Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24018644-20150228155751/@comment-1916997-20161130062800

8Rob wrote: They said they had to go to a lot of meetings to get the permssion to use the characters, and they weren't totally free to write to storylines because Disney was "helping" them

And that's exactly my point. Disney is clearly involved in this show. Yes, for Frozen and Brave, two new Disney properties, both of which feature basically original characters (Frozen is only very loosely based on The Snow Queen). Mulan however does not appear to be Disney Mulan in any way. Everything she has stated about herself (which isn't much, just that she was a woman who fought in the Emperor's Army, which shocked everybody, and made her a hero to where ever she is from in FTL) is found in the original story. None of the Disney original plot things have been shown: Shang hasn't, Mushu hasn't, Shan Yu hasn't, etc. If we had lots of Disney things happening with Mulan, then I could see this point, but right now the only reason people are compairing her to Disney is because that is the only context they have for the story, which says more about how we (in the US) only culturally know old European stories. It's not the viewers fault, but I think we have to realize that Disney's Mulan is just an adaptation, and (like with all the other stories) Adam and Eddy can take as much or as little from it as they want.