Frozen once had a much darker ending, but let it go

“So when we started off, Anna and Elsa were not sisters,” Peter Del Vecho told the magazine. “They weren’t even royal. So Anna was not a princess. Elsa was a self-proclaimed Snow Queen, but she was a villain and pure evil—much more like the Hans Christian Andersen tale. We started out with an evil female villain and an innocent female heroine and the ending involved a big epic battle with snow monsters that Elsa had created as her army…” In this version, Elsa was a Miss Havisham-type who turned herself nasty because she got spurned by the man she was going to marry, and Kristoff got a “Han Solo moment.” However, it’s worth noting that Frozen was always anti-shitty boyfriend: Hans remained a dick even as the rest of the story evolved. You can read the full extent of the scrapped plans over at EW.

But the most important part about all of this is that, if Disney had followed the original plot, there probably wouldn’t have been a place for “Let It Go.” Yes, we acknowledge that to some this wouldn’t be all that bad, but, please, think of Idina Menzel’s career.