Top Forgotten Princesses Adapted in Comics

Have you ever heard about the first African-American princess, Tiana? She was the only princess of Disney with dimples, or Mulan. The famous princess is based on an ancient Chinese legend of Hua Mulan. She was a female warrior, famously described in the poem, “The Ballad of Mulan”. The stories of most of the bravest women from history or mythology have been adapted in the comic’s universe, to tell those sagas in a colorful way to children, or even to adult readers. Even the gaming industry adopted some of the famous female characters with historical importance. These tales are about the historical significance of those princesses in colored comics’ pages; princesses who are attached mythically, historically or socially with real life scenarios, but, long forgotten. Here is the list of Top 10 Forgotten Princesses adapted in comics.

• Wu Zelian

Wu Zhao, also called Wu Zelian; During the Tang dynasty, China's only female emperor in more than 4,000 years of history. Wu was married to Emperor Taizong, and when he died, she married Emperor Gaozong, his successor and ninth son. She ruled China until 705 AD, when Gaozong died of a heart attack in 690. She was well-known for her "human pig" torture, in which all limbs and tongues were removed, and she had a huge network of her secret police intelligence posted throughout China. In addition to having two marriages, she had an affair with Huaiyi, a Buddhist monk, around 685. During her time as a political and military leader, the Chinese empire expanded significantly beyond its initial territory, reaching deep into Central Asia and the upper Korean Peninsula.

• Khutulun

Khutulun was Kublai Khan's niece and the most famous daughter of Kaidu, the most powerful ruler of Central Asia. Her name derives from the works of Rashid al-Din and Marco Polo. Marco Polo said that Khutulun was a great warrior who fought alongside her father in many battles.

Emperor Kaidu resisted Emperor Kaidu's fervent desire to witness Khutulun's wedding unless she found a suitable wrestler who could defeat her. She made an offer to all of the men in the dynasty to beat her in wrestling and marry her with his father's permission. On the other hand, the condition was that if he lost the battle against her, he had to give her 100 horses. However, she gained 10,000 horses and no one was able to defeat her. One of the last great nomadic warrior princesses, Khutulun is regarded as such.

• La Maupin

Julie d'Aubigny, often known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a talented opera singer and swordswoman in the 17th century. She was born in 1673. She has always dressed as a guy while learning to dance and use a sword. This bisexual celebrity attended a royal ball that was either hosted by Louis XIV or his brother while disguised as a guy. She made her stage debut in Cadmus et Hermione by Jean-Baptiste Lully as Pallas Athena and was known for her operatic voice. Yet she had to put her career on hold and leave Paris after she kissed a young woman at a society party and was challenged to a fight by three different noblemen. She served as the inspiration for Madeleine de Maupin, the titular heroine of Théophile Gautier's novel Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835).

• Mai Bhago

She was based on the actual historical Mai Bhago, who changed her name to Mai Bhag Kaur because Kaur was the surname that all female Khalsas took. In order to save Gobind Singh Ji, the founder of the Khalsa, this Sikh warrior-saint from the 18th century was the sole survivor of the Battle of Khidrana. Mai Bhago was born in Jhabal Kalan, her ancestral village, which is now in Amritsar. She later got married to Nidhan Singh Waraich and was a Sikh by birth. When Aurangzeb sent an imperial army to pursue Guru Gobind Singh, he was the emperor of the Mughals who ruled India at the time. Near the pool of Khidrana, Mai Bhago, accompanied by her forty Sikh warriors who were killed in this battle, stopped and made a challenge to them. Mai Bhago was taken care of by Guru Gobind Singh Ji, and she became known as one of his male bodyguards.

• Noor Inayat Khan

During the Second World War, Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan served as an agent for the Allied Special Operations and was later given the George Cross, the highest civilian honour bestowed by the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries. She was born in Moscow of Indian descent, and she started off as the lone radio operator in occupied Paris. Due to the chaos of World War Two and the ongoing Nazi attack, the typical life span of the work was about a month, but because to her extraordinary skills and fortitude, she managed to hold the job for about five months. Her father, Hazrat Inayat Khan, was a revered Muslim Sufi who knew Mahatma Gandhi personally. She was a Women's Auxiliary Air Force 2nd Class Aircraftwoman. She was later apprehended after being betrayed to the Nazis by a double agent, transferred to the Dachau Concentration Camp, and executed there.