Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5047768-20131028040230/@comment-1894786-20140311033629

WalterEDisney wrote: I'm sorry, but I disagree with those who say that Hercules and Ariel are cousins. King Triton most likely was not Poseidon's son Triton, because Poseidon's son was a god, not a merman. King Triton is just a mortal merman, who will eventually die. Plus, Hercules and The Little Mermaid are two seperate movies. I think the writers of The Little Mermaid were just getting creative with names. It's more likely that King Triton was just named after Poseidon's son. However, OUAT does like to put characters together, like Rumpel being the Beast and the Crocodile, and Cora being the miller's daughter and the Queen of Hearts, so we'll wait and see... Obviously Disney movies aren't always true to their source material. And TLM fairy tale isn't from Greek Mythology, but the original idea for the movie (which was later carried into the Broadway musical) was that he was the son of Poseidon. This was also directly stated in an episode of TLM cartoon. Whether this was just some random Merman named Poseidon or the actual god of the seas is unknown, but it's been confirmed canonically that both Ursula and Triton are children of a man named Poseidon.