Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5205908-20141226192345/@comment-5205908-20150108230710

Hmcooper4 wrote: 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.

So far, only Jafar's defeat is similar to his animated counterpart, that they both are turned into genies and thus become imprisioned, and he's a character from the cancelled spin-of series. So I doubt Cruella's survival from her original story will mean much in the show. From what I've heard, the earlier, more original version of fairytales don't necessarily have happy endings. If I recall correctly, I've read one version of The Little Mermaid which ends with Ariel failed her deal with the sea witch and turns into bubbles at the end. Despite the grey area of reality they show in the show, they still killed most villains other than the ones among central characters. It'd be nice if they set up a long term plot for the villains, so even if they have to die, at least the show can do something with them beyond the story arcs they start getting active in.