History WesternAnimation / BarbieAsRapunzel

%%* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Rapunzel at the masquerade.

* PrincessesPreferPink: Rapunzel wears a pink dress as her regular ensemble, though her fancier dress for the masquerade is lavender. Though it is a tad strange that someone raised as a servant is dressed better than the village peasants, but she may simply be wearing one of [[VainSorceress Gothel's]] cast-offs dyed pink.

* MasqueradeBall: The film's climax takes place at this event. The "masquerade" part is especially important, as Gothel uses such a mask, combined with Rapunzel's cut hair, to fool Stefan.

* LettingHerHairDown: Rapunzel's hair is braided for most of the film, either in a long braid with her servant dress, or in plaited braids with her masquerade gown. However, during the dream sequence, her braid is completely undone, revealing her hair to be four times as longer than it appeared to be.

* InNameOnly: This film bears little resemblance the Brothers Grimm fairy tale by the same name; the plot of the story only appears as a dream sequence here. All it has in common is a girl named Rapunzel who has unusually long hair and a witch who keeps her locked in a tower. The focus of the film is instead on Rapunzel using magic paintbrush to find out the truth of her origins and escape her abusive guardian.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Gothel demonstrates this twice. First, she continually accuses Rapunzel of dishonesty, not once trusting her when she says she never told Stefan her name. It never crosses her mind that perhaps, Rapunzel is telling the truth. Second, [[spoiler: 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 [[WickedStepmother treats]] her surrogate daughter Rapunzel (despite believing she's the daughter she and Wilhelm could've had), he's got her pegged.]]

* DamselOutOfDistress: Rapunzel manages to get out of most the scrapes she finds herself of her own accord.

* CuteClumsyGirl: Penelope, whose big tail and [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength untrained fire and strength]] can jump up at the worst times (and yet it conveniently works out for the plot).

* AssholeVictim: Given that Gothel is emotionally abusive towards Rapunzel, kidnapped Rapunzel out of petty revenge against her father, repeatedly accused the girl of both being ungrateful and a liar when she herself is both and chained up Hugo to punish him for Penelope’s lack of loyalty of her, it’s hard to feel sorry for her when Rapunzel and Penelope trick her into getting trapped by her own spell, effectively punishing her for her actions against them and banishing her from their lives for good.

* AssholeVictim: Given that Gothel is emotionally abusive towards Rapunzel, kidnapped Rapunzel out of petty revenge against her father, repeatedly accused the girl of both being ungrateful and a liar when she herself is both and chained up Hugo to punish him for Penelope’s lack of loyalty of her, it’s hard to feel sorry for her when Rapunzel and Penelope trick her into getting trapped by her own spell, effectively punishing her for her actions against them and banishing her from their lives for good, and abandoned to her well-deserved fate by Hugo.

* AssholeVictim: Given that Gothel is emotionally abusive towards Rapunzel and her friends, kidnapped Rapunzel out of petty revenge against her father, repeatedly accused the girl of both being ungrateful and a liar when she herself is both and chained up Hugo to punish him for Penelope’s lack of loyalty of her, it’s hard to feel sorry for her when Rapunzel and Penelope tricked into getting trapped by her own spell, effectively punishing her for her actions against them and banishing her from their lives for good, and abandoned to her well-deserved fate by Hugo.

* AssholeVictim: Given that Gothel is emotional abusive towards Rapunzel and her friends, kidnapped Rapunzel out of petty revenge against her father, repeatedly accused the girl of both being ungrateful and a liar when she herself is both and chained up Hugo to punish him for Penelope’s lack of loyalty of her, it’s hard to feel sorry for her when Rapunzel and Penelope tricked into getting trapped by her own spell, effectively punishing her for her actions against them and banishing her from their lives for good, and abandoned to her well-deserved fate by Hugo.

* Asshole Victim: Given that Gothel is emotional abusive towards Rapunzel and her friends, kidnapped Rapunzel out of petty revenge against her father, repeatedly accused the girl of both being ungrateful and a liar when she herself is both and chained up Hugo to punish him for Penelope’s lack of loyalty of her, it’s hard to feel sorry for her when Rapunzel and Penelope tricked into getting trapped by her own spell, effectively punishing her for her actions against them and banishing her from their lives for good, and abandoned to her well-deserved fate by Hugo.