Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20150520161406/@comment-6588773-20150520173629

In other words, it isn't so much about a character being a major role, or whether its based on or not from a fairytale or book, because what I have seen visually with their decisions on color/mood/costume inspirations are directly from their source: Disney. They could have made Ariel black, or have Rainbow colored hair. They could have excluded Lumiere (the name is Disney-original, though the character existed only known as the candelabra), and the chipped cup (again, not in the book). They could have made Maleficent never look exactly like Sleeping Beauty's Mal, and had her look however the book described her (as a Dark fairy). They could have excluded the musical overtones from Fantasia (the broom scene), and the Chernobog, and The Little Mermaid's "Fathoms below" (original Disney song), and many more could haves to make your argument definitive.