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[alloyed]

Does anyone else find it creepy that, in the first scene of Pirates of the Caribbean, Norrington is a grownass man and Captain of a ship already and Elizabeth is, like, twelve years old?

Because I do.

Comments

[mabofwinterdark]

Consider the time period. He would also be younger than he appeared due to the powdered wig.

[alloyed]

Okay, so age gaps were more okay then, but you still had to be pushing thirty to make Captain. And it's still a creepy thing to feed to modern audiences. I wouldn't exactly call PotC a 'period piece'.

[mabofwinterdark]

It's creepy because the movie is produced by Disney. As for a whether or not it's a 'period piece', it would not be the first wildly inaccurate period movie ever produced. Just one of the more popular.

[alloyed]

I dunno that Disney automatically makes it creepier. Ariel was totally underaged. I think Sleeping Beauty might be the only one who's flat out declared to be eighteen (and her prince was the coolest, so there's that). They have a record of creepy and also subliminal messaging, is what I'm saying. Points for consistency, I guess?

Real life twelve year olds are just way more obvious about it than cartoon ones. This is probably how hentai gets away with existing.