Female protagonists in animated films have come a long way over the past several decades. Take the 1959 movie "Sleeping Beauty": Soft-spoken and vulnerable, Princess Aurora is cursed as an infant by the evil fairy Maleficent and ultimately saved not by her own wits, but by a prince's kiss.

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-10-animated-nonhuman-characters-overwhelmingly-male.html)

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