History Characters / FrozenArendelleRoyalFamily

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* SiblingYinYang: Elsa is calm, reserved, and introverted while Anna is energetic, outspoken, and extroverted.

* 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.

** Queen Iduna only has one line in the film:"She's ice cold", and appears to accept her husband's decisions regarding their children. She also shows concern for her daughters when Anna is struck as a child and when Elsa declares that she is afraid of hurting anyone with her powers. However, this all of her personality that is shown to the audience.

* SatelliteCharacter: Queen Iduna only has one line in the film:"She's ice cold", and appears to accept her husband's decisions regarding their children. She also shows concern for her daughters when Anna is struck as a child and when Elsa declares that she is afraid of hurting anyone with her powers. However, this all of her personality that is shown to the audience.
** She's more fleshed-out in the Broadway adaption, in which she is given some background as having previously been a member of nomads before marrying into the royal family, and debates the wisdom of Agnarr's plans for isolating the sisters, but that's about it. All of her actions revolve around the two sisters.

* 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.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: ''A Frozen Heart'' reveals that Iduna was this when alive. Although Agnarr is generally docile, when he is 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.

* SatelliteCharacter: Queen Iduna only has one line in Frozen:"She's ice cold", and she is shown to half-heartedly accept her husband's decisions regarding their children. She also shows concern for her daughters when Anna is struck as a child and when Elsa declares that she is afraid of hurting anyone with her powers. However, this all of her personality that is shown to the audience.

* SweetTooth: According to the book ''A Frozen Heart'', Iduna has a sweet tooth.

* 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. By the end of the movie, Kristoff is more upbeat and energetic due to Anna's influence throughout the story.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

** Naivete. Being sheltered and cooped up by her parents, it gave her a different view of things, and made her desperate for affection and love. This is a factor in why she was so quick to latch on to Hans, earning LampshadeHanging from Elsa and Kristoff, the latter of whom asks "Didn't your parents warn you about strangers?"

* FoolForLove: Combined with LoveMakesYouDumb, Anna is extroverted, outgoing, headstrong, and brave. Her naivete, however, is a contributing factor as to why she was willing to marry Hans, a man she just met. Played even more straight when he turned out to be a {{Jerkass}} who was only using her to rule the kingdom. [[VillainHasAPoint Even he points out]] how foolish she was for this.

* 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 very feisty, adventurous, courageous and brave. Plus, she can stand toe to toe with the guys.

* 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.

* 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.

* {{Reconstruction}}: Of TheHeart and TheIngenue. 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 romance solving all your problems are treated as a [[SmittenTeenageGirl teenage girl thing]] she gets to [[CharacterDevelopment grow out of]] without having to turn all cynical or lose any of her warmth and sweetness.

* 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.

* SignificantBirthDate: According to extra material, Anna was born on the summer solstice.

-->I'm the screwup... Don't I know it

-->Well I won't care.

* TranquilFury: The sight of Anna alive confuses Hans, prompting him to ask how she beat the frozen heart curse. Anna has been shown to be a bit hot tempered when pushed enough, but this time she just coldly states that the only frozen heart is Hans's, and Anna then begins to take her leave... before suddenly turning her heel and sucker-punching the treacherous prince in the face, causing him to fall into the fjord below.

* YouthfulFreckles: On her face and shoulders. Serves to highlight her initial immaturity and naivete.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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 the safety of everyone. 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.

** In ''Fever'', she gives her ice dress a Spring look, but still keeps the general shape.

* 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".

** 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.

* HighClassGloves: Though her gloves were to contain her power, they are still items fit for royalty. Even her coronation gloves match her dress.

* IconicOutfit: Her silky blue gown + gauzy cape is more recognizable, and is printed on more merchandise, than her coronation outfit.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* OneWomanArmy: Elsa was able to handle herself against the Duke of Weseltown's bodyguard.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: She and Elsa were insperable as children. Then, the accident happened.

* 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.

** "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.]]
* MyBelovedSmother: Deconstructed. Agdar and Iduna 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]].
* 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 around their early 40s or late 30s, at the time of the last voyage, but they look relatively younger than this. Iduna is virtually a brunette version of Elsa.

* 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 Iduna.

* OverprotectiveDad: When he takes Anna and Elsa to the Valley of the Trolls, this cautious instinct takes over and plays a significant part of Elsa's upbringing:

* 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 in Frozen:"She's ice cold", and she is shown to be somewhat accepting of her husband's decisions regarding their children. She also shows concern for her daughters when Anna is struck as a child and when Elsa declares that she is afraid to touch anyone. However, this all of her personality that is shown to the audience.

* YouthfulFreckles: While not a child or teenager anymore, Iduna has them. 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).

* 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.

* TranquilFury: The sight of Anna alive [[EvilCannotComprehendGood confuses Hans]], prompting him to ask how she beat the frozen heart curse. Anna has been shown to be a bit hot tempered when pushed enough, but this time she just coldly states that the only frozen heart is Hans's, and Anna then begins to take her leave... before suddenly turning her heel and sucker-punching the treacherous prince in the face, causing him to fall into the fjord below.

* TookALevelInBadass: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. It was already shown that Elsa had a pretty good control of her powers as a child, but when she accidentally hurt her sister, her parents thought it was best for her to conceal her powers. This led to her becoming emotionally troubled and accidentally unleashing an eternal blizzard. After escaping into the snowy mountains, Elsa sings "Let It Go" to fullt show her accepting herself and her powers, proceeding to physically change herself and build an entire ice castle. And after Anna's HeroicSacrifice, she managed to put an end to the eternal blizzard.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Elsa grew up highly reserved because she was afraid being emotional would cause her powers to act up. The first time she opens up is when she sings her iconic ''Let It Go'' solo. She's still very anxious in "For The First Time In Forever (Reprise)" but at the end seems to have opened up more thanks to ThePowerOfLove, and has mastered her ice powers.

* TraumaCongaLine: Elsa goes through one traumatic experience after another, and each one leaves a lasting impact, on Anna as well as herself:

** The exception is in ''Frozen Fever'', where she makes her dress a turquoise green, with FlowerMotifs, to match Anna's dress.
** In ''Olaf's Frozen Adventure'', her HappyHolidaysDress is dark blue (which contrasts with the silver snowflake brocade).

* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Growing up in the shadow of her [[CoolBigSis older]], [[BrokenAce seemingly-perfect]] sister Elsa, Anna comes to develop an inferiority complex, thinking of herself as "completely ordinary" and "not [[BigSisterWorship ''that'' princess... it's just me."]] According to WordOfGod, [[https://johnaugust.com/2014/scriptnotes-ep-128-frozen-with-jennifer-lee-transcript this low self-esteem is exploited by]] [[ManipulativeBastard Hans]], and he [[BreakThemByTalking especially plays on it during his]] [[TheReveal post-reveal monologue]], telling Anna that she's "no match for Elsa" and that her sister "was preferable, of course." In an earlier draft where Elsa was written as less reclusive than in the final film, the theme of SpareToTheThrone was more prominent and this trope was more heavily explored. This is seen in Anna's [[CutSong unused]] song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKUGDQCzGz0 "More Than Just The Spare"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUcQWnBPDy0 this deleted scene]], which helped shape her character even if they didn't make it into the movie.:

** [[FearlessFool Recklessness]] [[LeeroyJenkins and impulsiveness]]. She has a habit of doing things without planning them ahead of time, and is quite impulsive. For example: after Elsa ran away, she goes off into the dark and cold wilderness to find her without suitable clothing, supplies, or even a map, and her only plan" is to talk her down.

%%* FirstGirlWins: She's the first girl that Kristoff meets, and they end up as a couple.

* TheCreon: Despite her insecurities concerning her status as 'the Spare', Anna displays no resentment whatsoever for her older sister or desire to take Elsa's position as Queen. Even when Elsa has exiled herself to the mountains and willingly relinquished the throne, Anna literally climbs a mountain and ''begs'' her to come back rather than assume the crown. Some of this is probably due to her lack of ambition, but it mostly comes down to her placing her love for Elsa above all else.

* TheCreon: Despite her insecurities concerning her status as 'the Spare', Anna displays no resentment whatsoever for her older sister or desire to take Elsa's position as Queen. Even when Elsa has exiled herself to the mountains and willingly relinquished the throne, Anna literally climbs a mountain and 'begs' her to come back rather than assume the crown. Some of this is probably due to her lack of ambition, but it mostly comes down to her placing her love for Elsa above all else.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Has a fondness for chocolate. Also loves sandwiches, soup, roast, and ice cream.

---> [[spoiler: Prince Hans: You were so desperate for love, you willing to marry me, just like that.]]

---> Kristoff: That's your plan? You're going to ''talk'' to your sister?.

* 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.

** [[FearlessFool Recklessness]] [[LeeroyJenkins and impulsiveness]]. She has a habit of doing things without planning them ahead of time, and is quite impulsive. For example: after Elsa ran away, she goes off into the dark and cold wilderness to find her without suitable clothing, supplies, or even a map, and her only "[[MissingStepsPlan plan]]" is to talk her down.

* 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.

* MissingStepsPlan: Her plan to save Arendelle is basically 1. Find Elsa 2. Talk to Elsa 3.??? 4.Elsa thaws Arendelle. Lampshaded by Kristoff.

* GoodIsNotSoft: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She's a NiceGirl most of the time, but she won't always extend her kindness and compassion to those that are her enemies or people that she doesn't trust, especially to a certain prince from the Southern Isles.
* HairDecorations: Anna wears a ribbon in her hair with her Coronation Day dress. She also wears ribbons and a sunflower in "Disney/FrozenFever" and a festive piece that looks like leaves and cranberries with her HappyHolidaysDress in "Disney/OlafsFrozenAdventure."

* InkSuitActor: Her character was heavily inspired by her voice actress, Creator/KristenBell. She even sports Bell's lazy eye. [[[[https://web.archive.org/web/20140112131335/http://www.momtrends.com/2013/11/disneys-frozen-interviews/ In one interview,]] songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez said:

* InLoveWithLove: She's more interested in having a romance so she doesn't [[FriendlessBackground have to be alone anymore]] than in Hans himself. She even goes as far as to [[FourthDateMarriage accept his proposal after knowing him for only one day]], [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel thinking]] he's her [[OneTrueLove true love]]. [[OpportunisticBastard Hans]] uses her naïveté and vulnerability to his own advantage and lampshades it.
* 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.

* KillTheCutie: Subverted. Though she is left to die by Hans, she gets better.

* 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 naïveté 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: Her character was heavily inspired by her voice actress, Creator/KristenBell. In an interview, Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez said [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140112131335/http://www.momtrends.com/2013/11/disneys-frozen-interviews/
"The more we were working with Kristen Bell, the more, the more she influenced. We all got on the same page with who Anna was because Anna’s Kristen Bell. Like Kristen Bell’s mind is so fast and she’s so funny and, and we kind of all, we kind of all started writing differently.”]] She even sports Creator/KristenBell's lazy eye.

* {{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.

** Pink. [[ThePowerOfLove It's also associated with love,]] [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel particularly romantic love]], girlhood, as well as spring and rebirth. Fittingly, Anna's room is covered in in it, as seen when she wakes up excited for the gates to open on coronation day and for life to return to the castle (the French title for the accompanying song translate to "The Renewal" and the chance of finding love, including romantic love, and it's in her coronation dress. It's also the color of the cape and hat in her adventuring outfit, which she dons when she goes to help Elsa thaw the winter through ThePowerOfLove. She loses the hat when Elsa freezes her heart and has her giant [[{{Snowlem}} snow bodyguard Marshmallow]] kick her out of the ice palace, eventually losing all pink - and all color at all besides blue - when she finally freezes into a solid ice, but her ActOfTrueLove [[ThePowerOfLove brings her - and the color - back.]]

* PrincessesPreferPink: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Most of her outfits contain some pink accents, but all of them are primarily green or blue. As for prominent appearances of it, her winter cape and hat are magenta and her room is pink, but that's about it. The color most associated with her is green instead.

** Blue -- An indication of her [[AnIcePerson ice powers]], the main color choice for her clothing (including her ice dress), and represents her loneliness and later, happiness.

* PrincessesPreferPink: Downplayed. Her winter cape and hat are magenta and her room is pink, but that's about it. Her most common colors instead are green and blue.

** 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. If you're familiar with the symbolism of the Chakras: green stands for the Heart Chakra or [[ThePowerOfLove love - Anna's power.]] Green is also associated with growth, and spring and summer, which Anna helps bring back after Elsa accidentally freezes the kingdom in an EndlessWinter. (Anna's birthday is even on the summer solstice (confirmed by WordOfGod).

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* AnythingThatMoves: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. 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.

* InkSuitActor: Anna even sports Creator/KristenBell's lazy eye.

* BadassBookworm: At least in [[Theatre.Frozen the theatre adaption]], which confirms Anna's love of books, something that was mostly implied in the film. {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as above.