And then the AI made the text in the comic.
Did AI make the whole thing?
Why is the perspective in the final frame taken from inside of the jail cell? Are we the viewer also in jail? Shouldn’t we be viewing it behind bars from the other side? What did we the viewing audience do? Are we culpable since just by viewing this?
Reading the comments I just realized how much I like literature nerds.
I choose to believe there is a lot more to the magic object than the truth or it’s own will. It’s a mirror after all, what you see depends on who stands before it. If you ask to see beauty and the reflection shows how you compare to a 14 year old, that’s on you.
Then again, when have these things ever been static. Shrek’s iteration has it’s own will.
It’s a magic mirror from a fairy tale. It doesn’t have any set rules other than what the story teller gives it.
Fun fact! In the original Disney film she never says ‘mirror mirror…’, she says ‘magic mirror…’
Another fun fact: in Grimms fairy tales, the original story, she says mirror mirror. Also snow white was 7 when the mirror took a liking to her.
The prince also liked her corpse so much he just wanted to carry it around in it’s glass coffin, but didn’t want to kiss it. They drop her corpse while carrying it around and make her spit out the poisoned apple, so she revives.
“Wassup?”
Wassup
Nothing much, I’ve had fun with your corpse for a while though so that was nice 😐
The story that Sleeping Beauty is based on, Sun, Moon, and Talia, contains blatant rape and she’s awakened by her twins sucking the poisoned crap out of her finger. The brothers Grimm already changed it to a kiss.
Which is extra creepy when you read Neil Gaiman’s (adult) version of Snow White (Snow, Glass, Apples).
The original German wording is “Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand: wer ist die schönste Frau in dem ganzen Land?”. Literally translated that would be “Mirror, mirror on the wall: who is the most beautiful woman in all the land.” I would let “hottest” slide as a more contemporary translation.
There’s an NPR episode of Code Switch on the subject:
I always thought it was a combination of both looks and personality. Maybe I was wrong.
While it’s been a while since I’ve seen the original anything, I thought it said the queen was beautiful (and so “fair”) visually, but she had a cold heart as she got older and more vain (and so was no longer “fair” in personality).