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Originally Posted by LemonJam
Pretty much every Disney villain (Scar, Jafar, Ursula was based off a drag queen, Captain Hook, Hades, King John and Sir Hiss from Robin Hood, the list could go on)
Edit: soz only just saw Armand's post
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Yeah Ursula's design was based on Divine
https://news.avclub.com/read-this-ho...tch-1798243255
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Early on, The Little Mermaid’s directors and animators created several iterations of Ursula. One was a manta ray inspired by Joan Collins. Another was a “beautiful but deadly” scorpion fish, recalled director John Musker. None worked, until an animator named Rob Minkoff drew a vampy overweight matron who everyone agreed looked a lot like Divine.
She had the eye makeup, the jewelry, the body type, and the glamour. But instead of tentacles, Minkoff gave her a shark tail and a pink Mohawk. The sketches were almost there. Musker, Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenburg, and Ashman could all feel it.
“She looks like a Miami Beach matron,” Ashman had cackled when he first saw the drawings. He told Musker and Minkoff he could imagine the sea witch “playing Mah Jong by the pool.”
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