Throughout its almost 100 years as a company, Disney has amassed a huge amount of box office smashes, with many of these movies starring groundbreaking female leads. While some of them are barely present in their own movies (one sleeps through the majority of hers), many of them have become global icons, promoting the idea that females can be far more than just the general damsel-in-distress character they have often been forced into in popular media. They’ve all pushed the envelope in their own unique way, and have paved the way for their successors.