User blog comment:Ordeaux26/Pure Evil Proposal - Frozen 2’s Villain/@comment-39032584-20191206150138

Wow... just, ''wow. I was able to see this just a couple of days after it came out thanks to a special early morning screening, and I figured Runeard's name would be at least tossed around a little/considered for PE status... but I never thought someone would have this ''much to say about someone with such minimal screentime and lines. But if anything, I'm sincerely impressed by that, especially how Ordeaux was able to read so much into the character's personality and motives just going by how he phrased certain lines and whatnot. I like to think of myself as a pretty analytical person, but I honestly don't think even I could have done so well. So well done. Anyway, I honestly wasn't sure at first on whether I thought he could qualfiy or not, but after reading these surprisingly compelling arguments for his case, at least for now, I'm leaning towards a yes. If anything, the fact that he probably doesn't even have 5 minutes of screentime in flashbacks makes the things he's undeniably responsible for stand out as quite vile, especially considering Frozen has a pretty low heinous standard to clear. I certainly get why his actions come off as generic at first, but upon closer inspection, he didn't just kill one man (as callous as the context of it was); he quite clearly robbed the Northuldrans of basic, but essential resources, hence why the chief was so concerned about their wellbeing to begin with, provoked an unnecessary bloodbath between the two sides that even nearly cost the life of his son, and regardless of whether he had a more violent Plan B to begin with or not, it's pretty clear his goal was to essentially wipe out all the Northuldrans either through starvation or force just because he feared their magic and the threat it posed to him specifically. These actions are also the reason for both sides being locked in conflict and trapepd in those cursed woods for at least a few decades all the way through to the present tense. So yeah, in short, I think he's quite impressively heinous considering how minor of a character he is, and for the reason mentioned, I don't think any potential mitigating factors, like possibly caring for his son, really hold up either.