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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She demonstrates this twice. First, she continually accuses Rapunzel of dishonesty, not once trusting her when she says she doesn’t know Stefan’s name. It never crosses her mind that perhaps, Rapunzel is telling the truth. Second, when Gothel goes on a monologue about how he should've loved her, Wilhelm angrily [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech sums up]] that Gothel doesn't understand what it means to love. Given how she [[AbusiveParents treats]] her surrogate daughter Rapunzel (despite believing she's the daughter she and Wilhelm could've had), he's got her pegged.
* EvilIsPetty: She kidnapped a baby from her birth family and started a war between two kingdoms all because King Wilhelm didn't return her feelings in their youth. Even after being punished by being locked up inside the tower for the rest of her life, she decides to compensate this by forcing her pet ferret Otto to do all of chores that Rapunzel used to do.



* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She demonstrates this twice. First, she continually accuses Rapunzel of dishonesty, not once trusting her when she says she doesn’t know Stefan’s name. It never crosses her mind that perhaps, Rapunzel is telling the truth. Second, when Gothel goes on a monologue about how he should've loved her, Wilhelm angrily [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech sums up]] that Gothel doesn't understand what it means to love. Given how she [[AbusiveParents treats]] her surrogate daughter Rapunzel (despite believing she's the daughter she and Wilhelm could've had), he's got her pegged.
* EvilIsPetty: She kidnapped a baby from her birth family and started a war between two kingdoms all because King Wilhelm didn't return her feelings in their youth. Even after being punished by being locked up inside the tower for the rest of her life, she decides to compensate this by forcing her pet ferret Otto to do all of chores that Rapunzel used to do.

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A kind young girl living in a hidden manor in the woods, and the main protagonist of the story. Her adoptive caretaker Gothel raised Rapunzel as a servant in her enchanted manor for seventeen years, never telling her of her true origins or her family.

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A kind young girl woman living in a hidden manor in the woods, and the main protagonist of the story. Her adoptive caretaker Gothel raised Rapunzel as a servant in her enchanted manor for seventeen years, never telling her of her true origins or her family.



* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has long blonde hair and is very kind and loving.

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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has long blonde hair and is very kind and loving.a sweet, innocent young woman.



* TraumaticHaircut: As per the original fairy tale. Gothel slices Rapunzel's hair off with magic so she can disguise herself as Rapunzel at the ball. Somewhat softened by the fact that Rapunzel's remaining hair still falls past her shoulders and it's grown completely back by the epilogue.



* CastingGag: He's a purple dragon voiced by David Kaye. [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Sounds familiar.]] (Though it should be noted Megatron was a purple T-rex, then a red dragon.)



* TheDragon: A rare literal example, he's a loyal servant to Gothel as her main mode of transport in addition to being a dragon. However, he turns on her in the end to help Rapunzel.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He has this reaction when he realizes that he's been perpetuating a war against his neighboring kingdom for no reason other than a lie, and profusely apologizes to King Frederick when the truth is revealed.

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* JustFriends: Upon recognizing Gothel at the climax, Wilhlem comments that they were friends many years ago. He seems genuinely shocked by her assertion that he was in love with her.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He has this reaction when he realizes that he's been perpetuating a war against his neighboring kingdom for no reason other than a lie, and profusely apologizes to King Frederick when the truth is revealed. revealed.
* ObliviousToLove: Heavily implied. His reaction to Gothel's admission that everything she did was out of love for him is of utter bafflement, and he asserts that they were only ever friends and nothing more.
* PapaWolf: When his baby daughter was kidnapped, he ''went to war'' to try to get her back.



* {{Hypocrite}}: She's utterly furious when she believes Rapunzel is lying to her about not knowing Stefan's name. She conveniently ignores the fact that she herself has been lying to Rapunzel for the girl's entire life.
She also often accuses Rapunzel of being ungrateful to her, despite being an UngratefulBastard herself who shows little appreciation for Rapunzel's hard work and Hugo's service.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: She's utterly furious when she believes Rapunzel is lying to her about not knowing Stefan's name. She conveniently ignores the fact that she herself has been lying to Rapunzel for the girl's entire life.
life. She also often accuses Rapunzel of being ungrateful to her, despite being an UngratefulBastard herself who shows little appreciation for Rapunzel's hard work and Hugo's service.


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* LoveMakesYouEvil: Her unrequited love for Wilhelm drove her to kidnap his baby daughter and frame Frederick for it, all for payback against him for not returning her feelings.


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* WomanScorned: ''Big time.'' She believed King Wilhelm was in love with her, but he never thought of her as more than a friend. When he married another woman and had a child with her, Gothel kidnapped the baby Rapunzel to make him suffer.

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* DoorstepBaby: Gothel claims that Rapunzel is this, telling her that her parents abandoned her on Gothel's doorstep as an infant. Rapunzel had no reason to doubt this story for most of her life. [[SubvertedTrope However]], she starts to suspect this isn't true and it's eventually revealed Gothel kidnapped her.

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* DoorstepBaby: DoorstopBaby: Gothel claims that Rapunzel is this, telling her that her parents abandoned her on Gothel's doorstep as an infant. Rapunzel had no reason to doubt this story for most of her life. [[SubvertedTrope However]], she starts to suspect this isn't true and it's eventually revealed Gothel kidnapped her.



* ImprobableHairstyle: Subverted. Unlike in the fairy tale, Rapunzel's hair just reaches the floor. That's actually possible in real life, depending on the person's genes. She also keeps it braided so that it's out of the way. And she's only imprisoned in the tower for a day or two, making the maintenance believable.



-->---'''Hobie''': That's the understatement of the 17th century!

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-->---'''Hobie''': -->'''Hobie''': That's the understatement of the 17th century!



-->---'''Hobie''': I'm gonna become ferret food!

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-->---'''Hobie''': -->'''Hobie''': I'm gonna become ferret food!



* CuteClumsyGirl: She's pretty ungainly, and her big tail and [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength untrained fire and strength]] can come up at the worst times (and yet it conveniently works out for the plot).



* AdaptationalVillainy: Gothel wasn't an ideal mother in the original story, but she wasn't an emotionally abusive slave-driver to Rapunzel like she is here. She's also revealed to have kidnapped Rapunzel out of petty revenge against Wilhelm and kicked off a war as a result, none of which happened in the source material.



* DrivenByEnvy: Gothel believed Wilhelm was in love with her and was furious when he married another woman. She kidnapped the infant Rapunzel in retaliation, rationalizing that [[InsaneTrollLogic Rapunzel should have been her daughter anyway.]] Gothel spends much of the movie proper working to deny Rapunzel any chance of reuniting with her birth parents, indicating that her grudge has not faded with the passing years.
* EvilSorceress: She has magic powers that range from casting a spell to trap someone in a tower forever to {{Agony Beam}}s that could kill a person.



* FreudianExcuse: The reason why she kidnapped Rapunzel as a baby was because King Wilhelm only saw her as a friend when she is in love with him.

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* FreudianExcuse: The reason why Admittedly a rather weak one, but she kidnapped Rapunzel as a baby was solely for revenge against Wilhelm because King he didn't return her feelings for him. The way she talks about it at the end after revealing her motives (and the portrait of her and Wilhelm only saw that [[RemovedFromThePicture had Wilhelm's face slashed out]]) implies she did genuinely love him once.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She demonstrates this twice. First, she continually accuses Rapunzel of dishonesty, not once trusting
her as a friend when she says she doesn’t know Stefan’s name. It never crosses her mind that perhaps, Rapunzel is in love with him.telling the truth. Second, when Gothel goes on a monologue about how he should've loved her, Wilhelm angrily [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech sums up]] that Gothel doesn't understand what it means to love. Given how she [[AbusiveParents treats]] her surrogate daughter Rapunzel (despite believing she's the daughter she and Wilhelm could've had), he's got her pegged.


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* {{Hypocrite}}: She's utterly furious when she believes Rapunzel is lying to her about not knowing Stefan's name. She conveniently ignores the fact that she herself has been lying to Rapunzel for the girl's entire life.
She also often accuses Rapunzel of being ungrateful to her, despite being an UngratefulBastard herself who shows little appreciation for Rapunzel's hard work and Hugo's service.


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* KickTheDog: She destroys Rapunzel's paintings, and later her brush (which was the only thing Rapunzel had left of her parents), and reminds her how worthless she is purely out of spite.
* LaserGuidedKarma: She tries to imprison Rapunzel in the tower forever for her “lying heart” by casting a spell that traps those who lie forever. However, instead, Gothel ends up imprisoned in it forever as it is she who has a real lying heart, not Rapunzel. A fitting punishment for a hypocritical liar.


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* VillainousCheekbones: She has a thin face and very high cheekbones, in addition to being a cruel and contemptuous WickedWitch.


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* WickedWitch: A more glamorous version than the usual example. She can use her powers to cast spells, and tries to kill multiple people with them at the climax.
* WouldHurtAChild: She scares away the princesses with her magic and tries to kill Tommy.

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