Fairy tales have been significant cultural staples since long before the Grimm brothers came along, and today they have found a profitable home in popular media. Since its inception in 1923, Disney has built a massive empire partially from its child-oriented reinventions of classic fairy tales, and adult-oriented retellings have become popular in mainstream television.

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Even today, many narratives are whitewashed (e.g. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Trek: Into Darkness, etc.), and the stories of marginalized people outside the Western hemisphere are seldom told accurately, if at all.