Things In Mulan You Only Notice As An Adult

It's expected that a Disney film will have a certain number of historical inaccuracies since they are usually more focused on telling an entertaining story than making a factually accurate film. While it's easy to let a lot of these errors slide, the bad guys in Mulan are pretty hard to ignore.  According to The Guardian, Attila, who ruled the Hunnic empire from 434 to 453 when the empire was at its most powerful, "may have been a contemporary of Mulan's, if she existed."

The problem is that "the eastern limit of Attila's territory was around the Caucasus, 3,000 miles from Northern Wei territory, and the thrust of his military efforts was westwards into Europe, not eastwards to China." In short, Mulan did not get down to business to defeat the Huns.