User blog comment:Dragonsblood23/Lets Debate 1: Elsa VS Sub-Zero or Ryu and Ken VS Sub-Zero and Scorpion/@comment-5264252-20150617215536

Also, another thing: "what makes Elsa so special compared to Snow White or Ariel?"

The sole fact that Elsa is solely a Disney character. While her story was initially meant to be a direct adaption of the Ice Queen and even still has some traits from it, that's all there is to it. Just a few traits. Frozen is almost nothing like the Ice Queen aside from a few minor details, like a boy and a girl traveling to a queen who happens to have associations with the cold. Elsa isn't actually an "ice queen". Meanwhile, characters like Snow White and Ariel are direct adaptions of their original stories, only just spruced up here and there to make it more suitable as a Disney movie. In short: Elsa is a Disney original character while Snow White is a Brothers Grimm character (and not even their character, tbh, considering they didn't write the story) and Ariel is a Hans Christian Anderson character (only her name was given by Disney). Elsa is as much a Hans Christian Anderson character as Wreck-It Ralph is a Nintendo character for being based on Donkey Kong.