Aurora

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

Her role as the Damsel-in-Distress is considered too generic for some Disney Fans

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

She is considered to be one of the most well known Disney Princesses by many fans because of her ability to stay positive.

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Flat Protagonist

**Princess Aurora** (Also known as **Briar Rose** or just **Aurora** for short) is the titular protagonist in Disney's 16th animated full-length animated feature, *Sleeping Beauty*. As the only daughter of King Stefan and Queen Leah, she is cursed by the evil fairy, Maleficent, to die on her sixteenth birthday. Due to the effort of the Three Good Fairies. The curse was changed from death to sleep until True Love's Kiss.

In the original film, she was voiced by Mary Costa and was modeled by the late Helene Stanley. In other media, she is voiced by Erin Torpey, Jennifer Hale, and Kate Higgins.

## What Makes Her a Base Breaking Character?

### What Do People Like About Her?

* Despite not being well developed, she still has an interesting personality, as proven when she is shown being kind to her fairy godmothers and animal friends.
* It can be understandable to some people of why she didn't have too much dialogue is because she, along with the whole kingdom, has been placed under a sleeping spell.
* Even with her role as the damsel-in-distress, she is shown to be a competent princess, especially when she was told by the fairies to not touch the spinning wheel.
	+ In *Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dream*, she temporarily rules over her subjects when her family goes out of town for a royal business and plans a banquet for them.
* Her Pure Good portrayal in Maleficent is considered by some people to be a good incarnation since she's not the damsel.

### What Do People Not Like About Her?

* Aurora is perhaps well-known for her notorious role throughout the film as the damsel-in-distress, which several fans and feminists alike criticize her for being a passive and helpless damsel who did nothing significant to the plot.
	+ An infamous case is when she didn't have any screen time to do anything proactive throughout the film, compared to the rest of the Disney Princesses created before and after her.
* She arguably has little to no personality other than being kind and caring.
* Even though she is supposed to be the main character, she wasn't getting so little focus that many people consider her to be kind of a weak protagonist.
	+ Not to mention, it appears that this film is clearly focusing more on her three fairy godmothers and possibly, Maleficent and Prince Phillip.
	+ Along with a troubled production, the kind of marketing was one of the reasons why her film did not perform well at the box office during its initial release in 1959.

## External Links

* Aurora on the Disney Wiki
* Aurora on the Heroes Wiki
* Aurora on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki

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See Also
Warner Bros. Base Breaking Characters