Game Theory: The Frozen Level You Will NEVER Play! (Kingdom Hearts 3)

Remember when Elsa was going to be the villain of the story? No, I'm not talking about Frozen, the movie. I'm talking about the Frozen level of Kingdom Hearts 3. That's right, for the SECOND TIME Elsa's evil storyline was cut out. Don't believe me? Well, bundle up, this will be a cold journey!

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Writers: Matthew Patrick
Researcher: Geoff Thew
Editors: Dan "Cybert" Seibert and Tyler Mascola
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[reilie]

Considering the parallels between Elsa and Riku, Sora actually helping her overcome her inner darkness the way this theory describes would make a lot of sense considering the game's themes

[steakslapn]

I love at the end of the level, you are dropped into a non sense battle with a giant ice wolf ( which is actually an awesome boss fight) and Goofy says in a dubious tone, "Sora, are you sure this is gunna help Elsa?" To which he replies "I don't know... but we gotta do something..." As if to sum up what every one playing the level was thinking at that point.

[ericam]

This is too good. I’m now accepting this theory as Canon and rejecting the actual game level.

[thepyroghoul]

Disney: "Our movie is about an internal struggle and familial love"
Square: "Sweet, that's our speciality; we can make an arc where that shines through, no problem."
Disney: "No, actually, you can't."

[silverauron]

This is old but I just now finished playing the game, so, I'd like to add something that I don't see anyone talk about, in the beginning of the level, when Sora speaks to Elsa, an ice heartless appeared, but instead of attacking, it went to her and kinda bounced a bit, as if waiting for orders, and what do Heartless do usually? Listen to whoever has the strongest darkness in the near vicinity...

[diromiz]

Oh my god I SHOULD HAVE FIGURED THIS OUT MYSELF I literally said while I was playing through the ice labyrinth, 'how on earth did Larxene make this? it looks exactly like Elsa's ice architecture? this makes no sense??' and when I approached the ice palace later on, I said 'why on EARTH can't i explore the palace?? that is literally the one thing i was looking forward to'. But hearing you piece all this together, it just... makes SO MUCH SENSE.

[PKMNResearcherSkyler]

Elsa being a wolf also makes sense. There is the classic image of a lone wolf, but wolves usually live in packs. Elsa literally runs off to be a lone wolf, but it is her family, her pack, that brings her back and shows the good in her.

[hartplastikkaktus]

They could‘ve made Hans your team member, befriending Sora & co and then turning out to be a (ice) wolf in sheeps clothing, much like he pretends to be a classic disney prince type, while having more cold hearted plans. Here he could be manipulating Sora, on Larxenes behalf, into hunting Elsa down at her castle. It could be a sort of callback to Soras almost fall to darkness and often playing into the villains hands. In the end teaming up with Elsa to take him down (also could explain the marshmallow sacrifice in the final fight) and becoming more smart/observing of who to trust and who no to as a moral in the end.

[RebelliousTreecko]

*2015:* "The Disney teams are helping out with the game? AMAZING!!!"

*2019:* "Uh, maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all."

[Alienrun]

This would explain why Elsa never joins your party either...

[beast_boy]

This. This may be one of your best theories ever and I accept it as fact. I thought I was the only one who was confused by the Frozen world!

[Chipster]

Even the boss scene dialogue serves as evidence:
“Are you sure this is gonna help Elsa?”
“I don’t know, but we got to do something.”
Because GEE. Unless the ice wolf was indeed Elsa, I think it’d be pretty obviously helpful to her to help defeat a giant heartless that could attack the kingdom.

[arkade]

And mat pat wonders why Disney won’t sponsor him again

[annie]

I'm choosing to believe this because it sounds like something Disney would do and the team behind Kingdom Hearts, for as convoluted as they are, has never been that sloppy

[JusticeSoulTuna]

This makes so much sense. That level was so disjointed and Hans as a boss was random. I definitely think that ice Palace was meant to be Elsa's place. Damn, we really missed the chance for a cool story

[maximumsphoenix]

Game theory and film theory are the only ones that are brave enough to stand up to Disney

[Error-O]

Top ten anime rivals:
MatPat vs Mickey Mouse

[Jared-cmwv]

On top of everything else, there's one piece of KH lore that makes this even more plausible: Larxene specializes in lightning magic, not ice.

[Sircreepingtonth]

A real shame... I honestly think your theory is right. This would have made the world infinitely better, even if we still had to deal with the songs.

[Eckertainment]

I watched this back when it came out after I played KH 3 and THIS would have been AMAZING. Frozen is so well set up to meld into the KH universe IF Disney had allowed it to go in this direction. I can't see how it would have hurt Frozen's image if handled well, which it more than likely would have been. I think a lot of people would have been impressed since it would have been a more visual and epic reimagining of Elsa's struggle AND it's rare that a "good guy" is shown in this way. UGH DISNEY WHY!!!