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73.Anon.52 wrote: as I said earlier(I think here but maybe somewhere else): they may have "genderbent" Snow white source material for her parents... making the father the "evil queen/stepmother" and the mother the "dead father" Snow White's mother actually is the one who is dead in most versions of the story. Whether the father is also alive varies more as the focus is on the evil stepmother. It does have to be mentioned again that they are not meant to be perfect parallels of their fairy tale counterparts, just similar.