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The Duke of Weselton is the main antagonist of Disney's Frozen franchise.
He serves as one of the two main antagonists (alongside Prince Hans) of the 2013 official movie Frozen, continuing into the feature belonging to Hux's Disneyverse and serving as one of the two main antagonists (alongside Leonos) of Frozen: Spiritual Haven. He is set to return in the fanmade Frozen 3: Stories Never Die and in the fanfilm Frozen: Angarr's Little Secrets, which serves as a background story and prequel to the first official movie.
He is a notorious and pretentious aristocrat who wants to build his own trading empire and eliminate magic. He is also Elsa, Anna, Matilda, Reyo and Bianca's archenemy (alongside Prince Hans for the previous generation, and Prince Leonos and Miss Scarface for the current protagonists).
He was a former friend of Arendelle and it's royal family, and as part of gaining their trust, he was invited to Queen Elsa's coronation day ceremony. However, he secretly plotted to exploit Arendelle's riches and usurp the throne so he can start building his empire. After discovering Elsa had magical powers, he immediately called her a "sorceress" and a "monster" long before plotting with his goons to assassinate her. After being sent to prison by Elsa and Anna, he convinced Weselton's ruler King Thundergnome to declare Arendelle as an enemy kingdom, planning his revenge on them.
As the new princess of Arendelle Matilda got lost in the woods and found herself befriending Weselton's princess Bianca and it's prince Leonos, The Duke of Weselton took this opportunity to set his plans in motion, with Arendelle still on his mind.
It is later revealed that he and Leonos have planned together as partners in crime to lead Elsa and Princess Matilda towards the dam of magical existence so the army of Weselton can destroy the dam and once Elsa is dead and the water causes chaos, magic will no longer be able to exist.
He is voiced by Alan Tudyk who also voices Mr. Harry in Rio 3.
Role[]
Entering Arendelle[]
In the movie, he starts up hiding his true self and pretending to like Elsa and Anna, while he really wants to chase Elsa away by unlocking her and her kingdom's secrets, control the place and transport the riches to his country. He later offers Elsa a dance in order to take the crown, but Elsa states that her sister does, making him dance with Anna. Without Anna feeling, he asks her if she knows the reason why Elsa closed these gates up to now, and that shows he knows Elsa is hiding something you can take advantage of. Anna replies she doesn't know and stops dancing with him, but the greedy duke, wanting to brainwash Anna into talking more about it, says that if she wants another dance she will get one.
The Duke's Plan Success[]
Later, Elsa gets angry at Anna, she soon shows her snow powers, and the duke smiles and whispers to his guards that he knew there was something dubious he could take advantage of. Elsa then runs to the outdoors of the castle, but the duke then frightens Elsa by ordering the thugs to stop her. The plan goes even better when she by mistake almost freezes the duke. The duke then says once monster softly while not looking shocked, revealing it is still part of the plan, and then shouts loudly monster in order to chase her away and celebrate victory on his plan. Later, he watches Anna and Hans running after Elsa while looking quite happy about what is happening. When Anna comes past him he asks her if she has sorcery in her too in order to chase her away. Anna replies that there is no danger in herself or in Elsa and then Hans, contacting the duke at first, says Anna is completely ordinary, caring about her, and to not hurt her feelings says in the best way. The duke says she nearly killed him, in order to make Anna feel guilty and go looking for her. When Anna tells Hans she will go looking for her, the duke quietly whispers to his guard "yes!" meaning the plan is working also on Anna. Hans suggests to Anna to take him with but Anna puts him in charge of Arendelle, the city he wants to protect, and the duke gets angry for wanting to control Arendelle himself. He then looks at Anna leaving on her horse, not looking scared, expecting her to get killed as well on the way.
The Duke Recalculating Plans[]
After the duke starts thinking that Anna and Elsa are dead, the duke has time to get Hans against the citizens. He tells Hans not to waste his tradable goods, while not caring about the citizens. However, Hans angrily says Anna has given him orders to protect Arendelle. The duke tries to brainwash Hans into believing that Elsa is a monster and that Anna has teamed up with her. However, Hans doesn't believe it and says that he will not even think about handing Arendelle to a traitor.
After that, Anna's horse comes back, making the duke shocked about them being still alive. Hans starts realizing Anna is still alive but in trouble, and that makes him want volunteers. The duke sends his thugs to volunteer with the order to kill Elsa. When prince Hans goes with all his guards and the two thugs to Elsa's castle in order to ask Elsa if she has seen Anna, the duke’s thugs who came with try to complete the duke's mission. Hans tells the thugs not to kill Elsa, but they don't listen and hunt her anyway. Hans, while fighting Marshmallow, sees the two thugs running into Elsa's castle in order to try and kill her. Hans then comes in after a big fight and sees Elsa is guilty, telling her not to be the monster the citizens fear she is. When the duke's thug, stuck between ice walls, tries to shoot Elsa with a bow and arrow, Hans tries to shoot it up and miss her. But the arrow hits the crystal lamp at the top of the castle, and the lamp falls onto Elsa. Hans later from fear arrests Elsa while she's fainted, and tries to reason with her. When Elsa says she can't stop winter, the duke plotted with Hans.
Getting Punished[]
When Anna came back, the duke looked at Hans in the eyes. It was revealed as the signal for Hans taking an act once he replied to the duke that something in the plan is wrong. While Hans revealed his true nature towards Anna, the duke prepared the dignitaries for the plan, making them believe the fake conversation about Anna's death. They are convinced that Elsa should be punished, and because of the duke, the royal guards went to kill Elsa. He then watches Hans trying to kill Elsa, making sure his plans haven’t failed. But Anna saves Elsa and the duke gets unhappy and is later discovered as a criminal as he goes back to jail in his own country, Weselton. After he was put into jail, no money or tradable goods are sent to Weselton by decree of Arendelle.
Aftermath[]
After several years of happiness and joy in Arendelle, Elsa goes on her journey through the spirit world as the spirits at one point guide her through her past. One of the spirits reminds Elsa of her oldest foe, The Duke. He dances with Anna just before Elsa destroys him with her magic, much to her amusement. That was all before Elsa had to discover and find out about King Runeard, who is even worse than The Duke himself.
Frozen: Spiritual Haven[]
After being sent to prison by Arendelle, The Duke of Weselton plans his revenge and on how to eliminate magic from the universe. He regains power in his country, constantly making sure that Bianca is not affiliated with any sorcery or magic. The Duke of Weselton has heard of Princess Matlida's arrival in Weselton, taking advantage of the situation. After King Thundergnome drank a poisonous drink, The Duke of Weselton ordered the soldiers of Weselton to check on Bianca with him. He found out that she's protecting and befriending Matilda, ordering the guards to arrest both of them and put them in a dark chamber. The two however manage to escape and knock the duke out. When the Duke woke up, he called them monsters out of rage.
It was revealed that Amadeus is on his side, plotting to help the Duke eliminate magic. After the good guys as well as Leona Scarface and her gang escaped from Amadeus, The Duke had to prepare himself for another round against Arendelle.
After Leona and her two thugs Harrick and Gozem loot his castle, The Duke of Weselton arrests them. However, they escape, and it is also revealed they stole Weselton's "war plans".
In actual, Prince Leonos and The Duke of Weselton were revealed much later to be cooperating as partners and writing the entire idea of the chosen quest as well as Weselton's war plans in the magical scripture just so he can lead Matilda to the area, and as planned, Leonos would go and tell Elsa she is near the dam, leading her to the doomsday of all magic. The Duke of Weselton was also revealed to be the one who poisoned Thundergnome and ordered his army to burn down the tribe of Rowu, which caused the deaths of thousands including Reyo's father, Chief Kabuto. The Duke later found Matilda and Reyo and took them both as captives for a final goal.
He then sends them to a prison cell, revealing them his ultimate motivation; he wants to take over the world and be seen as a god by everyone once there is no magic left, as magic was always stronger than the tyranny of powerful humans. The Duke of Weselton then ordered his men to use a new machine called "The Power Crusher", which it can use the powers of a magical spirit and turn it against Weselton's enemies by sending them a beam of laser. The Duke almost managed to kill Matilda and Reyo with the power of the deadly machine. However, the magic fortunately was strong enough to have influence, and allow them to teleport to Elsa and Kristoff's current whereabout. The group of protagonists, now allied with Miss Scarface and her gang, tell Elsa and Kristoff that they must run back to Arendelle since the location, which is near the dam, is a fatal trap set by The Duke of Weselton. After Leonos and his men arrive and prepare the massive attack and the dam's destruction with the machine's powers, The Duke then comes with his army to help finish the task. However, much to the duke's surprise, Miss Scarface comes and shoots a fireball which destroys his machine completely. The Duke then strikes Leona Scarface with a sword, and the two battle ontop of the dam. The Duke almost wins her and kills Bianca as well, but when he is frightened by Gozem who intended to beat him to the bone, The Duke of Weselton ran back to his country to think of new plans for vengeance.
He then sends Weselton's entire army along with the army of Tegaru led by King Strictor to a war against Arendelle. The ones who command the war are him, Strictor and Leonos. At first, the forces of evil have the upper hand, as the duke even orders his men to fire at Kristoff a personal cannon ball. He then gets out of his ship to kill Matilda with his dark sword which used to be "The Sword of King Runeard". After that, Strictor brings Anna with him as a hostage, but before he kills her, Matilda offers The Duke and King Strictor to take her away but spare other lives in Arendelle. The Duke agreed and seemingly halted the attacks. However, things get worse for his side when the heroes unite and fight against evil strategically. Weselton's forces are defeated by a bunch of heroic characters, and Harrick uses his strength to throw a cannon ball back at The Duke's ship. During the battle, it is also seen that Strictor wanted to betray The Duke but got stabbed back by Runeard's sword. Afterwards, the cannon ball which Harrick threw back at them finally hit The Duke's ship. Water rushed into the ship and because of that, The Duke and Leonos had to escape from death, but as soon as they've exited the ship after knocking Matilda out and leaving her behind to die, Sven breaks Runeard's sword, causing the Duke to explode and his entire body to be heavily burnt.
Arendelle's forces arrest him and Leonos, and put them both into a cell in which Hans stays. The Duke then plans for the three of them to escape and have their vengeance, still obsessed with eliminating Arendelle's royalty.
Personality[]
After the first Frozen film, the Duke of Weselton has become much more vengeful and power hungry. His desires are ultimately changed, and he plots to eliminate all magic with no survival for anyone who holds magical powers of any sort. He uses situations for his own gain. When Matilda came into the kingdom, he would immediately try to harm a little girl with no remorse or emotions such as regret or guilt. He became very obsessed with conquering Arednelle, and with getting his personal revenge on Elsa. He also used the situation in which someone poisoned Thundergnome with a drink inside his cup, hoping that it will further the conflict between Weselton and Arendelle. He is very opportunistic because of these things.
As shown in the third episode of the series, The Duke wants everyone around him to treat him as a god and ultimate being. This shows how evil the duke really is while he's wearing the mask of a "victim of fear".
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Prince Hans - Former situational ally, currently prison mate and pawn
- Prince Leonos - Superior and current partner in crime, pawn, attempted victim and situational ally for now.
- Erik and Francis - Former minions and pawns
Enemies[]
- Elsa - Archenemy and former trading partner.
- Queen Anna - Former situational ally, current enemy
- Kristoff
- Matilda - Second archenemy, attempted victim.
- Bianca - Attempted victim and enemy
- Reyo - Attempted war victim and enemy
- Chief Kabuto - Victim
- King Thundergnome - Former superior and ally, victim.
- Leona Scarface
- Harrick
- Gozem
- King Strictor - former situational ally and minion, turned victim.
- Jackow - pawn
Trivia[]
- He is far more scheming than Hans, although not being as big as a threat.
- After the 2013 official movie, the actor Alan Tudyk would also voice a parody of his character Duke Weaselton.
- This fanmade version is considered as the primary adversary to the heroes of the franchise, as he is the biggest threat not just for Elsa, but also for Matilda and her allies.
- His role as the main antagonist of the first film is only due to the fanmade sequel series. The official version of The Duke remains a lesser threat and obstacle to Hans.