Mulan

When I think of Disney Princesses, what I usually imagine are ball room gowns and prince charming. And all of the princesses always have a happy ending, but the only (lately added) Disney princess that was far off from any other of the princesses was Mulan. Mulan breaks a lot of gender stereotypes, in the beginning of the movie, Mulan had to go and present herself as a "woman" in China. She wore a kimono and lots of make-up so she could get judged, she was supposed to be seen as perfect, with no flaws. When Mulan found out that her crippled father was getting drafted into the army, she decided that she was going to go in for him, and cut off her hair and wore his suit of armor. When Mulan starts training, she gets criticized on everything she does, until her army see The Huns coming down a mountain. When her army tried to attack, they launched missles, but they were not doing any damage to the other army. The Mulan had a bright idea to launch a missle upwards on fire and break the side of the mountain causing an avalanche.

I see a lot of stereotypes breaking just in the first half of the movie, Mulan was supposed to be percieved as the "girly girl" type and be perfect and beautiful. She broke this stereotype by cutting off all of her hair and going into the army just for the love of her dad. When she gets into training, Mulan is the reason why the majority of the Huns died, there is another stereotype that broke. Women are percieved to be more quiet, reserved, and are known to keep their opinions to themselves. Men are "supposed" to be the one's that are smart, creative, and quick on their feet. The fact that Mulan was the only one out of a group of men to come up with the idea on how to kill the Huns is definitely a breaking of her gender stereotype.

Later on the army finds out that Mulan is a female when she has to get seen by a doctor, abd she gets kicked out of the army. Later on, The Huns come back to kill the emperor, and Mulan herself goes after the the leader. Eventually the leader dies and the emperor gives Mulan his sword and a medallion so she could bring honor back to her family, and he ends up bowing to her.

Mulan breaks her gender "roles" throughout the whole movie, she was definitely not like every other Disney Princess, she never seeked a prince charming or went to balls or anything of that sort, she fought hard for her family with other men and broke every stereotype in the book while doing it. While Mulan does have a happy ending in the end, and ends up with the man she desired, she worked hard for his love and it was not the typical "love at first sight" things like all of the other princesses.