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[PHOTOS] Artist Hilariously Rethinks Famous Disney Characters In Gender-Bending Roles

What would "Beauty and the Beast" have been like if the beast were female? Or what if "101 Dalmatians" villain Cruella de Vil were a well-dressed man?

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What would "Beauty and the Beast" have been like if the beast were female?

Something like this where you see Belle as a nerdy-pretty guy and the beast as a big fluffy lady.

Beau & Beast (Beauty & The Beast)

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The above is a work of a Canadian digital artist called Sakimi Chan who decided to change up some classic Disney characters and gender-bend them

Cruel (101 Dalmatians)

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Sakimi Chan is a digital artist based in Canada who is well-known for her TV, video game, and anime fan art. Sakimi put a gender-bending spin on some of the most familiar faces we grew up watching, and the marvelous results will make you rethink those Disney stories: What if "101 Dalmatians" villain Cruella de Vil were a well-dressed man?

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Below are some of Sakimi's gender-bending drawings

Sakimi's gender-bending take on little mermaid

Ariel (The Little Mermaid)

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Sakini apologises by stating that she doesn't know how to switch the genders of these names: Prince Mononoke and Lady Ashitaka

Ashitaka & San (Princess Mononoke)

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Gender-bending one of her favorite Anime films, "Howl's Moving Castle", Sakimi, according to her own admission, wanted to make Howl into a kickass lady

Sophocles & Howl (Howl's Moving Castle)

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After her fans suggested, Sakimi then gender-bended Esmeralda into a male

Esmereld (Hunchback of Notre Dame)

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Jack and Sally from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" into Jaq & Sal

Jaq & Sal (Nightmare Before Christmas)

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And while doing her version of male Maleficent, Sakimi says she did a bit of redesigning from the original concept to make it cooler and more evil looking

Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)

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Sakimi's version of Ursula

Urs (The Little Mermaid)

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Hades as a badass looking female character

Hades (Hercules)

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Pocahontas becomes Pocahon

Pocahon (Pocahontas)

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And, here's Elsa from Frozen, gender-bended into Els

Els (Frozen)

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