History Main / TheSnowQueen

* ''Animation/TheSnowQueen2012'', a CGI movie animated in Russia.

* ''Animation/TheSnowQueen2012'', a CGI movie animated in Russia, but dubbed into English to reach a wider audience.

* ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', a fairy tale by Creator/HansChristianAnderson.

* ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', a fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson.

* ''Anime/TheSnowQueen1977'', a very rare 1977 anime adaptation. It aired as part of Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi.

* See also WinterRoyalLady and DefrostingIceQueen.

* ''Anime/TheSnowQueen'', a 2005 Japanese animated version of the fairy tale.

* ''Anime/TheSnowQueen'', a Japanese animated version of the fairy tale.

* ''Animation/TheSnowQueen'', a CGI movie animated in Russia, but dubbed into English to reach a wider audience.

* ''Movie/TheSnowQueen'', a CGI movie animated in Russia, but dubbed into English to reach a wider audience.

* The first novel of ''Literature/TheSnowQueenSeries'', a ScienceFiction series by Creator/JoanDVinge.

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''Snow Queen'' (Danish: Snedronningen) is a fairy tale by author HansChristianAndersen (1805–1875) first published in 1845.

The story begins with a tale of an evil troll, actually the devil himself, making a magic mirror that has the power to distort the appearance of things reflected in it. It fails to reflect all the good and beautiful aspects of people and things while it magnifies all the bad and ugly aspects so that they look even worse than they really are. While attempting to carry the mirror into heaven with the idea of making fools of the angels and God, it slips from the troll's grasp and falls back to earth where it shatters into billions of pieces — some no larger than a grain of sand. These splinters are blown around and get into people's hearts and eyes, making them only see the bad and ugly in people and things.

Years later, a little boy, Kai, and a little girl, Gerda, live next door to each other in a large city. Their grandmother tells them of the legendary ''Snow Queen'', ruler of bee-like creatures made of snow. Shortly thereafter, Kai is struck by the shards in the heart and eye. Later he runs afoul of the Snow Queen, who causes him to forget everything and takes him back to her castle. Once Gerda learns of this, she sets out to find him - not an easy task.

Many movie adaptations and pop culture references have been made in honor of this work, one of them a Soviet Russian animated movie, which made HayaoMiyazaki believe that working in animation was worth it after all. Disney has their own version in the works, apparently titled ''Frozen'', following the lead of ''{{Enchanted}}'' and ''{{Tangled}}''. The Snow Queen is also the antagonist of the third installment of the ''DarkParables'' PC game series. And JoanDVinge adapted it into a [[HugoAward Hugo-winning]] science-fantasy novel in 1980.

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!!Tropes associated with this work:

* AccentuateTheNegative: People who get a shard of the magic mirror in their eye or heart do this UpToEleven.
* AnIcePerson
* AnimatedAdaptation: A Russian version made in 1957, for one, which actually received 2 different English dubs. There is also an anime adaptation.
** And then there's the Queen Nehellenia arc in ''SailorMoon''...
* AntagonistTitle
* AutomatonHorse: Sadly averted with Gerda's poor reindeer.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* DarkIsNotEvil: One cinematic adaptation had the demon/troll/whatever that created the mirror doing so in order to show mankind how rotten it is, and heavily regreted having created it when it broke.
** ''Faerie Tale Theatre's'' version implied that the Snow Queen took Kay to give him the opportunity to save him from himself. She also takes care of that troll at the end...
* DeadpanSnarker: The talking polar bear in the Bridget Fonda version has his moments of this.
* {{Determinator}}: Gerda
* DidNotDoTheResearch: Unless they're being widely misquoted, Disney is apparently under the impression that Gerda is a princess (then again, we all know how loose their definition of "princess" is).
* DistressedDude
* TheDoctorDolittle: Gerda
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EngagementChallenge: The princess' search for an intelligent husband.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold
* EyeScream: It's not played for {{squick}}, but the story does start with a little boy getting a shard of mirror ''in his eye''.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Gerda
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* GreenThumb: Gerda can talk to plants as easily as animals, although flowers don't have much worthwhile to say.
* GrimUpNorth
* HairOfGold: Both Kai and Gerda; becomes important when Gerda wonders if a golden-haired boy she hears about who just became engaged to a princess could be Kai.
* HappilyEverAfter
* HeartTrauma
* [[TheHerosJourney The Hero's Journey]]
* IcePalace: Of course a WinterRoyalLady has to own one.
* IdentityAmnesia: The Snow Queen makes Kai forget his home and family; Gerda runs into a sorceress on her quest who does the same to her for awhile.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Gerda meets a princess whose choice in husband resembles this trope.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Possibly the Robber Girl
* KissOfDeath: The Snow Queen herself can kill with three kisses; the first two just mess with your head.
* MagicMirror
* TheMessiah: Gerda
* MistakenIdentity: Gerda initially thinks the Prince is Kai.
* NoNameGiven: Many -- the Princess, the Prince, the Robber Girl...
* PluckyGirl
* ThePowerOfLove
* RavensAndCrows
* RescueRomance: [[ToyShip Maybe]]...
* SomethingAboutARose
* SwissArmyTears
* TheVamp: The Snow Queen
** Which makes her one of the few (presumably) non-sexual vamps.
* WalkingTheEarth: Only the coldest parts of it, that is.
* WinterRoyalLady
* YearOutsideHourInside: In the old woman's garden.

* LesYay: Gerda and the Robber Girl; some translations even show the girl later doubting Kai is worth "going to the ends of the Earth for."

* JamesBondage