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Cracked VS: 13 Disney Characters And Their Real-Life Counterparts

By:: Zanandi Botes

November 11, 2021

Cracked VS: 13 Disney Characters And Their Real-Life Counterparts

No, Disney, sharks don’t lose their marbles at the smell of blood. Also, why didn't you give Rafiki his gloriously colorful butt? What a lost opportunity. Here are some more characters that Disney didn’t get quite right because, well, if you dabble in fairy tales, reality doesn't seem to matter much.

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS The Jungle Book KING LOUIE Yeah...orangutans don't live in India. The new live-action film somewhat corrected this, making the singing and swinging forest creature a Gigantopithecus, which is a massive ape genus once found in India. GRACKED.COM — Sources: National Geographic

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS FINDING NEMO Contrary to popular belief, sharks don't go crazy when they smell blood. Of course the movie over-dramatizes it, but a lot of people don't seem to know that no, sharks can't smell a single drop of water a mile away, and no, they don't go into a feeding frenzy when they do smell blood (which has to be quite a lot). They don't even always follow the scent. CRACKED.COM — Sources: BBC Science Focus, Two Oceans Aquarium

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS The Lion King RAFIKI The monk-like monkey's real-life counterpart, the mandrill, has a way more colorful butt that Disney, for some reason, decided to leave out. Mandrills literally have the most colorful butts in the monkeyverse. GRACKED.COM — Sources: HITC, Popular Science

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS FINDING DORY Dory and her parents will probably be dead. Blue tang fish won't survive for very long in the cold waters off California's coast. CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinemablend

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS Moana MAUI In mythology, Maui is young, smart, brave, and fit. In the movie he is overweight and somewhat unintelligent, a portrayal that made some Polynesians unhappy. CRACKED COM — Source: Cheat Sheet

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS DINOSAURS The dinosaurs could not have been raised by lemurs. They would not have co-existed at the same time-lemurs came much later-and even some of the dinosaurs would already have been extinct. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Independent

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS JASMINE The princess's clothing doesn't fit the era. Women from that era wore loose-fitting and modest clothes - no exposed belly buttons - and upper class women would wear different lengths of veils. GRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS HERCULES If the movie stayed true to Greek mythology, there'd be no Pegasus. Yeah, the sidekick winged horse had nothing to do with Hercules. In fact, it was associated with a lesser-known Greek hero named Bellerophon instead. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS POCAHONTAS would've had more tattoos decorating her body. Especially since the movie made her an adult woman, because Powhatan women had quite elaborate tattoos adorning their skin. Of course, the real-life Pocahontas (named Matoaka) was about 11 years old when John Smith and the colonists arrived. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Smithsonian Magazine, Screen Rant

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS A BUG'S LIFE Bugs have six legs. Not in this movie, though, where many of them-including the ants - only sport four, irking entomologists everywhere. CRACKED.COM — Sources: The Wall Street Journal

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS TARZAN (1999) The film is set in Africa, probably somewhere in the DRC because Tarzan's parents got shipwrecked off the Congoleses coast. Lemurs, as seen in the movie, are native only to the island of Madagascar. CRACKED COM — Sources: Movie Mistakes

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS The Princess and the Frog TATIANA wouldn't have been able to marry Naveen. Set in New Orleans in the 1920s, a.k.a. the Jim Crow era, interracial marriage would've been illegal. Poor Tatiana would not have been friends with rich heiress Charlotte, as class intermingling e didn't happen in the South at the time. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Screen Rant, The Black Atlantic

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CRACKED VS DISNEY CHARACTERS AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS The real cost of taking care of 101 DALMATIANS According to The Film Theorists, food alone will cost around $68,000 a year. Flea and tick treatment will amount to nearly $20,000 a year. And that's not even including pet insurance, vet visits, and added nutrition you'd normally give a dog-which all ends up at around $250,000 annually to take care of 101 dalmatian dogs. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Film Theorists

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