I don't necessarily find it annoying that the biggest or most popular/enduring media version of a thing is the one that people think of first, I'm most annoyed when people don't think of anything else second, or reject new portrayals because they don't match what they already have in their head.
(Insert here: Sherlock Holmes never wore a deerstalker, Dorothy Gale wore silver slippers, Henry VIII was hot before he turned into Charles Laughton, everything in Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies, Robin Hood was a peasant, etc.)
Obviously Disney gets in on this more than others because our generation grew up during the Disney renaissance and there was a previous generation that grew up during classic Disney (and we had that on video), but I dunno, I think of Disney movies as being separate canon from the original fairy tales and I bet many other people do too. Like, my visual headcanon of the mermaid from the original Little Mermaid story is, uh, not Ariel. But if you say, "How about the protagonist of The Little Mermaid?" I'll think Ariel first because the Disney movie is closer to mind than Hans Christian Anderson.
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I don't necessarily find it annoying that the biggest or most popular/enduring media version of a thing is the one that people think of first, I'm most annoyed when people don't think of anything else second, or reject new portrayals because they don't match what they already have in their head.
(Insert here: Sherlock Holmes never wore a deerstalker, Dorothy Gale wore silver slippers, Henry VIII was hot before he turned into Charles Laughton, everything in Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies, Robin Hood was a peasant, etc.)
Obviously Disney gets in on this more than others because our generation grew up during the Disney renaissance and there was a previous generation that grew up during classic Disney (and we had that on video), but I dunno, I think of Disney movies as being separate canon from the original fairy tales and I bet many other people do too. Like, my visual headcanon of the mermaid from the original Little Mermaid story is, uh, not Ariel. But if you say, "How about the protagonist of The Little Mermaid?" I'll think Ariel first because the Disney movie is closer to mind than Hans Christian Anderson.