Ever since I got my cable internet I've been looking at a lot of videos (and not doing much of anything else *fail*) and once site that is now one of my favorites is That Guy With the Glasses. I'm sure everyone has been there and I'm last on the bandwagon but ya know what, I don't care, I wasn't about the spend 60-100 dollars a month to watch bored fanboys make fun of everything. But at 30 dollars a month that's do-able. One of the Nostalgia Critic's recent videos was about the best Disney Villains, I agreed with only about half the list and it got me thinking about all things Disney and about the stuff that was overated, and, under appreciated. This journal is dedicated to:

The Top 5 Most Ignored Disney Princesses

Follow up:

5.
Pocahontas
While not as widely ignored as a lot of other characters, Pocahontas barely appears in Disney's Princess line. Every so often you see her dolls but you never see in her in any of the sheets or anything like that. Snow White, Aurora, Cinderella and Ariel usually get top billing, which is a real shame. Pocahontas was beautiful and selfless with just enough vulnerability because of the culture shock between her and the English. She really should be marketed more if for no other reason than her dolls were always the most beautiful. Over the years different companies have made princess dolls, and a lot of them are a special kind of ugly, but the Pocahontas ones always were lovely

4.
Jane
Jane isn't technically a princess in the traditional sense, but that's never seemed to stop Disney before. Jane was smart, curious but best of all, she was funny! Most of the time, female characters are near jokes, but it's usually the male leads or their animal sidekicks (and they all had them) that were the center of the humor. Jane had tons of moments of physical comedy, some great reactions and some great lines.

3. Megara
For those going 'wtf, what's with all the non-princesses' Megara actually is a princess. There are two ways to gain a title of Princess. One is to be the daughter of a king, the other is to be the wife of a Prince. And Megara is the latter. Who is Zeus? The king of the gods. And who is Hercules? Zeus's son. Making Hercules prince of the gods. Okay, it's a stretch, but not a hell of stretch compared to Mulan. Anyway, Megara was awesome on several levels: she's smart, tough, sexy and very much the anti-damsel. And on top of that she has a huge amount of character development. At first she's a conniving bitch who seems to more a villain, but as the movie progressed you saw why she was the way she was, and after realizing she truly loved Hercules, because self sacrificing. Unlike a lot of other characters, Meg actually has a lot of fans, it's just Disney that refuses to acknowledge her existence.

2.
Kidagakesh
Kida is an honest to goodness princess. She's a daughter of a king and the whole nine yards, and at the end of the movie she even becomes a queen. Most of the other princesses, as nice and lovely as they were, are wimps. They constantly need to be rescued and half the time aren't even on screen because of being captured/asleep/dead. Granted in the end Kida was in need of rescuing, but she fought like hell before that happened. She could kick some serious butt. She was strong, fast agile and quick learner, but at the same time had a cute innocence about her--which is pretty impressive for a gal who is over 5000 years old. Kida is an honest to goodness completely genuine princess--but you don't see her ANYWHERE: not in the Disney princess collection, not in Kingdom Hearts, no where.

1.
Elonwy
Elonwy was the captured princess held captive in the castle of the Horned King in the Black Cauldron. While some might argue that Kida and Pocahontas are sorta butch, Elonwy is all girl. She's pretty, well mannered, elegant and dainty--just like Snow White and the other 'classic' princesses, and best part is she never needed to be rescued. All the other princesses, even tough gals at one point need the male character's help, but not Elonwy. In fact in the first part of the movie she was the one who set Taron free. She's not a scaredy cat, even if she does get startled, and at the same time has a lovely romatic set-up with Taron. She's in essence perfect but she has NO FANS. No dolls were ever made of her, there is no fan art of her and most people haven't even heard of her. And when Disney uses non-princesses like Alice and Mulan, they have a beautiful, charming character that fits in just as well as Aurora or anyone.

Honorable Mention

Sally Pull-a-part
Okay, not a real princess and with a good fanbase, but she's still cool and has right to wear cute gold dresses, even if they are torn up or have skulls on them.

Two Princesses who shouldn't be considered Princesses at all

Mulan
Don't get me wrong, I *LOVE* Mulan. She's probably my favorite female Disney character, but she is NOT a princess. But time after time I see her included in all the Disney Princess collection stuff and it drives me nuts! In the movie, Mulan was a soldier, the daughter of a wealthy land owner and offered a position of power in the Emperor's court--none of these things makes her a princess. Like I said before you either have to king for a father or be married to a prince--Mulan is neither of these things. Just because she wears a pretty dress in the beginning of the movie doesn't mean you should keep slapping the princess title on her.

Alice
I blame Square more than I blame Disney for this one, but Alice was considered one of the Princesses of Heart--and yes that meant more that she had a pure heart of goodness and didn't actually mean she had to have a title, but I will say this anyway: Alice, in no way, shape, form or interpretation is a princess. I mean, there isn't even a real way to sort of, kind of, maybe if you squint way to pull that one out. Okay, in the Carebears movie Alice was a look-a-like of the Queen of Heart's daughter, but Carebears is as much Carrol canon as the Matrix. So all you fans out there, quit including Alice or Mulan and start adding the five characters I listed above. Or I will come after you with a giant paper fan.