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Oh yeah, sorry I forgot about that. And as I've said several times now, Once started out as a mostly fairy tale show, using a few Disney additions (like with Jiminy cricket) and gradually used more and more Disney. I never said Red Riding Hood was taken from Disney, and she was added in season 1 anyway. It's not enough to say they happen to coincide with Disney just because Disney has done everything already. There is plenty of fiction that doesn't have its own Disney movie and oddly is also left almost completely out of Once, such as Egyptian and Norse mythologies.

I think the truest Disney insertion was Fantasia, with Frozen and Brave following close behind. I see what you mean about Cruella actually. And in that case expanding isn't the word I'm looking for for what I mean, but my main point is that Disney must be Once's tool for choosing characters at this stage and then going back to the root of the story. For example, yes they may have just been using Greek mythology, but Greek myth is so vast that choosing Hades, Hercules and Megara for characters in this story arc makes it so much more likely that Disney's Hercules was their original reason for using this story arc.