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One depressing consequence of everything being owned by the Disney Corporation is that it seems to have convinced a great many people that the Disney formula is how stories are *supposed* to be structured; and so you have people complaining when the morality is anything other than a simplistic good/evil duality, when the villains are sympathetic, when the heroes are unsympathetic, when the themes are not spoonfed to them from a pre-approved list that will not alienate mainstream commercial audiences, when defeats are anything other than temporary setbacks for the heros, or when endings are anything other than happy.