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This page lists minor Disney films and storylines featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.
The BFG (Film)
The BFG is an animated film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was released by Disney in 2016.
This story was featured in the Season Seven episode "The Girl in the Tower".
For more details about the plot, see this page.
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- In the series, the BFG is specifically a giant troll, not a giant.
- Alice magically created the troll.
- In the series, Alice says that the troll is "the gentlest of giants".
- A group of villagers want to kill the troll as it had destroyed the villagers' homes.
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Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6 is an animated film 'featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was released by Disney in 2014.
This story was featured in the Season Seven episode "Knightfall".
For more details about the film's plot, see this page.
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- The Lucky Cat Cafe is a Seattle location. Ivy shows up at Henry's door with a box of mochi (an indirect reference to Mochi, a minor character from the film) that she bought for him at the cafe, to thank him for some advice he gave her. According to Henry, they're the city's best mochi. There is an illustration of a beckoning cat on the package,[2] the same symbol which was used on the cafe in the movie.
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- Lucky Cat Cafe (mentioned)
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True is an animated direct-to-video film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It is the first sequel to the 1950 film Cinderella and was released by Disney in 2002.
This story was featured in the Season Six episode "The Other Shoe" and the spin-off episode "Heart of Stone".
For more details about the film's plot, see this page.
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- Just like Disney's Anastasia, Clorinda falls in love with a low-class man, but Lady Tremaine, her mother refuses to let her daughter marry a commoner, thinking that low-class people are beneath them. Eventually, she is helped by Cinderella, before standing up to her mother and being reunited with her lover. ("The Other Shoe")
- The Red Queen, who is based on the evil stepsisters from the "Cinderella" fairytale,[3] falls in love with a lower-class man her mother does not approve of, just like Disney's Anastasia. ("Heart of Stone")
- Characters Featured
- Anastasia (Red Queen)
- Anastasia (Clorinda; allusion)
- Baker (Jacob; allusion)
- Baker (Will Scarlet; allusion)
- Cinderella
- Lady Tremaine (Clorinda's mother)
- Lady Tremaine (Anastasia's mother; allusion)
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time is an animated direct-to-video film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It is the second sequel to the 1950 film Cinderella and was released by Disney in 2007.
This story was featured in the Season Six episode "The Other Shoe" and the Season Seven episode "Hyperion Heights".
For more details about the film's plot, see this page.
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- In order to ruin Cinderella's evidence, Lady Tremaine picks up one of her Glass Slippers (the one she didn't lose at the ball) with her cane and drops it, making the slipper shatter into pieces. This mirrors a scene from the movie, which is the result of the Disney version of Lady Tremaine using a wand to reverse time and undo Cinderella's happy ending. ("The Other Shoe")
- The plot revolving around the Fairy Godmother's wand is similar to the one from the film. The wand is used against the Fairy Godmother to neutralize her and is stolen by the second iteration of Lady Tremaine to commit her wrongdoing. ("Hyperion Heights")
- Characters Featured
- Cinderella
- Fairy Godmother
- Lady Tremaine (first iteration)
- Lady Tremaine (Rapunzel Tremaine; second iteration)
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Coco
Coco is an animated film 'featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was released by Disney in 2017.
This story was featured in the Season Seven episode "The Guardian".
For more details about the film's plot, see this page.
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- An ofrenda altar similar to the one from Coco is sitting in the Cave of the Departed, a place where people come to speak with others who have already passed on to the afterlife. The altar and the cave is filled with skulls and orange flowers, a reference to the sugar skulls and orange marigold flowers from the movie.
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- Ofrenda altar (in Cave of the Departed)
Disney Fairies
Disney Fairies is an animated film franchise featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It was created by Disney in 2005.
This story was featured in the spin-off episode "Trust Me".
For more details about its premise, see this page.The Haunted Mansion
The Haunted Mansion is an attraction's storyline featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was conceived by Walt Disney Imagineering, and the opened on August 9, 1969.
The storyline was featured in the Season Seven episode "Secret Garden".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Madame Leota is a witch and a member of the Coven of the Eight.
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Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp is an animated film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was released by Disney in 1955.
This story was featured in the Season Four episode "The Apprentice" and the Season Seven episodes "Wake Up Call" and "The Girl in the Tower".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Tony's is a restaurant in Storybrooke and the waiters are dressed similarly to the waiter in the movie. A man and woman are seen eating spaghetti and leaning forward for a kiss, similar to the iconic scene from the movie. ("The Apprentice")
- Bella Notte, a song from the movie, is a pizza restaurant in Seattle, with stray dogs in the alley. ("Wake Up Call," "The Girl in the Tower")
- Characters Featured
- Lady and Tramp
- Lady and Tramp (indirectly mentioned, as "stray dogs")
- Locations Featured
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning is an animated direct-to-video film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It is a prequel to the 1989 film The Little Mermaid and was released by Disney in 2008.
This story was featured in the Season Four episode "Poor Unfortunate Soul".
For more details about the film's plot, see this page.
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- Ursula's mother was killed by pirates, just like Ariel's mother was in the film.
- Ursula's story is based on Ariel's story from The Little Mermaid and its prequel. She loves singing/music due to her mother's influence, and because she loves singing, she goes against her father's orders, just like Ariel does in the film.
- Poseidon, Ursula's father, is based on King Triton from The Little Mermaid and its prequel. He has a problem with singing/music because it reminds him of his wife's death, just like Ariel's father does in the film. Like Ariel's father, he realizes he was wrong and decides to accept singing/music in their lives.
- Characters Featured
- Pirates (mentioned)
- Ariel
- Ariel's mother (mentioned)
- King Triton
Moana
Moana is an animated film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was released by Disney in 2016.
This story was featured in the Season Seven episodes "Knightfall" and "Leaving Storybrooke".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Wish Hook seeks Maui's fish hook (an item originating in Polynesian mythology), which has the same design as the one in the movie.
- Characters Featured
- Maui (mentioned)
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Ratatouille
Ratatouille is an animated film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was released by Disney in 2007.
This story was featured in the Season Seven episodes "A Pirate's Life", "Pretty in Blue", "A Taste of the Heights" and "Homecoming".
For more details about its plot, see this page.Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is a live action film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It was released by Lucasfilm in 1983 and was, along with the rest of the Star Wars franchise, acquired by Disney in 2012.
This story was featured in the spin-off episodes "Forget Me Not", "The Serpent", "Home" and "Heart of the Matter".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- The sarlacc is a Wonderland creature and is one of the creatures the Red Queen names from Jafar's creature book. Like its Star Wars counterpart, it is a beast capable of digesting its victim over a millennium. ("Forget Me Not")
- The Caterpillar and Underland have many aspects in common with Jabba the Hutt and his palace from Star Wars:
- The Caterpillar put a bounty on Will Scarlet's head for failing to pay back the money he owed him, just like Jabba did to Han Solo. ("Forget Me Not")
- Both are sluglike, hookah-smoking crime bosses who sit on a dais. ("Forget Me Not", "Home", "Heart of the Matter")
- Both of them have a team of bounty hunters who work for them. ("Forget Me Not" et al.)
- Both run a place of ill repute, which is a meeting point for bounty hunters and feature musicians and dancers. ("Forget Me Not", "Home", "Heart of the Matter")
- The Caterpillar is implied to be sexually attracted to human beings and implies that he would love to keep Alice as a slave. In the movie, Jabba is implied to be attracted to females of other species, including humans; and likes to keep scantily clad, female slaves around him. ("Forget Me Not")
- Will offers to pay the Caterpillar back double, similar to the way Han Solo offers to pay Jabba back triple. ("Forget Me Not")
- The Caterpillar uses a severed but still living human head as a desk ornament and threatens to do the same to Will if he fails him; similar to the way Jabba keeps the carbonite-frozen Han Solo as a wall decoration. ("Forget Me Not")
- The scene where Cyrus walks through Underland, which is filled with guests that are sleeping in all sorts of places after a wild party, is similar to the scene where Princess Leia walks through Jabba's Palace in the film. ("Home")
- The scene where the Caterpillar's advisor speaks into his ear while the Caterpillar sits on his dais, mirrors Jabba's relationship with Bib Fortuna in the movie. ("Heart of the Matter")
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- Sarlacc (mentioned/pictured in book)
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Tron
Tron is a live-action film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was released by Disney in 1982.
This story was featured in the Season One episode "What Happened to Frederick", the Season Two episode "Welcome to Storybrooke" (as an Easter egg), the Season Three episode "Witch Hunt" and the Season Seven episode "Sisterhood".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- Space Paranoids is reimagined as a handheld game console given to Henry by his adoptive mother, Regina. ("What Happened to Frederick")
- In 1983, a bench outside the Marine Garage features an advertisement for computers with the ENCOM logo.[5] ("Welcome to Storybrooke")
- Henry plays a hand-held video game and mentions "derezzing" an opponent, a gaming term from the movies. ("Witch Hunt")
- Flynn's Arcade is renamed Flynn's Barcade and is a game-centric restaurant where the visitors can eat, drink and play arcade video games. A Recognizer vehicle from Tron (a new model was introduced in the 2010 sequel) is pictured on one of the barcade's windows.[6] ("Sisterhood")
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- ENCOM (mentioned on billboard)[5]
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- Recognizer (pictured)[6]
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- Gaming Elements Featured
- Derezzing
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Tron: Legacy
Tron: Legacy is a live-action film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by Once Upon a Time creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, and was released by Disney in 2010.
This story was featured in the Season Two episode "Welcome to Storybrooke" (as an Easter egg), the Season Three episode "Witch Hunt" and the Season Seven episode "Sisterhood".
For more details about its plot, see this page.
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- In 1983, a bench outside the Marine Garage features an advertisement for computers with the ENCOM logo.[5] ENCOM is the name of the computer technology corporation in Tron and Tron: Legacy. ("Welcome to Storybrooke")
- Henry plays a hand-held video game and mentions "derezzing" an opponent, a gaming term from the Tron duology. ("Witch Hunt")
- Flynn's Arcade, a video game arcade from the films, is renamed Flynn's Barcade and is a game-centric restaurant where the visitors can eat, drink and play arcade video games. ("Sisterhood")
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- ENCOM (mentioned on billboard)[5]
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- Derezzing
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Wreck-it Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph is an animated film featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was released by Disney in 2012.
This story was featured in the Season Seven episode "Greenbacks".
For more details about the its plot, see this page.
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- When Victoria Belfrey finds out about Jacinda and Sabine's pop-up beignet shop, she calls Wreck-It Ralph on the phone and tells him to "wreck it". Ralph proceeds to set Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack on fire off-screen.
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- Wreck-It Ralph (mentioned)
