>>105367184close enough IMO. she's a war-hero soldier who became a general's wife. the emperor respects her so much, he would probably adopt her if she didn't already have parents.
>>105368828she probably could defeat the others in combat by outsmarting them. she's not supposed to be some kind of Jackie-Chan fighting master. Although she becomes better, it's shown in boot-camp that she's very clumsy at first, so she's not a lifelong fighting master. Having her hold-her-own, when she fights Shan-yu, a lifelong warrior who's arm is larger than her entire body, even briefly, was a mistake. It's out of character, and probably action-movie wankery; but the scenes are forgivable if you think, "well, she just got really lucky, but almost died a lot". The entire point of Mulan's character is that she does things in her own unorthodox and indirect way. A characteristic built up from the beginning of the movie, making the dog do her farm chores, playing chinese chess while waling down the street, using the weights as a makeshift winch to climb up the pole, shooting a rocket at the mountain instead of at the huns, killing shan-yu with fireworks instead of a sword -- she wins by doing things unorthodoxly, avoiding direct combat, and outsmarting her opponent with some kind of tactical victory.
she could probably defeat Elsa in a similar indirect and tactical way. Lure her into some kind of trap. Not jackie-chan karate chop her, when Elsa has been shown to have the reaction time to freeze a crossbow arrow in flight.
