User blog:Kabuto Origami/Pure Good Removal Proposal: The Prince (Disney)

I recently nominated Prince Philip for Pure Good but he was voted down by a slight margin due to being seen as a generic fairy tale prince. I have another Disney prince that's even less deserving of this category, namely the Prince from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. before anyone asks, Philip being deemed not to count has nothing to do with this proposal, I was actually planning to bring his case up for a while.

Who is he and what has he done?
The prince is Snow White's love interest. They first meet at the start of the film where they fall in love at first sight, then again at the end when he wakes her with love's first kiss and they go off to his castle to live happily ever after.

Why he doesn't qualify
He's a plot device with virtually no characterization beyond being in love with Snow White, and he doesn't even come close to being heroic enough. All he does is kiss Snow White, but even that doesn't count as particularly heroic, because he had no idea it would revive her. Incidentally he was originally meant to have a larger role involving the Queen capturing him to prevent him from reviving Snow White and him fighting his way out of her castle, but this was abandoned because the artists found him difficult to draw. The idea was later reused with the aforementioned Philip.

The final verdict
Easy cut. Interestingly the situation with Snow White and her prince is almost like an inversion of Aurora and Philip, in that here it's the prince that hardly does anything.