So what were the Disney Dwarfs going to do to the Evil Queen?

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In the original Grimm story, the dwarfs didn’t chase after the evil queen. At Snow White’s wedding, the queen is forced to wear red hot shoes and dance to her death. I tried to find out if the dwarfs were the ones to provide the lethal footwear, but the sites I looked up didn’t say so.

But in the Disney movie, the Seven Dwarfs chase the Evil Queen up a mountain where she falls off a cliff. So I was thinking today, just what were the Dwarfs planning to do with the Queen if they had caught her? Chop her into little bits with their pickaxes? Do a whole Suddenly Last Summer number on her?

It just seems a little gruesome and bloodthirsty for the good guys.

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They didn’t plan that far ahead. Disney villains somehow just plummet to their deaths!

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I can only see two possibilities, really. Either they were going to kill her or use the threat of such to capture her. Capturing her would be fraught with political difficulty, since she’s the queen, but I don’t remember if they actually recognized her, since she dies as the old hag. So it’s still possible.

However, I wouldn’t put it past them to be planning to kill or at least consider that a possibility. As far as they know, the hag murdered Snow White. It’s pretty natural to want to kill the murderer of someone you care about. I believe what makes that uncommon today is that, instead of killing them, the murderer can be brought under the legal system today. A lot of laws exist to civilize the punishment that would occur anyways.

If they know she’s the queen, there’s no way the law would punish her. And if they don’t, they do tend to know the queen hates Snow White, so they have every reason to think her murderer wouldn’t be punished.

I’m pretty sure the point of Disney Deaths is to make it where the villain can be killed without the protagonists being directly responsible.

Ugh–that’s a bit darker than I wanted to take this. So here’s a silly answer: they were going to tie her up and make her do all the maid duties instead.

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Fairy tales tend to be rather, er, Grim.
Cinderella’s sister cut pieces off their feet so they can wear pretty shoes.

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The old “roll her in a barrel with internal spikes” bit is always hilarious…fun for the whole family

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Is that anything like The Number 6 Dance from Blazing Saddles?

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Much worse.

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Sweet baby Jesus - I thought you were talking about the song by The Motels.

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I KNOW!

When I saw the film, I thought ”What in God’s name were the Motels THINKING?”

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And I’ve often heard the Bros toned down the stories they collected. Although I’m not aware of any known source material for this one.

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Tying her up was going to be the extent of the dwarfs’ active involvement but that wasn’t going to be the end of things. They were going to call some pipe-hitting trolls to go to work on the hag with a pair of pliers and a blow torch.

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You’re okay if you yell “AAAHH-HOO-HOO-HOOEY!” I assume she forgot?

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Head on pike in front yard, body tossed in hog wallow out back.