Why One Man Can’t Trust Another Man

We know that Kristoff is initially very pessimistic about people and only looks at the negative qualities in them. Despite his pessimism, he is very practical and does not take trust in new people very lightly. And while he never experienced romance himself, he does not believe that people can really get to know each other, fall in love, and get engaged in such a short amount of time. Such the example is when Anna starts to tell him about Elsa.

Look in the first two gifs: as she speaks, he only looks ahead of him…but then he seems puzzled when he thinks about what she said regarding her engagement.

Now look in the third and fourth gifs: he seems to be even more confused and deep in thought, and now he is only thinking about her engagement. The more he thinks about it, the more ridiculous and impetuous it seems to him, so he asks her about it again to be clear.

This is when Kristoff’s distrust of Anna intensifies, once again making Kristoff believe that ALL people are untrustworthy.

Kristoff is flabbergasted that Anna put immediate trust in Hans because from experience, he knows that not all people can be trusted and what consequences can come if you trust people too quickly and too easily.

Nope, Kristoff is not someone who is easily tricked or charmed by even by the seemingly-kindest person.

However, in the last two gifs, while he is reflecting on what Anna told him, his facial expressions make me believe that Kristoff is questioning Hans’s motives and suspects he also can’t be trusted. Since he does not believe that love can happen so fast, he probably thinks than Hans may just be using Anna or want to marry her for the wrong reason…and if so, it turns out to be correct.

So in all, Kristoff was given a reason not to trust Hans from the very moment he (Hans) was mentioned, even though they never actually meet, and Kristoff never knew Hans was evil or that he had betrayed Anna (until after the Great Thaw), Hans’s true nature proves Kristoff’s point about how some people are bad…but luckily, with Anna now in his life, he can learn that reindeer aren’t better than all people. ;)