12 Horrifyingly Dark Tales Behind Your Favourite Disney Movies

In Disney's version of events, Mulan ends with the warrior being given the highest honour that the Emperor could bestow and she returns home to the loving embrace of her family.

In Zhu Renhuo's Romance of the Sui and Tang it's not such a peaceful ending for her. After returning home after being away for 12 years, Mulan discovers that her father has died and her mother has remarried. To top that off she has been summoned by the Khan to become his concubine.

Deciding death was her only option, Mulan commits suicide to be with her dearly departed father.

Gosh that was depressing. Let's go and put on a Disney film, that will make everything better.