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At the end of the version of Snow White that we know,
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the prince kisses her,
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wakes her up from the poison from the apple,
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and the evil queen dies by falling off of a cliff.
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[Screams]
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But in the Brother's Grimm version,
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the queen died a more brutal death than that.
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I know. What can be worse than falling off of a cliff?
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Well the queen was invited to Snow and her prince's wedding
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-which was nice-
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but when she arrived, she was given a pair of hot iron shoes
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and forced to dance to death in front of the wedding party.
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Now that is twisted.
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Death by dancing.
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In the Sleeping Beauty that we know,
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they also live happily ever after.
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After the prince slays the dragon
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he kisses Aurora to wake her up,
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and then dances with her as her dress changes color.
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But in another 17th-century tale called
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Sun, Moon, and Talia
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the prince was actually a king
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who's married by the way,
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and he didn't kiss Talia when he found her sleeping,
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he raped her.
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She woke up months later with twin babies,
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Sun and Moon.
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And then she was reunited with the king
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Whoo was still married
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This story still somewhat has a happily ever after.
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Kind of
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I don't know
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how
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but
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But anyway the queen found out
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and tried to make the king eat the twin babies.
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So he threw her in the fire,
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and then married Talia as punishment
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It's hard to tell who the punishment was for though.
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Was it for the queen who he already killed by throwing her in the fire
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or was it for the woman that he raped and had twins with,
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Talia?
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♪ I got now strings to hold me do- ♪
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[laughter]
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At the end of the Pinnochio, we know,
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he was turned into a real boy.
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I'm a real boy!
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You're alive?!
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But in the real Pinocchio, from Carlo Collodi's story,
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Pinocchio was not a nice boy at all.
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He murdered this story's version of Jiminy Cricket
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in the first act.
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So he didn't even make it through the entire play
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and Geppetto, that sweet old man,
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he goes to jail for negligence.
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When Geppetto gets out of jail,
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he sold his only coat that he had
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so that he could send Pinnochio to school
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and buy him his school books.
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I'm going to school!
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But Pinnochio bought theatre tickets with the money instead.
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Apparently the Pinnochio in this story,
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does much worse things than that.
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And then he met his death when two other characters
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hung him by a tree and he died by suffocation.
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A boy who won't be good, might just as well be made of wood.
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In The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
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of course, we would've loved if Quasimodo
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won the love of Esmeralda
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but he just ended up accepting that she likes him for who he is
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but, ya know, just doesn't love him like that.
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but his happily ever after came when he defeated
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the villain of the movie, Fro;lo.
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Then he was accepted into society
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and the people of the town loved him.
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Yay for Quasimodo!
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The real story though,
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was written by Victor Hugo
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and by his account, Frollo actually ends up killing Esmerelda
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by hanging her
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and then Quasimodo kills Frollo
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and then cries by Esmerelda corpse
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and eventually, starves to death.
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I mean, that escalated quickly.
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In Fox and the Hound,
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it ended out with Todd living out his life happy, as a fox
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and Copper living out his life as a hound
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and then they just remember their years of friendship fondly.
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Super sweet.
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But in Daniel P Mannix's version
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Copper the hound, chases the fox until he dies of exhaustion
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then Copper's master shoots Copper with a shotgun,
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kills him,
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[two gunshots]
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and then moves away.
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You want to go outside?
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[scoffs] Why Rapunzel.
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[window shuts]
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In Tangled, we know that Rapunzel lives in the tower with Mother Gothel
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and then Flynn Ryder, AKA Eugene,
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saves her and helps her escape.
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Rapunzel falls in love with Flynn,
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finds out that she's a princess
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and then they get rid of Mother Gothel
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and live happily ever after.
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In the real story though,
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Rapunzel and the prince have a secret signal
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which is dangling her hair out the window for him to climb up
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to come see her.
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In this version, Mother Gothel's character,
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finds out, and decides to lure the prince to the tower by
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cutting off Rapunzel's hair herself
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and then she uses the hair to get our prince to climb up.
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When the prince does climb up and realized it wasn't Rapunzel calling him,
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he jumps from the tower and lands in the thorn bushes below
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and pokes his eyes out.
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Ouch
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Pocahontas is a love story that everybody should hear
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Well...
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The story that we know at least
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The Native American Princess falls in love with a British colonist, John Smith
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even though they should be sworn enemies
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When she saves John's life,
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Remember the scene where they were going to smash his head in?
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♪♪
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No!
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If you kill him, you'll have to kill me too.
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It ends up bringing peace between the British and the natives.
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In the real story though, this story, is actually a true story.
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After John Smith returned to England,
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Pochohantas was actually kidnapped and forced to
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convert to Christianity.
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She ended up marrying a man by the name of John Rolfe.
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Years later, she was put on show as a civilized Native American
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in London
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Like how disgusting is that?
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So they really believed that Native Americans were savages
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Barely even human?
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♪ Savages, savages, barely even human♪
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♪ Savages, savages, drive them from our shore ♪
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Anyway, before she could actually return home,
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she ended up dying by causes unknown.
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We know that Mulan was super courageous and brave.
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She disguised herself as a man
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and enlisted in the army in place of her elderly father.
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She becomes a strong warrior with the help of her dragon friend, Mushu.
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She makes her family so proud,
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falls in love with her general,
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and lived happily ever after.
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The original story, though is called Hua Mulan
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In it, Mulan does return home happy and safe,
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but her family has fallen apart.
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Then, her only option, was to become a sex slave
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and she couldn't live like that
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so she ended up committing suicide
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In The Jungle Book, we know that Mowgli was raised by wolves
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and while he was being raised, became the target
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of the tiger of the jungle, Shere Khan.
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[roars]
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so his wolf mom sent him to a human village
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to be safe but ended up living in the jungle still
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and fought Shere Khan.
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In Rudyard Kipling's version of The Jungle Book,
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Mowgli never adjusts to human life,
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and it's insinuated that he's actually attracted to wolves.
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not humans.
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Also when Mowgli fought the tiger, Shere Khan
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and in this story, he fought him when he was eleven years old
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and completely naked.
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I mean that's not safe at all.
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We all know the story of Frozen.
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Should I really go over it?