#someone in the comments called it a selfless greed and yeah that really is it

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homestly im pleasantly surprised by this chapters comparison between delkira and iruma being abt how DIFFERENT they are rather than their similarities

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Why Was Hans the “Bad Guy”?

So I just saw Frozen 2 with my younger sister (one of the few sequels she has ever gone to willing see lol) and it was really good in my opinion. The story had a lot more depth than the first one, even if some points were more predictable than others.

What I was not expecting was the whole Hans-hating fest during the charades game. I thought to myself “Really Disney? We gonna do this? Was this really necessary?”

When we got home, we decided to watch Frozen again for the first time in forever and those same thoughts came to me about halfway through the movie.

Why was Prince Hans the bad guy?

Now, before people start yelling at me in the comments, let me lay some things down for you. First, this has nothing to do with whether or not I am a Helsa shipper, nor am I going to just be listing the reasons why Hans is the bad guy.

No, I am going to talk about why Hans of all people had to be a bad guy in the first place. Why was this necessary? We already had an antagonist in the Duke of Westelton, who made a much more compelling villain in the first place (at least in my opinion). An old, greedy man who plans on taking advantage of a new, young queen. A man driven by his greed and fear, and encourages others to join him in that fear-mongering.

So why did Hans have to suddenly become the villain? Why couldn’t he just be the nice man who tries to help out Anna with the kingdom after Elsa runs away? Who goes after the princess when her horse returns without her. Who stops Elsa from killing her attackers.

Why did Disney and the creators of Frozen feel it was absolutely necessary to make Prince Hans, who simply wanted to escape his own cruel family, into a cruel man himself?

Here’s an idea. What if Hans wasn’t the villain. What if he was simply a young prince looking for a place to call home. He meets Anna, a naïve yet brave and selfless princess who’s next in line for the throne. Not bad for the 13th son. He quickly woos and charms her, but doesn’t propose yet because that would be way too suspicious.

The two sisters find another reason to argue and Elsa’s powers are revealed. Hans is shocked, just like everyone else, but is more surprised by Anna’s loyalty for her sister, who hasn’t shown that same love back in a long time. It’s so unbelievable to Hans, who has been hurt by his own family for just as long, that such a love could still exist. In fact, he doesn’t believe it and convinces Anna to take some guards with her, just for safety.

While Anna is away, Hans goes about as he does in the film, helping the citizens and keeping the Duke in his place. Now, I’m not sure what spurs Hans into going to the North Mountain, but he does just like in the movie.

It continues as it does in the movie, with Hans having the Duke’s men thrown into jail for attempting to kill Elsa, and tasking men to go look for the Duke himself, who has gone into hiding since he plans failed. Anna arrives with her frozen heart, and Hans does try to help her, but it doesn’t work obviously, and he has her placed in her room to try and keep her warm.

Olaf wanders in (no idea why he decided to, he’s Olaf) and tries to comfort Anna like in the film. He makes an off-hand comment about Anna going to see Elsa in the dungeons, which prompts him to explain that he overheard someone mention it or can sense where Elsa is. And Anna decides to go see her, cause if she’s gonna die, she’s going to spend her last moments with the person she loves most and tell her just that.

(This may or may not stop the freezing a bit, or just it to thaw just a tad. But Anna doesn’t notice it.)

Suddenly there’s a commotion by the fjord; in her fear and panic Elsa has broken free from the dungeon, but the Westelton men are now also free and they’re going to put an end to this winter once and for all. Olaf tries to stop them, while Anna goes in search of Hans; or anyone really, Hans is just the first one she finds. Hans tries to keep Anna from following, but she is not going to lose her sister again, not permanently. Inspired by this, and because Anna is just that stubborn, Hans goes with her, but they are separated in the storm.

The storm suddenly dies and there, consumed by her grief lies her beloved sister. But one of the guards is there also, a sword in hand and murder in his eyes. And Anna notices Kristoff is there, running towards her, but her sister is about to die and there’s no way Anna’s letting that happen.

So yeah, she steps between Elsa and the man, turning into ice. And then she’s thawed, Elsa thaws Arendelle, the Duke and his men are arrested and everyone lives happily ever after. Hans decides not to propose to Anna but promises to visit Arendelle and hopes they can remain friends.

The End.

See. I just told the entire plot of Frozen with very few charges aside from Hans not being the villain and it’s essentially the same movie. Making Hans a villain added nothing to the story at all. Nadda. Zilch. Zippo.

So I ask again, why was Hans the bad guy? I have no idea. The best answer I can come up with is from articles stating Hans became a villain around the same Elsa was made a protagonist. When Elsa was changed from antagonist to protagonist, I guess the creators felt they had to make another, pre-existing character the villain. But, we already had one in the Duke.

To end this, I will simply state that again, this isn’t an article for or against Hans. This is simply me trying to make sense of a decision that I felt was unnecessary and showing people why I think so.