Frozen fans still want a love story for Elsa, but she already had the best love story when she discovered self-love and sister love in Frozen and Frozen 2. Since the Disney blockbuster debuted in 2013, Elsa's love prospects and sexuality have been a source for debate and speculation by fans and even stars of the movie. There's speculation that a potential Frozen 3 would provide an opportunity for Elsa to find a mate, but there's nothing to confirm a third move is in the works. For now, Elsa's incredible love stories stand on their own, and those are the only love stories she needs.
Since the beginning, there's been considerable debate and speculation around Elsa's sexuality. Disney is long overdue for LGBTQ+ representation and fans see Elsa as the gay icon the media powerhouse desperately needs. Fans hoped Elsa would find a girlfriend in Frozen 2, with a popular #GiveElsaAGirlfriend campaign, but writers continued to focus on self-discovery and sisterhood. Director Jennifer Lee explained to ET that Elsa wasn't ready for romance in Frozen 2 because she still had questions about herself and her powers. At the other end of the spectrum, anti-LGBTQ+ commentators don't want Elsa's sexuality brought into the mix for fear of influencing young children. Somewhere in the middle is the argument that Elsa's personal life doesn't matter because a woman does not need a romantic partner to be whole.
Regardless of the speculations around her romantic life, Elsa has already broken barriers by tossing aside Disney's typical storyline of prince-meets-princess. The movies instead showcase how a young woman comes to love herself, and how to find unconditional, selfless true love in the bonds of sisterhood. These love stories Elsa has experienced are the best love lessons possible. They may also partly account for why Frozen 2 co-director Chris Buck said that Elsa's story is likely complete (via Insider).
Elsa's multiple anthems of self-love encapsulate what many women struggle to find their whole lives - that self-love and acceptance are better than conforming. While Disney usually produces movies that lean on validation from a prince in order to make the princess whole, Frozen focuses on self-validation instead. It's an incredibly powerful moral for girls to learn from a young age to boost self-esteem. The depiction of that love story is not only essential for Elsa's continued growth, but it is vital to show girls self-respect and thinking for yourself. Elsa needed to be able to love herself before she could adequately enter into her second love story - the bond of sisterhood with Anna.
Throughout Elsa and Anna's adventures, they learn that sisterhood proves stronger than any force coming between them, whether it's an evil prince or magical powers. It's vital for young girls to see that women can lift each other up and embark upon adventures on their own, without anyone else to rescue them. Sisterhood allows a person to share their best and worst parts of themselves, and still be accepted fully. Elsa could only have learned that lesson from Anna. She even makes a note of this at the end of Frozen, when she says that love is what saved them both. If Frozen 3 happens and gives Elsa a traditional love story, it will only have been made possible because of what she experienced in the first two movies.
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