6. Belle
7. Ariel
8. Jasmine
9. Cinderella
10. Snow White
11. Aurora

Feel free to vote for the Princess that has changed the least. The deadline is tomorrow midnight.

As for Pocahontas, it's actually the same as I said about Belle. She changes others but she herself remains the same person. My next choice would be Rapunzel, just because she DEVELOPS at the end... but very little. ☹️

Rapunzel didn't really change much, except for her hair, which BTW, is way prettier short and brown. But that isn't really character development, so...

Elinor changed for Merida's sake, and not the other way around. Merida doesn't change, because it's her mother that does the changing in viewpoint. Merida is just like Ariel, Belle, Pocahontas, and many other princesses. No development.

She is still the same cheerful and passionate Rapunzel. My next choice would be Pocahontas.

her or pocahontas. very little change.

Poca doesn't changeg a lot. Not a bad thing as she was already a very wise person

The whole point of Brave is that Merida changes. She looses her pride and admits her fault in how she caused her mother to become a bear. She changes to the point that she is willing to be married to save the kingdom, and is only stopped because her mother sees her point of view too. She shows real remorse for her actions and actively tries to bond with her mother after the whole ordeal. If that isn't a character change then I don't know what is.

Rapunzel also definitely changes by the end of the movie. The fact that she looses her hair is a short visual way to show how she grows from an innocent girl to a woman who will no longer let others bully her into submission. The Rapunzel at the end who defies Gothel is not the same person who at the beginning of the movie accepted all those round about insults. Sure she's still the same happy, nice person, but she's now also a lot more self confident.

As for Pocahontas she doesn't change as much as acts as a catalyst for the other characters to.

Seriously. She's her her same old indecisive self.


also @wavesurf Even Elinor said "Oh dear, we both have changed." In the end. The whole movie was about compromise. Merida has to use grace and poise, and Elinor let's Merida wait until she's ready. How could you miss that.

@_CatWoman_: Merida never actually becomes poised and graceful. In the scene with the dueling clans, Merida yells, "SHUT IT!" in order to get everyone else's attention. That just isn't rather poised or graceful when I evaluate her. Yes, Merida is about to establish a change of heart during her "speech" about how she has "wronged the kingdom"-- and Merida was finally, at long last, showing some real repentance, by going through with that decision-- except for Elinor-- who totally preempts that, by changing the "tradition" altogether. You missed that part.

At the end, Merida doesn't really learn to sew, either. She does a sad running stitch on the giant rip she created in the old tapestry, but she doesn't begin a tapestry of her own. ( That would require more effort and change, and more movie clocked running time). In the end, Merida is shown admiring Elinor's handiwork, and racing horses in the forest. Notice that Elinor is now doing an activity that Merida supports. Merida is back to her same old self.

By the end, Elinor has made more changes and more compromises than Merida really has. Merida just achieves what she originally wanted: no marriage. It's just oddly convenient that Elinor just decided to create "a whole new tradition" just moments into Merida's real testing of "character change."

And as for missing whatever it is...my interpretation of Merida's really disappointing behavior, and then her attempts to repair the damage and compromise with her mother-- which then gets promptly tossed out-- makes me irritated. The hasty "let's just change the whole tradition" at-the-last-moment plot point, really drives me nuts. Certainly, it does display Elinor's change of viewpoint, but it does nothing to support Merida's redemption.

I stand by what I said. Merida doesn't have to change, because the "tradition" itself was changed for her. This is no different from Adam/Beast changing in order for Belle to fall for him and break the spell; King Triton changing his mind on humans for Ariel; Powhatan changing his mind about the white savages for Pocahontas; Naveen changing himself for Tiana, etc. Merida achieved her goal, and got her life back just the way she wanted it. Not to worry. Other princesses don't change, either. So I see the same thing happening with Merida. In advertising, Merida is "promoted as being the one who changes" in the movie, but that is not especially accurate when I watch Brave. It's Elinor who actually changes, offering both the new tradition to the clans, and giving "the loophole" for her daughter.

they all improve, but hers is less drastic imo.

Flynn changes in the story. She helps change him.