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* MeaningfulName: Freya is named for the [[NorseMythology Norse goddess]] of fertility and black magic.
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* TheStinger: The extended cut features a scene in which [[spoiler: the golden crow at the end of the movie lands on a balcony next to Snow White.]]
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* CompleteMonster: As if the last movie didn't tip you off to this, Ravenna goes soaring over the line when it's revealed that not only is she constantly working to undermine Freya, she also ''murdered her newborn child and framed Freya's lover for it,'' once again because of her obsession with being the fairest of them all.
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* AHorseByADifferentColor: Freya rides a polar bear.
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* CompleteMonster: As if the last movie didn't tip you off to this, Ravenna goes soaring over the line when it's revealed that not only is she constantly working to undermine Freya, she also ''murdered her newborn child and framed Freya's lover for it,'' once again because of her obsession with being the fairest of them all.
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* {{Expy}}: Freya is very similar to Elsa from Frozen. Not only are both of them pale, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds traumatized]], cryokinetic queens, they both have their powers fluctuate based on their emotional states, both build isolated ice castles for themselves to dwell in and both make a sacrifice for someone they love. For bonus points, Freya is also the name of a deity from Norse mythology, while Elsa rules Arendelle, which is the Disney's fictional counterpart of Norway. However this is more justified than most, as both films borrowed from the Hans Christian Anderson story ''Literature/TheSnowQueen''.
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* {{Expy}}: Freya is very similar to Elsa from Frozen. Not only are both of them pale, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds traumatized]], cryokinetic queens, they both have their powers fluctuate based on their emotional states, both build isolated ice castles for themselves to dwell in and both make a sacrifice for someone they love. For bonus points, Freya is also the name of a deity from Norse mythology, while Elsa rules Arendelle, which is the Disney's fictional counterpart of Norway. However this is more justified than most, as both films borrowed from the Hans Christian Anderson story ''Literature/TheSnowQueen''. Freya is quite close to what Elsa was originally imagined as, before they decided to rewrite her into a misunderstood AntiVillain.
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* FakeShemp: Creator/KristenStewart was not asked to reprise her role because of the affair scandal she was involved in, so Snow White's only scene involves an obvious body double that was filmed from behind.
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* FakeShemp: Creator/KristenStewart was does not asked to reprise her role because of the affair scandal she was involved in, role, so Snow White's only scene involves an obvious body double that was filmed from behind.
* InfantImmortality: Partial aversion. Freya's baby dies in the prologue, but all of her {{Child Soldier}}s make it to adulthood.
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* LoveIsAWeakness: Freya becomes a firm believer that love is the source of all the world’s problems after the man she loved murders their daughter.
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* LighterAndSofter: The first film was straightforward DarkFantasy with very little humour. This one is a bit more tongue-in-cheek, has a bit more comic relief and is closer to HeroicFantasy. Eric notably is more of a wisecracker than the humourless brooder he was in the first film.
* LoveIsAWeakness: Freya becomes a firm believer that love is the source of all the world’s problems after the man she loved murders their daughter. \n** It's implied that Ravenna feels this way too.
* LoveIsAWeakness: Freya becomes a firm believer that love is the source of all the world’s problems after the man she loved murders their daughter.
* PowerDyesYourHair: Once Freya's ice powers are activated, her blonde hair turns white.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Sara's costume is notably absent of sleeves.
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* WomanScorned: Freya becomes evil after her lover betrays her and kills their child. [[spoiler: Turns out this was invoked by Ravenna]].
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* WomanScorned: WomanScorned:
** Freya becomes evil after her lover betrays her and kills their child. [[spoiler: Turns out this was invoked byRavenna]].Ravenna]].
** Freya also exploits this when it comes to Sara. She merely makes Eric think Sara died, while she makes Sara think that Eric abandoned her.
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** Freya also exploits this when it comes to Sara. She merely makes Eric think Sara died, while she makes Sara think that Eric abandoned her.
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* BrokenBird: Freya is violently temperamental a megalomaniac. She's also traumatised, sensitive and shows signs of severe anxiety, and seems to genuinely care for the children she steals.
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* BadassNickname: Freya apparently has one - one of the dwarves calls her Freya of the Frost.
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* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Ravenna]] and [[spoiler: Freya]] when the latter realises that the former was responsible for [[spoiler: murdering her daughter and framing her lover, as well as continually undermining her authority and attempting to kill her Huntsmen]].
* CostumePorn: Especially for Ravenna and Freya.
* HeelFaceTurn:[[spoiler: Freya, after Ravenna is revealed to have been the one who killed her daughter and she tries to kill Freya's Huntsmen, turns on her and helps the protagonists to defeat her]].
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Ravenna and Freya.
** It's implied that Ravenna feels this way too.
* ManipulativeBitch: Freya and Ravenna both (though arguably Ravenna more so than Freya).
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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The females. Doreena is nice, Bromwyn is mean and Sara is in-between.
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* {{Expy}}: Freya is very similar to Elsa from Frozen. Not only are both of them pale, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds traumatized]], cryokinetic queens, they both have their powers fluctuate based on their emotional states, both build isolated ice castles for themselves to dwell in and both make a sacrifice for someone they love. For bonus points, Freya is also the name of a deity from Norse mythology, while Elsa rules Arendelle, which is the Disney's fictional counterpart of Norway. However this is more justified than most, as both films borrowed from the Hans Christian Anderson story ''Literature/TheSnowQueen''.
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* FakeShemp: Creator/KristenStewart was not asked to reprise her role because of the affair scandal she was involved in, so Snow White's only scene involves an obvious body double that was filmed from behind.
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* BigBad: Freya, the Ice Queen of the North.
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Ravenna once she is released from the mirror]].
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* BigBad: BigBad:
** Freya, the Ice Queen of the North.
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* HamToHamCombat: Their first scenes together are subdued but by the climax, Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt hold nothing back in seeing who can chew the most scenery.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt leave no set devoured.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Queen Freya has embarked in a quest to conquer the world and destroy all love, but this is born out of the loss of her child and the betrayal of the man she loved.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt leave no set devoured.
* EvilIsHammy: Ravenna and Freya.
* LargeHam: Theron hams it up even ''more'' than in the previous one, and Blunt, likewise, matches her in overacting.
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* MagicMirror: After Ravenna was defeated, it was believed that her mirror’s power, but it only became more of an ArtifactOfDoom. [[spoiler: This is because Ravenna’s soul was trapped within the mirror]].
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* SoulJar: It is revealed that [[spoiler:Ravenna]] turned the golden mirror into one, with all the attendant weaknesses that entails.
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* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:Once Freya dies the perpetual winter in the lands of the North begins to disappear and all the people she froze alive suddenly thaw out]].
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The narration and one of the magic mirror birds have a hints of this.]]
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Nion and Griff scoff at the idea that goblins stole the MagicMirror, despite living in a world were magic is all around them and Nion himself has personally encountered and fought even more fantastical beings.
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Ravenna is resurrected when Freya conjures the MagicMirror]].
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Ravenna is resurrected when Freya conjures the MagicMirror]]. Subverted with Sara though, with the reveal being that Eric only thought she was dead.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The pendant Sara gives Eric as a wedding present - which first proves to her that he did not leave her as she had believed. [[spoiler: Also used as proof that she wasn't shooting Eric to kill]].
* ChekhovsGun: Sara claims "I never miss" when shooting an arrow. [[spoiler: She shoots an arrow at Eric, but hits the pendant around his neck. Eric remembers the line and realises she was faking his death]].
* ChekhovsGun: Sara claims "I never miss" when shooting an arrow. [[spoiler: She shoots an arrow at Eric, but hits the pendant around his neck. Eric remembers the line and realises she was faking his death]].
* FairyTaleMotifs: This one has plenty to do with ''Literature/TheSnowQueen''. It involves childhood friends being separated and one of them needing to be redeemed by ThePowerOfLove, as well as being imprisoned in an ice fortress. Uniquely though the 'Gerda' role is played by the male, while a female plays the 'Kai' role.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Ravenna would be the smart sister - wanting to conquer kingdoms and build an empire. Freya would be the pretty sister - wishing to fall in love and raise a child.
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* HumanPopsicle: Freya has a room in her palace full of people she has frozen as punishment. [[spoiler:They al thaw out once Freya dies]].
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Sara has been acting as one for Freya. But by the time this is revealed, she's now one for Eric]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Freya turns on Ravenna to protect her Huntsmen, who she sees as her children, and dies battling her to safe them]].
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler:The trailer shows you Ravenna dying.]]
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*OurGoblinsAreDifferent: These goblins are huge, brutish goat-gorilla type creatures.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: Combined with TrailersAlwaysSpoil. The trailer presents the film primarily as EvilVsEvil with the two Queens fighting, and the heroes caught in the crossfire. Instead, [[spoiler:Ravenna only shows up in flashback until the last half hour of the film, at which point the film is HijackedByGanon. The two only start fighting when Freya has a HeelFaceTurn]]. The trailer also shows that [[spoiler:Ravenna killed Freya's child,]] implying that it's the driving force behind the conflict. Instead, it's a plot-point that comes up in the final few minutes of the film.
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* KillerGorilla: The goblins resemble monstrous apes with huge ram-like horns. Their behavior is also remarkably ape-like.
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* WinterRoyalLady: Freya displays all the trappings of this trope once she comes into her power.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Freya turns on Ravenna to protect her Huntsmen, who she sees as her children, and dies battling her to safe them]].
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* HumanPopsicle: Freya has a room in her palace full of people she has frozen as punishment. [[spoiler:They al thaw out once Freya dies]].
* AnIcePerson: Freya has the power to freeze things and create ice constructs.
* AnIcePerson: Freya has the power to freeze things and create ice constructs.
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* EliteMooks: The Hunstmen are the elite of Freya's armies, her handpicked special forces and generals.
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* InTheBlood: All the women in Ravenna's family have the potential to become powerful sorceresses.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Finn is nowhere to be seen in the scenes set before the previous movie, nor is he ever mentioned by either of his sisters.
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''The Huntsman: Winter's War'' is both a prequel and a sequel to the 2012 action fantasy ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' and combines elements of both the German folktale of [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]] and Andersen’s ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', and was released in North America on April 22, 2016.
Decades before she came to Snow White’s kingdom, the evil Queen Ravenna (Creator/CharlizeTheron) had a sister named Freya (Creator/EmilyBlunt) who fell in love with a man of Ravenna’s court. She became pregnant by him, but one night she found that her beloved had murdered their daughter. Her great despair caused Freya’s magical powers to emerge and she became the Ice Queen. Seeking her own kingdom she went to the north, were one by one the once fertile realms are turned into the GrimUpNorth by Freya’s power.
As she lays waste to the kingdoms of the North, she kidnaps their children and trains them to become her Huntsmen, with her one rule being that they must never know love. Soon two of the children stand out as the best ones: Eric (Creator/ChrisHemsworth) and Sara (Creator/JessicaChastain). But when they are discovered to have fallen in love and married Freya seemingly has Sara killed and Eric cast out of her kingdom.
[[TimeSkip Seven years later]], after Ravenna’s defeat at the hands of Snow White and Eric, Freya has completed her conquest of all the kingdoms of the North and turns her eyes towards Snow White’s kingdom and her late sister’s MagicMirror, which has been lost en route to a magical Sanctuary for safekeeping. Eric must embark in a quest to bring the Mirror beyond Freya’s reach before she gets her hands on it and uses its power to conquer the world.
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!!''The Huntsman: Winter's War'' exhibits the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Sara is an unparalleled warrior, and to a lesser degree all the female members of Freya’s Huntsmen.
* ArrowsOnFire: Sara uses on of these to [[spoiler:blow up the horde of goblins that are attacking Eric]].
* {{Badass}}: Every single one of the Huntsmen is an elite warrior.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Ravenna is resurrected when Freya conjures the MagicMirror]].
* BigBad: Freya, the Ice Queen of the North.
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Ravenna once she is released from the mirror]].
* CreepyRavens: Ravenna’s theme of ravens continues in this movie, [[spoiler:only this time they’re gold raven]].
* DemotedToExtra: William’s role is much reduced in this movie, and Snow White herself is only ever seen from the back for a quick scene.
* GrimUpNorth: The kingdoms of the North were once verdant and fertile, but Freya’s power has turned them into a frozen wasteland.
* LoveIsAWeakness: Freya becomes a firm believer that love is the source of all the world’s problems after the man she loved murders their daughter.
* MagicMirror: After Ravenna was defeated, it was believed that her mirror’s power, but it only became more of an ArtifactOfDoom. [[spoiler: This is because Ravenna’s soul was trapped within the mirror]].
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The Huntsman’s name is revealed to be Eric, after being unnamed in both the previous movie and the source material.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Queen Freya has embarked in a quest to conquer the world and destroy all love, but this is born out of the loss of her child and the betrayal of the man she loved.
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Decades before she came to Snow White’s kingdom, the evil Queen Ravenna (Creator/CharlizeTheron) had a sister named Freya (Creator/EmilyBlunt) who fell in love with a man of Ravenna’s court. She became pregnant by him, but one night she found that her beloved had murdered their daughter. Her great despair caused Freya’s magical powers to emerge and she became the Ice Queen. Seeking her own kingdom she went to the north, were one by one the once fertile realms are turned into the GrimUpNorth by Freya’s power.
As she lays waste to the kingdoms of the North, she kidnaps their children and trains them to become her Huntsmen, with her one rule being that they must never know love. Soon two of the children stand out as the best ones: Eric (Creator/ChrisHemsworth) and Sara (Creator/JessicaChastain). But when they are discovered to have fallen in love and married Freya seemingly has Sara killed and Eric cast out of her kingdom.
[[TimeSkip Seven years later]], after Ravenna’s defeat at the hands of Snow White and Eric, Freya has completed her conquest of all the kingdoms of the North and turns her eyes towards Snow White’s kingdom and her late sister’s MagicMirror, which has been lost en route to a magical Sanctuary for safekeeping. Eric must embark in a quest to bring the Mirror beyond Freya’s reach before she gets her hands on it and uses its power to conquer the world.
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!!''The Huntsman: Winter's War'' exhibits the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Sara is an unparalleled warrior, and to a lesser degree all the female members of Freya’s Huntsmen.
* ArrowsOnFire: Sara uses on of these to [[spoiler:blow up the horde of goblins that are attacking Eric]].
* {{Badass}}: Every single one of the Huntsmen is an elite warrior.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Ravenna is resurrected when Freya conjures the MagicMirror]].
* BigBad: Freya, the Ice Queen of the North.
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Ravenna once she is released from the mirror]].
* CreepyRavens: Ravenna’s theme of ravens continues in this movie, [[spoiler:only this time they’re gold raven]].
* DemotedToExtra: William’s role is much reduced in this movie, and Snow White herself is only ever seen from the back for a quick scene.
* GrimUpNorth: The kingdoms of the North were once verdant and fertile, but Freya’s power has turned them into a frozen wasteland.
* LoveIsAWeakness: Freya becomes a firm believer that love is the source of all the world’s problems after the man she loved murders their daughter.
* MagicMirror: After Ravenna was defeated, it was believed that her mirror’s power, but it only became more of an ArtifactOfDoom. [[spoiler: This is because Ravenna’s soul was trapped within the mirror]].
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The Huntsman’s name is revealed to be Eric, after being unnamed in both the previous movie and the source material.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Queen Freya has embarked in a quest to conquer the world and destroy all love, but this is born out of the loss of her child and the betrayal of the man she loved.
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