Editing Disney (section)

== /tg/ Relevance ==
[[File:SB_Goons.jpg|thumb|350px|left|The Goons from Sleeping Beauty, a lot of people saw these guys before they ever heard the word "[[Orc]]" ]]
For better or worse Disney has been one of the biggest forces in pop culture period for nearly a century. Part of this is that it worms its way into kids' childhoods, laying the foundation for sales down the line. A seven-year-old who saw ''Snow White'' in '37 would grow up to have kids they'd take to see ''Sleeping Beauty'' in 59 to try to share some of that nostalgic magic, who'd in turn take their kids to see ''The Little Mermaid'' in 89, who took their kids to see ''Moana'' in 2016. A lot of their most Iconic work is Fantasy and bits and pieces of imagery has wormed it's way out and into other works. If not lifted outright, than responded against. See Princesses, Disney did not invent the idea of a young woman who's a [[monarchy|monarch's]] daughter as being a plot element in stories but you'd be hard pressed to find a depiction of someone who holds that title in fiction nowadays which does follow the template or deliberately breaks the mold that the Mouse made.

Disney is big on IP management. It has its roster and with a few exceptions that it likes to keep buried it tries to keep them in the Zeitgeist so they'd keep up a trickle of cash for years to come. In the 2010s there was a set of Live Action remakes or accompaniments to old Animated classics to cash in on nostalgia and remind the public that, yes, ''The Lion King'' still exists. It preserves this by lobbying the US government to push back copyright expiration as far as it can go. The GW guys may use these laws to get their way but Disney has the money and reach to shape them to suit it's will.

In particular, a 2010s acquisition spree led to Disney owning both [[Marvel Comics]] and [[Star Wars]], both significant /tg/ adjacent-and-related properties, means we'll probably be talking about Disney owned properties for decades. [[Tolkien]] specifically wrote that he did not want the Walt Disney Company to adapt his work for film, probably because of major alterations done to the original work in various adaptions by them in his lifetime. Unfortunately for him, another monolithic corporation would try to destroy his legacy instead, but that's another story.
[[File:Mcduck moment.png|thumb|Scrooge's early years. He won this fight by the way.]]
Of special note to /tg/ is the Donald Duck comics, specifically Donald's ancient, fantastically rich uncle Scrooge McDuck. Originally written as a pastiche of the ''Christmas Carol'' character, Scrooge evolved over the years into the perfect example of a retired player character; he's seen it all and done it all, and he earned every last one of his absurd treasures over a lifetime of adventuring. You can read up on his epic-level campaign in Don Rosa's ''The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck'', though you'll have to pirate it since certain parts of it (namely the part where he starts acting like a ''real'' robber baron... [[Murderhobo|or a player character]]) are one of those things Disney likes to keep buried. The Durulz from [[Glorantha|Runequest]] were created in homage to Donald, especially his [[Angry Marines|"whirling tornado of rage"]] schtick that most [[King of Dragon Pass]] players have been on the wrong side of at least once.