Under the Sea

[moon_custafer]

Rewatching the Disney Little Mermaid. I'd forgotten how they get out of Ursula's triumph at the end, but apparently Prince Eric had read The Call of Cthuhlu as a teenager.

Also, this may be the only fantasy I can think of off the top of my head where the protagonist gets to stay in the exotic world she always dreamt of -- in most stories she Sees the Error of Her Ways and spends the second half of the story trying to get home.

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[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

Crazy Jane, in Doom Patrol eventually gets to live on the world of equally crazy people that she always dreamt of but that's all I can think of. I blame the MGM "Wizard Of Oz" version of Oz. In the original stories everyone ended up moving from Kansas to Oz.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I recall a few years ago that someone giving a talk at the Merril on YA SF absolutely hated this trend -- as far as she was concerned real SF should be telling young people to get out and explore the universe, not to go home to their parents.