History Characters / Tangled

* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: After her character development.

* PrincessesPreferPink: Touches on her dress.

* [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ensemble White Horse]]: ''Tangled Ever After'' is entirely focused on him and Pascal.

** For his part, the Captain of the Guard has shown an incredible amount of devotion (how many guys can immediately resume chasing a thief after getting knocked unconscious?) and his heart's certainly in the right place. Unfortunately, he's let down by his poor decision-making, his men, his lack of intelligence and his tendency to get knocked out at the worst possible time.

--->Those were my grandmother's wedding rings!

* InspectorZenigata: At first.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld

* {{Expy}}: Designer Glen Keane designed both [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] and Rapunzel. The similarity in both appearance and personality certainly shows. Especially interesting since Ariel was inspired by his wife and Rapunzel is inspired by his daughter. StrongFamilyResemblance [[XMeetsY meets]] IdenticalStranger meets animation?

* FriendToAllLivingThings: From horses to thugs to thieves and beyond.

* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: After her character development.

* BeYourself: [[spoiler: His character development is kicked off with this from Rapunzel.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: And ''how''! He takes every opportunity to snark about his current situation. [[spoiler: except the 'almost drowning' part, which adds to the drama]]

* IJustWantToBeBadass: Why he's a thief in the first place.

* {{Manipulative B|astard}}itch: What she does to Rapunzel for 18 years and how she recruits the Stabbington Brothers.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The dam, which breaks, and almost drowns a few people.

* DoesNotWearShoes: Rapunzel is of the youthful innocence variety, plus she's just never needed them due to never leaving her tower. Interestingly, no one in the entire film comments on it, aside from Mother Gothel pointing a mirror down at Rapunzel's bare feet and commenting that she's "underdressed"— causing Rapunzel to immediately cup her fingers over her toes.

* {{Expy}}: Designer Glen Keane designed both [[TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] and Rapunzel. The similarity in both appearance and personality certainly shows. Especially interesting since Ariel was inspired by his wife and Rapunzel is inspired by his daughter. StrongFamilyResemblance [[XMeetsY meets]] IdenticalStranger meets animation?

* [[GoingToSeeTheElephant Going To See The Lanterns]]

* FailOSuckyname: [[spoiler:Believes this of his real name, Eugene Fitzherbert. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Rapunzel doesn't think so]].]]

* [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I Just Want My Beloved To Be Free]]: [[spoiler:In Flynn's last moments of life (as far as he knows), Rapunzel makes a promise to never resist Mother Gothel again so long as she is allowed to save his life. Rather than allow her to save him, Flynn decides to use the last of his strength to cut Rapunzel's hair with a shard of glass, causing it to lose its power and depriving Gothel of the reason Rapunzel was so important to her. In a way, this is a case of this trope going both ways.]]

* EvillyAffable: After Rapunzel calls her out and she decides to be "the bad guy".

* ManipulativeBitch: What she does to Rapunzel for 18 years and how she recruits the Stabbington Brothers.

* {{Expy}}: This may be unintentional, but whenever Maximus is on screen, it's hard not to think of the horse Altivo from ''RoadToElDorado'' - ESPECIALLY when together with Flynn, since he kind of looks like Tulio from the same movie.

* IJustWantToBeLoved: [[spoiler:Big-Nose Thug.]]

* BeYourself: [[spoiler: He's character development is kicked off with this from Rapunzel.]]

* [[spoiler:HiddenHeartOfGold]]: [[spoiler:"You can't tell anyone about this (his real name). My reputation would be totally ruined.]]

* LargeHam: And how.
* ManipulativeBitch

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The dam.

The film's {{deuteragonist}}, a [[LovableRogue career thief]] on the run for stealing the missing princess's prized tiara who finds himself trying to hide out in her tower. Rapunzel, with no previous knowledge of the outside world, convinces to accompany her to see the lanterns.

* BeYourself

* DeadpanSnarker: And ''how''!

* IJustWantToBeBadass

* FriendToAllLivingThings

* GracefulLadiesLikePurple

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Inverted.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: [[spoiler:Not his real one.]]

* PrincessesPreferPink

* RapunzelHair: It's actually {{exaggerated}}, as Rapunzel's hair is 70 feet long. In this case it is explicitly magical hair, which both explains how it was able to grow that long to begin with and how she can move about without it weighing more than she does.

* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:During "I See The Light".]]

* TheCharmer: Flynn tries to be this. Smolder, anyone? Unfortunately for him, since Rapunzel has no experience or understanding of seduction of any kind, [[NotDistractedByTheSexy she's completely immune to his moves (including said Smoulder).]]

* HeroicBastard: Implied in a rather clever bit of GeniusBonus / GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[spoiler:the surname Fitz[blank] originally designated the bearer as the bastard son of Mr. [Blank].]]

* LandInTheSaddle: [[spoiler:Flynn is catapulted over a high wall as part of his prison breakout and lands in Maximus' saddle.]] Thanks to RuleOfCool, nobody gets hurt.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Courtesy of Rapunzel: [[spoiler:Flynn really starts to grow after Rapunzel tells him that she likes Eugene better.]] She also takes to calling him by that name as well, a gesture of respect that greatly fosters Flynn's later CharacterDevelopment.

* AffablyEvil: Before [[CallingTheOldManOut Rapunzel calls her out on it.]]

* DomesticAbuser: Mother Gothel uses a variety of subtle emotional and psychological abuses to manipulate Rapunzel into staying in the tower. Authorities on DomesticAbuse say that the portrayal is [[ShownTheirWork remarkably accurate.]]

* MyBelovedSmother: Former page image!

->Voiced by: MandyMoore

* HairDecorations[=/=]FlowerInHerHair: Rapunzel wears [[AsManyXAsThereAreY as many flowers as her hair]] [[UpToEleven can handle]] when she visits town. They make her look even more adorable and girly.

* LetsDuet: "I See The Light"

* MacGuffin: The crown, somewhat. Rapunzel herself is something of a MacGuffinGirl.

->Voiced by: Zachary Levi

* GenreSavvy

* [[spoiler: HiddenHeartOfGold]]: [[spoiler: "You can't tell anyone about this (his real name). My reputation would be totally ruined.]]

->Voiced by: Donna Murphy

* [[FantasyForbiddingFather Fantasy Forbidding Mother]]

* LargeHam: And how.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Jet-black hair? Check. Gray eyes? Check. Congratulations Mother Gothel, you (*hottip '''young form''') are cut from ancient Celtic beauty standard cloth.

* VainSorceress

* WildHair: The only person in the film with curly or ringleted hair.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Maximus hunts things by following their scent, sits on the ground with his front legs extended, and can wag his tail. All in the name of RuleOfFunny.

->Voiced by: Brad Garrett (Hook Hand Thug); Jeffrey Tambor (Big-Nose Thug), Paul Tompkins (Short Thug)

->Voiced by: RonPerlman

* GreenEyes: The Queen.

* HairDecorations[=/=]FlowerInHerHair: Rapunzel wears [[AsManyXAsThereAreY as many flowers as her hair]] [[UpToEleven can handle]] when she visits town. They make her look even more adorable and girly.
** Not to mention that the elaborate braiding makes it easier for her to move around town without tripping over her hair.

* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs[=/=]FlowerInHerHair: Rapunzel wears [[AsManyXAsThereAreY as many flowers as her hair]] [[UpToEleven can handle]] when she visits town. They make her look even more adorable and girly.

* SoYouWantToLiveForever

* JewishMother: If the second verse of "Mother Knows Best".

** Her eternal youth shtick might also be something of a surviving trait of the original concept of Yzma. Further evidence of this one comes from the fact that ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'' started life as a much more standard Disney flick under the working title ''Kingdom of the Sun''. Note the motif of the kingdom in Tangled. The key difference here is that Proto-Yzma believed that the sun itself was what robbed her of her youth and beauty, while Mother Gothel actually gains hers from the essence of sunlight.

* FootFocus: Rapunzel spends the whole film barefoot.

* PetTheDog: {{YMMV}}, but even if Mother Gothel's doting over Rapunzel is somewhat difficult to place motive-wise, there are a few hints that she may actually consider her more than just a walking FountainOfYouth.