Kristoff

Arendelle's Official Ice Master and Deliverer *(referred by Anna, title given by Elsa)*

### Relatives

Bulda *(adoptive mother)*
Cliff *(adoptive father)*
Grand Pabbie *(adoptive grandfather)*

### Affiliation

Arendelle
Kingdom of Ten

## Physical description

### Species

Human
Legendary Pureblood *(past life)*

### Gender

Male

**Kristoff** is the adopted grandson of Grand Pabbie and the boyfriend of Princess Anna of Arendelle. He is a Sámi ice harvester who later becomes the travel companion and love interest of Princess Anna, during the events of her quest to find Elsa the Snow Queen. He is also the host for the reincarnated hero: Christian Banks.

## Personality

During his first proper introduction, Kristoff is presented as a miserly loner, with a lack of respect for those around him—specifically in terms of personal boundaries and sensitivity. This is a direct result of growing up with a family of mythical creatures and wildlife, as opposed to other humans. Though his upbringing included a large family, and at least one close friend, Kristoff tends to look out, mostly, for himself, and can be rather selfish from time to time because of this, with his focus primarily on his ice business and life up on the mountains. The ice harvesters spent a large portion of his early life within the mountains because of this, becoming a individualist and avid survivor in the wilderness, and constantly proving himself to be self-reliant and efficient when facing various perils throughout the course of the original film.

In spite of his loner nature, and dislike for society, Kristoff
has a loving heart, and at his core, is rather harmless, innocent, and
protective. This is first evidenced by his relationship with his
reindeer and best friend, Sven, whom he treats as his pet and closest
friend, and is shown to value the reindeer's life above his own several
times. Kristoff's inner softness and loving aura is further emphasized
by his family, the trolls, who reveal Kirstoff to be, despite his
various flaws and shortcomings, sensitive and sweet when given the same
treatment, which he proves through his friendship, and eventual
relationship with Anna.

Through Anna, Kristoff is shown to be loving, respectful, and
completely selfless and sacrificial. Eventually falling for the
princess' fun-loving nature, selflessness, and persistence, Kristoff
allows himself to open up to the world around him, revealing himself to
be rather bashful and quirky, mirroring Anna's personality. Also as a
result of his love for Anna, Kristoff is willing to risk his own life
and happiness, without hesitation, all in hopes of the former's own
happiness. This ties into a pivotal line featured in the film: "Love is
putting someone else's needs before yours..."; which was directly used
to reference Kristoff's willingness to conceal his affections for Anna,
for the sake of the princess' possible future with another. He also
mirrors Anna in his quirkiness, best evidenced by his relationship with
Sven, as the two have been shown to nonchalantly share food, "sing"
duets, and engage in "conversations". The latter examples are driven by
Kristoff's habit to literally voice Sven's thoughts in a gruff, goofy,
exaggerated tone—a further example of his peculiar traits.

Quite notably, midst a cast of colorful and larger-than-life
characters in a world to match, Kristoff appears to be more of a
straight-man, reacting to the various, mystical situations he and the
other characters encounter, with a generally down-to-earth viewpoint.
Though not pessimist, he acts more of a realist, in regards to this,
though his care for others ultimately leads to him performing
death-defying acts for the greater good.

In the sequel short, *Frozen Fever*, Kristoff's softer side is shown to have grown, and become a more
prominent side of his personality. With Anna's sister, Elsa, he is shown to be fairly laid-back, comforting, and encouraging, looking on the brighter side of a situation, no matter the level of importance. Nevertheless, he is still shown to become flustered around Anna, as a result of his affections for her.

## Appearances

Kristoff's build is a distinct variation on most male leads in Disney animated features (Hans is a perfect example of the traditional stature). On the flip side, Kristoff has broad shoulders and a muscular build. His build is a realistic consequence of his rough life as a mountain-dwelling ice harvester.

Kristoff is rugged and 21 years old, the same age as Elsa, at the
 time of the movie. Like the sisters, he has blond hair (more golden
than Anna's strawberry-blonde hair, but not as pale as Elsa's platinum
blonde hair) which is later described as "unmanly" by the trolls (in the
 song "Fixer Upper").
 He also has light brown eyes, and fair skin with a few freckles across
his nose. His nose is quite big and his cheeks tend to redden a lot,
because of the cold weather.

At the beginning of the film (when he is a child), his outfit
consists of a royal purple long-sleeved shirt, dark trousers and a
purple sash. When we next see him as an adult, he is wearing a thick
dark tunic with a fur-lined burgundy dark crimson collar and a blue
patch on his right elbow, a burgundy sash tied around his waist, a dark
blue long-sleeved undershirt, olive mittens, thick dark trousers, a dark
 bobble-hat (which he later gives to Anna when she is freezing to death)
 and fur-lined dark brown boots with pointed toes. At the end of the
film, he wears pretty much the same outfit, minus the thick tunic and
gloves, because it has become much warmer.

## On Yen Sid's Team

Two years after Elsa mastered her powers and after Anna's Birthday, Kristoff was happy that Elsa was able to figure out her powers and that everything was back when it used to be, when everyone was happy as Anna and Elsa spend time together, and everyone were enjoying their time for they have their Queen now. But one night, when everyone was asleep, Kristoff was told to go to the Arendelle Palace and see what was the trouble by Grand Pabbie. When he got at the courtyard, he heard a noise.

When he saw Anna and Elsa standing there while the creatures are in front of them, he ran over to them so he can protect them. But, while he was running over to them, another figure came in with four more figures that helped the first figure, which happened to be their leader, to fight the others. Once the creatures were all gone, Elsa thanked their leader for their save.

Once the figure removed the hood, their leader happened to be a girl instead of a boy. He was wowed that it was a girl who saved Elsa's and Anna's life, not a boy. As he turned to Anna and Elsa to see if they were okay, he saw that Elsa started to blush hard than she ever had, indicating that he realizes that his friend and queen was in love with a girl she just met. And when he met the other members, he saw that two of them were girls and two of them were boys: Danny Fenton, Hiccup Haddock, Raven Queen, and Tinkerbell.

As Andrea and her team were about to leave, Elsa asked if she needed anymore members of her team, much to his shock. As Andrea stopped in her tracks, she made a deal with her: If Elsa and her sister would join their team to save kingdoms and lives, then she, Andrea Garcia, will have one of
her shape-shifters to take her place so everyone won't panic that the
Queen and Princess are gone, in addition, the clones will have memory of
 everything from Elsa and Anna's past. Elsa accepted the deal, and both Elsa and Anna, including him, have been turned into simple rulers to a hero and two heroines of
Yen Sid's Team of Heroes and Heroines.

Once on the team, Andrea had been taking him to a garden that he found so familiar. He asked why they were there, and Andrea said that the garden was once Christian Banks' flower garden where he made lovely flowers to give to Annabelle Artemis, her girlfriend's sister. Realizing that he might be the Christian Banks she was talking about, he started to feel possessed when he heard the name; proving he was Christian Banks.

## Trivia

* Ice Harvesting is a seasonal occupation that does best during

the summer months; men who take up such jobs often have problems finding
 enough money to live on during their 'off' season. It is implied that
Kristoff has no permanent place of residence and is financially
challenged. A line from *Disney on Ice Presents Frozen*, where
Kristoff says he comes from "nowhere in particular" suggests this.
Additionally, in original drafts, Kristoff only helped Anna out because
of the money.

* Across Europe, there are stories of Changelings and Fetches -

when Trolls steal a human child and replace them, sometimes with
fairies, and sometimes a log of enchanted wood that becomes 'sick' and
dies. The stories include that the Trolls were particularly attracted to
 blond hair and beauty, and often treated the stolen child as one of
their own. In return, they gave the child (sometimes the Changeling;
sometimes the Fetch) gifts such as strength, stamina, or an affinity for
 the wild. This is very similar to what happened to Kristoff, which
would make him a Fetch (the stolen child).

* According to the director/writer Jennifer Lee, Kristoff is 21, the same age as Elsa.
* It should be noted that Kristoff's current design is much like an early design for Flynn Rider from *Tangled*,

 known as "Bear Flynn" or "Bastion". That design was bulky,
largely-built, and that version of Flynn Rider was sweet and charming.
Later, Flynn became suave and dashing, while Kristoff is sweet and
introverted, but both are of the Loner archetype.

* Both Kristoff's voice actor (Jonathan Groff) and Elsa's voice actress (Idina Menzel) have been recurring characters on the FOX television series *Glee*.

 Groff played Jesse St. James, a love interest to the character of
Rachel Berry. Menzel played Rachel's mother, and the vocal coach of
Jesse's Glee Club, Vocal Adrenaline.

* Although it was not mentioned in the film, Kristoff's last

name, Bjorgman, was confirmed in the Essential Guide. In Scandinavian,
'Bjorg' means 'help' or 'salvation'.

* Due to time, a scene featuring Kristoff climbing, using his pickaxe all over the mountain cliffs, was deleted.
* Apparently, Kristoff does not have very good hygiene; in one of

 his voice-overs for Sven, "Sven" admits Kristoff does not smell better
than a reindeer. Also, the trolls mentions in the song "Fixer Upper"
that "though we know he washes well, he always ends up sort of smelly"
and how he "tinkles in the woods" and "has a couple of bugs." He also
shares carrots with Sven, allowing Sven to take a bite, then taking a
bite himself - when he is seen briefly in Arendelle with Sven, Sven
takes the *whole* carrot in his mouth, but Kristoff tells him to
share. Sven then spits part of the carrot out (now saliva-covered), and
Kristoff takes a bite from it.

* According to the book *Olaf and Sven on Thin Ice*,

Kristoff once fell into the frozen lake trying go get ice when he was
younger. After this, the other ice harvesters called him Icicle.

* Kristoff 'dubs' Sven saying "People will beat you and hurt you

and cheat you; every one of them's bad, except you." Sven seems to
agree. This strongly suggests that Kristoff has had some very bad
experiences with other humans.

* In the credits of *Frozen*, there is a disclaimer which

states that Kristoff's views are his own views and do not represent the
views of the filmmakers or The Walt Disney Company
 as inferred from when he asks Anna, "What if you hate the way he eats?
What if you hate the way he picks his nose?" Anna counters, "Excuse me,
sir, he is a *prince*!" Kristoff's response is "All men do it." The disclaimer reads as follows: "*The*
 views and opinions by Kristoff in the film that all men eat their
boogers are solely his own and do not necessarily reflect the views or
opinions of The Walt Disney Company or the filmmakers. Neither The Walt
Disney Company nor the filmmakers make any representation of the
accuracy of any such views and opinions.*"*

* Kristoff's involvement in the film's opening was used to

connect his story and ties with Anna early in the film, as it was her
actions (accidentally becoming injured and having to visit the trolls)
that led to Kristoff finding a permanent family. This would later
reciprocate with Kristoff aiding Anna in her quest to rekindle her bond
with Elsa.