Ralph Breaks The Internet has already invented an iconic scene and the film isn't even out yet. The trailers show off a scene in which one of the film's main characters Vanellope comes across all of Disney's iconic princesses. From Snow White, to Pocahontas, to Moana, to Elsa, it seems like everybody who should be present is present.
Well, some fans have pointed out some notably absent characters: Kida from
Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Meg from
Hercules, Esmeralda from
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but none are mentioned more than the absence of one fan-favourite, intergalactic general: Princess Leia (from the
Star Wars saga).
One of
Ralph Breaks The Internet's directors Rich Moore
recently addressed these characters' absence:
We decided... I mean there are a lot of princesses that are from Disney movies that are not part of the canonized Disney princesses, you know, and I don't know how they're chosen. I don't know how it goes on. I think it's kinda like the Vatican where smoke comes out of a chimney. 'And Moana is now a Disney princess.' So we decided we're going to use the canonized group of princesses, known as the Disney Princesses.
Not that we don't love Princess Leia and Kida [from Atlantis: The Lost Empire] and Meg [from Hercules] and Esmerelda [from The Hunchback Of Notre Dame]. But we decided we're going to go with the official Disney princesses.
Co-writer Pamela Ribbon later gave her take on the situation, explaining that she believes the group should be limited to those characters who were born within the House of Mouse.
I really thought of the princesses that walk through Disneyland as the Disney Princesses, Disney animation specifically, you know, because that's where I feel like Vanellope is of this house, and she gets to stand next to the same princesses that this building made... I wouldn't have thought in this room you'd have Princess Leia because she didn't seem like who Vanellope was talking to in that version.
What do you think of Moore and Ribbon's comments? Do you think Leia should've been included? Is there anybody else you think shouldn't be absent from the scene? You can see some of the scene in the trailer below:
Ralph Breaks The Internet smashes into theatres on December 21st.