King Westergaard

King Westergaard is a minor antagonist in the Frozen franchise. He serves as one of the two unseen overarching antagonists of Disney film Frozen (alongside King Runeard) and the overarching antagonist of novel A Frozen Heart.
He is the tyrannical ruler of the Southern Isles and the abusive father of Hans and his other twelve brothers. His treatment towards Hans was the factor for him to become the villain of the film.
== Biography ==
Ruler of Southern Isles, King Westergaard was a very abusive ruler who mistreated his subjects and even his own royal family, seeing them simply as the expansion of his power in his country. He imposed harsh laws, and made that anyone who broke them was executed or severely punished.
Westergaard also incited his thirteen sons to become as evil and ruthless as himself, through torture and abuse. He was also uncaring to her wife, Queen Westergaard, completely taking her for granted, causing her to drown her sorrows in wine, while being forced to watch her husband torment their sons. Due to his abuse, most of the princes (including Prince Caleb, Rudi, and Runo) began to torment each other, and then start abusing their younger brother, Hans, the youngest of the princes. Hans was considered the outscasted of the family, as he didn't tend to share his father's views on Social Darwinism. As such, King Westergaard ordered all of his sons to pick on Hans for their own pleasure, in order to toughen him up, under the belief that the strongest should dominate the weakest.
Because of King Westergaard's treatment, Hans, knowing that he could never be king in the Southern Isles, he plans to move out of the Isles, to seek a kingdom to rule, in order to prove his worth as king. He sees his opportunity when Princess Elsa of Arendelle is about to be crowned queen. Westergaard lets Hans attend said event, yet reluctantly.
Hans forms a plan to marry Queen Elsa or her sister Anna, and then kill both of them to secure his new power as King of Arendelle. However, in the end, his plan fails and Hans is sent back to his nation to serve a punishment for his crimes. Given his status as a prince, King Westergaard didn't strip his son, and therefore gave him a lenient punishment, much to his chagrin, as shown in Frozen Fever.
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