What characters children see in movies affects their views on gender. The characters become role models to follow in both looks and actions, they are understood as an ideal to follow and incorporate into their identities. By using a semiotic image analysis of portraits of the characters and a narrative analysis using a gender perspective, this study compares the female main characters from two Disney movies: Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) and Frozen (2013), This is to find out how the characters are portrayed externally and internally and then compare them to find out how the portrayed ideal have changed. The result from the study shows that the female characters are portrayed as beautiful and slim. The passive characteristics that women are stereotypically portrayed with and can be seen in Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) can also be seen in the character Elsa in the later movie Frozen (2013). However, the other main character in Frozen (2013), Anna, is portrayed as active throughout the movie which clashes with the other female characters in the study.