History WesternAnimation / TangledTheSeries

* CompressedHair: Rapunzel's hair gets compressed to be manageble.

* AlchemyIsMagic: Varian is often assumed to be a wizard, but he insists it's only alchemy.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome/TangledTheSeries see here.]]

* CreateYourOwnVillain:
** The reason why Varian turned against Rapunzel in the first season was simply because she refused to come to his aide during Zhan Tiri's blizzard.

* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: "Queen For a Day": The Demanitus Device manages to end the blizzard, Pascal survives upon un-jamming it, Eugene and the thugs come out alive, Rapunzel is reunited with her parents, and Eugene promises he'll be with her when it's time for her to rule. However, Varian's is the only problem that was not solved, with Quirin encased in crystal, and he vows payback on everyone, who turned their backs on him, even Rapunzel.

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Varian]] repeatedly after his FaceHeelTurn. He blames Rapunzel (and by extension, the whole kingdom) because she couldn't come to his aid because of the blizzard getting worse and her parents are missing, when really, it was his own actions that caused his predicament. Even in his final moments [[spoiler:when he fails to free his father]], he still claims that this isn't his fault and that Rapunzel and the royal family should suffer.
* NeverSayDie: Downplayed. Though the Enchanted Girl ([[spoiler:Zhan Tiri]]) tries to get Cassandra to "destroy" Rapunzel, the tone in her voice while giving off this command, and her clearly malicious intentions, still manages to make it sound ominous.

* CompressedHair: RapunzelHair gets compressed to be manageble.

* HairReboot: Rapunzel's hair once again qualifies as RapunzelHair despite getting a haircut during the climax of ''Tangled'', and her new hair, instead of its magnificent healing, is indestructible. Some sort of indestructible black spikes have sprouted where the flower once grew, and touching them restores her hair and gives it the same properties as the spikes. [[spoiler:This was because of some of the Moonstone's powers from the rocks entering her hair upon contact, so she can be protected on her journey to the Dark Kingdom.]]

* AdultFear:
** The King still has flashbacks to when Gothel stole his baby girl, and he could only call the guards for help.
** Rapunzel thinks she has finally earned her happy ending, only to find that her parents, specifically her father, are overprotective and forcing her into the princess role by necessity, and that she isn't ready to [[spoiler:accept Eugene's proposal]].
** The opening scene from "Pascal's Story": Pascal's mother, in order to [[spoiler:save Pascal's life from a snake threatening them, makes sure Pascal can escape safely--but she basically sacrifices herself doing so]].
** Red and Angry are two orphaned kids (looking no older than 8) forced into a life of crime, [[spoiler:and they are being ''hunted down'' by a group of older bandits.]]

* ForegoneConclusion: ''WesternAnimation/TangledEverAfter'' in Real Life was released ''before'' this series, but In Universe takes place after it. Given the state of things in ''Tangled Ever After'', the following things are bound to turn out a certain way whatever happens in the series:

** The mysterious black rocks in the "What the Hair?" premiere episode that made Rapunzel's hair magically grow extra long, start sprouting up again in Old Corona and play a crucial part of the episodes "Queen For a Day", "The Quest for Varian", "The Alchemist Returns", and "Secret of the Sun Drop".
** The first song of the series is "Happily Ever After After All". The last song is a reprise of it.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Eugene's comb, [[NumberOneDime the first thing he ever stole]], appears in "Eugene vs. Cassandra" before being properly introduced as a plot point in "Big Brothers of Corona."

* AmbiguouslyLesbian: There are several moments of LesYay between Rapunzel and Cassandra here and there. It's more of a case of AmbiguouslyBi for Rapunzel, since she and Eugene are the OfficialCouple.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: This series is a setting where characters have issues that would require therapy, which is quite justified by the fact that this series takes place during a time when therapy is still in its infancy:

--> '''Adira:''' It didn't cut.
--> '''Rapunzel:''' It didn't break.

* TheVoiceless: Freidborg, the plain-looking castle maid who is often mistaken for Cassandra since they wear similar gowns, has yet to be heard from, provided she can actually speak...

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: "Lost and Found," has this towards the very end, when Eugene reads a message from Vigor the Visionary (who was revealed to be Lord Demantius, creator of the scroll they've been following) saying that one person from Rapunzel's party will betray her once they reach the Dark Kingdom. As Eugene looks at the group, he notices Cassandra giving the most devious of smiles, causing him to believe that the traitor is her. It comes true in the next episode.]]

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: At the end of "Queen For a Day" as Rapunzel is shaken from the most difficult day of her life and is unsure if she wants to be queen, Eugene cheers her by saying that's long away from now, and when the time comes, no matter what happens, he'll be right with her.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: This series is a setting where characters have issues that would require therapy, which is quite justified by the fact that this series takes place during a time when therapy is still in it's infancy:

* NeverSayDie: Downplayed. Though the Enchanted Girl tries to get Cassandra to "destroy" Rapunzel, the tone in her voice while giving off this command, and her clearly malicious intentions, still manages to make it sound ominous.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In his first appearance, being hit by a magnifying glass on the head causes Varian to bleed. Later appearances, particularly from the third season, tend to have him MadeOfIron, coming out ''entirely'' unharmed from being hit multiple times on a chest by multiple dull edged black rocks, being imprisoned in a cage in mid-air, nearly falling to his death, jumping from a high height, or standing next to the explosion of an invention that was felt throughout all of Corona. The only instance where he's shown going through physical pain is when Zhan Tiri is using the Decay Incantation on Corona.

* BondingOverMissingParents: In the episode Recap/TangledTheSeriesS1E05CassandraVEugene of the first season, Rapunzel tries to get Eugene and Cassandra to bond by [[LockedInARoom locking them in a cell together for a day]]. Eventually, the two get into a discussion about Cassandra's father, the Captain of the Royal Guard, and Cassandra reveals that he is her adoptive father and she has never met her real parents. Eugene also reveals that he was an orphan as well, having never met his parents either. Then Eugene tries to invoke this trope to bond with Cassandra, asking her what she did fantasize her parents were, but Cassandra tells him [[TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason she doesn't want to discuss this with Eugene]]. Eugene feels very offended and accuses Cassandra of defying this trope, but the audience will discover in the third season that Cassandra did this not to deny Eugene of bonding, but because [[spoiler: she is repressing the painful memory of being abandoned by his mother the day she kidnapped a baby Rapunzel.]]

->''Now I got my eyes open and wider\\

''Tangled: The Series'' is an American animated series created for Creator/DisneyChannel and executive produced by Shane Prigmore & Chris Sonnenburg. The series is [[RecycledTheSeries based on]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} the animated film of the same name]], making it the first animated series based on a Disney movie in over a decade (following ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' in 2006), and the first based on a Franchise/DisneyPrincess-affiliated property since ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' in 1994.

Season 2 shifted its focus to outside Corona as Rapunzel leaves her kingdom with Eugene and Cassandra in tow to follow the black rocks to a place called the Dark Kingdom, so she can unlock her one true destiny. In the third and final season, Rapunzel is back in Corona, and both she and Cassandra struggle to fulfull their destinies.

* RealityEnsues:
** The first song in Tangled: Before Ever After details life for Rapunzel in Corona following her return. She has to get used to many cultural norms and traditions that she was deprived of when she was isolated in her tower. She keeps saying how she's happy and that despite everything, she seems just fine. It shows that happily ever after might not be all it's cracked up to be.
** While Rapunzel is a MagneticHero and overall nice person, she has never had proper social interactions with anyone other than Pascal and Mother Gothel for eighteen years, and six months after that, she's only interacted with the castle residents. So, when she meets visiting aristocrats, she does some mildly inappropriate things.
** The king and queen try to give Rapunzel constant princess lessons to make up for eighteen years of lost time. It's not enough to make her SilkHidingSteel.
** As many a statistics expert can say, cracking down on parents that commit petty crimes to support their families will not endear people to the authorities or offer much familial stability.
** Having spent eighteen years not knowing where his daughter was or if she was even alive can do a number on someone's psyche. King Frederic's over-protectiveness may be overkill, but it's not unrealistic given the circumstances.
** Eugene may have turned over a new leaf and been formally pardoned for all the crimes he committed, but people still remember he was the most wanted thief in the kingdom. The Captain of the Guards dislikes him and attempts to sabotage his attempts to become a royal guard. While it seems the King likes him, he isn't totally on board with him marrying the Princess of Corona. Queen Arianna ends up having to be the most ReasonableAuthorityFigure about her future son-in-law.
** During "Queen for a Day", Rapunzel quickly solves three problems of the people of Corona during a song. In the next verse, those same people return explaining how the solutions caused new problems.
** After turning Varian away during the blizzard, [[spoiler:Rapunzel never went to go check on him after the storm had passed, or at least sent someone to see how he was doing. This just further caused Varian to think she had abandoned him completely and that he couldn't trust her anymore, and when they meet again ''three months'' later he's willing to go against her and all of Corona in an attempt to save his father.]]
** In "Queen for a Day", Rapunzel gambles the safety of her kingdom and all her subjects on an old legend she only heard hours before. She winds up being right, but that gamble combined with all the other hard decisions she had to make gives her some pretty serious anxiety about making ''any'' decisions for a while.
** In "Secret of the Sundrop" Varian is a TeenGenius who manages to be a OneManArmy but he knows he cannot beat a whole army and the ShowyInvincibleHero by himself. As he explains to Queen Ariana, his real plan is to distract everyone, release his father from the Amber, and then execute a desperate LastVillainStand.
** In "Beyond The Corona Walls", Eugene wants to propose to Rapunzel again, only to have all his friends telling him that is [[UnfortunateImplications a horrible idea]] because Rapunzel has been trapped in a GildedCage for 18 years and he is the first guy she has met. Even Eugene's PsychoExGirlfriend asks him an ArmorPiercingQuestion:
-->''We've all heard the story by now, how the daring never do well thief rescued the lost princess from her tower, let me ask you, do you really thing it's fair to ask a girl who spent the first 18 years of her life in prison to give up her freedom for a life long relationship with someone like you?''
** In "Beyond The Corona Walls", Rapunzel learns the hard way that her RejectedMarriageProposal where she rejected to be married to Eugene also means that ''Eugene is not married to her'', so Eugene's PsychoExGirlfriend forces him to a ShotgunWedding and Rapunzel's first reaction is wallow in FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen.
** Even though Rapunzel mostly JumpedAtTheCall and always wanted to explore the world, She [[HomeSweetHome misses her new-found home and parents while she is away from them]] in the Season 2 episode "Happiness Is..."
** When [[spoiler:King Edmund]] pulls a LukeIAmYourFather on [[spoiler:Eugene]], the latter doesn't believe it for a second, brushing off resemblances as coincidence and assuming the former is just crazy.

Season 2 shifted its focus to outside Corona as Rapunzel leaves her kingdom with Eugene and Cassandra in tow to follow the black rocks to a place called the Dark Kingdom, so she can unlock her one true destiny. The third and final season has Cass turn against Rapunzel out of jealousy, and is secretly manipulated by the evil Zhan Tiri, who plots to use both girls' powers to destroy Corona.

The series premiered on March 10, 2017 with a one-hour PilotMovie entitled ''Tangled: Before Ever After''. The second season premiered on June 24, 2018 [[NewSeasonNewName under the new title]] ''Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure''. The [[https://collider.com/rapunzels-tangled-adventure-season-3-release-date/ 3rd season]] premiered October 7, 2019.

[[https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpne6vglsTw/?taken-by=followpascal On October 31, 2018]], it was confirmed that the series will be ending after three seasons. Production officially wrapped on May 10, 2019 and the series finale aired March 1, 2020.