![]() The Great Mouse Detective: Olivia Flaversham – no mother.The Black Cauldron: Taran – no parents Princess Eilonwy – no parents, assumed dead.No father for the majority of his life as well. Tron franchise: Sam Flynn – no mother.The Fox and the Hound: Copper - no mother.The Rescuers: Penny – no parents, but gets adoptive parents by the end.Witch Mountain franchise: Tony and Tia Malone – no parents.The Jungle Book: Mowgli – no human parents Baloo – mother was mentioned.The Sword in the Stone: Arthur Pendragon/"Wart" – no parents (his father is revealed to have died) Sir Kay – no mother.Sleeping Beauty: Prince Phillip – no mother.Peter Pan franchise: Peter Pan – no mother The Lost Boys – no mothers Jake, Izzy, and Cubby – no mothers.Alice in Wonderland: Alice and her sister – parents not shown.Cinderella: Cinderella – biological mother not mentioned Prince Charming – no mother (she was mentioned in the third film).Pinocchio: Pinocchio – no mother, had a father Geppetto.Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Snow White – biological mother not mentioned The Prince – no parents present.Categories of mothers No (or 'absent') mother Below is a list of some notable examples of this aspect of Disney films and television series. Shearer) believe that it is to show that a happy family does not have to consist of a mother, father and a child and that a family can be one parent and one child, or one parent and many siblings. Some entertainment journalists (such as G. Some feminists (such as Amy Richards) believe it is to create dramatic interest in the main characters if mothers were present to guide them, they argue, there would not be much of a plot. Further, the prevalence of absent mothers, or even evil step-mothers, were not creative choices made by the Disney brothers themselves, but were plot points present in the source material that were adapted into later animated films, such as the original Cinderella tale, the 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods, and Helen Aberson-Mayer's Dumbo the Flying Elephant. The so-called phenomenon had been present in Disney canon from before Flora's 1938 death, with the presence of the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which released in 1937. ![]() Ī prevalent urban legend explains the phenomenon resulted from the death of Flora Disney, mother of Walt and Roy Disney, who perished in 1938 due to a gas leak in the house the two brothers had recently purchased for her. ![]() In other instances, mothers are presented as "bad surrogates," eventually "punished for their misdeeds." There is much debate about the reasoning behind this phenomenon. Few, if any, have only single-parent mothers. ![]() The heroes and heroines of most Disney movies come from unstable family backgrounds most are either orphaned or have no mothers. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) You can help by converting this article, if appropriate. He never spoke about that time because he personally felt responsible because he had become so successful that he said, 'Let me buy you a house.' It's every kid's dream to buy their parents a house and just through a strange freak of nature-through no fault of his own-the studio workers didn't know what they were doing.This article is in list format but may read better as prose. He never would talk about it, nobody ever does. His father was sick and went to the hospital, but his mother died. The housekeeper came in the next morning and pulled his mother and father out on the front lawn. He had the studio guys come over and fix the furnace, but when his mom and dad moved in, the furnace leaked and his mother died. "The other reason-and this is really odd-Walt Disney, in the early 1940s, when he was still living at this house, also bought a house for his mom and dad to move into. But this next theory about the lack of motherly characters is positively heartbreaking, and it comes from a little-known story about the man behind the magic: Walt Disney himself.
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