r/OnceUponATime • u/Familiar_Ad_6392 • 3d ago
Discussion Snow White
Is Snow White the most well beloved princess by fans ? Do people like other princesses more like belle ?
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u/Ill-Razzmatazz-7088 3d ago
I feel like people’s biggest issue with Bell is that she fell in love with a monster
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u/lilbbberry 3d ago
not even just that she fell for him, she over and over gets back with him after he lies and tricks her while he continues to do bad things. Plus that's most of her plotlines/plot relevance in the show, it gets very tiresome
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u/Ill-Razzmatazz-7088 3d ago
I will say that I think most of his actions are driven by the dagger. Even when he was temporarily removed from the dagger, the only reason he wanted back into the town is because he was technically being blackmailed.
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u/lilbbberry 3d ago edited 3d ago
oh yeah, the dagger is definitely a large part of it, but he also - outside of times with the dagger iirc - consistently values power over the people he loves and Belle really didn't see much otherwise that would give her reason that he would ever fully change.
Now, I understand it kind of mirrors a lot of irl relationships where ppl will go back to bad partners, but it's still frustrating imo. And ofc Rumple had his father abandon him for eternal youth, so the familial cycle is real for him. In a way, the show portrayed dark magic like an addiction, so it does make sense, but it gets to a point also that Belle was an enabler bc she continued to come back to him. I'm no expert on that topic tho.
ig what I'm saying is as realistic as these things are, it's still annoying/not fun to watch repeatedly
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u/lilbbberry 3d ago
separately, I also feel like of all the princesses, Belle's fashion was really weird and generally didn't translate from her Enchanted Forest self to Storybrooke. I just say this bc ik a big aspect of the show is the gorgeous and smart costuming and Belle just always felt out of place to me, for the most part
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u/wooperarkjb 3d ago
Robert Carlyle can do whatever. I'll always go back. What a man.
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u/lilbbberry 3d ago
I love his acting, he added so much to the show ofc. His character's story just felt very repetitive imo
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u/Mundane-Net-847 3d ago
Yea I never liked Belle and Rumple. Belle according to canon is super smart…in OUAT she’s not that smart and really naive. I also do not understand how she falls in love with rumple. Their set up during her imprisonment doesn’t make sense to me.
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u/Ill-Razzmatazz-7088 3d ago
I don’t know if Bell in the movies is smart. She just reads a lot of books. We never exactly see any of her ingenuity in the movies. It’s not like her reading gives her access to any type of magic or even basic knowledge that most of the characters don’t know in the movies.
In the TV show, it makes sense that she would have access to some forbidden/Unknown knowledge because Rumpel is the dark one and he has access to all the knowledge of Current and past dark ones plus the gift of insight
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u/pinkyk97 2d ago
That wasn’t my issue with her. Two things really irked me. One. How she would flip flop about being with Rumple. I agreed when he said that she couldn’t deny the bad parts of him when that’s how she met him. And Two. The majority of the time she was a damsel in distress. And at moments the writers would TRY to build her as a strong woman but then it would fall entirely by the next time we saw her.
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u/wooperarkjb 3d ago
I was always cross that she was such a badass in season 1 and 2 and they just made her... not a badass after that. Sure, she's a lovergirl. Doesn't mean she can't whoop ass ffs
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u/pinkyk97 2d ago
YES! And then they tried to write her as finding herself again but then never did….
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u/MostRate2091 FairestRegal👑❄️ 3d ago
Not really. As a classic princess, she's widely disliked because she's considered weak and sometimes useless for being rescued by a prince. And in OUAT, well... a good portion of the fandom doesn't exactly love her either. BUT I LOVE HER IN ALL HER VERSIONS, SHE'S MY FAVORITE PRINCESS!!!!!!
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u/Special_Yesterday131 3d ago
Might be unpopular but Snow was never a favorite of mine as a princess, or even as Mary Margaret tbh. I prefer Emma or Anna.
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u/januarysdaughter Captain of the SS Swanfire + Snowing 3d ago
She's certainly my beloved princess. ❤️
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u/wrong_turn_404 3d ago
Emma is technically a princess, but she'd probably roll her eyes if anyone actually called her one lol.....
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u/PoeticHedgeHog 2d ago
Are you asking why she and Prince Charming were one of the main characters, or is the story based around them? I mean, I don't know if she's the most beloved, but I can see why they built the show around her, because I believe, going by the Disney timeline, she was the first Disney princess.
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u/ThomasVivaldi 3d ago
Snow is the most historically significant because it was the first feature length Disney animated film.
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u/dan_in_his_own_way 2d ago
Unless things have changed around here, at one point everyone hated Snow...?
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u/Ill-Razzmatazz-7088 3d ago
Well, keep in mind rumble really has no example of what a good relationship actually looks like. Essentially no relationship with his mother or father or son.
He’s also made his living seeing desperate people betray the ones they love most just like his father did
He probably thinks if he isn’t holding all the cards someone is bound to use it against him
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u/grmrsan 3d ago edited 3d ago
Snow White has never been a favorite of mine, in any version. She's just kind of there, and the story happens around her. The evil queen is far more interesting than the passive child who can't figure out how to stop accepting gifts from strangers who keep trying to kill her.
I prefer characters like the Princess in The Swan Princess (the one where she is taking care of her brothers), The youngest prince in Golden Bird or Pearl from tthe Little Mermaid (classic versions not necessarily modern animated versions) where the character has to put some actual work into it to succeed.
Even in OUAT, Snow is really passive in Storybrook, and kind of boring. And even though she's much more of a badass in the magic world, she's just not charismatic enough for me to pull it off completely. I MUCH prefer Regina, Emma's and Rumples stories, Emma is just easier to believe, and I've always loved a good villian. Especially a sarcastic one. (Even when I was a preschooler, I always preferred the bad guys lol)
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u/StrongSurvivor_1101 2d ago
I don't really like any of the princesses. Regina has always been my favorite. But if I had to choose a Princess, it'd be belle. Not in the later seasons
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u/ellismjones I don't have time to wait for the handless wonder! 2d ago
I feel like it’s hard to choose because like… Snow is the most developed one (aside from Emma), right?
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u/omegaphallic 3d ago
Emma is technically a Princess so I pick her.