# Disney animated feature films - F.. your Mom! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, disney-hulu, cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [May 22, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309 "2026-05-22T14:27:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/21 "2026-05-22T15:45:18Z")
Standard Fairytale “Wicked Stepmother”. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/22 "2026-05-22T15:46:11Z")
Thnx. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/23 "2026-05-22T15:51:35Z")
Winifred, the mother of Hathi, Jr. in _The Jungle Book_. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/24 "2026-05-22T16:02:21Z")
Okay, how many of you missed the > [@msmith537](#): > > original animated feature film specified in the OP? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/25 "2026-05-22T20:04:19Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Sleeping Beauty’s mom was alive and a (minor) character. Forgettable, maybe, but she was there. So forgettable the Disney company doesn’t know who provided the voice. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/26 "2026-05-22T20:17:42Z")
Cinderella has a stepmother, although her mother is dead I believe. I see **@What_Exit** already mentioned stepmothers. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/27 "2026-05-22T20:34:56Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Standard Fairytale “Wicked Stepmother”. Many of the evil stepmothers in the early editions of the Grimm’s fairy tales or their sources, respectively, had been real, biological mothers. They bowdlerized them in later editions which are the ones we know today and which the Disney versions of Snow White and Cinderella were (loosely) based on. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/28 "2026-05-22T22:20:30Z")
I did some quick research. Of the 13 Official Disney Princesses + Elsa & Anna: (5) Aurora, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Moana - Moms are alive in the film (1) Merida - Mom is alive but turned into a bear (8) Moms are either dead or are never specifically mentioned or show. Arial and Anna & Elsa’s mom died in boating accidents Belle’s mom by plague The rest, never specified. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/29 "2026-05-22T22:27:31Z")
Dumbo This scene still makes my wife choke up [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Q-8MbgMS6jo/maxresdefault.jpg "Disney's "Dumbo" - Baby Mine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-8MbgMS6jo) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/30 "2026-05-22T23:33:30Z")
Hell, that makes _me_ choke up. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/31 "2026-05-22T23:52:47Z")
Tarzan’s human Mother is gone, but his Ape Mother is central to the whole storyline. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/32 "2026-05-23T02:33:24Z")
IMO it’s not just disney, a huge percentage of children’s stories have missing or dead parents, particularly mothers. I think it’s a product of the fact most of the original children story tropes originated in a time when maternal mortality was very high. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/33 "2026-05-23T03:04:16Z")
I wonder if part of it also has to do with children viewing the adult world as this completely separate reality. Like without parents around, children are the heroes of their own story. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/34 "2026-05-23T03:13:26Z")
Also, a child with both parents has fewer opportunities for conflicts and the other things that make fiction interesting. You have to earn your “happily ever after”. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/35 "2026-05-23T12:25:22Z")
Elsa and Anna are not official Disney Princesses? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/36 "2026-05-23T14:30:14Z")
I had the pronunciation right (NSFW): [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4ekLcUyDWaU/maxresdefault.jpg "Disney Princess War | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ekLcUyDWaU) ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/37 "2026-05-23T15:40:29Z")
Andy has a mom in the Pixar Toy Story movies. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/38 "2026-05-23T15:55:15Z")
But do any of the toys have moms? There’s a reason it’s not called _Andy’s Story_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/39 "2026-05-23T15:58:52Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@msmith537](#): > > > > Disney Princesses (in unison): "Neither do we! > > IIRC, Mulan stays silent during that line, seeing as her mom appears in multiple early scenes. When _Mulan_ was released in 1998, some people said this was the first Disney movie to depict a female lead who had two parents live through the entire movie. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309/40 "2026-05-23T16:08:26Z")
Mmm, good point. 🤷‍♀️ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-feature-films-f-your-mom/1030309.md?page=3)