A clip from Brave: Is This What TV Tropes Calls An Establishing Character Moment?

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With Fanart, as the Imageshack Situation as pretty much rendered me incapable of posting new things from my computer for the time being.

Merida is my new favourite Disney/Pixar character!

Though her bursting her dress to show off her muscles is going to get SOOOO much of the wrong kind of fanart.

Speaking of Fanart!

Bat Girls by ~dfridolfs on deviantART

Cat on hot tin roof by *monkeymarc on deviantART

kp - kissy face by ~Tenshichan1013 on deviantART

Flame Princess VS Ice Queen by `Yamino on deviantART

Wondy All Dressed Up by *OniYon on deviantART

Steph Girl by *neko-bri-bri on deviantART

Toph -The Greatest EarthBender by *DarkKenjie on deviantART

Batgirl: Year One by *NotThePornStar on deviantART

After Watchmen by ~n8twing on deviantART

The Legend of Azula by *kelly1412 on deviantART

Red Robin and Batgirl by *shoot-o on deviantART

naughty by nature by *duss005 on deviantART

Burning Love II by `Yamino on deviantART

Vote Celestia by ~Equestria-Election on deviantART

FAIREST Cover 3 by *AdamHughes on deviantART

Dragon's Eyes by ~ZuTarart on deviantART

Cassie Cain by ~Kanish on deviantART

John F. Kennedy Alien Hunter Classified by *SharpWriter on deviantART

CAIN by *kizer180 on deviantART

Princess Mononoke by =sakimichan on deviantART

SWGTCG: Boba Fett by `ukitakumuki on deviantART

Batgirls detective squad. by ~Splittingadams on deviantART

Toph's new outfit by *kelly1412 on deviantART

Doodle_Toph vs Fire by *kelly1412 on deviantART

Sit On It by `ukitakumuki on deviantART

BRAVE by ~hakumo on deviantART

Comments

[mishalak]

What makes you think Dreamworks would go there while Disney or Pixar would not?

To refresh my memory and make sure I was not biased by my uncertain memory I looked up the last five years of movies from them.

Disney:
Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Winnie the Pooh

Pixar:
Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Cars 2

Dreamworks:
Over the Hedge, Flushed Away, Shrek the Third, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Monsters vs Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots

I suspect you are right about Cars 2 having weak storytelling, though I have not seen it and I doubt I will ever bother watching it. However I think there is not a trend line there, yet. As my old math teacher said, "Two points to make a line, three to check yourself, and four because Saxon (the text book writer) is a wienie."

On the specific issue of GLBT characters, I doubt any of these companies will go there in the next decade. Someone will before I die in 2049, provided I live to the statistically average age for someone of my gender, but nothing soon. And the going there will be of the fairly mild gay/lesbian/transgendered/implied different best friend of the protagonist.