History Characters / FrozenArendelle

* ScarfOfAssKicking: He's a manly and rugged farmer of ''ice'' so the scarf is practical.

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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: He was a genocidal petty tyrant.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: He serves as one to Hans from the first film. Both characters use [[BitchInSheepsClothing 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 FreudianExcuse to gain power, Runeard is motivated by FantasticRacism, and a desperation 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 [[PosthumousCharacter is dead long before either film's events]], and the second film's conflict revolves entirely around the consequences of his past actions.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Hans. Both use BitchInSheepsClothing act to get what they want -- Hans to get a kingdom, Runeard to weaken the Northuldra. Hans was an active antagonist and still alive by the end but Runeard is long dead. Hans attempts to gain more power while Runeard attempts to keep power he already has.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. 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.

** In the the first film, he's a DefrostingIceKing 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.

** Doesn't matter how his business is doing, Kristoff has to pay for those carrots, the axe, and the rope. In fact, he'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.

-->'''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.

* ImmigrantPatriotism: 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 BlackVikings). Nonetheless he is intensely loyal to Arendelle, and became a commanding officer in its Royal Guard.

* MythologyGag: He's named after one of the main characters in ''Literature/TheSnowQueen''.

* MythologyGag: She's named after the heroine of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen''.

* SlimeBall: He is callous, irresponsible, narrow-minded, self-absorbed, cantakerous, hateful, deceitful, uncaring, mean-spirited, incompetent, treacherous, dishonorable and inhumane. Among other bad traits. He did not even love his own family. In a film series where family is everything, this is a big red flag.

** Elsa: Both are monarchs who dealt 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: He shows what she could be like if she let her desire to be significant and her fear, especially of magic, overrule her empathy for other people. Both are Arendellian royalty without magic of their own, and both have some unease about it. 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 primarily worried that magic would empower people to question his authority. By contrast, Anna ''wants'' other people to be empowered and encourages Elsa to ''embrace'' her magic. When Elsa worries it may be bad, Anna helps her recognize her magic as "a gift." Her fear is primarily for others, that Elsa will go ''too'' far and get ''herself'' killed. Yet Anna is still able to let love guide her and see the beauty in magic, even when others don't, and to empathize with and trust people who are different from her, while Runeard attacks people out of fear.
*** Runeard and Anna both are focused on maintaining some part of the status quo and are afraid of how magic will affect it, but for very different reasons and have very different responses. Runeard is afraid for his own sake of the Northuldra's connection itself and that they might use it to challenge his power, and so he uses subterfuge to attack them. By contrast, Anna celebrates and encourages Elsa's connection with magic, but is afraid of Elsa dying if she goes too far, [[TheCreon 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.
*** Realizing what Runeard did plays a major role in spurring Anna to accept Elsa's pursuit of a magical destiny.

** Elsa: Both are monarchs who dealt with the 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.

** Agnarr: Both feared magic that they didn't understand and went to great lengths to control it, even losing their lives in the process. Runeard had an [[FantasticRacism objective and irrational hatred of magic]], but Agnarr was more welcoming and fascinated while still being aware of its potential dangers. While Runeard's actions were a callous attempt to protect his own power, Agnarr's actions were a misguided attempt to protect his family. And while Runeard suffered an unintentional KarmicDeath for his heinous crimes, Agnarr and Iduna made a noble sacrifice that ultimately allowed both Elsa and Anna to fulfil the meaning of their lives.

* ZenSurvivor: {{Downplayed}}, but Iduna is shown to have experienced extended separation from her family. However, the lullaby she sings to the sisters in ''Frozen II'' has many hints as to how Elsa and Anna could find themselves, partly by finding Ahtohallan, facing their fears and being true to themselves. Iduna will still be there for both sisters, but their success partly depends on their ''own'' courage to follow the paths that they have been called to fulfil.

* PrimAndProperBun: Iduna's royal hairstyle is a bun, and she's somewhat quiet and reserved as queen. Notably, Elsa copies this same hairstyle when she's trying to be very proper.

* SpiritAdvisor: In the Frozen II song Show Yourself, Iduna sings with her daughter Elsa

* LadyAndAScholar: 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 things in a journal. At the same time, she is a kind individual who is fairly good with people, and loves her daughters dearly.

** Iduna and Elsa ook 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).

* PrimAndProperBun: Iduna's royal hairstyle is a bun, and she's somewhat quiet and reserved. Notably, Elsa copies this same hairstyle to appear more formal for her coronation.

** Iduna and Elsa both 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 sort of grew up as outsiders to hide their true selves (Elsa's magic, Iduna's ethnicity).

* AscendedExtra: Though still deceased, the sequel gives them more focus as flashbacks and ice sculptures depict their past.

* AscendedExtra: While only having one line of dialogue in the first ''Frozen'', her backstory and personality is delved into more in ''Frozen II''.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: His rampant racism, sexism and homophobia are all examples of this and was a genocidal petty tyrant.

* FascistButInefficient: He is not a competent ruler and/or warrior at all. He is also one of the first people to die in the war.

** In ''Frozen II'', she's realizes how Elsa's ice powers have a link to the glacier Ahtohallan.

** Her personality is like Anna's, playful and affectionate. 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).
** She and Elsa grew up as outsiders to hide their true selves (Elsa's magic, Iduna's ethnicity).

* PrimAndProperBun: Iduna's royal hairstyle is a bun, and she's somewhat quiet and reserved. Notably, Elsa copies this same hairstyle when she's trying to be very proper.

* BrainyBrunette: Iduna has dark-brown hair and demonstrates a strong ability of figuring out complex connections.

* LadyAndAScholar: Iduna studied magic and drew the map's path to Ahtohallan. A deleted scene also showed that Iduna examined Elsa's magic closely, noting down things in a journal. At the same time, she is a kind individual who loves her daughters dearly.

** Iduna only has one line in [[WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}} 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.

%%Needs more context to differentiate it from PurpleIsPowerful* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Iduna's PimpedOutDress is purple, like Elsa's coronation dress, but a bit more lavender than magenta.

* PurpleIsPowerful: 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 before becoming a queen.

** Iduna only has one line in [[WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}} the first movie]], when she picks up Anna, whom Elsa has accidentally struck unconscious: "She's ice cold." She also shows concern for Elsa in her face and body language when Elsa says that she is afraid of hurting her father with her powers, and then she dies along with the king, leaving Elsa as queen. That's pretty much all the audience sees of her in that installment.

* SomedayThisWillComeInHandy: The Northuldra lullaby that Iduna sings proves to be quite useful for her to realise that Ahtohallan is the source of her daughter Elsa's magic. The river's existence helps Elsa realize her destiny and discover information crucial to saving Arendelle and the Northuldra, which Anna then does, realizing her own destiny in the process.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Iduna's name is spelt as "Idun" in ''Literature/AFrozenHeart'', but as Iduna in the cast listing for the Broadway show as well as for ''Frozen II''.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Iduna looks almost identical to her daughters, just a bit older, with dark brown hair and a longer face shape than Elsa.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: His rampant racism, sexism and homophobia are all examples of this. He also was likely pro-slavery as well as being a genocidal petty tyrant.

* CompleteMonster: He has little to no redeeming character traits and is one of the worst villains in Frozen, if not all of the Disney and Pixar movies.

* SlimeBall: He is callous, irresponsible, narrow-minded, self-absorbed, cantakerous, hateful, deceitful, uncaring, mean-spirited, dishonorable and inhumane. Among other bad traits. He did not even love his own family. In a film series where family is everything, this is a big red flag.