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Hmcooper4 wrote: We can't really complain about Merida being like her Disney counterpart. Brave is 100% Disney (well, technically it's Pixar, but that's still Disney), with no previous fairy tale that it was derived from. It was all new material when Pixar made that film. So all that Once had to work from was the Disney/Pixar version. And given that, I think they actually did a good job growing her character beyond Disney. They could have done more, but I liked the character.

And Brave is a solid enough story, and fairy tale, to warrant inclusion in the Once storyline. It has all the classic elements of the typical Fairy Tale. While an original story, Brave does actually pull things from Celtic folklore, like the Will-o-the-wisps.