History Foreshadowing / Frozen2013

* "Frozen Heart", the film's opener, has a ''lot'' of lines that pertain to the rest of the film, particularly the complex nature of Elsa's magic and story's theme of love versus fear.

* Early on, Anna mentions dreaming about getting kissed by a troll. [[spoiler:She later shares a kiss with Kristoff, who was raised with trolls]].
* When Elsa learns of her parents' deaths, her powers react in the exact same way as they do later on during the climax when [[spoiler:Hans (mistakenly) informs her that her sister Anna is dead.]]

** She also mentions "a beautiful stranger, tall and fair." [[spoiler:"Fair" obviously means "handsome," but it can also mean "light-haired." Kristoff is taller and has lighter hair than Hans. As does Elsa, who can be considered a "stranger."]]
** Among the prescient lyrics are such lines as "For the first time in forever, there'll be music, there'll be light," "There'll be magic, there'll be fun", "I won't be alone" and "For the first time in forever, I could be noticed by someone" (Elsa), all of which come to pass not just at the party, but [[spoiler:at the end of the film, when the two sisters are reconciled and Elsa's magic comes into the open]].

* Hans's line [[spoiler:"I'd like to formally apologize for hitting the princess of Arendelle with my horse, and...[[ExactWords for every]] [[PreemptiveApology moment after."]]]] foreshadows that he plans to [[spoiler:kill Elsa]].

** [[spoiler: "They wake the fairy queen who breaks the spell and saves everyone!" The fairy queen figurine also has wings. A sort of fairy queen is key in the climax - Elsa, riding in on the Nokk, uses magic to protect Arendelle from a giant wave. A shot shows her on horseback, with her cape (made from two pieces of ice/fabric) billowing out from her back like wings. She can do this because she was woken when a spell was broken, too, by Anna when she breaks the dam, which not only helps stop the damage her grandfather had done, but breaks the magical barrier separating the two nations and restores Elsa to life.]]

* When he and Anna see the dam, Kristoff says it's good that the dam is in good shape because if it broke, it would send a tidal wave so big it would wash away everything on the fjord, including Arendelle. After that, you just know the dam is going down. [[spoiler: Anna and Elsa find out that their grandfather was a treacherous, backstabbing SOB who built the dam to weaken the Enchanted Forest. Anna provokes the earth giants to destroy the dam, and Elsa protects Arendelle from the tidal wave with her magic.]]

* When Elsa learns of her parents' deaths, her powers react in the exact same way as they do later on during the climax when [[spoiler: Hans (mistakenly) informs her that her sister Anna is dead.]]

** She also mentions "a beautiful stranger, tall and fair." [[spoiler: "Fair" obviously means "handsome," but it can also mean "light-haired." Kristoff is taller and has lighter hair than Hans. As does Elsa, who can be considered a "stranger."]]

* Hans's line [[spoiler: "I'd like to formally apologize for hitting the princess of Arendelle with my horse, and...[[ExactWords for every]] [[PreemptiveApology moment after."]]]] foreshadows that he plans to [[spoiler:kill Elsa]].
* Hans is the thirteenth brother. [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Unlucky thirteen, anybody?]] After saying he has twelve older brothers, he then immediately reveals that he doesn't have a good relationship with them. [[spoiler:And later on in the film, he's revealed as a villain.]]

* When Hans and Anna start to bond, Hans promises her that he'd never shut her out like Elsa did. [[spoiler: After revealing his true colors, Hans decides to leave Anna to die by shutting her ''[[ExactWords in]]'' a room]].

** "Can you face what the River knows?" The "river" referred to later reveals [[spoiler: that Anna and Elsa's grandfather built the dam to [[ManipulativeBastard secretly weaken the Northuldra]] out of fear of their relationship with magic, and then [[InTheBack murdered the defenseless Northuldra leader]] who tried to reason with him.]] Needless to say, both Anna and Elsa are horrified by this revelation.

* "Into the Unknown" has Elsa's magic creating images of the four spirits out of ice particles. But it also has a brief image of [[spoiler: Agnarr and Iduna as children, hinting at the later reveal that the fifth spirit sprang from their love]].
* Also from "Into the Unknown", [[spoiler: a line in the second verse goes, "Are you someone out there who's a little bit like me? Who knows deep down I'm not where I'm meant to be?" At the end of the movie, Elsa realizes that she belongs in Northuldra.]]

* Hans is the thirteenth brother. [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Unlucky thirteen, anybody?]] After saying he has twelve older brothers, he then immediately reveals that he doesn't have a good relationship with them. [[spoiler:And later on in the film, he's revealed as a villain.]]
* Hans's line [[spoiler: "I'd like to formally apologize for hitting the princess of Arendelle with my horse, and...[[ExactWords for every]] [[PreemptiveApology moment after."]]]] foreshadows that he plans to [[spoiler:kill Elsa]].

* Olaf tells Anna "''Some people are worth melting for''" and "''Love is putting someone else's needs before yours''" [[spoiler:while trying to keep her warm. This hints that the "act of True Love" won't actually be a TrueLovesKiss after all, but a HeroicSacrifice. Anna gives up the chance for Kristoff to cure her and sacrifices herself to save Elsa, which ultimately breaks the curse.]]
* Elsa sings, "You'll never see me cry!" during "Let It Go". [[spoiler:Anna's HeroicSacrifice at the end finally makes Elsa break down, and [[TemptingFate she does cry]].]]
* During the song "Fixer Upper", there's this line: ''"People make bad choices if they're mad or scared or stressed, but throw a little love their way and you'll bring out their best!"'' While it does refer to Kristoff, it also foreshadows [[spoiler:Elsa finally gaining control of her powers after Anna's ActOfTrueLove.]]
* When Anna is day-dreaming about finding love in "For the First Time in Forever", she acts out her fantasies before various objects around the castle. The first is [[spoiler:a statue head of a nobleman that looks evil and sinister]], the next is [[spoiler:various paintings with peasant men that look honest and friendly]]. Anna finds two potential love interests: [[spoiler:The first is Hans, a prince, who [[ManipulativeBastard turns out to be evil.]] The next is Kristoff, a peasant, who [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold turns out to be honest and good-hearted.]]]] She also mentions "a beautiful stranger, tall and fair." [[spoiler: "Fair" obviously means "handsome," but it can also mean "light-haired." Kristoff is taller and has lighter hair than Hans. As does Elsa, who can be considered a "stranger."]]
* If you listen closely, there are wolf howls in the background in the scene where Anna falls off her spooked horse. Presumably these are the same wolves that ambush Anna and Kristoff in the woods that night.
* Anna and Hans both refer to their sudden romance and engagement as "crazy," Elsa responds to the news of the engagement by saying, "You can't marry a man you just met," and Kristoff is incredulous that Anna "got engaged to someone she just met that day." [[spoiler:Sure enough, the engagement doesn't work out. [[EvilAllAlong Hans is not what Anna hoped he'd be]]]].
* When Grand Pabbie heals Anna's head wound he notes that "You are lucky it wasn't her heart. The heart is not so easily changed but the head can be persuaded." Later on in the movie, she does get a similar wound in her "heart" (it's unclear if they mean her physical heart or her soul).

* When Hans and Anna start to bond, Hans promises her that he'd never shut her out like Elsa did. [[spoiler: After revealing his true colors, Hans decides to leave Anna to die by shutting her ''[[ExactWords in]]'' a room]].
* When Elsa learns of her parents' deaths, her powers react in the exact same way as they do later on during the climax when [[spoiler: Hans (mistakenly) informs her that her sister Anna is dead.]]

* In "For the First Time In Forever", a lot of lyrics from that song foreshadow the events of the movie. Including but not limited to: "For the first time in forever, there'll be music, there'll be light," "There'll be magic, there'll be fun", "I won't be alone" and "For the first time in forever, I could be noticed by someone" (Elsa), all of which come to pass not just at the party, but [[spoiler:at the end of the film, when the two sisters are reconciled and Elsa's magic comes into the open]]. Also, the abrupt ending for this IWantSong: "Nothing's in my way!" *immediately gets hit and knocked over by Hans' horse* [[spoiler:Hans [[BaitTheDog later turns out to be the film's villain]], and poses an impediment to her dreams and optimistic, idealistic worldview.]]
* Hans glances upwards before pushing Francis's crossbow up to stop him from shooting Elsa, hinting that [[spoiler:he deliberately aimed for the chandelier, hoping it would fall and kill Elsa while [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident making it look like he was trying to save her]].]]

%%Needs more context.* [[spoiler: "I'd like to formally apologize for hitting the princess of Arendelle with my horse, and...[[ExactWords for every]] [[PreemptiveApology moment after."]]]]

* Elsa sings "You'll never see me cry!" during "Let It Go". [[spoiler:Anna's HeroicSacrifice at the end finally makes Elsa break down.]]

* Anna and Hans both refer to their sudden romance and engagement as "crazy," Elsa responds to the news of the engagement by saying "You can't marry a man you just met," and Kristoff is incredulous that Anna "got engaged to someone she just met that day." [[spoiler:Sure enough, the engagement doesn't work out. [[EvilAllAlong Hans is not what Anna hoped he'd be]]]].
* When Grand Pabbie heals Anna's head wound he notes that "You are lucky it wasn't her heart. The heart is not so easily changed but the head can be persuaded."

** When he says "I've been searching my whole life to find my own place," he gestures outward to the kingdom, [[spoiler:foreshadowing his want to steal the throne. While saying this, he isn't looking at Anna, but the kingdom itself.]]

** As a bit of musical foreshadowing, when they sing the line "Love is an open door" for the second time, Hans comes in on the word "door" a beat after Anna on, a dissonant note. Before Hans' note resolves and is contextualised as a musical "suspension", it sounds glaringly wrong for just a moment.

** The song itself is sung near the beginning of the movie, rather than near the end like most Disney love songs. "Fixer Upper" ''is'' sung near the end of the movie, and it's not until the very end that we learn that the latter was the ''real'' love song.

** Another element of foreshadowing, [[https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/11/explaining-five-songs-frozen/355512/ noted by the writers,]] is in the simple fact of how this romance and engagement is [[spoiler:progressing far too smoothly and too early in the film, something that doesn't tend to happen with the heroines of other Disney movies.]]

** "[[DarkestHour When all is lost]], then [[EarnYourHappyEnding all is found]]." [[spoiler:Elsa turns into ice after learning that her grandfather was an EvilColonialist who built the dam to weaken the Enchanted Forest. Anna learns that too, finds out that Elsa is dead because Olaf dies as well, and nearly despairs. She finds herself all alone, Kristoff having previously taken off without a word, leaving her in the dark as to where he is or why he left. Then, she has to provoke the earth giants to break the dam to right the wrong done by her grandfather, which also means destroying Arendelle. And then, Kristoff returns, Elsa comes back to life, saves Arendelle from the tidal wave, and she and Anna rebuild Olaf.]]

* Also during "Some Things Never Change"...Anna sings about a stone wall that will never fall...[[spoiler:The dam falls.]]

* In "For the First Time In Forever", a lot of lyrics from that song foreshadow the events of the movie. Including but not limited to: "For the first time in forever, there'll be music, there'll be light," "There'll be magic, there'll be fun", "I won't be alone" and "For the first time in forever, I could be noticed by someone" (Elsa), all of which come to pass not just at the party, but [[spoiler:at the end of the film, when the two sisters are reconciled and Elsa's magic comes into the open]]. Also, the abrupt ending for this {{I Want Song}}: "Nothing's in my way!" *immediately gets hit and knocked over by Hans' horse* [[spoiler:Hans [[BaitTheDog later turns out to be the film's villain]], and poses an impediment to her dreams and optimistic, idealistic worldview.]]
* When the heroes ride back to Arendelle so that Hans can save Anna, Olaf asks, "Who is this Hans?" [[spoiler: If Anna never mentioned Hans in the approximately 18 hours since she met Olaf, maybe she doesn't love Hans as much as she thinks she does...]]