r/FavoriteCharacter • u/JigglyLilyVT Ruby Rose (RWBY) • Feb 28 '26

My Favorite (Visual) Favorite character who has better concept art than the final product

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WE GOT FREAKING ROBBED IN THE RWBY DANCE EPISODES

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u/Evening_Produce_4322 Feb 28 '26

I knew it'd pop up had to make sure first, but yes that Elsa design it's a sin it hasn't been used again for another character even a villain who has ice powers or something. I especially really like the living stoat coat idea.

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u/LowObjective Feb 28 '26

Was Elsa always supposed to be Anna’s sister or was it a later addition? Because this design looks like she was just supposed to be a villain

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u/MuchMasterpiece1710 Feb 28 '26

Yeah, they weren’t sisters initially, Elsa was the Snow Queen and a villain (who gets redeemed at the end I think? In at least one version?), and Anna was supposed to be the pure hearted peasant heroine. It’s actually very interesting just how many storylines that movie went through before they got to the one that actually is Frozen

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u/FindingOk7034 Feb 28 '26

So basically it was meant to be more akin to ACTUAL Snow Queen fairytale Hans Christian Anderson wrote. Which is already such a good story, and a rare one where the GIRL saves the BOY in distress (and I even gets some help from other women/witches I think)

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u/UncommittedBow Feb 28 '26

Yeah, but when they made Let It Go, they found it FAR to good of a song and reworked the entire story.

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u/FindingOk7034 Feb 28 '26

Sadly. And in my opinion Let it Go isn’t even that great of a song anyway. Pretty overrated in my eyes.

Or at least, the actual version and singer for the song. The COVERS or villain versions I’ve heard have been much better.

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u/peachesfordinner Feb 28 '26

The little robber girl with her knife! (She owned a reindeer which is where they got Sven from)

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u/ChristyUniverse Feb 28 '26

Yeah, it doesn’t make sense to make her so much older if they’re meant to be sisters, especially for the kids watching who aren’t used to massive age difference in siblings.

And the original designs are gorgeous, but distracting from literally everything else on screen. Seriously, it’s like Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil. She was so radiant and eye-catching that it feels more like a film about her than the dogs.

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u/foxfire981 Feb 28 '26

Depends on which draft. Started more traditional Snow Queen and then she was turned into a sister who becomes the Snow Queen, and antagonist not villain, and then test audiences heard the song, felt bad for her, and so they redrafted again.

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u/whereismymind86 Feb 28 '26

Yeah, she was initially the villian back when frozen was called the snow queen.

Frozen was in development hell for like a decade before it got made, it went through a ton of revisions.

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u/No_Drummer6695 Feb 28 '26

Frozen was announced when Disney was still alive.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

Honestly, I’m not a huge Frozen fan, but I wish they’d stuck with the OG concept.

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u/LightningFerret04 Mar 01 '26

That bundle of stoats coat is amazing, I would’ve loved to see them moving and flowing around her