History ComicBook / RapunzelsRevenge

* AbusiveParents: Besides kidnapping her from her real parents, Mother Gothel isolates Rapunzel from the world, then leaves her up a tree for years when she becomes defiant, then finally just tries getting rid of her.

* BookEnds: The story begins with little Rapunzel in a dress. One would never suspect a story about an independent Rapunzel dressed as a cowboy to also end with her in a dress ([[spoiler: as part of a disguise]]).

** Inga is Chekhov's ''pickaxe''.

* DoesntLikeGuns:
-->'''Rapunzel:''' ''I was noticing how without guns in their hands, most folk around here turned pale. Made me realize I'd never seen Jack touch a gun except to throw it away.''

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Of the Old West.

* Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: ''[[SarcasmMode Now, with a name like the Devil's Armpit, you'd think it'd be a right jolly place.]]''
** Also, Brute.
-->'''Jack:''' His name is ''Brute''? Yeegh, that doesn't sound promising.

* NoodleIncident: One guest at Mother Gothel's party mentions that the year before involved a lot of goat cheese.

* {{Tsundere}}: Rapunzel to Jack

* WeirdWest

''Rapunzel's Revenge'' is a graphic novel by award-winning author Creator/ShannonHale and husband Dean, illustrated by Nathan Hale ([[NamesTheSame no relation]]). The story follows a strong and independent Literature/{{Rapunzel}}, perfectly willing and able to save herself. Initially following the original fairy tale, Rapunzel is kidnapped, but in this tale she escapes herself via her long hair. The rest of the story chronicles her dealing with her pursuers and attempting to escape to freedom.

%% * NiceHat

* ActionGirl: Rapunzel.
* AdultFear:
** Stealing lettuce once will lead to your BadBoss stealing your child and keeping you separated from her.
** For Rapunzel, learning that your mother is abusive and lied to you, so that you live in a GildedCage. Then when you learn the truth, she locks you away so as to break your spirit.
** For Jack, [[spoiler: committing one crime to make life easier goes awry]], so that his mother has told him to GetOut and is terrified [[spoiler: when he returns to save her]].
** And Jack's mother, who not only [[spoiler: found her son sold his father's [[TragicKeepsake jacket]] for ''one more dishonest scheme'' that goes up in flames]], but [[spoiler: later sees her son return in the rise of a new ruler who outlaws said-son.]]

* DistractedByTheSexy: For one plan, Jack suggests Rapunzel put on a dress and invoke this. She says no.

* TheDragon: Brute is Gotherl's largest henchman, and he chases Punzie and Jack throughout Gothel's Reach.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In-Universe, the sequel gives us AMinorKidroduction of young Jack using one of his schemes to trip up another child in order to steal his lunch. At first, he savors that his scheme actually worked. ...But then he notices [[RealityEnsues said-child is injured and upset]], and Jack [[HeelRealization feels bad about it]].

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Mother Gothel has no one who's loyal to her out of something other than fear. ''No one''.

%% * BraidsOfAction

%% * TheDragon: Brute

%% * FracturedFairyTale

* AMinorKidroduction: We are introduced to Rapunzel's life with Gothel from the moment she was a little girl.
** Jack also gets one in the second book recollecting all his schemes, from the time he was a little baby to the later years of his childhood.

* BraidsOfAction

* TheDragon: Brute

* FracturedFairyTale
* FreudianExcuse: Gothel tries to justify that because her parents abandoned her, she's entitled to take this world by storm. However...
** FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Gothel's backstory hardly outweighs that fact she's become a power-hungry tyrant who rules the land with an iron fist, enslaves those who defy her, and stole Rapunzel from her real parents. Rapunzel certainly won't hear any excuses for such barbaric behavior.

* NiceHat

** FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Gothel's backstory hardly outweighs that fact she's become a power-hungry tyrant who rules the land with an iron fist, enslaves those who defy her, and stole Rapunzel from her real parents. Rapunzel certainly won't take that lying down.

* FreudianExcuse: Gothel tries to justify that because her parents abandoned her, she's entitled to take this world by storm.

* PrinceCharmless: A wealthy plantation owner arrives at the tower in order to tell Rapunzel he'll rescue her, but is fully planning on stringing her along instead of upsetting Mother Gothel, as he admits... [[DramaticIrony to Rapunzel]], who has already escaped the tower.

* ShadowArchestype: [[spoiler: Blunderboar points out that he and Jack are both devious and scheming, and this [[HeroicBSOD breaks]] Jack at first. But Rapunzel points out that there's a glaring difference between the two. Blunderboar is a cruel monster who doesn't care who he hurts to get what he wants, whereas Jack cares about his friends and his mother, and has a conscience to boot.]]

* PrinceCharmless: A wealthy plantation owner arrives at the tower in order to tell Rapunzel he'll rescue her, but is fully planning on stringing her along instead of upsetting Mother Gothel, as he admits... to Rapunzel, who has already escaped the tower.

* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Gothel in the climax claims that she locked up Rapunzel in the tower to make her stronger, and she says SoProudOfYou when [[spoiler: a captured Rapunzel refuses to break]].