Who is the least likely candidate for an animated princess movie? That’s the question former DreamWorks animator Jason Porath asked his colleagues over lunch a few years back. Over the hour they kept one-upping each other with increasingly inappropriate heroines. Nabokov’s Lolita came out on top.
Throughout the conversation, Porath kept throwing out the names of obscure warrior women he’d read about on Wikipedia binges.
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