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This Frozen/Watchmen Mashup Wins the Internet

As you know, we love the movie Frozen here at The Nerds of Color. Now that it has been released on blu-ray and DVD, fans can rewatch Elsa’s triumphant “Let it Go” sequence over and over again. Though if they had an internet connection, chances are they’ve been doing that already since it’s been on YouTube since December.

As great as the song — as performed by the Wicked-ly talented, one and only Adele Dazeem Idina Menzel — is, you haven’t experienced it until you see it set to the exploits of a naked blue superhuman:

Folks have been pointing out the similarities between Elsa’s icy exile and Dr. Manhattan’s self-imposed banishment to Mars since Frozen came out. Grantland’s Alex Pappademas found out the other day:

https://twitter.com/PAPPADEMAS/status/444660055934119936

And while the directors have pleaded ignorance about the homage, it is kinda hard to deny the scenes line up pretty neatly.

On reddit and twitter, Alex Wolinetz did the obvious and placed the Oscar-winning lyrics of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez onto the Eisner-winning artwork of Dave Gibbons and produced a lot of awesome.

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Click on the image to see it in higher res. You won’t be sorry.


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Keith Chow

Keith is the editor-in-chief of the pop culture blog The Nerds of Color, a co-editor of the comics anthologies Secret Identities and Shattered, and host of the podcasts Hard NOC Life and Southern Fried Asian. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, NBC News, and SYFY Wire. Vanity Fair calls Keith an "incisive interviewer and chummy conversationalist."

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