10 Dark Storylines That Disney Movies Left Out
5. The Snow Queen kidnaps a boy corrupted by a broken satanic mirror
Frozen was supposedly inspired by the Hans Christian Andresen 1844 fairy tale The Snow Queen, although the story was altered to such an extent it bears little resemblance to the source material.
In the Anderson story, the Devil tries to take an evil magic mirror up to Heaven, but it shatters and pieces of it fall to Earth. A little boy named Kai gets shards of icy glass embedded in his eye and heart, which turn him cruel and aggressive (in a similarity to Elsa freezing Anna’s heart).
He encounters the Snow Queen (who Elsa is based on) who kisses him to numb him from the cold and a second time to make him forget his family. She tells him a third kiss would kill him, but she has things for him to do at her palace. She then kidnaps him and takes him to her ice palace.
His sister Gerda (who was the inspiration for Anna), at first thinking Kai had drowned in the river, sets off to rescue him and finds him in a catatonic state and blue with cold on a frozen lake. She kisses him, which causes him to remember her and cry, washing the splinter out of his eye and releasing him from the spell.