History YMMV / Tangled

* 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.

** 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 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.

* {{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 naive, very pretty, and downright adorably {{Moe}}.

** 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]]. 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.

** Rapunzel is shipped with [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 Young!Once-ler]], Hiccup from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', Jack from ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Elsa and Anna from ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'', and Merida from ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', especially in ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheBraveTangledDragons'' fandom.

** 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 [[{{WesternAnimation/Frozen}} Anna]], [[{{WesternAnimation/Moana}} Moana]], and [[{{WesternAnimation/Encanto}} Mirabel]] before widely hitting the point of audience fatigue with [[WesternAnimation/Wish2023 Asha]]. 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.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: 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.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: [[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.

* EvilIsSexy: Mother Gothel is the manipulative villain, and she moves in a sexy way (doing hip-checks and such), wears a dress that (for a PG Disney movie) is relatively low-cut and showing her buxom, and she's flirted with by Shorty. Her physical attractiveness comes solely from the magic power of Rapunzel, because she's ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and ugly [[spoiler:which we see when [[NoImmortalInertia Rapunzel's hair gets cut]]]].

** 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:

* HypeBacklash: The amount of praise the film receives by its fanbase has resulted in some people turning against it, thinking that the film gets too much praise to the point where people are willing to ignore its flaws, deeming it as an [[SoOkayItsAverage average or okay film at best]] and a mediocre one at worst. This normally stems from the film's infamous FandomRivalry with ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''.

* MemeticMutation: [[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.

** 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 In Hindsight especially given the AnimationLeadTime.[[/note]]

*** 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 a perpetual cycle of rapidly sickening again as each treatment ran out). 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.

*** 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 a perpetual cycle of rapidly sickening again as each treatment ran out). 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 Fredric and 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 there's no guarantee their eventual successors would have honoured any such agreement, given that the flower is basically an immortality drug.