7 Happy Movie Endings That Are Totally Ruined By Science

6. Sleeping Beauty: Not Exactly Beauty Sleep

Side-stepping, for a moment, the problematic issues of smooching someone in their sleep, we can still well and truly ruin Sleeping Beauty's happy ending.

Far from fluttering her eyes open and dancing into the sunset with her prince, Sleeping Beauty would be in a right state by the time true love's first kiss got anywhere near her.In the fairy tale, the titular princess is put into an "enchanted sleep" by an evil witch. In real life, we call this a coma, and a coma is not quite so pretty.

In the source text, Briar Rose (as she is originally called) sleeps for 100 years. Now, the obvious issue with this slumber is that, by the time the prince got his smooch on, she would be suffering from a medical condition known as Dead. In the Disney film, Aurora's enchanted sleep is scaled back to an enchanted nap of few hours. If we go somewhere in between these two and imagine that our princess has snored away for 50 years or so.

Aside from the scaly skin and bad breath brought on by dehydration, the princess's body would also be covered in angry sores and ulcers caused by the constant, concentrated pressureat the points where her body touches the bed. She would be incontinent which would worsen the ulcers and also send the risk of infection sky high.

The princess's muscles would atrophy and the limbs may become contracted and immovable, causing her to slowly curl up like a dead spider. She would also probably wake up with pneumonia due to the inability to regulate secretions in the lungs and would be vulnerable to lung collapse.

Now, I've had some pretty bad hangovers, but waking up in this state would not put me in the state of mind to go tripping the light fantastic with Prince Charming.