Talk:Hans/@comment-7922772-20130724040304/@comment-12170791-20130724145848

It's pretty obvious now that Hans is the villain, and it's easy to see why, for two reasons:

1. Hollywood is extremely left-wing, and they hate aristocrats and the aristocracy with a venomous fury. They have to put up with the "princess" idea, because they know fans love it, but this is a way for them to inject a little Marxism by having a bad-guy aristoract. (Never mind that it's because of the nobility that all the beauty of Europe was created.)

2. The film has a female director, and some women have an antipathy to what (in game theory) are called "beta males" -- nice, decent guys who are somewhat shy and not macho; "nerds" basically. It's why nerds never get dates -- many women actually prefer jerks, who treat them badly, instead of decent guys, whose unwanted attention to them feels slimier than the flat-out abuse they get from the jerks. (I know -- it's messed up.) So I guarantee that if Hans is made the villain, it was the female director who introduced this element, projecting the antipathy of some women toward the beta male.