eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
Oct 31st 2018 at 10:12:37 AM
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Vanilla Protagonist says that Anna is such a protagonist. Would you agree?
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Asherinka
Since: Jan, 2018
Oct 31st 2018 at 10:46:35 AM
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I would, she seemed generic to me. Which is not bad, she is just a standard Disney character. Not to be Captain Obvious, but it is a YMMV trope though, so Your Mileage May Vary.
bookworm11
Since: Oct, 2014
Sep 22nd 2019 at 10:59:23 AM
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The trope is about to a protagonist who is supposed to be an "intentionally bland" Straight Man foil to the rest of the cast, which doesn't apply here. The entry on the page even compared her to Giselle, who is the opposite of the trope. She's got some pretty well-defined characteristics, including strengths and weaknesses (courage, recklessness, optimism, playfulness, romanticism, preference for certain colors, high energy, literally Undying Loyalty).
To avoid an edit war, we should probably discuss whether Anna is a Protagonist or a Deuteragonist in Frozen II.
The Protagonist entry has been written like this: Shares this role with her sister Elsa in Frozen II. Anna is the first character in the credits list, and they have roughly equal screentime. The story centers around them finding their roles in the world and how that affects their relationship, with Elsa looking for more information about her powers and what that means for her, and Anna starting off thinking of herself as her sister's support before finding herself as The Hero in her own right. which primarily focuses on Elsa's journey to find out the origins of her powers and her place in the world.
The Deuteragonist entry has been written as this: "In Frozen II which primarily focuses on Elsa's journey to find out the origins of her powers and her place in the world. Anna accompanies her sister during most of the way and gets a major heroic moment at the end, but the story is still primarily about Elsa this time around."
It was re-added with this edit reason: "Anna is the deuteragonist in the second movie. It's not a matter of screentime or place in the credit list. It's just the fact it's primarly Elsa's journey. That doesn't mean Anna doesn't have her own journey, but it's B plot to Elsa's journey which is the focus."
While Anna spends most of the movie herself focusing on Elsa before she realizes she's The Hero in her own right, that doesn't preclude a protagonist role, nor does it make Anna a Deuteragonist. It might make her a Supporting Protagonist, at least for the part of the movie where the focus is on Elsa, although that's debatable, too. The Deuteragonist page specifies the Deuteragonist role is "Not the Supporting Protagonist, who is a main character but not the focus of the story."