Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-5679696-20150323024026/@comment-5106672-20150323141520

I have one question. Ursula's back story is functionally The Little Mermaid minus the love interest: she wants to see the human world, her father doesn't want her to, she sneaks there all the same through magic and ends up being deprived of her voice as the price, which she pays because a man can't keep his commitment to her. Also, perhaps I'm reading too deep into it, but in Andersen's story 2.0 she has to spend a couple of centuries of predicament before she can have her closure, much like OUAT Witch-Ursula (the little mermaid had to do good deeds. Ursula went Full Villain Mode, but that's how OUAT twists the stories, after all). Besides, she even has part of Ariel's backstory from the animated movie continuity (her mother gets killed by humans, which fuels her father's hatred for them).

So, is it a stretch to write on her page that OUAT-Witch-Ursula is based both on the Sea Witch and the Little Mermaid from the original tale?