How the Disney Characters bracket works
Disney character sorter without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Mickey Mouse or Simba? Elsa or Woody? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 32 options in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 options in the field. The field is reshuffled on every play, so the same option can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Mickey Mouse, Simba, Elsa and Woody.
Mickey Mouse
Steamboat Willie
Simba
The Lion King
Elsa
Frozen
Woody
Toy Story
Buzz Lightyear
Toy Story
Ariel
The Little Mermaid
Mulan
Mulan
Aladdin
Aladdin
Genie
Aladdin
Rapunzel
Tangled
Stitch
Lilo & Stitch
Nemo
Finding Nemo
Dory
Finding Nemo
Baymax
Big Hero 6
Moana
Moana
Donald Duck
Classic Disney
Goofy
Classic Disney
Belle
Beauty and the Beast
Cinderella
Cinderella
Pocahontas
Pocahontas
Timon
The Lion King
Pumbaa
The Lion King
Olaf
Frozen
Scar
The Lion King
Maleficent
Sleeping Beauty
Ursula
The Little Mermaid
Pluto
Classic Disney
Tiana
The Princess and the Frog
Mirabel
Encanto
Peter Pan
Peter Pan
Mushu
Mulan
Hades
Hercules
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 6 completed Disney Characters brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Mulan
13W - 5L · won 1 bracket
72%
win rate
- 2
Mushu
14W - 6L
70%
win rate
- 3
Simba
10W - 5L · won 1 bracket
67%
win rate
- 4
Maleficent
12W - 6L
67%
win rate
- 5
Rapunzel
10W - 6L
63%
win rate
- 6
Timon
10W - 6L
63%
win rate
- 7
Stitch
8W - 5L · won 1 bracket
62%
win rate
- 8
Cinderella
8W - 5L · won 1 bracket
62%
win rate
- 9
Tiana
8W - 5L · won 1 bracket
62%
win rate
- 10
Hades
8W - 5L · won 1 bracket
62%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Trust the first instinct. Overthinking a matchup usually produces a ranking you do not agree with later.
- 2The default run puts all 32 options in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Disney Characters bracket FAQ
How many options are in the Disney Characters bracket?
The pool holds 32 options. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which options are included?
Mickey Mouse, Simba, Elsa, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Ariel, Mulan, Aladdin, Genie, Rapunzel, Stitch and Nemo, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Disney character sorter take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other option grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two options that never met. If you would rather place the options into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the Disney Characters community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a option I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own options, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.