Because Disney sucks. That said:Why is it that female cartoon villains get to be all of these things, to have all of these things? Why do they get to have hairstyles—no, Hairstyles, with a capital Hair—while their protagonist counterparts are drawn small and soft and childlike? Why does Ursula get to have a beauty mark and the most impeccably waterproof makeup a sea witch could hope for, while Ariel gets the same wide-eyed small-jawed face as every other white Disney princess? Why does Maleficent get a headpiece that defines menacing elegance and dark grandeur, while Aurora gets generic late-fifties bangs? Why does Shego get to mouth off to Drakken and read magazines by the pool and decide what is and isn’t her job, while Kim Possible has to leap into action regardless of whether she’s tired or sad or sick or, heaven forbid, too busy?
Know what's funny? We've fed the kid almost exclusively on Miyazaki. Ponyo, Totoro, Kiki, Howl. She watches those things without letup. Tried her on Monsters Inc. about four months ago. She wandered off to do something else about halfway through. She doesn't have patience for forced 3-act oppositional structure. It just ain't her thing.