History Animation / TheSnowQueen2012

** In the third movie, the main villain is [[spoiler: Roland while the BiggerBad is the Fire King]].

* DragonTheirFeet: The North Wind, being a titanic force of nature, is never directly fought in either of the first two films and escapes to cause more trouble. The third film seeks to rectify this by making it the main villain.

The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King'' and ''The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice''. The second film is set a year after the Snow Queen's defeat. Orm has thawed out the other trolls, but in an attempt to impress Princess Maribel and her uncle the King, he lies about defeating the Snow Queen. When the North Wind, working under a mysterious Snow King, abducts the princess, Gerda, Kai, and Orm must save her--provided they can work together long enough.

The third film deals with Gerda's wish to find her parents who were taken away by the North Wind. Along the way Gerda and her friends discover an ancient magical artifact of the trolls, the Stone of Fire and Ice. From that moment on, things don't go according to the initial plan... Will Gerda be able to tame the mighty forces of the magical elements and get her family back?

A fourth film, entitled ''Snow Queen: Mirrorlands'' is forthcoming.

* AmusingInjuries: Roland falls victims to these at several points.

* BigBadEnsemble: The Snow Queen, the Fire King and [[spoiler: Roland]].

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Roland]].

* EvilIsBurningHot: The Fire King. [[spoiler: Roland as well, upon gaining the Fire King's powers]].

* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler: How Gerda defeats the Fire King (and by extension, Roland).]]
* MissingMom: Roland mentions to Gerda that the reason he studies legends is because he hopes to one day reunite with his lost mother. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it's later revealed that he was lying about his mother being missing in order to gain Gerda's trust]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The whole plot wouldn't have happened if Gerda and Roland had simply stayed out of the forbidden temple.

* PlayingWithFire: Roland is possessed by the Fire King upon touching the wishing stone, giving him fire powers.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the original story, the Robber Girl's mother was a rather ugly woman with a beard. Here she's a HotMom.

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: How Gerda defeats the Fire King (and by extension, Roland).]]

* AmusingInjuries: Roland falls victims to these while trapped in a booby-trapped room in the temple.
* ButtMonkey: Roland, even moreso than Orm.

* GroinAttack: Roland gets whacked in his tenders while in the temple.
* NotQuiteDead: The third film is about Gerda finding her parents, who were apparently frozen to death at the beginning of the first film.

** [[AntagonistTitle The Snow Queen in the first movie]].

* ArtifactTitle: The second and third movies have little to do with the Snow Queen herself.

* BondOneLiner: The Snow Queen jokes about Vergard and Una's frozen bodies.

* ADarkerMe: The villain of the sequel is [[spoiler:Orm's reflection, born from his lies]].
* ADayInTheLimelight: The sequel focuses around Orm, though Gerda is still around.

* EndlessWinter: This is the Snow Queen's goal, and Gerda must stop it in both films.

* FakeUltimateHero: In the sequel, Orm claims that he personally defeated the Snow Queen and is destined to marry a princess and inherit great power and riches.

* {{ShapeShifting}}: Orm can turn into a weasel, a troll, and a polar bear.

!!Tropes:

* AdaptationalHeroism: Oddly enough, done with an object, the mirror (mirrors in this movie). Magic mirrors were created by a wizard that reflect what's in a person's heart. These mirrors are the only thing that can defeat the Snow Queen. In the original story there was one magic mirror, unless the Mirror of Reason counts, and it was made specifically to turn everything it reflected ugly. Also, it was made by the Devil himself.
* AdaptationalVillainy: The Snow Queen was an ambiguous figure in the book; here she's an all-out villain.
** The witch with the garden is a nice character in the book, even though she tries to [[WellIntentionedExtremist keep Gerda with her forever]]. Here she's a villain who wants Gerta around to help her business.
* AfterTheEnd: The movie is set in a world of eternal winter.

* BigFun: Mrs. Vanberry.
* BondOneLiner: The Snow Queen jokes about Vergard and Una's frozen bodies.
* ButtMonkey: Orm. When he tries to reject his duty to the Snow Queen and save the heroine, she calls him a coward.
* ChekhovsGun: Surprising nobody, Orm's ability to turn into a polar bear plays a pivotal role in the climax.
* CrapsackWorld: Takes place in a world conquered by a totalitarian Snow Queen, who has brought on a new Ice Age, and also banned art.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The Snow Queen's backstory shows her as [[spoiler:a girl whose natural sorcerous powers were so strong that she was rejected and mocked by her people]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: The Snow Queen rules the world and plans to cause eternal winter everywhere, the trolls were all wiped out, except for one, and several incidental characters try to kill Gerda.
* ADarkerMe: The villain of the sequel is [[spoiler:Orm's reflection, born from his lies]].
* ADayInTheLimelight: The sequel focuses around Orm, though Gerda is still around.

* DefrostingIceQueen: [[spoiler:In the most literal sense. The Snow Queen defrosts to Irma at the climax of the film.]]
* DownerBeginning: The story starts with Gerda and Kai's parents being frozen into ice, killing them.

* EndlessWinter: This is the Snow Queen's goal, and Gerda must stop it in both films.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Vergard and Una embrace and say they love each other before the North Wind kills them.
* FakeUltimateHero: In the sequel, Orm claims that he personally defeated the Snow Queen and is destined to marry a princess and inherit great power and riches.
* AnIcePerson: The Snow Queen controls the North Wind, ice beasts, and can freeze anyone to the point of death.
* KickTheDog: The Housemaster burning Kai's paintings and paintbrushes. Orn uses this as a catalyst to trick Kai into leaving.
* KillItWithIce: The Snow Queen kills her victims this way.

* MagicMirror: Gerda and Kai's father made these mirrors.
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Gerda and Kai's father made mirrors like this, and Gerda herself carries one. [[spoiler: This is why the Snow Queen is afraid of mirrors; she can't bear to know what she has become]].
* TheMole: Orm is this initially.
* NotQuiteDead: The third film is about Gerda finding her parents, who were apparently frozen to death at the beginning of the first film.
* OutrunTheFireball: In the prologue, Gerda and Kai's father tries to outrun the North Wind's wave of ice. After a while, it catches up to him and kills him and his wife.

* TeamPet: Luta, and Orn when he's a weasel.

'''''The Snow Queen''''' is a 2012 [[AllCGICartoon computer-animated]] adaptation of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', directed by Maxim Shveshnikov and Vladen Barbe. It was released in Russia in 2012, and the international version, dubbed into English, was released on January 3, 2013, nearly a year before the Disney animated film ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. It followed the original Hans Christian Andersen story to a point, but also added backstory for the Snow Queen, took out most of the evil mirror/devil aspects, and tried to be darker and edgier.

''The Snow Queen'' is a 2012 computer animated adaptation of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', directed by Maxim Shveshnikov and Vladen Barbe. It was released in Russia in 2012, and the international version, dubbed into English, was released on January 3, 2013, nearly a year before the Disney animated film ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. It followed the original Hans Christian Andersen story to a point, but also added backstory for the Snow Queen, took out most of the evil mirror/devil aspects, and tried to be darker and edgier.

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* DragonTheirFeet: The North Wind, being a titanic force of nature, is never directly fought in either of the first two films and escapes to cause more trouble. the third film seems to rectify this by making it the main villain.

The film was followed by a sequel, ''The Snow Queen 2'', and is slated for a third film as well. The second film is set a year after the Snow Queen's defeat. Orm has thawed out the other trolls, but in an attempt to impress Princess Maribel and her uncle the King, he lies about defeating the Snow Queen. When the North Wind, working under a mysterious Snow King, abducts the princess, Gerda, Kai, and Orm must save her--provided they can work together long enough.

The film was followed by a sequel, ''The Snow Queen 2'', and is slated for a third film as well.

* TheDragon: The North Wind to the Snow Queen.

* AnIcePerson: The Snow Queen; she controls the North Wind, ice beasts, and can freeze anyone to the point of death.