What if your story was “Disneyfied”?

[abigaillmartin]

sighs Sadly yes. I can tell they are really desperate for the money money money when will it ever be enough for them? Never.

[allenT]

One thing i like about classic Disney movies is the characters can come out musical numbers (songs) through any means. Maor could sing his sadness out like Mulan's "Reflection".

[abigaillmartin]

I love that song but it’s so hard to sing! Mulan is my favorite Disney Princess ever

[abigaillmartin]

They totally screwed her up in the new remake they made her a freaking Mary Sue overpowered stupid perfect. They ruined it! There was nothing to fix! Aug! Why? Why why? Whyyyyyyyy??!

[allenT]

I mean the 1998 version animated movie. not the new one

[abigaillmartin]

Yeah that’s what I meant haha. Don’t worry I was just ranting

[Hipiticus]

I could imagine my story working as a disney show. Rumey would be a teen instead of an adult. He would be less villainous. Instead of Rumey's main motivation of using the cursed wishes to make money, he would use it to help people in horrible ways, him, his bro, and Xiz. He'd also have a love interest of course. It could be a lot of fun, less violence and death though. I kinda wanna right this version now...

[Freemints30]

Honestly I feel cut out the ero-guro elements... not even keep the milder subtext . Age down quite a alot of the cast from ambigiously 20-30 to late teens. At best an even more PG-rated version of Be More chill. Two guys who are ambigiously queer and ambiguously mentally ill in a bromance. Loukas hunger would probably wouldn't be so prevalent. Very much not a problem "cus he's stronger than that"

Make Hide less a traumatized distater and more hyper manic pixie dream guy to get Loukas out of shell... So technically the similar to the main plot, in a strange way.

At worst an attempt to dampen the ambigiously queer part by forcing a m/f love triangle romance... make all my intentionally unhealthy and purposefully toxic relationships and try present them as actually healthy missing the whole point. Xander being portrayed as good friend scares me more than anything

[aqua03]

They'd probably come up with an even more overly narrow superlative like "Disney's first gay character with a bright hair color!" or something like that.

[WildMoonCrow]

Ellie would probably talk to animals and sing to them in the woods lol, Skully would be her funny “animal” sidekick Luke would totally be the prince with a curse, and Ellie would have to save him in some cheesy way and there would be more songs.

This already sounds like it would be Skully’s worst nightmare.

[NickRowler]

I do think Disney TV does a much better job with their content than whoever is producing the movies.

PRO:
- professional team working on my story
- the ability to advertise my show/movie so people can watch it

CON:
- turning my art style into a 3D Pixar clone
- having a movie that downplays LGBTQ or mature elements in order to make it appropriate for "All Ages".
- Disney capitalizing on my identity
- Disney hyperfocusing on aspects on my characters in a way that seems exploitive. Like I don't really talk about race in my series, and I don't really advertise my series as "this is a story about a latino guy", which is a thing Disney LOVES to do. I would also be worried if they would do that for characters who are queer, have albinism, or are blind.
- I also hate the amount of merch Disney makes, but a lot of their shows and smaller films don't get merch so I might be OK.

[powerplantanimations]

@darthmongoose Lol you gave me flashbacks to this

For the question though, this is actually a question I'd ask myself on a daily basis lmao. So let me pull the list out...

• Downplay of Catholic elements. Unless they can use it as a selling point, Disney's been downplaying their religious side recently (despite the people on top being stern Republicans, it's a weird relationship). I'm not sure if St. Peter or the upside down cross would even be a thing in the Disney adaption. "But that's the anti-Christ symbol! We can't have that!!! No, no, no! We don't care if it was originally something else!". Quincy would probably be wearing the cross and mention Jesus once but like... I don't expect them to question his own belief or have massive panic attacks regarding his religion. Also the discussion about WHY suffering is a thing lmao.

• Nikado and Naota's horrible acts of sexism being cut out or dulled. They might take the Boba Fett or the Pinnochio route where "they can't make mistakes!". Nikado especially. Like he's an over-the-top sociopathic cold blooded sexist killer that may or may not get redeemed. I think they'd probably do it in the Big Jack Horner direction but... eh...

• Nancy and Naota wouldn't be trading low-brow insults... Nancy making fun of Naota's medical condition/ethnicity, Naota making fun of Nancy's looks.

• They'd be hungry for spin-offs... stick figure animation is really cheap (I checked). They'd be exploiting it. It is a perfect platform for introducing stories since I use it for Quincy's.

• They'd be exploiting the multiverse concept despite me only using it once in this story and never talking about it again in the two sequels.

• I DO NOT WANT MARVEL TOUCHING RED GIANT OR QUINCY. Yes, I would like for it to be adapted but Quincy's universe was always meant to be the Anti-Marvel. Marvel's concept of a multiverse is stupid.... especially with their habit of hiring Rick & Morty Writers (I wouldn't want Gravity Falls writers working on it either) (anyone related to Harmon, I want out).

• Okay, so this is one I actually thought about. All of the characters in TSFI are HORRIBLE people. I wouldn't want them being represented in heritage events. Like Naota and Nikado being used in Asian Heritage Month or the Red Giantess for LGBTQ+. These characters are the type to take advantage of their minority status for personal gain...

• They better not hold my skin-color as a trophy. If they did, I think I'd snap. "Meet our MEXICAN writer! Look how MEXICAN he is!!!"

• A large lesson in TSFI is that almost anyone can get redeemed... they'll cut out the easter eggs of people that have been murdered by Tizoc in the background (he's been on a rampage before he met the characters). In Season 2 it starts off comedic but then as things go along you realize "Oh... oh.... OHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO....".

• I dunno if they want me to talk about why there's a Hell to begin with. That'd be thrown out.

[KennethLopezJr921]

This is a complicated situation for me. My series' artistic influence is heavily routed old Disney movies particularly in its character design. And one would think my series under Disney's ownership would be a match made in heaven. But for me, its the complete opposite. In short, I would rather be killed in the most brutal way then ever hand over ownership of my series to Disney. I hope I don't come across as pretentious and overambitious when I say this but I have a feeling my series could become big in the future, and I've even had some people throw the idea around. And this would make it a potential target for Disney's disgusting rat hands. Which is why I've made it a personal goal to hold on to the ownership of my property and turn down any buy out opportunities. Even if I do end up founding my own studio, copyright to my property will be under my name until I'm dead. After which, it'll be put in the public domain assuming by that point, Disney would be long gone or at least not as powerful as it is now.

I don't like Disney. I like their movies and think Walt was a film visionary but I hate them as a company. They hold a monopoly on the entertainment and film industry, and they're entirely creatively bankrupt; choosing to milk their existing properties and buy out competitors rather than focusing on creating new original shit. They're not even interested in their animation division, which I'll always as being Disney, they'd rather focus on bastardizing the hell out of Star Wars and Marvel. And I do not want to contribute to that, directly or indirectly.

I guess one major worry that I can think of is that instead of trying to do anything interesting with Crescent Blue, Disney would just souly rely on reboots, spin offs, and other explorative shit that'll dilute any merit my series and characters had, while also dumbing down elements the company may deem too 'inappropriate' or what would make midwestern moms faint. This is mostly coming from my experience with Dragon Ball, and how its current owners haven't been able to do anything interesting with it except make it worse (although I do feel Dragon Ball Super Hero is a step in the right direction), but I do feel Toei's and Bandai's handling of the property is insanely better than how Disney treated Star Wars. Basically, I dont want it to be turned into another nostalgia fueled property. Like do something new and interesting with it. Don't just do the same repetitive shit cause its easy and nostalgia sells.

I also see them trying to get woke browny points (I hate them term but its fits) by marketing it as having "Disney's First Bi Character" because one of my characters is bi. But I guess in that respect, it wouldn't be as bullshit as "Disney's First bolded air quotes Gay Character", but I don't know if having a character that could go both ways would be too extreme for them.

[Azifri]

For my comic, I think it would come down to making the factions more black and white instead of all of them being questionable/horrible people but with good intentions from their points of view. That and at the end of the story the bad guys would die by accident after doing some good action and the good guys would save the multiverse with the power of friendship.

Now, if I'm completely honest... part of me wouldn't mind if the story is a musical Desquicio with a chill Spanish guitar theme that turns into metal depending on his mood, the Dark Sun crew with some stereotypical comical villain songs, and Claudia and co. with the drama songs. I have these dumb scenes playing in my head now, @abigaillmartin it's your fault

[abigaillmartin]

Mwhahahahahahahahaha HA!

[tarraxahum]

My comic has a lot of fighting and similar physical violence, so I struggle to figure out what Disney could possibly do with that. Delete all the blood, pull the punches, make the stakes lower? What about the main protagonist's mental illness, can we keep that? Would that have to be something magical, like a curse, for a metaphor? Or can't we keep that all, in which case her story honestly will fall apart anyway.

Ooooh WAIT or they could make them all animals. A feral street cat who scratches everyone brefore she learns to trust them is much easier to animate and sell to children than a traumatized human! And no need to eventually adress any systematic social problems either, 'cause you know, animals! Yup, that's it!

(Oh and my he/him butch lesbain character would be made into a cishet boy SO fast... eugh.)

[vinoff]

Well, since Erebus University is more like Monsters University meets Teen Wolf, I guess they’re just gonna remove the profanity, nudity, violence, gore and the concept of Incubi Dining Hall altogether. And if they tone down the adult aspect of it, it’s just gonna be another story about a boy as he learns and accepts his power and responsibility who eventually becomes a hero, which is pretty much Disney’s expertise. Oh, and they’re gonna make eeeeeveryone pretty regardless what I wrote.

And for A Throne of Potions and Mirror… I have a feeling they’re gonna mess up the culture. King Prajanggaru II will not have two wives. Probably the queen will die before he marries Princess Ritoja. Prince Grahuri will not have multiple female and male concubines, but he will be branded as Disney’s first openly pansexual character (or is that too much for Disney?). And Prince Basandaya is gonna sing every time he breaks down. But it will be so, so magical and beautiful, with a shorter story and a more meaningful plot. Amanji’s gonna rock his performance!

[Stargazer31]

I dread to imagine a disneyfied Realmwalker...

[abigaillmartin]

I also dread Benedict Ovum having an enchanted castle. Even he’d hate it.

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