*I'd like too see a princess pull off green* Tiana: Am I a joke to you

Mulan may not be a princess, might just be a commoner, but the EMPEROR of China bowed to her. Keep in mind the Emperor was revered as almost a deity. Pretty impressive.

Other Disney princesses: we all worked hard to get here Arora: I sleep

I’d love to see an update considering Moana is an official Princess now

Fun fact: tinker bell was originally a Disney princess BUT she had her membership revoked.

mattpat never truly wanted to be a Theorist he wanted to be a princess

Man, Disney has covered so many regional stories, makes me wonder when and if they’re going to make a Japanese princess or Russian heroine story to a similar effect as the other princess/heroine films?

It's nice that since this was released 3 more have been added to the lineup. Moana, Elsa and Anna are now listed on the official website as princesses

It's funny cause Mulan is the one girl on that list who isn't related to royalty in ANY way and thus isn't a princess In ANY way at all. She's just the most notorious killer in the disney lineup.

So are we gonna ignore how those princesses almost became murderers when Penelope came in

10:28 I personally think Anna and Elsa aren't part of The Disney Princess Franchise because Frozen evolved into its own franchise. For curiosity's sake, I googled to see if there was a reason Esmeralda wasn't a Disney Princess and found the most interesting thing on Disney Princess Wiki. Turns out, she was a Disney Princess until 2004. They removed her from the franchise for two main reasons: First, her sales were financially disappointing. Second, like you said here, she deals with more mature themes than other Disney Princesses that made it hard to market her to younger kids.

The concern over "cultural sensitivity" certainly hasn't stopped them churning out Moana costumes regardless.

My therapist: Princess MatPat can't hurt you, she's not real Princess MatPat:

The actual requirements are: 1.born royal 2.married to royal 3.done a heroic deed And the unspoken rule: BOX OFFICE SUCCESS

Personally, the "princess" means a woman who is on a much higher level of authority than most. Many actually royalty one the daughter of a cheif, ya know, the guy in power, and one a war hero, who even the emperor bows down to

The ironic part about this is that NOW Disney decides to put Moana in the list. Well played Disney, well played

- A young woman - Has daddy issues - Kidnapped or enslaved - Animals and trees talk to her - Has to get saved by 'a big, strong man' - From a Disney property I was right. Gamora IS a Disney Princess.

And this all started with MatPat not being accepted as a Disney Princess. Edit: Thanks for the likes 👌🏼

As a Scottish person I find the way he says Merida absolutely hilarious

Legit the second before you mentioned Jasmine with the "must wear a dress" rule, I was like, "Well what about Jasmine?"

In 2019, there are officially 12 princesses. I was just on the Disney Princess site today, and Moana is included on the list.

Moana actually became one now she’s included on the official site

You completely forgot about princess “kida” from the movie Atlantis in THIS video but you did mention her in the second so it’s cool. Though honestly, I think a lot of people forget about that movie. Guess it wasn’t popular enough to make the cut. To be honest, all this time, I thought qualifying as a Disney princess revolved more around popularity. The more fans love a character, the more money they make Disney, and the title of princess is passed on. But again there still lies the question of why newer princesses aren’t on that list. Also another thing worth mentioning is in the game kingdom hearts, They have what they call “princesses of heart” and for some reason “Alice” from Alice in wonderland fell under the princess list even though she isn’t a princess.

Just clicked to rewatch this video after a while... It couldn't escape my attention that you FINALLY reached your goal of getting the diamond paperweight. Congrats Matthew!

“Jasmine? Dress and Rajah the tiger.” If baggy pants and a crop top are a dress now then I think Moana’s skirt should count too.

MatPat: "Merida doesn't sing" Flashback of Merida and Mom singing Noble Maiden Fair: "Am I a joke to you?

Also, in 2019, Moana got her coronation as the twelfth official Disney Princess.

Fun fact : in 2019 moana became official Disney Princess

I think you forgot something You have to be a girl

Just realized MatPat qualifies. 1: Is wearing a dress 2: Phycic friend Fredbear is his animal sidekick.

Absolutely love your content, your efforts in research and ability to entertain while educating are excellent. My wife is a math teacher and I have encouraged her to use your videos to interest kids in fun uses of math. Huge fan can’t wait to see your next video!

Watching this now and knowing that Disney actually added moana to the list on their website is just hilarious, since moana is the person you are using as the "in or out" example.

Mat: She clearly has Hei-Hei the rooster! Pua: *Am I a joke to you?*

Thanos is the best princess Change my mind

9:20 I had never heard Merida's English voice actor before and I was not prepared (I mean I should have guessed but the voice hit me like a truck)

Hi mat pat. I love ur videos and have been watching them for a few years now. I am subscribed to all 3 channels and just wanted to say please never stop

Disney's official criteria: 1) Human character in an animated Disney movie 2) Not introduced in a sequel 3) Born royal, married royal, or completes an act of heroism Lastly, box office performance is considered. Notice I said performance and not success. The real reason Anna, Elsa, and Moana are not in the line up is because they do better as their own franchises and Disney would lose financial opportunity on them if they put them with the Disney princess line up. When princess start to lose popularity, they go in the line up to keep them relevant.

"Why do you have such dumb rules" Diseny: money

I love this video because now all of the newer characters he mentioned have been coronated so now he's just going crazy why they haven't gotten their crown and digging so deep to husk together an answer.

The opening scenes in all of these videos are amazing

The way he pronounces “Merida” physically hurts me 😂

Emperor Kuzco is best disney princess

Captain Jack Sparrow absolutely deserves to be a princess, he may not have a dress or an animal sidekick. But, he has a jar of dirt!

The fact that there are 175000 likes and zero dislikes is impressive. This might be the video on KZfaq with the most likes for a video with no dislikes (and as it has no dislikes, it has the smallest ratio of dislikes to likes of any video on KZfaq). Well done, MatPat.

My favorite scene was 0:18 *Wish me luck ladies* _Jack Sparrow_ *_LOL_* I should've guessed he'd apply for the next Disney princess.

Mat, THIS is why you never get invited to Disney/Marvel premiers

okay but i think its a crime that donald duck isnt considered an official disney princess

Man, i really love this theory!

Does This Mean Mama Imelda From Coco Is A Disney Princess? 1. She Wears A Dress 2. She Has A Alebrije (Pepita) 💀🍂💀🍂💀🍂💀🍂💀🍂

5:01 Poor goofy.. *he just wanted to be a Disney princess* Edit: thank you! This is the first time i get more then 5 likes in a comment ;-;

what's funny is the actual reason why the frozen princesses and moana weren't immediately added was because they made way *too much* money on their own. disney waited until it would financially benefit the properties to add them to the disney princess lineup.

My thought of the classification of Disney Princess before your video: Based on a fairy tale or a legend -Exception: Merida Created by Disney Studio -Exception: Merida Has a man in their life -Exception: Merida Sing a song -Exception: Merida

Mulan is not a princess but she is definitely not a commoner. Her father is a famous war hero, she lives in a large house with gardens, and is the only low ranking soldier who owns a horse. Anyone else with a horse is a general or high ranking official. Mulan may not be royalty but she definitely has a privileged background. Considering her father's fame it is likely that he was gifted a lot of land and money for his deeds so she falls into the noble class. It's not a true qualification but considering how poor people were in those times, being a noble practically made you royalty.

MatPat the way to become a Disney princess is to be: 1. Must be human 2. Lead in an animated Disney movie 3. And not be introduced in a sequel And then at least one of the following: 1. Born royal 2. Marry royal 3. Or an act of heroism (this rule was made for Mulan) They also must be successful at the box office, but not to successfully like Anna and Elsa It is all explained in the SuperCarlinBrothers video.

Knowing the "rules" Disney has for qualifying to be a princess already really made me feel like a Disney adult 😵

Vanellope Von Sweet is actually revealed as a Queen in the end of the first Wreck it Ralph movie. ALSO THE DISNEY MOVIE POCAHONTAS IS NOTHING LIKE WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO HER IN REAL LIFE!!

Credit to SCB, this is the list: Born Royal, marry royal, or commit an act of heroism. Be human. Don't have a movie that fails in the box office. (Black Cauldron) Don't have a movie that was so successful that Disney makes more money by selling toys separately instead of including them in Disney princess sets. (Frozen) I don't remember what the case was for Moana.

Mulan is technically higher than a prince. The emperor bowed down to her and an emperor has equal power to a king. Also there are actually a rule set for the qualifications to be a Disney princess. One of them is you either have to be married to royalty be born into royalty or have done a grand act of courage that qualifies you has a princess. (This isn't to hate on matpat I actually like his content)

You Can't fit Disney into a single sentence. Matpat:The love for money.

As a Scottish person I’m dying with his pronunciation of Merida

Kuzco from Emperor's New Groove is best princess

Technically Disney also counts instead of being technically"Royal"and in replace you can do a significant amount of heroism

*matpat not being able to be a disney princess cuz he doesnt have an animal sidekick* cat pat: _allow me to introduce myself_

2:30 If matpat said that 4 years later, twitter would CRUCIFY him.

Obviously pumba from the lion king is my favourite and the best disney princess

I''m sorry you didn't make it as a princess Matt =(

Have you ever done a theory about the movie Brave? I decided to watch it after you mentioned it in this video and it makes no sense lol. I’m not sure what kind of theory you could even do about it (which is probably why you haven’t) but I definitely think you could solve some of the unanswered questions in the movie. Like the fact that the movie had nothing to do with the girl being brave, in fact she cowered just like everyone else whenever she seen a random bear (why is the movie called brave???) or the fact that the words the witch told her to remember seemed kind of useless as Merida didn’t actually remember the whole thing and just focused on one small part of it and convinced herself that she had to fix the blanket she ripped to fix the curse. So, it really wasn’t that important that she remembered those words because she didn’t and the curse was still removed anyways lol.

You had it right at 8:53 it is definitely the box office performance. It's profitability of merchandising. The reason Moana didn't make the cut and Frozen girls still don't is simply because their own franchise was/is still making too much money to be passed over to Disney Princess yet. "One year after movie" has probably been a convenient round time to be doing it since that puts the newly coronated princess into the Disney Princess lineup just in time for holidays, but Moana didn't get retired to DP for multiple years because her franchise was still profiting and they didn't want to muddy her profitability by making her a DP too soon. Anna and Elsa have done insanely well, and I suspect having TWO of them has really helped the franchise as well, now you need TWO dolls, two costumes, two calculator watches, etc. But when the Frozen franchise stops making a better return on investment than DP, they will become DP too. All Disney animated female protagonists will, they're designed with that taken into consideration from the outset now.

Disney actually has a specific set of rules as to what qualifies a female character as an official Disney Princess. 1. They must have a primary role in an animated Disney (including Pixar) movie 2. They must be human/become a human 3. They must be born royal, marry royal, of perform a significant act of heroism 4. They must not be introduced in a sequel The secret hidden rule is box office success which why you don't see characters like Esmeralda, Megara, or Kida on the list since their movies didn't do as well as others. Esmeralda and Tinker Bell actually used to be included in the Disney Princess lineup, but were removed because Disney executives decided that they didn't fit anymore. This is presumably because Tinker Bell was now part of the Disney Fairies franchise, and Hunchback was probably eventually considered too serious of a movie to be marketed at children, hence Esmeralda's removal.

Merida has two songs in her movie, sung by herself, although she is not moving her lips, it's like she is singing them in her head or telling her story from another point of view adding the song, like her voiceover at the beginning and end of the movie suggest... Also the Merida Singing Dolls actually sing Touch the Sky.

I love all of your videos you are going to be the next generation of my life. thank you

I'm in the future. September 2023 to be exact. And Moana and Raya have been added as Disney Princesses!

You could've been a Disney Princess, Matpat, if you'd just brought Skip along with you.

Great! I finally know how to become a Disney Princess! Thank you MatPat, now let me get dressed.

Rewatching this since I lost the channel and I’m still in love 😂

13:25 --- Yet another list that STILL ignores KIDA from Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Forever my favorite.

MatPat: Merida doesn't sing Me: Correction. She sang with her mother in the flashback as a child.

#matpatfornextdisneyprincess

Looking fabulous in the dress Mat ✨✨

i love that each of the theory channels has a mortal enemy, like game theory is scott cawthon, film theory is disney, and food theory is probly like the fda lol

It's real cute how you're saying "Merida". I think you're trying to stay true to our Scottish inflection but you're making it sound like a Japanese name 😂

2019 Elsa and Anna gets a lizard they’re now qualified

Him talking about the dress part of this made me realize something. Jasmine isnt wearing a dress (at least not in the pictures she's usually portrayed in). The teal outfit shes most popularly seen in, is a top and pants.

Mat literally ignored the clips he’s showing had Anna and Elsa in the background and the clip with Elsa speaking

Mulan isn't a commoner. Her home suggest of a higher rank. Usually more Noble laddies would be looking for a match maker to find a good match which would include a consideration of class. In the ballad of Mulan, it also infers she's from a higher class along with other adaptions of the story.

I love how Captain Jack Sparrow was one of the “ladies” at the beginning

I sort of have beef with Disney for not including Elena of Avalor in that movie.

everyone else: did you do aurora: did you sleep

The actual criteria is -Must be a main female character in an animated Disney movie.(pixar does count) -Either be born royal, marry royal, or commit an act of heroism. -Box office does matter, but Moana and Anna/Elsa outshine all the other movies because they made too much money. Also no the SuperCarlinBrothers already figured out that Venelope probably will not be a Disney princess. Edit: You must also be human.

Just imagine someone who has never seen this channel before see this intro and be like wtf

I remember playing Disney Princess games. Every princess had pets. Cinderella had a bunny with a light blue tint. I think Ariel had a pink something or other. But they were all “at home” pets. It’s interesting to consider the “dress and animal” qualifications

"jasmine is wearing a dress" her pantsuit: *am i a joke to you*

oh my god moana was released almost 3 years ago??? wtf it feels like it came out like a year ago.

So I've been with the Disney company for about 5 years so maybe I can add some insight? so frozen and Moana wont be in the Disney princess line up simply because their franchises make too much money as stand alone. Mulan is a princess because she did an act or selfless bravery and Disney changed the rules so she could be added. Also if the movie didn't do well in theater they princess wouldn't be added (sword in the stone, black cauldron, Atlantis ECT) should also be noted tinker bell was also a Disney princess at one point before they made the Disney fairies.hope this helps

9:51 HAS ME ON THE FLOOR CACKLING

0:44 Yeah u should've blurred those naughty symbols

Disney probs watched this and was like: Oh shoot Moana She’s now on the list

Yeah there are official rules to being a Disney Princess. 1) Being born royal or marrying into royalty 2) Act of heroism (just in case you aren't royal) 3) Box office success Hercules, despite having its fans, didn't do very well intitially, as with all the other movies with otherwise qualifying princesses. With Anna, Elsa and Moana, you'd expect them to qualify in all ways, and they do, apart from one minor problem. They are *too* successful. The movies are more their own franchises than your average, run-of-the-mill princess movies. Credit to *Super Carlin Brothers* for making a video on this

Do a video on which Disney prince would be the best side kick to help you fight the Disney villains!

Late to the party, but I friggin' love the fact that Jack Sparrow was in line to audition to be a Disney Princess