The teenage couple seem to fall in love and get married within three days of meeting too.
It would certainly feel like a lost opportunity if Disney didn’t update Ariel’s story in Little Mermaid.
By the end of the film, Ariel successfully ditches her family to be with her hunky prince!
While at the time of release the Disney Princess may have had attributable traits not seen from female characters at the time but her love story with Prince Eric leans much more on his physical attraction to her without much mind to her particular personality.