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* EyeScream (downplayed): The story does start with a little boy getting a shard of a cursed mirror ''in his eye'', but doesn't linger on the physical pain, instead emphasizing the magical effects associated with the mirror the shard came from.
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* EyeScream (downplayed): The EyeScream: Downplayed; the story does start with a little boy getting a shard of a cursed mirror ''in his eye'', but doesn't linger on the physical pain, instead emphasizing the magical effects associated with the mirror the shard came from.
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* EnterStageWindow. Kai and Gerda have a shared garden between the upstairs windows of their homes, which allows this so that either of them can visit the other. It helps that the windows face each other.
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* ''Film/TheSnowQueen1967'', Soviet Russian live-action adaptation by Lenfilm.
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* ''Film/TheSnowQueen1967'', Soviet Russian live-action adaptation by Lenfilm.Lenfilm, based on the retelling by Yevgeny Schwartz rather than directly on Andersen's text
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* MemoryRestoringMelody: Gerda sings the Danish Christmas Carol, The Most Graceful Rose is Found. As a result of remembering when she sang it to him, Kai immediately tears up and thus gets free from The Mirror Shards.
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** The titular Snow Queen isn't malicious or sadistic, and doesn't seem to have any ill intent; but considering that she kidnaps and brainwashes Kai, it's safe to say she's not good.
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** The titular Snow Queen isn't malicious or sadistic, and doesn't seem to have any ill intent; even treats Kai quite kindly; but considering that she kidnaps and brainwashes Kai, it's safe to say she's not good.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowQueen1995'', an animated film, and sequel, by Martin Gates Productions.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowQueen1995'', an animated film, and sequel, ''The Snow Queen’s Revenge'' (1996), by Martin Gates Productions.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: The Devil, responsible for the creation of the mirror that enhances the ugliest aspects of life.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil:
** The titular Snow Queen isn't malicious or sadistic, and doesn't seem to have any ill intent; but considering that she kidnaps and brainwashes Kai, it's safe to say she's not good.
** The sorceress wants Gerda to stay with her forever in her garden of eternal summer, and brainwashes her into forgetting Kai. However, there's no mention that the sorceress treats Gerda poorly during the time they spend together, and she comes across as a lonely, WellIntentionedExtremist. Your mileage may vary on whether what she does to Gerda qualifies as evil.
** The titular Snow Queen isn't malicious or sadistic, and doesn't seem to have any ill intent; but considering that she kidnaps and brainwashes Kai, it's safe to say she's not good.
** The sorceress wants Gerda to stay with her forever in her garden of eternal summer, and brainwashes her into forgetting Kai. However, there's no mention that the sorceress treats Gerda poorly during the time they spend together, and she comes across as a lonely, WellIntentionedExtremist. Your mileage may vary on whether what she does to Gerda qualifies as evil.
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* EthnicMagician: The old women who take Gerda in and advise her on the last stage of her journey, essentially are. One is a Finn (probably some variant of Sami), the other is a Lapp (Sami), living even further north.
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* EthnicMagician: The old women who take takes Gerda in and advise advises her on the last stage of her journey, essentially are. One is a Finn (probably some variant of Sami), the other is a Lapp (Sami), living even further north.
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* ''Webcomic/TheLadyInTheSnow'': A retelling set in Russia, 1910, where Kay and Gerda are young adults.
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* AntagonistTitle: The Snow Queen whom the story is named after is an evil ice witch and the main antagonist.
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* AntagonistTitle: The Snow Queen whom the story is named after is an evil AmbiguouslyEvil ice witch and the main antagonist.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: The Robber Girl, who says she must have Gerda immediately after seeing her, and makes her sleep in her bed. Considering Andersen was bisexual, it's not too hard to imagine he consciously or subconsciously included sapphic subtext.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: The Robber Girl, who says she must have Gerda immediately after seeing her, and makes her sleep in her bed. Considering Andersen was bisexual, it's not too hard to imagine he consciously or subconsciously included sapphic [[UsefulNotes/{{Sapphism}} sapphic]] subtext.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Rather, Gerda keeps losing her shoes throughout the story.
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* AntiClimax: There is no final confrontation with the Snow Queen -- she's not home when Gerda finally arrives at her IcePalace, and although a restored Kai initially panics when he realizes where he is and what's been going on, it quickly fades because the children know she can't touch him now and they have nothing to fear from her.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Rather, Greda Gerda keeps losing her shoes throughout the story.
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** CallToAdventure: Her friend's disappearance.
** RefusalOfTheCall: Temporarily falling for the old woman's LotusEaterMachine and remaining in her enchanted garden.
** ThresholdGuardians: The old woman who makes her forget her quest.
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** The Goddess: The Robber Girl who helps her (and is likely in love with her) and Kai, a gender-flipped prize to be rescued.
** Ultimate Boon: Finding Kai and freeing him from the spell of the specks of glass.
** Returning home with her prize.
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* SwissArmyTears: Gerda breaks the spell on Kai when her tears melt his frozen heart.
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* SwissArmyTears: Gerda breaks the The spell on Kai breaks when her Gerda's tears melt his frozen heart.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample*heart and his own tears in response wash the glass out of his eye, allowing him to remember and recognize her.
* TheVamp: The SnowQueen, which Queen -- Kai is absolutely in awe of her beauty and wants to impress her. She makes him forget all about his home and family so he'll stay with her one of the few (presumably) non-sexual vamps.forever.
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* SwissArmyTears: In the musical, making Kai cry with the memories of their childhood also gets the shards in his eyes out.
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* ''Film/TheSnowQueen1967'', Soviet Russian live-action adaptation by Lenfilm.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: There are quite a few mentions of Gerda's muff... that is, her handwarmer. Including The Robber Girl mentioning wanting to 'put her hands in Gerda's muff'.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: There are quite a few mentions of Gerda's muff... that is, her handwarmer. Including The Robber Girl mentioning wanting to 'put her hands in Gerda's muff'.muff', as well as 'keep the muff for herself'.
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* PrayerIsALastResort: Gerda overcomes the last defense of the Snow Queen`s palace because of this. She has forgotten her warm gloves and her boots, she is literally down on her knees, and starts praying the Lord's Prayer. Her breath takes on the form of an angelic army, which defeats the winter monsters and breaches the way to Kai.
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* PrayerIsALastResort: Gerda overcomes the last defense of the Snow Queen`s Queen's palace because of this. She has forgotten her warm gloves and her boots, she is literally down on her knees, and starts praying the Lord's Prayer. Her breath takes on the form of an angelic army, which defeats the winter monsters and breaches the way to Kai.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: The Robber Girl really, really wants to keep all the companions she's captured, out of some weird form of love - but when she finds out none of them want to be captive, she reluctantly lets them all go.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: The Robber Girl really, really wants to keep all the companions she's captured, out of some weird form of love - -- but when she finds out none of them want to be captive, she reluctantly lets them all go.
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An evil troll, actually TheDevil himself, creates a magic mirror that magnifies all the bad and ugly aspects of whatever it reflects. He intends to carry the mirror into Heaven and make fools of the angels and God, but it slips from his grasp and falls down to earth, where it shatters into billions of pieces —- some no larger than a grain of sand. These splinters are caught onto the wind and occasionally lodge in the hearts or eyes of passers-by, causing them to see only the ugly in the world around them.
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An evil troll, actually TheDevil himself, creates a magic mirror that magnifies all the bad and ugly aspects of whatever it reflects. He intends to carry the mirror into Heaven and make fools of the angels and God, but it slips from his grasp and falls down to earth, where it shatters into billions of pieces —- — some no larger than a grain of sand. These splinters are caught onto the wind and occasionally lodge in the hearts or eyes of passers-by, causing them to see only the ugly in the world around them.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: There are quite a few mentions of Gerda's muff... that is, her handwarmer.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: There are quite a few mentions of Gerda's muff... that is, her handwarmer. Including The Robber Girl mentioning wanting to 'put her hands in Gerda's muff'.
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"The Snow Queen" (Danish: "Snedronningen") is a 19th century FairyTale by author Creator/HansChristianAndersen which was first published in 1845.
"The Snow Queen" (Danish: "Snedronningen") is a 19th century FairyTale by author Creator/HansChristianAndersen which was first published in 1845.
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"The Snow Queen" (Danish: "Snedronningen") is a
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* MistressAndServantBoy: The Snow Queen and Kai, to some extent. He is a young and naive boy (even after the mirror shards get into his heart and eye), and she is a beautiful, mysterious and aloof woman who likes keeping him around as a foster child of sorts. Some adaptations even add the romantic subtext to their relationship.
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* MistressAndServantBoy: The Snow Queen and Kai, to some extent. He is a young and naive boy (even after the mirror shards get into his heart and eye), and she is a beautiful, mysterious and aloof woman who likes keeping him around as a foster child of sorts. Some adaptations even add the romantic subtext to their relationship.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Rather, Greda keeps losing her shoes throughout the story.
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The Snow Queen is supposed to be evil.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Whether the Snow Queen can be called truly malevolent or not is up in the air, owing to the unclear nature of her relationship with Kai, her reasons for taking him with her and Kai's willingness being mysterious, and the fact that we never get to see her react to Gerda's attempts to get him back.
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* AntagonistTitle: The Snow Queen whom the story is named after may not be evil, but she is still the antagonist.
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* AntagonistTitle: The Snow Queen whom the story is named after may not be evil, but she is still an evil ice witch and the main antagonist.
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The Snow Queen was evil in the fairy tale and she wasn’t implied to be a witch it is confirmed.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original fairy tale, the Snow Queen is simply a neutral entity who picks Kai (whose willingness is ambiguous) up when he gets stuck to her sled and while she likes having him around as a foster child of sorts, she gives him a way to free himself from her icy kingdom if he ever so wishes (although he has to accomplish an almost impossible task to do it). Though keep in mind, the fact that angels themselves have to save Gerda from her minions towards the end implies the Snow Queen may be some type of witch or demon. A lot of adaptations change her into a proper villain that kidnaps Kai and holds him hostage against his will in her castle where Gerda has to fight her somehow. Several [[AdaptedOut Adapt Out]] the devil in the prologue and have the Snow Queen create the evil mirror instead.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original fairy tale, the Snow Queen is simply a neutral entity who picks Kai (whose willingness is ambiguous) up when he gets stuck to her sled and while she likes having him around as a foster child of sorts, she gives him a way to free himself from her icy kingdom if he ever so wishes (although he has to accomplish an almost impossible task to do it). Though keep in mind, the fact that angels themselves have to save Gerda from her minions towards the end implies the Snow Queen may be some type of witch or demon. A lot of adaptations change have the Snow Queen more evil than her into a proper villain that kidnaps literary counterpart and show her kidnapping Kai and holds holding him hostage against his will in her castle where Gerda has to fight her somehow. Several [[AdaptedOut Adapt Out]] the devil in the prologue and have the Snow Queen create the evil mirror instead.
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* ElementalEmbodiment: The Snow Queen is implied to be the embodiment of winter.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Snow Queen herself is the antagonistic dark force but at the same time is far and apart one of the least overtly evil ones in fairy tales.
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* AnimatedAdaptation: In addition to other animated adaptations, the Queen Nehellenia arc in the fifth season of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' is based on "The Snow Queen".
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* AnimatedAdaptation: In addition to other animated adaptations, the Queen Nehellenia arc in the fifth season of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' is based on "The Snow Queen". The primary difference is that instead everyone struck in the eye with a mirror shard becomes obsessed with mirrors and grows increasingly apathetic to everything until they lose all motivation to do ''anything''.