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What's your opinion on Kristoff?

Good heavens! Are you people ever interested in a Hansanna fangirl’s opinions of Kristoff, or what!?

Seriously tho, I’ve discussed Kristoff in bits and pieces on many scattered asks before (for some reason I get a lot of Kristoff related asks) but perhaps it’s time I nailed down my thoughts.

I happen to really love Kristoff.

There. I said it. However, I also happen to think he works better as a friend and not as Anna’s love interest.

Voice work is wonderful. Jonathan Groff does a fantastic job with voicing Kristoff. Also love Kristoff’s character design. I like that doughy yet beefy build, and it certainly doesn’t hurt that they gave Kristoff the exact same colour of eyes as my husband…not that I’m sucker for that or anything. 🤫

Where to start on Kristoff…

Weird tidbit that has always stuck with me about kidlet Kristoff: I had no idea he didn’t have a family. I saw Frozen opening night in the theatre and legit thought he was out harvesting ice with his Dad and family in the cold opening, and suddenly a f***ing troll decides she’s keeping him because he’s cute. I mean, he IS cute, but I really wish Disney had made it clearer that he was an orphan, because ‘heavily pregnant with second child’ me was horrified that he had just been abducted within the first few minutes of the film.

Anyways…

I think Kristoff behaved like a total and complete asshole when Anna meets him at Oaken’s. You know how people love to hate Hans because he reminds people of their ex-boyfriends? No one ever talks about what an entitled DICK Kristoff is in Oaken’s shop. Ever worked in retail or the service industry? I have. Kristoff is THAT customer.

Poor Oaken, dude has a little ‘mom-and-pop’ shop set up in the middle of nowhere and has a large family to support. He’s pleasant, helpful and polite AND totally undeserving of the way Kristoff treats him. Heck, Kristoff is even a total dick to Anna.

Kristoff shows up, shoves his way to the front of the line by using intimidation tactics on Anna. He deliberately gets into her personal space and silently stares down at her, using his height and build to intimidate. He doesn’t ask her to move politely out of his way. He demands that she does. Even though Anna is the first customer, and already engaged with Oaken. Kristoff can’t even wait his turn! Then he demands a cheaper price for the goods he’s purchasing. When Oaken calmly and politely explains why his prices are what they are (a perfectly reasonable explanation btw, he does have a family to support) Kristoff calls him a crook and threatens violence.

After Oaken throws him out, Kristoff then squats in the man’s barn!? Wtaf, Kristoff!? The trolls did a shitty job teaching him manners.

To further Kristoff’s shitty behaviour, he refuses to help Anna, the Crown Princess of Arendelle. She has to bribe him to help her, even though she’s royalty and it’s his duty as an Arendelle citizen to give aid. Kristoff is just that much of a dick, especially since his livelihood would be saved by helping her.

Another thing no one ever talks about is how Kristoff was going to abandon Anna in the mountains after his sled is destroyed. At this point, he knows damn well who she is. She is Arendelle’s Crown Princess, and he is absolutely willing to leave her in the mountains, alone, at night, in the middle of a freak winter with wolves about, knowing she will perish. It’s Sven who convinces him to continue helping. The ‘she’ll die if you don’t’-‘I’m okay with that’ conversation, anyone? God bless Jiminy Cricket Sven!

By now you’re probably trying to figure out why I love Kristoff, because I just spent a huge chunk of time breaking down what a complete ass he is when we meet him again as an adult. But that’s the thing—I love that we get to see Kristoff like that. That we get to meet Kristoff when he isn’t that great of a guy, when he’s at his least perfect and most human. Kristoff is the most realistic character in the movie. I’d argue he’s the most realistically portrayed human in a Disney film. Period. You could plop him into the real world and he’d fit right in. Because of this, he keeps the audience grounded, he keeps Anna grounded. He’s the critical voice of reason that both Anna and the audience benefit from.

It’s obvious that Kristoff is not keen on human interaction, and it shows…oh man, does it show, so it’s fascinating to watch the effect Anna has on him. She’s a total people person, and he is the exact opposite. And yet because Anna is this force of nature in determination, impulsiveness and positively, Kristoff can’t help but get swept up in it all, and it’s so great to watch their friendship bloom. I loved the ‘Kristoff and Anna traipsing through the mountains’ buddy movie we got. I wish it had stayed that way.

Both of them need their friendship and I love the way it unfolds. Anna is a great friend for Kristoff, and Kristoff is a great friend for Anna. They compliment each other’s characters so perfectly.

These are two people who because of their families have been rather isolated, and don’t have many (if any in Anna’s case) friends. In a movie that plays loneliness and longing as one of its main themes, the platonic friendship between Anna and Kristoff was really something special, and immensely important. Especially for Anna who as far as we see in the film has no real friends.

While I do argue that Hans is Anna’s first friend outside the palace (maybe ever), Hans is quickly upgraded to love interest, leaving the best friend role open to someone else—Kristoff. Except that role was reserved for Elsa despite already having the familial role of sister. Disney decided that Kristoff also needed the upgrade to love interest, which I felt diminished the relationship they had established in the film and pushed it to something I just didn’t see portrayed as genuine.

Now that isn’t to say the affection and romantic interest isn’t there on Kristoff’s side. It is. Some of my favourite moments in the film are watching the slow realization from Kristoff that he like-likes Anna. And this is where we get to see Kristoff at his absolute freaking best, and also when I fell in love with his character.

Because Kristoff respects Anna’s choices.

He may not agree with them, but that doesn’t matter. He respects them anyway. Kristoff knows Anna is into Hans, and not once does he ever encroach on that. Sure, he likes her, but he knows that she doesn’t feel the same way about him and he understands that, content to just be Anna’s friend. Aside from Hans, who had dubious reasons, Kristoff is the only character who respects Anna’s agency and allows her to make her own choices, be them good or bad.

Even during the end climax when Sven convinces Kristoff to go back to the palace and tell Anna how he really feels about her, Kristoff still retains his respect for Anna’s decisions. He’s not going to try and ‘win her away from Hans’, he’s going because Anna’s friendship is important to him and for it to continue, he has to tell her the truth about how he feels, even when (at this point in the film) he knows perfectly well that he’ll be rejected. Kristoff values his friendship with Anna that much that he’s willing to have his heart crushed. Pretty big deal for a guy who has been hurt enough in the past to sing, ‘Reindeers Are Better Than People’.

I feel the need to address my stance on Anna and Kristoff’s romance while I’m here, since I’ve stated that while I love Kristoff, I’d rather he wasn’t Anna’s love interest.

I loved that Kristoff was making a love confession for the sake of the friendship rather than trying to get her to be his. That he thought being friends with Anna was that worth it, and that even though he was interested in her, the friendship meant more to him than a romantic relationship.

This is why I say that I think Kristoff is better as a friend than a love interest for Anna. The two need this friendship as is. It doesn’t need to be more. It’s perfect already. Especially with the messy break up with Hans. We, as the audience, never get to see Anna fall in love with Kristoff with the same care we see him fall for her, and frankly, that’s a disservice to Kristoff. Instead what we get is Olaf (and I’ve already addressed how much I hate this) deciding for Anna that Kristoff is her true love. Not to mention he steals Kristoff’s thunder telling Anna this. I would have much rather it come from Kristoff, but I understand storytelling-wise why it wasn’t done that way. Story tension and all that.

Anyway, having the movie end with them in a relationship felt so cheap because we never got to see Anna fall for Kristoff. Suddenly it was like ‘oh, I love Kristoff now even though I spent almost the whole film in love with Hans.’ It plays like a rebound relationship from Anna’s end. We never get to see Anna recover from her heartbreak with Hans properly. Instead, she just jumps onto the next available guy. It was a careless move, and one that makes Anna look fickle and boy-crazy.

What’s worse in this relationship is that in the two shorts that follow, the relationship still looks stale. Anna still appears to treat Kristoff rather platonically than romantically. She never seems to be in it 100% like Kristoff is, and this is because the focus is ALWAYS on the sister relationship. The writers are way more interested in Elsa and Anna’s relationship as sisters than Anna’s romance with Kristoff. And because of that the romance angle suffers and just doesn’t look right. Whereas if Kristoff and Anna had just remained friends, Anna being way more affectionate with Elsa isn’t an issue. But when you have Anna way more invested in her sister than her boyfriend…well, it looks weird and disingenuous.