Let it go? Which movie hero should be punished for their crimes?

With an arrest warrant out for Frozen’s Elsa – blamed with the harsh weather in Kentucky – which other movie characters are enjoying their liberty when they ought to be behind bars?

In an attempt to take minds off subzero weather and perhaps bring a much-needed lighter touch to the public image of the US police force, Kentucky authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Elsa, from Disney’s child-transfixing mega hit Frozen. The Harlan Police Department posted a bulletin on their Facebook page looking for a “blonde female last seen wearing a long blue dress” in the hopes of defrosting locals with the power of LOL.

While the fictional snow queen is still on the loose and no unarmed children in costume have been mistakenly shot, it does offer a more satisfying ending to the animated phenomenon. Elsa’s cryokinetic powers allowed her to enslave innocent townsfolk with a brutal, seemingly eternal, winter and while she might end up thawing the kingdom during the sappy finale, there were no real consequences for her reckless behaviour. Just think of the ruined crops, deceased livestock and bruised male egos in her wake.

She’s not the first character to get away with unarguably criminal acts on the big screen. Hollywood is full of stories where heroes find themselves unpunished for something which would have them locked up in the real world.

In Zack Snyder’s lacklustre Superman reboot Man of Steel, our superficially “nice” superhero flagrantly misuses his powers to cause untold damage and while he undoubtedly saves at least one family in a train station, his overblown antics during the destruction porn finale lead to an estimated 129,000 deaths. And what’s his sentence? A job in journalism.

The teen adventure Jumper had Hayden Christensen abusing his ability to teleport by living an extravagant lifestyle funded by stolen goods and travelling the world without passport or visa restrictions. In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, our charming scamp/devious sociopath commits a variety of offences, from impersonating a police officer to computer tampering to odometer fraud. And don’t even get us started on those sick body-dumping, car-stealing, fraud-committing kids from Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.

One of the few smart scenes in Will Smith’s hit-and-miss 2008 comedy Hancock involved his alcoholic anti-superhero getting arrested for the collateral damage he’d caused to the city of Los Angeles, bringing a refreshing streak of reality to the absurd. But since then, cinema’s good guys have gone back to acting without consequence, no matter who or what gets smashed to 3D bits in the process and without a casual thought for who the hell is going to clean up all that mess.

Which fictional hero would you gladly see in the slammer for their unlawful actions? Let us know in the comments below.

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