47 Unanswered Questions in 20 Disney Movies
Here at HourLoop, we just can’t get enough of Disney. Being able to showcase the amazing collections of Disney fans around the world, report on Disney news and keep you up to date on the latest Disney facts, products, characters and more brings us great joy. We have watched every Disney movie many times over. In fact, we are such big fans that we have come to be familiar with even minor detail of the films, such as inconsistencies in the plot and questions that the story and the characters raise. Sometimes, these questions go unanswered, and that’s what we want to discuss here.
We have noticed that there are some unresolved issues in 20 different Disney movies, that raise some serious questions. These unanswered questions range from the relatively minor, to the truly bizarre.
Follow us as we go through 20 Disney movies that left us with unanswered questions. If you know the answer to any of them - please let us know!
Cinderella
- What would have happened if someone else fit the slipper, before Cinderella tried it on? Was she the only person in the whole kingdom who wore that shoe size?
- What happened to her step-family once she married?
- Why didn’t her glass slippers also change back at midnight, like the rest of the outfit the Fairy Godmother transformed for her?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- What happens to all of the diamonds that the dwarves mine? They obviously don’t keep them because they live in a modest home, all together.
Alice in Wonderland
- Did the Mad Hatter actually have ‘mad hatter disease’ (mercury poisoning), or was this merely a title?
Sleeping Beauty
- Why did Maleficent wait 16 years to send her Raven out to find Aurora? Once she sent him out, the girl was located within one day.
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Why were Anita and Cruella friends? There’s clearly a vast age difference and Anita is a dog lover. Would Cruella’s animal-based clothing not have put her off?
- How did Roger and Anita plan to raise 101 dogs on their income?
Tarzan
- Why doesn’t he have facial hair?
Finding Nemo
- How did Nemo’s fin get damaged when the attack on his home happened while he was still an egg? Had he developed fins already by that early stage of his life?
The Jungle Book
- What happened to Mowgli’s parents?
- How did Mowgli settle into human civilisation so quickly? He was raised in the jungle but is quickly able to use a fork and speak English.
The Little Mermaid
- Why didn’t Ariel immediately write down her whole story and hand it to Prince Eric? We know she can write since she signed a contract with Ursula.
- Why did Ursula used to live in the palace, and why does she no longer live there?
- Why does Sebastian have a Caribbean accent when the film is set off the coast of Western Europe? There is no way that a crab could travel that far, nor could it survive in the temperatures of Denmark’s ocean climate.
- What did Ariel do between the wedding announcement, and the actual ceremony?
- How did Ursula paint her nails, underwater?
Beauty and the Beast
- Why did Belle leaving to rescue her father have to be a ‘forever’ situation? The Beast told her not to come back, but she could easily have helped her father and then returned.
- Where were Beast’s parents? We know that he was cursed as a child, and was only a prince, so where is the king and queen?
- How old was Chip when he was cursed? The dialogue of the film tells us that the residents of the house have been living under the curse for ten years, but Chip comes across as younger than ten. Did Mrs. Potts give birth to him when she was a teapot?
- Why didn’t the Beast know how to use a fork? He used to be human.
- Why do only two characters have French accents, despite the story being set in provincial France?
- Why did the Beast allow Maurice to go when he would inevitably go and tell the local authorities?
- How did the townspeople forget about the Prince living in the castle in the woods?
The Lion King
- Why did Timon and Pumba not appear to age over the timeline of the story?
- Why was there a severe draught immediately after Scar’s coronation, and torrential rain right after his death? Do the lions control the weather in Pride Rock?
- What was Scar’s name before he got his scar?
- Why didn’t Scar kill Simba when he killed Mufasa? It would have been easier than making up a story and hoping Simba would never resurface.
Pocahontas
- How is Pocahontas able to speak to John Smith in English, when he is the first English-speaking person she has even encountered before?
Toy Story
- If Buzz is convinced that he is a Space Ranger, and not a toy, why does he freeze around humans like the rest of Andy’s toys? Herd mentality, perhaps?
Hercules
- If Zeus is the leader of the Greek gods, why couldn’t he have recovered Hercules after he was taken?
Monsters, Inc.
- Why hadn’t Boo’s parents put out an amber alert? She had been missing from her bedroom for an entire day.
Wall-E
- Why was Wall-E the only survivor?
Up
- Who is supposed to be taking care of Russell?
Tangled
- Why did Rapunzel never question Mother Gothel’s reasons for having her live in a tower?
- How did Mother Gothel know what to sing in order to activate the magical flower, and then Rapunzel’s hair?
Frozen
- How did Elsa get her magic?
- Why didn’t Olaf melt when he visited the trolls? There was no snow and there was hot geysers.
- Why did Anna have to be locked up? Elsa was deemed to be dangerous, but Anna was free to go outside.
- What will happen to Olaf when Elsa dies?
- How has Elsa managed to avoid becoming emotionally disturbed after her isolated upbringing?
- Where are Kristof’s parents, and why was he raised by trolls?
- Who ruled Arendelle in the time between Elsa and Anna’s parent’s deaths and their coming of age?
Aladdin
- What happened to all of the people that the Genie created for Prince Ali’s parade?
- Was the Genie not able to make Aladdin a prince? Jafar recognised him as a ‘street rat’ so Aladdin’s background hadn’t changed. The Genie simply made him look like a prince.
- Why was Aladdin the ‘Diamond in the Rough’?
- How can the Genie have knowledge of figures and events from the future?
Can you answer any of these unresolved Disney issues? If you have a theory, or an explanation, then please share it in the comments, and don’t forget to check out our range of beautiful Disney figurines at Hourloop
About Lion King:
-Hakuna Matata=Stress free life. And a totally stress free life slows aging ( sorry about English, i’m Hungarian )
—If there’s no herbivores, then there will be too many plants, which needs water. About the rain thing: It was propably the end of the dry season
-I think it was Taka. I read it somewhere
-Someone could saw him, then there would be no chance for him to being a king
Cinderella
-The prince was totally stupid. He’d have married any woman the slipper would have
happened to fit to.
-I guess they kept living at their old house.
-Because she lost one of them.
Snow White
-They’re tricked by merchants into selling them at a lower price.
Sleeping Beauty
-Aurora was not the only purpose in Maleficent’s life. She probably took up other hobbies
and, 16 year later, she got like ‘oh, i almost forgot, let’s check out how the Aurora project
is doing’.
101 dalmatians
-Annita was naive.
-Roger kept producing songs. Maybe that farm also gave them a profit.
Tarzan
-There are people who are naturally beardless.
Jungle book
-They abandoned him because they wanted a life free of worries.
-Maybe being hypnotised by that snake unlocked his brain’s potential.
Little Mermaid
-Maybe she could only write in mermaid language and what we saw when she signed
was a visual translation.
-Because she was a bitch.
-He wanted to sound more classy.
-Crying.
-Waterproof paint.
Beauty and Beast
-She was still confused about her feelings.
-He was exiled from his kingdom for being a spoiled brat.
-Teapot sex.
-He had forgotten how to do it.
-Because that was high society’s accent.
-Because he didn’t have much to lose; most likely, he’d remain a monster forver.
-The fairy erased it from their memory.
Lion King
-Simba only stayed for 4-5 years in the jungle.
-It was not a draught. Hyenas overhunted, the animals left, plantlife overgrew and drained
the waterholes. Tha rain was a coincidence.
-Maybe he was born with it.
-He did not want to risk being seen.
Pocahontas
-Grandma Willow taught her many languages.
Toy Story
-He thought Andy was a huge alien and he was waiting for the best moment to ambush him.
Hercules
-The three fates had decided that the events would happen this way.
Tangled
-Because she had been brainwashed since birth.
-She was a professional and trained witch. She knew one ancient secret or two.
Frozen
-Her mother cheated on her father with a snowman.
-Magic snow metls harder than normal snow.
-Anna was not in the mood to go anywhere without Elsa.
-He will melt.
-I’m pretty sure she did become.
-He has no parents. He was magically created by the trolls.
-The ministers.
Alladin
-They were illusions that disappeared.
-Alladin just wanted to look like a prince. For him to literally become a prince, genie had to
go back in time and turn Alladin’s parents into a royal couple, but that would create a
time travel paradox.
-Because he was a cool guy.
-Because it’s a genie.
Sorry I commented the same thing twice
For the first Cinderella question, I believe that if a different woman fit the slipper, the prince could have noticed some kind of difference. For the last one, I believe the fairy godmother designed it to be that way just in case something like that happened. For the second of The Little Mermaid questions, Ursula is the king’s sister. She got banished because she was using dark magic. For the first question about Tangled, she thought Mother Gothel was protecting her from the outside world. For the last question about Frozen, no one. And for the last Aladdin question, a theory has been going around that this movie has been set in the future instead of the past, would explain about the magic carpets and the genie being in the lamp for ‘10,000 years’. Hope this helped!
for how nemos fin got damaged, he was still in the egg even if his fins werent developed right? If he was seriously injured it probably would’ve disrupted the growth of something, and i guess it was where the fin was going to be developed so it couldn’t grow properly.
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