Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170417075739/@comment-14909251-20170424044803

LucasVerBeek wrote: Well yeah but most of the peple I see talking about this theory act like JNPR's allusions are the only ones that met a grisly death in one version or another of their stories.

Like Red Riding Hood didn't always survive her meeting with the Big Bad Wolf, Snow White died to the posion apple or was raped by the dwarves, Goldielocks got ripped apart by BEARS! Uh...Belle um I don't...I don't think anything actually bad happened to her in her story...unless you count Fables, cause in that she was murdered and replaced with a Demon named Lilith like half way through her fairy tale. I don't know of any tellings where Snow White stays dead, let alone gets raped, nor do I know of any older version of the Goldilocks tale where she gets killed. Red Riding Hood definitely dies in some versions, but the versions with a huntsman are generally the ones where she lives. As you note, Belle's story doesn't really have a version where she dies.

The big difference is that the standard versions of the story for Achilles and Thor, involve them dying in battle. Joan of Arc was obviously a real person who was executed as a prisoner of war. Mulan is the only one where the death isn't a standard part of the story. However, when you consider all the other things that have to be consistent, it is possible they just went with the best they could find.