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1	For YMMV on ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'', see [[YMMV/TangledTheSeries here]].
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3	* AccidentalInnuendo:
4	-->'''Rapunzel''': I've got a ''person'' in my ''closet''!
5	* {{Adorkable}}: Rapunzel has a bit of an overbite, crossed eyes, turned in feet, and she lisps when she talks at times, [[http://i.imgur.com/rOLDvVc.gif hides in her hair like a cocoon]] during the song "Mother Knows Best" when afraid. She's a GenkiGirl, overall naïve, very pretty, and downright adorably {{Moe}}.
6	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
7	** Mother Gothel gets a lot of this.
8	*** Did she only care about Rapunzel's hair and just pretended to be a doting mother, or did she come to genuinely love her in the 18 years she raised her? [[spoiler: Rapunzel's hair is more important in the end]], but Gothel does small things that make one think twice like her "I love you" "I love you more" "I love you most" game and her surprising Rapunzel by cooking her favorite food. Fans are still debating. However if you pay attention, when she says "I love you most" she kisses her forehead. This could be taken that she loves her hair most. Or she's just ''that'' good of an actress to fool the audience with a rather convincing performance. It helps that she happens to have a lot of ''very'' subtle hints.
9	*** Some believe that Gothel's actions are motivated by her [[MortalityPhobia fear of dying]] and not just vanity, even though she's never shown being afraid of ''dying'' per se, [[VainSorceress merely aging]]. She's shown to be obsessed with youth, constantly checking the mirror for any signs of age or imperfection, has Rapunzel sing for her even when she's the least bit "run-down," and even puts Rapunzel down to compliment her own looks. [[spoiler: Even when Eugene cuts Rapunzel's hair, Gothel seems most upset by the irreversible appearance of wrinkles. First thing she does after realizing the hair is gone is to check her reflection in the mirror, and then pull her hood over her face in shame and horror at her withered appearance]]. While fear of aging is also a very relatable motive, Gothel's complete obsession with it can come across as... a bit petty and shallow.
10	---->'''Gothel''': Rapunzel, look in that mirror. You know what I see? I see a strong, confident, ''beautiful'' young lady.\
11	'''Rapunzel''': [''swells with confidence'']\
12	'''Gothel''': Oh look, you're here too! [''laughs''] I'm just teasing! Stop taking everything so seriously. [''leans forward to examine her own features more closely in the mirror'']
13	*** Flynn's opening narration says that Gothel is a witch. Other than activating the magic in the flower, and later Rapunzel's hair, she displays no obvious signs of having powers. She accomplishes lots of her villainy through quick thinking and deception, so it's left open whether she is a witch with milder magic (she had to have figured out how to activate the flower somehow) or just a well-accomplished BadassNormal.
14	*** In the prologue, Gothel only sneaks into the nursery with the intention of taking Rapunzel's hair, hoping to get the magic that way. It's only when she realizes the hair won't work if it's cut off that she kidnaps the child. A case of EvenEvilHasStandards? But on the other hand, it would have been much easier to steal a lock of hair as opposed to kidnapping a princess, not to mention having to raise and care for her so maybe this is just PragmaticVillainy. In the novelization, she came with a ''knife'' to kill the baby in revenge for losing her flower and only thought of cutting the hair on seeing the golden locks.
15	** Why didn't Gothel share the flower's magic with the king and queen? Even if the queen was in no state to walk, Gothel could have sung the incantation with the golden flower in a pot, and she would have won their favor for eternity while keeping her eternal youth. Is she that selfish from years of being alone that she didn't consider being an OpportunisticBastard?
16	*** The implication of the opening sequence is that to ''permanently'' cure the queen of her illness, the flower had to be completely used up in making the medicine; sharing wasn't an option. Gothel's technique might have worked to keep the queen from dying indefinitely the same way it kept Gothel from aging indefinitely, but if that had to be repeated on a daily basis the same way the anti-aging song does, that would have trapped Gothel into permanently staying at the queen's side (and possibly condemned the queen herself to [[BlessedWithSuck a perpetual cycle of rapidly sickening again]] as each treatment ran out).
17	*** Furthermore, Gothel definitely seems like the sort of person who'd be sincerely convinced that HumansAreBastards, and be certain (not unreasonably, for that matter) that any revelation of the flower's abilities to ''anyone'' else would inevitably lead to her losing control over it; King Frederic and Queen Arianna might have been noble enough never to force Gothel to heal anyone else she didn't want to, or to permanently rob her of it, but it's almost certain that eventually one of their successors would have succumbed to temptation, given that the flower is basically an immortality drug.
18	** Near the end, after [[spoiler:Rapunzel's hair turns brown,]] Eugene tells her [[HasAType he has a thing for brunettes]]. Maybe it's true, or maybe he's being an UnreliableNarrator again and says so to reassure her.
19	** Flynn screwing over the Stabbington Bros. comes right after their demand to keep the crown while he scales the cliff made it clear they didn't trust him. Did Flynn unapologetically prove them right, or did he decide to stab them in the back [[DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs before they could get a chance to do so to]] ''[[DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs him?]]''
20	* AngstWhatAngst: Rapunzel is emotionally abused for 18 years, and the consequences seem to be over in a few days. At the end of the film, she has [[spoiler: realized that her life is a lie, found out that her maternal figure was exploiting her and possibly never loved her at all, and witnessed the {{Family Unfriendly Death}}s of two people close to her (though one of them at least got better).]] None of this trauma is even mentioned in the epilogue. In an [[WhatCouldHaveBeen earlier version of the script]] this was more averted as Rapunzel clearly had fears about the outside world, however eventually she was reworked into a PluckyGirl. [[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries The TV show]] amends this a little by showing Rapunzel, while still a generally positive person, does have occasional nightmares about Mother Gothel, and when the "[[Recap/TangledTheSeriesS1E11PascalsStory Pascal's Story]]" episode finds her having to return to the tower she lived in with Gothel for 18 years, she is quite shaken.
21	* {{Applicability}}: Without context, the reprise of ''Mother Knows Best'' could easily be taken as a domestic between Gothel and Rapunzel, the cynical mother warning her virginal daughter about the dangers of giving yourself to an unsavoury stranger who, likely as not, [[AManIsAlwaysEager only wants one thing from you]]. Rapunzel's rebellious comeback during the song really drives this home, as does their tearful reconciliation after Flynn breaks her heart. Of course, nothing is as it seems, but the metaphor is a strong one.
22	* AwardSnub: It lost a Golden Globe to ''[[Film/{{Burlesque}} Cher!]]''. And why did this film have to come out in the same year as ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''? It wasn't even nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar. Ironically enough, Mother Gothel was indeed modelled after Cher herself!
23	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
24	** Alan Menken composed the score for this film; the songs may not be up to a ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' caliber, but they're still great. "When Will My Life Begin" and its reprise in particular are awesome.
25	** The Pub Thugs get a SugarWiki/FunnyMoments song with "I've Got A Dream".
26	** "I See The Light" is absolutely beautiful.
27	** Mother Gothel's reprise of "Mother Knows Best" deserves an honorable mention. That song is EPIC. And the first, longer version has a Broadway feel to it. Heck, the quality of every song in this movie could allow the movie to be made into a Broadway play.
28	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYfySVrQxto Kingdom Dance]]". This score and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chppF5jqKNw scene]] that it accompanies is simply wonderful. No dialogue, but the sense of wonder and excitement as Rapunzel and Eugene spend time together in Corona and the dance is amazing.
29	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Mother Gothel. With the exception of [[DracoInLeatherPants apologist]] fans, few will deny that she is a great villain and an uncomfortably accurate depiction of an emotional abuser, but it's that accuracy that turns off some fans who prefer Disney's over-the-top villains over ones who're more realistically (and therefore less entertainingly) evil. Disney having even less entertaining villains in some of [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 their]] [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 following]] [[{{WesternAnimation/Zootopia}} movies]] made Gothel better liked by some fans in retrospect since she is not a twist villain to the audience and acts more like a traditional Disney villain than her successors, though it also made other fans blame her for [[FranchiseOriginalSin setting a precedent]] for said successors due to her realism.
30	* CatharsisFactor: After seeing Gothel psychologically torture Rapunzel for years on end, both [[CallingTheOldWomanOut Rapunzel chewing her out for her abuse]] and [[KarmicDeath her own death]] are nothing short of satisfaction. This is especially helpful for abuse victims themselves.
31	* CrackShip: Mother Gothel x Eugene has a small but dedicated following.
32	* CrossoverShip:
33	** Mother Gothel x [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]] for similar motives, while Rapunzel and [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Quasimodo]] get paired up as platonic BFF's.
34	** If you go to Fanfiction.net and look up ''Tangled'' in the crossovers section, you will find 3 ''Tangled''[=/=]''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' crossovers. All three of them ship Megamind/Rapunzel ([[PortmanteauCoupleName Megapunzel]] or [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming Tangled Mind]]).
35	** Rapunzel is shipped with [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 Young!Once-ler]], Hiccup from ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'', Jack from ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Elsa and Anna from ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'', and Merida from ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', especially in ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheBraveTangledDragons'' fandom.
36	** Rapunzel also gets shipped with either Princess Fiona or Shrek himself from ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''.
37	** One of particular note is Sora from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. Sora meets Rapunzel in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' and (as the game retells the events of the movie), Sora shares many moments with her in place of Flynn, to the point that, in the context of the game, some say it would have made more sense to have them together instead.
38	** Hans (from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}'') and Gothel have their fans together. Gothel being at least ([[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld physically]]) in her forties, while Hans is in his early twenties might {{squick}} some; however, others enjoy their similarities as [[spoiler:FauxAffablyEvil villains]].
39	* DracoInLeatherPants: Mother Gothel has quite a committed fanbase, which can get rather over-enthusiastic in either downplaying or defending her actions throughout the movie and giving her sympathetic origins or motives that are based on [[WildMassGuessing fan theorising]] and [[EpilepticTrees guesswork]] rather than what's presented in the movie proper. Even if those motives were true, this is still a character who kidnaps a child, spends 18 years {{gaslighting}} and emotionally crippling her and later ''chains her up'' and tries to kill her boyfriend, all in a vain and selfish effort to keep the child and her healing powers to herself.
40	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
41	** Actual horse, in the case of Maximus.
42	** The Snuggly Duckling Thugs. They are one of the movie's best surprises.
43	** Pascal -- in all his AnimalReactionShot SilentSnarker glory, people can't get enough of [[LoyalAnimalCompanion the little guy]]!
44	* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: The movie's story has many aspects of a solar myth.
45	* FanNickname: Originally titled ''Rapunzel'' and sometimes identified as being the Disney version ''of'' Rapunzel as such.
46	* {{Fanon}}:
47	** Fanfic writers have started a trend where Rapunzel calls [[spoiler:Eugene]] by his former assumed name of Flynn Rider affectionately, instead of using his real name, in fics. ''Tangled: The Series'' seems to debunk this fanon as Rapunzel just uses [[spoiler:"Eugene"]].
48	** Fanfic writers almost always refer to Rapunzel's father as "Thomas" while her mother is "Primrose", though this has now been {{Jossed}} by ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'', revealing them to be Frederic and Arianna.
49	** Mother Gothel's first name is speculated to be Esther.
50	** Elsa and Anna from ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'' being Rapunzel's younger cousins is popular with both fandoms. Fans differ on whether Anna's and Elsa's father or their mother is related to Rapunzel's mother, though most lean on their mother. There's further support for this in the fact that as revealed in ''Tangled: The Series'', Rapunzel's mother's name is Ari''anna''. ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' debunked the latter part, revealing that Anna and Elsa's mother was in fact a tribeswoman of the Northuldra people rather than of royal blood.
51	** Gothel has a fear of aging and dying. This is despite, as mentioned above, the movie implies her fears are instead due to vanity.
52	** A fan theory is that [[spoiler: Gothel suffered DeathByRapidAging because she was touching the hair as it lost its powers - thereby suffering the opposite effect of touching it while it's healing]].
53	* FranchiseOriginalSin:
54	** [[spoiler:Hans]] from ''Frozen'' is usually cited as the start of Disney's twist villains, but many detractors of the trend cite Mother Gothel as the original. She's clearly not a completely good person, but it's not clear if she is [[MyBelovedSmother genuinely overprotective]] of Rapunzel or not until the tail end of the film. Many Disney fans and critics dislike the toned-down twist villains commonplace in the 2010s and prefer the campy, ObviouslyEvil villains of previous films. However, unlike [[spoiler:Hans]] whose twist [[AssPull comes out of left field]], Gothel is made more ObviouslyEvil and it’s more for Rapunzel rather than the audience to see her true nature.
55	** Rapunzel debuted a new protagonist mold for Disney, with her being a naïve, clumsy, and socially awkward lead who demonstrated several "adorkable" traits to make her relatable and quirky. This direction was praised for setting her apart from more poised or serious predecessor protagonists, and for fitting the story of a girl with an abusive guardian and no social experience to really train her. However, the success of the film and Rapunzel led to her "adorkable" traits being mirrored in protagonists like [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Anna]], [[{{WesternAnimation/Moana}} Moana]], and [[{{WesternAnimation/Encanto}} Mirabel]] before widely hitting the point of audience fatigue with [[WesternAnimation/Wish2023 Asha]]. Rapunzel and Anna had NoSocialSkills because they were isolated for years, and Moana and Mirabel still had enough HiddenDepths and/or CharacterDevelopment to make them feel distinct. Asha, on the other hand, has been criticized for being "adorkable" for the sake of it and for lacking other traits that sets her apart from her predecessors. At that point, many audience members began critiquing the "adorkable" approach and calling for change in Disney's character writing after finding the formula oversaturated, over-emphasized, stale, and detrimental to the sincerity of the storytelling.
56	* GeniusBonus: Hook Hand dreams of becoming a concert pianist even though he is missing a hand. Silly, right? Tell that to the one-armed concert pianists [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittgenstein Paul Wittgenstein]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Rapp Siegfried Rapp]]. The former even commissioned none other than Music/MauriceRavel to write an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_for_the_Left_Hand_(Ravel) entire piano concerto designed for one hand]].
57	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This movie was very popular with people of all ages in India, of all places, due to the uncanny coincidence that Rapunzel's "See The Light" song reminds many Indian people of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali Diwali]] (the Hindu festival of lights).
58	* HarsherInHindsight:
59	** Mother Gothel's abusive treatment of Rapunzel becomes even harsher in the third season of ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''. [[spoiler:Turns out that Gothel had a biological daughter of her own whom she treated like a slave, only to abandon her in favour of Rapunzel. It's even ''more'' harsh if you believe that Gothel started to genuinely care for Rapunzel like a daughter, once you realise that she had tossed aside her actual daughter. ''Ouch''.]]
60	** InUniverse, Eugene tried to manipulate Rapunzel into ending her "forbidden road trip" and going back home to her "overprotective mother" so he could claim his satchel. One can imagine what was going through his mind when he realized the context of Rapunzel being in that tower her entire life, and he almost convinced her to go back to what was essentially her prison. And even ''worse'' much later when he realizes her mother, "the old lady," sold her out to the Stabbington brothers and must have taken her back.
61	** Gothel's emotionally abusive treatment of Rapunzel might be even more uncomfortable to watch [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/02/18/ryan-adams-sexual-misconduct-accusations-mandy-moore-phoebe-bridgers/2905163002/ when you read about how Mandy Moore's marriage to Ryan Adams deteriorated.]]
62	** After Jeffery Tambor was fired from ''Series/{{Transparent}}'' for sexual harassment, his thug character singing about making a "love connection" comes off as a lot skeevier.
63	** Rapunzel tells Flynn that she will never break a promise she made. Come ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'', [[spoiler:Rapunzel fails to keep a promise to Varian to save his father, leading to his StartOfDarkness that damaged the two's friendship until Season 3.]]
64	** Rapunzel being abducted for eighteen years may remind some viewers of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Dugard Jaycee Dugard]], who was kidnapped by a convicted sex offender and held captive for around the same amount of time as Rapunzel. Dugard even recalled in her memoirs that she stared longingly at the moon during her time in captivity, much as how Rapunzel stared at the floating lights her parents launched in an effort to find her.
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72	* HilariousInHindsight:
73	** Rapunzel became kind of a template for Disney protagonists afterward, much of them being {{Adorkable}} and quirky like her. When a [[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries sequel series]] was made, perhaps recognizing how similar she might seem to those characters, she was made into more of a confident ActionGirl (and her status as ThePollyanna is even deconstructed), thus distancing her character from others that are technically inspired by her
74	** See 'Award Snub' above, then think a bit about [[Music/{{Cher}} who Mother Gothel looks like]].
75	** There was a RunningGag in the fandom that Flynn looked like [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Ezio Auditore]] (not to mention he also likes running on rooftops and trying to seduce women). Flynn's voice actor, Zachary Levi, dressed as Ezio during the intro to the 2011 VGA's.
76	** Another is that Rapunzel is essentially [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Hungary]] with a wig. Must be her FryingPanOfDoom.
77	** Zachary Levi is [[TheOtherDarrin Darrining]] the role of another Creator/ErrolFlynn {{Expy}}... [[Film/{{Thor}} Fandral]]. He was even the first choice for Fandral in the first movie...which went to Josh Dallas who also played a composite of Rapunzel's prince in ''Series/OnceUponATime''.
78	** Vladimir, a big buff man, [[RealMenWearPink having a collection of ceramic unicorns]] will likely make people think of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Bronies]]. [[note]]It should be noted that ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' came out just over a month before ''Tangled'' did, however, the Brony fandom was still in its beginning stages of development and was relatively under-known when the movie was released, making this scene even more hilarious, especially given the ProductionLeadTime.[[/note]]
79	** The [[http://www.energyenhancement.org/tangled_full.jpg symbol]] of the kingdom Corona also looks quite a bit like [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Celestia's]] [[http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/137/5/e/princess_celestia_cutie_mark_by_blackgryph0n-d3gjklv.png cutie mark]].
80	** Creator/AmandaSeyfried is commonly cited as the actress who most matches Rapunzel in real life. Later, when ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' came out, Seyfried's first song has her with her hair in a plait, singing about how her life's begun and how she's been kept away from the outside world by her single parent.
81	** A girl with magical blonde hair and a dark-haired villainess wanting to keep that power all to herself. Are we talking about ''Tangled'' or ''WesternAnimation/LadyLovelyLocks''?
82	** Mother Gothel is said to be an {{Expy}} of the Witch of ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''. Now that her voice actor, Donna Murphy, has starred as the Witch in a 2012 production of the musical, it appears that it's come full circle!
83	** Zachary Levi said part of the reason why he voiced Flynn/[[spoiler:Eugene]] is so that he could appear in a ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' game. He eventually got his wish in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''.
84	** For Latin America, when Flynn refuses to sing (and then, sings but it's a little bit out of tune), it gets funnier since his VA in Spanish is the famous singer Chayanne. And the last time that Chayanne worked for a Disney movie before ''Tangled'', he [[WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire also sang about chasing your dreams]].
85	** With the release of ''[[Film/Shazam2019 Shazam!]]'', Creator/ZacharyLevi finally got super strength from magic.
86	* IAmNotShazam: Some kids think that Rapunzel's name is "[[ProtagonistTitle Tangled]]".
87	* IdiosyncraticShipNaming: The ship of Rapunzel and Eugene is called "New Dream," after his [[spoiler:DyingDeclarationOfLove, "You were my new dream."]]
88	* MemeticMutation:
89	** [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/525/237/777.jpg This image]] of Flynn with several swords pointing at him has become a popular reaction image used for FandomHeresy.
90	** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3ZSzyNVkAY-f1N?format=jpg&name=medium This]]. Essentially a wordplay on "tanglad", the Filipino word for lemongrass.
91	* {{Moe}}: Rapunzel. Just look at her! Especially when she laughs. She's more cute than beautiful, and even has a little overbite and a lisp that adds to her cuteness rather than subtracts. Additionally, part of the way through Gothel's VillainSong, "Mother Knows Best" features Rapunzel [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/93/a0/a5/93a0a56dcf1f83147320bc314478e51b.jpg huddled up in a small fort made of her own hair]]. It is quite possibly one of the most adorable things in the entire movie.
92	* MoralEventHorizon: Depending on your view, Gothel may have crossed it when she kidnapped an infant girl to maintain her own youth. After kidnapping her, she abused her emotionally to control her. It worked so well that Rapunzel freaked out once she sat a foot outside the tower. [[spoiler: If that isn't bad enough, she killed Rapunzel's boyfriend in front of her eyes and [[WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou immediately blamed Rapunzel for his death]] ([[BackFromTheDead thankfully, he got better]]).]]
93	* NotHisSled: When the male lead returns to the tower, the audience, knowing the villainess is waiting for him, expects either a final battle involving her blinding him like in the original tale or something more kid-friendly given the adaptation's target audience. What ends up happening? She fatally stabs him from behind. Sadly, Eugene didn't see it coming any more than the audience did.
94	* OlderThanTheyThink:
95	** Several elements in this franchise have first debuted in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsRapunzel'', such as Rapunzel being a painter and wearing purple/gold clothes, Gothel being an emotionally abusive parental figure, and [[spoiler:Rapunzel being a kidnapped princess]].
96	** This was not Music/MandyMoore's first time voicing a heroine in an animated Disney film. That honor goes to Nita in ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear2''.
97	** While it may not be in the original tale, Gothel is not the first Disney villain to [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast stab the hero from behind before falling off a tower to their death before the heroine brings her lover back from death while crying over him (thanks to the involvement of a magic flower).]]
98	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: When the film was first released, the animation was praised for being able to perfectly emulate the look and feel of Disney's older hand-drawn films in a 3D medium. Over decade later, when that animation style has become the norm for Disney films, younger viewers may not find ''Tangled'''s animation that special.
99	* ParanoiaFuel: Your mother doesn't love you. She spends her time breaking your spirit and disguising it as fun "teasing", pointing out YouAreFat and have no survival skills. Then you find out you ''can'' survive in the world and tell her, and she proceeds to say your friends are an OpportunisticBastard lot that only care about what you can offer them. In fact, she's not even your real mother. She's a woman who kidnapped you as a baby and raised you to be completely dependent on her. And she's willing to break your heart and kill your friends to control you. Love you, mom!
100	* PortingDisaster: For the Windows release of the video game, that is. Apparently the porting house responsible for converting the original Wii version didn't have the foresight to take children into account when it comes to the control scheme -- ''only the second player'' can use the controller, leaving the little kid who so wanted to play as her favourite Disney Princess to be forced into getting acquainted with the finer points of WASD on a keyboard.
101	* RealismInducedHorror: Mother Gothel is a quite accurate depiction of real-life AbusiveParents in what is otherwise the adaptation of a classic fairytale; several of her actions wouldn't be out of place coming from a caring parent, but she also keeps Rapunzel inside the tower by making the world outside sound scary and discouraging her from thinking for herself.
102	* RefrainFromAssuming: [[spoiler:The Tear Heals]]/Healing Incantation[=/=]Spell Song gets the most, which is also sometimes referred to as "Flower Gleam and Glow".
103	* RonTheDeathEater:
104	** There are those who see the King's taking of the flower and destroying it by making it into a tea as selfish, since it takes away the flower's ability to heal from everyone but the Queen and her unborn child. But the King's actions are of course prompted by trying to prevent his wife AND unborn daughter (and only future successor to the Crown) from dying. In a similar vein, some argue that the King and Queen caused the entire movie's problems by destroying the flower rather than using it as intended (i.e., singing the healing song); but the King and Queen never knew the flower could be used that way, let alone of Gothel's existance. Flynn's surprised and shocked reaction when he first sees Rapunzel's magic in-action indicates that the flower's way of working is not common knowledge. There's also the fact that Gothel decided simply to sneak into the palace and kidnap Rapunzel without saying a word (unlike the original story, where she actually asks/demands to have baby Rapunzel's from her father, and only takes the baby when she is denied). The King and the Queen weren't even given a chance to make amends for the flower.
105	** In various fanfics, the Captain of the Guard turns from a relatively well-meaning (if not very competent) soldier to a sadistic asshole who kidnaps Rapunzel solely to spite Flynn.
106	* SignatureSong: "I See the Light" and "[[VillainSong Mother Knows Best]]" are the most well-known songs from the movie.
107	* StrawmanHasAPoint:
108	** Although it is coming from a place of manipulation and insincerity, Mother Gothel's condemnation of the world, for many viewers, doesn't stray ''too'' far from truth. Though of all the characters in the movie, Mother Gothel herself is the only one who matches this particular description:
109	--->'''Mother Gothel''': The world is dark, and selfish, and cruel. If it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine, it destroys it.
110	** When she catches up with Rapunzel outside the tower, her words probably sound familiar to anyone who's been worried that their child was getting mixed up in the wrong crowd. What's more, Gothel is right that Flynn is only staying with Rapunzel until she gives him the satchel with the tiara: initially, she didn't anticipate that Flynn would stop caring about it and hand the satchel over to the Stabbington Brothers as an apology for getting them arrested.
111	--->'''Rapunzel''': ... I even met someone!\
112	'''Mother Gothel''': [[DeadpanSnarker Yes, the wanted thief]], [[SarcasmMode I'm so proud.]]
113	* TaintedByThePreview: When the first trailer hit theaters, many people were put off since there was so much focus on Flynn and so little on Rapunzel when the movie was clearly about her. There was also how slapstick and ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''-like it seemed (not to mention the movie title being ''Tangled''). The strong week-to-week holds of the film spoke volumes about the terrific word-of-mouth from those who did see it. Not to mention them continuously playing P!nk's "Trouble" through promotion, when it wasn't part of the original soundtrack to begin with.
114	* ThemePairing: Rapunzel and Mavis from ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' are both girls isolated from the real world by their overprotective parents and therefore are very eager to go and explore it. ''WebVideo/GoldenBlondAndJetBlack'' has them as the main pairing.
115	* UglyCute:
116	** Big Nose Thug. His part in "I've Got A Dream" when he describes all his less than flattering physical attributes is a LampshadeHanging of this trope -- especially the part where he sings about a girl loving him.
117	** Shorty Thug. He's the only thug who doesn't look physically intimidating, due to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin him being, well, short/small]] and very old. He also wears wings in several scenes which make him seem like Cupid (coincidentally, the cap Big Nose wears on his head also reminds of Cupid's wings!), otherwise wears nothing but a loin cloth, and [[BreakingTheFourthWall repeatedly blows kisses directly to the viewer]].
118	** This is the overall aesthetic of the hand-drawn visuals in the credits sequence. Most of the characters are much less attractive than they are in the actual movie -- Flynn is downgraded from roguishly handsome to just plain roguish, Rapunzel becomes freckle-faced and homely, the Snuggly Duckling thugs look ''even uglier'' than they did originally, Max is oddly hairy, and the Guards are just plain hideous -- but somehow they still look quite endearing just the same.
119	* VindicatedByHistory: Gothel's villain credentials. Though sometimes lumped in with [[spoiler:Hans, Bellwether,]] and others as an example of how Disney villains have declined since the transition to CGI, in recent years she's been contrasted much more favourably against these contemporaries and held up as a [[ClassicVillain classic villainess]] in her own right with echoes of the greats.
120	* WinBackTheCrowd: ''Tangled'' finished the job that Disney started with ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' for being relevant in the animation industry once again, outside of Creator/{{Pixar}}'s shadow. Both critics and audiences loved it, and it became Disney's second highest grossing film ever (though it was then outclassed by ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}'').
121	* TheWoobie:
122	** Rapunzel. Kidnapped from her birth parents as an infant by a woman who only cared about her because her magic hair kept her young. And during those eighteen years, Gothel [[AbusiveParents emotionally and psychologically abused]] Rapunzel into fearing the outside world. By the end she's an IronWoobie.
123	** Queen Arianna and King Frederic. After Arianna barely survived her life-threatening pregnancy, the infant daughter was kidnapped right before their eyes. They spent the next eighteen years in emotional turmoil, wondering if their only child was alive or dead.

Context YMMV / Tangled