When fairy tale good guys are portrayed negatively

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What fairy tale protagonists have been portrayed negatively in a cartoons and animated films?

Red Riding Hood is portrayed as annoying and dumb in both 2 Stupid Dogs and the Bugs Bunny short Little Red Riding Rabbit.

In Shrek the Third, Red Riding Hood is one of the villains for some unexplained reason.

In the Wonderland episode of Walter Melon, Prince Charming is portrayed as a playboy. He's done with Snow White and Cinderella, and now he wants Alice.

In Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third, Prince Charming is a villain.

In the AoStH episode Sonically Ever After, Snow White is very ugly. She could be dumb too, but I don't remember.
 
It's basically turning the whole concept of these good, wholesome characters on its ear. Shrek kind of made it a subtle discrimination thing, as all the human characters are sweet, nice and the epitome of what you should aspire to be, where all the creatures are deemed lower on the chain.
 
Kaa the python from The Jungle Book. While it's more an animal fable than a fairy tale, I think Kaa qualifies for this topic because while he's a good guy in the books, he's a villian in the Disney films. I've never understood why that change was made. Just because he's a snake...?
 
What about the Looney Toons reverse 3 Little Pigs cartoon, in which the wolf tells his grandson or son, what really happened, and the 3 pigs are the villains.
 
There's Robot Santa in Futurama. Even though he's a robot as opposed to the genuine article, it's the same concept.

Then you have the times where good historical figures have been played for laughs - Animaniacs had "Frontier Slappy" ("Daniel Boone was a big dumb jerk, yes, a stupid jerk...") and "Hercules Unwound" (which portrayed Hercules as a whinging crybaby). Time Squad was also based around this concept, though the famous figures were always rehabilitated by the end of each ep.
 
The Disney version of Kaa kind of a double-edged sword, really. On the one hand, his departure from good guy to bad guy is kind of drastic. On the other hand, he's just so good at being bad (mainly due to Sterling Holloway's awesome voice. :evil: )



Techincally, Kris Kringle was shown as an opressive business mogul type, but Santa Claus was some sort of alternate personna for him when Fairy World infused him with magic on Christmas time. So Santa wasn't really portrayed negatively, Kringle was.
 
For Shrek 3, my guess for Red Riding Hood being a villain is because the Wolf is a good guy. Charming being a villain is because Shrek screwed up his plans for a "happily ever after" as in marrying Fiona and ruling Far Far Away.
 
Futurama - Santa Claus (though created by mortals) is an evil robot that thinks EVERYBODY (save Zoidburg) is naughty. People hide in their houses every Christmas Eve if they want to escape his wrath. His elves are seen as the "bad/poor side of town" sort of folk.

I seem to remember a Bugs Bunny short in which the Easter Bunny manipulates Bugs into doing his job, too. It wasn't in a positive light but I don't know whether to call it negative.
 
first off as a christen noah is not a fairy tale charter second if you want see negatively shown fairy tale charters pick up fables in a comic book store
 
it's not so much fairy tale good guys are shown negatively it" that it's uselly the reverse for the bad guys the big bad wolf is a hero (hoodwink) the wicked witch is misunderstood and the giant from jack and the beanstock is a victem
 
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