This blog is dedicated to one of Disney's best, but also one of their most underrated movies. So, let's finally give this movie the love and attention it deserves! Gif requests are CLOSED!!
If I had a nickel for everytime the protagonist of an animated movie released by disney flat out murdered a young child's mom on screen I would have two nickels
That man is angry. He is pissed. He is grieving. He's feeling a million emotions all at once, and you can see it all here. You can tell Denahi is going through such grief and anger, and it's actually heartbreaking.
Disney keeps making live action remakes, thinking they can mimic everything about the original. But I'm telling you, no expression of grief in a live action remake is going to be as heartbreaking and real as in the original animated proof. And Denahi will be proof of that if Disney DARES TO MAKE A FUCKING LIVE ACTION ADAPTATION OF BROTHER BEAR! THOSE ANGRY AND GRIEVING EXPRESSIONS WON'T EXIST ON HIM IN THAT REMAKE!
Sorry. Done ranting. Calming down now.
Have a great day or night, wherever you guys are! :)
First off, thank you to everyone who participated in the tournament. Votes, submissions, and notes alike. Without you this whole blog wouldn't happen.
Our winner is Quasimodo from the 1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame film. Having been orphaned as a baby when his mother tried to flee Judge Frollo's hatred with him only to end up dead. And that was only the start. Yet he never truly let it get him down.
Nani Pelekai and Lilo Pelekai both had a single loss on their record. (Lilo's to Nani and Nani's to Quasi) The sisters were both orphaned after a rainy car crash but the after math for the young adult and the young child were quite different. Luckily they found their way back to Ohana.
And the last of our top group was Koda. A fit of rage taking his mother from him was the start but the worst part might have been finding out who was responsible. However he is blessed with a final moment with his mother allowing healing to begin.
Along the way to this finality there were many exciting moments! We started with two rounds of 16 polls (never let us do that again), the winners of the first facing off against the popular submission in the second.
It did surprise us how many of our selected orphans made it through both rounds, and who they bumped out! Elsa and Anna each failed to more on and Mama Coco took out Eugene!
But the biggest surprise for use was how devoted the Gravity Falls fans were in this tournament. They managed to defeat some other popular franchises, like King from The Owl House, only falling to the one who took the title: Quasimodo. In fact, the most popular poll was the Shape Shifter v Quasimodo (677 votes!)
Thinking of all the orphans, they were from a fantastically wide variety of stories.
The famous animated features did dominate, from the original Snow White and other classic eras to more forgotten films like the Rescuers, revival ear and modern icons.
There were also actual human children, from the always positive Pollyanna to Pete (without his dragon).
Some of you dabbled in the acquired and borrowed ips: Star Wars and the MCU had a few and there was an Annie and another Cinderella too.
Disney also put orphans on the small screen, with five of them making the cut.
And we had single reps from the Broadway Stage and international publishing/franchises. We love it all!
In all 48 polls we didn't get any ties, but there were a few decisions! The closest was the single point victory of Lewis Robinson over Princess Elena! Number two was animated Cinderella's victory over Oliver, the cardboard box kitten. There were also some pretty clear preferences, both Pelekai sisters won early rounds with over 85% of the love.
It's been a blast this month! We hope you'll return for the next game!
And as a reminder that all of these orphans (except apparently the Gravity Falls ones?) were able to get through their struggles and find happiness with the support of those around them. So always know that things do get better and try to be that better for those around you.
(alternative outlook: Play Pollyanna's game and soon everyone will play it for you.)
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