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Anna is the main protagonist and the heroine of the film, the younger sister to Elsa, the princess of Arendelle and the heir apparent to the throne of Arendelle. She goes on a journey along with Kristoff, Olif and Sven to find her sister Elsa so that she can get her to undo the EndlessWinter that she accidentally caused with the use of her ice powers.
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Anna is the main protagonist and the heroine of the film, the younger sister to Elsa, the princess of Arendelle and the heir apparent to the throne of Arendelle. She goes on a journey along with Kristoff, Olif Olaf, and Sven to find her sister Elsa so that she can get her to undo the EndlessWinter that she accidentally caused with the use of her ice powers.
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Anna is the main protagonist of the film, the younger sister to Elsa, the princess of Arendelle and the heir apparent to the throne of Arendelle.
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Anna is the main protagonist and the heroine of the film, the younger sister to Elsa, the princess of Arendelle and the heir apparent to the throne of Arendelle.Arendelle. She goes on a journey along with Kristoff, Olif and Sven to find her sister Elsa so that she can get her to undo the EndlessWinter that she accidentally caused with the use of her ice powers.
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!''Princess Anna of Arendelle''
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The Snow Queen herself. Elsa had her ice powers from birth, but tried to suppress and hide them (even from her sister Anna) in [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength fear of the harm they might do]].[[note]]She also had numerous tropes [[WhatCouldHaveBeen from when she was going to be a villain]], although those count as [[{{Trivia/Frozen}} trivia]].[[/note]]
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!''King Agnarr and Queen Iduna of Arendelle''
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Ermine Cape Effect is when a royal person always wears very fancy clothes. Subverted would be if we were led to believe that Anna and Elsa only wear fancy clothes, and then it turns out they didn't. We're never led to believe that, so it's simply an aversion.
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* ErmineCapeEffect: Subverted. Anna does have a PimpedOutDress - but it's solely for a ball. Elsewhere her other dresses aren't that more elaborate, which makes sense if she hasn't made any public appearances in forever. According to official comics and books, Elsa is actually pretty casual in her attire. She almost always wears her signature blue ice dress, be it for formal occasions or just walking around town. Even Anna dresses up more than her. Elsa's ice dress is gorgeous but it's not terribly formal. Elsa tends to dress-up more in animation, such as for Anna's birthday in Frozen Fever (though even then it was just a relatively simple summer dress).
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* ErmineCapeEffect: Subverted. According to official comics and books, Elsa is actually pretty casual in her attire. She almost always wears her signature blue ice dress, be it for formal occasions or just walking around town. Even Anna dresses up more than her. Elsa's ice dress is gorgeous but it's not terribly formal. Elsa tends to dress-up more in animation, such as for Anna's birthday in Frozen Fever (though even then it was just a relatively simple summer dress).
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the trope is already there, and you accidentally added this to Elsa
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* TheCutie: Played Straight and how! Anna is the epitome of sweetness, goodness and kindness. She's an AllLovingHero and a FriendToAllLivingThings which makes it easy for the audience to like her and root for her.
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* ErmineCapeEffect: Subverted. Anna does have a PimpedOutDress - but it's solely for a ball. Elsewhere her other dresses aren't that more elaborate, which makes sense if she hasn't made any public appearances in forever. According to official comics and books, Elsa is actually pretty casual in her attire. She almost always wears her signature blue ice dress, be it for formal occasions or just walking around town. Even Anna dresses up more than her. Elsa's ice dress is gorgeous but it's not terribly formal. Elsa tends to dress-up more in animation, such as for Anna's birthday in Frozen Fever (though even then it was just a relatively simple summer dress).
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* NiceGirl: Always sweet, cheerful, and kind, though [[BewareTheNiceOnes she has her limits]].
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* NiceGirl: Always Exaggerated to the point where she's more of an AllLovingHero. Anna is always sweet, cheerful, and kind, though [[BewareTheNiceOnes she has her limits]].limits]]. She's such a good person that she is an AllLovingHero who constantly uses ThePowerOfLove to fix everything bad that happens. Never mind the fact that despite her DarkAndTroubledPast, she still remains kind, empathetic and compassionate and never turned bitter, hateful, resentful or angry.
* NiceHat: Anna is seen wearing a purple/magenta skullcap to wear over her head so that she doesn't freeze in the EndlessWinter that was set off by Elsa. It's a part of her winter wardrobe that she wears throughout the majority of the story.
* NiceHat: Anna is seen wearing a purple/magenta skullcap to wear over her head so that she doesn't freeze in the EndlessWinter that was set off by Elsa. It's a part of her winter wardrobe that she wears throughout the majority of the story.
* PimpedOutCape: Anna has a green cape she wore to go searching for her sister, and later [[StylishProtectionGear a warmer pink cape]].
* PrimAndProperBun: Anna's hair is put up into a neat, perfectly shaped bun at Elsa's coronation. A clear contrast to the way she normally wears her hair, which is in GirlishPigtails that are braided.
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* StylishProtectionGear: The only winter clothes available at Wandering Oaken's Trading Post & Sauna not only conveniently fit her, but also look quite nice.
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* StylishProtectionGear: Justified. Elsa accidentally puts her kingdom in an EndlessWinter, and her sister Anna goes to find her. Anna then has to ditch her summer clothes for winter gear. The only winter clothes available at Wandering Oaken's Trading Post & Sauna not only conveniently fit her, but also look quite nice.
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* TheCutie: Played Straight and how! Anna is the epitome of sweetness, goodness and kindness. She's an AllLovingHero and a FriendToAllLivingThings which makes it easy for the audience to like her and root for her.
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* ErmineCapeEffect: Subverted. According to official comics and books, Elsa is actually pretty casual in her attire. She almost always wears her signature blue ice dress, be it for formal occasions or just walking around town. Even Anna dresses up more than her. Elsa's ice dress is gorgeous but it's not terribly formal. Elsa tends to dress-up more in animation, such as for Anna's birthday in Frozen Fever (though even then it was just a relatively simple summer dress).
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* BirdsOfAFeather: What initially draws her to Hans is her belief that they are the same; looking for love, overlooked by their siblings, etc.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: What initially draws her to Hans is her belief that they are the same; the youngest child of their respective families, looking for love, overlooked by their siblings, etc.
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!''Princess Anna of Arendelle''
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!''King Agnarr and Queen Iduna of Arendelle''
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* LoveFreak: Anna is extremely obsessed with the idea of true love. She also has a strong belief that using ThePowerOfLove for everything will bring happiness and peace. Unfortunately, her desire to use love for everything causes her to fall prey to other people's manipulations of her feelings and emotions such as Hans for example. Hans knew that Anna was incredibly naive and idealistic about the concept of true love and he basically exploited Anna's weakness by using her to gain access of Arendelle so that he could control it. Anna's strong ability to love is both a strength and a weakness of different reasons. It's a strength because it helps her to try and always see the good in people, helped to save her sister from eternal isolation, and saved Arendelle from suffering an EndlessWinter. But it's also a weakness because she can fall prey to people playing on her emotions by using love and using the concept of love to use her and manipulate her, such as what Hans did to Anna.
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* LoveFreak: Anna is extremely obsessed with the idea of true love. She also has a strong belief that using ThePowerOfLove for everything will bring happiness and peace. Unfortunately, her desire to use love for everything causes her to fall prey to other people's manipulations of her feelings and emotions such as Hans for example. Hans knew that Anna was incredibly naive and idealistic about the concept of true love and he basically exploited Anna's weakness by using her to gain access of Arendelle so that he could control it. Anna's strong ability to love is both a strength and a weakness of different reasons. It's a strength because it helps her to try and always see the good in people, helped to save her sister from eternal isolation, and saved Arendelle from suffering an EndlessWinter. But it's also a weakness because she can fall prey to people playing on her emotions by using love and using the concept of love to use her and manipulate her, such as what Hans did to Anna.
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* BadassCape: Anna wears a magenta or purple cape throughout the entire movie and she kicks a lot of ass while wearing it. She goes trenching through thick snow, battling off a pack of wolves and saving Kristoff, climbing up heights such as mountains, and standing up to a large snow monster.
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* LoveFreak: Anna is extremely obsessed with the idea of true love. She also has a strong belief that using ThePowerOfLove for everything will bring happiness and peace. Unfortunately, her desire to use love for everything causes her to fall prey to other people's manipulations of her feelings and emotions such as Hans for example. Hans knew that Anna was incredibly naive and idealistic about the concept of true love and he basically exploited Anna's weakness by using her to gain access of Arendelle so that he could control it. Anna's ability to love is a strength because it helps her see the good and people and it helped to save her sister and Arendelle. But it's also a weakness because people like Hans took advantage of Anna and her strong ability to love.
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* LoveFreak: Anna is extremely obsessed with the idea of true love. She also has a strong belief that using ThePowerOfLove for everything will bring happiness and peace. Unfortunately, her desire to use love for everything causes her to fall prey to other people's manipulations of her feelings and emotions such as Hans for example. Hans knew that Anna was incredibly naive and idealistic about the concept of true love and he basically exploited Anna's weakness by using her to gain access of Arendelle so that he could control it. Anna's strong ability to love is both a strength and a weakness of different reasons. It's a strength because it helps her to try and always see the good and people and it in people, helped to save her sister from eternal isolation, and Arendelle. saved Arendelle from suffering an EndlessWinter. But it's also a weakness because she can fall prey to people like playing on her emotions by using love and using the concept of love to use her and manipulate her, such as what Hans took advantage of Anna and her strong ability did to love.Anna.
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* LoveFreak: Anna is extremely obsessed with the idea of true love. She also has a strong belief that using ThePowerOfLove for everything will bring happiness and peace. Unfortunately, her desire to use love for everything causes her to fall prey to other people's manipulations of her feelings and emotions such as Hans for example. Hans knew that Anna was incredibly naive and idealistic about the concept of true love and he basically exploited Anna's weakness by using her to gain access of Arendelle so that he could control it. Anna's ability to love is a strength because it helps her see the good and people and it helped to save her sister and Arendelle. But it's also a weakness because people like Hans took advantage of Anna and her strong ability to love.
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"It could be argued"... Examples Are Not Arguable (and Anna being The Chosen One is not canon in any way)
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* TheChosenOne: Played With. Anna has been described as being the MessianicArchetype role, the one who is meant to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. It could be argued that without Anna in the story, Elsa and the rest of the kingdom of Arendelle would be damned to an EndlessWinter forever. Anna is clearly the only one who was able to conduct a HeroicSacrifice to save Arendelle as she is the only emotional tie to Elsa. If Anna didn't exist or if she died permanently, Elsa and the rest of the kingdom would be doomed. Nobody else would have successfully gotten through to Elsa other than Anna. In other words, Anna could be perceived as "the chosen one" to unthaw Arendelle using ThePowerOfLove.
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removing shoehorning, see discussion. Dogged Nice Guy is also an "unrequited love" trope which is obviosly not about siblings
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* BeastAndBeauty: Both are women, as well as sisters instead of lovers, but other than that, Elsa (Beast) and Anna (Beauty) suit the dichotomy well. Elsa is the reclusive "witch" with potentially destructive power which she has trouble controlling, and Anna is the only one who can help her come out of her shell and gain control of her powers simply through ThePowerOfLove. [[AllThereInTheManual The art book indicates that they thought about doing this visually]] — a few rough sketches from early in the film's development suggested that the original plan was for Elsa to become more unkempt and angry-looking as she grew older, as if she'd given up on personal appearances.
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* DoggedNiceGirl: A familial or platonic version towards Elsa. Anna is desperate to rekindle and rebuild the relationship that she had with Elsa when they were children. She always tries to be nice and friendly towards Elsa so that Elsa will eventually warm up to her and they can be sisters again. In addition, Anna will do anything to have a relationship with her sister, even if she has to risk her life to do so. She went on a perilous journey filled with numerous obstacles to find Elsa. Not just because she wanted to bring back summer to the kingdom but because she was desperate to bring Elsa out of her shell of fear and isolation and rekindle their sisterly bond. Anna's desperation to fix her relationship with Elsa is built out of loneliness and the desire for companionship with the only family she has left. It's justified that Anna feels this way because Elsa repeatedly tries to shut her out for years and pushed her away. This only made Anna more determined to pursue Elsa and repair what was broken.
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* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Anna is considered to be "The Beautiful Sister" as she is extroverted, popular, sociable, friendly, and constantly criticizes Elsa for shutting her out. On the other hand, Elsa is "The Smart Sister" as she is bookish, introverted, sensitive, socially awkward and often judges Anna for being too reckless, impulsive and naive. Although Anna and Elsa don't fight constantly, they have a very estranged relationship due to unfortunate circumstances that happened during their childhood. Anna also has a habit of lashing out at Elsa for shutting her out repeatedly while Elsa repeatedly tries to push Anna away out of fear of hurting her again.
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* BeastAndBeauty: Both are women, as well as sisters instead of lovers, but other than that, Elsa (Beast) and Anna (Beauty) suit the dichotomy well. Elsa is the reclusive "witch" with potentially destructive power which she has trouble controlling, and Anna is the only one who can help her come out of her shell and gain control of her powers simply through ThePowerOfLove. [[AllThereInTheManual The art book indicates that they thought about doing this visually]] — a few rough sketches from early in the film's development suggested that the original plan was for Elsa to become more unkempt and angry-looking as she grew older, as if she'd given up on personal appearances.
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* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Anna is considered to be "The Beautiful Sister" as she is extroverted, popular, sociable, friendly, and constantly criticizes Elsa for shutting her out. On the other hand, Elsa is "The Smart Sister" as she is bookish, introverted, sensitive, socially awkward and often judges Anna for being too reckless, impulsive and naive. Although Anna and Elsa don't fight constantly, they have a very estranged relationship due to unfortunate circumstances that happened during their childhood. Anna also has a habit of lashing out at Elsa for shutting her out repeatedly while Elsa repeatedly tries to push Anna away out of fear of hurting her again.
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As for All Girls Want Bad Boys: Anna has never falled for any “bad boy” traits at any point (she started to like Kristoff after he showed his nice side), and the inversion is simply Single Woman Seeks Good Man. Deadpan Snarker is more of a default mode. Anna does have some sarcastic quips here and there, but she’s too much of a peppy Genki Girl to fulfill the “deadpan” part. Tomboyish Ponytail is for ponytails, and ponytails only. Pigtails are a stereotypically girly hairstyle. Furthermore, you didn’t describe how she’s tomboyish, so the example was zero-context.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Downplayed, Inverted and Subverted at various parts of the story in regards to her relationship with Hans. Originally, Anna thought that Hans was PrinceCharming and a NiceGuy, but later on, he reveals his true colours and it turns out he's not as nice as she thought. However, Kristoff is the one who is actually really in love with Anna, although Anna is completely unaware for the majority of the film. It isn't till later on that she realizes that she has also fallen for Kristoff.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Anna is extremely sarcastic and snarky, especially in her interactions with Kristoff where SnarkToSnarkCombat always ensues. Her sarcastic side normally comes out when she's annoyed or irritated by someone however.
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* TomboyishPonytail: More like tomboyish pigtails, her signature hairstyle that she's been wearing since her childhood.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Downplayed, Inverted and Subverted at various parts of the story in regards to her relationship with Hans. Originally, Anna thought that Hans was PrinceCharming and a NiceGuy, but later on, he reveals his true colours and it turns out he's not as nice as she thought. However, Kristoff is the one who is actually really in love with Anna, although Anna is completely unaware for the majority of the film. It isn't till later on that she realizes that she has also fallen for Kristoff.
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* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: The Gentle Girl to Kristoff's Brooding Boy. Anna is lively, energetic, optimistic yet compassionate while Kristoff is brooding, anti social, sullen, and sarcastic. Anna is the one that gets Kristoff to lighten up and she has a strong affect on the change in his personality. Vy the end of the movie, Kristoff is more upbeat and energetic due to Anna's influence throughout the story.
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* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: The Gentle Girl to Kristoff's Brooding Boy. Anna is lively, energetic, optimistic yet compassionate while Kristoff is brooding, anti social, sullen, and sarcastic. Anna is the one that gets Kristoff to lighten up and she has a strong affect on the change in his personality. Vy By the end of the movie, Kristoff is more upbeat and energetic due to Anna's influence throughout the story.
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* CoolLoser: Justified. Even though Anna is a princess and is beautiful and caring, she grew up without any friends or companionship and she was very much an isolated outcast. It's expected and understandable since Anna has spent 13 years locked away in a lonely castle with the inability to branch out and make friends like she always wanted.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Anna is extremely sarcastic and snarky, especially in her interactions with Kristoff where SnarkToSnarkCombat always ensues. Her sarcastic side normally comes out when she's annoyed or irritated by someone however.
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: With Kristoff throughout the film. The two are both sarcastic and very much a DeadpanSnarker which can only result in them bickering and snarking at each other none stop LikeAnOldMarriedCouple.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Anna is a Type B, which means that her default mood is kind, sweet, loving and caring. But when she interacts with Kristoff, she can become more sarcastic, edgy and snarky. Ironically, Anna ends up falling for Kristoff at the end of the movie, which gives the implication that Anna was snarky towards Kristoff in the beginning because she did have an underlying attraction to Kristoff that she didn't realize or even want to admit was there.
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* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: The Gentle Girl to Kristoff's Brooding Boy. Anna is lively, energetic, optimistic yet compassionate while Kristoff is brooding, anti social, sullen, and sarcastic. Anna is the one that gets Kristoff to lighten up and she has a strong affect on the change in his personality. Vy the end of the movie, Kristoff is more upbeat and energetic due to Anna's influence throughout the story.
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* ICantDance: She turned down the Duke's offer to dance because she doesn't know how. In one of the Frozen comics, Anna teaches her how to dance in preparation for a group of princes she's scheduled to dance with... who turns out can't dance either.
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the tropes IS called Determinator, not "The Determinator", also, see discussion for other tropes
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*** This gets a [[ContinuityNod nod]] in ''Frozen Fever'', where one of the gifts she receives for her birthday is a [[DagwoodSandwich sandwich about as long as her torso.]]
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** If the first word to come out of her mouth after "We finish each other's -- " is ''sandwiches'', she clearly loves food.
***food. This gets a [[ContinuityNod nod]] in ''Frozen Fever'', where one of the gifts she receives for her birthday is a [[DagwoodSandwich sandwich about as long as her torso.]]
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* TheDeterminator: In regards to tracking down Elsa and getting her to return. She sees her sister manifest ice powers, set off a global winter, and then run off into the mountains. Her response is basically 'Wait here. I'll be right back'. This trait especially shows in the scene where she climbs the ice wall, which is as scary as it is funny. The look on Kristoff's face is mostly "You're crazy!", but with a hint of admiration.
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Angst What Angst is YMMV.
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* AngstWhatAngst: Anna grew up lonely and had a miserable, isolated childhood. However, Anna still manages to be optimistic, cheerful, extroverted and a generally happy individual. It's no surprise that many people wouldn't be able to tell that Anna suffered just as much as Elsa did during their childhood. However, she does a better job of hiding her suffering than Elsa, even though she's the one who's TheStoic. Anna is very much the exact opposite of Elsa, who is consumed with her DarkAndTroubledPast.
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* BeautyAndBeast: Both are women, as well as sisters instead of lovers, but other than that, Elsa (Beast) and Anna (Beauty) suit the dichotomy well. Elsa is the reclusive "witch" with potentially destructive power which she has trouble controlling, and Anna is the only one who can help her come out of her shell and gain control of her powers simply through ThePowerOfLove. [[AllThereInTheManual The art book indicates that they thought about doing this visually]] — a few rough sketches from early in the film's development suggested that the original plan was for Elsa to become more unkempt and angry-looking as she grew older, as if she'd given up on personal appearances.
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* BeautyAndBeast: BeastAndBeauty: Both are women, as well as sisters instead of lovers, but other than that, Elsa (Beast) and Anna (Beauty) suit the dichotomy well. Elsa is the reclusive "witch" with potentially destructive power which she has trouble controlling, and Anna is the only one who can help her come out of her shell and gain control of her powers simply through ThePowerOfLove. [[AllThereInTheManual The art book indicates that they thought about doing this visually]] — a few rough sketches from early in the film's development suggested that the original plan was for Elsa to become more unkempt and angry-looking as she grew older, as if she'd given up on personal appearances.
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* BeastAndBeauty: Both are women, as well as sisters instead of lovers, but other than that, Elsa (Beast) and Anna (Beauty) suit the dichotomy well. Elsa is the reclusive "witch" with potentially destructive power which she has trouble controlling, and Anna is the only one who can help her come out of her shell and gain control of her powers simply through ThePowerOfLove. [[AllThereInTheManual The art book indicates that they thought about doing this visually]] — a few rough sketches from early in the film's development suggested that the original plan was for Elsa to become more unkempt and angry-looking as she grew older, as if she'd given up on personal appearances.
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* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Anna is considered to be "The Beautiful Sister" as she is extroverted, popular, sociable, friendly, and constantly criticizes Elsa for shutting her out. On the other hand, Elsa is "The Smart Sister" as she is bookish, introverted, sensitive, socially awkward and often judges Anna for being too reckless, impulsive and naive. Although Anna and Elsa don't fight constantly, they have a very estranged relationship due to unfortunate circumstances that happened during their childhood. Anna also has a habit of lashing out at Elsa for shutting her out repeatedly while Elsa repeatedly tries to push Anna away out of fear of hurting her again.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Anna seems like she may suffer from ADHD ([[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder]]). She displays hyperactive behaviour such as extreme restlessness, an inability to sit still for too long, a serious case of racing thoughts along with MotorMouth and impulsive and reckless behaviour. Considering that she had spent many years isolated away from people and locked in a castle of loneliness, it's not out of the realm of possibilities that Anna could be suffering from a mental disorder and affliction.
* AngstWhatAngst: Anna grew up lonely and had a miserable, isolated childhood. However, Anna still manages to be optimistic, cheerful, extroverted and a generally happy individual. It's no surprise that many people wouldn't be able to tell that Anna suffered just as much as Elsa did during their childhood. However, she does a better job of hiding her suffering than Elsa, even though she's the one who's TheStoic. Anna is very much the exact opposite of Elsa, who is consumed with her DarkAndTroubledPast.
* BeautyAndBeast: Both are women, as well as sisters instead of lovers, but other than that, Elsa (Beast) and Anna (Beauty) suit the dichotomy well. Elsa is the reclusive "witch" with potentially destructive power which she has trouble controlling, and Anna is the only one who can help her come out of her shell and gain control of her powers simply through ThePowerOfLove. [[AllThereInTheManual The art book indicates that they thought about doing this visually]] — a few rough sketches from early in the film's development suggested that the original plan was for Elsa to become more unkempt and angry-looking as she grew older, as if she'd given up on personal appearances.
* TheChick: Excluding Elsa, Anna is the only girl between herself, Kristoff, Hans, Sven, and Olaf. She is also the emotional and feminine centrepiece of a group of characters that are male. All of the other characters' purpose centres around Anna and her journey. Anna's main motivations is to bring everyone together and keep everyone together for the common goal of bringing back summer to Arendelle.
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* DoggedNiceGirl: A familial or platonic version towards Elsa. Anna is desperate to rekindle and rebuild the relationship that she had with Elsa when they were children. She always tries to be nice and friendly towards Elsa so that Elsa will eventually warm up to her and they can be sisters again. In addition, Anna will do anything to have a relationship with her sister, even if she has to risk her life to do so. She went on a perilous journey filled with numerous obstacles to find Elsa. Not just because she wanted to bring back summer to the kingdom but because she was desperate to bring Elsa out of her shell of fear and isolation and rekindle their sisterly bond. Anna's desperation to fix her relationship with Elsa is built out of loneliness and the desire for companionship with the only family she has left. It's justified that Anna feels this way because Elsa repeatedly tries to shut her out for years and pushed her away. This only made Anna more determined to pursue Elsa and repair what was broken.
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* GoodIsNotDumb: Although Anna comes off as TheDitz and is a CuteClumsyGirl who's defining traits are her awkwardness and quirkiness, she is actually rather clever and smart when the time calls for it. She is seen to be a rather HorribleJudgeOfCharacter however such as when she was way too trusting of Hans and wanted to marry him on the very same day that she met him. Elsa and Kristoff rightly call her out on her naivety and foolishness. However, it should be noted that she sometimes makes silly and rash decisions because she's incredibly gullible and trusting of others because of her kind personality and not because she's stupid and unintelligent by any means.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KristenBell\\
(Child Anna) '''Voiced by:''' Livvy Stubenrauch (speaking) and Katie Lopez (singing)\\
(9-year old Anna) '''Voiced by:''' Agatha Lee Monn
The main protagonist of the film and the younger sister to Elsa.
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* {{Adorkable}}: She's a bumbling romantic. Her dancing's even more so. Given everything before that point has shown Anna to be ''extremely'' energetic, you'd expect her dancing to be the same. Not so. She just sort of jigs in place in a very restrained fashion.
* AffectionateParody: Of other Disney Princesses such as the whole true love aspect, wanting to marry Hans when she barely knows him with Elsa and Kristoff criticizing her.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: She gets hers stepped on by the Duke of Weselton while they dance.
* AllLovingHeroine: All she wants is to reconnect with her big sister, and she believes in ThePowerOfLove.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: PlayedForLaughs when she and Elsa are still kids, as demonstrated when Anna climbs into Elsa's bed and begs her to wake up and play with her, then rolls around in mock angst when Elsa doesn't want to join in, only to give in when Anna asks "Do you want to build a snowman?". After the accident, Anna's relentless efforts to reach out to Elsa, who in turn ''continuously'' shrugs her off in order to protect her, are depicted in a very heartbreaking way.
* TheAntiNihilist: Despite Anna growing up in grim situations and having a rather dysfunctional and troubled childhood, Anna never stopped believing that one day, it would get better. She extends the same attitude and outlook regarding her sister Elsa and their relationship. She believes that despite Elsa shutting her out for many years, not being able to control her powers, and accidentally setting off an EndlessWinter upon Arendelle that she is worthy of saving and helping. Her optimistic personality won't allow her to not believe that everything will get better with time and that fighting for it is how it can happen.
* AnythingThatMoves: Downplayed. Anna is so desperate for romance that she will pretty much fall for any guy that she comes into contact with. It's justified because for the majority of her life, she has felt isolated lonely, neglected, abandoned and generally unloved. Anna wanted to marry Hans the very same day that they met. One of Anna's character flaws is that she is incredibly naive about romance and true love, which is something that she learns about later in the story.
* BadassAdorable: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. She smacks down a wolf with a lute, hurls flaming wreckage at two more, saves Kristoff from falling into a chasm, knocks a giant {{Snowlem|s}} over with a tree, and [[spoiler:punches her ex-fiancé in the face, sending him flying over a railing]]. Still the story places more focus on her [[PluckyGirl plucky]] aspects than her action ones.
* BadassInDistress: Saves herself from her curse as well as saving Elsa and stopping Hans all at the same time.
* BadassNormal: Anna may be a normal human without any magical powers like her sister Elsa, but that doesn't make her any less fearless, adventurous and capable of being badass.
* BattleCouple: Downplayed with Kristoff throughout the story until they have a RelationshipUpgrade at the end of the story and become an OfficialCouple. Kristoff and Anna go on a journey and adventure in order to find Elsa so that summer can return to Arendelle. Along the way on their journey, they encounter many times when they have to battle numerous obstacles such as wolves and a large ice monster.
* BettyAndVeronica: Anna is the Archie to Kristoff's Veronica (manly ice farmer) and Hans's Betty (cultured prince).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gets angry enough at Marshmallow to throw a snowball at him. At the end, she punches Hans in the face so hard that he falls off a ship into the harbor.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Elsa's life by taking a sword slash for her just as her body totally freezes, which counts as the act of true love that in turn saves ''her'' life.
* BigEater:
** If the first word to come out of her mouth after "We finish each other's -- " is ''sandwiches'', she clearly loves food.
*** This gets a [[ContinuityNod nod]] in ''Frozen Fever'', where one of the gifts she receives for her birthday is a [[DagwoodSandwich sandwich about as long as her torso.]]
** "I wanna stuff some chocolate in my face!"
* BigNo: As she jumps in front of Elsa just as Hans is about to strike her with his sword.
* BigSisterWorship: Despite their estranged relationship, Anna seems to have a strong admiration for her older sister Elsa. She seems to admire her and is amazed by what she is capable of. Such admiration is obvious when Anna and Elsa are children playing together and Anna cannot help but be in awe of Elsa's magic. In addition, Anna is very motivated and determined to rebuild the relationship with her sister as she misses how close they were in their childhood. In turn, Elsa has strong BigSisterInstinct towards Anna and is a CoolBigSis towards her.
* BirdsOfAFeather: What initially draws her to Hans is her belief that they are the same; looking for love, overlooked by their siblings, etc.
* BodyHorror: What she goes through after Elsa accidentally freezes her heart. Her hair slowly turns white, frostbite forms on her fingers and face, and she eventually turns into a solid ice statue.
* BraidsOfAction: Twin plaits for hiking through a magic winter and a mountain.
* BrainlessBeauty: Downplayed when it comes to the "brainless" part. Anna is youthfully pretty, and she can be very idealistic and naive and other characters, such as Elsa and Kristoff, are there to serve as the OnlySaneMan to spit some common sense and logic to Anna every once in a while. This doesn't mean that Anna isn't capable of being smart and clever though.
* BreakTheCutie: Goes through ''a lot'' over the course of the film. If Elsa pushing her away and (accidentally) freezing her heart wasn't enough, Hans's reveal that he never truly loved her pushes her to the DespairEventHorizon.
* BrutalHonesty: She rarely sugarcoats her feelings.
* BuffySpeak: "Beautifuller", "good different", etc.
* BullyingADragon: After Marshmallow literally throws her out of Elsa's ice palace, Anna loses her temper and throws a snowball at him... which does absolutely ''nothing'' but piss him off enough to chase after her.
* CatchPhrase: "... Wait, what?", which was improvised by Kristen Bell.
* TheChampion: To Elsa. Anna is the one who saves Elsa by doing a HeroicSacrifice and using ThePowerOfLove to help Elsa control he powers. Anna is also the one who always believed in Elsa and always thought she was a good person deep down despite her mistakes.
* CharacterDevelopment: Throughout her adventures, the naive Anna came to have a mature understanding of what love actually is. Specifically, that you can't marry the guy you just met -- as such, in contrasts to her FourthDateMarriage with Hans, Anna's romance with Kristoff is starting off at a healthier pace (i.e., as boyfriend and girlfriend for now).
* CharacterTic: Anna tucks a lock of hair behind her ear when she's embarrassed by something she's done or said, and often bites her bottom lip when thinking.
* CheerfulChild: As a little girl she is non-stop cheer and smiles.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Anna was a very idealistic, naive and happy go lucky child. She was the type to feel that nothing could ever go wrong. Unfortunately for Anna, something went severely wrong when Elsa accidentally almost killed her with her magic while they were playing together. The accident had serious consequences which includes having Anna's [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memories of Elsa's magic wiped]], not having social contact with others, and having an estranged and distant relationship with Elsa. Interestingly enough, Anna's actions of wanting to play with Elsa were the catalyst for everything that happened in the story yet Anna was too young and innocent to understand what was going on at the time.
* TheChosenOne: Played With. Anna has been described as being the MessianicArchetype role, the one who is meant to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. It could be argued that without Anna in the story, Elsa and the rest of the kingdom of Arendelle would be damned to an EndlessWinter forever. Anna is clearly the only one who was able to conduct a HeroicSacrifice to save Arendelle as she is the only emotional tie to Elsa. If Anna didn't exist or if she died permanently, Elsa and the rest of the kingdom would be doomed. Nobody else would have successfully gotten through to Elsa other than Anna. In other words, Anna could be perceived as "the chosen one" to unthaw Arendelle using ThePowerOfLove.
* ColorMotif: Green: every single one of her outfits has a green element to it, even her iconic "winter dress", which has green leaves and stems as part of the floral motif.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Anna comes off as a CuteClumsyGirl, TheIngenue, and TheDitz, but she is incredibly badass and capable in a fight. There are many instances throughout the story that she is a PrettyPrincessPowerhouse who is incredibly fearless, courageous, and brave and won't back down from a fight.
* CuteBruiser: An {{Adorkable}} PrettyPrincessPowerhouse mixed with her being a PintSizedPowerhouse.
* CuteClumsyGirl: That incident with the statue and cake is endearing. Apparently, all that time she spent in the castle has made her this.
* TheCutie: Her cheerful attitude and endearing quirks make her rather lovable.
* DamselInDistress: Believed herself to be this because of the ice curse but in the end she changes into a DamselOutOfDistress when she performed the act of true love to save herself, Elsa and the kingdom. Additionally, instead of letting Kristoff take care of Hans, she insisted on doing it herself.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Anna is an extremely extroverted person forced to be nearly alone for all of her childhood. To make matters worse, she doesn't know why it happened, and from her perspective, her older sister suddenly cut off their friendship and then ignored her. Her parents died when she was fifteen, and again she had no emotional support. It's obviously left some scars on her.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: She grows up isolated from everyone except her parents and a few trusted servants, which leaves her starved for both attention and affection. Anna is so in need of both that she agrees to marry Hans ''on the day she meets him''. Given what Hans turns out to be, this is an even worse idea than it already sounds.
* DeterminedDefeatist: Anna is TheDeterminator who never gives up. Even though it seemed as though it was completely impossible or hopeless to save the kingdom from suffering an eternal winter, Anna didn't let that stop her from trying to complete her mission. She endured lots of obstacles along the way and she probably even felt that there was a possibility that she would end up dying to achieve her goals. In the climx of the film, Anna ends up getting her heart frozen after Elsa accidentally strikes her with her powers. Even though she is turning to ice and freezing to death, Anna is still determined to both unfreeze her heart, save Elsa and the kingdom of Arendelle through an ActOfTrueLove. She does so by doing a HeroicSacrifice for her sister and using ThePowerOfLove to help Elsa control her abilities and unthaw the kingdom. If it weren't for Anna's persistent and determined personality, Arendelle and Elsa would still be in trouble.
* {{Determinator}}: In regards to tracking down Elsa and getting her to return. She sees her sister manifest ice powers, set off a global winter, and then run off into the mountains. Her response is basically 'Wait here. I'll be right back'. This trait especially shows in the scene where she climbs the ice wall, which is as scary as it is funny. The look on Kristoff's face is mostly "You're crazy!", but with a hint of admiration.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Falls victim to this more than once.
-->'''Anna:''' ''[after Hans falls on top of her in a rowboat]'' This is awkward. I mean, not that you're awkward - we're-''I'm'' awkward - you're gorgeous. Wait, what?
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Aside from trying to marry a man she met that day, she: runs off after Elsa in only her summer gown and a cape, her plan in terms of confronting Elsa amounts to [[MissingStepsPlan 1) Find Elsa, 2) Talk to Elsa 3) ?????? 4) Elsa defrosts Arendelle]], provokes Marshmallow even after it began walking away...Coincides with the FearlessFool entry below.
* DisneyDeath: Towards the end when she's frozen solid, before the act of true love defrosts her.
* TheDitz: Downplayed. Anna can have her ditzy and clumsy moments, but she is still a functional person who is completely capable of thinking for herself and making her own decisions. She can be rather idealistic and naive in her beliefs and also impulsive and reckless in how she chooses to go about things, but she is still very competent and capable in her own right.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Throws a snowball at Marshmallow, despite Kristoff telling her to leave him be. Needless to say, it doesn't go well.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After years of suffering and depression, finally feels truly happy at the end.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: More modest than other examples, but she spends a lot more time staring goofily at Hans than she ''really'' needs to during his intro.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: She has been said to have the personality traits of Ariel, Mulan, and Rapunzel all rolled into one.
* FearlessFool: Anna's greatest strength and biggest weakness is that she is completely fearless; she will go boldly where others would hesitate, but also tends to be impulsive, and these impulses tend to lead her into trouble.
* TheFettered: Despite being a CuteClumsyGirl who is quirky and awkward, Anna is probably the most upstanding, noble and moral character in the story. She believes in doing the right thing no matter what.
* FieryRedhead: She has strawberry-blonde hair, and can be pretty fiery when provoked.
* FlatWhat: Her CatchPhrase at several points in the film. She even does it to herself early on.
* FlowerMotifs: Sunflowers. They really start to show in "Frozen Fever": her dress has sunflower patterns, she carries a bouquet of them, and her birthday cake has sunflowers as part of the decorations.
* {{Foil}}: She's energetic and goofy in contrast to her serious older sister, Elsa.
* TheFool: Anna can be incredibly naive and impulsive but her heart is in the right place and she uses her pleasant and friendly personality to get by. She can also be a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter as she wanted to marry Hans the very first day that she met him.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Elsa's Responsible. Anna wants to marry Hans, but Elsa refuses to let them get married because they've only just met that day. "More Than Just the Spare", the cut song that originally was going to be used in place of "For the First Time in Forever," elaborates.
* ForHappiness: Her motivation behind all of her actions. Anna does what she does because all she genuinely wants is for everyone to be happy.
* FreudianExcuse: It's not for villainy, but the reason why Anna is willing to [[FourthDateMarriage marry Hans when they've just met]] is because she's a very extroverted person who was starved of friendship for most of her childhood, which left her desperate for any kind of affection at all.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Anna seems to show this trope where Elsa can't, since she 1). Makes friends with baby ducks in "For the First Time in Forever", 2). manages to charm Hans's horse, Sitron, 3). waves at Sven when the latter is sitting outside Wandering Oaken's Trading Post & Sauna.
* FriendlessBackground: Anna was raised in seclusion her whole life without any close friends and little to no contact with her sister, which may be the reason why she's so naive and willing to marry Hans, a guy she just met.
* GenkiGirl: Due to being cooped up in a castle for most of her life, Anna reacts to everything outside with enthusiasm and boundless energy. To the point that she's OneOfUs.
* GirlishPigtails: Anna wears braided pigtails in every scene except those leading up to and during the coronation ball, where because it's a formal affair she styles her hair into a more formal and grown-up fashion.
* GirlyBruiser: She may seem girly, but that doesn't mean she can't pack a punch!
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Anna is considered to be "The Beautiful Sister" as she is extroverted, popular, sociable, friendly, and constantly criticizes Elsa for shutting her out. On the other hand, Elsa is "The Smart Sister" as she is bookish, introverted, sensitive, socially awkward and often judges Anna for being too reckless, impulsive and naive. Although Anna and Elsa don't fight constantly, they have a very estranged relationship due to unfortunate circumstances that happened during their childhood. Anna also has a habit of lashing out at Elsa for shutting her out repeatedly while Elsa repeatedly tries to push Anna away out of fear of hurting her again.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: It's apparent that since Anna was sheltered and had little to no contact with other people or the outside world, she may have become slightly unbalanced and depressed. It doesn't help that Anna has an extroverted personality and needs human contact to thrive. It could also be seen as a humorous example as when Anna mentions that she has started talking to portraits out of desperation, then promptly tells a painting of Joan of Arc to hang in there. It takes a darker turn when the audience realizes that Anna's isolation really has made her desperate enough for human affection to fall prey to Hans' political ploy.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Downplayed. She's a NiceGirl most of the time but she won't always extend her kindness and her compassion to those that are her enemies or people that she doesn't trust.
* HairstyleInertia: Wears the same GirlishPigtails she had as a child.
* HarmlessFreezing: Subverted. Anna is accidentally frozen from the inside out by Elsa, and not only is it incredibly painful for her, it will leave her as an ice statue forever unless an act of true love stops it.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Falls in love with Hans at first sight. Subverted after it turns out he's a villain she has a love epiphany that she's in love with the blonde Kristoff.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Was this with Elsa when they were little; a good portion of the movie's drama is Anna wanting to become close to Elsa like they were as kids and not understanding why Elsa shuts her out.
* HeroicBSOD: After learning of Hans's betrayal, she sadly tells Olaf that she doesn't know what love is.
* HeroicSacrifice: Ends up [[TakingTheBullet dodging in front of a sword strike meant for her sister even as she's]] [[TakenForGranite turning to solid ice]]. Luckily, the CurseEscapeClause involving "an act of true love" kicks in.
* HeroicSpirit: Anna is TheDeterminator and isn't the type to give up. It's her determined spirit and passion that ultimately saves Elsa and Arendelle, despite all the obstacles that are thrown her way during her journey.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Thanks to her parents closing off the castle and raising her and Elsa in virtual isolation.
* HonorBeforeReason: Anna isn't always the most logical person and she can't be highly reckless and impulsive when it comes to planning, but her sense of honour and duty seem to be of bigger importance.
* HopeBringer: Anna is the one who remains consistently hopeful and optimistic about bringing summer back to Arendelle. She also represents hope for Elsa in helping her control her powers.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: When it comes to Hans. It's downplayed, since Hans wasn't ObviouslyEvil like other Disney Villains, and was actually pretty good at pretending to be a NiceGuy.
* HotBlooded: She's free-spirited, feisty, adventurous, and easily excitable. Other than that, it's PlayedForLaughs.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Anna believes that she can persuade her sister to bring back summer to Arendelle by unfreezing it. She is also has a strong belief that Elsa can control her powers because she is strong enough to do so. Elsa, on the other hand, doesn't believe that she can change or control her powers and has severe self doubt regarding controlling herself and hurting others.
* TheIdealist: Anna is extremely idealistic and it is one of her defining personality and character traits.
* IdiotHero: Anna agrees to marry a guy after spending only a couple of hours with him. After Elsa runs away, she goes off into the flash frozen wilderness to find her without suitable clothing, supplies, or even a map, and her only "[[MissingStepsPlan plan]]" is to talk her down.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Anna is someone who DesperatelyCravesAffection because she has been neglected since childhood with little to no human contact. It's understandable why Anna would end up falling for a man that she just met because she deeply craves to be accepted and loved by someone.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Anna is an extroverted person by nature but she was sheltered since childhood. She never got the opportunity to bond with other people and make friends. It didn't help that the only companionship that she had was her sister Elsa who kept shutting her out for years. It is why Anna expresses such excitement on coronation day because she can finally have the opportunity to be around people and possibly bond with others. It's part of the reason why Anna latched onto Hans as quickly as she did because she was so desperate for companionship of any kind.
* InLoveWithLove: She's far more interested in having a romance so she doesn't have to be alone anymore than in Hans himself. She even goes as far as to accept his proposal after knowing him for only one day, claiming he's her true love.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Despite being locked up and isolated her entire life, Anna never became hateful, bitter, or resentful because of her situation. She never let bitterness or anger consume her due to isolation and being abandoned and neglected. Instead, Anna remained kind, caring, compassionate, loving and empathetic.
* TheIngenue: She's been locked up at home all her life, making her very naive about the real world. It's a {{Deconstruction}} ''and'' {{Reconstruction}} of the trope in a Disney movie. Anna's naivety and her status as the heir apparent after Elsa becomes queen leads to Hans hatching his plot to take over the throne. However, once Hans had been neutralised, Anna gains some wisdom without becoming cynical or losing any of her warmth and sweetness.
* InkSuitActor: Anna has a strong resemblance to Creator/KristenBell, even having Bell's lazy eye.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Anna's eyes represent her kind-hearted and naive personality. Since [[IcyBlueEyes Elsa's eyes]] are also blue, one assumes that blue eyes are a genetic trait which runs in the family.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: During ''Do You Want to Build a Snowman?'' in which she begs Elsa to build a snowman with her, not knowing that the last time they built a snowman together, it almost killed her, but there's [[LaserGuidedAmnesia a reason]] why she doesn't know better.
* InsaneForgiveness: Considering that Elsa shut Anna out for almost their entire childhood and was very cold, aloof, and distant towards her, Anna sure didn't have any problem with forgiving her and accepting her with open arms. Most people in Anna's position would have become highly angry, bitter and resentful.
* IronicEcho: Elsa's "What do you know about true love?" is answered after Hans leaves her to die by freezing.
-->'''Anna:''' I don't even know what love is.
* IronicName: "Anna" means "grace", but she's hardly a graceful individual.
* IWantSong:
** "Do You Want To Build a Snowman", in which Anna wants the close bond she and Elsa shared before Elsa shut herself off to protect Anna.
** "For The First Time In Forever", in which Anna is excited at the prospect of meeting new people, and possibly finding true love (also the reprise, in which she wants to help Elsa and bring her back to Arendelle).
* KillTheCutie: Subverted. Though she is left to die by Hans, she gets better.
* KirkSummation: She calls out Hans for his cruel streak, telling him that he's the only person around with a "[[TheSociopath frozen heart]]".
* LargeHam: Quite possibly the hammiest princess in Disney, especially when she was a child. "Do you wanna build a snowman?!" while biking in the castle hallways and sliding down banisters.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Pabbie modifies her memory after Elsa's initial blast hits her as a child, letting her keep the memories of the fun times she had with her sister, but removing all knowledge of Elsa's powers as a precaution.
* TheLeader: Even though Elsa is the one who is Queen of Arendelle and is the ruler of a kingdom, Anna is the leader during the majority of the film. She is the one who leads Kristoff, Sven and Olaf during their journey and mission to bring back summer to Arendelle. It helps that Anna is also a princess and has a higher status than the other characters. Anna is the Charismatic and Headstrong type.
* LeeroyJenkins: Anna can be very impulsive and reckless. She has a habit of doing things without planning them ahead of time. Sometimes her impulsive nature can get her in quite a bit of trouble at times.
* LeParkour: Even as a child, she leaps high and has no trouble vaulting around the castle either. Ironically, she really sucks at climbing.
* LightIsGood: Commonly wears brighter colored clothing and is a kind hearted, noble and caring individual.
* LittleMissBadass: Anna is only 5'0" and she is incredibly childlike, but she is still an ActionGirl and a BadassPrincess that is very feisty, adventurous, courageous and brave. Plus, she can stand toe to toe with the guys.
* LittleSisterInstinct:
** When Elsa runs off after accidentally freezing the castle, Anna immediately sets out in search of her, despite the inherent danger of traveling alone through a blizzard.
** In ''Frozen Fever'', she was quick enough to stop her sister from falling off the top of a clock tower.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: {{Implied}}. If Anna wasn't around, Elsa would have probably remained in her own self-imposed exile within Arendelle's castle, struggling to keep her powers hidden.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: Developed [[SkunkStripe a couple of platinum blonde hairs]] after Elsa accidentally struck her in the head with her ice powers (though due to the trolls altering Anna's memory, she is made to believe she had it from childbirth). Later, her hair begins to turn silvery-white after Elsa accidentally freezes her heart, but it turns back to normal after the curse is broken.
* LockedUpAndLeftBehind: Hans locks her in a room and leaves her to die from Elsa's curse.
* LonelyRichKid: A big reason for her agreeing to marry Hans so quickly is that her castle is big and there are few people staffing it.
* LonersAreFreaks: Subverted. Anna was sheltered and spent much of her time alone and she does come off as a little bit wacky at times, but surprisingly, she has rather good social skills considering her isolation from other people since her childhood.
* LoveAtFirstSight: When she meets Hans she's awed by him and by the end of the night she agrees to marry him. We learn that Hans exploited this trope by faking being in love with Anna so he could marry into the throne.
* LoveHungry: Anna is someone who has always been in desperate need of love and affection from others. The major reason why she is starved for love and attention is because she was neglected and shut out by Elsa since her childhood. As a result, Anna craves love so much that she's willing to marry someone that she has just met, no matter how crazy or irrational it may seem. However, despite Anna's desperation for love and affection, she never turns bitter, angry or overly resentful and remains kind, selfless, and loving despite the lack of love that she received since childhood.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: In regards to both Hans and Elsa in different ways. Anna was desperate for male attention and romance that she impulsively wanted to marry him when she had just met him. Too bad that Anna couldn't see that Hans was not a good guy and couldn't be trusted. And in regards to Elsa, Anna was willing to go through numerous obstacles and put her life in jeopardy all so that she could talk to her sister. Anna was also impulsive in how she went about trying to get Elsa to come back to Arendelle by not realizing that Elsa isolated herself out of fear. However, it should be noted that any rash decisions and choices that Anna made on her journey to find Elsa were all out of love and good intentions.
* LoveMartyr: Despite the fact that Elsa consistently has shut her out and neglected her since childhood, Anna refuses to leave Elsa or give up on rekindling their relationship. Elsa has repeatedly been aloof, cold and distant towards Anna while Anna has been nothing but loving, supportive and understanding of Elsa regardless of how Elsa has always treated her. As a result, Anna can come off as an ExtremeDoormat when it comes to Elsa since the relationship had come off as highly one sided and unreciprocated.
* LoveRedeems: It's Anna's love for Elsa that helps Elsa make her HeelFaceTurn and end the EndlessWinter that she started.
* LoveRevelationEpiphany: Olaf tells her Kristoff loves her. This, coupled with Hans's betrayal, makes her realize she's in love with him.
* LovingAShadow: Anna falls for Hans and agrees to marry him quickly because she's desperate for affection--while the person whom she really wants to be close again with is her sister Elsa (not in that way). After reconciling with her sister and seeing that [[spoiler:Hans is not the PrinceCharming he made himself out to be]], Anna is able to move on and actually spends time getting to know her new LoveInterest Kristoff before getting into a serious commitment with him.
* MagneticHero: Despite being socially sheltered for the majority of her life, she seems to have the ability of gaining UndyingLoyalty from people with ease. Much of it has to do with the fact that Anna is an AllLovingHero who consistently chooses to see the good in others.
* MamaBear: Despite being the younger sister, Anna is very protective of Elsa and would do anything to keep her from getting hurt, even if she has to get hurt herself or die.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: She plays this part to Kristoff, being a spunky and cheerful girl to enliven the gruff, asocial ice harvester.
* TheMatchmaker: In the book ''The Secret Admirer'', Anna actively went searching for the person who has been sending Elsa gifts, hoping that her sister will fall in love with whoever this is.
* MeaningfulName: While her name doubles as [[IronicName ironic]], 'Grace' can also mean "kindness and caring," which Anna has in spades.
* MessianicArchetype: Even after Elsa was called a monster by everyone else, had unintentionally caused an EndlessWinter, and had rejected and even nearly killed her by accident... she never gave up on her fallen sister, believing in the inherent goodness in Elsa's heart. In the end, the concept of true love came in the form of a HeroicSacrifice, which allowed Elsa to finally redeem herself and brought Anna back from the dead.
* MissingStepsPlan: Her plan to save Arendelle is basically 1. Find Elsa 2. Talk to Elsa 3.??? 4.Elsa thaws Arendelle. Lampshaded by Kristoff.
* ModestRoyalty: Downplayed. Unless Anna is dressed for a formal occasion (such as her sister's coronation), Anna's style of dresses tend to be rather simple yet elegant.
* MoralityChain: Anna is pretty much the major reason why Elsa doesn't completely lose control of her powers and cause harm to others. It is Anna's love for Elsa that basically keeps Elsa grounded and prevents her from going to TheDarkSide and becoming DrunkWithPower.
* MoralityPet: Anna's presence is what causes Elsa to go through CharacterDevelopment, such as coming out of isolation, letting go of her fears, and learning to control her powers. Basically, if Anna wasn't around, Elsa would have eventually lost control of her powers, go mentally insane and would stay in isolation and solitude for the rest of her life.
* {{Motifs}}: Fire. She's a FieryRedhead, she uses fire as a weapon against the wolves, and the moment where Hans betrays her and leaves her to die is punctuated by him extinguishing all sources of fire in the immediate area.
* MotorMouth: When she enters her {{Adorkable}} mode, she talks much faster.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Has a lot of strength for her size: in "For the First Time in Forever," Anna accidentally hammer tosses a statue bust across a room. She later sucker punches Hans hard enough to send him over the railing of a ship.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When she gets betrayed by Hans, she realized Elsa and Kristoff were right about their objection of her getting engaged to him.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Has a streak of hair which turned platinum blonde after Elsa accidentally struck her in the head as a child. When Elsa accidentally freezes her heart, her hair slowly turns white as she nears death. By the time she unfreezes thanks to her HeroicSacrifice, the streak is gone.
* NaiveEverygirl: A romantic naive young girl who dreams of finding true love.
* NiceGirl: Always sweet, cheerful, and kind, though [[BewareTheNiceOnes she has her limits]].
* NotAMorningPerson: She has a lot of trouble waking up, both on Elsa's coronation day in the movie and on her own birthday in the ''Frozen Fever'' short.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Serves as this for Elsa to help her [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]]. Ultimately, it's her act of saving Elsa that creates the act of true love: the bond between the sisters.
* ObliviousToLove: Has no clue Kristoff has fallen for her until ''Olaf'' points it out.
* ObliviousYoungerSibling: {{Justified}} since Anna's memories of magic are taken away (not out of malice) by the trolls after Elsa's magic almost killed her. As a result, she is unaware of the reasons for Elsa's isolation.
* OfficialCouple: With Kristoff, although they are not married by the movie's end.[[note]] In her appearance in Series/OnceUponATime she and Kristoff date for two years before marrying[[/note]]
* OhCrap: She has a rather huge one while discovering Hans' true self.
* OneHeadTaller: Or perhaps one head shorter. With Kristoff, who is taller than her by a head and is also built much larger, adding a bit of HugeGuyTinyGirl into the mix.
* TheOnlyOne: Anna was the only one who could convince Elsa to unfreeze or defrost Arendelle. Nobody else would have been successful, as Anna is the sole emotional tie that Elsa has left.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The moment Elsa runs off and Anna prepares to make chase, there is a very distinct difference in how she speaks when she says "Bring me my horse, please," and her tone when placing Hans in charge during her absence. It is a ''remarkable'' difference from her normal demeanor and shows just how important Elsa is to her. Compare and contrast her slightly less commanding tone and request when she solicits Kristoff for help the following night.
* OrphansOrdeal: At the end of 'Do You Want To Build a Snowman', after her parents' death, she collapses against her sister's bedroom door, sobbing and begging Elsa for company.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Her cut song ''More Than Just The Spare'' helped shape her character even if it didn't make it into the movie. Elsa is simply better at everything than her and the one who will inherit the throne.
* TheParagon: Anna is the one who inspires Elsa to learn how to control her powers through ThePowerOfLove. Without Anna, Elsa would be isolated and would let her powers get completely out of control.
* PimpedOutDress:
** Her dress during the coronation is several shades of green, has large pleats all around the billowy skirt, and is covered with intricate rosemaling.
** Her winter outfit, which she acquires during her search for Elsa, is less flamboyant but still quite detailed and beautiful with its shades of purple and blue.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: She punches out Hans with one punch despite her small stature.
* PluckyComicRelief: Anna is known to be the comic relief character as she is the most humorous character in the story. Her quirkiness and oddball behaviour helps to relieve awkward moments and tension throughout the story.
* PluckyGirl: She shows incredible moxie and ''always'' tries to help. The most action-y instances are when she and Kristoff fight off a wolf pack, when they evade Marshmallow, and when she sucker punches Hans into the fjord.
* ThePollyanna: Promotional material lists her defining trait as "eternal optimism".
* ThePowerOfLove: Her love for her sister allowed her to brave driving snow in little more than a ballgown, climb a mountain and cross a frozen lake in order to [[HeroicSacrifice throw herself in front of Hans' sword]] to save Elsa despite being half-dead at the time.
* PrettyInMink: When she gets winter clothes from Oaken, she gets a cape and cap lined with white fur.
* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: This bubbly princess, who has been locked up in her home for 13 years, was able to help Kristoff take on a pack of wolves, stand up to an ice golem, and punch Hans in the face with enough force to knock him off a boat. Heck, she didn't even need a knight-in-shining-armor to finish the job.
* PrincessClassic: Anna grows up to be an archetypal "sweet-natured, innocent, friend to all living things, romantic" princess.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Her winter cape and cap are magenta and her room is pink.
* TheProtagonist: The story centres on her journey in rekindling her relationship with her sister Elsa and finding a way to bring back summer to Arendelle.
* PuppyDogEyes: Anna definitely has a strong case of puppy dog eyes and sometimes she unintentionally uses them, especially when she wants approval from Elsa or Kristoff.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** In her hurt and anger at being forbidden Elsa's blessing to marry Hans, she gives a short one to her sister.
** Near the end, Anna gives a short one to Hans for callously abandoning her to death and trying to kill Elsa, [[ShutUpHannibal telling him]] that he's the only one with a [[TheSociopath "frozen heart"]]. And she then suddenly sucker-punches him without warning.
* RebelliousPrincess: The theme behind the deleted song "We Know Better". It's about Elsa and Anna as little girls complaining about all the things princesses are expected to do, claiming they "know better."
* {{Reconstruction}}: Of TheHeart. Much like TheChick of old, Anna's main strength isn't so much her smarts, experience or power, but her care for the people around her and her determination to save them from their darker sides. However, this doesn't mean she has to be [[DamselScrappy completely useless]], [[SatelliteCharacter completely based around those she cares about]], or that she [[NeutralFemale can't have agency in the plot.]] StupidGood naiveté and any ideas about dudes solving all your problems are treated as a [[SmittenTeenageGirl teenage girl thing]] she gets to grow out of without having to turn all cynical or lose any of her warmth and sweetness.
* RedheadInGreen: Nearly every outfit she's seen in is green, excepting the mourning dress and the winter dress bought from Oaken's.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Elsa's blue. Anna is very energetic in contrast to her sister's calmness. Reversed in ''Frozen Fever'', where Elsa was more energetic than her.
* RoyalBlood: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Anna is the Princess of Arendelle. Her sister Elsa is the Queen of Arendelle.
* SadisticChoice: Once Anna realizes that Kristoff does love her and went back for her, she hopes she can get a kiss from him to save her life. On the other hand, she sees her emotionally-broken sister about to be killed by her traitorous ex-fiancé. It was her life or her sister's. She chooses the latter and it turned out to be a better choice.
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%%* SarcasmBlind: {{Justified}} since she has no contact with anyone around her age for years.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Kristoff. Anna wants to marry Hans while Kristoff seems to have Elsa's perspective on marrying a guy she just met.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Her extreme naivete and awkwardness are a result of spending most of her life locked up in the royal palace with little to no companionship.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Anna is already pretty when she's not dressed up in fancy gowns, but when she does dress up, she looks much more regal and put together.
* ShipperOnDeck: In ''The Secret Admirer'', she's determined to learn who has been sending Elsa gifts so the two can meet face-to-face. She gives up on the relationship after learning Elsa's secret admirer, Freddie, is a seven year old boy.
* SiblingYinYang: She's energetic, outspoken, and extroverted while Elsa is calm, reserved, and introverted.
* SimpleYetOpulent: Her everyday dresses are significantly less fancy than her formal dresses yet her casual dresses are still made of expensive fabric as she is royalty.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
** Anna was initially smitten with [[PrincelyYoungMan Hans]] because of his princely and nice guy demeanor, but it turned out he was just playing her.
** In the end, thankfully, she becomes an OfficialCouple with the surly, but brave and heroic [[GoodSamaritan Kristoff]] who would do anything to protect her and their loved ones.
* SkunkStripe: Anna has a single platinum blonde streak in her strawberry-blonde hair from Elsa [[LockedIntoStrangeness accidentally striking her in the head when she is 5]]. To judge by what she tells Hans, she believes she was born with it due to the trolls' erasure of her memories. Later, her hair turns completely white as she succumbs to Elsa's accidental curse, which hit her in her heart. [[NoOntologicalInertia It disappears after the curse breaks]].
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Anna is subjected to about the same amount of slapstick that Kristoff is subjected to, though significantly less than what Olaf is subjected to.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: Falls in love with Hans and agrees to marry him the first day they meet.
* SpareToTheThrone: When the King was still alive, she was this. When Elsa became queen, she got bumped up to heir apparent. This was exploited by Hans.
* SpiritedYoungLady: In contrast to Elsa, who is a ProperLady. Anna is tomboyish, adventurous, outspoken, feisty, and fearless. Yet, at the same time, she's still very much a lady as she is a princess after all.
* StepfordSmiler: {{Implied|Trope}}. While she was energetic and happy even as a child, it seems like staying that way through adulthood was Anna's way of dealing with Elsa's emotional distance, especially after the deaths of their parents.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Anna has similar features to both of her parents, especially to her mother. Specifically, she has her mother's facial structures but has her father's hair and eye colors.
* StylishProtectionGear: The only winter clothes available at Wandering Oaken's Trading Post & Sauna not only conveniently fit her, but also look quite nice.
* SunnySunflowerDisposition: In ''Frozen Fever'', sunflowers are the theme of her birthday party and dress, fitting Anna's cheerful and sunny personality.
* SweetTooth: Anna has a love of sugar and sweets, especially chocolate.
* SymbolMotifClothing: Both Anna's green princess dress and her blue winter dress have flowers on them.
* TakenForGranite: When one of Elsa's blasts strikes her in the heart, her body slowly begins to turn into really ''hard'' ice. (Instead of the LiterallyShatteredLives you'd expect from her being struck by a sword, it's the ''sword'' that shatters.)
* TakingTheBullet: [[HeroicSacrifice Takes a sword slash meant for her sister just as her body turns to ice.]]
* ThanatosGambit: Though unintentional, Anna throwing herself in front of Hans just as she began to expire earns Hans the ire and disgust of the Duke and many others who saw. After Anna thaws out, they cheer when she punches Hans off the boat, meaning that not only did her sacrifice help her sister end the winter, but it also gave them the opportunity to see what a traitor Hans really is.
* ThickerThanWater: Even though Elsa shut her out and neglected her for so many years and also set off an eternal winter which froze the entire kingdom of Arendelle, Anna never gave up on her and was still determined to rekindle their relationship. Anna has UndyingLoyalty and unconditional love for Elsa no matter what. Anna makes a choice to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice her life]] to save Queen Elsa despite the fact the she (accidentally) struck her in the heart and continually shut her out (in an attempt to protect Anna from the magical power Elsa couldn't fully control). This trope is even stronger because [[CurseEscapeClause she could have gotten a kiss from Kristoff, which would save Anna at the cost of Elsa's life]]. However, ThePowerOfLove saved Anna from her DisneyDeath because her sacrifice was an ActOfTrueLove. In the end, it was Anna's familial love for Elsa that ended up saving Anna herself (from a frozen heart), Elsa (helping her to control her powers through the concept of love), ''and'' the entire kingdom of Arendelle (from the doom of an eternal winter).
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Being from a FairyTale, and being a Franchise/DisneyPrincess, it's not surprising that Anna believes in "True love", wants to meet "The One" in a single day, and [[LoveAtFirstSight bumps into Hans right afterwards.]] Turns out that Kristoff is actually The One, but their first encounter was a lot less idealized. Coming from Disney, it looks like a self-parody, as evidenced by Elsa's disapproval of the attempted marriage proposal.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Part of what makes her a character to relate to (for girls) is because of her awkward and quirky personality.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Elsa's Girly Girl. Although both dress femininely, Anna is the one to stuff her face with food, punch out a prince, rescue her sister in the place of choosing to kiss Kristoff, act awkwardly, be NotAMorningPerson with the hairstyle and drool to match, and ride a bicycle indoors.
* TomboyPrincess: She spends her childhood climbing around the castle and badgering her sister into going outside and building snowmen.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: While she's a TomboyPrincess compared to Elsa, she's still a loving, romantic NaiveEverygirl and her IWantSong was all about finding romance and falling in love.
* TooMuchInformation: Her response to one of the trolls mentioning that Kristoff "only likes to tinkle in the woods" during the "Fixer Upper" number:
-->'''Anna''': I did ''not'' need to know that.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Has a fondness for chocolate. Also loves sandwiches, soup, roast, and ice cream.
* TraumaCongaLine: Wow, does she go through tragedy!
** She gets accidentally hit in the head with ice by Elsa as kids and gets her memories wiped clean to not remember her sister's powers.
** Then, Anna is separated by Elsa and doesn't know why, and tries desperately to reconnect with her.
** Cut to a few years later, her parents are dead and Anna tries again to reconnect with Elsa with no avail.
** Another three years go by and she finds someone she thinks is true love, Hans, then has an argument with Elsa about her quick engagement, which reveals Elsa's powers, culminating with her running away.
** Anna tries to get her to come back but only gets her heart frozen by her accidentally.
** She tries to get Hans to kiss her, and he reveals himself to be a manipulative sociopath who leaves her to die and plans to kill Elsa, crushing her idea of what love is, while freezing to death.
** And finally, saves Elsa at the cost of her own life. It's a good thing she comes back to life and things get better for her, but someone needed to give her a hug and that someone was Elsa.
* TrueCompanions: With Kristoff, Olaf, Sven and of course Elsa.
* TrueLovesKiss: When Anna is struck by her older sister Elsa's out of control magic and is slowly freezing solid, it is believed that an "act of true love" is necessary to reverse the process and save her. Anna then goes back to her fiancé Hans to get a kiss from him, only to find out that he's only using her to get at Elsa and snatch the crown of Arendelle, so he mocks her and then says he will leave her to die, at which point she realizes that her companion Kristoff loves her. In the end, Anna forgoes a chance to get the kiss from Kristoff that would save her, instead throwing herself in front of Hans when he tries to kill Elsa and freezing solid just as the sword lands, breaking it. That sacrifice out of love for her sister is what ultimately not only saves her, but helps Elsa ''finally'' control her powers.
* UndyingLoyalty: Anna seems to always believe Elsa is not someone to fear, but is someone who is just really scared and frightened of herself. When Elsa's powers are revealed, and she runs away, Anna doesn't hesitate to go after her. "She's my sister - she would ''never'' hurt me." The fact that she is later dying because of Elsa's magic, and still doesn't hesitate to save her, really proves this trope.
* UptownGirl: For Kristoff at the end; princess and ice salesman and all. As if that wasn't obvious.
* WakeupMakeup: Averted. Anna wakes up on coronation day with what must be the [[http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/PICS%20for%20Web%20Forums/annabedhead_zpsmzq88sup.png.html world's worst case of bedhead]].
** The bedhead returns in ''Frozen Fever'', where the occasion was her own birthday.
** In the ''Frozen'' fan-comic ''Webcomic/CinemaSnobReviewsFrozen'', the Snob describes her as being a bassist for an 80s Hair Metal band.
* WellExcuseMePrincess: Anna can sometimes get really sarcastic and snarky towards Kristoff. Her interactions with Kristoff come off as VitriolicBestBuds at the start.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Elsa were inseparable as children. Then, the accident happened.
* WhatTheHellHero: Anna calls Elsa out on shutting her out during the coronation party.
* WideEyedIdealist: Anna is extremely idealistic and naive by nature, much to her detriment. She is the type that dreams about the concept of true love and romance and she has a strong adoration for adventure. In many ways, Anna is the type to fantasize and she is a big dreamer.
* WomanChild: Anna's only 18, but she can be quite immature and childish. The price of being isolated in the castle for 13 years and no contact with the outside world does take its toll.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She's convinced that her LoveAtFirstSight with Hans is true love. She learns otherwise the hard way when Hans reveals he only pretended to love her to get to the throne.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Anna is the one who is instrumental in pulling Elsa out of her fear, anxiety, and depression. While everyone was afraid of Elsa and thought that she was a monster, Anna was always the one to believe that Elsa was a good person despite the mistakes that she made (shutting Anna out since childhood, damning Arendelle to an eternal winter and abandoning her kingdom, accidentally freezing her heart, etc). Anna is also the catalyst for getting Elsa to learn how to control her powers that she had so many problems with controlling for years.
* YouAreNotAlone: Anna reminds Elsa that no matter what she did, such as abandoning her when they were kids, shutting her out emotionally, or cursing Arendelle to an eternal winter, she would always love Elsa no matter what and that together, they could undo the curse that Elsa put on the kingdom. Anna also tells Elsa that she doesn't have to spend her days alone or live in fear because she will always be there by her side supporting her through it all.
* YoungestChildWins: Inverted. Anna has mentioned that she has always felt OvershadowedByAwesome in comparison to her older sister, which is understandable considering that Elsa is the Queen of Arendelle, is extremely powerful because she has ice powers, and is more dutiful, responsible, serious, and regal. On the other hand, Anna is only the spare and a princess (although she is knocked up to heir apparent after her parents tragically die), is a regular human girl with no powers, and is a CuteClumsyGirl who is quirky, clumsy and awkward.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Twice, both for the same reason: she's unintentionally blasted by Elsa's magic, which begins to freeze her from the inside. The king and queen appeal to the trolls to reverse it the first time, though they're unable to do anything the second time, due to the damage being done to the heart instead of the head (the heart can only be melted by an act of true love, the head can be easily persuaded by memory surgery).
* YouthfulFreckles: On her face and shoulders. Serves to highlight her immaturity and naivete compared to her more regal older sister and world-wise love interests.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IdinaMenzel\\
(Child Elsa) '''Voiced by:''' Eva Bella\\
(12-year old Elsa) '''Voiced by:''' Spencer Lacey Ganus
The Snow Queen herself. Elsa had her ice powers from birth, but tried to suppress and hide them (even from her sister Anna) in [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength fear of the harm they might do]].[[note]]She also had numerous tropes [[WhatCouldHaveBeen from when she was going to be a villain]], although those count as [[{{Trivia/Frozen}} trivia]].[[/note]]
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: She was isolated for 13 years and she will be the 13th princess in the Franchise/DisneyPrincess line. She's also a lot more unlucky than the other Disney Princesses, with her entire life from childhood being one long TraumaCongaLine that only ends after the climax of the movie.
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Played with. After running away to be alone, she resolves to discard concepts like "right" and "wrong," and simply live by her own rules, no longer caring what the rest of the world will think of her actions. Nonetheless, when she finds out she has unknowingly frozen the entire kingdom of Arendelle, she is deeply horrified.
* AdaptationalHeroism: The Snow Queen was a neutral entity in the original tale, open to interpretation as either good or evil. While Elsa fears she's the latter, she's really the former.
* {{Adorkable}}: She's so excited about Anna's birthday celebration in ''Frozen Fever'' that she squeals with excitement at several points.
* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: Ever since she was a child, she has obsessively tried to suppress her ice powers and stay as far away from people as possible since she is afraid that she will hurt others like she did with Anna.
* AloofBigSister: To Anna. Significantly justified as she's like this because she's afraid of hurting Anna again.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It's been confirmed by Jennifer Lee that Elsa suffers from depression and anxiety issues. Given [[TraumaCongaLine her story]], it's not really a surprise.
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* TheAtoner:
** Played with. When she learns that she caused an EndlessWinter in Arendelle, she would ''like'' to fix it, but she doesn't know how, and is too scared of making things worse to try.
** Her desire to make Anna happy in ''Frozen Fever'' is driven by guilt over how much her sister suffered because of her powers. "For everything you are to me, and all you've been through..."
* BadassAdorable: She may not be as {{Adorkable}} as Anna, but when she lets emotion show on her face, you can see the family resemblance to Anna. And even with ThouShaltNotKill in play, her cryokinetic powers are a force to be reckoned with.
* BadassBoast:
** "Here I'll stand, and here I'll stay" from "Let It Go" is a boast to the world that it won't be making any more demands of her identity.
** In the same song: "I am one with the wind and sky."
* BadassBookworm: Her powers make her considerably badass. It is also stated in the book ''A Sister More Like Me'' that Elsa loves geometry. Note her mention of fractals during "Let it Go".
* BadassCape: She casts off her royal cape as a prelude to her costume switch, where she creates an absolutely stunning replacement woven from ice.
* BadassInCharge: The Queen of Arendelle, and also [[AnIcePerson a powerful ice mage]].
* BadassInDistress: As she's not an aggressive person, she's vulnerable whenever her state of mind is affected (in the original movie) or when she's sick (in ''Frozen Fever'').
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: At first, she didn't like Hans very much for his sudden proposal to Anna, wanting him to leave. After he talks her out of killing the Duke's men, keeping them from killing her and offers to do what he can to set her free, she starts to trust him enough to keep her sister safe. Of course, she was unaware Hans was just mirroring her concern and desire from a supportive friend to manipulate her, giving her a genuine reason to dislike him when his plans are revealed
* BeneathTheMask: Anna has only seen her distant attitude for years on end, so she's both surprised and a little relieved to see Elsa having fun talking about chocolate and teasing her by making her dance with the duke. When her cover is blown, it also turns out that she really ''hated'' having to always repress her emotions, showing a playful and creative side with a lot of artistic sense. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of anxiety bubbling away beneath the surface.
* BenevolentMageRuler: The movie is basically the story of how she becomes one, and the hard road to mastering both her magical talent and the responsibilities of a Queen (with help from the most adorable little sister ever).
* BewareTheSuperman: Played with. Elsa is generally good at heart, but she is so afraid of accidentally hurting someone she cares about that she has to shut everyone out of her life, including Anna. The show of her powers made her someone to fear. Once she runs away, she decides "screw this, I'm going to run away and let loose", yet it causes an EndlessWinter. Hans exploits this trope to justify killing Elsa.
* BigSisterInstinct: Elsa loves her little sister, Anna, dearly. When she accidentally struck her with her ice powers when they were little, she locked herself in her room and didn't play with or speak to Anna anymore. Elsa shut her out because she was terrified of hurting her sister or anyone else with her powers again. She continues to have this attitude throughout the majority of the film's events.
* BlessedWithSuck: She was born with magical powers, but started to fear them after her accident with Anna. She actually loves making ice and snow, but could never do so for fear of hurting everyone.
* BraidsOfAction: Elsa wears a French braid while out of the castle.
* BreakoutCharacter: Elsa has received a lot of praise for being one of the most complex, interesting, and realistic characters from any Disney animated film. Countless articles have been written that analyze her character and her behavior. Many fanfics tend to put more focus on Elsa than on Anna. Also, while ''Frozen'' merchandise in general is still selling out of stores months after the film's release, Elsa merchandise in particular is very hard to find, and people have been selling Elsa merch on sites like [=eBay=] for much higher than their retail value. As a result of her popularity, other media that involves ''Frozen'' characters often gives Elsa a more prominent role, such as ''Series/OnceUponATime''. The sequel is said to be putting her in the main character role as a result of this.
* BreakTheCutie: The trauma the movie deals her exceeds even that dealt to Anna.
* BrokenAce: Brilliant, beautiful, artistic, intense magical power, excels at everything, graceful and even a very kind person. However, she has a lot of emotional issues because the graceful perfect act is a misguided attempt to keep her magic in check.
* BrokenBird: After many years of isolating herself in fear that her powers might hurt someone, Elsa has become more cynical and more detached from Anna.
* ByronicHeroine: She is an IceQueen who not only is brooding about her powers, but also exiles herself after her powers are exposed at the coronation. Though, unlike most byronic heroes, this is less due to selfish whining and more because she feels she must detach herself emotionally for her little sister's safety. Her inner conflicts over her powers end up driving many central elements of the plot. In fact, "Let It Go", with its extolling of rejecting the conventions of society -- not to mention her responsibilities as monarch -- is essentially an anthem to a kind of Romantic Existentialism.
* CelibateHeroine: Not clear if it's a direct result of her not wanting to get close to anyone out of fear of hurting them, or if she's [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]], or if it's something else entirely, but regardless of the reason, Elsa never shows romantic interest in anyone. When Hans was [[JustBetweenYouAndMe explaining his plans]] to Anna, he noted that his original plan to take the throne of Arendelle was simply to woo and marry Elsa, but he had to abandon that plan since "nobody was getting anywhere with her". The book ''The Secret Admirer'' shows that while she's flattered that someone has feelings for her and is curious who they are, she's not as curious as Anna or Olaf, who essentially look through every possible man or woman it could be. This suggests she is not necessarily against the idea of being in a relationship, but she puts her kingdom and her sister above all else.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Between becoming queen and keeping her ice magic in check at the beginning of the film, Elsa certainly suffered from this, at least until she [[TheUnfettered gleefully broke those chains]] in "Let it Go".
* CharacterDevelopment: Following her return to power as Arendelle's reigning monarch, Elsa's original personality, not dominant since childhood, makes a return. With a warm, welcoming aura, Elsa rules her kingdom with a genuine smile, and spends most of her spare time using her abilities for the pleasure of herself, her sister, and the entire kingdom. As seen in ''Frozen Fever'', this aspect of Elsa's personality has not only remained, but strengthened, as the short heavily showcased Elsa's lighter side as fun-loving, and extremely devoted to her sister, yet retained her sense of elegance, vibrancy, and compassion.
* CharacterTics:
** She tends to cross her arms when she feels stressed. Notably when she is confronted by Anna during the coronation just before she cuts loose with her powers (especially since it was to hide her uncovered left hand); when she's alone on the North Mountain during the first lines of "Let It Go"; and twice in her ice palace when she realizes that her powers have plunged Arendelle into EndlessWinter.
** When she laughs (once when she and Anna are kids and sneak off into the ballroom to play, and a couple of times during the coronation), she tends to place her fingers over her lips[[note]]although you'd be forgiven for thinking that she does it when laughing at the Duke's [[DodgyToupee poor fitting toupee]] that she's just trying to hide it[[/note]].
** She also wrings her hands a lot. Notably, these are all variants on hiding or containing her emotion, which in her case is often expressed through ice powers that come from her hands.
** She rolls her eyes when she's impatient (when Anna keeps stalling to tell her what happened in Arendelle).
* CheerfulChild: In the beginning of the film, [[HeroicBSOD before she accidentally hurt Anna]], she was just as cheerful as Anna.
* ClassicalAntiHero: She is ''very'' unsure of herself and always afraid of hurting others.
* CompositeCharacter: Elsa takes the role of both the Snow Queen and Kai.
* ConspicuousGloves: Hoping to constrain her powers, Elsa is never without her gloves. Anna later comments that she thought the gloves were due to Elsa being TerrifiedOfGerms.
* CoolBigSis:
** Pun intended, but she used to be this for Anna when they were younger. In the ending, she becomes it again.
** In ''Frozen Fever'', this trope is definitely on her mind as she forces herself to go through Anna's birthday celebrations, even while suffering a bad cold.
* CoolCrown: She initially wore a small tiara but she discards it when she abandons Arendelle. TheStinger reveals that her minion Marshmallow found it.
* CostumePorn: Par for the course for Disney, but Elsa's sky-blue snow queen dress deserves a special mention. It's breathtaking, and detailed to the stitch.
* CoversAlwaysLie: A lot of promotional art depicts her as confidently smug, while in the movie proper she's anything but... save for the moments when she's being herself instead of "the good girl you always have to be".
* CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen: When she recreates Olaf during "Let It Go," she has no idea that he's alive until he shows up with Anna. Taken UpToEleven in ''Frozen Fever'', where she spawns the Snowgies by just ''sneezing''.
* CulturedBadass: The "cultured" part is more prominent in ''A Sister More Like Me'' which shows her many talents. The "badass" part comes from her powers, and it's implied that she's holding back. "Let It Go" unites them when she uses math to create her ice palace.
* DamselOutOfDistress: When captured at the castle she uses her powers to free herself.
* DaddysGirl: During the growing up montage, it's implied that she is closer to her father than to her mother.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As a child, [[MyGreatestFailure hit Anna in the head with her powers]]. This essentially drives the entire plot and is the reason why Elsa is so detached from her sister.
* DarkMagicalGirl: She's a good person at heart who was isolated from everyone due to her powers, leading to her becoming an (unintentional) antagonist. As with most {{Dark Magical Girl}}s, she's eventually saved through the PowerOfLove by her heroic {{Foil}}.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She has to keep her emotions and feelings in check, because if she doesn't, she loses control of her magic, and it can do terrible things to the people. It is Anna's [[ThePowerOfLove love]] for her that ultimately frees her from her fears and unlocks the ability to thaw out the winter.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: The story starts from her perspective and we see what she's doing almost as much as Anna. She's also the one actually driving the plot.
* DreamworksFace: She not only does this in the posters, but also InUniverse at the final line in "Let it Go".
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Elsa may have half the screen time that her sister does, but she's more important to the plot. Jennifer Lee [[http://johnaugust.com/2014/scriptnotes-ep-128-frozen-with-jennifer-lee-transcript said]] the film is "Anna's story but it's really about Elsa."
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Finally conquers her crippling fear.
* EmotionalPowers: Her powers are connected to her emotions. When she's feeling better she creates happier things like Olaf, but when she wants to hide away from the world she creates the massive Marshmallow. Negative emotions like fear or worry tend to give her PowerIncontinence, while positive ones allow her more control of her powers. Embracing her love for others is what allows her to lift the EndlessWinter from Arendelle.
* EmotionlessGirl: For many years, Elsa had to constantly [[EmotionSuppression suppress her emotions]] in fear she would lose control of her powers.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Her ice dress is pretty glittery, which becomes particularly evident when she steps into the sunlight at the end of "Let It Go". There are also sparkles in her hair, as her braid is adorned with tiny sparkling snowflakes.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the brief shots of her as a child at various ages, Elsa wears her hair in a braid until her parents die; then she wairs it in a bun [[note]]The first shot she wears it in a bun is at the very last line of "Do You Want to Build a Snowman"[[/note]]. Fast-forward to Coronation Day and it's again in a bun - symbolizing it's a moment she needs to restrain her emotions. Then at the end of "Let it Go", Elsa drops her PrimAndProperBun in favor of the French braid she originally wore, symbolizing she isn't as constrained anymore.
* FisherKing: The weather changes according to her mood.
* {{Foil}}: She is serious in contrast to her energetic sister, Anna.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Responsible Sibling to Anna's Foolish Sibling. Anna wants to marry Hans, but Elsa refuses to let them get married because they've only just met that day.
** The roles get reversed in ''Frozen Fever'', as Elsa insists on going through the birthday celebrations despite being rather sick, while Anna realises that her sister ''desperately'' needs rest.
* FormFittingWardrobe: Her coronation dress, and especially her ice dress, are tailored enough to perfectly highlight her curves.
* FriendlessBackground: Like her sister, she was raised in seclusion and she doesn't have any friends her age.
* FullContactMagic: Whenever she uses her powers intentionally, she always makes grand gestures with her hands or dancing. When she creates her ice palace, it's more like she's actually lifting it out of the mountain than anything.
* GlassCannon: She's ''very'' powerful, but still ultimately a young woman susceptible to conventional harm if one bypasses her icy defenses. When a crossbow knocks down the ice chandelier, it knocks her out.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: {{Inverted}}. Instead of involuntary isolation giving someone mental/emotional issues, she isolates herself on purpose ''because'' of her emotional issues.
* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: Her sparkly blue Snow Queen dress was ''woven from ice and snow''.
* HairDecorations: Elsa's is subtly adorned with snowflakes. As a kid, she has a blue headband.
* HairstyleInertia: After her IAmSong, Elsa goes back to wearing the same single ponytail she had as a child.
* HatesBeingTouched: She won't let other people touch her, out of fear of losing control of her powers. Not knowing the truth leads Anna to think she's a neat freak. Once Elsa has her powers in check, she's freer with physical contact.
* HeroAntagonist: She unintentionally drives the conflict, creating an EndlessWinter in the middle of summer when she runs away to the mountains to isolate herself in an attempt to protect everyone else from her powers. Her sister, Anna, has to seek her out so that they could find a way to stop the winter she unknowingly caused.
* HeroicAlbino: Has extremely pale skin, white hair, and is good person.
* HeroicBSOD: When Hans tells her that Anna's dead. When Elsa goes through these, the snow tends to freeze outside (also happened when she learned that her parents were dead).
* HeroWithAUniqueName: The main characters follow a trend of filling in parts of the original novel's author's name except for the deuteragonist Elsa, (Hans, Kristoff, Anna, Sven = "Hans Christian Andersen").
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Things were going somewhat okay for her during her coronation and the ball. Then Anna accidentally screws things up and 13 years of hiding Elsa's powers comes to an end. This also causes her to flee the kingdom due to not being able to keep it under control despite her attempts to. More sinister characters attempt to use this to usurp power for their own benefit, such as the Duke of Weselton, and later, Hans.
* TheHermit: She tries this lifestyle for a while, as she thinks she can escape her problems by living alone in an ice castle on the side of a mountain. She ultimately learns otherwise, however.
* HiddenDepths:
** She demonstrates a sly sense of humor during the coronation, when she tricks Anna into dancing with the Duke of Weselton and barely suppresses a laugh at her sister's expense. One of the cut songs, "We Know Better", expands on this, indicating in the lyrics that as a child Elsa would occasionally "freeze her nanny's big behind" or "freeze her tutor's tea".
** Although she is passive compared to Anna, it is implied that she ironically enjoys more thrilling activities than her sister. Immediately after thawing Arendelle, she creates an ice rink for everyone to enjoy without hesitation. While Anna is somewhat hesitant, she skates without fear, even encouraging her to join in.
** ''Frozen Fever'' reveals that she's game enough to dance at the top of a clock tower, despite being delirious from a cold.
* HighClassGloves: Though her gloves were to contain her power, they are still items fit for royalty. Even her coronation gloves match her dress.
* HotWitch: Once she's finally able to be herself and embrace her powers, her beauty really shines.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Elsa is right that Anna is too sheltered to understand what love is. But Elsa herself is also very sheltered having never set foot outside the castle in 13 years. Anna even [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out]] [[LampshadeHanging on this.]]
-->'''Anna:''' What do you know about love? All you know how to do is shut people out.
* AnIcePerson: Has the ability to create ice and snow, which also extends to creating [[{{Snowlem}} sentient snowmen]] and even a dress made of ice for herself. The origin of these powers is a case of AllThereInTheManual from [[http://johnaugust.com/2014/scriptnotes-ep-128-frozen-with-jennifer-lee-transcript Jennifer Lee]] (about a third down the page) revealed the explanation: a child is born with ice magic 1000 years after Saturn is in an alignment with something. This makes sense because, you know, [[FridgeBrilliance Saturn has both rings of ice and rock and a moon covered in ice]] [[note]]Or possibly because, to quote Wiki/TheOtherWiki, "Saturn is associated with focus, precision, '''nobility''', ethics, civility, lofty goals, purpose, career, great achievements, dedication, authority figures, ordered hierarchy, stability, virtues, productiveness, valuable hard lessons learned, destiny, '''conforming social structures''', balance, and karma (reaping what you have sowed or divine cosmic justice) but also with limitations, '''restrictions''', boundaries, '''anxiety''', tests, practicality, reality, and time. (...) Saturn symbolized processes and things that were dry and '''cold''', which are necessary balancing aspects to maintain life. It governed the [[FourTemperamentEnsemble melancholic humor]]." Know a better planet to make AnIcePerson melancholic queen?[[/note]]. It was left out of the final film because the more you explain about magic, the more you want to know about its rules, and more importantly it would have detracted from the plot, seeing as planetary alignment is not a major point unlike [[Disney/{{Hercules}} another Disney film]]. See also WhenThePlanetsAlign below.
* IceQueen: Both literally and figuratively! Though she was rather cheerful as a child, when Elsa's powers accidentally hurt Anna, she felt a need to tightly control her emotions so that no one would find out or be hurt. In particular, Anna feels shut out and disliked by her sister for no reason she can understand, though the party at the beginning of the movie makes it clear even to her that Elsa ''does'' care about her. In any case, her own mask didn't work and when her cover was blown she just gave up on it entirely, leading into her song ''Let It Go.'' Sure, she might have to isolate herself from humanity from the rest of her life, but hey, look at the bright side! At least she doesn't have to bottle her emotions up anymore.
* AnIceSuit: A variation; her slinky blue gown seems much better suited for warm weather. [[RequiredSecondaryPowers The cold never bothered her anyway (presumably because being one who can make ice makes it possible for her to tolerate subzero temperatures more easily)]].
* IconicOutfit: Her silky blue gown is more recognizable and is printed on more merchandise than her coronation outfit.
* IcyBlueEyes: Not evil, but since her element is ice, this fits.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Cutting off Anna when they were kids.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: While she was going to kill the Weselton guards in self-defense (who didn't stop their assassination attempt even after she eased her icy death traps), Hans pleads with Elsa not to do it, because it would only end up painting her as a monster to everyone. Considering she had already accidentally plunged the country into an eternal winter a short while ago, as evil as Hans turns out to be, he does have a point.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: She can make ice constructs of anything, even a whole palace.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Her new outfit was woven from ice crystals.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Downplayed, as her figure is still unrealistic, but not to the proportions typical of the trope.
* InstantExpert: During the course of "Let it Go", she gains increasing control of her powers, going from creating a few wisps of cold, to constructing a crude snowman, to a fairly large bridge, which becomes crystalline and intricate as she crosses it, to an entire palace made of ice. Also downplayed in that while she knows how to direct it, [[PowerIncontinence she doesn't know how to turn it off]]. The former is justified by one of the tie-in books, which reveals that Elsa was a fan of geometry since she was little.
* InternalizedCategorism: Thanks to some childhood trauma, she grows up fearing her own powers. This is especially bad for her since her powers can be triggered by her own emotions, so this made them even harder to control.
* JerkassFacade: Although Elsa may seem a bit aloof towards Anna, this is only her repressing her emotions in order to keep her powers in check, and she really does deeply care for her sister and her well-being, but always thought she had to push her away, just to protect her.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While she isn't being particularly understanding, she's completely right when she refuses to approve of Anna's wedding to Hans on the grounds that [[FourthDateMarriage marrying a man you just met]] is ridiculous, a sentiment [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kristoff]] agrees with. She's proven right upon the reveal that Hans was EvilAllAlong.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Best displayed when the Duke's guards tried to kill her. She's in her ice outfit, as in the slinky dress, cape, and heels, and her powers still make her formidable against them. The only reason they even stood a chance at first was because she didn't want to hurt anyone. Their relentless attacks drove her to fight back, and they were clearly no match.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Ice-oriented variant but her magic is certainly not evil.
* LettingHerHairDown: After tossing away the crown, she knocks off her bun in favor of a French braid.
* LonelyRichKid: Isolates herself from everyone, including Anna, even though they live in the same house.
* MadGod: Technically she's a Neurotic Overpowered-Mage, but [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible the results are surprisingly similar]]: She sets off an eternal winter by having an anxiety attack, and ''accidentally creates life'' while in a good mood.
* MadnessMantra: "Don't feel, don't feel, don't feel, don't feel!" She says this after Anna tells her that she caused an endless winter in Arendelle. To make it creepier, the icy room around her turns red and ice spikes jut forth from the walls as she says this, springing from the dread she is unable to suppress.
* TheMakeover: With no one left to worry about once she leaves Arendelle, she quickly drops her restraint, lets down her hair, and puts on something ''way'' more flattering. Even when gaining control over her powers, Elsa still keeps the look. It's just too cool to lose.
* MalfunctionMalady: In the ''Frozen Fever'' short she has a cold that gets progressively worse. Every time she sneezes, she creates a few tiny armless snowgies. At the end, Olaf and Kristoff herd hundreds of them up to the ice palace. She also sneezes right as she tries to blow on the ceremonial horn which through sheer coincidence happens to launch a massive snowball that knocks Hans into a pile of manure all the way over in the Southern Isles entirely.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Elsa and Anna's strained relationship is not helped by Elsa occasionally acting happy to see Anna (such as her coronation party and when Anna first enters her ice palace), which gets her hopes up, only to turn around and abruptly tell her they can't see each other anymore.
* MeaningfulName: "Elsa" is German for "noble", which alludes to her high status as a princess, her ascent as queen of Arendelle, and the fact that deep down she really has a good heart and spirit.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: When fleeing across the fjord she doesn't realize that behind her the steps across the water are expanding, causing the entire area to freeze solid. The rest of Arendelle freezes over within hours, before she manages to figure out how to actually ''thaw'' the ice she creates.
* MsFanservice: Fairly {{Downplayed}}, but after transforming into [[AnIceSuit her ice dress]], she is the most scantily clad character in the film (relatively speaking).
* MostCommonSuperpower: Downplayed. Though it's hard to tell given the animation style, Elsa's figure qualifies as a downplayed version of the ImpossibleHourglassFigure (see above). It's easy to see what contributes for Elsa's top half and she does have [[AnIcePerson powers]], completing the trope. Also, looking at the sisters side by side, one notices that Elsa's bust is considerably larger than Anna's.
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* MundaneUtility: At the end of the film, Elsa uses her ice powers to entertain her subjects, making an ice-skating rink in summer. She also can use magic to redesign clothing and decorate Anna's birthday cake.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She suffers this a couple of times in the film:
** When she and Anna are first playing with snow in the beginning, Elsa hitting her sister accidentally with her ice spell is what first causes her to hate her powers.
** She's horrified when she learns that her powers have caused an endless winter, and utters the line word-for-word when she sees it firsthand.
* MyGreatestFailure: She deeply regrets how she almost killed Anna by accident when they were kids, and still worries it might happen again (in a SelfFulfillingProphecy, she does almost kill her again). This is the main reason she refuses to get close to her sister.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Very against Hans proposing to her sister so suddenly after the two just met. It's implied the reason she wanted the party over so quickly was to get rid of him. She's not at all like this with Kristoff, who she supports seeing with Anna.
* MysticalWhiteHair: It's strongly implied that Elsa's platinum blonde hair (a shade of blonde that is a few shades away from perfect white) is somehow connected to her ice magic, since she clearly couldn't have inherited the gene for platinum blonde hair from her parents. This is evident when she accidentally hit Anna with her ice magic and Anna gained a platinum blonde streak as a result.
* NeatFreak: More prominent in ''A Sister More Like Me''. In the film itself, Anna admits that she always assumed that this was why Elsa wore gloves so much.
* NervousWreck: Underneath her calm and aloof façade she's this. WordOfGod states that she suffers from depression and anxiety.
* NiceGirl: She is caring, warm, protective, loving, compassionate, selfless, benevolent, emotional, sensitive, and peaceful. Even before her CharacterDevelopment, her JerkassFacade was only made so as to keep her little sister safe.
* NiceShoes: Her ice outfit includes a pair of ice-themed kitten heels.
* NoSocialSkills: Due to being shut up in her castle most of her life and only communicating with her parents and occasionally Anna. When it came time to be crowned, one can tell she feels rather awkward around everyone. And an argument with Anna certainly didn't help matters. She does manage a regal bearing, since that requires constraint and control anyway.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite her EmotionlessGirl facade early in the film, she still has a (good-natured) [[TheGadfly Gadfly]] moment during the coronation when she manages to rope Anna into dancing with the Duke, who is a ''horrible'' dancer.
* OneWomanArmy: Elsa was able to handle herself against the Duke of Weseltown's bodyguard.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: She's the queen and Anna's sister, so Anna goes to her to ask for her blessing to her engagement with Hans, assuming it's a done deal. She says no because ''Anna has just met Hans and definitely has known him for no more than twelve hours''. Not to mention, in real life European monarchies of the time, any member of a royal court, family members included, would need the permission of the reigning monarch to marry and have children.
* ThePerfectionist: She always tried her best to be "the perfect girl" so could keep her powers under control. Even after opening up and learning to use her powers, she still keeps this trait, as seen in ''Frozen Fever'' where Elsa is fixated on giving Anna a perfect birthday despite her cold.
* PersonOfMassConstruction: She can use ice powers to construct an ice castle for herself filled with giant doors and a spiral staircase, all in the course of a single song!
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She accidentally caused a country-wide EndlessWinter.
* PimpedOutDress: She gets two in the movie.
** Her coronation dress has [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny gold trimming]] on the waist and neckline, and floral motifs on the skirt and bodice.
** The dress she makes is loaded with small wintry things that make it glitter.
** She creates another one with her powers in ''Disney/FrozenFever''.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Due to the accident she had with Anna as kids, she's afraid to even ''speak'' to her sister for years. Granted, the trolls mind-wiping Anna and her parents' decisions contributed, but a lot of the film's problems would've been solved quicker if she tried to open up more (lampshaded by Anna). She gets over it at the end.
* PowerDyesYourHair: Elsa has a platinum-blonde hair color not shared with any other members of her family, which is presumably related to her ice powers.
* PowerIncontinence: [[EmotionalPowers Whenever she feels negative emotions]], her powers tend to manifest involuntarily, such as freezing anything she touches. When running away after the coronation ceremony she accidentally freezes the entire harbor and fjord and creates an EndlessWinter without even ''realizing it!'' When Anna tells her what she's done and asks her to lift the winter, a horrified Elsa tells her she doesn't know ''how.'' [[EmotionalPowers The secret turns out to be love.]]
* PowerLimiter: Her gloves allow her to touch things without freezing them and keep her from blasting anything around her with ice on accident. The plot is kicked off when she loses one while arguing with Anna. It's implied that their effect may have been [[MagicFeather purely psychological]], as later on, hand-covering manacles can't keep her powers at bay.
* ThePowerOfLove: How she gains control of her powers. "Love will thaw" indeed.
* PrimAndProperBun: Elsa's coronation appearance is with her hair woven in a French-braided crown twist bun. When she realizes she can cut loose with her emotions, she tears out the braid and allows her hair to hang in relative freedom.
* ProperLady: In the book ''A Sister More Like Me'', her behavior pre-freak out is established.
* ProperlyParanoid: Played with in an interesting way, with a hint of SelfFulfillingProphecy. As a child, she's told to never reveal her powers, causing her to seclude herself inside her room constantly up until adulthood, refusing any physical contact with her parents as well as Anna, so not to hurt them. This seems to be justified when she appears publically for the first time on her coronation day, and, by the end of it, she's set off an eternal winter. Later, Anna momentarily gets too close and confrontational to her, resulting in her accidentally freezing her sister's heart within seconds. However, since her powers are [[EmotionalPowers affected by emotion]], her fear of what might happen if she gets near someone is actually the main reason things go wrong when she gets near people. Once she overcomes her fears of hurting people on accident, she gains enough control over her powers to not ''need'' to be afraid of hurting people on accident.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her coronation cape is purple. Her room is also decorated in shades of lilac and violet, which is more obvious in ''A Sister More Like Me'' and concept art.
* RageBreakingPoint: She does a fairly good job at keeping her powers in check by "concealing, not feeling" her fears... until Anna asks her a few {{Armor Piercing Question}}s and causes Elsa to snap, accidentally showing her powers.
* RandomlyGifted: She was born with powerful ice magic, despite being born into a family of ordinary, mundane human beings. Exactly ''how'' that works isn't elaborated upon, but it's not that important to the story anyway.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When not [[HeroicBSOD freaking out]], Elsa is a sensible, competent ruler.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Anna's Red given her stoicism.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: She doesn't get cold, even on top of a frozen mountain wearing a dress made out of ice. With one exception, she's also never shown having balance issues or sliding on ice. She doesn't even have visible breath like everyone else in the cold. In ''Frozen Fever'' she tries to argue that she doesn't catch colds either, but unfortunately [[CatchYourDeathOfCold that's not how colds work.]]
-->'''Elsa''': The cold never bothered me anyway.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: She has a CoolCrown, a StaffOfAuthority and an orb, a PimpedOutDress, a pair of HighClassGloves, and a PimpedOutCape. She abandons most of it and changes what she ''does'' keep after reinventing her image.
* ShesGotLegs: The skirt of her ice gown has a slit in it.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Elsa and Anna didn't leave the castle in years.
* ShipperOnDeck: In the storybook app of the film, it is revealed that Elsa approved of Anna and Kristoff's love for each other.
* SiblingYinYang: Elsa is calm, reserved, and introverted while Anna is energetic, outspoken, and extroverted.
* SignificantBirthDate: It's AllThereInTheManual, but she was born on the winter solstice.
* {{Snowlems}}: Elsa has the power to create these.
* SolitarySorceress: Elsa becomes one after accidentally exposing her powers as a check against accidentally hurting someone with them.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Unintentional, but her denying Anna's marriage to Hans and running off wound up saving Anna, as it delayed his plans and gave Anna a lesson in trusting people so quickly while at the same time showing her the power of love.
* SpikesOfDoom: She summons sharp icicles not to hurt others but to shield herself.
* SquishyWizard: God-like ice powers, but human-like constitution. She's almost killed by a crossbow bolt to the face and then a falling chandelier.
* TheStoic: Her attempt to shut down her EmotionalPowers; when told "fear will be your enemy," she is determined to not be scared of her powers, which naturally [[SelfFulfillingProphecy leads to her being scared of her powers]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Elsa and Anna look similar to their mother, save for subtle differences in the shapes of their eyes, nose, chin, etc.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's reserved and tries to control her emotions, but she clearly cares for her sister and the people of Arendelle. Note her shock when Anna tells her that Arendelle has been completely frozen. In this case, the 'ice' part mostly results from her self-discipline and lonely upbringing; when the reasons for both are erased, she noticeably lightens up. She's ultimately able to control her powers and undo the EndlessWinter through her love for her sister and her country.
* SurvivalMantra: "Conceal, don't feel." She casts this off later.
* SymbolMotifClothing: Her coronation dress has flowers on it, while her ice dress has snowflakes all over the cape.
* TakeCareOfTheKids: When Elsa escapes the castle, she tells Hans to take care of Anna.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Anna's Tomboy. Elsa is more reserved and graceful, and strives to be a "perfect girl" as a way to control her emotions and her ice powers. She manages to be very queenly even after she runs away.
* TookALevelInBadass: Learned to fully accept her powers and put an end to the eternal blizzard.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Shown in her trademark song, ''Let It Go'' and when she stops the eternal blizzard.
* TookALevelInKindness: After [[DefrostingIceQueen she defrosts]], she uses the PowerOfLove to end the eternal winter, creates a small storm over Olaf so he'll never melt, makes Kristoff the official Ice Master and Deliverer, creates an ice skating rink for Arendelle, and in the final scene, she helps Anna learn how to ice skate.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Like her sister, Elsa has a liking towards chocolate.
* TraumaCongaLine: Elsa goes through one traumatic experience after another, and each one leaves a lasting impact, on Anna as well as herself:
** She accidentally injures her little sister with her ice powers, making her [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength afraid to be around people]], including her sister.
** Then her parents are killed in a shipwreck.
** She's crowned queen but her powers are exposed to the entire kingdom, so she runs away and accidentally freezes Arendelle in the process.
** She's tricked by Hans into thinking that she killed Anna.
** She's heartbroken when Anna sacrifices herself to save her.
* TroubledButCute: She's shown to be rather aloof and brooding.
* TrueBlueFemininity: ''Every'' outfit Elsa wears in the movie is mostly made of blue, up to and including non-fabric items she wears (like the headbands she wears in her single-digit years). The only exception is her purple coronation cape, which is still over a mostly blue/cyan dress.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Until the incident with Anna, after which she became more brooding, distant, and aloof.
* UsedToBeMoreSocial: Before the accident with Anna, Elsa was perfectly willing to play around with her sister.
* VaporWear: Implied, as her stockings disappear after she forms her ice dress.
* VillainSong: "Let It Go", during which she builds her ice kingdom after running away and gleefully allows herself to express her emotions and show off her powers. It's more of a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds doing an IAmBecomingSong, but it's the closest to the trope this movie has. Ironically, WordOfGod says it was ''written'' as a VillainSong, but ended up being what drove them to change her into an ClassicalAntiHero {{Deuteragonist}} instead.
* VoiceForTheVoiceless: When Elsa and Anna first built Olaf as children, Elsa provided a funny voice for Olaf ("Hi, I'm Olaf and I love warm hugs!") to make Anna laugh.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: {{Implied}} during "For the First Time In Forever", by the way she looks up at the painting of her father while she is mentally preparing herself for her coronation.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Elsa were insperable as children. Then, the accident happened.
* WhatTheHellHero: Anna really knows how to call her out for the many times she shut people out, including her.
* WhenSheSmiles: Elsa can be absolutely gorgeous when she shows those pearly whites. It's just that it can be hard to get her in a good mood to see those a lot. It's perhaps most notable during the "Let it Go" sequence, when she first begins to experiment with her ice powers.
* WhenThePlanetsAlign: The circumstances of Elsa's birth, according to [[WordOfGod Jennifer Lee]]. A child is born with ice magic 1000 years after Saturn is in a certain alignment with something. It was meant to be explained in the film but was left out due to being expositiony, and its unknown what Saturn is aligned with and how often it occurs.
* WillfullyWeak: After nearly killing Anna with her powers, she spent a good chunk of her life doing everything she can to keep her powers in check.
* WinterRoyalLady: Surprisingly {{Averted}}, as she never actually adopts the moniker of "Snow Queen" (at least, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen not in the final version of the movie]]).
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Tries to be this, but cannot keep it up; when Anna confronts her at her coronation afterparty, she loses her composure. It's abandoned completely by the end, as she entertains her subjects with a skating rink in summer, skating amongst them as well.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She's more of a repressed loner than anything due to years and ''years'' of trying to control her emotions and powers, only to have it amount to nothing. And the "Destroyer of Worlds" part is [[ObliviouslyEvil unintentional.]]
* YouthfulFreckles: They're not as prominent on Elsa as they are on Anna (which can be partially explained as Elsa is a bit older than Anna), but if you look close enough, they are there.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche (King Agdar), Jennifer Lee (Queen Idun)
Elsa and Anna's parents.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the ''Frozen'' book illustrations, the king has dark hair and the queen has light hair, but in the movie, it's vice-versa.
* GoodParents: While they were alive, they make some mistakes, but they truly care about their daughters and want to help Elsa control her powers.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Agnarr" is a male form of Agða, a short form of Agatha, meaning "good" and/or "honorable". The name Agnarr means "brave" and/or "warrior" in Norse and from Greek agathos meaning "good". All of which reflect his noble intentions towards his daughters.
** "Iduna" can be anglicized as Ithunn, or Idunn/Idun. Iðunn means "youthful", a nod to her [[MumLooksLikeASister youthful appearance.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While their insistence that Elsa isolate herself and hide her powers was well-meaning, the reason her powers got so out of control as she grew older was ''because'' of the isolation. It's only once she opens up and accepts the love and affection of her friends and family that she regains the level of control over her powers that she had as a child. Many fans have interpreted this as AnAesop: When you have kids, don't make them feel ashamed or afraid of who they are, even if society may frown upon them. It will not end well.
* NicePerson: In spite of their ''huge'' mistake on how they handled Elsa's powers, they both prove to be loving and well meaning people.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: After Elsa accidentally injures her sister, her parents conclude that the best thing to do is to keep her away from the world and make her fear her powers. However, this just causes her to build up a lot of emotional issues when the actual secret to controlling herself requires her to ''embrace'' her emotions and love for others, which is more like what she was already doing. Not only was this exactly the wrong way to help Elsa, but it both took away Anna's friendship with her sister and prevented her from making friends with anyone else, leaving her desperately craving affection. The moment she gets out and meets someone, she rushes into the first relationship that presents itself.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Both of them could be maintained in their early 30s or mid 20s, even though they have two daughters, and on closer look, Iduna appears to be a recolored version of Elsa's coronation appearance. It's totally {{Justified}}: ''Frozen'' takes place in a time period when people married and had children much earlier than they do today, and especially royalty trying to preserve the family line.
* OverprotectiveDad: Deconstructed. Agdar and Idun desired to protect their children, so they isolated them from anything that could hurt them, including each other. Because of this, the girls are denied the life experiences and skills that real people need to develop. Elsa becomes an IneffectualLoner who hides her emotions from everyone, including her sister, until they come gushing out. Since her powers are controlled by her emotions, not knowing how to handle either sets off the plot. Anna grows up very naive as to how love, the world and even her own kingdom works, resulting in her getting engaged to a man she barely knows [[spoiler:who turns out to be a GoldDigger and is just using Anna's naivete to marry his way into ruling Arendelle]].
* ParentalAbandonment: Their ship sunk, leading to their death.
* ParentsAsPeople: Though they are very loving, without meaning to, they contribute to Elsa's problem. They teach her to fear her powers instead of trying to control them, and to bottle up her emotions rather than confront them.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Their deaths at the beginning of the film are why Elsa has to become Queen at the young age of 21, kicking off the plot.
* ShownTheirWork: Their graves are written in Runic alphabet, and so their names were revealed as King Agdar and Queen Idun.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: They have good intentions, but isolating Elsa (and Anna) from the rest of the world for so many years causes the plot to kick off.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: They die within the first ten minutes of the film, just like [[RecurringElement most parents in Disney films]].
[[AC:Tropes that apply to King Agnarr]]
* DotingParent: ''A Frozen Heart'' reveals the fact that Agnarr had the tendency to spoil his daughters, and had a difficult time legitimately punishing them when they misbehave.
* HeroicBuild: Agnarr has a broad, muscular body; even though the outcome of his methods of teaching Elsa to control her powers wasn't exactly right, his intentions were noble and out of love.
* OneHeadTaller: King Agnarr is [[http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140109043557/disney/images/e/e1/Frozenkingandqueen.jpg this to his wife.]]
* SharpDressedMan: Agnarr certainly looks the part of a king.
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* CreatorCameo: Iduna is voiced by Jennifer Lee, one of the co-directors of the film.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Iduna's PimpedOutDress is dark violet, just like Elsa's coronation dress.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: ''A Frozen Heart'' reveals that Iduna was this when alive. Although Agnarr is generally docile, when on the verge of losing his temper, it is Iduna who has the ability to calm his nerves. This peacekeeping aura of the queen is also carried over to other occasions, such as Elsa's training to control her powers; the queen being far more patient and accepting of momentary breaks, in hopes of preventing Elsa from becoming overwhelmed.
* MumLooksLikeASister: Idun looks like [[StrongFamilyResemblance a brunette version of]] [[OnlySixFaces Elsa's and Anna's adult selves]] (21 and 18)... even when they're in their late to mid-teens toward the end of the prologue (18 and 15). Due to the former's lack of (visible) freckles, she looks like 21-year-old Elsa with brown hair.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Iduna was the name of a goddess in Norse mythology from one of [[http://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-kidnapping-of-idun/ the most well-known myths]].
* PrimAndProperBun: Queen Iduna's hair is styled like this, in the same way that Elsa wears her hair to the coronation in.
* SatelliteCharacter: Queen Iduna only has one line, and she is shown to be supportive of her husband's decisions regarding their children.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Iduna looks almost identical to Elsa, with a darker hair color.
* SweetTooth: According to the book ''A Frozen Heart'', Iduna has a sweet tooth.
* YouthfulFreckles: While not a child or teenager anymore, Iduna has them. She is in her twenties, which is only a little older than Elsa is during the whole...eternal winter thing, so she is only a little above the age range. (If one looks, in some of her scenes, Iduna basically bears the same physical appearance that Elsa has at the coronation party, only with brunette hair instead of platinum blonde hair).
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Tropes of the cast of Disney's ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' and ''Disney/FrozenFever''.
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''Note: The characters on this page would later appear in a season-long crossover between ''Frozen'' and the universe of ''Series/OnceUponATime''. For tropes relating to the characters as shown in the live-action crossover, see Characters/OnceUponATimeMagicalLands.''
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!!Arendelle Royal Family
[[folder:Princess Anna of Arendelle]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KristenBell\\
(Child Anna) '''Voiced by:''' Livvy Stubenrauch (speaking) and Katie Lopez (singing)\\
(9-year old Anna) '''Voiced by:''' Agatha Lee Monn
The main protagonist of the film and the younger sister to Elsa.
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* {{Adorkable}}: She's a bumbling romantic. Her dancing's even more so. Given everything before that point has shown Anna to be ''extremely'' energetic, you'd expect her dancing to be the same. Not so. She just sort of jigs in place in a very restrained fashion.
* AffectionateParody: Of other Disney Princesses such as the whole true love aspect, wanting to marry Hans when she barely knows him with Elsa and Kristoff criticizing her.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: She gets hers stepped on by the Duke of Weselton while they dance.
* AllLovingHeroine: All she wants is to reconnect with her big sister, and she believes in ThePowerOfLove.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: PlayedForLaughs when she and Elsa are still kids, as demonstrated when Anna climbs into Elsa's bed and begs her to wake up and play with her, then rolls around in mock angst when Elsa doesn't want to join in, only to give in when Anna asks "Do you want to build a snowman?". After the accident, Anna's relentless efforts to reach out to Elsa, who in turn ''continuously'' shrugs her off in order to protect her, are depicted in a very heartbreaking way.
* TheAntiNihilist: Despite Anna growing up in grim situations and having a rather dysfunctional and troubled childhood, Anna never stopped believing that one day, it would get better. She extends the same attitude and outlook regarding her sister Elsa and their relationship. She believes that despite Elsa shutting her out for many years, not being able to control her powers, and accidentally setting off an EndlessWinter upon Arendelle that she is worthy of saving and helping. Her optimistic personality won't allow her to not believe that everything will get better with time and that fighting for it is how it can happen.
* AnythingThatMoves: Downplayed. Anna is so desperate for romance that she will pretty much fall for any guy that she comes into contact with. It's justified because for the majority of her life, she has felt isolated lonely, neglected, abandoned and generally unloved. Anna wanted to marry Hans the very same day that they met. One of Anna's character flaws is that she is incredibly naive about romance and true love, which is something that she learns about later in the story.
* BadassAdorable: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. She smacks down a wolf with a lute, hurls flaming wreckage at two more, saves Kristoff from falling into a chasm, knocks a giant {{Snowlem|s}} over with a tree, and [[spoiler:punches her ex-fiancé in the face, sending him flying over a railing]]. Still the story places more focus on her [[PluckyGirl plucky]] aspects than her action ones.
* BadassInDistress: Saves herself from her curse as well as saving Elsa and stopping Hans all at the same time.
* BadassNormal: Anna may be a normal human without any magical powers like her sister Elsa, but that doesn't make her any less fearless, adventurous and capable of being badass.
* BattleCouple: Downplayed with Kristoff throughout the story until they have a RelationshipUpgrade at the end of the story and become an OfficialCouple. Kristoff and Anna go on a journey and adventure in order to find Elsa so that summer can return to Arendelle. Along the way on their journey, they encounter many times when they have to battle numerous obstacles such as wolves and a large ice monster.
* BettyAndVeronica: Anna is the Archie to Kristoff's Veronica (manly ice farmer) and Hans's Betty (cultured prince).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gets angry enough at Marshmallow to throw a snowball at him. At the end, she punches Hans in the face so hard that he falls off a ship into the harbor.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Elsa's life by taking a sword slash for her just as her body totally freezes, which counts as the act of true love that in turn saves ''her'' life.
* BigEater:
** If the first word to come out of her mouth after "We finish each other's -- " is ''sandwiches'', she clearly loves food.
*** This gets a [[ContinuityNod nod]] in ''Frozen Fever'', where one of the gifts she receives for her birthday is a [[DagwoodSandwich sandwich about as long as her torso.]]
** "I wanna stuff some chocolate in my face!"
* BigNo: As she jumps in front of Elsa just as Hans is about to strike her with his sword.
* BigSisterWorship: Despite their estranged relationship, Anna seems to have a strong admiration for her older sister Elsa. She seems to admire her and is amazed by what she is capable of. Such admiration is obvious when Anna and Elsa are children playing together and Anna cannot help but be in awe of Elsa's magic. In addition, Anna is very motivated and determined to rebuild the relationship with her sister as she misses how close they were in their childhood. In turn, Elsa has strong BigSisterInstinct towards Anna and is a CoolBigSis towards her.
* BirdsOfAFeather: What initially draws her to Hans is her belief that they are the same; looking for love, overlooked by their siblings, etc.
* BodyHorror: What she goes through after Elsa accidentally freezes her heart. Her hair slowly turns white, frostbite forms on her fingers and face, and she eventually turns into a solid ice statue.
* BraidsOfAction: Twin plaits for hiking through a magic winter and a mountain.
* BrainlessBeauty: Downplayed when it comes to the "brainless" part. Anna is youthfully pretty, and she can be very idealistic and naive and other characters, such as Elsa and Kristoff, are there to serve as the OnlySaneMan to spit some common sense and logic to Anna every once in a while. This doesn't mean that Anna isn't capable of being smart and clever though.
* BreakTheCutie: Goes through ''a lot'' over the course of the film. If Elsa pushing her away and (accidentally) freezing her heart wasn't enough, Hans's reveal that he never truly loved her pushes her to the DespairEventHorizon.
* BrutalHonesty: She rarely sugarcoats her feelings.
* BuffySpeak: "Beautifuller", "good different", etc.
* BullyingADragon: After Marshmallow literally throws her out of Elsa's ice palace, Anna loses her temper and throws a snowball at him... which does absolutely ''nothing'' but piss him off enough to chase after her.
* CatchPhrase: "... Wait, what?", which was improvised by Kristen Bell.
* TheChampion: To Elsa. Anna is the one who saves Elsa by doing a HeroicSacrifice and using ThePowerOfLove to help Elsa control he powers. Anna is also the one who always believed in Elsa and always thought she was a good person deep down despite her mistakes.
* CharacterDevelopment: Throughout her adventures, the naive Anna came to have a mature understanding of what love actually is. Specifically, that you can't marry the guy you just met -- as such, in contrasts to her FourthDateMarriage with Hans, Anna's romance with Kristoff is starting off at a healthier pace (i.e., as boyfriend and girlfriend for now).
* CharacterTic: Anna tucks a lock of hair behind her ear when she's embarrassed by something she's done or said, and often bites her bottom lip when thinking.
* CheerfulChild: As a little girl she is non-stop cheer and smiles.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Anna was a very idealistic, naive and happy go lucky child. She was the type to feel that nothing could ever go wrong. Unfortunately for Anna, something went severely wrong when Elsa accidentally almost killed her with her magic while they were playing together. The accident had serious consequences which includes having Anna's [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memories of Elsa's magic wiped]], not having social contact with others, and having an estranged and distant relationship with Elsa. Interestingly enough, Anna's actions of wanting to play with Elsa were the catalyst for everything that happened in the story yet Anna was too young and innocent to understand what was going on at the time.
* TheChosenOne: Played With. Anna has been described as being the MessianicArchetype role, the one who is meant to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. It could be argued that without Anna in the story, Elsa and the rest of the kingdom of Arendelle would be damned to an EndlessWinter forever. Anna is clearly the only one who was able to conduct a HeroicSacrifice to save Arendelle as she is the only emotional tie to Elsa. If Anna didn't exist or if she died permanently, Elsa and the rest of the kingdom would be doomed. Nobody else would have successfully gotten through to Elsa other than Anna. In other words, Anna could be perceived as "the chosen one" to unthaw Arendelle using ThePowerOfLove.
* ColorMotif: Green: every single one of her outfits has a green element to it, even her iconic "winter dress", which has green leaves and stems as part of the floral motif.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Anna comes off as a CuteClumsyGirl, TheIngenue, and TheDitz, but she is incredibly badass and capable in a fight. There are many instances throughout the story that she is a PrettyPrincessPowerhouse who is incredibly fearless, courageous, and brave and won't back down from a fight.
* CuteBruiser: An {{Adorkable}} PrettyPrincessPowerhouse mixed with her being a PintSizedPowerhouse.
* CuteClumsyGirl: That incident with the statue and cake is endearing. Apparently, all that time she spent in the castle has made her this.
* TheCutie: Her cheerful attitude and endearing quirks make her rather lovable.
* DamselInDistress: Believed herself to be this because of the ice curse but in the end she changes into a DamselOutOfDistress when she performed the act of true love to save herself, Elsa and the kingdom. Additionally, instead of letting Kristoff take care of Hans, she insisted on doing it herself.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Anna is an extremely extroverted person forced to be nearly alone for all of her childhood. To make matters worse, she doesn't know why it happened, and from her perspective, her older sister suddenly cut off their friendship and then ignored her. Her parents died when she was fifteen, and again she had no emotional support. It's obviously left some scars on her.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: She grows up isolated from everyone except her parents and a few trusted servants, which leaves her starved for both attention and affection. Anna is so in need of both that she agrees to marry Hans ''on the day she meets him''. Given what Hans turns out to be, this is an even worse idea than it already sounds.
* DeterminedDefeatist: Anna is TheDeterminator who never gives up. Even though it seemed as though it was completely impossible or hopeless to save the kingdom from suffering an eternal winter, Anna didn't let that stop her from trying to complete her mission. She endured lots of obstacles along the way and she probably even felt that there was a possibility that she would end up dying to achieve her goals. In the climx of the film, Anna ends up getting her heart frozen after Elsa accidentally strikes her with her powers. Even though she is turning to ice and freezing to death, Anna is still determined to both unfreeze her heart, save Elsa and the kingdom of Arendelle through an ActOfTrueLove. She does so by doing a HeroicSacrifice for her sister and using ThePowerOfLove to help Elsa control her abilities and unthaw the kingdom. If it weren't for Anna's persistent and determined personality, Arendelle and Elsa would still be in trouble.
* {{Determinator}}: In regards to tracking down Elsa and getting her to return. She sees her sister manifest ice powers, set off a global winter, and then run off into the mountains. Her response is basically 'Wait here. I'll be right back'. This trait especially shows in the scene where she climbs the ice wall, which is as scary as it is funny. The look on Kristoff's face is mostly "You're crazy!", but with a hint of admiration.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Falls victim to this more than once.
-->'''Anna:''' ''[after Hans falls on top of her in a rowboat]'' This is awkward. I mean, not that you're awkward - we're-''I'm'' awkward - you're gorgeous. Wait, what?
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Aside from trying to marry a man she met that day, she: runs off after Elsa in only her summer gown and a cape, her plan in terms of confronting Elsa amounts to [[MissingStepsPlan 1) Find Elsa, 2) Talk to Elsa 3) ?????? 4) Elsa defrosts Arendelle]], provokes Marshmallow even after it began walking away...Coincides with the FearlessFool entry below.
* DisneyDeath: Towards the end when she's frozen solid, before the act of true love defrosts her.
* TheDitz: Downplayed. Anna can have her ditzy and clumsy moments, but she is still a functional person who is completely capable of thinking for herself and making her own decisions. She can be rather idealistic and naive in her beliefs and also impulsive and reckless in how she chooses to go about things, but she is still very competent and capable in her own right.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Throws a snowball at Marshmallow, despite Kristoff telling her to leave him be. Needless to say, it doesn't go well.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After years of suffering and depression, finally feels truly happy at the end.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: More modest than other examples, but she spends a lot more time staring goofily at Hans than she ''really'' needs to during his intro.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: She has been said to have the personality traits of Ariel, Mulan, and Rapunzel all rolled into one.
* FearlessFool: Anna's greatest strength and biggest weakness is that she is completely fearless; she will go boldly where others would hesitate, but also tends to be impulsive, and these impulses tend to lead her into trouble.
* TheFettered: Despite being a CuteClumsyGirl who is quirky and awkward, Anna is probably the most upstanding, noble and moral character in the story. She believes in doing the right thing no matter what.
* FieryRedhead: She has strawberry-blonde hair, and can be pretty fiery when provoked.
* FlatWhat: Her CatchPhrase at several points in the film. She even does it to herself early on.
* FlowerMotifs: Sunflowers. They really start to show in "Frozen Fever": her dress has sunflower patterns, she carries a bouquet of them, and her birthday cake has sunflowers as part of the decorations.
* {{Foil}}: She's energetic and goofy in contrast to her serious older sister, Elsa.
* TheFool: Anna can be incredibly naive and impulsive but her heart is in the right place and she uses her pleasant and friendly personality to get by. She can also be a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter as she wanted to marry Hans the very first day that she met him.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish to Elsa's Responsible. Anna wants to marry Hans, but Elsa refuses to let them get married because they've only just met that day. "More Than Just the Spare", the cut song that originally was going to be used in place of "For the First Time in Forever," elaborates.
* ForHappiness: Her motivation behind all of her actions. Anna does what she does because all she genuinely wants is for everyone to be happy.
* FreudianExcuse: It's not for villainy, but the reason why Anna is willing to [[FourthDateMarriage marry Hans when they've just met]] is because she's a very extroverted person who was starved of friendship for most of her childhood, which left her desperate for any kind of affection at all.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Anna seems to show this trope where Elsa can't, since she 1). Makes friends with baby ducks in "For the First Time in Forever", 2). manages to charm Hans's horse, Sitron, 3). waves at Sven when the latter is sitting outside Wandering Oaken's Trading Post & Sauna.
* FriendlessBackground: Anna was raised in seclusion her whole life without any close friends and little to no contact with her sister, which may be the reason why she's so naive and willing to marry Hans, a guy she just met.
* GenkiGirl: Due to being cooped up in a castle for most of her life, Anna reacts to everything outside with enthusiasm and boundless energy. To the point that she's OneOfUs.
* GirlishPigtails: Anna wears braided pigtails in every scene except those leading up to and during the coronation ball, where because it's a formal affair she styles her hair into a more formal and grown-up fashion.
* GirlyBruiser: She may seem girly, but that doesn't mean she can't pack a punch!
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Anna is considered to be "The Beautiful Sister" as she is extroverted, popular, sociable, friendly, and constantly criticizes Elsa for shutting her out. On the other hand, Elsa is "The Smart Sister" as she is bookish, introverted, sensitive, socially awkward and often judges Anna for being too reckless, impulsive and naive. Although Anna and Elsa don't fight constantly, they have a very estranged relationship due to unfortunate circumstances that happened during their childhood. Anna also has a habit of lashing out at Elsa for shutting her out repeatedly while Elsa repeatedly tries to push Anna away out of fear of hurting her again.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: It's apparent that since Anna was sheltered and had little to no contact with other people or the outside world, she may have become slightly unbalanced and depressed. It doesn't help that Anna has an extroverted personality and needs human contact to thrive. It could also be seen as a humorous example as when Anna mentions that she has started talking to portraits out of desperation, then promptly tells a painting of Joan of Arc to hang in there. It takes a darker turn when the audience realizes that Anna's isolation really has made her desperate enough for human affection to fall prey to Hans' political ploy.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Downplayed. She's a NiceGirl most of the time but she won't always extend her kindness and her compassion to those that are her enemies or people that she doesn't trust.
* HairstyleInertia: Wears the same GirlishPigtails she had as a child.
* HarmlessFreezing: Subverted. Anna is accidentally frozen from the inside out by Elsa, and not only is it incredibly painful for her, it will leave her as an ice statue forever unless an act of true love stops it.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Falls in love with Hans at first sight. Subverted after it turns out he's a villain she has a love epiphany that she's in love with the blonde Kristoff.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Was this with Elsa when they were little; a good portion of the movie's drama is Anna wanting to become close to Elsa like they were as kids and not understanding why Elsa shuts her out.
* HeroicBSOD: After learning of Hans's betrayal, she sadly tells Olaf that she doesn't know what love is.
* HeroicSacrifice: Ends up [[TakingTheBullet dodging in front of a sword strike meant for her sister even as she's]] [[TakenForGranite turning to solid ice]]. Luckily, the CurseEscapeClause involving "an act of true love" kicks in.
* HeroicSpirit: Anna is TheDeterminator and isn't the type to give up. It's her determined spirit and passion that ultimately saves Elsa and Arendelle, despite all the obstacles that are thrown her way during her journey.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Thanks to her parents closing off the castle and raising her and Elsa in virtual isolation.
* HonorBeforeReason: Anna isn't always the most logical person and she can't be highly reckless and impulsive when it comes to planning, but her sense of honour and duty seem to be of bigger importance.
* HopeBringer: Anna is the one who remains consistently hopeful and optimistic about bringing summer back to Arendelle. She also represents hope for Elsa in helping her control her powers.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: When it comes to Hans. It's downplayed, since Hans wasn't ObviouslyEvil like other Disney Villains, and was actually pretty good at pretending to be a NiceGuy.
* HotBlooded: She's free-spirited, feisty, adventurous, and easily excitable. Other than that, it's PlayedForLaughs.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Anna believes that she can persuade her sister to bring back summer to Arendelle by unfreezing it. She is also has a strong belief that Elsa can control her powers because she is strong enough to do so. Elsa, on the other hand, doesn't believe that she can change or control her powers and has severe self doubt regarding controlling herself and hurting others.
* TheIdealist: Anna is extremely idealistic and it is one of her defining personality and character traits.
* IdiotHero: Anna agrees to marry a guy after spending only a couple of hours with him. After Elsa runs away, she goes off into the flash frozen wilderness to find her without suitable clothing, supplies, or even a map, and her only "[[MissingStepsPlan plan]]" is to talk her down.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Anna is someone who DesperatelyCravesAffection because she has been neglected since childhood with little to no human contact. It's understandable why Anna would end up falling for a man that she just met because she deeply craves to be accepted and loved by someone.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Anna is an extroverted person by nature but she was sheltered since childhood. She never got the opportunity to bond with other people and make friends. It didn't help that the only companionship that she had was her sister Elsa who kept shutting her out for years. It is why Anna expresses such excitement on coronation day because she can finally have the opportunity to be around people and possibly bond with others. It's part of the reason why Anna latched onto Hans as quickly as she did because she was so desperate for companionship of any kind.
* InLoveWithLove: She's far more interested in having a romance so she doesn't have to be alone anymore than in Hans himself. She even goes as far as to accept his proposal after knowing him for only one day, claiming he's her true love.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Despite being locked up and isolated her entire life, Anna never became hateful, bitter, or resentful because of her situation. She never let bitterness or anger consume her due to isolation and being abandoned and neglected. Instead, Anna remained kind, caring, compassionate, loving and empathetic.
* TheIngenue: She's been locked up at home all her life, making her very naive about the real world. It's a {{Deconstruction}} ''and'' {{Reconstruction}} of the trope in a Disney movie. Anna's naivety and her status as the heir apparent after Elsa becomes queen leads to Hans hatching his plot to take over the throne. However, once Hans had been neutralised, Anna gains some wisdom without becoming cynical or losing any of her warmth and sweetness.
* InkSuitActor: Anna has a strong resemblance to Creator/KristenBell, even having Bell's lazy eye.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Anna's eyes represent her kind-hearted and naive personality. Since [[IcyBlueEyes Elsa's eyes]] are also blue, one assumes that blue eyes are a genetic trait which runs in the family.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: During ''Do You Want to Build a Snowman?'' in which she begs Elsa to build a snowman with her, not knowing that the last time they built a snowman together, it almost killed her, but there's [[LaserGuidedAmnesia a reason]] why she doesn't know better.
* InsaneForgiveness: Considering that Elsa shut Anna out for almost their entire childhood and was very cold, aloof, and distant towards her, Anna sure didn't have any problem with forgiving her and accepting her with open arms. Most people in Anna's position would have become highly angry, bitter and resentful.
* IronicEcho: Elsa's "What do you know about true love?" is answered after Hans leaves her to die by freezing.
-->'''Anna:''' I don't even know what love is.
* IronicName: "Anna" means "grace", but she's hardly a graceful individual.
* IWantSong:
** "Do You Want To Build a Snowman", in which Anna wants the close bond she and Elsa shared before Elsa shut herself off to protect Anna.
** "For The First Time In Forever", in which Anna is excited at the prospect of meeting new people, and possibly finding true love (also the reprise, in which she wants to help Elsa and bring her back to Arendelle).
* KillTheCutie: Subverted. Though she is left to die by Hans, she gets better.
* KirkSummation: She calls out Hans for his cruel streak, telling him that he's the only person around with a "[[TheSociopath frozen heart]]".
* LargeHam: Quite possibly the hammiest princess in Disney, especially when she was a child. "Do you wanna build a snowman?!" while biking in the castle hallways and sliding down banisters.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Pabbie modifies her memory after Elsa's initial blast hits her as a child, letting her keep the memories of the fun times she had with her sister, but removing all knowledge of Elsa's powers as a precaution.
* TheLeader: Even though Elsa is the one who is Queen of Arendelle and is the ruler of a kingdom, Anna is the leader during the majority of the film. She is the one who leads Kristoff, Sven and Olaf during their journey and mission to bring back summer to Arendelle. It helps that Anna is also a princess and has a higher status than the other characters. Anna is the Charismatic and Headstrong type.
* LeeroyJenkins: Anna can be very impulsive and reckless. She has a habit of doing things without planning them ahead of time. Sometimes her impulsive nature can get her in quite a bit of trouble at times.
* LeParkour: Even as a child, she leaps high and has no trouble vaulting around the castle either. Ironically, she really sucks at climbing.
* LightIsGood: Commonly wears brighter colored clothing and is a kind hearted, noble and caring individual.
* LittleMissBadass: Anna is only 5'0" and she is incredibly childlike, but she is still an ActionGirl and a BadassPrincess that is very feisty, adventurous, courageous and brave. Plus, she can stand toe to toe with the guys.
* LittleSisterInstinct:
** When Elsa runs off after accidentally freezing the castle, Anna immediately sets out in search of her, despite the inherent danger of traveling alone through a blizzard.
** In ''Frozen Fever'', she was quick enough to stop her sister from falling off the top of a clock tower.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: {{Implied}}. If Anna wasn't around, Elsa would have probably remained in her own self-imposed exile within Arendelle's castle, struggling to keep her powers hidden.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: Developed [[SkunkStripe a couple of platinum blonde hairs]] after Elsa accidentally struck her in the head with her ice powers (though due to the trolls altering Anna's memory, she is made to believe she had it from childbirth). Later, her hair begins to turn silvery-white after Elsa accidentally freezes her heart, but it turns back to normal after the curse is broken.
* LockedUpAndLeftBehind: Hans locks her in a room and leaves her to die from Elsa's curse.
* LonelyRichKid: A big reason for her agreeing to marry Hans so quickly is that her castle is big and there are few people staffing it.
* LonersAreFreaks: Subverted. Anna was sheltered and spent much of her time alone and she does come off as a little bit wacky at times, but surprisingly, she has rather good social skills considering her isolation from other people since her childhood.
* LoveAtFirstSight: When she meets Hans she's awed by him and by the end of the night she agrees to marry him. We learn that Hans exploited this trope by faking being in love with Anna so he could marry into the throne.
* LoveHungry: Anna is someone who has always been in desperate need of love and affection from others. The major reason why she is starved for love and attention is because she was neglected and shut out by Elsa since her childhood. As a result, Anna craves love so much that she's willing to marry someone that she has just met, no matter how crazy or irrational it may seem. However, despite Anna's desperation for love and affection, she never turns bitter, angry or overly resentful and remains kind, selfless, and loving despite the lack of love that she received since childhood.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: In regards to both Hans and Elsa in different ways. Anna was desperate for male attention and romance that she impulsively wanted to marry him when she had just met him. Too bad that Anna couldn't see that Hans was not a good guy and couldn't be trusted. And in regards to Elsa, Anna was willing to go through numerous obstacles and put her life in jeopardy all so that she could talk to her sister. Anna was also impulsive in how she went about trying to get Elsa to come back to Arendelle by not realizing that Elsa isolated herself out of fear. However, it should be noted that any rash decisions and choices that Anna made on her journey to find Elsa were all out of love and good intentions.
* LoveMartyr: Despite the fact that Elsa consistently has shut her out and neglected her since childhood, Anna refuses to leave Elsa or give up on rekindling their relationship. Elsa has repeatedly been aloof, cold and distant towards Anna while Anna has been nothing but loving, supportive and understanding of Elsa regardless of how Elsa has always treated her. As a result, Anna can come off as an ExtremeDoormat when it comes to Elsa since the relationship had come off as highly one sided and unreciprocated.
* LoveRedeems: It's Anna's love for Elsa that helps Elsa make her HeelFaceTurn and end the EndlessWinter that she started.
* LoveRevelationEpiphany: Olaf tells her Kristoff loves her. This, coupled with Hans's betrayal, makes her realize she's in love with him.
* LovingAShadow: Anna falls for Hans and agrees to marry him quickly because she's desperate for affection--while the person whom she really wants to be close again with is her sister Elsa (not in that way). After reconciling with her sister and seeing that [[spoiler:Hans is not the PrinceCharming he made himself out to be]], Anna is able to move on and actually spends time getting to know her new LoveInterest Kristoff before getting into a serious commitment with him.
* MagneticHero: Despite being socially sheltered for the majority of her life, she seems to have the ability of gaining UndyingLoyalty from people with ease. Much of it has to do with the fact that Anna is an AllLovingHero who consistently chooses to see the good in others.
* MamaBear: Despite being the younger sister, Anna is very protective of Elsa and would do anything to keep her from getting hurt, even if she has to get hurt herself or die.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: She plays this part to Kristoff, being a spunky and cheerful girl to enliven the gruff, asocial ice harvester.
* TheMatchmaker: In the book ''The Secret Admirer'', Anna actively went searching for the person who has been sending Elsa gifts, hoping that her sister will fall in love with whoever this is.
* MeaningfulName: While her name doubles as [[IronicName ironic]], 'Grace' can also mean "kindness and caring," which Anna has in spades.
* MessianicArchetype: Even after Elsa was called a monster by everyone else, had unintentionally caused an EndlessWinter, and had rejected and even nearly killed her by accident... she never gave up on her fallen sister, believing in the inherent goodness in Elsa's heart. In the end, the concept of true love came in the form of a HeroicSacrifice, which allowed Elsa to finally redeem herself and brought Anna back from the dead.
* MissingStepsPlan: Her plan to save Arendelle is basically 1. Find Elsa 2. Talk to Elsa 3.??? 4.Elsa thaws Arendelle. Lampshaded by Kristoff.
* ModestRoyalty: Downplayed. Unless Anna is dressed for a formal occasion (such as her sister's coronation), Anna's style of dresses tend to be rather simple yet elegant.
* MoralityChain: Anna is pretty much the major reason why Elsa doesn't completely lose control of her powers and cause harm to others. It is Anna's love for Elsa that basically keeps Elsa grounded and prevents her from going to TheDarkSide and becoming DrunkWithPower.
* MoralityPet: Anna's presence is what causes Elsa to go through CharacterDevelopment, such as coming out of isolation, letting go of her fears, and learning to control her powers. Basically, if Anna wasn't around, Elsa would have eventually lost control of her powers, go mentally insane and would stay in isolation and solitude for the rest of her life.
* {{Motifs}}: Fire. She's a FieryRedhead, she uses fire as a weapon against the wolves, and the moment where Hans betrays her and leaves her to die is punctuated by him extinguishing all sources of fire in the immediate area.
* MotorMouth: When she enters her {{Adorkable}} mode, she talks much faster.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Has a lot of strength for her size: in "For the First Time in Forever," Anna accidentally hammer tosses a statue bust across a room. She later sucker punches Hans hard enough to send him over the railing of a ship.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When she gets betrayed by Hans, she realized Elsa and Kristoff were right about their objection of her getting engaged to him.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Has a streak of hair which turned platinum blonde after Elsa accidentally struck her in the head as a child. When Elsa accidentally freezes her heart, her hair slowly turns white as she nears death. By the time she unfreezes thanks to her HeroicSacrifice, the streak is gone.
* NaiveEverygirl: A romantic naive young girl who dreams of finding true love.
* NiceGirl: Always sweet, cheerful, and kind, though [[BewareTheNiceOnes she has her limits]].
* NotAMorningPerson: She has a lot of trouble waking up, both on Elsa's coronation day in the movie and on her own birthday in the ''Frozen Fever'' short.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Serves as this for Elsa to help her [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]]. Ultimately, it's her act of saving Elsa that creates the act of true love: the bond between the sisters.
* ObliviousToLove: Has no clue Kristoff has fallen for her until ''Olaf'' points it out.
* ObliviousYoungerSibling: {{Justified}} since Anna's memories of magic are taken away (not out of malice) by the trolls after Elsa's magic almost killed her. As a result, she is unaware of the reasons for Elsa's isolation.
* OfficialCouple: With Kristoff, although they are not married by the movie's end.[[note]] In her appearance in Series/OnceUponATime she and Kristoff date for two years before marrying[[/note]]
* OhCrap: She has a rather huge one while discovering Hans' true self.
* OneHeadTaller: Or perhaps one head shorter. With Kristoff, who is taller than her by a head and is also built much larger, adding a bit of HugeGuyTinyGirl into the mix.
* TheOnlyOne: Anna was the only one who could convince Elsa to unfreeze or defrost Arendelle. Nobody else would have been successful, as Anna is the sole emotional tie that Elsa has left.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The moment Elsa runs off and Anna prepares to make chase, there is a very distinct difference in how she speaks when she says "Bring me my horse, please," and her tone when placing Hans in charge during her absence. It is a ''remarkable'' difference from her normal demeanor and shows just how important Elsa is to her. Compare and contrast her slightly less commanding tone and request when she solicits Kristoff for help the following night.
* OrphansOrdeal: At the end of 'Do You Want To Build a Snowman', after her parents' death, she collapses against her sister's bedroom door, sobbing and begging Elsa for company.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Her cut song ''More Than Just The Spare'' helped shape her character even if it didn't make it into the movie. Elsa is simply better at everything than her and the one who will inherit the throne.
* TheParagon: Anna is the one who inspires Elsa to learn how to control her powers through ThePowerOfLove. Without Anna, Elsa would be isolated and would let her powers get completely out of control.
* PimpedOutDress:
** Her dress during the coronation is several shades of green, has large pleats all around the billowy skirt, and is covered with intricate rosemaling.
** Her winter outfit, which she acquires during her search for Elsa, is less flamboyant but still quite detailed and beautiful with its shades of purple and blue.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: She punches out Hans with one punch despite her small stature.
* PluckyComicRelief: Anna is known to be the comic relief character as she is the most humorous character in the story. Her quirkiness and oddball behaviour helps to relieve awkward moments and tension throughout the story.
* PluckyGirl: She shows incredible moxie and ''always'' tries to help. The most action-y instances are when she and Kristoff fight off a wolf pack, when they evade Marshmallow, and when she sucker punches Hans into the fjord.
* ThePollyanna: Promotional material lists her defining trait as "eternal optimism".
* ThePowerOfLove: Her love for her sister allowed her to brave driving snow in little more than a ballgown, climb a mountain and cross a frozen lake in order to [[HeroicSacrifice throw herself in front of Hans' sword]] to save Elsa despite being half-dead at the time.
* PrettyInMink: When she gets winter clothes from Oaken, she gets a cape and cap lined with white fur.
* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: This bubbly princess, who has been locked up in her home for 13 years, was able to help Kristoff take on a pack of wolves, stand up to an ice golem, and punch Hans in the face with enough force to knock him off a boat. Heck, she didn't even need a knight-in-shining-armor to finish the job.
* PrincessClassic: Anna grows up to be an archetypal "sweet-natured, innocent, friend to all living things, romantic" princess.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Her winter cape and cap are magenta and her room is pink.
* TheProtagonist: The story centres on her journey in rekindling her relationship with her sister Elsa and finding a way to bring back summer to Arendelle.
* PuppyDogEyes: Anna definitely has a strong case of puppy dog eyes and sometimes she unintentionally uses them, especially when she wants approval from Elsa or Kristoff.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** In her hurt and anger at being forbidden Elsa's blessing to marry Hans, she gives a short one to her sister.
** Near the end, Anna gives a short one to Hans for callously abandoning her to death and trying to kill Elsa, [[ShutUpHannibal telling him]] that he's the only one with a [[TheSociopath "frozen heart"]]. And she then suddenly sucker-punches him without warning.
* RebelliousPrincess: The theme behind the deleted song "We Know Better". It's about Elsa and Anna as little girls complaining about all the things princesses are expected to do, claiming they "know better."
* {{Reconstruction}}: Of TheHeart. Much like TheChick of old, Anna's main strength isn't so much her smarts, experience or power, but her care for the people around her and her determination to save them from their darker sides. However, this doesn't mean she has to be [[DamselScrappy completely useless]], [[SatelliteCharacter completely based around those she cares about]], or that she [[NeutralFemale can't have agency in the plot.]] StupidGood naiveté and any ideas about dudes solving all your problems are treated as a [[SmittenTeenageGirl teenage girl thing]] she gets to grow out of without having to turn all cynical or lose any of her warmth and sweetness.
* RedheadInGreen: Nearly every outfit she's seen in is green, excepting the mourning dress and the winter dress bought from Oaken's.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Elsa's blue. Anna is very energetic in contrast to her sister's calmness. Reversed in ''Frozen Fever'', where Elsa was more energetic than her.
* RoyalBlood: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Anna is the Princess of Arendelle. Her sister Elsa is the Queen of Arendelle.
* SadisticChoice: Once Anna realizes that Kristoff does love her and went back for her, she hopes she can get a kiss from him to save her life. On the other hand, she sees her emotionally-broken sister about to be killed by her traitorous ex-fiancé. It was her life or her sister's. She chooses the latter and it turned out to be a better choice.
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%%* SarcasmBlind: {{Justified}} since she has no contact with anyone around her age for years.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Kristoff. Anna wants to marry Hans while Kristoff seems to have Elsa's perspective on marrying a guy she just met.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Her extreme naivete and awkwardness are a result of spending most of her life locked up in the royal palace with little to no companionship.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Anna is already pretty when she's not dressed up in fancy gowns, but when she does dress up, she looks much more regal and put together.
* ShipperOnDeck: In ''The Secret Admirer'', she's determined to learn who has been sending Elsa gifts so the two can meet face-to-face. She gives up on the relationship after learning Elsa's secret admirer, Freddie, is a seven year old boy.
* SiblingYinYang: She's energetic, outspoken, and extroverted while Elsa is calm, reserved, and introverted.
* SimpleYetOpulent: Her everyday dresses are significantly less fancy than her formal dresses yet her casual dresses are still made of expensive fabric as she is royalty.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
** Anna was initially smitten with [[PrincelyYoungMan Hans]] because of his princely and nice guy demeanor, but it turned out he was just playing her.
** In the end, thankfully, she becomes an OfficialCouple with the surly, but brave and heroic [[GoodSamaritan Kristoff]] who would do anything to protect her and their loved ones.
* SkunkStripe: Anna has a single platinum blonde streak in her strawberry-blonde hair from Elsa [[LockedIntoStrangeness accidentally striking her in the head when she is 5]]. To judge by what she tells Hans, she believes she was born with it due to the trolls' erasure of her memories. Later, her hair turns completely white as she succumbs to Elsa's accidental curse, which hit her in her heart. [[NoOntologicalInertia It disappears after the curse breaks]].
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Anna is subjected to about the same amount of slapstick that Kristoff is subjected to, though significantly less than what Olaf is subjected to.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: Falls in love with Hans and agrees to marry him the first day they meet.
* SpareToTheThrone: When the King was still alive, she was this. When Elsa became queen, she got bumped up to heir apparent. This was exploited by Hans.
* SpiritedYoungLady: In contrast to Elsa, who is a ProperLady. Anna is tomboyish, adventurous, outspoken, feisty, and fearless. Yet, at the same time, she's still very much a lady as she is a princess after all.
* StepfordSmiler: {{Implied|Trope}}. While she was energetic and happy even as a child, it seems like staying that way through adulthood was Anna's way of dealing with Elsa's emotional distance, especially after the deaths of their parents.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Anna has similar features to both of her parents, especially to her mother. Specifically, she has her mother's facial structures but has her father's hair and eye colors.
* StylishProtectionGear: The only winter clothes available at Wandering Oaken's Trading Post & Sauna not only conveniently fit her, but also look quite nice.
* SunnySunflowerDisposition: In ''Frozen Fever'', sunflowers are the theme of her birthday party and dress, fitting Anna's cheerful and sunny personality.
* SweetTooth: Anna has a love of sugar and sweets, especially chocolate.
* SymbolMotifClothing: Both Anna's green princess dress and her blue winter dress have flowers on them.
* TakenForGranite: When one of Elsa's blasts strikes her in the heart, her body slowly begins to turn into really ''hard'' ice. (Instead of the LiterallyShatteredLives you'd expect from her being struck by a sword, it's the ''sword'' that shatters.)
* TakingTheBullet: [[HeroicSacrifice Takes a sword slash meant for her sister just as her body turns to ice.]]
* ThanatosGambit: Though unintentional, Anna throwing herself in front of Hans just as she began to expire earns Hans the ire and disgust of the Duke and many others who saw. After Anna thaws out, they cheer when she punches Hans off the boat, meaning that not only did her sacrifice help her sister end the winter, but it also gave them the opportunity to see what a traitor Hans really is.
* ThickerThanWater: Even though Elsa shut her out and neglected her for so many years and also set off an eternal winter which froze the entire kingdom of Arendelle, Anna never gave up on her and was still determined to rekindle their relationship. Anna has UndyingLoyalty and unconditional love for Elsa no matter what. Anna makes a choice to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice her life]] to save Queen Elsa despite the fact the she (accidentally) struck her in the heart and continually shut her out (in an attempt to protect Anna from the magical power Elsa couldn't fully control). This trope is even stronger because [[CurseEscapeClause she could have gotten a kiss from Kristoff, which would save Anna at the cost of Elsa's life]]. However, ThePowerOfLove saved Anna from her DisneyDeath because her sacrifice was an ActOfTrueLove. In the end, it was Anna's familial love for Elsa that ended up saving Anna herself (from a frozen heart), Elsa (helping her to control her powers through the concept of love), ''and'' the entire kingdom of Arendelle (from the doom of an eternal winter).
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Being from a FairyTale, and being a Franchise/DisneyPrincess, it's not surprising that Anna believes in "True love", wants to meet "The One" in a single day, and [[LoveAtFirstSight bumps into Hans right afterwards.]] Turns out that Kristoff is actually The One, but their first encounter was a lot less idealized. Coming from Disney, it looks like a self-parody, as evidenced by Elsa's disapproval of the attempted marriage proposal.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Part of what makes her a character to relate to (for girls) is because of her awkward and quirky personality.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Elsa's Girly Girl. Although both dress femininely, Anna is the one to stuff her face with food, punch out a prince, rescue her sister in the place of choosing to kiss Kristoff, act awkwardly, be NotAMorningPerson with the hairstyle and drool to match, and ride a bicycle indoors.
* TomboyPrincess: She spends her childhood climbing around the castle and badgering her sister into going outside and building snowmen.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: While she's a TomboyPrincess compared to Elsa, she's still a loving, romantic NaiveEverygirl and her IWantSong was all about finding romance and falling in love.
* TooMuchInformation: Her response to one of the trolls mentioning that Kristoff "only likes to tinkle in the woods" during the "Fixer Upper" number:
-->'''Anna''': I did ''not'' need to know that.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Has a fondness for chocolate. Also loves sandwiches, soup, roast, and ice cream.
* TraumaCongaLine: Wow, does she go through tragedy!
** She gets accidentally hit in the head with ice by Elsa as kids and gets her memories wiped clean to not remember her sister's powers.
** Then, Anna is separated by Elsa and doesn't know why, and tries desperately to reconnect with her.
** Cut to a few years later, her parents are dead and Anna tries again to reconnect with Elsa with no avail.
** Another three years go by and she finds someone she thinks is true love, Hans, then has an argument with Elsa about her quick engagement, which reveals Elsa's powers, culminating with her running away.
** Anna tries to get her to come back but only gets her heart frozen by her accidentally.
** She tries to get Hans to kiss her, and he reveals himself to be a manipulative sociopath who leaves her to die and plans to kill Elsa, crushing her idea of what love is, while freezing to death.
** And finally, saves Elsa at the cost of her own life. It's a good thing she comes back to life and things get better for her, but someone needed to give her a hug and that someone was Elsa.
* TrueCompanions: With Kristoff, Olaf, Sven and of course Elsa.
* TrueLovesKiss: When Anna is struck by her older sister Elsa's out of control magic and is slowly freezing solid, it is believed that an "act of true love" is necessary to reverse the process and save her. Anna then goes back to her fiancé Hans to get a kiss from him, only to find out that he's only using her to get at Elsa and snatch the crown of Arendelle, so he mocks her and then says he will leave her to die, at which point she realizes that her companion Kristoff loves her. In the end, Anna forgoes a chance to get the kiss from Kristoff that would save her, instead throwing herself in front of Hans when he tries to kill Elsa and freezing solid just as the sword lands, breaking it. That sacrifice out of love for her sister is what ultimately not only saves her, but helps Elsa ''finally'' control her powers.
* UndyingLoyalty: Anna seems to always believe Elsa is not someone to fear, but is someone who is just really scared and frightened of herself. When Elsa's powers are revealed, and she runs away, Anna doesn't hesitate to go after her. "She's my sister - she would ''never'' hurt me." The fact that she is later dying because of Elsa's magic, and still doesn't hesitate to save her, really proves this trope.
* UptownGirl: For Kristoff at the end; princess and ice salesman and all. As if that wasn't obvious.
* WakeupMakeup: Averted. Anna wakes up on coronation day with what must be the [[http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/PICS%20for%20Web%20Forums/annabedhead_zpsmzq88sup.png.html world's worst case of bedhead]].
** The bedhead returns in ''Frozen Fever'', where the occasion was her own birthday.
** In the ''Frozen'' fan-comic ''Webcomic/CinemaSnobReviewsFrozen'', the Snob describes her as being a bassist for an 80s Hair Metal band.
* WellExcuseMePrincess: Anna can sometimes get really sarcastic and snarky towards Kristoff. Her interactions with Kristoff come off as VitriolicBestBuds at the start.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Elsa were inseparable as children. Then, the accident happened.
* WhatTheHellHero: Anna calls Elsa out on shutting her out during the coronation party.
* WideEyedIdealist: Anna is extremely idealistic and naive by nature, much to her detriment. She is the type that dreams about the concept of true love and romance and she has a strong adoration for adventure. In many ways, Anna is the type to fantasize and she is a big dreamer.
* WomanChild: Anna's only 18, but she can be quite immature and childish. The price of being isolated in the castle for 13 years and no contact with the outside world does take its toll.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She's convinced that her LoveAtFirstSight with Hans is true love. She learns otherwise the hard way when Hans reveals he only pretended to love her to get to the throne.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Anna is the one who is instrumental in pulling Elsa out of her fear, anxiety, and depression. While everyone was afraid of Elsa and thought that she was a monster, Anna was always the one to believe that Elsa was a good person despite the mistakes that she made (shutting Anna out since childhood, damning Arendelle to an eternal winter and abandoning her kingdom, accidentally freezing her heart, etc). Anna is also the catalyst for getting Elsa to learn how to control her powers that she had so many problems with controlling for years.
* YouAreNotAlone: Anna reminds Elsa that no matter what she did, such as abandoning her when they were kids, shutting her out emotionally, or cursing Arendelle to an eternal winter, she would always love Elsa no matter what and that together, they could undo the curse that Elsa put on the kingdom. Anna also tells Elsa that she doesn't have to spend her days alone or live in fear because she will always be there by her side supporting her through it all.
* YoungestChildWins: Inverted. Anna has mentioned that she has always felt OvershadowedByAwesome in comparison to her older sister, which is understandable considering that Elsa is the Queen of Arendelle, is extremely powerful because she has ice powers, and is more dutiful, responsible, serious, and regal. On the other hand, Anna is only the spare and a princess (although she is knocked up to heir apparent after her parents tragically die), is a regular human girl with no powers, and is a CuteClumsyGirl who is quirky, clumsy and awkward.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Twice, both for the same reason: she's unintentionally blasted by Elsa's magic, which begins to freeze her from the inside. The king and queen appeal to the trolls to reverse it the first time, though they're unable to do anything the second time, due to the damage being done to the heart instead of the head (the heart can only be melted by an act of true love, the head can be easily persuaded by memory surgery).
* YouthfulFreckles: On her face and shoulders. Serves to highlight her immaturity and naivete compared to her more regal older sister and world-wise love interests.
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[[caption-width-right:242: "The cold never bothered me anyway..."]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IdinaMenzel\\
(Child Elsa) '''Voiced by:''' Eva Bella\\
(12-year old Elsa) '''Voiced by:''' Spencer Lacey Ganus
The Snow Queen herself. Elsa had her ice powers from birth, but tried to suppress and hide them (even from her sister Anna) in [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength fear of the harm they might do]].[[note]]She also had numerous tropes [[WhatCouldHaveBeen from when she was going to be a villain]], although those count as [[{{Trivia/Frozen}} trivia]].[[/note]]
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: She was isolated for 13 years and she will be the 13th princess in the Franchise/DisneyPrincess line. She's also a lot more unlucky than the other Disney Princesses, with her entire life from childhood being one long TraumaCongaLine that only ends after the climax of the movie.
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Played with. After running away to be alone, she resolves to discard concepts like "right" and "wrong," and simply live by her own rules, no longer caring what the rest of the world will think of her actions. Nonetheless, when she finds out she has unknowingly frozen the entire kingdom of Arendelle, she is deeply horrified.
* AdaptationalHeroism: The Snow Queen was a neutral entity in the original tale, open to interpretation as either good or evil. While Elsa fears she's the latter, she's really the former.
* {{Adorkable}}: She's so excited about Anna's birthday celebration in ''Frozen Fever'' that she squeals with excitement at several points.
* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: Ever since she was a child, she has obsessively tried to suppress her ice powers and stay as far away from people as possible since she is afraid that she will hurt others like she did with Anna.
* AloofBigSister: To Anna. Significantly justified as she's like this because she's afraid of hurting Anna again.
%%* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To Anna on occasion.
* AmbiguousDisorder: It's been confirmed by Jennifer Lee that Elsa suffers from depression and anxiety issues. Given [[TraumaCongaLine her story]], it's not really a surprise.
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* TheAtoner:
** Played with. When she learns that she caused an EndlessWinter in Arendelle, she would ''like'' to fix it, but she doesn't know how, and is too scared of making things worse to try.
** Her desire to make Anna happy in ''Frozen Fever'' is driven by guilt over how much her sister suffered because of her powers. "For everything you are to me, and all you've been through..."
* BadassAdorable: She may not be as {{Adorkable}} as Anna, but when she lets emotion show on her face, you can see the family resemblance to Anna. And even with ThouShaltNotKill in play, her cryokinetic powers are a force to be reckoned with.
* BadassBoast:
** "Here I'll stand, and here I'll stay" from "Let It Go" is a boast to the world that it won't be making any more demands of her identity.
** In the same song: "I am one with the wind and sky."
* BadassBookworm: Her powers make her considerably badass. It is also stated in the book ''A Sister More Like Me'' that Elsa loves geometry. Note her mention of fractals during "Let it Go".
* BadassCape: She casts off her royal cape as a prelude to her costume switch, where she creates an absolutely stunning replacement woven from ice.
* BadassInCharge: The Queen of Arendelle, and also [[AnIcePerson a powerful ice mage]].
* BadassInDistress: As she's not an aggressive person, she's vulnerable whenever her state of mind is affected (in the original movie) or when she's sick (in ''Frozen Fever'').
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: At first, she didn't like Hans very much for his sudden proposal to Anna, wanting him to leave. After he talks her out of killing the Duke's men, keeping them from killing her and offers to do what he can to set her free, she starts to trust him enough to keep her sister safe. Of course, she was unaware Hans was just mirroring her concern and desire from a supportive friend to manipulate her, giving her a genuine reason to dislike him when his plans are revealed
* BeneathTheMask: Anna has only seen her distant attitude for years on end, so she's both surprised and a little relieved to see Elsa having fun talking about chocolate and teasing her by making her dance with the duke. When her cover is blown, it also turns out that she really ''hated'' having to always repress her emotions, showing a playful and creative side with a lot of artistic sense. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of anxiety bubbling away beneath the surface.
* BenevolentMageRuler: The movie is basically the story of how she becomes one, and the hard road to mastering both her magical talent and the responsibilities of a Queen (with help from the most adorable little sister ever).
* BewareTheSuperman: Played with. Elsa is generally good at heart, but she is so afraid of accidentally hurting someone she cares about that she has to shut everyone out of her life, including Anna. The show of her powers made her someone to fear. Once she runs away, she decides "screw this, I'm going to run away and let loose", yet it causes an EndlessWinter. Hans exploits this trope to justify killing Elsa.
* BigSisterInstinct: Elsa loves her little sister, Anna, dearly. When she accidentally struck her with her ice powers when they were little, she locked herself in her room and didn't play with or speak to Anna anymore. Elsa shut her out because she was terrified of hurting her sister or anyone else with her powers again. She continues to have this attitude throughout the majority of the film's events.
* BlessedWithSuck: She was born with magical powers, but started to fear them after her accident with Anna. She actually loves making ice and snow, but could never do so for fear of hurting everyone.
* BraidsOfAction: Elsa wears a French braid while out of the castle.
* BreakoutCharacter: Elsa has received a lot of praise for being one of the most complex, interesting, and realistic characters from any Disney animated film. Countless articles have been written that analyze her character and her behavior. Many fanfics tend to put more focus on Elsa than on Anna. Also, while ''Frozen'' merchandise in general is still selling out of stores months after the film's release, Elsa merchandise in particular is very hard to find, and people have been selling Elsa merch on sites like [=eBay=] for much higher than their retail value. As a result of her popularity, other media that involves ''Frozen'' characters often gives Elsa a more prominent role, such as ''Series/OnceUponATime''. The sequel is said to be putting her in the main character role as a result of this.
* BreakTheCutie: The trauma the movie deals her exceeds even that dealt to Anna.
* BrokenAce: Brilliant, beautiful, artistic, intense magical power, excels at everything, graceful and even a very kind person. However, she has a lot of emotional issues because the graceful perfect act is a misguided attempt to keep her magic in check.
* BrokenBird: After many years of isolating herself in fear that her powers might hurt someone, Elsa has become more cynical and more detached from Anna.
* ByronicHeroine: She is an IceQueen who not only is brooding about her powers, but also exiles herself after her powers are exposed at the coronation. Though, unlike most byronic heroes, this is less due to selfish whining and more because she feels she must detach herself emotionally for her little sister's safety. Her inner conflicts over her powers end up driving many central elements of the plot. In fact, "Let It Go", with its extolling of rejecting the conventions of society -- not to mention her responsibilities as monarch -- is essentially an anthem to a kind of Romantic Existentialism.
* CelibateHeroine: Not clear if it's a direct result of her not wanting to get close to anyone out of fear of hurting them, or if she's [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]], or if it's something else entirely, but regardless of the reason, Elsa never shows romantic interest in anyone. When Hans was [[JustBetweenYouAndMe explaining his plans]] to Anna, he noted that his original plan to take the throne of Arendelle was simply to woo and marry Elsa, but he had to abandon that plan since "nobody was getting anywhere with her". The book ''The Secret Admirer'' shows that while she's flattered that someone has feelings for her and is curious who they are, she's not as curious as Anna or Olaf, who essentially look through every possible man or woman it could be. This suggests she is not necessarily against the idea of being in a relationship, but she puts her kingdom and her sister above all else.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Between becoming queen and keeping her ice magic in check at the beginning of the film, Elsa certainly suffered from this, at least until she [[TheUnfettered gleefully broke those chains]] in "Let it Go".
* CharacterDevelopment: Following her return to power as Arendelle's reigning monarch, Elsa's original personality, not dominant since childhood, makes a return. With a warm, welcoming aura, Elsa rules her kingdom with a genuine smile, and spends most of her spare time using her abilities for the pleasure of herself, her sister, and the entire kingdom. As seen in ''Frozen Fever'', this aspect of Elsa's personality has not only remained, but strengthened, as the short heavily showcased Elsa's lighter side as fun-loving, and extremely devoted to her sister, yet retained her sense of elegance, vibrancy, and compassion.
* CharacterTics:
** She tends to cross her arms when she feels stressed. Notably when she is confronted by Anna during the coronation just before she cuts loose with her powers (especially since it was to hide her uncovered left hand); when she's alone on the North Mountain during the first lines of "Let It Go"; and twice in her ice palace when she realizes that her powers have plunged Arendelle into EndlessWinter.
** When she laughs (once when she and Anna are kids and sneak off into the ballroom to play, and a couple of times during the coronation), she tends to place her fingers over her lips[[note]]although you'd be forgiven for thinking that she does it when laughing at the Duke's [[DodgyToupee poor fitting toupee]] that she's just trying to hide it[[/note]].
** She also wrings her hands a lot. Notably, these are all variants on hiding or containing her emotion, which in her case is often expressed through ice powers that come from her hands.
** She rolls her eyes when she's impatient (when Anna keeps stalling to tell her what happened in Arendelle).
* CheerfulChild: In the beginning of the film, [[HeroicBSOD before she accidentally hurt Anna]], she was just as cheerful as Anna.
* ClassicalAntiHero: She is ''very'' unsure of herself and always afraid of hurting others.
* CompositeCharacter: Elsa takes the role of both the Snow Queen and Kai.
* ConspicuousGloves: Hoping to constrain her powers, Elsa is never without her gloves. Anna later comments that she thought the gloves were due to Elsa being TerrifiedOfGerms.
* CoolBigSis:
** Pun intended, but she used to be this for Anna when they were younger. In the ending, she becomes it again.
** In ''Frozen Fever'', this trope is definitely on her mind as she forces herself to go through Anna's birthday celebrations, even while suffering a bad cold.
* CoolCrown: She initially wore a small tiara but she discards it when she abandons Arendelle. TheStinger reveals that her minion Marshmallow found it.
* CostumePorn: Par for the course for Disney, but Elsa's sky-blue snow queen dress deserves a special mention. It's breathtaking, and detailed to the stitch.
* CoversAlwaysLie: A lot of promotional art depicts her as confidently smug, while in the movie proper she's anything but... save for the moments when she's being herself instead of "the good girl you always have to be".
* CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen: When she recreates Olaf during "Let It Go," she has no idea that he's alive until he shows up with Anna. Taken UpToEleven in ''Frozen Fever'', where she spawns the Snowgies by just ''sneezing''.
* CulturedBadass: The "cultured" part is more prominent in ''A Sister More Like Me'' which shows her many talents. The "badass" part comes from her powers, and it's implied that she's holding back. "Let It Go" unites them when she uses math to create her ice palace.
* DamselOutOfDistress: When captured at the castle she uses her powers to free herself.
* DaddysGirl: During the growing up montage, it's implied that she is closer to her father than to her mother.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As a child, [[MyGreatestFailure hit Anna in the head with her powers]]. This essentially drives the entire plot and is the reason why Elsa is so detached from her sister.
* DarkMagicalGirl: She's a good person at heart who was isolated from everyone due to her powers, leading to her becoming an (unintentional) antagonist. As with most {{Dark Magical Girl}}s, she's eventually saved through the PowerOfLove by her heroic {{Foil}}.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She has to keep her emotions and feelings in check, because if she doesn't, she loses control of her magic, and it can do terrible things to the people. It is Anna's [[ThePowerOfLove love]] for her that ultimately frees her from her fears and unlocks the ability to thaw out the winter.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: The story starts from her perspective and we see what she's doing almost as much as Anna. She's also the one actually driving the plot.
* DreamworksFace: She not only does this in the posters, but also InUniverse at the final line in "Let it Go".
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Elsa may have half the screen time that her sister does, but she's more important to the plot. Jennifer Lee [[http://johnaugust.com/2014/scriptnotes-ep-128-frozen-with-jennifer-lee-transcript said]] the film is "Anna's story but it's really about Elsa."
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Finally conquers her crippling fear.
* EmotionalPowers: Her powers are connected to her emotions. When she's feeling better she creates happier things like Olaf, but when she wants to hide away from the world she creates the massive Marshmallow. Negative emotions like fear or worry tend to give her PowerIncontinence, while positive ones allow her more control of her powers. Embracing her love for others is what allows her to lift the EndlessWinter from Arendelle.
* EmotionlessGirl: For many years, Elsa had to constantly [[EmotionSuppression suppress her emotions]] in fear she would lose control of her powers.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Her ice dress is pretty glittery, which becomes particularly evident when she steps into the sunlight at the end of "Let It Go". There are also sparkles in her hair, as her braid is adorned with tiny sparkling snowflakes.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the brief shots of her as a child at various ages, Elsa wears her hair in a braid until her parents die; then she wairs it in a bun [[note]]The first shot she wears it in a bun is at the very last line of "Do You Want to Build a Snowman"[[/note]]. Fast-forward to Coronation Day and it's again in a bun - symbolizing it's a moment she needs to restrain her emotions. Then at the end of "Let it Go", Elsa drops her PrimAndProperBun in favor of the French braid she originally wore, symbolizing she isn't as constrained anymore.
* FisherKing: The weather changes according to her mood.
* {{Foil}}: She is serious in contrast to her energetic sister, Anna.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Responsible Sibling to Anna's Foolish Sibling. Anna wants to marry Hans, but Elsa refuses to let them get married because they've only just met that day.
** The roles get reversed in ''Frozen Fever'', as Elsa insists on going through the birthday celebrations despite being rather sick, while Anna realises that her sister ''desperately'' needs rest.
* FormFittingWardrobe: Her coronation dress, and especially her ice dress, are tailored enough to perfectly highlight her curves.
* FriendlessBackground: Like her sister, she was raised in seclusion and she doesn't have any friends her age.
* FullContactMagic: Whenever she uses her powers intentionally, she always makes grand gestures with her hands or dancing. When she creates her ice palace, it's more like she's actually lifting it out of the mountain than anything.
* GlassCannon: She's ''very'' powerful, but still ultimately a young woman susceptible to conventional harm if one bypasses her icy defenses. When a crossbow knocks down the ice chandelier, it knocks her out.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: {{Inverted}}. Instead of involuntary isolation giving someone mental/emotional issues, she isolates herself on purpose ''because'' of her emotional issues.
* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: Her sparkly blue Snow Queen dress was ''woven from ice and snow''.
* HairDecorations: Elsa's is subtly adorned with snowflakes. As a kid, she has a blue headband.
* HairstyleInertia: After her IAmSong, Elsa goes back to wearing the same single ponytail she had as a child.
* HatesBeingTouched: She won't let other people touch her, out of fear of losing control of her powers. Not knowing the truth leads Anna to think she's a neat freak. Once Elsa has her powers in check, she's freer with physical contact.
* HeroAntagonist: She unintentionally drives the conflict, creating an EndlessWinter in the middle of summer when she runs away to the mountains to isolate herself in an attempt to protect everyone else from her powers. Her sister, Anna, has to seek her out so that they could find a way to stop the winter she unknowingly caused.
* HeroicAlbino: Has extremely pale skin, white hair, and is good person.
* HeroicBSOD: When Hans tells her that Anna's dead. When Elsa goes through these, the snow tends to freeze outside (also happened when she learned that her parents were dead).
* HeroWithAUniqueName: The main characters follow a trend of filling in parts of the original novel's author's name except for the deuteragonist Elsa, (Hans, Kristoff, Anna, Sven = "Hans Christian Andersen").
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Things were going somewhat okay for her during her coronation and the ball. Then Anna accidentally screws things up and 13 years of hiding Elsa's powers comes to an end. This also causes her to flee the kingdom due to not being able to keep it under control despite her attempts to. More sinister characters attempt to use this to usurp power for their own benefit, such as the Duke of Weselton, and later, Hans.
* TheHermit: She tries this lifestyle for a while, as she thinks she can escape her problems by living alone in an ice castle on the side of a mountain. She ultimately learns otherwise, however.
* HiddenDepths:
** She demonstrates a sly sense of humor during the coronation, when she tricks Anna into dancing with the Duke of Weselton and barely suppresses a laugh at her sister's expense. One of the cut songs, "We Know Better", expands on this, indicating in the lyrics that as a child Elsa would occasionally "freeze her nanny's big behind" or "freeze her tutor's tea".
** Although she is passive compared to Anna, it is implied that she ironically enjoys more thrilling activities than her sister. Immediately after thawing Arendelle, she creates an ice rink for everyone to enjoy without hesitation. While Anna is somewhat hesitant, she skates without fear, even encouraging her to join in.
** ''Frozen Fever'' reveals that she's game enough to dance at the top of a clock tower, despite being delirious from a cold.
* HighClassGloves: Though her gloves were to contain her power, they are still items fit for royalty. Even her coronation gloves match her dress.
* HotWitch: Once she's finally able to be herself and embrace her powers, her beauty really shines.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Elsa is right that Anna is too sheltered to understand what love is. But Elsa herself is also very sheltered having never set foot outside the castle in 13 years. Anna even [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out]] [[LampshadeHanging on this.]]
-->'''Anna:''' What do you know about love? All you know how to do is shut people out.
* AnIcePerson: Has the ability to create ice and snow, which also extends to creating [[{{Snowlem}} sentient snowmen]] and even a dress made of ice for herself. The origin of these powers is a case of AllThereInTheManual from [[http://johnaugust.com/2014/scriptnotes-ep-128-frozen-with-jennifer-lee-transcript Jennifer Lee]] (about a third down the page) revealed the explanation: a child is born with ice magic 1000 years after Saturn is in an alignment with something. This makes sense because, you know, [[FridgeBrilliance Saturn has both rings of ice and rock and a moon covered in ice]] [[note]]Or possibly because, to quote Wiki/TheOtherWiki, "Saturn is associated with focus, precision, '''nobility''', ethics, civility, lofty goals, purpose, career, great achievements, dedication, authority figures, ordered hierarchy, stability, virtues, productiveness, valuable hard lessons learned, destiny, '''conforming social structures''', balance, and karma (reaping what you have sowed or divine cosmic justice) but also with limitations, '''restrictions''', boundaries, '''anxiety''', tests, practicality, reality, and time. (...) Saturn symbolized processes and things that were dry and '''cold''', which are necessary balancing aspects to maintain life. It governed the [[FourTemperamentEnsemble melancholic humor]]." Know a better planet to make AnIcePerson melancholic queen?[[/note]]. It was left out of the final film because the more you explain about magic, the more you want to know about its rules, and more importantly it would have detracted from the plot, seeing as planetary alignment is not a major point unlike [[Disney/{{Hercules}} another Disney film]]. See also WhenThePlanetsAlign below.
* IceQueen: Both literally and figuratively! Though she was rather cheerful as a child, when Elsa's powers accidentally hurt Anna, she felt a need to tightly control her emotions so that no one would find out or be hurt. In particular, Anna feels shut out and disliked by her sister for no reason she can understand, though the party at the beginning of the movie makes it clear even to her that Elsa ''does'' care about her. In any case, her own mask didn't work and when her cover was blown she just gave up on it entirely, leading into her song ''Let It Go.'' Sure, she might have to isolate herself from humanity from the rest of her life, but hey, look at the bright side! At least she doesn't have to bottle her emotions up anymore.
* AnIceSuit: A variation; her slinky blue gown seems much better suited for warm weather. [[RequiredSecondaryPowers The cold never bothered her anyway (presumably because being one who can make ice makes it possible for her to tolerate subzero temperatures more easily)]].
* IconicOutfit: Her silky blue gown is more recognizable and is printed on more merchandise than her coronation outfit.
* IcyBlueEyes: Not evil, but since her element is ice, this fits.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Cutting off Anna when they were kids.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: While she was going to kill the Weselton guards in self-defense (who didn't stop their assassination attempt even after she eased her icy death traps), Hans pleads with Elsa not to do it, because it would only end up painting her as a monster to everyone. Considering she had already accidentally plunged the country into an eternal winter a short while ago, as evil as Hans turns out to be, he does have a point.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: She can make ice constructs of anything, even a whole palace.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Her new outfit was woven from ice crystals.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Downplayed, as her figure is still unrealistic, but not to the proportions typical of the trope.
* InstantExpert: During the course of "Let it Go", she gains increasing control of her powers, going from creating a few wisps of cold, to constructing a crude snowman, to a fairly large bridge, which becomes crystalline and intricate as she crosses it, to an entire palace made of ice. Also downplayed in that while she knows how to direct it, [[PowerIncontinence she doesn't know how to turn it off]]. The former is justified by one of the tie-in books, which reveals that Elsa was a fan of geometry since she was little.
* InternalizedCategorism: Thanks to some childhood trauma, she grows up fearing her own powers. This is especially bad for her since her powers can be triggered by her own emotions, so this made them even harder to control.
* JerkassFacade: Although Elsa may seem a bit aloof towards Anna, this is only her repressing her emotions in order to keep her powers in check, and she really does deeply care for her sister and her well-being, but always thought she had to push her away, just to protect her.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While she isn't being particularly understanding, she's completely right when she refuses to approve of Anna's wedding to Hans on the grounds that [[FourthDateMarriage marrying a man you just met]] is ridiculous, a sentiment [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kristoff]] agrees with. She's proven right upon the reveal that Hans was EvilAllAlong.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Best displayed when the Duke's guards tried to kill her. She's in her ice outfit, as in the slinky dress, cape, and heels, and her powers still make her formidable against them. The only reason they even stood a chance at first was because she didn't want to hurt anyone. Their relentless attacks drove her to fight back, and they were clearly no match.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Ice-oriented variant but her magic is certainly not evil.
* LettingHerHairDown: After tossing away the crown, she knocks off her bun in favor of a French braid.
* LonelyRichKid: Isolates herself from everyone, including Anna, even though they live in the same house.
* MadGod: Technically she's a Neurotic Overpowered-Mage, but [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible the results are surprisingly similar]]: She sets off an eternal winter by having an anxiety attack, and ''accidentally creates life'' while in a good mood.
* MadnessMantra: "Don't feel, don't feel, don't feel, don't feel!" She says this after Anna tells her that she caused an endless winter in Arendelle. To make it creepier, the icy room around her turns red and ice spikes jut forth from the walls as she says this, springing from the dread she is unable to suppress.
* TheMakeover: With no one left to worry about once she leaves Arendelle, she quickly drops her restraint, lets down her hair, and puts on something ''way'' more flattering. Even when gaining control over her powers, Elsa still keeps the look. It's just too cool to lose.
* MalfunctionMalady: In the ''Frozen Fever'' short she has a cold that gets progressively worse. Every time she sneezes, she creates a few tiny armless snowgies. At the end, Olaf and Kristoff herd hundreds of them up to the ice palace. She also sneezes right as she tries to blow on the ceremonial horn which through sheer coincidence happens to launch a massive snowball that knocks Hans into a pile of manure all the way over in the Southern Isles entirely.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Elsa and Anna's strained relationship is not helped by Elsa occasionally acting happy to see Anna (such as her coronation party and when Anna first enters her ice palace), which gets her hopes up, only to turn around and abruptly tell her they can't see each other anymore.
* MeaningfulName: "Elsa" is German for "noble", which alludes to her high status as a princess, her ascent as queen of Arendelle, and the fact that deep down she really has a good heart and spirit.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: When fleeing across the fjord she doesn't realize that behind her the steps across the water are expanding, causing the entire area to freeze solid. The rest of Arendelle freezes over within hours, before she manages to figure out how to actually ''thaw'' the ice she creates.
* MsFanservice: Fairly {{Downplayed}}, but after transforming into [[AnIceSuit her ice dress]], she is the most scantily clad character in the film (relatively speaking).
* MostCommonSuperpower: Downplayed. Though it's hard to tell given the animation style, Elsa's figure qualifies as a downplayed version of the ImpossibleHourglassFigure (see above). It's easy to see what contributes for Elsa's top half and she does have [[AnIcePerson powers]], completing the trope. Also, looking at the sisters side by side, one notices that Elsa's bust is considerably larger than Anna's.
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* MundaneUtility: At the end of the film, Elsa uses her ice powers to entertain her subjects, making an ice-skating rink in summer. She also can use magic to redesign clothing and decorate Anna's birthday cake.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She suffers this a couple of times in the film:
** When she and Anna are first playing with snow in the beginning, Elsa hitting her sister accidentally with her ice spell is what first causes her to hate her powers.
** She's horrified when she learns that her powers have caused an endless winter, and utters the line word-for-word when she sees it firsthand.
* MyGreatestFailure: She deeply regrets how she almost killed Anna by accident when they were kids, and still worries it might happen again (in a SelfFulfillingProphecy, she does almost kill her again). This is the main reason she refuses to get close to her sister.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Very against Hans proposing to her sister so suddenly after the two just met. It's implied the reason she wanted the party over so quickly was to get rid of him. She's not at all like this with Kristoff, who she supports seeing with Anna.
* MysticalWhiteHair: It's strongly implied that Elsa's platinum blonde hair (a shade of blonde that is a few shades away from perfect white) is somehow connected to her ice magic, since she clearly couldn't have inherited the gene for platinum blonde hair from her parents. This is evident when she accidentally hit Anna with her ice magic and Anna gained a platinum blonde streak as a result.
* NeatFreak: More prominent in ''A Sister More Like Me''. In the film itself, Anna admits that she always assumed that this was why Elsa wore gloves so much.
* NervousWreck: Underneath her calm and aloof façade she's this. WordOfGod states that she suffers from depression and anxiety.
* NiceGirl: She is caring, warm, protective, loving, compassionate, selfless, benevolent, emotional, sensitive, and peaceful. Even before her CharacterDevelopment, her JerkassFacade was only made so as to keep her little sister safe.
* NiceShoes: Her ice outfit includes a pair of ice-themed kitten heels.
* NoSocialSkills: Due to being shut up in her castle most of her life and only communicating with her parents and occasionally Anna. When it came time to be crowned, one can tell she feels rather awkward around everyone. And an argument with Anna certainly didn't help matters. She does manage a regal bearing, since that requires constraint and control anyway.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite her EmotionlessGirl facade early in the film, she still has a (good-natured) [[TheGadfly Gadfly]] moment during the coronation when she manages to rope Anna into dancing with the Duke, who is a ''horrible'' dancer.
* OneWomanArmy: Elsa was able to handle herself against the Duke of Weseltown's bodyguard.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: She's the queen and Anna's sister, so Anna goes to her to ask for her blessing to her engagement with Hans, assuming it's a done deal. She says no because ''Anna has just met Hans and definitely has known him for no more than twelve hours''. Not to mention, in real life European monarchies of the time, any member of a royal court, family members included, would need the permission of the reigning monarch to marry and have children.
* ThePerfectionist: She always tried her best to be "the perfect girl" so could keep her powers under control. Even after opening up and learning to use her powers, she still keeps this trait, as seen in ''Frozen Fever'' where Elsa is fixated on giving Anna a perfect birthday despite her cold.
* PersonOfMassConstruction: She can use ice powers to construct an ice castle for herself filled with giant doors and a spiral staircase, all in the course of a single song!
* PersonOfMassDestruction: She accidentally caused a country-wide EndlessWinter.
* PimpedOutDress: She gets two in the movie.
** Her coronation dress has [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny gold trimming]] on the waist and neckline, and floral motifs on the skirt and bodice.
** The dress she makes is loaded with small wintry things that make it glitter.
** She creates another one with her powers in ''Disney/FrozenFever''.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Due to the accident she had with Anna as kids, she's afraid to even ''speak'' to her sister for years. Granted, the trolls mind-wiping Anna and her parents' decisions contributed, but a lot of the film's problems would've been solved quicker if she tried to open up more (lampshaded by Anna). She gets over it at the end.
* PowerDyesYourHair: Elsa has a platinum-blonde hair color not shared with any other members of her family, which is presumably related to her ice powers.
* PowerIncontinence: [[EmotionalPowers Whenever she feels negative emotions]], her powers tend to manifest involuntarily, such as freezing anything she touches. When running away after the coronation ceremony she accidentally freezes the entire harbor and fjord and creates an EndlessWinter without even ''realizing it!'' When Anna tells her what she's done and asks her to lift the winter, a horrified Elsa tells her she doesn't know ''how.'' [[EmotionalPowers The secret turns out to be love.]]
* PowerLimiter: Her gloves allow her to touch things without freezing them and keep her from blasting anything around her with ice on accident. The plot is kicked off when she loses one while arguing with Anna. It's implied that their effect may have been [[MagicFeather purely psychological]], as later on, hand-covering manacles can't keep her powers at bay.
* ThePowerOfLove: How she gains control of her powers. "Love will thaw" indeed.
* PrimAndProperBun: Elsa's coronation appearance is with her hair woven in a French-braided crown twist bun. When she realizes she can cut loose with her emotions, she tears out the braid and allows her hair to hang in relative freedom.
* ProperLady: In the book ''A Sister More Like Me'', her behavior pre-freak out is established.
* ProperlyParanoid: Played with in an interesting way, with a hint of SelfFulfillingProphecy. As a child, she's told to never reveal her powers, causing her to seclude herself inside her room constantly up until adulthood, refusing any physical contact with her parents as well as Anna, so not to hurt them. This seems to be justified when she appears publically for the first time on her coronation day, and, by the end of it, she's set off an eternal winter. Later, Anna momentarily gets too close and confrontational to her, resulting in her accidentally freezing her sister's heart within seconds. However, since her powers are [[EmotionalPowers affected by emotion]], her fear of what might happen if she gets near someone is actually the main reason things go wrong when she gets near people. Once she overcomes her fears of hurting people on accident, she gains enough control over her powers to not ''need'' to be afraid of hurting people on accident.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her coronation cape is purple. Her room is also decorated in shades of lilac and violet, which is more obvious in ''A Sister More Like Me'' and concept art.
* RageBreakingPoint: She does a fairly good job at keeping her powers in check by "concealing, not feeling" her fears... until Anna asks her a few {{Armor Piercing Question}}s and causes Elsa to snap, accidentally showing her powers.
* RandomlyGifted: She was born with powerful ice magic, despite being born into a family of ordinary, mundane human beings. Exactly ''how'' that works isn't elaborated upon, but it's not that important to the story anyway.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When not [[HeroicBSOD freaking out]], Elsa is a sensible, competent ruler.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Anna's Red given her stoicism.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: She doesn't get cold, even on top of a frozen mountain wearing a dress made out of ice. With one exception, she's also never shown having balance issues or sliding on ice. She doesn't even have visible breath like everyone else in the cold. In ''Frozen Fever'' she tries to argue that she doesn't catch colds either, but unfortunately [[CatchYourDeathOfCold that's not how colds work.]]
-->'''Elsa''': The cold never bothered me anyway.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: She has a CoolCrown, a StaffOfAuthority and an orb, a PimpedOutDress, a pair of HighClassGloves, and a PimpedOutCape. She abandons most of it and changes what she ''does'' keep after reinventing her image.
* ShesGotLegs: The skirt of her ice gown has a slit in it.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Elsa and Anna didn't leave the castle in years.
* ShipperOnDeck: In the storybook app of the film, it is revealed that Elsa approved of Anna and Kristoff's love for each other.
* SiblingYinYang: Elsa is calm, reserved, and introverted while Anna is energetic, outspoken, and extroverted.
* SignificantBirthDate: It's AllThereInTheManual, but she was born on the winter solstice.
* {{Snowlems}}: Elsa has the power to create these.
* SolitarySorceress: Elsa becomes one after accidentally exposing her powers as a check against accidentally hurting someone with them.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Unintentional, but her denying Anna's marriage to Hans and running off wound up saving Anna, as it delayed his plans and gave Anna a lesson in trusting people so quickly while at the same time showing her the power of love.
* SpikesOfDoom: She summons sharp icicles not to hurt others but to shield herself.
* SquishyWizard: God-like ice powers, but human-like constitution. She's almost killed by a crossbow bolt to the face and then a falling chandelier.
* TheStoic: Her attempt to shut down her EmotionalPowers; when told "fear will be your enemy," she is determined to not be scared of her powers, which naturally [[SelfFulfillingProphecy leads to her being scared of her powers]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Elsa and Anna look similar to their mother, save for subtle differences in the shapes of their eyes, nose, chin, etc.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's reserved and tries to control her emotions, but she clearly cares for her sister and the people of Arendelle. Note her shock when Anna tells her that Arendelle has been completely frozen. In this case, the 'ice' part mostly results from her self-discipline and lonely upbringing; when the reasons for both are erased, she noticeably lightens up. She's ultimately able to control her powers and undo the EndlessWinter through her love for her sister and her country.
* SurvivalMantra: "Conceal, don't feel." She casts this off later.
* SymbolMotifClothing: Her coronation dress has flowers on it, while her ice dress has snowflakes all over the cape.
* TakeCareOfTheKids: When Elsa escapes the castle, she tells Hans to take care of Anna.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Anna's Tomboy. Elsa is more reserved and graceful, and strives to be a "perfect girl" as a way to control her emotions and her ice powers. She manages to be very queenly even after she runs away.
* TookALevelInBadass: Learned to fully accept her powers and put an end to the eternal blizzard.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Shown in her trademark song, ''Let It Go'' and when she stops the eternal blizzard.
* TookALevelInKindness: After [[DefrostingIceQueen she defrosts]], she uses the PowerOfLove to end the eternal winter, creates a small storm over Olaf so he'll never melt, makes Kristoff the official Ice Master and Deliverer, creates an ice skating rink for Arendelle, and in the final scene, she helps Anna learn how to ice skate.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Like her sister, Elsa has a liking towards chocolate.
* TraumaCongaLine: Elsa goes through one traumatic experience after another, and each one leaves a lasting impact, on Anna as well as herself:
** She accidentally injures her little sister with her ice powers, making her [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength afraid to be around people]], including her sister.
** Then her parents are killed in a shipwreck.
** She's crowned queen but her powers are exposed to the entire kingdom, so she runs away and accidentally freezes Arendelle in the process.
** She's tricked by Hans into thinking that she killed Anna.
** She's heartbroken when Anna sacrifices herself to save her.
* TroubledButCute: She's shown to be rather aloof and brooding.
* TrueBlueFemininity: ''Every'' outfit Elsa wears in the movie is mostly made of blue, up to and including non-fabric items she wears (like the headbands she wears in her single-digit years). The only exception is her purple coronation cape, which is still over a mostly blue/cyan dress.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Until the incident with Anna, after which she became more brooding, distant, and aloof.
* UsedToBeMoreSocial: Before the accident with Anna, Elsa was perfectly willing to play around with her sister.
* VaporWear: Implied, as her stockings disappear after she forms her ice dress.
* VillainSong: "Let It Go", during which she builds her ice kingdom after running away and gleefully allows herself to express her emotions and show off her powers. It's more of a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds doing an IAmBecomingSong, but it's the closest to the trope this movie has. Ironically, WordOfGod says it was ''written'' as a VillainSong, but ended up being what drove them to change her into an ClassicalAntiHero {{Deuteragonist}} instead.
* VoiceForTheVoiceless: When Elsa and Anna first built Olaf as children, Elsa provided a funny voice for Olaf ("Hi, I'm Olaf and I love warm hugs!") to make Anna laugh.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: {{Implied}} during "For the First Time In Forever", by the way she looks up at the painting of her father while she is mentally preparing herself for her coronation.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Elsa were insperable as children. Then, the accident happened.
* WhatTheHellHero: Anna really knows how to call her out for the many times she shut people out, including her.
* WhenSheSmiles: Elsa can be absolutely gorgeous when she shows those pearly whites. It's just that it can be hard to get her in a good mood to see those a lot. It's perhaps most notable during the "Let it Go" sequence, when she first begins to experiment with her ice powers.
* WhenThePlanetsAlign: The circumstances of Elsa's birth, according to [[WordOfGod Jennifer Lee]]. A child is born with ice magic 1000 years after Saturn is in a certain alignment with something. It was meant to be explained in the film but was left out due to being expositiony, and its unknown what Saturn is aligned with and how often it occurs.
* WillfullyWeak: After nearly killing Anna with her powers, she spent a good chunk of her life doing everything she can to keep her powers in check.
* WinterRoyalLady: Surprisingly {{Averted}}, as she never actually adopts the moniker of "Snow Queen" (at least, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen not in the final version of the movie]]).
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Tries to be this, but cannot keep it up; when Anna confronts her at her coronation afterparty, she loses her composure. It's abandoned completely by the end, as she entertains her subjects with a skating rink in summer, skating amongst them as well.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She's more of a repressed loner than anything due to years and ''years'' of trying to control her emotions and powers, only to have it amount to nothing. And the "Destroyer of Worlds" part is [[ObliviouslyEvil unintentional.]]
* YouthfulFreckles: They're not as prominent on Elsa as they are on Anna (which can be partially explained as Elsa is a bit older than Anna), but if you look close enough, they are there.
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[[folder:King Agnarr and Queen Iduna of Arendelle]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MauriceLaMarche (King Agdar), Jennifer Lee (Queen Idun)
Elsa and Anna's parents.
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[[AC:Tropes that apply to both]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the ''Frozen'' book illustrations, the king has dark hair and the queen has light hair, but in the movie, it's vice-versa.
* GoodParents: While they were alive, they make some mistakes, but they truly care about their daughters and want to help Elsa control her powers.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Agnarr" is a male form of Agða, a short form of Agatha, meaning "good" and/or "honorable". The name Agnarr means "brave" and/or "warrior" in Norse and from Greek agathos meaning "good". All of which reflect his noble intentions towards his daughters.
** "Iduna" can be anglicized as Ithunn, or Idunn/Idun. Iðunn means "youthful", a nod to her [[MumLooksLikeASister youthful appearance.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While their insistence that Elsa isolate herself and hide her powers was well-meaning, the reason her powers got so out of control as she grew older was ''because'' of the isolation. It's only once she opens up and accepts the love and affection of her friends and family that she regains the level of control over her powers that she had as a child. Many fans have interpreted this as AnAesop: When you have kids, don't make them feel ashamed or afraid of who they are, even if society may frown upon them. It will not end well.
* NicePerson: In spite of their ''huge'' mistake on how they handled Elsa's powers, they both prove to be loving and well meaning people.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: After Elsa accidentally injures her sister, her parents conclude that the best thing to do is to keep her away from the world and make her fear her powers. However, this just causes her to build up a lot of emotional issues when the actual secret to controlling herself requires her to ''embrace'' her emotions and love for others, which is more like what she was already doing. Not only was this exactly the wrong way to help Elsa, but it both took away Anna's friendship with her sister and prevented her from making friends with anyone else, leaving her desperately craving affection. The moment she gets out and meets someone, she rushes into the first relationship that presents itself.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Both of them could be maintained in their early 30s or mid 20s, even though they have two daughters, and on closer look, Iduna appears to be a recolored version of Elsa's coronation appearance. It's totally {{Justified}}: ''Frozen'' takes place in a time period when people married and had children much earlier than they do today, and especially royalty trying to preserve the family line.
* OverprotectiveDad: Deconstructed. Agdar and Idun desired to protect their children, so they isolated them from anything that could hurt them, including each other. Because of this, the girls are denied the life experiences and skills that real people need to develop. Elsa becomes an IneffectualLoner who hides her emotions from everyone, including her sister, until they come gushing out. Since her powers are controlled by her emotions, not knowing how to handle either sets off the plot. Anna grows up very naive as to how love, the world and even her own kingdom works, resulting in her getting engaged to a man she barely knows [[spoiler:who turns out to be a GoldDigger and is just using Anna's naivete to marry his way into ruling Arendelle]].
* ParentalAbandonment: Their ship sunk, leading to their death.
* ParentsAsPeople: Though they are very loving, without meaning to, they contribute to Elsa's problem. They teach her to fear her powers instead of trying to control them, and to bottle up her emotions rather than confront them.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Their deaths at the beginning of the film are why Elsa has to become Queen at the young age of 21, kicking off the plot.
* ShownTheirWork: Their graves are written in Runic alphabet, and so their names were revealed as King Agdar and Queen Idun.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: They have good intentions, but isolating Elsa (and Anna) from the rest of the world for so many years causes the plot to kick off.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: They die within the first ten minutes of the film, just like [[RecurringElement most parents in Disney films]].
[[AC:Tropes that apply to King Agnarr]]
* DotingParent: ''A Frozen Heart'' reveals the fact that Agnarr had the tendency to spoil his daughters, and had a difficult time legitimately punishing them when they misbehave.
* HeroicBuild: Agnarr has a broad, muscular body; even though the outcome of his methods of teaching Elsa to control her powers wasn't exactly right, his intentions were noble and out of love.
* OneHeadTaller: King Agnarr is [[http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140109043557/disney/images/e/e1/Frozenkingandqueen.jpg this to his wife.]]
* SharpDressedMan: Agnarr certainly looks the part of a king.
[[AC:Tropes that apply to Queen Iduna]]
* CreatorCameo: Iduna is voiced by Jennifer Lee, one of the co-directors of the film.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Iduna's PimpedOutDress is dark violet, just like Elsa's coronation dress.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: ''A Frozen Heart'' reveals that Iduna was this when alive. Although Agnarr is generally docile, when on the verge of losing his temper, it is Iduna who has the ability to calm his nerves. This peacekeeping aura of the queen is also carried over to other occasions, such as Elsa's training to control her powers; the queen being far more patient and accepting of momentary breaks, in hopes of preventing Elsa from becoming overwhelmed.
* MumLooksLikeASister: Idun looks like [[StrongFamilyResemblance a brunette version of]] [[OnlySixFaces Elsa's and Anna's adult selves]] (21 and 18)... even when they're in their late to mid-teens toward the end of the prologue (18 and 15). Due to the former's lack of (visible) freckles, she looks like 21-year-old Elsa with brown hair.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Iduna was the name of a goddess in Norse mythology from one of [[http://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-kidnapping-of-idun/ the most well-known myths]].
* PrimAndProperBun: Queen Iduna's hair is styled like this, in the same way that Elsa wears her hair to the coronation in.
* SatelliteCharacter: Queen Iduna only has one line, and she is shown to be supportive of her husband's decisions regarding their children.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Iduna looks almost identical to Elsa, with a darker hair color.
* SweetTooth: According to the book ''A Frozen Heart'', Iduna has a sweet tooth.
* YouthfulFreckles: While not a child or teenager anymore, Iduna has them. She is in her twenties, which is only a little older than Elsa is during the whole...eternal winter thing, so she is only a little above the age range. (If one looks, in some of her scenes, Iduna basically bears the same physical appearance that Elsa has at the coronation party, only with brunette hair instead of platinum blonde hair).
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