Honestly, maybe not the easiest concept for Disney to pull off when more than a hundred of their films (a little over half) have a main character with one or both parents dead or missing. Even with just the ones on the box, Ariel's mom is dead, Max's mom is dead, Tiana's dad dies off-camera during the movie, and we all know what happens to Mufasa.
True but it's not canon and all in good fun like Super Smash. I think Ariel is funnier because she has all sorts of reasons to want to kill her dickhole of a dad