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I am a Software Development Engineer in Test working for the Windows Sound team. You can contact me via email: mateer at microsoft dot com
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Last time we examined the "Disney princess" status of Belle from Beauty and the Beast. This time I attempt to give an exhaustive list of all Disney princesses together with a very short summary of their status.
Methodology - I started with Disney's own "50 animated features" list as present on the Tangled DVD. To this I added the list of Pixar and (somewhat more controversially) Studio Ghibli movies released under the Disney name.
1 Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind is technically not a Studio Ghibli film as the studio was not founded until after the film was released. 2 In The Black Cauldron, Taran is not yet aware that he is a prince. 3 In The Little Mermaid, Ursula briefly has a claim to being a queen. Her relationship to Triton is never made clear; if she is his ex-wife, Ariel and her sisters are potentially her daughters. 4 In The Little Mermaid, Triton is briefly incapacitated. His eldest daughter thus has a brief claim to being Queen. 5 In Beauty and the Beast, Belle's princess status hinges on whether she is married to the Beast. 6 In Aladdin, Aladdin spends a fair amount of time transformed into a prince, though it is not clear where his principality lies. 7 In Aladdin, Jafar is briefly Sultan and attempts to woo Jasmine, though there is no reciprocity in their relationship. 8 In The Lion King it is perhaps best not to inquire too closely into the precise nature of the familial relationships between members of the pride in question. 9 The Lion King ends with a shot of Simba and Nala's cub being presented, but it is not clear whether the cub is male or female; in sequels it is made clear that the cub is a girl and her name is Kiara.
Jasmine from Aladdin is the best.
My personal favorite shifts around but at the moment it's probably Kida from Atlantis (only Disney princess to deliver a knee to the groin on-screen) or if you include the books then Eilonwy from The Black Cauldron (she has some great one-liners in the books.)