Merida was the first Disney Princess without a love interest in her film.Furthermore Ariel, Elsa, and Anna are the only other Disney Princesses to have biological siblings at all. Merida is the only Disney Princess to have a biological brother (she has three).Merida is the only Disney Princess to not have originated from a work of literature or historical figure.Jasmine is the only Disney Princess that ever kissed a villainous character.Jasmine is the only Disney Princess to not have a dress or gown as her official costume.Jasmine was originally going to be named Badroulbadour, after the princess who marries Aladdin in Arabian Nights.Jasmine is the only Disney Princess who isn’t her film’s main character.Jasmine was the first Disney Princess to have separate speaking and singing voice actors.Elsa is the first Disney Princess to canonically be aware that another Disney Princess exists.Elsa originally had short, spiky, black hair in her concept art.
Elsa is the first Disney Princess to actually become a queen.Elsa’s name refers to Eliza, a heroine from another Hans Christian Andersen story.Elsa, at 21, is the oldest Disney Princess and the only non-teenager in the group.Cinderella was the first Disney Princess to sing in multi-tracked vocals.In a deleted scene from the film, Cinderella dreams of an army of Cinderellas to do her chores.
Previously, it had only ever been a nickname.
Belle originally had a younger sister, Clarice, who was not in the final version of the movie.Belle is the only Disney Princess to have her film nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award.Belle was the only Disney Princess nominated for the American Film Institute’s “100 Years… 100 Heroes and Villains” list.Belle is the only Disney Princess to not sing her film’s theme song on screen.The Brothers Grimm version of Sleeping Beauty is called Briar Rose, which is also Aurora’s assumed name when living with her fairy godmothers.Aurora is the only Disney Princess who is a false protagonist the three fairies are the true protagonists.Aurora is the only Disney Princess whose debut feature film was a commercial failure, making only $5.3 million in its original theatrical release on a $6 million budget.Coincidentally, she also only has eighteen minutes of screen time.Aurora only has eighteen lines of dialogue in Sleeping Beauty.Ariel was the first Disney Princess to be animated with the aid of a live-action reference model.In the original Little Mermaid concept art from the 1940s, Ariel had black hair and a blue tail.