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Avengers: Infinity War Set Photos Tease Romance Among Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

James Gunn no longer wants to do a ROM movie. New reports hint a touching scene between Luke and some old friends in The Last Jedi. Joss Whedon discusses casting Batgirl. Plus, more clips from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, promos for American Gods, and Ashley Eckstein on Ahsoka’s Rebels return. Spoilers, assemble! Avengers:…

io9 James Whitbrook Apr 20

Is There a Point to a Princesses Movie Not Done by Disney?

According to Tracking Board, the latest script making its way through Hollywood right now is Princesses by Nir Paniry, described as “a female-driven Avengers featuring classic fairy tale princesses.” It’s being pitched to everyone, though, even though we all know that the only logical home for it is Disney. Of course, Disney’s already got a…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Mar 21

This Surprisingly Empowering Retelling of Sleeping Beauty Stars a Hamster Princess

How on Earth do you tell a story about a princess under a Sleeping Beauty-type curse and make her truly heroic? You put her in the hands of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer and cartoonist Ursula Vernon, whose new book Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible finds the silver lining of the soporific curse. Vernon has…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 25

Amy Schumer Gives Disney Princesses a Heaping Dose of Reality

Inside Amy Schumer recognizes that there are a few things missing from Disney fairy tales. Like peasant revolts. Marrying cousins. Your literal only job being to produce a male baby. Being executed when that doesn’t happen. Some things aren’t cured just by having Tim Gunn as your attaché. Contact the author at [email protected].

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 25

Princesses As Velociraptors Wins. All Other Princesses Go Home.

This is it. This is the high point of all reinventions of Disney princesses. No one else can compete. Laura Cooper of the webcomic XP is the creator of Velociprincesses, an epic take on two of the greatest childhood obsessions: princesses and dinosaurs. Here they are, enjoy coming up with the rest of the lyrics…

io9 Lauren Davis and Katharine Trendacosta Jun 22

10 Subversive Princess Stories That Are The Perfect Antidote To Disney

We love Disney movies, but many of the classic Disney princess movies leave us feeling that all fairytale princesses are good for is meeting their prince and getting married. Here are ten stories that take on those fairytale stories from a different angle, giving us complicated women who want more than a wedding with Prince…

io9 Lauren Davis Jun 9

What Does It Take To Become A Professional Faerie Princess?

After seven years working in the tech industry, Jenny Richman decided that she needed more magic in her life. So she traded her keyboard for a pair of shimmery wings, taking a job as a professional faerie at children’s parties. There, she found the job fulfillment she had been hoping for. Illustration by Tara Jacoby.…

io9 Lauren Davis May 5

Prepare To Be Alarmed, But Unsurprised, By The “Princess Bedroom” Trend

We can’t take our eyes off photos the Wall Street Journal published in its recent exploration of the pricey, Disney-inspired “princess bedroom” boom … nor can we scrape our jaws off the floor at the dollar amounts quoted therein. $35,000 for a wee carriage-shaped bed, you say? The article, which contains not a speck of…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Feb 6

A Pair Of Unusual Princesses Decide To Rescue Each Other

Sadie is a princess who loves dancing, cries at the drop of a hat, and has found herself imprisoned in a tower with a pudgy dragon as her sole companion—that is, until the unicorn riding, butt-kicking Princess Amira shows up to rescue her and throws a wrench in their fairytale story. Strangely Katie’s Princess Princess…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 9

Chinese Government Tries to Quell Unrest with an Animated Princess

Uighers are an ethnic minority in western China, largely Muslim, who have been protesting the Chinese government for its discriminatory policies against them over the past several years. Now the Chinese government hopes to appease the protesters with a bizarre princess story. Historically, China has been ruled by the dominant Han ethnicity. But in the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 27

What would Disney’s cartoon characters look like as real people?

Once Upon a Time has cast real actors as characters from their princess movies, but one artist has tried to translate the cartoon characters directly into real life in a series of digital manipulations. Can you guess who is who? Karen Graw used features from real people (you may recognize some celebrity features in there)…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 15

Proof that Wolverine is the greatest Disney princess of them all

While we’ve seen lots of remixes of Disney princesses—princesses dressed as the Doctors, as Sith Lords, as their princes, and more—but David J Prokopetz is flipping that artistic script, collecting drawings of Wolverine in gowns worthy of a singing princess. https://gizmodo.com/disney-princesses-doing-doctor-who-cosplay-is-the-most-5950946 https://gizmodo.com/disney-princesses-make-for-some-pretty-intimidating-sit-470841029 https://gizmodo.com/disney-princesses-look-dapper-in-their-princes-clothes-1311064482 Prokopetz has collected 14 of these dressed-up Wolverine images so far in…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 26

Disney princesses dress up as their favorite heroines

The Disney princesses get into the Halloween spirit in a series of pictures by Isaiah K Stephens. Stephens dresses each lady up as a battle-ready heroine. He has more of these costumed princesses on his Tumblr, including Ariel as Black Widow, Aurora as Daenerys, and Snow White as Wonder Woman. He’s planning a second set,…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 19

Disney princesses look dapper in their princes’ clothes

Haruki Godo plays with Disney costuming by dressing various animated princesses in the clothes of their respective princes. Some of them look even better in boots and pants than they do in their usual outfits. Godo has other crossdressing Disney ladies in his deviantART gallery, including Rapunzel, Vanellope, Tiana, and Megara. It’s definitely an argument…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 14

Cuddle up with these sloths dressed as Disney Princesses

Because every day could use a little more sloth in it, artist Phillip Light drew a series of silly sketches of Disney Princesses reimagined as one of our favorite tree-dwelling mammals. But finding your one true love is so much harder when…Zzzzzzzzzzzz. Check out the full series of fuzzy princess portraits at Light’s Tumblr. Disney’s…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 20

Gender-flipped fairy tale princes ditch their glass shoes and let down their beard hair

Yudi Chen has a series of wonderfully stylized fairy tale illustrations with one important difference: the genders of all of the characters have been reversed. That means that the Beast must win the heart of Beau, the evil king demands the heart of his stepson Snow White, and Rapunzel has the most amazing beard you’ve…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 2

Saturday Webcomic: The Princess Planet is a land of myth, magic, and cornball puns

On a world where nearly every girl is a princess, not every princess is going to sing to birds or go off looking for her one true love. Princess Christi, the star of Brian McLachlan’s The Princess Planet decides to trade in her ball gown for a spandex suit. With her snowman companion, Princess Christi…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Jan 19

What if Disney’s princess movies were horror stories?

Disney’s so-called princess movies are reworkings of myths, fairy tales, history, literature, and legend, but the series Seven for a Secret, written by an anonymous writer on the fanfic community Archive of Our Own (as part of Yuletide 2012) starts with the Disney versions of these stories and then twists them back into darker fables.…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 29

What if Disney villains all won their respective movies?

What if the evil stepsisters had perfectly sized feet? What if Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was ten minutes long? What if Cruella de Vil evaded the authorities and those animal hoarding charges? Such scenarios have been realized by Justin McTwisp in this series of portraits of Disney films gone tremendously awry. Will there…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

What it’s like to work as a professional party princess — with hilarious illustrations

In addition to the theme park Meridas and Mulans who roam Disneyland and Disney World, various companies hire out princesses for birthday parties and other children’s events. So do those paid princesses get treated like royalty? Or does donning the dress and tiara make you feel more ready to play Ursula than Ariel? AssassinPrincess, a…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 1

princesses

Avengers: Infinity War Set Photos Tease Romance Among Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

Is There a Point to a Princesses Movie Not Done by Disney?

This Surprisingly Empowering Retelling of Sleeping Beauty Stars a Hamster Princess

Amy Schumer Gives Disney Princesses a Heaping Dose of Reality

Princesses As Velociraptors Wins. All Other Princesses Go Home.

10 Subversive Princess Stories That Are The Perfect Antidote To Disney

What Does It Take To Become A Professional Faerie Princess?

Prepare To Be Alarmed, But Unsurprised, By The “Princess Bedroom” Trend

A Pair Of Unusual Princesses Decide To Rescue Each Other

Chinese Government Tries to Quell Unrest with an Animated Princess

What would Disney’s cartoon characters look like as real people?

Proof that Wolverine is the greatest Disney princess of them all

Disney princesses dress up as their favorite heroines

Disney princesses look dapper in their princes’ clothes

Cuddle up with these sloths dressed as Disney Princesses

Gender-flipped fairy tale princes ditch their glass shoes and let down their beard hair

Saturday Webcomic: The Princess Planet is a land of myth, magic, and cornball puns

What if Disney’s princess movies were horror stories?

What if Disney villains all won their respective movies?

What it’s like to work as a professional party princess — with hilarious illustrations

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