When Disney announced the sequel to Wreck-It Ralph people were excited. When they revealed that the film would feature all of the Disney princesses together for the first time, they were overjoyed.
And when a promotional poster of the princesses wearing lounge wear was released, the internet almost broke. But on closer inspection, fans have noticed something strange about one princess in particular. Disney fans have called out the company and accused them of doing several things to alter Tiana’s features. Princess Tiana, the star of the 2009 film Princess and the Frog, was Disney’s first black princess. The character is celebrated for bringing diversity to the Disney world, but now many are worried she’s being ‘whitewashed’ as her skin appears lighter in the new movie, than it did in her own film – and even than it did in Wreck-It Ralph 2’s original trailer.
Fans also believe her hair has been changed and her nose has been slimmed down. One person wrote: “Disney decided to reinforce colourism by lightening Princess Tiana’s skin in Ralph Breaks The Internet. Tiana was a dark skin Black woman in Princess and the Frog, now she has light skin and Eurocentric features. What happened to her wide nose?”
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