The Duke of Weaselton

## Villain Description

### Goals

Take over Arendelle and its riches by assassinating Queen Elsa and Princess Anna (failed)

### Hobbies

Showboating
Scheming
Manipulating rich people

### Powers

Manipulation
Control over bodyguards

### Type of Villain

Corrupt Golddigger

**The Duke of Weselton** is a major antagonist in the Frozen franchise, serving as the overarching antagonist of the 2013 Disney animated film *Frozen* and a minor antagonist in *Frozen II*.

He is the sociopathic and tyrannical ruler of Weselton, and one of Arendelle's favorite trade partners. Invited to Queen Elsa's coronation, he plots to overthrow her, and steal her riches and throne.

He was voiced by Alan Tudyk.

## History

### Entering Arendelle

In the movie, he starts up hiding his true self and pretending to like Elsa and Anna, while he really wants to chase Elsa away by unlocking her and her kingdom's secrets, control the place and transport the riches to his country. He later offers Elsa a dance in order to take the crown, but Elsa states that her sister does, making him dance with Anna. Without Anna feeling, he asks her if she knows the reason why Elsa closed these gates up to now, and that shows he knows Elsa is hiding something you can take advantage of. Anna replies she doesn't know and stops dancing with him, but the greedy duke, wanting to brainwash Anna into talking more about it, says that if she wants another dance she will get one.

### The Duke's Plan Success

Later, Elsa gets angry at Anna, she soon shows her snow powers, and the duke smiles and whispers to his guards that he knew there was something dubious he could take advantage of. Elsa then runs to the outdoors of the castle, but the duke then frightens Elsa by ordering the thugs to stop her. The plan goes even better when she by mistake almost freezes the duke. The duke then says once monster softly while not looking shocked, revealing it is still part of the plan, and then shouts loudly monster in order to chase her away and celebrate victory on his plan. Later, he watches Anna and Hans running after Elsa while looking quite happy about what is happening. When Anna comes past him he asks her if she has sorcery in her too in order to chase her away. Anna replies that there is no danger in herself or in Elsa and then Hans, contacting the duke at first, says Anna is completely ordinary, caring about her, and to not hurt her feelings says in the best way. The duke says she nearly killed him, in order to make Anna feel guilty and go looking for her. When Anna tells Hans she will go looking for her, the duke quietly whispers to his guard "yes!" meaning the plan is working also on Anna. Hans suggests to Anna to take him with but Anna puts him in charge of Arendelle, the city he wants to protect, and the duke gets angry for wanting to control Arendelle himself. He then looks at Anna leaving on her horse, not looking scared, expecting her to get killed as well on the way.

### The Duke Recalculating Plans

After the duke starts thinking that Anna and Elsa are dead, the duke has time to get Hans against the citizens. He tells Hans not to waste his tradable goods, while not caring about the citizens. However, Hans angrily says Anna has given him orders to protect Arendelle. The duke tries to brainwash Hans into believing that Elsa is a monster and that Anna has teamed up with her. However, Hans doesn't believe it and says that he will not even think about handing Arendelle to a traitor.

After that, Anna's horse comes back, making the duke shocked about them being still alive. Hans starts realizing Anna is still alive but in trouble, and that makes him want volunteers. The duke sends his thugs to volunteer with the order to kill Elsa. When prince Hans goes with all his guards and the two thugs to Elsa's castle in order to ask Elsa if she has seen Anna, the duke’s thugs who came with try to complete the duke's mission. Hans tells the thugs not to kill Elsa, but they don't listen and hunt her anyway. Hans, while fighting Marshmallow, sees the two thugs running into Elsa's castle in order to try and kill her. Hans then comes in after a big fight and sees Elsa is guilty, telling her not to be the monster the citizens fear she is. When the duke's thug, stuck between ice walls, tries to shoot Elsa with a bow and arrow, Hans tries to shoot it up and miss her. But the arrow hits the crystal lamp at the top of the castle, and the lamp falls onto Elsa. Hans later from fear arrests Elsa while she's fainted, and tries to reason with her. When Elsa says she can't stop winter, the duke plotted with Hans.

### Getting Punished

When Anna came back, the duke looked at Hans in the eyes. It was revealed as the signal for Hans taking an act once he replied to the duke that something in the plan is wrong. While Hans revealed his true nature towards Anna, the duke prepared the dignitaries for the plan, making them believe the fake conversation about Anna's death. They are convinced that Elsa should be punished, and because of the duke, the royal guards went to kill Elsa. He then watches Hans trying to kill Elsa, making sure his plans haven’t failed. But Anna saves Elsa and the duke gets unhappy and is later discovered as a criminal as he goes back to jail in his own country, Weselton. After he was put into jail, no money or tradable goods are sent to Weselton by decree of Arendelle.

### Aftermath

After several years of happiness and joy in Arendelle, Elsa goes on her journey through the spirit world as the spirits at one point guide her through her past. One of the spirits reminds Elsa of her oldest foe, The Duke. He dances with Anna just before Elsa destroys him with her magic, much to her amusement. That was all before Elsa had to discover and find out about King Runeard, who is even worse than The Duke himself.

## Personality

He is evil, cold, wicked, cruel, ambitious, and monstrous, as all he cared about is money and power, and as he would do anything to achieve his goals. Seeing the opportunity to kill Elsa, he took advantage of her powers, actually scaring the public and intending to control them. Near the end, it was revealed that his panic was only to get Elsa into trouble, as he found excuses to stay away from jail, and he was anyway arrested for his crimes. He was at one point proven to show some tragic emotions when he actually pretended to cry about Anna's death. However, he did so only to prove Elsa was a monster. Sending his two guards to help Hans find Elsa and secretly kill her, he had no emotions or excuses, as that was a very bright part of his true nature.

## Most Evil Acts

* Attempted to usurp and assassinate Elsa and Anna, and staged an attack on them
* Convinced Hans to turn to the dark side and turned him against Anna
* Caused chaos in the kingdom
* Incriminated Elsa

## Trivia

* He is similar to Turbo/King Candy from *Wreck it Ralph*; they both have the same voice actor (Alan Tudyk) and they both intend to usurp a kingdom and are very charismatic and comical villains.
* He is overall the main antagonist of the film. However, near the end, he is outranked by Hans, who is far more ambitious than him, thus turning into a bigger bad at the film's climax.
* He is similar to King Stefan from *Maleficent*; they are both manipulative and powerful tyrants who care only about power and money. They both intend to keep terminating any form of sorcery or witchcraft, as an excuse for usurping their kingdom.
	+ However, The Duke of Weselton was only an imposter, while Stefan was more of a delusional and overprotective anti-hero, who intended to keep his daughter Aurora happy and safe.
* The Duke of Weselton is a mysterious character and is often thought to be driven by fear. However, it wasn't really true, as he did mention he wants to use the queen's secrets and riches, and as he did stick to his plan, asking Anna about Elsa's secrets, incriminating Elsa for her use of secret powers, and finally trying to kill Elsa with no remorse, and pretending to cry as he quickly agreed to Hans's ideas. In the end, he was sent to detention in his own land, as a result of his actions, and he did find excuses to remain all-powerful, and outside the jail.
* He is very similar to Scar from *The Lion King*, they are both greedy and power-hungry masterminds who intend to usurp a kingdom and manipulate its public officials to gain control. They both try and kill the king/queen, and they both eventually chase the hero out of the kingdom, in order to rule.
* The Duke of Weselton has a parody counterpart made by Disney's company in the 2016 film *Zootopia*. The character Duke Weaselton is based on his appearance and is meant to look funnier.
* He appears as one of the major antagonists in the TV show *Once Upon a Time*, as he is simply called Duke.
* He has much more of a dark, sadistic, and ruthless nature than Hans. However, King Runeard is much darker, more sadistic, and ruthless than either of them combined for being psychologically abusive towards his family and waging a war on the Northuldra which resulted in bloodshed from both sides.

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