33. In The Real Version, There Is No Love Interest
The Disney version did an excellent job of keeping Mulan and Shang Li from falling in love with each other until the very end. But then again, a seemingly homosexual romance between a soldier and “his” general may have been a bit too progressive for the year 1998.
The real Mulan doesn’t have any love interest. There is, of course, the version in which she is fated to become a concubine, but such a relationship can hardly be called romance. But she doesn’t fall in love with the general or anyone else. She’s the ultimate woman who doesn’t need a man.
