Characters / Frozen - Arendelle

aka: Frozen Arendelle Royal Family

Frozen franchise character index
Arendelle (Anna | Elsa)
Hans | Weselton | Northuldra
Magical Creatures | Animals
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Main Group

Anna

Anna

See her character page here.

Elsa

Elsa

See her character page here.

Kristoff Bjorgman

Kristoff Bjorgman

"I don't trust your judgment! Who marries a man she just met?"

Voiced by: Jonathan Groff, Matt Lowe (Disney Dreamlight Valley), Tyree Brown (8-year-old)^{Other Languages}Gilan Shaf (Hebrew dub); José Gilberto Vilchis, Matías Quintana Ortíz (8-year-old) (Latin Spanish dub), Sebastian Karlsson, Leon Pålsson Sälling (8-year-old) (Swedish dub)

Appearances: Frozen | Frozen Fever | Olaf's Frozen Adventure | Frozen II

Appearances in alternate continuities: Frozen: Northern Lights | Frozen Free Fall | Once Upon a Time | Kingdom Hearts III | Disney Dreamlight Valley | Disney Speedstorm

♫ Oh, you're my only landmark, so I'm lost in the woods
Wondering if you still care
But I'll wait for a sign that I'm on your path
'Cause you are mine
Until then, I'm lost in the woods... ♫

— "Lost in the Woods"

An ice harvester in Arendelle who spurns human companionship for animals and the Trolls. He becomes a personal wilderness guide to Anna to help her on her quest.

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• Accidental Misnaming: Olaf constantly calling him Sven is a Running Gag in the first film. Anna also calls him Kristoffer/Christopher once.
• Adaptational Heroism: He is based on the Robber Girl from the original tale. He isn't a criminal, but an honest, if grumpy, ice harvester.
• All There in the Manual: Kristoff is a member of the Sami people (indigenous peoples of far northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland); perhaps not coincidentally, they are the only peoples in that region with the right to herd reindeer. Not so much hidden if you actually are Scandinavian, as those pointy shoes are a dead giveaway. Same goes for his last name—it's never stated in the film, but the Essential Guide reveals that it's Bjorgman. The Disney on Ice show does state it in an exchange that would have made sense to be in the movie considering the Accidental Misnaming, and was in an earlier draft of the film:
  Anna: I'm Princess Anna, from Arendelle.
  Kristoff: And I'm Kristoff Bjorgman, from nowhere-in-particular.
• Acting for Two: An in-universe example. His companion Sven isn't a Talking Animal, so Kristoff sometimes provides a "voice" for him to talk to when they're alone. Hilariously, it's always Sven who "wins" any argument.
• Amazon Chaser: After Anna hits one of the wolves chasing her and Kristoff, the latter utters a very impressed "Whoa!"
• Animal Motifs: Reindeers. His best friend, brother figure, and Morality Chain is Sven, a reindeer. His only song in the first movie is about how reindeer are better than people. His earth tone colors are the main colors for the animal. He bonds with Ryder in the second movie because of their shared appreciation for the species. Olaf refers to him as a "valiant, pungent reindeer king" in the first movie. During his song in the second movie, Sven and a group of Northuldran reindeer act as his backup singers.
• Battle Couple: Downplayed with Anna throughout the story until they have a Relationship Upgrade at the end of the story and become an Official Couple. 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 Marshmallow.
• Better with Non-Human Company: Type 2, grumpy. His Establishing Character Moment is singing a song called "Reindeers Are Better Than People" to his reindeer companion, Sven. The lyrics imply that he's used to being treated poorly by other humans. He's also been raised by trolls. In the first movie, he has no problem with insulting people to their faces, either, but warms up over the course of the story.
• Betty and Veronica: Anna is the "Archie" to Kristoff's "Betty" (manly ice harvester) and Hans's "Veronica" (cultured prince). The contrast goes further when Kristoff is revealed to have a good heart under his gruff exterior while Hans turns out to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: Picks up "...Wait, what?" from Anna.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The Brooding Boy to Anna's Gentle Girl. Kristoff is brooding, anti-social, sullen, and sarcastic, while Anna is optimistic and compassionate. Anna is the one that gets Kristoff to lighten up and she has a strong effect 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.
• Brutal Honesty: Has no problem telling the Princess of Arendelle that he doesn't trust her judgement because she became engaged to a guy on the first day they met.
• Butt-Monkey: Gets attacked by wolves while dragged behind a sled, tries and fails to stop Anna from angering a snow golem, is covered in ice and snow in several scenes, and he's unlucky enough to be transporting ice when Arendelle freezes over (rendering his duty kinda moot).
• Character Development:
  • In the first film, he's a Defrosting Ice King who starts off cynical, misanthropic, and generally uninterested in the well-being of other humans, although he's close with his his troll family and his reindeer. He initially only agrees to help Anna rescue Elsa and the kingdom for selfish reasons. As he spends time with Anna trying to bring back summer, though, he appreciates her courage and sincerity and lets his guard down more, becoming less misanthropic and falling in love with another person. By the end, he's become invested in both her well-being and in a relationship with her for the sake of it, no longer caring about the compensation she'd promised him for his help. In the sequel short, Frozen Fever, Kristoff's softer side is shown to have grown. With Elsa, he is shown to be fairly laid-back, comforting, and encouraging, looking on the brighter side of a situation. In Frozen II, no longer a misanthrope, he helps an Arendelle citizen after the evacuation of its people at the beginning and strikes rapidly a friendship with Ryder. It's clear he has become much more heroic.
  • He is still shown to become flustered around Anna in "Frozen Fever," much as he is at the end of the first movie, as a result of his affections for her. By Frozen II, he's come to terms with his feelings, but still struggles to express them. One of his proposal attempts fails because instead of telling he loves her and wants to get married, he instead starts off talking about the last time they were going on a journey by sled — and how bad his impression of her was then. This sends the exact wrong signals. He learns, with the help of Ryder and Sven, to be more straightforward about his feelings, and when he tells her what his feelings about her really are and what it is he wants, she joyfully accepts.
  • In Frozen II, he struggles to propose in part because he's too focused on his own desire to advance their relationship and not on what she actually needs, and so keeps picking horrible times and saying insulting things. After he gets lost because he left the group behind to set up another proposal attempt without thinking to tell anyone where he was going, he realizes that he had been taking Anna for granted. As a result, he becomes more thoughtful and better at interacting with people, and he eventually finds a proper way to express his desire of marrying her.
• Chekhov's Gunman: After being introduced at the beginning of Frozen as a boy and being taken in by the trolls, he next shows up 13 years later, making a brief appearance in the Arendelle marketplace right before Elsa's coronation. He is then given a more proper introduction whilst encountering Anna at Wandering Oaken's Trading Post and Sauna.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Averted with Anna. They technically meet as kids when Anna is brought to see Pabbie and Kristoff (with Sven) watches. But, they don't make a proper introduction, and later romance, with one another until they're young adults, either through a chance run-in at Wandering Oaken's Trading Post & Sauna (in the movie) or briefly during "For the First Time in Forever" (in the musical).
• Childhood Friends: Been friends with Sven since they were very little.
• Color Motif: Earth-tone colors — Kristoff wears mostly brown, symbolizing his down-to-earth nature and his humble origins, as well as his strength and dependability.
• Composite Character: Kristoff is based on both Kai and the Robber Girl from the original fairy tale. Being a cynic who warms up as a result of the protagonist's heroic actions comes from Kai, and the fact that he has a reindeer and rough-hewn character and helps the heroine on her journey comes from the robber girl.
• Cool Big Bro: The younger trolls treat him like an honorary brother, and he also extends this attitude towards the snowgies Elsa sneezes out during Frozen Fever.
• Cracks in the Icy Façade: Kristoff is first shown to be a be a aloof, emotionally distant misanthrope whose only strongest connection he ever had is with Sven, his pet reindeer. When he first meets Anna, he acts very snugs toward her, saying that he'll only help her find Else if she pays him first. However, as he spends more time around Anna, he starts to see the good in her and the kindness that humans can have, allowing him to be more affectionate an attentive towards her. He also cares for Anna when she's hit by Elsa's powers and tries to get her back home in time to save her life. This is just the early part of his Character Development as he finally starts to see that not all humans are bad and begins to be more warm and caring towards others as well, and by the end of the first movie, becomes a Nice Guy.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Implied. Before he was taken in by the trolls, Kristoff was apparently an orphan and only had Sven as a companion. When he sings "Reindeers Are Better Than People" as "Sven", he gives these specific lyrics: "People will beat you and hurt you and cheat you; every one of them's bad, except you." This implies that the other humans were apparently mean to him.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Kristoff's clothing is primarily black and very dark brown, and the fur lining his clothes is a dark grey. Even the red sash and collar that punctuate his clothes are of dark shades. Dark clothing is more appropriate to wear in cold weather, since darker color clothes tend to absorb heat better. Considering where Kristoff goes most of the time, it would make sense for him to wear dark clothes to keep warm. By comparison, Hans wears dark clothing in many of his outdoor scenes in the second half of the movie, both because he's villainous and again, because it's practical for the conditions.
• Deadpan Snarker: His dialogue is mostly snark at whoever he happens to be talking to, and always in a deadpan manner.
  Kristoff: You wanna talk to me about supply and demand problems? I sell ice for a living.
• Defrosting Ice King: He starts off as cynical and misanthropic, with his Establishing Character Moment being a short song called "Reindeers Are Better Than People," in which he pretends his reindeer tells him "every one of them's bad, except you," and he doesn't disagree. But he becomes more and more comfortable around Anna over the first movie as they bond during the course of their journey together and he sees her sincerity and courageous compassion. He's her official boyfriend come the epilogue and declares his love for her in Frozen Fever. In the sequel, he seems to have defrosted entirely, spending most of his screentime awkwardly trying to propose to her and singing a dramatic ballad devoted to their love. In the end, he expresses his positive feelings and admiration for her when proposing in front of her family.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: In the sequel, his fumbling attempts to propose to Anna repeatedly result in this, with implying that he thinks she's stupid or that they're going to die. One attempt begins with him implying that he thinks she's crazy, and when she tries to clarify, he starts talking about how they were new to love when they were getting to know each other and therefore "bound to get it wrong" - which leads her to think he's saying he made a mistake and now wants to break up.
• Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. Kristoff has poor social skills and keeps picking terrible times to propose, or ends up being insulting, or both, but it's because he was quite literally raised by trolls, not because he's inherently unintelligent. He's also proven to be a realist and knows how to navigate nature well.
• Early Personality Signs: The opening scene of the first movie features a young Kristoff eagerly ice-harvesting with a young reindeer, Sven, by his side. As an adult, he's become a professional ice-harvester and is closer with Sven than with any humans.
• Embarrassing Nickname: In Olaf and Sven on Thin Ice, Kristoff once fell into the frozen lake trying to go get ice when he was younger. After this, the other ice harvesters nicknamed him "Icicle".
• Emotionally Tongue-Tied: He acquires a shyer, more awkward side once he falls in love with Anna.
  Kristoff: I could kiss you! I-I could. I mean, I'd like to—may I? We me? I mean, may we—wait, what?
• Farm Boy: In the ice harvester variant. He's doing his job and just happens to bump into a princess who's on a quest and gets drafted into it.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Besides his sash, Kristoff also has a blue patch on his right elbow.
• Foil: To Hans in every way - even in the façades they present to the world.
  • Their designs are radically different, with Hans being the traditional slim and average-height Disney hero and Kristoff being very tall, broad-shouldered, and bulky.
  • As of the sequel, Kristoff essentially succeeds in Hans' plans in the first movie, but out of genuine love rather than lies and manipulation. And, intentional or not, Kristoff primarily wears black during the epilogue where we see for the first time Anna as queen, while Hans was primarily in white during Elsa's coronation.
  • Plus, while both have animal companions, Sven remains on Kristoff's side to the end, but Sitron runs off during the ice castle siege, leaving the audience to wonder what happened to it. Metaphorically, both Sven and Sitron could serve as Kristoff's and Hans's respective consciences: Kristoff's persona as "Sven" is what often gets him to help others despite his own bitterness and cynicism, but Hans rarely interacts with Sitron, representing how the prince willingly sheds his morals in an entirely utilitarian manner.
  • While Kristoff was Happily Adopted by trolls who raised him with love and genuinely cares for Anna, Hans grew up in an abusive household, causing him to become ruthless and power-hungry, and fake his romance with Anna. Plus, Kristoff has the warm love of family that Anna needs (and gets after she and Elsa are able to be together), while Hans has the cold family relationship that Anna wouldn't want. Also, as they race back to the castle with Anna freezing because of the curse, Kristoff puts his hat on her head, but Hans doesn't help Anna feel warmer while she's visibly shivering, instead pulling his own jacket tighter to him.
• Fourth-Date Marriage: Defied between him and Anna at the end, when they decide to take things slowly after Anna's planned Fourth-Date Marriage, which Kristoff had heavily lampshaded, ends disastrously. The sequel features a subplot of Kristoff trying to propose to Anna after being together for about three years and they become engaged at the end, having had years to get to know each other.
• Freudian Excuse: The way the ice miners treated him may well have made him a misanthrope, and while being adopted by trolls may have made him less of a Jerkass than Hans, Anna was really the first human friend he ever had.
• Gender Flip: Kristoff is based on the Robber Girl from the original tale.
• Good Counterpart: To Hans. Not that he wasn't this in the first movie, but Kristoff fully cements himself as this in Frozen II. He too offers help to the people of Arendelle in a time of crisis and wants to marry Anna, but out of genuine care. Kristoff represents what Hans could have been if driven by altruism and sincere love towards Anna: he gives a blanket to an Arendelle citizen without any ulterior motives and marries Anna out of love, becoming the queen's husband— which is what Hans tried to become, albeit via deception and lies.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: In the beginning, he is extremely distrustful of people (even singing that "Reindeers Are Better Than People") and rather grumpy. By contrast, Anna is friendly, wacky, and too trusting for her own good.
• Good Samaritan: Returns to Arendelle at the climax, running into a blizzard, to try to help Anna.
• Hairstyle Inertia: Has the same hairstyle he had as a young boy.
• Happily Adopted: He may find the trolls who raised him overbearing, but he still loves them as his own family and is grateful they took him in.
• Hates Everyone Equally: He was raised first by ice miners who ignored him, and then by trolls, and in one of his first scenes after the Time Skip, he sings a song about reindeer being better than people but smelling worse.
• Heroic Build: Most Disney heroes have a build more like Hans, with a perfect embracing height of about 5'8". They all look like tennis players. Kristoff is over 6' tall with broad shoulders, and big feet and hands. His overall build is genuinely stocky. When we first see him as an adult, he's large enough that he gets slightly ominous music, having to bend down to get into Oaken's Trading Post, and clearly towering over Anna. It's a design that helps to prolong our delusions regarding Hans.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: A humorous, lighthearted example is his lullaby to Sven, in which he says that he's the only human who smells as unpleasant as a reindeer.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Sven, which is lampshaded by the trolls who say his "thing" is "outside of nature's laws".
• Hidden Heart of Gold: He'll usually do the right thing... even if it takes some subtle (and occasionally not-so-subtle) prompting from Sven. Or Anna.
• Homeless Hero: Implied to be this with Sven. After Kristoff is thrown out of Oaken's shop, he crashes in Oaken's barn. Aside from the trolls, Kristoff probably takes to crashing in people's barns.
• Hot Consort: He's, of course, very handsome and, by the end of the second movie, he's engaged to Anna, who's become Queen herself after Elsa's abdication.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Downplayed with Anna. He's only One Head Taller than her as well as being more muscular while she has a normal build for a young female adult who is not engaged in a strenuous occupation like ice farming.
• Hunk: Contrasting Hans's more slim and cool appearance. Kristoff instead is modeled after the "ruggedly handsome" look (in spite of the shot at his "unmanly blondness").
• Ignored Expert: Played for Laughs. Kristoff has been ice-climbing most of his life for his ice-selling business. When he sees Anna attempt to ice-climb a near sheer cliff, he tells her she's doing it wrong, but doesn't give any advice on how to actually go about it, and she's not one to give up easily. Of course, she really doesn't know to do it, and barely gets a foot off the ground.
  Kristoff: It's too steep. I've only got one rope, and you don't know how to climb mountains.
  Anna: Says who?
  Kristoff: What are you doing?
  Anna: I'm...going...to see...my sister!
  Kristoff: You're going to kill yourself... I wouldn't put my foot there.
  Anna: You're distracting me.
  Kristoff: Or there.
• Ineffectual Loner: Kristoff generally does not like interacting with other humans, and simply performs honest work with his reindeer companion. However, Kristoff is clearly not doing terribly well all on his own, needing to crash in random barn houses and being barely able to afford daily necessities (he's only able to get his climbing gear and carrots because Anna buys them along with her own boots and dress).
• Insecure Love Interest: Downplayed and implied. His solo song in Frozen 2 describes how at first he had no doubt that Anna would accept his proposal but became unsure if Anna's feelings for him are as strong as his for her when she doesn't know where he went and so can't be at the right spot when he tries to propose. He assumes she left him behind willingly instead of realizing the real reason she wasn't there is that he left without letting her know where he was going. He ends the song stating that he'll wait for her answer on the matter as she's very important to him.
• Interspecies Adoption: He (human) and Sven (reindeer) were both adopted by trolls.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Downplayed. Kristoff falls in love with Anna while she's engaged, and doesn't say anything about it until after the engagement ends. After she's struck with a curse, he brings her back to the castle so she can try to get a life-saving True Love's Kiss from her fiancé.
• Jerkass Has a Point: No matter how rude he is, he does have a point when he questions Anna about agreeing to a Fourth-Date Marriage with Hans, a guy whom she just met, and why that was not a wise decision. He and Elsa were right about this all along at the end when Hans reveals his true nature.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Openly bickers with Anna and calls her out when she doesn't think things through... yet also does everything in his power to help her when it counts. Notably, this helps enforce him being a foil to Hans as his inverse; everything Kristoff does for Anna is genuine in intent.
• Lampshade Hanging: Does this heavily when he hears about Anna wanting to marry Hans despite just meeting him, and makes a few good points on why that may not be wise. Unfortunately, Kristoff turns out to be right.
• Love Confession: His "I love you, baby!' singing line to Anna in Frozen Fever.
• Meaningful Name: In Scandinavian, "Bjorg" means "help" or "salvation". Fitting, given how he continually helps Anna in her journey. Kristoff is also a Slovak deviation of Christopher, and short for the Scandinavian form "Kristoffer", meaning "bearing Christ", or "Christ-bearer", so of course he's going to be a good guy, and he guides Messianic Archetype Anna in her quest.
• Named by the Adaptation: In the original story, he's simply known as "the Robber Girl". He's given an actual name in the Disney adaptation.
• Nature Lover: He has been described as a "true outdoorsman".
• Nerves of Steel: Sees that hungry, strong, adult wolves are coming? Keeps his cool while saying "Sven, go. GO!" and manages to kick one away with just his foot.
• Nice Guy: At the end of the first film, he finally becomes this, becoming more sensitive and caring and onwards in the shorts and the sequel.
• Noble Male, Roguish Male: As the rough, ill-tempered troll's kid, he appears to be the Roguish male to Hans's Noble Male. It's subverted, as Hans's true character is Machiavellian and he uses the noble ruse as a tool to usurp the throne, while Kristoff's persona is implied by the trolls to have been created to protect himself from being hurt emotionally and hide his inner kindness and goodness.
• Nose Nuggets: Claims that all guys eat their boogers.
• No Social Skills: Justified since part of his life he was raised by trolls. It's even lampshaded by a member of his adoptive troll family; "or that he's socially impaired".
• Obsolete Occupation: Elsa's sudden winter puts Kristoff, an ice harvester, in quite a bind.
• Odd Name Out: He is the only one of the six main characters whose name is not four letters long.
• Official Couple: With Anna, although they are not married by the movie's end. Though by the end of Frozen II, they are engaged after dating each other for 3 years.
• One Head Taller: With Anna. He's taller than her by a head and is also built much larger.
• Only Sane Man: Zigzagged. He's more practical than Olaf, a Really Was Born Yesterday snowman who dreams of summer without being aware he would melt in it, and heavily lampshades the Fourth-Date Marriage engagement of Anna, who spent most of her life in isolation and ended up thinking like a romance novel. He also lampshades how optimistic All-Loving Heroine Anna is in not being scared of Hero with Bad Publicity Elsa and believing she can talk Elsa into undoing the Endless Winter. By the end, Olaf does come close to melting, Anna's fiance turns out to be a manipulative Gold Digger, and Elsa is dangerous and talking to her isn't enough to solve everything... but Olaf survives when Elsa makes him his own personal flurry, because Anna was right that Elsa really is a Hero with Bad Publicity, and Anna is able to get her to undo the Endless Winter, although Anna has to show her how to do it first.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: A minor example. Kristoff usually talks for Sven when the latter is "acting as his conscience" in the middle of a moral dilemma. Towards the end of the movie, when Kristoff has no idea what Sven is trying to communicate to him, it's a sign that Kristoff is very deep in denial about being in love with Anna.
• The Pig-Pen: His lack of hygiene is a Running Gag: he eats a saliva-covered carrot (it was Sven's saliva, but still, gross), only ever relieves himself in the woods, and (by his own admission) smells worse than a reindeer. The trolls say he's smelly no matter how much he washes, and Olaf describes him as "a pungent reindeer king."
• Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: The Rude Hero to Hans's Polite Villain. Even after The Reveal, Hans is still smooth, charming, and well-dressed in contrast to Kristoff, who is the snarky, impolite, and sometimes insensitive Tritagonist of the films.
• Previously Overlooked Paramour: Anna is initially romantically attached to the debonair Prince Hans, but after Hans reveals his true colours as a manipulator and sociopath, Anna starts to contemplate her feelings for Kristoff, the sassy Iceman who assisted her on her journey. Kristoff himself is initially hesitant to acknowledge that he has feelings for Anna, and tries to help her reunite with Hans in spite of them, believing Hans to be her True Love, but after it becomes clear that's Hans is the Romantic False Lead, at the end of the film, he and Anna begin a relationship.
• Race Lift: In the films, Kristoff is white. In the original Broadway cast, his actor was Jelani Alladin, who is black.
• Rags to Royalty: He starts the first movie as a poor ice harvester. By the end of the second movie, he's Queen Anna's consort.
• Raised by the Supernatural: He was raised by rock trolls. He's not completely isolated from human society and has a general grasp of how it works, but shows a definite preference for the trolls' company.
• Relationship Upgrade: He and Anna start off as a Teeth-Clenched Teamwork duo before becoming friendlier through their adventures. By the end of the first film, they are an Official Couple but not married. They have a three year relationship before becoming engaged in the second film.
• Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: The unglamorous, working-class poor suitor to Hans's suave, royal rich suitor.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He is correct that getting engaged to Hans was an unwise move. However, it's not because he knows Hans is evil; he's just being judgmental.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With Anna. She is a spunky princess willing to do whatever it takes to bring her sister home, he is a grumpy, rough-around-the-edges ice harvester helping her along the way.
• Scarf of Asskicking: He's a manly and rugged farmer of ice so the scarf is practical.
• Second Love: To Anna. Her first love, Hans, turned out to be a complete jerk who never loved her.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Kristoff is the Manly Mountain Man to Hans' gentlemanly Sensitive Guy. It turns out that Hans is actually the sinister villain, and Kristoff is actually a sensitive guy beneath his rugged exterior.
• Shadow Archetype: Inverted. Kristoff represents what Hans could have been had he genuinely loved and cared for Anna rather than deceiving her via lies and manipulation.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: A gender-inverted example. Kristoff was for a long time a scruffy-looking ice harvester with a serious lack of hygiene. With Anna and Elsa's influence, he started taking baths and dressing better. By the end of the second movie, he wears a fancy outfit and has his hair combed, and now he looks like a real Prince Charming.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Tries to convince his adoptive family of this about Anna. They refuse to believe him.
• Small Parent, Huge Child: Kristoff was raised by trolls. Because he is a human, he is naturally taller than his adoptive mother, Bulda.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Kristoff has no problems with doing his dangerous ice harvester jobs (which includes taking on wolves) or climbing down a mountain. It's expressing his endearing love for Anna that's the hard part.
• Straight Man: Quite notably. Midst a cast of colorful and larger-than-life characters in a world to match, Kristoff appears to be more of a straight-man, reacting to the various, mystical situations he and the other characters encounter with a generally down-to-earth viewpoint.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: In spite of his loner nature, and dislike for society, Kristoff has a loving heart, and at his core, is rather harmless and protective. This is first evidenced by his relationship with his reindeer and best friend, Sven, whom he treats as his pet and closest friend, and he's shown to value the reindeer's life above his own several times. Kristoff's inner softness is further emphasized by his family, the trolls, who reveal Kristoff to be, despite his various flaws and shortcomings, sensitive and sweet when given the same treatment, which he proves through his friendship and eventual relationship with Anna.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Initially, Kristoff has little love for his employer, Anna, and only assists her because he has an interest in stopping Elsa from making more and more ice. During their initial ascent, Kristoff teases her, especially regarding her rapid courtship with Hans, and only begins to warm up to her after he finds she might be in mortal peril.
• Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity: Genderflipped. Kristoff at first seems ruide while Hans seems polite at first. Later, Hans is a noble man while Hans is a sinister villain who is selfish.
• Took a Level in Idealism: Through his adventure with Anna and Olaf, he learns to understand that while humans can be cruel, many of them are good and willing to help each other.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He eventually becomes kind and selfless at the end of the first film. At the beginning, he shows little care for Anna's life, telling Sven he's okay with the idea of her dying on her quest to save Elsa and Arendelle. He continues on with her because he wants to make sure she gets him a new sled after his previous one was destroyed while they were escaping from wolves. At the end, though, he rushes back to Arendelle in a blizzard with barely a thought simply because he's concerned about her. At the end, he even tries to say he can't accept that new sled after all, despite having previously cared more about it than the mission.
• Tritagonist: Third in the protagonist line behind Anna and Elsa. He's as important as they are, and has more screen time than other characters, but not as much as the sisters.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Like Sven, he has a fondness for carrots.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The child version of Kristoff in the beginning of the film isn't as gruff as his older self.
• Voice for the Voiceless: He speaks for Sven in his "reindeer voice".
• Watch the Paint Job: Kristoff chides Anna for touching the lacquer on his sled. Of course, the sled smashes to pieces later on, and then catches on fire. After he just paid it off. Thankfully, by movie's end, the crown reimburses him for the lost sleigh.

Olaf

Olaf

See his entry here.

Sven

Sven

See his entry here.

The Royal Family

King Agnarr and Queen Iduna of Arendelle

Tropes that apply to both

Appearances: Frozen | Olaf's Frozen Adventure^note (in a flashback and also portrayed in a painting) | Frozen II | Dangerous Secrets

Appearances in alternate continuities: Once Upon a Time

Elsa and Anna's parents.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the Frozen book illustrations, the king has dark hair and the queen has light hair, but in the movie, it's vice-versa.
• All There in the Script: Their names are not mentioned in Frozen nor are they named in the credits, but are named in the novelization and other written material. Their names are both used in Frozen II.
• Ascended Extra:
  • The sequel gives them more focus compared to the first movie through flashbacks and ice sculptures depicting their past.
  • They also become protagonists in the spin-off book Dangerous Secrets.
• Childhood Friend Romance: The sequel shows that Agnarr and Iduna met as young teenagers.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Both of them were present at the war between the people of Arendelle and Northuldra. Agnarr witnessed his father's death before being knocked out and Iduna saved and returned him home, but at the cost of never returning to her people and hiding her heritage.
• Good Parents: While they were with Elsa and Anna, their decisions were not perfect, but they truly care about their daughters and want to help Elsa control her powers. They love the sisters so much that they courageously attempted a dangerous voyage across the Dark Sea, trying to find answers regarding Elsa's powers and help her.
• Gory Discretion Shot:
  • In the first movie, their deaths are implied. We only see their ship crash at sea from a wide angle, with two barely-visible figures appearing among the water after the ship is swallowed by a wave. The scene then cuts to mournful-looking servants covering a portrait of the king and queen with a black gauze.
  • Subverted in the sequel. Aboard the shipwreck, Elsa generates an ice sculpture showing Agnarr embracing Iduna as the waves crashed in on them.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Agnarr" is a male form of Agða, a short form of Agatha, meaning "good" and/or "honourable". The name Agnarr/Agdar means "brave" and/or "warrior" in Norse and from Greek agathos meaning "good". All of which reflect his noble intentions towards his daughters.
  • "Iduna" is the anglicized version of Ithunn, or Idunn/Idun. Iðunn means "youthful", a nod to her youthful appearance.
• The Mentor: Like parents should do, they intend to support their children. Agnarr and Iduna try to guide Elsa as she struggles with her powers.
• My Beloved Smother: They're a Deconstructed Character Archetype of this trope. Agnarr and Iduna desire to protect their children, so they isolate 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 Ineffectual Loner who hides her emotions from everyone, including her sister until they are released. 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 and healthy relationships work, resulting in her getting engaged to a man she barely knows who turns out to be a Gold Digger and is just using Anna's naivety to marry his way into ruling Arendelle.
• Nice Guy: They are well-meaning and loving people who try their best to support Elsa and protect both of their daughters.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: After the trolls show a vision of an angry mob attacking a grown Elsa and warn "fear will be your enemy," her parents (mainly Agnarr) conclude that the best thing to do is to keep her away from the world and have her power be kept secret until she learns to control it. However, this makes Elsa fear her powers, especially as the reason they were at the trolls was that she had accidentally injured Anna with ice, and 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 is this the wrong way to help Elsa, but it also takes away Anna's friendship with her sister and prevents 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.
• Older Than They Look: They look relatively young for a couple in their early 40s. Iduna is virtually a brunette version of her teenage daughter Elsa.
• Parental Abandonment: Their ship sinks, leading to their presumed death.
• Parents as People: Though they are very loving, without meaning to, they contribute to Elsa's problem. They try to guide her, yet this makes Elsa fear her powers instead of trying to control them and to bottle up her emotions rather than confront them.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Their disappearances at sea are why Elsa has to become Queen at the age of 21, kicking off the plot.
• Shown Their Work: Their graves are written in the Runic alphabet, and so their names were revealed as King Agnarr and Queen Iduna.
• Unluckily Lucky: They get caught up in an unexpected battle as children, but are some of the few who not only survive, but make it out of the forest before it becomes magically sealed off. Iduna finds herself without any family in a strange land, a kingdom that had just a battle with her own nation, but she becomes queen, with two lovely daughters who help bring peace and unity between Arendellians and the Northuldra.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: 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.

King Agnarr

^{Click here to see Agnarr as a young boy}

Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche (Frozen), Alfred Molina (Frozen II), Jackson Stein (young)^{Other Languages}Felix Engström, Adrian Macéus (young) (Swedish dub)

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• A Child Shall Lead Them: Averted. Agnarr is only 14 years old when he technically succeeds his late father, but the Arendellian Lord Peterssen offers to lead the country until Agnarr is of a proper age to wear the crown.
• Ascended Extra: While a minor character in the movies, he is a protagonist in the spin-off book Dangerous Secrets.
• Distressed Dude: During the battle between the Northuldra and Arendelle when he was younger, Agnarr loses his father. He just about escaped the forest, rescued by Iduna.
• Doting Parent: In A Frozen Heart, Agnarr has the tendency to spoil his daughters, and has a difficult time legitimately punishing them when they misbehave.
• Freudian Excuse: Agnarr's unfortunate parenting decisions in the first film are motivated by fear of what might happen to Elsa if her magic became public. The second film reveals that Agnarr himself was raised by an evil father who feared and hated magic and magic-users to a genocidal extreme.
• Heroic Build: 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.
• Knight Templar Parent: When Pabbie shows a vision of what might happen to Elsa if she doesn't learn control, his protective instinct for Elsa takes over and plays a significant part the upbringing of both his daughters, isolating them both for the sake of protecting the elder. He even fires people to keep word from getting out and his protection of Elsa even affects foreign relations, as the diplomats at her coronation discuss how "mysterious" Arendelle has been since the gates were closed, confirming that international communication has been hindered.
  Agnarr: We'll protect her. She can learn to control it, I'm sure. Until then, we'll lock the gates, we'll reduce the staff, and we'll limit her contact with people, and keep her powers hidden from everyone... including Anna.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike his evil father, Agnarr is a well-intentioned man who tries to do the best for his daughters (even if he doesn't always succeed).
• Like Parent, Like Child:
  • He's proper and cautious like Elsa is at first. It's implied in the sequel that, like Elsa, he grew up under a lot of pressure to be a dutiful ruler.
  • It's also implied in the sequel that, like Anna, he's enamoured and fascinated by magic despite not having any himself. They both also would do anything for Elsa (he risks his life for Elsa and dies doing so, Anna deliberately chooses to throw herself in front of a sword for Elsa).
• Non-Action Guy: Unlike his father, he is not a warrior. He is shown to be flabbergasted during the war in the flashback scene during Frozen 2 and is not a cold-hearted fighter, then or now.
• One Head Taller: Downplayed. King Agnarr is about half a head taller than his wife, Iduna.◊
• Satellite Character: Almost all of his actions revolve around the two sisters. He brings them to the trolls to cure Anna, locks them away after Pabbie shows the image of a future Elsa being attacked by a mob in an effort to protect Elsa from such a fate while she's still learning to control her powers, tries to help Elsa control them, and dies while on a ship headed to the Dark Sea looking for answers about Elsa's powers, putting the sisters into mourning and setting the stage for Elsa to be crowned queen. The only thing he ever does that's not for at least one of his daughters (usually Elsa) is visiting the Northuldra with his father and subsequently be rescued by Iduna in a flashback, which is mostly significant because of how it affects the sisters in the present.
• Save the Princess: Gender-Inverted, as Agnarr was a prince; Iduna, though not a princess, helped to save him.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Agnarr certainly looks the part of a king.
• Uptown Guy: Agnarr was a prince, later a young king, when he met Iduna, who was a commoner. She kept her Northuldra heritage a secret for years.
• You Are in Command Now: He succeeded his father as the ruler of Arendelle after Runeard died in the Enchanted Forest.

Queen Iduna

^{Click here to see Iduna as a young girl}

Voiced by: Jennifer Lee (Frozen), Evan Rachel Wood (Frozen II), Delaney Rose Stein (young)^{Other Languages}Nadja Weiss (Frozen), Linda Olsson (Frozen II) (Swedish dub)

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• Ascended Extra:
  • While only having one line of dialogue in the first Frozen, her backstory and personality is delved into more in Frozen II. Iduna is also said to be 'the voice' that Elsa hears in Frozen II.
  • She also becomes a protagonist in the spin-off book Dangerous Secrets.
• Blue Is Calm: Although Iduna primarily wears purple; her shirt/blouse sometimes appears slightly blue-purple (think Very Peri). The gem in the brooch she wears is blue, resembling lapis lazuli or sapphire in the scenes with little Anna and Elsa, and aquamarine before the voyage. The crown Iduna wears features little blue gems. Iduna is one of the calmest speaking characters in the franchise.
• Brainy Brunette: Iduna is considered a brunette; she has dark chestnut-brown hair. She is quite brainy and is good at deducting things from observation, and connecting ideas and events.
  • In Frozen II, she realizes how Elsa's ice powers have a link to the glacier Ahtohallan.
  • In Dangerous Secrets Iduna is shown to be an intelligent character, and even had the aspiration to become an inventor.
• Character Tics: Iduna tends to cover her mouth with her hands when she's emotionally shocked by something. She does this when she sees Anna after the childhood accident and when the distraught Elsa flinches away from Agnarr's attempt to comfort Elsa. Iduna also likes to tap or "boop" the end of noses, like she did to Agnarr when Gale made the two float up in the air as children, and also to little Anna as a way of getting her to sleep.
• Cool Crown: Iduna's crown is a slightly more minimalist, kokoshnik-style, cool-toned silver/white gold crown. It features blue gems and a leaf-like design.
• Creator Cameo: Iduna is voiced by Jennifer Lee in the first film, one of the co-directors of the feature films and Frozen Fever.
• Flower Motifs: There are notably crocus flower patterns in Queen Iduna's outfit, partly because the flower emblem of Arendelle is a crocus. Iduna's cape features an elaborate unique flower emblem, yet to be seen elsewhere in Frozen.
• Lady And A Scholar: Iduna is a kind individual who is fairly good with people, and loves her daughters dearly, and is quite intelligent. In Frozen II, she realizes how Elsa's ice powers have a link to the glacier Ahtohallan.
  • In Dangerous Secrets, Iduna likes to study science and is a kind individual who is fairly good with people, and loves her daughters dearly.
  • Even before the accident when Elsa struck Anna unconscious with her magic, Iduna observed and studied the complexities of magic. This also included Elsa's magic, and how anomalous it was. A deleted scene also showed that Iduna examined Elsa's magic closely, noting down her observations and theories in a journal.
• Like Parent, Like Child:
  • Iduna and Elsa look very similar, bar their hair colour. They have a gentle aura, but they are capable of being more assertive when trying to fulfill their goals. Both grew up hiding their true selves (Elsa's magic, Iduna's ethnicity).
  • Her personality has aspects of Anna's; she is optimistic and extroverted overall. They both also would do anything for Elsa (she risks her life for Elsa; Anna deliberately chooses to throw herself in front of a sword for Elsa).
  • Iduna also likes to tap or "boop" the end of noses. Her daughters Elsa and Anna also do this.
• Little Stowaway: In Frozen II, an ice sculpture depicts young Iduna as a stowaway in one of the royal carriages once she saved Prince Agnarr on a journey to Arendelle, after they were separated from others (including Iduna's family) in the Enchanted Forest, which was trapped by a wall of mist.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Is a downplayed example in A Frozen Heart. Iduna has the ability to calm Agnarr's nerves.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: Iduna looks like a brunette version of Elsa's and Anna's older 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.
• Mysterious Past: Iduna's past is explored in Frozen II, and it's just enough to spark curiosity about the gaps. She lived amongst the Northuldra, and her past is relatively hidden from Arendelle's citizens until the second film. Honeymaren says her scarf comes from one of the Northuldra's "oldest" families, and it's not quite known how Iduna adjusted to life in Arendelle after stowing away in a royal cart, especially without Agnarr realizing she was the one who saved him.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Iduna was the name of a goddess in Norse mythology from one of the most well-known myths.
• Pimped-Out Cape: Iduna has a black cape without fur trim, instead with the decorative trim that continues along the front of her outfit. What stands out at the back is the large red and yellow embroidered flower. It is a six-petalled flower; the design seems to resembles a snowflake, surrounded by hidden Mickeys and swirls.
• Prim and Proper Bun: Iduna's royal hairstyle is a bun, and she's somewhat quiet and reserved as queen, in contrast to her more free-spirited demeanor as a child, when she wears her hair down. Notably, Elsa copies this same hairstyle when she's trying to be very proper.
• Purple Is Powerful: Iduna wears purple, befitting her status as queen. The colour appears on state decorations and many of Queen Elsa's dresses. As a child, Iduna wore a purple belt and sashes. She also has a maroon-purple shawl passed down along her family. Her strong bond with the Wind Spirit also suggests that she was powerful since birth,years before becoming a queen.
• Rags to Royalty: Iduna grew up amongst the Northuldra folk in the Enchanted Eorest before she eventually became Queen of Arendelle.
• Satellite Character: She's this in the movies, where her character almost entirely revolves around her two daughters, particularly Elsa, although she's more fleshed-out in the spin-off book Dangerous Secrets, where she becomes a protagonist in her own right.
  • Iduna only has one line in the first movie. After she and Agnarr burst throgh the doors of the Great Hall upon hearing Elsa calling for them, they run across the ice to their daughters.Iduna picks up Anna, whom Elsa has accidentally struck unconscious, and says "She's ice cold!" She also shows concern for Elsa in her face and body language another time when Elsa expresses fear of hurting her father with her powers. Iduna leaves on the voyage to Ahtohallan, alongside the ship's crew and Agnarr. Their absence due to a storm at sea suggests their passing, leaving Elsa as queen. That's pretty much all the audience sees of Iduna in the first installment.
  • She's a bit more fleshed-out in the Broadway adaptation, but still is defined primarily by her relationship to her daughters. It's mentioned that she lived with nomads before marrying into the royal family, which is given as an explanation for why she knows how to call the Hidden Folk to heal Anna, and she debates the wisdom of Agnarr's plans for isolating the sisters.
  • She becomes more vocal in the second film, even getting a song to herself, but this song is one she sings to her daughters, and is significant because of the messages it holds for them, especially Elsa. She also rescues Agnarr in the Enchanted Forest as indicated in a flashback, which is significant because of how it affects the sisters in the present, as it led to their birth and is part of The Reveal of why Elsa has powers.
• Someday This Will Come in Handy: The lullaby that Iduna sings proves to be quite useful for her to realise that Ahtohallan could be the source of her daughter Elsa's magic. Elsa's awareness of Ahtohallan in turn helps Anna to get rid of the dam, and Elsa to save Arendelle from the flood just in time.
• Spell My Name With An S: Iduna's name is spelt as "Idun" in A Frozen Heart, but as Iduna in the cast listing for the Broadway show as well as in Frozen II.
• Spirit Advisor: In the Frozen II song "Show Yourself," a deceased Iduna sings with her daughter Elsa
  Iduna: You are the one you've been waiting for!
  Elsa: All of my life!
• Starting a New Life: After the mist wall formed around the Enchanted Forest, her home, young Iduna has to leave her free-spirited life as one of the Northuldra, unfortunately being separated from those she knew in the forest. Her Rags to Royalty story begins soon after she escapes to Arendelle, eventually getting married to Agnarr and becoming the Queen of Arendelle.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Iduna looks almost identical to her daughters, just a bit older, with dark brown hair and a longer face shape and rounder jawline.
• Sweet Tooth: In the Tie-In Novel A Frozen Heart, Iduna has a sweet tooth.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: Queen Iduna's outfit features a lot of elaborate motifs; notably repeated from her Enchanted Forest clothing and Northuldra shawl is the quatrefoil-type design. The crocus flower also appears on her bodice, Iduna's favourite springtime flower.
• Tragic Dream: Iduna has always wished to go to Ahtohallan. She is especially inspired to attempt the voyage to find answers about Elsa's magic. Sadly, when she leaves Arendelle on a voyage with Agnarr, pretending that they would travel across the 'Southern Seas' instead of going north across the Dark Sea to Ahtohallan, they both encounter a strong storm at sea that wrecks the ship.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Iduna was born in the Enchanted Forest and spent her early years as a member of the Northuldra tribe, but was locked out of the forest when the mist closed it off. The mist wouldn't be lifted until six years after the shipwreck, and Iduna was not able to return to the forest.
• Zen Survivor: Downplayed, but Iduna is shown to have experienced extended separation from her family, she hid many of her childhood memories and experiences, and has to see her daughters separated for a decade, because of what Agnarr decided was right. The lullaby she sang to the sisters has many hints as to how Elsa and Anna could find themselves, even when Iduna isn't there in person to guide them. Iduna is still be there for both sisters, but their success partly depends on their own courage to follow their paths.

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King Runeard

King Runeard

Voiced by: Jeremy Sisto^{Other Languages}Christian Fex (Swedish dub)

Appearances: Frozen II | Dangerous Secrets | Polar Nights: Cast into Darkness

Agnarr's father, and Elsa and Anna's grandfather.

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• Abusive Parent: In Dangerous Secrets. He acts consistently neglectful towards Agnarr in the little we see of their relationship, opting to raise him as an official rather than a son. He explodes at him for showing the least bit of interest in the ways of the Northuldra and shames him for weeping when he learns his mother has been "taken away by evil spirits" (which is, by the way, one of Runeard's lies). Ultimately, he conditions Agnarr into repressing his feelings out of a fear of showing weakness.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: He was a racist, petty tyrant.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He presents himself as a peaceful and benevolent ruler. He welcomes the Northuldra people when they reveal themselves and even gains their trust by building a dam to act as a bridge between Arendelle and their forest. He is actually a murderous and greedy tyrant who feels threatened by the Northuldra's power, and his dam is truly a ploy to extort the Northuldra's land and force them to submit to his rule.
• Broken Pedestal: He is initially a highly respected and beloved king, and is viewed by his son and granddaughters as an honourable leader who sought peace with the Northuldra. Though Agnarr doesn't live to see the truth revealed, Anna and Elsa both lose their admiration of Runeard when they learn of his xenophobic and tyrannical intentions. Even the patriotic Mattias agrees to let Anna destroy Runeard's dam after she tells him the truth behind its construction.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: He serves as one to Hans from the first film. Both characters use a benevolent act to get what they want — Hans to usurp Arendelle, Runeard to gain the Northuldra's subjugation. But while Hans is motivated by a Freudian Excuse to gain power, Runeard is motivated by Fantastic Racism and a determination to keep power he already has. Hans was also an active antagonist in the first film and directly took advantage of the conflict, while Runeard is dead long before either film's events and the second film's conflict revolves entirely around the consequences of his past actions.
• Dirty Coward: He murders the unarmed Northuldra leader from behind with a sword after inviting said leader to a private tea.
• Disney Villain Death: The opening flashback shows him falling off a cliff during the battle with the Northuldra. This serves as an early meta-hint that he is, in fact, a villain.
• Engineered Heroics: Attempted. While he presented it as a gift of peace, Runeard actually intended for the dam to weaken the Northuldra's land and starve them of resources. He believed that this would then prompt the Northuldra to trade with Arendelle in order to survive, allowing him to force them under his rule while pretending to be their generous friend and protector. Unfortunately for Runeard, the leader of the Northuldra realized that the dam was causing the problem and (having not realized that Runeard had done it on purpose) tried to tell Runeard about this during the celebration, prompting Runeard to resort to murder.
• Evil All Along: Elsa and Anna always thought of him as a great king. Unfortunately, they learn he tricked the Northuldra and attacked them unprovoked out of fear, which left Anna heartbroken and Elsa completely furious, which she expresses to an ice memory of him.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He never understood why his wife Rita was still sad despite the superficial gifts he offered to her, never realizing she really wanted true love and freedom.
• Evil Colonialist: When Runeard learns of his kingdom’s indigenous neighbours, he plans to oppress the Northuldra and bring them under his rule, under the guise of offering them friendship.
• Evil Laugh: In Dangerous Secrets, Runeard utters an ominously hollow laugh right after asking this question to his soldiers, leaving Iduna to suspect he's up to no good:
  King Runeard: Are you ready for the... festivities?
• Evil Redhead: In the prologue, he's shown to have reddish-auburn hair, much like Anna. It's later revealed that he was plotting to oppress the Northuldra people and instigated a war against them.
• Fascist, but Inefficient: He is not a competent ruler and is also one of the first people to die in the war.
• Fantastic Racism: He feared the Northuldra because they practice magic, so he had the dam created to weaken their resources and force them to trade with Arendelle.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Exaggerated. While his past actions are more crucial to the conflict of the second film, what he did indirectly set the events of the first film in motion as well.
• Hate Sink: From what little we see of King Runeard, he is a real piece of work. Manipulative and greedy, he fears the Northuldra and their connection with magic as a threat to his power, so he tries to trick and oppress them. He even murders their unarmed leader in cold-blood when this plan is threatened.
• Hypocrite: Despite the Northuldra's peaceful intentions, he believes their access to the magic of the forest will make them entitled and pose a threat to his power. It is his own arrogance and sense of entitlement that motivates him to build the dam, which leads to his death and the mist falling over the forest.
• Karmic Death: He murders the Northuldra leader in an attempt to cover his tracks and prevent his plan from being exposed. This provokes an all-out battle between Arendelle and Northuldra that results in him falling off a cliff.
• Knight of Cerebus: Runeard's true plans introduce some surprisingly heavy themes into the franchise, such as callous colonialism, oppression of indigenous peoples and even connotations of genocide. Compared to the previous antagonists, be they sniveling snobs or power-hungry princes, Runeard gives off a particularly dark aura. It's only apt that he is the only Frozen villain to pay for his deeds with his life. And it's the revelation of his crimes, including his murder of the Northuldra chief, that pave the way to the film's darkest and emotional scenes.
• Never My Fault: In Dangerous Secrets, Runeard is always blaming elusive "spirits" for his own faults, cultivating xenophobia towards magic-users out of an unwillingness to admit to his own mistakes.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: While his attempt to conquer the Northuldra causes the mist to fall on the forest, it's also indirectly responsible for Agnarr and Iduna meeting and falling in love, which serves as the first crucial step towards the forest being freed decades later.
• No Song for the Wicked: Due to his limited screentime as a Posthumous Character, King Runeard does not have a Villain Song, nor does he take part in any of the film's musical aspects.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claimed that the reason why he wants to conquer the Northuldra tribe is to protect the people of Arendelle. However, this argument completely falls moot as his true motive was to secure his own position as King of Arendelle because he believed that they could potentially overthrow him due to them being magic-users. Dangerous Secrets even shows that the reason why Runeard came up with this ideology is that he wanted someone to blame his own faults on instead of maturing and taking responsibility for them, meaning he just wanted the easy way out, and the war he created led to the deaths of dozens of soldiers on both sides, leaving many of the children orphaned.
• Parental Neglect: He pays little attention to Agnarr when meeting with the Northuldra, save for telling him to stand straight, and the care for Agnarr during this period was mostly overseen by Lieutenant Mattias instead of him.
  • In the Frozen II novelization, Lieutenant Mattias tries to cheer Agnarr when he seems to be feeling left behind by his father.
  • In Dangerous Secrets, Agnarr even muses that he wishes Mattias had been his father instead.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Looks down at the Northuldra with great contempt and planned on subjugating them under his rule because of his Fantastic Racism.
• Posthumous Character: He was killed when Agnarr was a boy, long before Elsa or Anna were born. In Frozen II, it is stated that he has been dead for 34 years.
• Shadow Archetype:
  • To Elsa: Both are monarchs who deal with fear related to magic's impact on their rule, but Runeard shows what Elsa could be if she valued her power over people's lives. Elsa fears people's reactions if they find out their queen has magic, but overcomes her fear and develops a trust toward others closest to her, while Runeard fears that magic wielders would threaten his rule, and allows said fear to corrupt his judgement in order to protect his power, even showing a selfish willingness to attack others. Elsa also fears her power corrupting her, but learns that magic isn't inherently bad and eventually embraces hers as a gift, while Runeard never learns.
  • To Anna:
    • Similarly, Runeard and Anna also both deal with fear of how magic will affect the status quo, but for very different reasons and have very different responses, and Runeard shows what Anna could be if she let her fear overrule her empathy for other people. To drive the parallel home, they're even the two characters in the sequel with the most similar complexions and hair color. However, Runeard is afraid for his own sake of the Northuldra's connection with magic in itself and that they might use it to challenge his own power, and so he uses subterfuge to attack them. By contrast, Anna celebrates and encourages Elsa's connection with magic, her fear instead being of Elsa dying if she goes too far, even though such an outcome would increase her own power. She is straightforward with Elsa and rather than try to stop Elsa from exploring magic, sincerely offers to help her do so in a safe way and even is the one to help her embrace it.
    • Realizing what Runeard did plays a major role in spurring Anna to accept Elsa's pursuit of a magical destiny.
  • Is also one in Dangerous Secrets to Agnarr: Both were Kings of Arendelle who each married a woman from a different land and both had children. However, Agnarr genuinely cared about his daughters, as well as his wife Iduna, even upon finding out about her Northuldran heritage, and they had a happy marriage. On the other hand, Runeard was verbally abusive to Agnarr, who was his own son, for much of his life, even lying to him that his mother, Rita, was taken by evil spirits, and shaming him for crying over his mother's absence. His marriage with Rita was not out of love, and he, shallow as he was, couldn't understand why Rita was still sad even after all the superficial gifts he gave her, as he never gave true love nor freedom, leading to her willingly vanishing from Arendelle for good.
• Slime Ball: He is callous, irresponsible, narrow-minded, self-absorbed, cantankerous, hateful, deceitful, uncaring, mean-spirited, incompetent, treacherous, dishonorable and inhumane. Among other bad traits.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He died long before either of his granddaughters were born, but his betrayal of the Northuldra causes the second film's main conflict and also indirectly allowed Elsa to be born with powers in the first place.
• The Sociopath: He shows absolutely no remorse for his actions, and the atrocities he's committed are purely for his own benefit.
  • The tie-in book Dangerous Secrets reveals that he was grossly neglectful and emotionally abusive towards his family. At the end of the day, Runeard only cared for controlling everything in his path.
• Straw Hypocrite: He seemingly prioritizes peace with the Northuldra when they reveal themselves and creates the dam as a bridge between their people and the kingdom. He truly intends to weaken and subjugate the Northuldra through this ruse, and is even willing to kill their leader and provoke a war in an attempt to cover his true plans.
• Token Evil Teammate: Runeard's son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughters are all shown to be flawed but ultimately good people, as well as the soldiers who served him like Mattias. But despite his strong reputation, Runeard himself is an entitled and truly despicable tyrant.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He plans to segregate and oppress the Northuldra in order to preserve his own power and position, and nearly starts a war in pursuit of it. He doesn't live to see the consequences of his actions or how they affect his kingdom and family for future generations.
• Villainous Legacy: Died long before Elsa and Anna were even born, but it is his crimes against the Northuldrans that instigate the natural imbalance that causes the second film's conflict.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Prior to the truth about him being exposed in Frozen II, he is regarded by the people of Arendelle as a noble ruler who tried to make peace between their kingdom and the Northuldra.
• Walking Spoiler: Not a lot can be said about him without revealing that he was responsible for everything, trying to force Northuldra into his rule.
• Would Hurt a Child: Considering he constructs a dam and sparks a war to hurt the entire population. Made worse in Dangerous Secrets, where some of his soldiers express a clear goal to kill any Northuldran on sight and seem willing to do the same to the twelve-year old Iduna before they're tricked into thinking she's an Arendellian.
• Would Harm a Senior: He strikes down the unaware, unarmed, and elderly Northuldran leader.

The Royal Palace

Kai

Kai

Voiced by: Stephen John Anderson^{Other Languages}Johan Wahlström (Swedish dub)

An overseer who serves Arendelle's royal family.

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• All There in the Manual: His name is only revealed in supplementary material and the film credits. It's never spoken in-film.
• Ascended Extra: The main film series has him as a minor character. He is however given a major supporting role in the comic Frozen: Reunion Road, where it is revealed that he was born and grew up in the kingdom of Snoob and reunited with his brother Karl.
• Mythology Gag: He's named after one of the main characters in The Snow Queen, the fairy tale that provided the basis for Frozen.
• Undying Loyalty: Is among the servants who remains after King Agnarr reduces the staff to a select few, and he remains loyal to Anna and Elsa, even after Elsa's powers are revealed. Kai's loyalty to the royal family was so much that he would rarely, if ever, break protocol despite the sisters' insistence for him to tone down the formalities.

Gerda

Gerda

Voiced by: Edie McClurg^{Other Languages}Anna-Lotta Larsson (Swedish dub)

A handmaid who serves the royal family, and is one of the few staff members besides Kai and Olina^note The plump handmaid who accompanied Kai on certain occasions who were named in the expanded universe.

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• Adaptation Name Change: The Frozen script names the tall female servant as "Gerda," but the Disney Enchanted Tales game refers to her as "Carol."
• All There in the Manual: Her name is only revealed in supplementary material. It's never spoken in the film.
• Ascended Extra: Her role in A Frozen Heart is bigger than in the film. Anna tells about her relationship with her, and it is described how she helps Anna get ready for the coronation.
• Mythology Gag: She's named after the heroine of The Snow Queen, the fairy tale that provided the basis for Frozen.
• Undying Loyalty: Is amongst the servants who remain after King Agnarr reduces the staff, and she remains loyal to Anna and Elsa even after Elsa's powers are revealed.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In A Frozen Heart. She's the one who suggests to Anna the possibility of her finding love with one of the visitors for Elsa's coronation.

The Royal Guard

Destin Mattias

Lieutenant Destin Mattias

"How did you get in the forest?"

Voiced by: Sterling K. Brown^{Other Languages}John Alexander Eriksson (Swedish dub)

Appearances: Frozen II

The son of an Arendelle soldier who served King Runeard and was trapped in the Enchanted Forest after the mist rose.

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• Audience Surrogate: Played for Laughs at one point. When Olaf recounts the events of the first film to Mattias, his guard and the Northuldra, Mattias' many reactions seem to be comedic mimics to common audience reactions to the first film.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: He and his men have been cut off from the outside world for a few decades, so they're surprised at how much has changed.
• Immigrant Patriotism: His line about his father "making a good life for us in Arendelle" implies his family wasn't born there (thus giving an actual explanation for his different skin colour and averting Black Vikings). Nonetheless he is intensely loyal to Arendelle, and becomes a commanding officer in its Royal Guard.
• Manly Tears: Cries multiple times throughout Frozen II, despite being a grown man and a trained, competent soldier.
• Nice Guy: He's not only undyingly loyal to Arendelle but he's also a good Parental Substitute to the young Agnarr and later Anna, giving her some advice about life.
• Rank Up: Gets promoted to General after Anna is crowned Queen of Arendelle.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: The leader of the trapped Arendelle soldiers and once the news of Runeard's murder on the leader of the Northuldra reach him, he's the one of them who agrees to let Anna break the dam.
• Token Minority: One of the few black characters in the movies; also the only one with plot-relevance.
• Undying Loyalty: To Arendelle: "Protect Arendelle at all costs."

Others

Halima Hudson

Halima

Voiced by: Halima V Hudson

Appearances: Frozen II

Halima and Mattias are sweethearts who were separated by the mist. While Mattias was trapped in the forest, Halima ran a business in Arendelle called Hudson's Hearth.

Lady Halverson

Lady Halverson

Appearances: Frozen II

Lady Halverson is a female Arendelle soldier who is a minor character in Frozen II. In the deleted prologue, she was alongside Mattias in greater roles than in the final film, and is shown to be quite a warrior despite her size.

• The Squadette: Lady Halverson seems to be one of only a few female soldiers fighting for Arendelle.

Oaken

Oaken

"Hoohoo! Big summer blowout!"

Voiced by: Chris Williams^{Other Languages}Lennart Jähkel (Swedish dub)

Appearances: Frozen | Frozen Fever | Olaf's Frozen Adventure | Frozen II

The owner of Wandering Oaken's Trading Post and Sauna. Like Kristoff, his business was changed into taking advantage of the new weather once it was changed by Elsa's magic.

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• Ambiguously Gay: Besides his soft and somewhat effeminate personality, his family in the sauna seems to consist of a young man and four boys. However, it isn't clear if one of the members who appears to be a child is actually the young man's female partner or a different relative (such as a younger brother or cousin). Oaken says "Hi family!" but they might not even be directly related to him. In Frozen II, there's a shot where a group of Arendellians are celebrating and he lifts up a man into a hug.
• Apologetic Attacker: After he throws Kristoff out for calling him a "crook", Oaken immediately apologizes — to Anna, because she had to witness him committing an act of violence in his store.
• Berserk Button: He doesn't like being called a crook. What makes it funnier is that he's still nice about it. He's less angry than he is hurt when he stands up.
• Beware the Nice Ones: "Vhat did you call me?" [cuts to Oaken hauling Kristoff to the front porch and throwing him into the snow]
• Big Beautiful Man: Oaken is a big man and quite a cutie.
• Character Catchphrase: "HOO-hoo!"
• Creator Cameo: He's voiced by Disney director and writer Chris Williams.
• Demoted to Extra: Although he appears in some scenes, Oaken has no dialogue in Frozen II.
• Funny Foreigner: He has a thick Swedish accent, and some very stereotypical mannerisms.
• Gentle Giant: He's sweet and pleasant for the most part, but when Kristoff makes the mistake of calling him a crook, he gets up out of his chair...revealing himself to be massive, utterly towering over Kristoff (Kristoff himself being a pretty big and muscular guy). He then bodily throws Kristoff out with no effort whatsoever.
• Honest John's Dealership: A rare sincerely nice example.
  • He tries to demand more money from Kristoff than Kristoff has in his pockets, and tries to justify his outrageous price gouging as a supply-and-demand problem. It's no wonder Kristoff calls him a "crook".
  • In the musical, he promises Kristoff that his usual overpriced products are free of charge...if they all die from the eternal winter. If they survive, then Kristoff owes 10,000 kroner.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: To show his pure and sweet nature.
• Large and in Charge: Is thrice bigger and larger than his family and is the one who runs the Family Business.
• Nice Guy: He's sweet, pleasant and helpful.
• No Hero Discount:
  • Doesn't matter how his business is doing, Kristoff has to pay for those carrots, the axe, and the rope. In fact, Oaken's jacked up the prices of his winter gear quite outrageously due to "supply and demand". This is despite outright stating that nobody is out in the blizzard except Anna and Kristoff and knowing full well that anyone who needed the ice pick and rope probably won't survive without them.
  • Averted in "Frozen Fever" when he gives away a cold remedy to Elsa and Anna, singing, genuinely concerned:
    Oaken: What, are you sick? How about a cold remedy, of my own invention?
  • He's also quick to toss Olaf out of the sauna in Olaf's Frozen Adventure before Olaf can melt completely in a bucket and gives Olaf a towel.
• Significant Anagram: Olaf points out in "Once Upon A Snowman", "Wandering Oaken" is an anagram of "Naked Norwegian".
• Stout Strength: He effortlessly throws Kristoff out of his house when his Berserk Button was pushed.
• Tranquil Fury: He eighty-sixes Kristoff without losing his happy persona at all, however, he is by no means a Stepford Smiler, as his smile briefly fades after Kristoff makes the mistake of calling him a crook.

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