The Real Ages Between these Disney Couples

Who among us doesn’t love Disney movies? It seems like pretty much everyone had a favorite that they grew up watching over and over again. Most classic Disney movies give us a love story at the film’s center. Consequently, those of us who grew up watching a Disney movie over and over again also ended up with a favorite Disney couple of all time. Sure – these days, it becomes easier and easier to see how some of these relationships may have been a bit problematic, and as time passes, the newer movies tend to have fewer… weird elements to their central romances. But, let’s be honest – how many of us have really thought about how old our favorite Disney princes and princesses are? And, by the same token, how do we know the part these animated couples’ age gaps really play on their relationship dynamics? Well, we got very curious about all of this, and we went searching for the answer to our burning questions: what are the age gaps between our favorite Disney couples, and does it change how we feel about them. Well, as it turns out, plenty of the Disney duo age gaps are very different than we might have previously imagined. And, it’s safe to say that – yes – some of these age gaps are very, very strange. Luckily, though, plenty of our fave couples remain as unproblematic as ever after being faced with the age test. If you’re curious to find out how your favorite did, this is the video for you.

Chapters:

00:00 INTRO
00:16 Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder
01:01 Anna and Kristoff
01:22 Anna and Hans
01:53 Ariel and Eric
02:30 Tiana and Naveen
02:55 Cinderella and Prince Charming
03:15 Snow White and Prince Florian
03:40 Hercules and Meg
04:11 Linguini and Collette
04:30 Mulan and Li Shang
05:15 Tarzan and Jane
05:59 Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip
06:34 Belle and the Beast
07:09 Aladdin and Princess Jasmine
07:34 Pocahontas and John Smith
07:48 OUTRO

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Written by: Lauren Waters
Narrated by: Geoff Cork
Edited by: Lucía Canabal

[helmenhjelmen]

These age gaps arent crazy. At least in this version of sleeping beauty she didnt wake up pragnent with her pirnce charming.

[AtarahDerek]

Eugene is 23 in the film, NOT 26. Although he thinks he's 22. He turns 26 halfway through the third season of the sequel series, when Rapunzel is 20 1/2 (each season of TTS ends on or very near Raps' birthday). So there's a 5 1/2 year age gap between them, not an 8 year gap.

[gabriellebowman]

And now I can see why the evil Queen wanted to keep Snow White's beauty hidden, not only becuz she feared she'd surpass her in beauty but also to keep her away from creeps twice her age

[kimberleeroberts]

Honestly l’m not surprised about Meg. She actually has a maturity about her

[ms.milliner]

According to Tangled the Series Eugene was 23/24 in the movie as he was turning 26 in the middle of the third season when Rapunzel was 20 years old.

[patrickmckay]

Belle was not kidnapped, she took her father's place as Beast prisoner

[AtarahDerek]

It's also important to remember that historically, 16 has been the most common age of majority, and sometimes that age was younger, especially for girls. Aurora is an adult. Jasmine ends her movie as a legal adult, as she was only three days shy of 16 at the start of the movie. The film's climax actually happens ON her birthday. And Florian was clearly aged down. He doesn't look older than 16.

[peterlewis]

For some reason, I always had the impression that Meg was decades, if not hundreds or thousands of years old. Something about the "selling her soul to Hades" made it sound like she was trapped in a sort of ageless slavery to him, and the way she talked about making the deal, and her lover betraying her, sounded so distant, like it was another life. It feels weird to think of it only being a handful of years, or to imagine that he could even still be alive during the events of the movie.

[mariajlg]

Actually, it was stated and confirmed by the book “The Art of Walt Disney” that Prince Florian (from Snow White) is 18. Not 31.

[sparkz]

The fact that tiana was that hardworking and awesome at 19 makes me love her even more

[anushapaturi]

To me all age gaps seemed normal considering the era they were set in.
The age gaps were fine but their ages were a little too young (some of them) and very much unsettling if we were to compare them to our modern times.
But snow white is actually very unsettling including the fact that she was 14.

[tannerwhitt]

These age gaps might seem creepy due to the difference of the times. My grandmother at 17 married my grandfather 34, and no one had a problem with it. This is because women's youth and ability to have many children were prioritized by men, while a mature and well off man who could raise a family was prioritized by women. They truly were different times.

[freedompancakes]

What’s kinda funny is the fact that we all believed Eric was older than 18, but Eric’s voice actor was actually 16 when recording making him about a decade younger than Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel who was 28.

[rebeccallanes]

Okay but let’s remember Ariel didn’t leave her family for a man, he was just the cherry on top, she already wanted to go to the human world and it’s only after her father destroyed her special collection of artefacts that she finally decided to leave because let’s be honest, if my dad came in and destroyed my room I would also run away and try and get some hot guy to kiss me so I could stay forever

[murielsmelodies]

I almost screamed with horror when you did the age gap of snow white, like

[coletterosenhaus]

I know a lot of fashion history. Marie Antoinette was only 14 when she got engaged. It was also common in the 15 hundreds for girls to be married off at 12. So it’s not surprising to me. I didn’t even bat an eye!

[tamakunminnip]

The biggest age gap in all of Disney belongs to Milo and Kida from 'Atlantis The Lost Empire'. Milo is 30 and Kida is like 8000 or so (she was a kid when Atlantis sank).

[youtubewontletmetypeagoodu]

Philip kissed aurora to save her life. Maleficent literally told him about it in the scene before. She also clearly loved him

[SupremeViola]

Philip always gets such a bad rap in these. If you were told "this girl is never going to wake up and the kingdom is going to stay under a horrible curse unless you kiss her" (because Flora does tell him that *directly*) even the most respectful-of-boundaries person would do it - likely as cursorily as possible - and then proceed with the relationship like they weren't yet at the kissing phase. We don't get mad at people who give rescue breaths to a drowning person because it's medically necessary stuff; that's the category I put the Sleeping Beauty kiss in.

[thelemon]

For the Arial one, it was actually very common in those days for people to be married very young, 16 was always considered marrying age