Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2121812-20180917115002/@comment-1581533-20180918132534

Schroeswald wrote: Walecs wrote: Henry most likely changed some things. Perhaps Henry simply wrote that the urn as seen in 3x22 contained Ingrid (who's based on the original snow queen, which is public domain), not Elsa, and she starts looking for Emma because Ingrid thinks Emma could be her younger sister but not for Elsa. This way the story plays out pretty much the same but all the Frozen stuff is removed. The 4x07 flashback could be pretty much the same (Ingrid killing her sister), except without Gerda as a character (Ingrid could be imprisoned by the Duke of Weselton, except he'd have a different name). Then Ingrid kills herself because she regrets what she's done, or something.

Same for Cruella. Just change her name and appearance and that's it. Her story on the show has pretty much nothing to do with the original book anyway

Or maybe the curse simply made Henry publish his book under the Disney brand, so that's how. On the Frozen stuff maybe. It does get rid of most of the arc into a chapter or two.

I don’t think Cruella would make much sense as someone different, she might not have much to do with the original Cruella but her characterization is the same.

It was self-published so it can’t be that.

This makes me want to make a thread to figure out exactly what’s in the book.

But if you change the name you wouldn't get sued. You may remove all the dog-related stuff and the story would still be the same as we saw in 4B. The fact the characterization is the same means very little, she has no peculiar traits which would make you scream "omg she's totally cruella devil from 101 Dalmatians"; the original character was a generic villain to begin with, she was made unique by the fact she wanted to kill dogs to make herself a fur coat and she doesn't do that in OUAT, so problem solved.