Does disney Have Something Against Green Eyes?

OMG i noticed that! why?!?

Ah you forgot Giselle she has blue eyes

ah, no, check again, i think i remembered her! LoL
can't foget you and your Enchanted, LisaForde!

lol I totally wrote an article about this a while back but later deleted it cause i thought i was the ONLY person who noticed/gave a damn and thought i just sounded like i was bitching. SO THANK YOU for sharing my sentiments Piixiie.

BUT HELL! FOREGT about the Princesses most of the early heroe's didn't even have green eyes when it would make sense. Peter pan, Taurin or Robin Hood? Nope, brown eyes. The good green fairy Fauna? Nope...still brown.

Aside from no green-eye princesses or heroes, have you noticed that ALL the early villains have green eyes? The Evil Queen, the huntsman, Lady Tremaine, Lucifer, Captain Hook, Sherikhan, ALLLL the villains from Pinochio (even the goddamn whale has green eyes!!!). After some reading i found out that green eyes used to be highly associated with evil/the devil/snakes/cats.

I say we retaliate!

WOW! that was really insightful, alafastanzio! thanks!
i didn't realize that green eyes were highly associated with evil, etc. i'm glad you took the time to research that! (i guess i'm just lazy).
do you think that's the reason they made Esmeralda's eyes green; because of the general views on gypsies and witchcraft? i had never noticed the villains, because i don't like them. LoL but at least we know there wasn't just some genetic disorder in Disneyland that only affected the eyes.

heh. i think green eyes are beautiful. LoL
and you're welcome. ;)

No after the disney Renaissance I'm pretty sure they didn't have the same discrimination against green eyes. I have green eyes so i always notice when someone else does too.

At least they gave green eyes to the most beautiful Disney woman ever created!

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well Disney's future Princess Rapunzel, right after Tiana appears as though she will have green eyes =]

you have a really good point
hope this makes you feel better

awesome! thanks, mikeyskye! Rapunzel looks adorable!

I did notice that! I have blue eyes, so I suppose it didn't bother me so much, but good for you for writing about it!

but one thing that does bother me is the lack of light-haired females! I hear people say pretty often on fanpop that they think it's great that Disney has created many dark haired-heroines lately because we don't need any more blondes/light haired ones.

If I'm counting correctly, we have one blonde: Aurora, one light strawberry blonde/auburn: Cindy, and if you count Ariel, then her too I suppose (her hair's just a bit too bright for me to consider fair ;)

For dark hair, there's Snow White, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Esmeralda, Jane, Meg, Tiana, etc.

I mean really? That's not really a great ratio at all. And it seems that all of the "smartest" heroines have dark hair too. Being a blonde, I am ever-so-slightly offended by this fact. And absolutely none of the princes are blonde...

I say we need a green eyed/light-haired haired hero/ine! :)

that's a good point, kateliness2! maybe you should write an article about it! :)

although i consider Snow White rather stupid, and she's got well, really black hair! LoL

Rapunzel will have green eyes. ^_^ And I agree that there should be more characters with green eyes. That's one of the reasons why I thought Esmeralda's whole look was so amazing and exotic, especially because of her bright green eyes.

I thought I was the only person in the world who felt this way about green eyes, lol. I have big green eyes and always wondered why none of the princesses had green eyes.

I have blue eyes so I never noticed this, but I think green eyes are very pretty!! They should definitely make more green eyed princesses.

I think they need to make more brunette princesses. The only one we have is Belle. I would say more redheads but after Ariel its kind of non repeatable.

Awwww i agree I have green eyes....and i have noticed no princess does...oh well though hahahah green are just that special:) but green is kinda an uncommon color....and i agree more brunette princesses

I think the reason they have so many brunettes is because all of the princess in the old fairy tale storys had blond hair well besides snow white. so disney wanted to make a difference's im so excieted that they are finally doing repunzel im wondering why it took them so long to do that story?

i feel so guilty..because all i can think is "woo! six out of nine princesses have brown eyes, like me!"

Doesn't Belle have green-brown eyes? You know, hazel eyes?

In pictures from the illustrated novel (that was Disney's first book best seller, I read!), Belle looks like she has very green, maybe only slightly brown eyes.

I wonder if they thought about giving her green eyes, then decided brown-green, or even just brown, but some green snuck in some scenes.

Green also denotes jealousy, which is why the Evil Queen and Lady Tremaine should have them.

I laughed so much at your "godamn whale has green eyes" comment!

Well, now Rapunzel has green eyes, perfectly fitting her lettuce-inspired name!

i noticed that no one had green eyes too! wat up with that?

I think Belle's eyes are considered hazel since they are green-brown. At first I thought her eyes were brown but when I took a closer look, I would notice that they have a green tint to them.

So i just saw a trailer for Tangled when i went to see Toy Story 3 last night, and YAY RAPUNZEL!!! (Also, Toy Story was really awesome!)

never notice that.
but not much PEOPLE have green eyes.

aurora has purple eyes

^ Only on the merchandise. In the movie, her eyes are black most of the time. Until she wakes up from her sleep, then we see they're blue.

No she has purple eyes, you can see it when she is telling the fairies about how she met a boy in the woods. Maybe they are blue when she wakes up, or maybe they are blue-purple...

Hm, I guess so. I couldn't make it out well but I think they were purple in that scene. I guess the merchandise got it right.

Although I agree that green eyes are very pretty, genetically speaking it is rare for people to have green eyes. I think for the most part Disney has gone with a combination of what is common and as of late balancing races. I am a brunette with brown eyes so I am bias. Although I always wanted blue since i was little and entirely gave up on the green eyes since I have never met anyone with green eyes that were not enhanced in person. You guys are so lucky to have such an exotic eye color!

I think about this all the time! I have green eyes and I have always wondered why. I did notice the evils have green eyes. It is so depressing! i kinda thought Ariel had green eyes but i dont think she does after i saw some more pics.

Neh Ariel's eyes have always been blue.

To many brunys, black hair and blondes with brown eyes or blue eyes! disney needs another red head but with green eyes!!

^ I would welcome her. Even though I want a Hispanic girl.

wow i never really noticed that, haha great article though.

I guess Disney doesn't give their heroes/heroines green eyes because green means envy/jealously. That is why Lady Tremaine and the Evil Queen have green eyes.
Rapunzel has green eyes due to her being named from a specific lettuce, rapunzel.
Peter Pan, Robin Hood, and Pacha wear green to show that they are "earthy type" people.
Esmeralda has emerald eyes, hence her name Esmeralda. (In the book, it was b/c of the emerald pendant she wore).

I have always felt a little hurt because none of the princesses had green eyes, like me. I always wanted to have blue eyes as a child. But now, I love my green eyes. I have big eyes anyways, so the green really stands out, especially if I wear a certain shade of eye shadow. But now, we have the lovely Rapunzel, who has big green eyes, and short brown hair like myself! So I feel MUCH better now, lol.

Yes. I have green eyes and i can't understand why noone has green eyes (apart from esmeralda-i adore her)

I have noticed this before and wondered why there weren't any with green eyes. I think it is more coincidential as opposed to Disney actually having something against green eyes. Still, it's unfair. Rapunzel has green eyes now though. I wish they would make a anther blonde princess though ( Rapunzel's hair turning brown kind of hurt my feelings to be honest...what does everyone have against blondes?)

^ There are no other Disney Princesses with brown hair besides Belle. Hell, I was waiting for a Disney Princess with brown hair and green eyes so I was glad.

^ I'm with u on that one, TigerRanma!

I dont care much but I would love to see more light brown hair. i dont really consider Black hair as brown so more princesses with brown hair please. && Ariel has red hair but I would love for a princess to have orange hair because my sister has orange hair though she is a redhead. her hair has more orange than anything. && a lil blonde sometimes. it is very pretty. i dont care about eye color. also someone above said Rapunzels blonde hair was a curse. but i consider it more as a gift. she got to live because of the gift or curse && so did her mom && she has amazing powers. i was a bit more upset that they acted like her hair becoming brown && short was a horrible thing. she was beautiful either way but wtever.

@Pink_Love Yeah But as a former blonde the movie Tangled seemed like a bit deragatory towards blondes. It seemed like her long blonde hair was indeed a curse.. Personally I think Disney should have just kept her hair the color it was .. Cuz your right if you look at it another way it can be viewed as deragatory toward brunettes when they acted like her hair turning brown was a bad thing .. personally I think they should just have left her hair color the same ... But that's just my opinion.. and Yes she was beautiful either way .. =]

There is a new Disney princess to make an appearance this year. The movie is called Brave, and the princess is name Merida, and is Scottish, with red/orange hair, and GREEN EYES! :) Just thought you would like to know that

^ I can't WAIT to see that! Seems Disney will have it's own Dreamworks Fiona now... X3. However, personally, I have hazel eyes and current dark brown hair that used to be light- some in the past have said I look like Snow White, I'm also super pale sometimes.

Rapunzel has green eyes :)

But rapunzel has green eyes!!!! and so did rapunzels real queen mother!!! And green is a beautiful color which means peace, nature, and calmness. I don't see why disney wouldn't like it. After all...every disney princess loooooooves nature..and i means looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooves. Merida doesn't have green eyes but maybe her mother does.

Thank you. I wrote this article 2 years ago; Rapunzel was not released yet.

Green eyes are a very uncommon gene-blue may be more recessive, especially true blue, but green is the hardest to get, since it requires two specific brown genes. That's why there aren't a lot of green-eyed characters.

I think this post is pretty ridiculous, personally.
1. Esmeralda and Rapunzel have green eyes
2. Green eyes are quite uncommon (although they're quite beautiful in my opinion)
3. Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan and Tiana have brown eyes because it is extremely, extremely rare for someone who's not white to have green (or blue) eyes
Kida has blue eyes because she's Atlantean, which isn't a real race and Esmeralda has green eyes because green eyes symbolized magic in her time period (she had dark brown eyes in the book)

rather than being bothered that there aren't enough characters with green eyes, there's a lack of racial diversity in Disney
instead of another (likely white) princess with green eyes, I'd like to see a non-white princess

Thank you for your opinion, skell4h. I wrote this article all in good fun and am not actually upset at the situation. Also, as I mentioned above, this article is probably more than 3 years old now and was way before Rapunzel's time. And I am aware of Esmeralda having green eyes, as I have a large picture of her featured in the article itself.

skell4h there are much more diversity in races on the princesses then in their eye color. s you should not complain about that.
when this list was posted the only with green eyes was esmeralda. in races other then white you got:
tiana, mulan, jasmin, esmeralda, and pocahontas.

i was so happy when rapunzel came. since i got blond hair and green eyes. now we need a redhead or brunette with green eyes:) after that they can do what they want :) give us a albino with red eyes if they want. could be fun !

GUYS GUYS GUYS RAPUNZEL HAS GREEN EYES, ALL OF YOU FORGOT MY FAVORITE PRINCESS

Thanks, incementi. Notice how this article was written 5 years ago? Tangled hadn't been released or even announced yet.

Aurora has purple eyes well her eyes ware during film black but when Prince kiss her she wakse up and her eyes are purple like they are btw Megara's eyes are also purple and also Aurora's eyes ware brown in Disney princeses enchanted tales,and have you notice how almost every disney couple the guy has brown eyes,blue or green while girl has blue eyes,green or purple:
Snow white-brown,Florian-blue
Cindy-blue,Charming-brown
Wendy-blue,Peter-brown
Aurora-purple,Philipe-brown
Elionwy-blue,Taran-brown
Ariel and Eric-blue
Belle-hazel (light brown),Beast-blue
Jasmine and Aladdin-brown
Pocahontas-brown,John Smith-blue
Meg-purple,Hercules-blue
Esmeralda-green,Phoebus-brown
Mulan and Shang-brown
Jane-blue,Tarzan-green
Kida-Blue,Milo-brown
Amelia-green,Dr.-brown (tresure planet)
Carrie-brown,Bob-blue(the incredibles)
Jessie-green,Buzz-blue
Giselle and Robert-blue
Nancy-brown,Edward-blue (enchanted)
Tiana and Navean-brown
Rapanzuel-green,Flynn-hazel (light brown)
Anna-blue,Kristoff-brown
Also im very proud that most of disney girls and guys have brown eyes like me but if yo ask green are not so underreted Hans,Lady Tremeine and Evil quenn are also with green eyes and Maurice(Belle's dad) and Nick (zootopia)also has green eyes as well!😃😃😃