That realizing her power is simultaneously liberating and dangerous is the point. "Let It Go" was written as Elsa's villain song, back when the story was more closely derived from the original "Snow Queen", and it was also what persuaded the writers to take a different tack with her.
The X-Men comparison is very close, with a dash of the Hulk: awakening into her adult power makes her hated and feared, and part of her wants to be. She wants to throw off those childhood restraints that she's worn, thanklessly, for people who've never even slightly understood what she's going through. And puny humans keep pushing her into becoming the threat they insist she is, because whether well-meaning or malicious they won't leave her alone. (The Duke of Weselton is pretty much Thunderbolt Ross.) She wants to be who she is, in the face of a world that says that the only acceptable way to live is to spend every single moment keeping it in
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The X-Men comparison is very close, with a dash of the Hulk: awakening into her adult power makes her hated and feared, and part of her wants to be. She wants to throw off those childhood restraints that she's worn, thanklessly, for people who've never even slightly understood what she's going through. And puny humans keep pushing her into becoming the threat they insist she is, because whether well-meaning or malicious they won't leave her alone. (The Duke of Weselton is pretty much Thunderbolt Ross.) She wants to be who she is, in the face of a world that says that the only acceptable way to live is to spend every single moment keeping it in ( ... )
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