"I know in a couple years, these will seem like childish fears, so I know this isn't bad, it's good. Excuse me."
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- While Olaf's first song is funny and cute, the scene he sings it in is disturbing. Olaf wanders alone in the woods singing a song about how everything has a mundane explanation while various supernatural creatures try to kill him.
- At one point he looks into a pond only to see the Nokk staring back at him with its Glowing Eyes of Doom. Even he freaks out at that point.
- At another point he walks through a dark place where creatures with red eyes and sharp fangs glare at him. Unlike all the other supernatural elements, this is never explained at any point in the movie.
- When Gale sucks the characters into a tornado, the scene is mostly played for laughs, with Olaf enjoying the ride, Sven finding himself riding Kristoff, and Anna trying to avoid being sick. Yet there is something disquieting at seeing Elsa and Anna tossed around like ragdolls, especially if one takes into account how dangerous tornadoes can be in real life.
- The image of Agnar and Iduna in their final moments, holding each other before the ocean waves kill them, is certainly chilling. Just a few moments of their voices and this image is enough to conjure their death.
- The entire scene of them finding the shipwreck is this. We saw the ship sink in the first film, which is pretty scary enough. Here, we actually see the wreckage. It's dark and only slivers of light flirt through the cracks and holes slammed into the ship's side. Olaf's revelation makes it even scarier.Olaf: How did this ship get through the mist? I thought nobody could but us. (realizes) Unless nobody was on it.
- The entire scene of them finding the shipwreck is this. We saw the ship sink in the first film, which is pretty scary enough. Here, we actually see the wreckage. It's dark and only slivers of light flirt through the cracks and holes slammed into the ship's side. Olaf's revelation makes it even scarier.
- Elsa getting mercilessly smacked around by a horse spirit that keeps pushing her back under every time she manages to get a breath of air is nerve-racking. Even her ice powers do little to save her from the hits.
- The well of Ahtohallan - which is something of a Trauma Conga Line for Elsa (and Anna indirectly);
- Right when Elsa reaches the edge of the drop-off and stares down into it, the verse "Dive down deep into her sound, but not too far or you'll be drowned." from "All Is Found" is heard. Not only does it sound very eerie given how it echoes through the area, but it also serves as a chilling last-minute warning to Elsa.
- Adding to its creepiness is that it looks like a quiet, beautiful forest rather than any kind of threat or danger.
- The well holds all the world's memories, including your own, as Elsa discovers. Ahtohallan reminds Elsa of her mistakes (abandoning her kingdom) and near-miss tragedies (Hans courting Anna). It could easily turn into a Psychological Torment Zone for these reasons alone, but also for the temptation it presents. If you have a question about anything in the past, be it your own or someone else's, it is here. You can find it. The answer you're looking for is just a lliittttleee further down. Pay no mind to the frost gathering on your fingers, you're almost there. You can turn back before you freeze. Then, just as you find what you are looking for, you also find that your feet are frozen to the ground. You are now one of the world's memories.
- Here, Ahtohallan shows a vision of King Runeard as he raises his sword to attack the unarmed Northuldra leader from behind. Elsa and Anna were raised believing that their Grandfather was a just and kind ruler of Arendelle. The shot is almost identical to Hans’ attempting at executing Elsa herself in the first film, though here it’s all but shown that Runeard succeeded.
- King Runeard himself is walking nightmare fuel once his true nature is revealed. A ruthless, xenophobic tyrant who desires control over everything underneath him, he built the dam seemingly as a peace offering, but in actuality, as a way to weaken the Northuldra's lands so he would subjugate them to his rule. When the Northuldra leader expresses his concern about the dam, Runeard outright murders him in cold blood, causing a brutal battle between Arendelle and Northuldra. Even after his death, his actions continued to haunt all involved, even throughout the first film. Hans's actions in the first film were bad, but King Runeard's actions here were just pure evil.Anna: (staring in horror at the ice statue of Runeard about to murder the defenseless Northuldra leader) Elsa's found it.
Olaf: What is it...?
Anna: The truth about the past. That's my grandfather, attacking the Northultra leader, who wields no weapon. (closes her eyes in horrifying realization) The dam wasn't a gift of peace. It was a trick.
Olaf: (quietly) But that goes against everything Arendelle stands for.
Anna: It does, doesn't it? - Elsa freezing is shocking, particularly with its sense of finality. Elsa, just moments after the emotionally charged revelation of her true nature and power, finds herself looking down in terror and horror as she realizes she, the Snow Queen, is turning to ice and is about to die alone.
- Imagine being one of the Northuldra or Arendellians at the celebration of the dam and peace treaty. Everyone's having a great time! There's music, dancing, feasting and showing off of the elements...then, out of nowhere, a fight breaks out. Nobody knows how it started or why it's happening but it's vicious with people dying (including both the King and Leader). The next thing everyone knows, the elements disappear and a deep mist falls over the forest. You try to escape but nobody can get in or out. You are isolated, trapped from the rest of the world, occasionally running from the same people who've tried to kill you minutes after celebrating with you...for over thirty years.
- Olaf's Disney Death is sure to traumatize some kids, with him slowly dying in Anna's arms, complete with a heart-wrenching realization that love is what stays the same.
- Olaf’s reaction doesn’t help matters. He is initially uncaring if not unaware of what’s happening as he observes his flaking, but the realization hits him and Anna like a ton of bricks when they realize what this means for him, and for Elsa as well. He then collapses in Anna’s arms as they try to comfort each other while he disintegrates, in a manner eerily similar to the infamous “I don’t feel so good” scene.
- Anna's reaction. As if one of her closest friends slowly disintegrating in her arms wasn't bad enough while, leaving her all alone in a dark and unfamiliar cave she also has to deal with the implication that his death means that her last family member is also dying at the same time, somewhere she can't see, in a way she can only guess at, after all the warnings and pleas from Anna to accept her help and do this together...
- Grand Pabbie says they must hope Elsa's powers are enough for the journey. He wasn't kidding. While Elsa ultimately wins against and calms down the spirits when they go amok, she still comes way too close to being killed - indeed, she is killed in the end and only brought back by Anna's actions. Heck, Anna has to stop her from following the earth giants. Let's not picture the scene if Elsa didn't listen. Not to mention Elsa winding up in that aforementioned well, where we see even Elsa's cold tolerance has its limits.
- While we're on the subject of nearly getting killed, let's not forget Anna. Her leading the earth giants to the dam and egging them on to destroy it brought her closer to death than any of Elsa's fights with the spirits! Also, consider she does this right after picking herself up from watching Olaf die and realizing Elsa is dead. You couldn't fault someone for thinking Anna may have had different intentions before saying she wants them to go to the dam, especially since "The Next Right Thing" has her briefly sing about being ready to succumb to darkness.
- If you look closely when Anna is getting the Earth Giants to throw boulders, one of the first ones is barely above Anna’s head. Not in a sense of her outrunning the boulder, but by barely NOT being fast enough. If Anna had been a smidgen faster, she would have been hit in the back of the head with a boulder she didn’t even know was coming.
