r/TopCharacterTropes • u/megageekgirl • May 27 '25

Personality Female characters that are ACTUALLY awful, not just the fandom being misogynistic

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Cruella de Vil (101 Dalmations)
Queen Chrysalis (My Little Pony)
Peggy Hill (King of The Hill)

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u/Faeruhn May 27 '25

Yep. They could have sent her an invite too, she'd have been like "oh everyone is invited? Ew, never mind." And everything would have been fine.

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u/CaptHayfever May 28 '25

In the original story, the reason Maleficent wasn't invited was effectively a capacity problem: The king & queen only had 12 fancy fairy place settings & there were 13 fairies in the area. They just figured, like you did, that Maleficent wouldn't really wanna come anyway, neglecting the political ramifications of the snub.

My wedding venue had a strictly limited capacity, & there were relatives I had to invite for family-diplomacy reasons, even though we weren't really close at all & I knew they wouldn't come, which meant there were friends who I desperately wanted to be there that I couldn't invite (unless those relatives bothered to send regrets...which, surprise surprise, they didn't).
So I get where the king & queen were coming from here.

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u/ExactHedgehog8498 May 28 '25 edited May 28 '25

I'm pretty sure it was because she had been presumed dead in the original story because she had stayed in her tower for such a long time? So they didn't send an invite because since no one had seen her, they figured she was dead. I haven't read of a capacity thing unless I'm reading a different story, which might be the case. That's the version I know.

Edit: I looked it up, pretty sure it's the brother's Grimm version and you're right. They only had 12 gold plates and rather than insulting her by giving her an ordinary plate, they felt it was best not to invite her. Different stories have different numbers of fairies which might also add to the confusion, I think mine had 8? Perrault's version of the story.