History WesternAnimation / Frozen2013

The film was followed by a short feature, "WesternAnimation/FrozenFever" in March 2015 (paired theatrically with ''[[Film/{{Cinderella|2015}} Cinderella]]'') and a feature-length sequel with ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' in November 2019, both made by the original creative team. It also spawned a [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} a whole franchise]] of ExtendedUniverse material, including a second short, the ChristmasSpecial known as ''WesternAnimation/OlafsFrozenAdventure'' in November 2017 (paired with ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''), as well as [[TieInNovel various books]], comics, and video games. A third short, ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponASnowman'', serves as an {{Interquel}} for this film.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' has Mufasa being mildly exasperated with his energetic son Simba waking him up early in the morning.
-->'''Sarabi:''' Your son is awake.
-->'''Mufasa:''' Before sunrise, he's your son.

** Anna also gives us this line when trying to open Elsa's eyes to the wintry predicament her magic has left the kingdom is in.

** Arendellian characters such as the royal family, Kai, and Oaken and the snow creatures made by Elsa speak Te Reo o Ngāi Tahu.

* DarkestHour: When Elsa's kingdom is stolen from her and she finds that Anna is too scared of her powers to go back, Elsa is really out of options at that point.

** In ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', the Snow Queen is rather morally ambiguous. It's implied that she casts a magic spell on Kai to get him to stay with her, in turn leading to an implication that she is kidnapping him for unknown reasons. Elsa is most definitely not evil; rather, she is victim of her own powers as she didn't learn to properly control them.

** In ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', the Snow Queen is rather morally ambiguous. It's implied that she casts a magic spell on Kai to get him to stay with her, in turn leading to an implication that she is kidnapping him for unknown reasons. Elsa is most definitely not evil and is more a victim of her own powers.

** Kristoff's [[DownPlayedTrope a hero rather than a villain, but his initial misanthropy]] is implied to stem from a history of poor treatment by other humans. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is a song called [[NotGoodWithPeople "Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People"]], which includes lyrics such as "People will beat you, and curse you, and cheat you". {{Subverted}} as he [[DefrostingIceKing begins to warm up]] over the course of his adventure with [[TheAntiNihilist Anna]].

-->'''Elsa:''' [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask That perfect girl]] is gone.

** In the case of Elsa, who [[JustifiedTrope uses gloves]] as a MagicFeather to keep her powers controlled. When she opens up the gates for the day during her coronation, she has to take them off to accept the scepter and orb, and is visibly uncomfortable without them because she is [[PowerIncontinence having such a hard time keeping the regalia from icing over]]. When she fights with Anna over their isolation, one comes off and she loses control of both her powers and herself. When she flees the kingdom, she discards the other one and decides to completely let go and stop being TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask.

** Anna veers between being an ActionGirl and DistressedDamsel, but never in a stereotypical manner. When she's taken captive, she's on her deathbed, her heart and body slowly freezing solid, so one can forgive any "helpless" vibes, and [[DamselOutOfDistress she ends up breaking the curse herself]]. She's also a [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething a princess who journeys to save her sister and their kingdom]] and always puts up a fight against threats, but as a ShelteredAristocrat who spent most of her life locked up, and without any magic or training, it's a struggle with mixed results, sometimes succeeding, sometimes not. In the end, she ''does'' succumb to the curse, but revives without being rescued by a KnightInShiningArmor ''or'' outdoing any villains in combat, but by curing the curse herself through her HeroicSacrifice, because ThePowerOfLove ''within'' her is [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower what mattered, rather than whether other people wanted to rescue her ''or'' her Action Girl qualities]].

* FictionalAgeOfMajority: It's suggested that 21 is the age of majority in Arendelle; according to Jennifer Lee, Elsa is 21 years old during the main events of the story and although her parents died when she was 18, she isn't formally crowned queen until she "comes of age" three years later.

** Kristoff asks if Anna knows how Hans picks his nose. Anna says Hans is a prince, he doesn't do such disgusting things. Kristoff's response: "All men do it", which is usually a thing they say about [[ADateWithRosiePalms a different activity]].

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Anna takes just as much slapstick as Kristoff does.

* ArtImitatesArt: During "For the First Time in Forever", the paintings hung on the wall of the castle are pastiches of Grand Masters works. One can recognize the style of [[Creator/PieterBruegelTheElder Bruegel]], Watteau, [[Creator/FranciscoDeGoya Goya]] and a {{bowdlerise}}d version of the rather risqué artwork ''[[Art/TheSwing Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette]]'' by Fragonard.

* ArtImitatesArt: During "For the First Time in Forever", the paintings hung on the wall of the castle are pastiches of Grand Masters works. One can recognize the style of [[Creator/PieterBruegelTheElder Bruegel]], Watteau, [[Creator/FranciscoDeGoya Goya]] and a {{bowdlerise}}d version of the rather risqué artwork "[[Art/TheSwing Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette]]" by Fragonard.

* SanitySlippageSong: Anna admits over the course of "Do You Wanna Build a Snowman" that she's [[GoneMadFromTheIsolation going mad from the isolation]].

** After getting a LaserGuidedAmnesia and until the InternalReveal, Anna is unaware of Elsa's magic and the reason for their separation; Anna doesn't know that Elsa still loves her and pushes her away in an attempt to protect her.

** Unlike the audience, Elsa doesn't see Hans {{motiverant}}ing to the dying Anna, extinguishing the fire, and [[MurderByInaction leaving her in a locked room]], so Elsa seems to see him as a good man as she asks Hans to take care of Anna.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The landscape and setting of the movie is heavily based on Norway. What's more, Arendelle sounds like "Arendal", [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Arendal_Utsikt_02.JPG the name of a small Norwegian city,]] whose economy is built around a port as well. There's also some influence from other Nordic countries, with Oaken having a sauna (associated with Finland) and there being so much steam (associated with Iceland) around where the trolls live.
%% ** Administrivia/ZeroContextExample. The Southern Isles are Fantasy Denmark and Weselton is Fantasy Sweden, with Kristoff being a Saami.

* HollywoodLaw: While there are precedents for revolutionaries to charge monarchs with treason against their own countries and sentence them to death (e.g., UsefulNotes/CharlesI in the UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar), it's hard to interpret Hans, ''a representative of a foreign nation,'' judging and carrying out such a sentence as anything other than an act of war.

* ParentService: Elsa doing her SexyWalk in "Let It Go" in a slinky dress.

* SexyWalk: At the end of "Let It Go", Elsa sways her hips as she struts to the balcony, as part of throwing away her old, proper life.

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Many people who viewed the movie were surprised to find that ice harvesting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade was an actual thing]] in the 19th century that was especially common in Norway and many other parts of Europe and North America, and was exported to countries as far as the Philippines and the Caribbean. Blocks of ice were put into icehouses to store food before modern refrigerators existed.
** There was some audience confusion over why some of the ice appears blue, instead of being limited to the more common white and translucent forms. In real life, blue ice is rare but not unheard of, usually forming when the ice is particularly dense.