Brave was the number one movie over the weekend, earning $66 million, and proving that a Disney princess (or at least, a Pixar princess) doesn't need a prince, or a wedding. In fact, Brave's heroine, Merida, isn't interested in dudes at all.

This year's D23 Expo featured an appearance by Paige O'Hara, Lea Salonga, Anika Noni Rose and Jodi Benson, better known as the voices of Belle, Mulan/Jasmine, Tiana, and Ariel. First the ladies tried to out-warble each other while singing, "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes," but let's just move on to what you really …

Timothy John Shumate has created tattoo-inspired versions of Snow White, Ariel, and Jasmine. We'd like to think that in some sequel locked in the Disney vault, the heroines rebel against the chauvinistic dudes in their lives and and escape to form a biker gang (with a fondness for sparkles).

After it's forthcoming release of Tangled, Disney's animation studios don't plan to follow up with any more fairy tales for the forseeable future. But what will our nation's little girls do without really boring animated princes to dream of marrying?

In the latest of Second City's Cartoon Princess videos, Snow White discusses the importance of being fair, why you should never eat fruit, and notes, "you know you've made it as the prettiest person when everyone wants to kill you. "

[New York, November 9: A grown woman suddenly realizes the magnitude of the Disney Story Times Square, which is 20,000-square-feet of total fucking mayhem. Image via Getty.]

In this video, Belle shares some lessons she learned from wooing the Beast, like, "Find a man who wants to imprison you with his love. The longer you're trapped... it will start to feel like home — Stockholm."

According to Cracked.com's analysis of Disney movies, the films teach kids there's nothing weird about kissing unconscious girls, hooking up with your siblings is quality family time, and 16-year-olds who marry guys they barely know live happily ever after. [Cracked]

Just this year alone, Disney believes it will make nearly 4 billion dollars internationally off of their "Disney Princesses" brand, a marketing scheme that has set off a wave of "princess fever" amongst young girls.