#ask;hans

[arendellekingdom]

If Elsa got redeemed in the original Frozen, then why can't Hans also get redeemed. Elsa did some very villainous things and almost became a monster when she wanted to murder to two men in cold blood. Hans should also get redeemed just like Elsa did.

You really can’t (or shouldn’t) compare Elsa’s “redemption” with Hans having one too. 

Although Elsa did try to hurt the Duke’s guards she was just defending herself. From the beginning Elsa tells them “Stay away” because she knows she can hurt someone with her powers, she doesn’t want to, she’s afraid to do so and she wants to be left alone. It isn’t until they had attacked her that she goes on defense mode, making Elsa go “villainous or evil”. However, when Hans gets there and he tells Elsa “Don’t be the monster they fear you are!” she quickly snaps out of her rage and goes back to “normal”. She realizes what she’s doing that could hurt someone and stops. 

When, on the other hand, Hans is completely aware of what leaving freezing Anna alone on a cold room would do to her; completely aware of how to break Elsa by saying “Your sister is dead because of you”; completely aware that holding out a sword and swinging it to someone can kill them; and yet none of this awareness stop him. He realizes what he’s doing could hurt someone and doesn’t stop.

Elsa gets redeemed and accepted back into the kingdom because she fixes the eternal winter that she made. She shows that she can fix what she messed up and she shows that her powers aren’t all bad. She makes something fun and nice for the townspeople after the thaw (the ice ring). 

When Hans lied. He lied to the dignitaries that Anna had died and that they had said their wedding vows (basically making himself King). He lied to get into Arendelle’s power. He had really no power to charge Elsa with treason. For lying and cheating, he is the one that would have to be charged with treason.

Because of that you really can’t compare their redemptions-- one is aware and tries to stop it and change when the other doesn’t care and doesn’t stops. 

Now, personally, I wouldn’t want Hans to get redeemed because he’s such a good villain! He’s manipulative, abusive, controller, sneaky villain and he’s a person that exists in real life. I feel that if they just gave him a redemption they would ruin the character because where would his villainous characteristics would stand? A character like Hans wouldn’t just change.

[arendellekingdom]

Did Hans turn evil when he betrayed Anna or was he always evil? He seemed that he was a really nice person until he turned evil out of nowhere.

That’s what the whole character is about— not everyone is what they seem. 

Hans goes to Arendelle aiming for the throne. At first he’s sure he’ll woo and marry Elsa and that he’ll become king but after he learns that Elsa is a no go who doesn’t even lets her sister come close to her and that Anna is “easier” he moves on to her. He’s charming, gentle, elegant, poised and becomes everything Anna has always wanted so she quickly lets him in her life. 

Like the Spanish Dignitary says “If anything happened to the Queen, you’re all Arendelle has” since Anna left him in charge before leaving to find Elsa (”I leave Prince Hans in charge”).  When Anna is of no more use to him he “turns evil” (I’d call it more like show his true colors) and he quickly pushes Anna away, leaves her to die (since the only way she’d be able to safe herself is if she thawed her frozen heart but “if only there was someone out there who loved you”) and he turns into the king since he said “their marriage vows” with Anna. 

[arendellekingdom]

I thought you were a great blog, then I found out you like HoO/PJO! Even better:) Just wondering, who do you think the main cast of Frozen's godly parents would be?

Well thank you! (I haven’t read the last book because I’m broke and I don’t have time to even read things that are not from school.)

I think Anna is so Aphrodite because she’s a hopeless romantic and she’s got the biggest heart but she’s still strong and she can defend herself. 

I’m not really sure for Elsa but I’m going to go with Athena because they’re all book smart and dedicated and careful. But I also think she could fit with Demeter who’s all nature and balance… I don’t know…

Kristoff is definitely Hephaestus because all hard work and strength and manly man working on the ice. 

I think Hans has something of Ares because he knows his way and he’s a strategist. All his visit to Arendelle revolves around a purpose and he’s constantly changing his plan. 

[arendellekingdom]

Hey, so I'd just like to know your opinion on something. Why do you think Hans protected Elsa in that scene in the ice palace? I mean, he was just going to kill her later anyway, so wouldn't letting the Duke of Wessleton's (I think I spelled that right, lol) men kill her have furthered his purposes?

To understand this you have to think from Hans’ point of view. 

He wants the throne and now his plan is a bit stuck because Anna is out and about looking for her sister who ran away. So right now he can’t marry Anna and get rid of Elsa. However, he can still make good guy points for himself by doing “nice things” like opening up the castle to the kingdom. 

When he goes looking out for Anna and he does it as the good guy. He says “Princess Anna is in trouble. I need volunteers to go with me to find her”. He’s playing the hero and saver. When he gets to Elsa’s ice castle and he says “Were here to find Princess Anna. Be on guard, but no harm is to be done to the Queen. Do you understand?” He doesn’t want to hurt Elsa because then he’d look bad in front of the kingdom and they wouldn’t accept him if he became king. 

So when the guards start attacking Elsa he runs after to stop them so they don’t hurt her. Since Hans is in charge he would have gotten blame if they killed Elsa just because. This also, makes him look like the good guy. 

That’s also why when the other guard tries to shoot her and Hans runs to him and moves the crossbow away from Elsa but he moves it so it hits the chandelier on top of Elsa. While he looks like he’s defending her, he’s actually trying to hurt her. But if Elsa hadn’t been fast enough then it would have been an accident because she wasn’t shoot and Hans tried to protect her. 

When he puts the blanket over her while in the dungeon he does it for the same thing. 

[arendellekingdom]

Whose heart does the line "beware the frozen heart" in the Frozen Heart song refer to? Anna? Hans?

Elsa mainly, because they sing about the powers (born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining), the ice (it's icy force both foul and fair) and how Elsa's feelings are related to them (has a frozen heart worth mining/strike for love and strike for fear).  

But Hans too because like Anna says he has a frozen heart that can hurt so "beware the frozen heart"

[arendellekingdom]

was the manacles really built for elsa?

Yes, by Hans. Jennifer Lee said he made them (or got them made) “just in case”

[arendellekingdom]

Hans is not my favourite character & I hate his actions but there's this jail scene that gets me. When he's thrown in there, he doesn't try to escape but just sits there. Does his head hurt or he feels very ashamed/regretful for what he has done?

Hans is not my favorite character either but I do like him and he has a place in my heart (like all the other Frozen characters) and I think he's very interesting character with a back story I'd like to know more about.

He usually gets treated badly because of his actions on the movie but at the same time, from every villain's point of view, he's doing the right thing (for himself). 

Maybe his head hurts because he hits the floor but I don't think he's ashamed of what he did. Maybe he's just angry with himself for not being able to go with his plan and how if he hadn't done some things he wouldn't be sitting there.

I mean, he goes to Arendelle looking for the throne because he can't be anyone back home. He was almost there and he lost it all. I don't think most people feel pity for him but his world kinda crumbles down in a few minutes. Whatever his brothers will do to him about his actions and crimes.

[arendellekingdom]

Where do they talk about the deleted scene with Hans and the broken sword? I can't remember a source for that.

There isn’t a video nor an article, this is from the coloring books and Novelization that came out on October 1st— close to two months before the movie came out. This scene was part of the movie but it was one of the last details they fixed before the movie was released on November 27th. 

This is an actual part from the Novelization book:

[…] In that instant, Anna’s entire body froze, turning into solid ice. Hans’ sword came down on full strength on her body. The sword shattered! Hans reacted in angry astonishment as jagged pieces of steel fell into the snow. 

At the sound of the sword, Elsa turned… and saw Anna’s frozen body, one arm raised to shied her sister. 

"Anna!" Elsa cried. She jumped up and threw her arms around her unseeing sister. "Oh Anna" she said, weeping. "No! please no!" Elsa sobbed, hugging her frozen figure. 

Behind her, Hans was fuming. He quickly picked up his broken sword and started to swing it at Elsa., but Kristoff ran at him just in time. He hit Hans right on the jaw and knocked him down. There would be no second blow from Hans. 

(later he receives Anna’s punch too)

And this is a picture from the coloring books (back in the day, I’m not sure if you can still get a book with this picture)

This scene was deleted because Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck thought that it was too violent and that it broke with the angst of Anna freezing and Elsa's pain and mourning.