Defrosting Ice Queen/Theatre

Examples of Defrosting Ice Queens in Theatre include:

• The title character of Puccini's Opera Turandot, after a Forceful Kiss.
  • Except probably because Puccini died before he could finish the last act, the defrosting feels rather unconvincing.
• Title character of Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida is a strong, educated woman, who has forsworn all men (largely because all the men in her family are either nasty sarcastic buggers or utter idiots). The plot throws her in with the man she had been married to at birth, who is disguised as a woman for most of it. It parodies a poem by Tennyson, and does have some unfortunate Victorian values in it, but better than a lot of portrayals of the time.
  • Another of their operas, Iolanthe has a whole female chorus of examples half-way between this and Tsundere. The fairies are at war with the British peers. They also grow to find them more and more attractive, and by the middle of the second act, we get this lovely example of mixed messages, where even the insults are sung in as flirtatious manner as possible:

In vain to us you plead – Don’t go! Your prayers we do not heed – Don’t go! It’s true we sigh, But don’t suppose A tearful eye Forgiveness shows. Oh, no! We’re very cross indeed – Yes, very cross, —Don’t go!

• Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew cranks up the Unfortunate Implications on this one. Nevertheless, it has inspired many examples.