Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5205908-20141226192345/@comment-24674051-20150108182749

The only thing is that, in the Book, Cruella does not die in the end. Pongo and his Missus manage to get their happy ending without the need to resort to killing the main antagonist. As I recall, Horace and Jaspar were hauled away to the lockup, and Cruella (and her husband) were bankrupt when all of their furs were destroyed.

And you know, we all complain about the villians getting killed at the end of their arc. But, if you look at most fairy tales, the ending almost always involves the antagonist dying in some fashion or another. Of course, the original fairy tales were rather dark anyway, and even sanitized fairy tales (Not disnified, just sanitized) are pretty much Black and White in terms of the villians and heroes, and the villians getting what's coming to them in the end. Once is at least a little more realistic in that regard, since there are various shades of gray for the characters.