History Headscratchers / Rapunzel

##If she did leave and come back, Gothel would have noticed that she left (i.e ''Barbie As Repunzel'')
##She wouldn't have gotten real far nor would she really be able to fend for herself outside of the tower.

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* Medieval superstition said it was terrible luck to deny a pregnant woman something she was craving. So maybe his wife was craving the vegetables at night, and he just didn't want to piss the witch off by waking her up. She's a witch so he has no idea what she'll do if he knocks on her door at night, demanding vegetables from her garden instantly.

* Medieval superstition said it was terrible luck to deny a pregnant woman any kind of food she was craving. So maybe his wife was craving the vegetables at night, and he just didn't want to piss the witch off by waking her up. She's a witch so he has no idea what she'll do if he knocks on her door at night, demanding vegetables from her garden instantly.

** Plus if they were living next-door to a witch and DIDN'T think of buying rampion from literally any other gardener, [[SympatheticCriminal they probably couldn't AFFORD to buy it.]]

** In the Disney version, Disney/{{Tangled}}, they show that there is indeed a door at the base of the tower. It has since been covered by bricks and hedges, and leads to a trapdoor on the tower's ground floor, which Rapunzel may or may not know about. Not that she needs the door, as her hair is long enough for her to rappel herself down from the top floor window. Her imprisonment in this version is mostly psychological. The tower was there mainly to keep other people out... though the "prince" manages to scale it without Rapunzel's help.

* In some versions, Rapunzel asks for some thread/rope so she can make a ladder. Cutting her hair and going down from it could have helped too... only the witch was smart enought to think of that...

* In some versions, Rapunzel asks for some thread/rope so she can make ladder. Cutting her hair and going down from it could have helped too... only the witch was smart enought to think of that...

* Seeing as the original version had Rapunzel getting knocked up halfway through, it's possible that the prince was having a bit too much... fun during the visits to want to hurry the rescue along.
* This troper read one version where the prince does promise Rapunzel on their first meeting that he'll come back the next day with a ladder. Unfortunately, Rapunzel [[IdiotBall spills the beans to the witch]] before then.
[[WMG:How did the Witch climbed to the tower before Rapunzel hair was long enough?]]
Or did she just make her to grow her hair to save herself the bother of carrying each time a huge ladder? Another thing: If the witch needed Rapunzel to get into the tower, how did she get Rapunzel up there in the first place? Throw her?

* The building could originally had a door and stairs, which were destroyed after they took everything they needed inside and covered with more bricks, or maybe they just used a ladder.

** Most versions have her wrapping her hair around a post before the witch or prince climb her hair, which, by the way, would be totally possible. Healthy hair is strong enough to hold up a car.
*** ... How did they find that out?

*** I don't know about cars, but Kari climbed down a several-story building with a "rope" made of braided-together ponytails.
[[WMG: Why didn't the husband offer to ''buy'' some of the Witch's plants vs stealing them?]]

[[WMG: Why didn't the husband offer to ''buy'' some of the Witch's plants vs stealing them.]]

[[WMG: Another one is why didn't the husband offer to ''buy'' some of the Witch's plants vs stealing them.]]

** And in some versions the witch hypnotises the wife into wanting the vegetables in the first place, so it's possible she hypnotised the husband into stealing them.

** In the Disney version, Disney/{{Tangled}}, they show that there is indeed a door at the base of the tower. It has since been covered by bricks and hedges, and leads to a trapdoor on the tower's ground floor, which Rapunzel may or may not know about. Not that she needs the door, as her hair is long enough for her to repel herself down from the top floor window. Her imprisonment in this version is mostly psychological. The tower was there mainly to keep other people out... though the "prince" manages to scale it without Rapunzel's help.

* How didn't her neck break from the prince's weight?

*** ''{{Mythbusters}}'', I think.

** In the Disney version, {{Tangled}}, they show that there is indeed a door at the base of the tower. It has since been covered by bricks and hedges, and leads to a trapdoor on the tower's ground floor, which Rapunzel may or may not know about. Not that she needs the door, as her hair is long enough for her to repel herself down from the top floor window. Her imprisonment in this version is mostly psychological. The tower was there mainly to keep other people out... though the "prince" manages to scale it without Rapunzel's help.

* [[RuleOfFunny Yes.]]

** In the Disney version, [[Tangled]], they show that there is indeed a door at the base of the tower. It has since been covered by bricks and ivy, and leads to a trapdoor on the tower's ground floor, which Rapunzel may or may not know about. Not that she needs the door, as her hair is long enough for her to repel herself down from the top floor window. Her imprisonment in this version is mostly psychological. The tower was there mainly to keep other people out... though the "prince" manages to scale it without Rapunzel's help.

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