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Descendants

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Name: Disney's Descendants
Abbreviation(s):
Creator: Kenny Ortega (director), Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott (script), Melissa de la Cruz (books)
Date(s): 2015 - present
Medium: Film, books, animated series, video game, musical
Country of Origin: United States
External Links: Wikipedia
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Descendants is a multi-media Disney franchise composed of movies, novels, and television shorts, beginning in 2015. The series follows the descendants of famous Disney villains and heroes. The main characters, Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos (children of villains Maleficent, Evil Queen, Jafar and Cruella de Vil) and Prince Ben (son of Beauty and the Beast) work to prove that everyone can decide their own fate.

History

In May 2015, a prequel novel titled The Isle of the Lost was published prior to the first movie's release.

Disney Channel first aired Descendants in July 2015. The film starred Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart, and Cameron Boyce as the teenage children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella de Vil, respectively.

The movie was an instant success among fans of various ages. Shortly after the premier air date, ratings showed the film was the fifth most watched original movie in cable history. Because of its success, Descendants 2, Descendants 3, Descendants: The Rise of Red (also known as Descendants 4) were quick to follow in 2017, 2019, and 2024 respectively. A fifth, still untitled installment in the series has been announced for 2026.

Disney Channel also released various other television media and spin-offs for this franchise. Their list of publications includes short films and TV specials such as Descendants: The Royal Wedding, Descendants: School of Secrets, Descendants: Wicked World, and Descendants: The Planning of the Royal Wedding. The rights to Disney’s Descendants: The Musical were released in 2020.

Characters

Descendants

Film Trilogy

Core Four

Sea Three

Auradon Kids (AKs)

Villain Kids (VKs)

The Rise Of Red:

Present Day Characters:

Merlin Academy Characters:

  • Bridget, the younger version of the Queen Of Hearts and Red's mother.
  • Ella, the younger version of Cinderella and Chloe's mother.
  • Teen Hook, the younger version of Captain Hook and father of Harriet, Harry and CJ.
  • Teen Hades, the younger version of Hades, dating Maleficent and the father of Mal and Hadie.
  • Teen Maleficent, the younger version of Maleficent, dating Hades and the mother of Mal.
  • Uliana, younger sister of Ursula and Uma's aunt.
  • Morgie Le Fay, son of Morgana Le Fay.
  • Fay, the younger version of Fairy Godmother and mother to Jane.
  • Teen Jasmine, the younger version of Jasmine, dating Aladdin and mother to Aziz.
  • Teen Aladdin, the younger version of Aladdin, dating Jasmine and father to Aziz.
  • Meadow (originally billed as "Zellie" who was originally young Rapunzel or Rapunzel's daughter) is a girl who went to Merlin Academy.

Wicked World

VKs

AKs

Tie-in Novels

VKs

AKs

Omitted

Princess Anxelin, the daughter of Princess Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder. She presumably appears in the short show, School Of Secrets.

School of Secrets

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School of Secrets

  • Bashful Jr, the Son of Bashful from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.


Villains

Heroes

Fandom

Fanfiction is posted to Tumblr, Archive of Our Own, Wattpad, and FanFiction.Net.

Crossovers are often with other Disney films and television shows, such as Once Upon a Time and Frozen, but also other fandoms such as Harry Potter and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Shipping

Like in all FanFiction, every character usually has at least one story with another character. However, the most popular ships for Descendants include:

Het:

Slash:

Femslash:

Poly:

See List of Descendants Relationship Names for more.

Everyone is Bi

For the main trilogy of films:

  • Some characters, such as Mal, Uma, and Harry, are consistently headcanoned as bisexual or pansexual by fandom, though lesbian/gay headcanons do occasionally still exist.
  • Chad is routinely considered to be the token straight, though sometimes this will also apply to Doug.
  • Both Audrey and Evie are headcanoned to be comphet lesbians more frequently than other female characters due to a perceived similiarity in how the pressure of compulsory heterosexuality might affect them. Evie was taught her main goal was to find and marry a Prince, and Audrey is the archetypical popular girl who is 'supposed' to have the archetypical popular boy (see Regina George, Sharpay Evans, or Glinda Upland for similiar examples of fanon comphet lesbians).
  • The rest of the characters: Jay, Carlos, Ben, Gil, Lonnie, and Jane, are frequently considered bisexual or gay depending on the fan, though the former is the more common queer option to find for most of them.
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Descendants: seems a little gay but maybe that’s just me
Descendants 2: NO 👏 ONE 👏 IN 👏 THIS 👏 MOVIE 👏 IS 👏 STRAIGHT[1]

Common Themes

The Politics of Auradon

Parts of the fandom have drawn attention to the implications behind the Isle of the Lost and Auradon's apparent abandonment of the Villain Kids to poverty and abuse. In effect, the 'Isle of the Lost' is a prison in which all of the villains were sent to. However, even their children have been condemned to this life and there's little suggestion that there was any attempt at rectifying or acknowledging any of these horrifying implications prior to Ben's proclamation to give the VK's a 'chance'.

Because of this, fanworks and discussions exist that will sometimes involve and delve into these implications.

Fanworks

Fanfiction

Books of the series include:

AUs

  • Without The Watch (What Originally Happened In Descendants: The Rise Of Red). by Ally Kat Tomlinson: An Alternate Universe story, explaining what originally happened during the Time Travel portions of the fourth Descendants film, The Rise Of Red before the characters Red and Chloe went back in time and fixed things.
  • Descendents of Time: In an alternate film trilogy, the Hero of Time summoned the descendents of the Villains for important missions including separating the barrier between Auradon and the Lost Isle. In the AU 3rd film, the Hero of Time destroyed the barrier with the Master Sword along with the Fairy Godmother's spell. In the AU Rise of Red film before Red and Chloe went back in time to fix things, the Hero of Time defeated the Queen of Hearts with the Blade of Evil's Bane but after they fix what made the Queen of Hearts mean and made sure he never claimed his victory over the Queen, the Queen of Hearts forgave the Hero of Time at Auradon Prep. Red later learns that the Hero of Time tried to kill Uliana by plunging the Sword that Seals the Darkness in Uliana's heart then turns to Bridget while in the past to kill her but Chloe shoves the Hero of Time in the fountain.

Fanart

Archives & Fannish Links

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References

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