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** She's good at everything, as seen in the song "When Will My Life Begin" in the movie. Her talents include cooking, painting, chess, pottery, candle making, sewing, ballet, ventriloquy, playing the guitar and ''many more''. Not to mention that she's brave, strong, a BadassAdorable, able to befriend everyone she meets, and of course, like every Disney Princess, has a beautiful singing voice. Somewhat of a {{Deconstruction}}, as it's heavily implied the reason she's so good at many different things is because she was locked in a tower for 18 years of her
** In the series, she joins a competition on a whim, seeing it as a fun way to spend a Saturday. She ends up outperforming everyone who'd spent much time heavily training for the event... without even extending much effort. In fact she's very rarely legitimately challenged by anything except for overwhelming odds, and most of the conflict comes from struggling with moral questions, her naivety when it comes to dishonesty, and the depressing frequency with which she's manipulated and let down by those close to her.
* ActionGirl: This comes out in the series, where she regularly goes on dangerous quests and faces powerful enemies, especially as the story progresses. Though her escape from the palace guards in the movie also gives her a good moment, even if it's not a fight scene.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the traditional version of ''Rapunzel'', while Rapunzel being kicked out of the tower isn't very pleasant, it still isn't emphasized as being the worst thing ever. In this adaptation, Rapunzel has to deal with discovering that her "mother" actually kidnapped her in infancy and intends to imprison her for as long as she lives (just to use her unique abilities to maintain her youth). And when Rapunzel fights back, it ends with Mother Gothel nearly killing Eugene to keep her presence a secret from her true parents and being forced to watch Gothel die in front of her from falling out of the tower. She doesn't react nearly as much as expected, but still has more trauma than in the fairy tale.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** In the original fairy tale, the heroine is a DamselInDistress and not much else. Here, she's a GirlyBruiser who sets out in a quest and drives the story with her own actions. Even Eugene notes that Rapunzel doesn't need anyone to take care of her and she's the one who "normally does the saving".
** The series takes this even further: she's portrayed as a fearless and capable fighter against even the toughest opponent, unlike her movie self who was still a take-charge badass, but didn't have any direct fight scenes.
* AesopAmnesia: She has a ''very'' hard time understanding Cassandra's issues. For example, she does not take her lesson from "Big Brothers of Corona" to respect Cassandra's wishes to heart.
* AffectionateNickname: Eugene calls her "blondie" and "sunshine", while Cassandra calls her "Raps".
* AgeGapRomance: With Eugene. Rapunzel is clearly stated as being 18-years-old but Eugene's age is [[VagueAge more complicated]]. In short, his age is somewhere between 18 and 26. The series reveals he is 26 during Season 3 (while Rapunzel has turned 20), giving them a 6 year age gap.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: The first time she wears shoes (high heels, no less) in ''Tangled: Before Ever After'', it does not go well since she has literally never worn shoes before.
* AllLovingHeroine: Rapunzel is a caring and sweet person who wants to be friends with everyone. She was even disturbed to see Gothel fall to her death after Rapunzel found out that she was an manipulative abuser.
* AlmostKiss: ''Twice''. The first time is in the rowboat before the MoodWhiplash where Flynn sees the Stabbington brothers, and the second is right before he cuts her hair off to save her from Gothel. Taken to RunningGag levels in ''Before Ever After''.
* AmbiguouslyBi: While Rapunzel is in a relationship with Eugene, there's quite a bit of subtext between Rapunzel and Cassandra, at times getting ''too'' close for comfort. In fact, when Rapunzel lost her memory, Cassandra decides to show Rapunzel the world like Eugene did in the movie, and there are hints she would've fallen in love with Cassandra if it were her instead of Eugene.
* ArtShift: As Disney's first princess to appear in a 3D computer-animated film, Rapunzel is given a 2D [[http://emilysdisneythoughts.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/554512_10151273014302620_1182212377_n.jpg makeover]] in promotional material for the line to match with the other princesses.
* BadassAdorable: Cute as a button, but not even the least afraid to talk down angry thugs and angry horses.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: In the series, the reverse incantation makes everything [[MakeThemRot wither and decay]] around her. She is still unambiguously good and uses the incantation to fight evil forces and to [[spoiler: free Varian's father from the ember.]]
* {{Ballet}}: Just one of many things she became good at in her captivity.
* BarefootCaptives: Played with. She's kept barefoot as a prisoner in Gothel's tower, but once she escapes, she continues going barefoot throughout the movie and all its sequels. In the TV series, it's stated that she PrefersGoingBarefoot.
* BattleCouple: With Eugene. They help each other fight off the guards chasing him and save each other several times as they fall in love with each other. The pilot movie for TheSeries shows that the two of them have lost none of their stride. When Lady Kane attempts to kidnap the royals, a few eye gestures between Eugene, Rapunzel, and hand maid Cassandra are all they need before they leap into action to save the day. Rapunzel even tosses Eugene a frying pan, at which point the tide of battle really begins to turn in their favor.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Rapunzel runs off to adventure with 70 feet of hair and bare feet. She gets wet but dries off quickly, and at no point are her hair and feet ever seen to get dirty. The hair is justified because it's magical. The feet have no excuse.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She may be an [[TheCutie adorable]] and [[NiceGirl sweet]] if not [[TheIngenue naive]] young girl but she is capable of kicking your butt either with her hair or a frying pan. Even Cassandra can get unnerved when Rapunzel gets genuinely angry [[spoiler:up until her FaceHeelTurn that is]].
* BigSisterInstinct: She becomes a surrogate one towards Varian, protecting him from [[spoiler:Cassandra]] when she attacks the group.
* BlessedWithSuck:
** Rapunzel briefly alludes to the difficulties of having 70-foot long hair during her IWantSong.
--->And then I'll brush and brush and brush and brush my hair!
** Gothel has also made Rapunzel believe that she would be in constant danger outside the tower because selfish people would want her [[HealingHands healing power]] for themselves. Along with the actual truth in that statement and the resulting tower imprisonment as well.
* BlitheSpirit: Her cheerful, genuine nature is what brings out the good side of the thugs at the Snuggly Duckling and saves Flynn's life.
* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler: She suffers this at the hands of Cassandra, who had taken the role of protector for a long time.]]
* BoundAndGagged: Mother Gothel ties up and gags Rapunzel for wanting to save Flynn from execution and to lure Flynn into a trap later on.
* BrainyBrunette: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. Rapunzel is a smart girl, and a natural brunette, as shown at the end of the movie and in ''Tangled Ever After'', but during most of the movie and series she appears as a blonde since the magic in her makes her hair blond.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Varian]] loses ''all'' respect for her when she refuses to help him [[spoiler:free his father]], though it becomes a RebuiltPedestal in Season 3.
* BroughtDownToNormal: After Flynn cuts her hair. It kills Mother Gothel and turns her into a brunette. However, it's implied to not be the case in the short ''WesternAnimation/TangledEverAfter'', where her kiss with Eugene makes the sun shine brighter. In fact, the series further confirms she herself ''is'' magical.
* BuildingSwing: Using her hair as a rope, she can swing.
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Princess Rapunzel is using a PaperThinDisguise trying to discover why [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond Uncle Monty does not like her]].
-->'''Uncle Monty:''' ''I got that thing as a gift and I'm trying to find some use for it but let me tell you, it's not even useful as a doorstoop.''
-->'''Rapunzel:''' ''Yeah, dumb and totally useless thing. I surely hope'' the foolish but clearly well-intentioned person who made it ''regrets it.''
* ButtMonkey: Downplayed. She suffers AmusingInjuries occasionally but Eugene gets it ''much'' worse when it comes to physical comedy.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Abel to Cassandra's Cain. Though Season 3 reveals that Rapunzel and Cassandra are adoptive sisters, Cassandra also tries to murder Rapunzel several times.]]
* CastingAShadow: Thanks to [[spoiler:her powers being derived from the moonstone]] in the series, Rapunzel gets basically all in-universe dark powers, from controlling moon rocks to decaying incantations that turn her eyes and hair black.
* CallingTheOldWomanOut: Gives Mother Gothel a spiteful earful near the climax of the movie when she realizes the truth of their relationship (i.e. kidnapping and exploitation).
* CavalierCompetitor: In the series, she treats every competition she participates in as a game and just wants to have fun, contrasting Cassandra who fights tooth and nail to win.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Rapunzel is the crown princess and future queen of Corona so as the series goes on she gains more and more responsibility and authority. The responsibility of leading quicky starts to wear on Rapunzel. During "Queen for a Day" Rapunzel makes decisions that put her loved ones in danger, risks the lives of her subjects, and leaves Varian abandoned. The stress of this leads Rapunzel for a time to start second guessing herself and avoiding making hard decisions. In season two Rapunzel leads her group on a quest beyond Corona's borders. Her role as leader results in Rapunzel making decisions that Cassandra disagrees with and the two butting heads more and more straining their friendship. Near the end of the season Rapunzel is put in a dream where everything is perfect and she doesn't have to make any difficult decisions. Even though she knows its a dream she is still very tempted to embrace it.
* CharacterDevelopment: Rapunzel loses her fear of the outside world and learns to stand up to her abusive adoptive mother.
* CharacterTics: Rapunzel tends to run her finger through her hair when nervous or excited.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Rapunzel's complete, non-negotiable unwillingness to break her promises greatly informs the film's climax, when she promises to Mother Gothel that, if she lets Rapunzel heal Flynn, Rapunzel will stay with her forever and offer no resistance. Needless to say, it makes the scene pretty tense.
** The fact that her hair glows helps her and Flynn escape a watery death.
** Her passion for painting bright, colorful patterns and flowers on the walls of her tower proves essential to her realizing her true identity.
** The handkerchief of the kingdom's sun emblem is what she uses (as well as her paintings) to realize that she is the lost princess.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: With her using a frying pan as a weapon and [[BarefootLoon walking barefoot]] through towns, bars, and forests, you've gonna admit she definitely looks the part. Not to mention the fact that she doesn't know much about the outside world because she has been locked in a tower her entire life. Flynn's blatant flirting with her when they first meet in her tower also totally flies over her head and has no effect on her whatsoever (''shocking'' to him: "This doesn't normally happen...", "You broke my smoulder!"), showing her lack of experience in social interactions.
* CompressedHair:
** While touring the kingdom, her 70 feet of hair is compressed into one floor-length braid.
** When her hair first grows back in ''Tangled: Before Ever After'', she tries to hide it by wrapping it in fabric in one giant mass on top of her head.
* CosmicMotifs: Of the sun. She was born after her mother drank a potion made from the flower that was imbued with the sun's power. Her hair is as blonde as the sun. She has an energetic personality and is a magnetic person.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:She does this to Varian in the latter half of Season 1. It was her being forced to turn him down when he begs her to save his father when she has far more important matters at hand regarding her kingdom, as well as never checking on him afterwards, that makes him undergo a FaceHeelTurn and vow {{Revenge}} against Corona and its royal family. [[DownplayedTrope In Rapunzel's defense, however,]] she couldn't help him ''during'' the blizzard, and [[NeverMyFault Varian ignored his own role in his father's imprisonment]].]]
* CuteBookworm: When living in the isolated tower, she liked to spend some of her free time reading books.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Thanks to her hair, she is endearingly klutzy. Even beyond this, she seems to have a bit of klutziness in general; witness her attempts to get Flynn into her cupboard, the way she accidentally clonks herself with her own frying pan, and so forth.
* TheCutie: She's a cute, kind, and playful GenkiGirl, and her mannerisms (such as hiding in her hair when scared) and personality make her the one of the most adorable Disney Princesses.
* DanceBattler: In a brief sequence during a tournament in the series, she manages to knock several of her opponents out of the ring by using dancing moves.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rapunzel has been emotionally and psychologically abused by the woman who kidnapped her as a baby.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Throught the series she gains lots of dark based powers, like controlling moon rocks and getting an incantation [[CreepyGood where her hair and eyes turn black and she rots things]], but she remains a good, kind-hearted person. [[spoiler:In fact her powers in the series are derived from a fragment of the moonstone's powers rather than the sundrop's. Unfortunately, using this incantation more will make it harder to snap out of, and touching her will either kill you or lose you a limb]].
* {{Determinator}}: As she makes clear to [[spoiler:Zhan Tiri]], "I'm not big on giving ''up!''"
* DitzyGenius: She's incredibly multi-talented and capable of great insights, but also has her moments of (perfectly understandable) naive idiocy.
* DumbBlonde: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. Rapunzel may be naive and a bit ditzy, but she's proven to be quite intelligent. And while she has sun-gold hair, it becomes brunette after Eugene cuts it.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the pain she goes through throughout the movie and series, [[spoiler: including the betrayals of two of her closest friends]], Rapunzel ''finally'' obtains her happily ever after by [[spoiler:defeating Zhan Tiri]] and marrying Eugene.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Her lack of shoes reflects her free-spirited and energetic nature, her way with animals, and her healing powers. She gets mocked for this in ''Before Ever After'', mostly by villains and other nobles.
* EmpathicWeapon: In the series, Rapunzel's regrown hair now reacts to her mental state, such as flying wildly all across the room when she's suffering a nightmare and forming a protective sphere around her and Eugene when they think they're going to die together under a collapsing building.
* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Calliope is so annoying that Eugene was freaked out that Rapunzel could hate someone.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange:
** Rapunzel has her hair braided and decorated with flowers when she finally reaches Corona. On a practical level, she couldn't really run around with 70 feet of hair dragging behind her. On a symbolic level, it's a sign that she's finally able to let loose and have fun, without her MagicHair being the center of her very being. This is contrasted with when she is convinced to go back to the tower with Gothel; the braid is undone, and the flowers taken away, with Gothel off-handedly commenting "There... like it never even happened."
** At the end of the movie, Rapunzel's hair is cut off and reverts to its likely natural brown color. This severs her past as a living magical item and the next scene shows her reunite with her brown-haired birth mother.
* EyeColorChange:
** In "Happiness Is...", her eyes become a more sickly vivid green when she sees her heart's desire with the Idol of Vershaftsbezeigungengien. When she sees a bad vision from it, her eyes turn a fiery red.
** In "Rapunzel and The Great Tree", [[spoiler: while she uses the hurt incantation, her sclera turns black and her pupils glow green.]]
%%%* FairytaleWeddingDress: In the follow-up short that focuses on her wedding.
* FamilyEyeResemblance: She has the same eyes as her birth mother, which is helpful in the first film's epilogue.
* FamilyOfChoice: She essentially sees Cassandra as the older sister she never had. [[spoiler: Made even more notable when she finds out that Cassandra is Gothel's biological daughter, making them in a way sisters and claiming the only good thing she ever did was bring them together.]]
* FantasticLightSource: Rapunzel uses her magic hair to find the way out of a flooded cave.
* FearlessFool: In the series, she's mostly [[GrewASpine overcome the fearful nature Mother Gothel instilled in her]], but seems to be taking it a little too far in the other direction; she's developed a definite reckless streak and repeatedly throws herself into danger without hesitation or fear.
* FireForgedFriends: Escaping the guards chasing after them and nearly drowning together help Rapunzel and Flynn begin to trust each other and become closer.
* FlowersOfFemininity: Rapunzel is a beautiful, kind-hearted, and innocent princess who for convenience, keeps her hair tied in a long braid decorated by flowers.
* FluffyTamer:
** She converts Maximus, a badass war horse, to her side with petting and baby talk.
** In the series, she effortlessly tames a wild wolf and has him rolling on the ground like a contented puppy before Cassandra can bring her sword to bear on him.
* FountainOfYouth: Her hair is the key to Mother Gothel's immortality after her mother ate the magic flower during pregnancy.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The sanguine. The cheerful, friendly GenkiGirl.
* AFriendInNeed: To Pascal, as evidenced when she gets ''furious'' at Cassandra for suggesting they call off their search for him in "Pascal's Story".
* FriendToAllLivingThings: From militant horses, to human thugs and thieves, and beyond.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Her rather dynamic weapon is a cast iron version.
* FullContactMagic: In the series, she directs her {{light|EmUp}} with hand gestures.
* GenkiGirl: One of the most energetic of all of the Princesses (only matched by [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ariel]] in her first days as a human and by [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Anna]]).
* GirlInTheTower: Lived in there all her life. Unlike the standard trope, she could physically leave whenever she wanted, but her "mom" didn't allow her to.
* GirlyBruiser: Rapunzel spends all day cooking, painting, reading, [[TextileWorkIsFeminine sewing]], and brushing her hair. The first sign of her, in the original trailers, is also her beating someone up with PrehensileHair. Although this didn't make it into the film, she remains a pretty mean hand with a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]] and saves Flynn's bacon on more than one occasion. Cranked up in the series where she suddenly becomes a fearless combatant on par with any warrior.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She has a very bubbly and sweet personality, normally wears very feminine dresses, and has hobbies such as cooking and sewing. But she also doesn't mind getting rough when in a fight and has an unwavering love for adventure.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Her main outfit is a purple and lavender dress and she is quite agile in a pinch despite her 70 feet of hair. Social grace is a little more difficult.
* GrewASpine:
** From her adventures outside the tower with Eugene, Rapunzel gets over her fears of the outside world and begins to realize she can take care of herself without having to depend on Mother Gothel. She goes from acting as an ExtremeDoormat to Gothel to being able to give the woman a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
** She goes through something similar during the series, becoming increasingly willing to call out those who lie to or try to manipulate her, and a lot less patient with dealing with bad behavior from those close to her.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Although the hair is gold by magic, she is still kind enough to stir the hearts of the thugs at the Snuggly Duckling.
* HairReboot: In the series' pilot episode, Rapunzel gets into contact with a magic rock that causes her to regain her long blonde locks again. In "Beginnings", this was because of some of the Moonstone's magic from the rocks being transferred to her hair when she touched them, making it grow back and become indestructible like them to protect her on her journey to the Dark Kingdom.
* HartmanHips: Rapunzel starts having slightly wide and very curvy hips when she turns 18.
* TheHeart: She is able to bring people together for a common goal and even inspire people who despise each other to work together. One instance of this is when, in the movie proper, she manages to get Maximus, who is hunting Eugene down, and Eugene, to work together.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Tries to do this at the end of the movie by sacrificing her freedom for Eugene's life. He beats her to it by sacrificing his life for her freedom.
** In "Freebird", [[spoiler: she uses the last egg to turn Cassandra back into human, thus making her own transformation irreversible. Of course, a few minutes later, they find out there are more eggs after all. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper Unfortunately, Season 3 shows that Cassandra isn't the least bit grateful for this sacrifice.]]]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: She [[spoiler:lamently admits she doesn't know what Cassandra is going through, despite the fact that it was Cassandra's choice to turn against her and attempt to kill her, not to mention she suffered far more under Gothel's abuse yet still remained unambiguously kind, whereas Cassandra was at least taken in by a loving adoptive father but still underwent a StartOfDarkness.]]
* IGaveMyWord: Whenever Rapunzel makes a promise, she intends to keep it, from promising to return Flynn the satchel that has the tiara he stole to promising Mother Gothel that she will go with her willingly only if Eugene can be healed first. In fact, if she breaks a promise, it ends up ''really'' costing her.
* IJustWantToBeFree: Although her initial wish was to simply leave her tower just once for her birthday, when she discovers the joys of freedom, she doesn't want to give it up and wants a new life.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: When she confronts the two remaining disciples of Zantiri, Rapunzel is tempted with the idea of abandoning her destiny as the Sundrop and her responsibilities as princess. While she does reject the temptation, the episodes show that Rapunzel is tempted by the idea of living a comfortable and safe life in the castle and letting others make the hard decisions.
* ImportantHaircut: Granted, it's done to her hair by Eugene, but it's to stop Gothel from enslaving Rapunzel for the rest of her life.
* ImprobableHairstyle: Rapunzel gives us a two-fer. First of all she has over 70-feet of her long golden hair, but it's justified since the hair is magic. When she reaches the kingdom capitol, she gets a more convenient style when three girls [[CompressedHair compress]] that huge mass of hair into a fiendishly-complex mass of ankle-length braids. Then she gets her hair cut off into a perfectly styled and layered pixie cut. The hair was cut off in one go with a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade pane of glass]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Rapunzel favors using frying pans. In the series, she can also use her hair as a weapon as well as a shield since it somehow became denser than steel. An ''axe'' fails to cut through it.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: In the animated series, Rapunzel's figure is noticeably curvy.
* TheIngenue: Her naivete and innocence are two of her biggest traits, and end up being strengths for her on occasion.
* InkSuitActor: Once her hair's cut off, she resembles a younger version of her voice actress Music/MandyMoore.
* KidnappedWhileSleeping: She was kidnapped by Gothel as a baby while she was still fast asleep in her crib, leading her to grow up thinking she was her mother.
* KubrickStare: Near the end of the movie, as she [[CallingTheOldWomanOut calls Gothel out]], Rapunzel gives her a DeathGlare from beneath her eyebrows.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Rapunzel, when she turns 18 and [[spoiler: after her hair gets cut]], looks a little like a boy due to her being a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak, despite being a [[TheCutie cutie]] and a beautiful woman who wears clearly feminine dresses.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Toward the end of Season 1, Rapunzel ''never'' bothers to check on Varian during the months following Zhan Tiri's blizzard, nor does she send someone to do so. [[spoiler:It comes back to bite her when he betrays her and manipulates her to get the Sundrop Flower, she's locked by her father inside a tower on her birthday due to his overprotectiveness, and her mother gets abducted by Varian as well.]]
* LaughOfLove: She giggles briefly after Flynn responds to her compliment before going to get some firewood, and she later admits to Gothel that she thinks he likes her.
* LettingHerHairDown:
** {{Inverted}}, as in Rapunzel's case, it's actually when her normally loose (70 feet) hair is ''braided up'' that she first is happy and finds herself. Later her abusive adoptive mother pointedly ''unbraids'' her hair while rubbing salt in her wounds by saying "There... Like it never happened." about the most beautiful experience of her life.
** Also inverted in the series where she usually wears her hair in a braid but, since it's her {{improbable weapon|User}}, she lets it down to kick ass.
* LightIsGood: She's heavily associated with the sun and she's the heroine.
* LightEmUp: In "Cassandra's Revenge," [[spoiler: the 4th incantation allows her to wield light that makes the indestructible black rocks crumble into dust.]]
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: She is the Light Feminine (sweet, innocent, and ObliviouslyBeautiful) to Mother Gothel's Dark Feminine (a cold and ruthless ProudBeauty). Fittingly, Mother Gothel is dark-haired in contrast to Rapunzel's HairOfGoldHeartOfGold.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter:
** The series reveals that Rapunzel inherited more from her real mother than her looks; Rapunzel's wanderlust and sense of adventure also comes from the Queen, who traveled the world in her younger days. They both also had an amazing variety of hobbies, as shown in her royal portrait. Furthermore, their reaction to being unexpectedly confronted by a thief (the same thief, no less!) is to whack them on the head with a blunt object.
** On a darker note, the both of them have a tendency to [[LoveMartyr excuse the severe misdeeds of their loved one or otherwise stay with them]] (Frederic for Arianna, [[spoiler:Cassandra]] for Rapunzel).
* LimitedWardrobe: She mostly wears her signature purplish-pink dress, in both the movie and the first season of the series. The only exceptions (justifiably) are scenes in the series where she's woken up at night and [[PajamaCladHero wearing pajamas]], and flash-backs to her as a child/baby. After season 2 of the series, she gains a new adventure fitted outfit that features darker colors and leather, but only switches between that and her old dress. In season 3, she almost only wears a dress that is dark purple and that features the Kingdom of Corona's motifs as a sort of temporary Queen outfit.
* LostOrphanedRoyalty: Was stolen by Mother Gothel shortly after her birth and isolated in a tower away from the outside world, all so Gothel could preserve her immortality.
* LoveMartyr: In Season 3, platonically, towards [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn Cassandra]]]]. Rapunzel never gives up on her and keeps on reaching out to her, while [[spoiler:Cassandra]] attempts to murder Rapunzel and her loved ones multiple times, allies with the BigBad, and nearly destroys Corona.
* {{Lunacy}}: In the first season finale of ''The Series'', [[spoiler:she temporarily gains the power to control the black rocks, which are the lunar counterpart to the sun flower. Later it is revealed that her powers in the series are at least in part derived from the moonstone.]]
* MakeThemRot: In the series, the reverse incantation makes everything wither and decay around her.
* MacGuffinSuperPerson: Her hair, which can heal any wound and sickness and grant someone everlasting youth, is why she's locked in a tower. Then we later find out it's not just her hair, she ''is'' the sundrop child.
* MadeOfIron: In the series, she falls off great heights, takes a brutal beating, and never spots a scratch afterwards.
* MagicalBarefooter: Rapunzel has 70-feet of MagicHair with healing and age-reversing powers. She also goes around barefoot throughout the entire film as a result of being cloistered for said magic hair.
* MagicalIncantation:
** In the film, she needs a spell to activate the healing magic of her hair:
---> Flower gleam and glow,\\
Let your power shine,\\
Let the clock reverse,\\
bring back to me what once was mine.
** In "Rapunzel and the Great Tree", she reads an ominous reverse incantation after which she becomes possessed by dark powers:
--->Wither and decay, end this destiny,\\
Break these earthly chains, and set the spirit free...
* MagicHair: It can heal injuries as well as sickness, glows in the dark, and can reverse aging. The climax and ''Tangled Ever After'' imply there's magic in her main body as well. Her new hair in the series trades magical healing with MadeOfIndestructium.
* MagicKnight: In the series, she [[{{Xenafication}} turns into a fearless athlete]] and also learns {{Magical Incantation}}s to MakeThemRot and LightEmUp.
* MagneticHero: Rapunzel's infectiously cheerful presence visibly affects the seemingly hostile Pub Thugs, Eugene Fitzherbert, Maximus, and all of the Corona citizens she meets.
* MakeThemRot: In the second season of the series she discovers a counterpart incantation to her former healing powers that goes with her new Moonstone-empowered hair. It makes her eyes and hair black as life is drained from the things around her, withering them into dust.
* MeaningfulName: Rapunzel's name derives from the magical rampion of the beginning prologue.
* MinoredInAssKicking: Rapunzel has had no formal combat training, and tends to leave physical confrontation to others and use diplomacy as a first resort. She is however physically exceptional in every aspect, and when she does get involved often outperforms the trained fighters in the cast.
* MoodSwinger: In one memorable scene when she goes out to the world for the first time in 18 years. She even provides the ''image'' for the trope.
* MoralityPet:
** To [[AntiHero Flynn/Eugene]]. His nicer side doesn't show until he's forced to help her and he falls in love with her in the process.
** The thugs at [[BadGuyBar Snuggly Ducklings]] also help out her and Flynn because of her positive influence. Had she not been there, they probably would've turned Flynn in to the authorities for payment.
* MotorMouth: When she's nervous, Rapunzel tends to start babbling rapidly. Exploited by her [[AbusiveParents emotionally abusive (adoptive) Mother]] Gothel, who picks out her "mumbling" as something to put her down for.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Rapunzel has a slim build but is able to pull up a grown woman with her hair, knock out Eugene, and effortlessly lift up a woman with a BearHug.
* NatureLover: Frolicking in the woods is fun enough to distract her from her guilt about deceiving her mother.
* NervousTics: She often runs her fingers through her hair when she's anxious or excited.
* NeverMyFault: In "The Alchemist Returns", [[spoiler:she states "I don't even know what he is anymore!" in regards to [[WeUsedToBeFriends Varian's betrayal]] and theft of the Sundrop Flower, even though she brought it upon herself by [[AdultsAreUseless not checking on him after Zhan Tiri's blizzard was over]].]]
* NiceGirl: Rapunzel is helpful, sweet, kind, and will never break a promise.
* NiceToTheWaiter: She is kind to those lower-ranked than her as well, including handmaidens, and becomes Cassandra's FirstFriend.
* NighInvulnerable: In the "Before Ever After" movie and subsequent series, after her hair regrows it becomes this, even breaking a pair of scissors Cassandra tries to cut it with.
* NoInfantileAmnesia: Downplayed as it is more of a subconscious resonance. Despite the fact that she was an infant, she remembers the layout of her room and has been painting signs of it her whole life unknowingly.
* OfficialCouple: With Eugene. They become a couple towards the end of the movie and then get married in the sequel short.
* OhCrap:
** She gets a few of these, though one of her biggest ones is when she realizes she's the missing princess. She gets a minor one when she sees Gothel fall out the window to her death.
** She has these moments in the series as well.
** Two early ones are in the premiere when she notices her hair glowing after coming into contact with the black rocks, and when she notices her hair suddenly grew back.
** Her biggest one up to date is in "The Alchemist Returns" when she finds out Varian betrayed her.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Despite being 18-20 years old, a [[TheCutie cutie]] and a beautiful woman, Rapunzel not only looks like a child, but she especially [[LadyLooksLikeADude looks a little like a boy]].
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: The last third of Season 1 has her up against 14-year old [[spoiler:alchemist Varian, who has undergone a StartOfDarkness after his father being frozen in crystal]].
* OneOfTheBoys: She fits right in with the Snuggly Duckling thugs, mainly due to [[RealMenWearPink what kind of boys the thugs are]] and her being a [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak princess who likes being sweet, girly and kind yet tough, manly and adventurous]].
* OneTrackMindedArtist: All of her paintings have the sun on them somewhere. This could have something to do with either the lanterns that get sent up on her birthday, the fact that she was the lost princess of a kingdom who use a sun as their symbol, the fact that her powers come from a flower that was powered with "a drop of sun", or a combination.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the Season 2 premiere, Eugene is blackmailed into (almost) marrying his evil ex-girlfriend Stalyan. Rapunzel, not knowing about the blackmail, gets ''very'' jealous of Stalyan, to the point of making petty and rude comments about her that she (and everyone else) notes is very unlike her. She calms down once it's made clear Eugene isn't marrying Stalyan of his own free will and is determined to get him back.
* OppositesAttract: With Eugene. She's a spirited, innocent princess, he's a jaded, worldly-wise thief.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: When [[spoiler:Varian]] is thrown out into an intense magical snowstorm, she never bothers organizing a search party for him, which is quite jarring for her.
* ParentalFavoritism: [[spoiler: Cassandra accuses Rapunzel of being this to Gothel, saying Gothel chose Rapunzel over her. Even Rapunzel knows this is not true as Gothel didn't care about either of them and was a selfish person]].
* ThePawn: Rapunzel is a GirlInTheTower with FountainOfYouth powers who is convinced she has been protected by her selfless caring mother from a CrapsackWorld who would abuse her powers because Rapunzel is TheIngenue. Then Rapunzel discovers at her 18th birthday that [[ChangelingFantasy she really is the kidnapped princess of her Kingdom]], that the woman he has called Mother all this time is her kidnapper putting on a WiseOldFolkFacade, who has been {{Gaslighting}} Rapunzel all her life so she can use Rapunzel as her personal FountainOfYouth, and that TheWorldIsJustAwesome and Rapunzel is a {{Determinator}}.
* PietaPlagiarism: She holds Eugene in this manner after his HeroicSacrifice.
* PluckyGirl: She's quite determined to see the "stars" from her birthday, even though her mother is constantly gas-lighting and deriding her, and she definitely takes some initiative in fulfilling her dreams.
* ThePollyanna: Rapunzel is a very optimistic and cheerful person who tries to see the good in others and get along with people. Even when Gothel is dismissive and emotionally abusive towards her, she never feels the need to think bad about her as she genuinely loved her as a mother.
* PoliticallyActivePrincess: The first season of the series shows her getting increasingly involved in the duties of a princess, culminating in her being temporary ruler while her parents are away and holding audiences and making decisions just as they would. In Season 3, [[spoiler: with the incapacitation of her parents]], she spends much of the season as more or less de-facto Queen, making important decisions and leading much of Corona.
* PowerDyesYourHair:
** She was ''born'' with her hair dyed by the power of the sun. When cut, her hair loses its magic powers and returns to its natural brown color.
** In the series, [[spoiler: when she uses the hurt incantation, her hair turns black with glowing green streaks.]]
* PowerGlows: She has ThePowerOfTheSun, [[JustifiedTrope after all]].
** Her hair glows when she sings the healing incantation.
** In "Cassandra's Revenge," [[spoiler: as Rapunzel uses the fourth incantation, her hair and eyes glow bright gold.]]
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: In the series, Rapunzel touches some magic rocks that make her hair grow back to its original length.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: It lets her heal, and at first sun magic seems to be imbued in her hair because of the sun flower potion her mother drank when she was pregnant with Rapunzel. However, we later find out that she herself is a product of of it.
* PrefersGoingBarefoot:
** Rapunzel is of the youthful innocence variety, plus she never needed shoes due to never leaving her tower. Interestingly, no one in the entire film comments on it, aside from Mother Gothel pointing a mirror down at Rapunzel's bare feet and commenting that she's "underdressed" -- causing Rapunzel to immediately pull the bottom of her dress down over her feet. (There's considerably more lampshading in ''Tangled: The Series'' since she's a royal princess who spends time outside and yet never wears proper shoes.) In the storybook version of ''Tangled Ever After'', she's still barefoot, even at her wedding. (In the short film, her dress is too long to tell.) The later storybook ''Ghosts of Christmas Past'' then shows that while she'll shun shoes most of the time, she'll renege to them if it calls for walking in snow. At least one bit of early concept art shows Rapunzel with shoes... however, in the artwork, she's shown kicking them off her feet. In ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' her comfy outfit includes sneakers.
** ''Tangled: The Series'' calls a lot more attention to Rapunzel's preference for going barefoot everywhere than the original movie did (which mentioned it a grand total of once, and even then not explicitly). "The Way of the Willow" introduces Rapunzel's aunt Willow, who [[SharedFamilyQuirks shares a great many personality traits with her]], including going barefoot. Another episode featured OOCIsSeriousBusiness, where Rapunzel willingly wearing shoes is a sign to Eugene that something is very wrong. By the final season, [[ExposedToTheElements she's even stopped wearing them in the snow]] (or any other winter clothing for that matter, just wearing her standard LimitedWardrobe instead) while in the earlier seasons she would bundle up and put on some boots.
* PrehensileHair: To varying degrees throughout her appearances. [[NeverTrustATrailer In the initial trailers, it appeared fully prehensile and capable of fighting Eugene and flinging him about the room.]] This trait is absent in the movie, save perhaps for the hair's uncanny ability to wrap around anything Rapunzel throws it at and to just as easily untangle itself when she wants it free. In the cartoon series, it can move freely but reacts to her emotions and mental state instead of being controlled directly by her will.
* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: Her signature outfit is a pretty purple dress and, of course, she has very long and beautiful blonde hair. She's not a royal guard but very few people, like Gothel, have outright overpowered her. Otherwise she's very capable in a fight, and will only lose when worn down or outnumbered.
* PrincessClassic: A generous, naïve, cheerful and sweet princess with [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold golden]] hair and a [[PrincessesPreferPink preference for pink dresses]]. Yep, she fits the bill. The most notable difference is that she marries a ReformedCriminal instead of a PrinceCharming, [[spoiler:although he turns out to be a prince after all]].
* PrincessesPreferPink: At the end of the movie, after she remembers that she is a princess, she wears a rosy-pink dress.
* RagsToRoyalty: A Goose Girl type; kidnapped as a baby so Mother Gothel can make use of her MagicHair and ignoring that she's a long-lost princess.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The energetic and emotional Red Oni to Eugene's laid-back and snarky Blue Oni.
* RelativeButton: Cassandra quickly finds out that leaving someone Rapunzel cares about behind, is a safe way to get on her bad side real quick. She is furious at Cassandra's suggestion to call off the search for Pascal, and Rapunzel's livid expression when she was about to suggest they should stop looking for Eugene and come back with the guards was enough to scare Cassandra.
* RememberedICouldFly: In the scene where Rapunzel and Flynn are trapped in a sealed cave while it gets flooded, Flynn fails to find an underwater exit since the cave is pitch-black. It takes a little while for Rapunzel to realize she can get some light with her hair.
-->'''Rapunzel''': I have magic hair that glows when I sing.\\
'''Flynn''': ''[[FlatWhat What?!]]''\\
'''Rapunzel''': I have... ''MAGIC HAIR THAT GLOWS WHEN I SING!''
* RenaissanceMan: She's very skilled in many areas, such as literature, music, baking, astronomy, and art. She actually learned to do all of these things on her own when living isolated in a tower.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Rapunzel's magic hair must also include immunity to split ends and other problems that would plague normal hair that hasn't been cut for 18 years. Swinging on it like she does would also require incredible physical strength and practical knowledge of physics... which indeed she demonstrates even outside of that specific situation.
* RoyalBlood: In a switch from the fairy tale, where she isn't a blood-born princess, and he is, now she is and he isn't. It's also a small part of the story since her non-royal magic hair is more important.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Eugene. She's excitedly running to and fro while he stands there and snarks at her naivety.
* TheScapegoat: Throughout the third season, [[spoiler:Cassandra repeatedly victim-blames her for overshadowing her and Gothel abandoning her in favor of Rapunzel, despite her having no choice in the matter, having been kidnapped by Gothel as a baby, and almost always treated Cassandra with kindness and respect. Given the traumatic childhood they each had under Gothel, this kind of behavior is rather typical between abused siblings]].
* SecretKeeper: To spare Cassandra from facing severe consequences, Rapunzel is forced to promise to not tell anyone that Cassandra got her out of the kingdom and is responsible for her hair growing back. This briefly troubles her relationship with Eugene.
* SeriesGoal: In the TV series, to find out why her hair has grown back after coming into contact with mysterious sharp rock spires.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: In "[[Recap/TangledTheSeriesS1E15TheWayOfTheWillow The Way of the Willow]]", Rapunzel meets her aunt Willow for the first time and discovers they have many things in common: they both enjoy painting, going on adventures, and running around [[EarthyBarefootCharacter barefoot]].
* ShortTeensTallAdults: Despite being 18, Rapunzel is shorter than most adults, including her ''real'' parents.
* SimpleYetOpulent: Her princess dress and wedding dress are both subtly royal.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Rapunzel doesn't start falling for Eugene until she sees his softer and nobler side.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Rapunzel gets along well with others, but as seen in the pilot movie ''Tangled Before Ever After'' her sheltered upbringing leaves her unaware of what is and isn't socially appropriate.
* StepfordSmiler: Rapunzel has a habit of acting like everything's fine when it isn't. Case in point, [[spoiler: when Cassandra turns evil]].
* StockShoujoHeroine: Rapunzel has lived a sheltered life inside her tower up until her 18th birthday, wondering where she came from and what the world outside is like. Sweet, curious, and energetic, and with the rough mannerisms of a gentle princess, Rapunzel captures the hearts of most of the people she encounters on her journey to the lanterns.
* StrongerThanYouLook: Implied; while she's a short, thin teenage girl, she's able to swing around a heavy cast-iron frying pan like it weighs nothing.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Between Rapunzel and her real mother, the queen. Especially at the end, when they're both brunette and the camera frames them reuniting, [[FamilyEyeResemblance right down to the huge green eyes.]] Rapunzel and the Queen look so alike that ''she does not need to do anything else to show that she's the lost princess'', despite having a completely different hair color when she was a baby. It's [[TruthInTelevision common enough]] for babies' and toddlers' natural hair colors to slowly change as they grow up.
* SupernaturalFloatingHair: In the Series, Rapunzel's magical hair sometimes moves on its own, floats, and [[PowerGlows glows]], too. In the Reverse Incantation mode, it turns black and slithers.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: When she uses the fourth incantation, her eyes glow bright gold.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Rapunzel is the muscle between her and Eugene, while Eugene helps her learn more about the world.
* SupremeChef: Rapunzel is shown to be good at baking. She baked a pie and has made delicious frying pan cookies.
* SwissArmyTears: She heals Eugene with her tears, which is also in the source material.
* TearsOfRemorse: When she thinks she and Flynn are going to drown, and it's all her fault, she's crying.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Among other activities, she knits and does laundry to distract herself when alone in the tower.
* TookALevelInCynic: The events throughout the first movie and series have made her a lot more impatient and slightly less optimistic than she was in the movie. For example compare how movie!Rapunzel would have reacted to Calliope versus her series counterpart.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Cute, bubbly and feminine yet tough and adventurous Rapunzel is the GirlyGirl to tough, sword-wielding Cassandra's {{Tomboy}}. Rapunzel enjoys feminine activities like painting and sewing and wears light, pastel-colored dresses.
* TranquilFury: When the {{all loving|Heroine}} princess [[BewareTheNiceOnes gets royally pissed off]]...
** In the movie, after she realizes that she is the kidnapped princess, she is furious and restrained as she [[CallingTheOldWomanOut gives Gothel a piece of her mind]].
--->'''Rapunzel:''' I am the lost princess. Aren't I? Did I mumble, mother? Or should I even call you that?
** In the season 1 finale, [[spoiler: after Varian kidnaps her mother and nearly kills said mother and Cassandra, she goes to fight him with a determined but calm expression, contrasting his growing VillainousBreakdown.]]
** In "Cassandra's Revenge," [[spoiler: as she uses the fourth incantation, [[PowerFloats floating above the ground]] and [[PowerGlows glowing with power]], she gravely ''orders'' Cassandra to let Eugene go and, after Cassandra refuses, proceeds to stop and disintegrate all the black rocks Cassandra throws at her.]]
* TraumaticHaircut: Not only does she get the hair she's been growing out her whole life chopped off, losing it means she can't save Eugene's life.
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: She almost has this among the citizens of Corona. In the movie, it's said she's "beloved by all." In the TV series, when Monty boos her, she initially doesn't know what being booed means, having never heard it before due to her previously being overly sheltered.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: You'd think a girl with 70 feet of hair would get a bit more notice when she first strolls into town. Becomes humorously lampshaded in the series.
-->'''Rapunzel:''' Seraphina's a ''mermaid?!''\\
'''Hookfoot:''' Yeah, so? You're a woman with seventy feet of hair.
* UptownGirl: Rapunzel, the lost princess, and Flynn Rider a.k.a. Eugene Fitzherbert, an orphan turned thief. Neither of them know she's the princess for quite some time, though. [[spoiler:Subverted by the series, which reveals that Eugene is actually the lost Prince of the Dark Kingdom.]]
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend:
** In the first movie, Rapunzel saves Eugene from the palace guards, helps him escape a water filled cave and later becomes quite protective of him, even to the point of trying to warn him when Gothel lures him in with her hair.
** In "Cassandra's Revenge", [[spoiler:she had repeatedly refused to fight Cassandra. This changes when Cassandra threatens to kill Eugene; Rapunzel uses the hidden fourth incantation of the Demanitus scroll to unlock the sundrop's full power, and [[CurbStompBattle utterly flattens Cassandra with it]] (and the only words Rapunzel speaks during their clash is a repeated [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "Let. Him. Go."]]).]]
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: In the series, one of Rapunzel's main concerns is to not make her father feel disappointed and live up to his expectations of her as a princess. It doesn't help her free-spirited nature clashes with his strict and overprotective personality.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim:
** Cassandra often asks this about Rapunzel with regards to Eugene. All Cassandra sees is a careless ex-thief and thinks Rapunzel can do better, but all Rapunzel sees in Eugene is her PrinceCharming. [[spoiler:If "Islands Apart" is of any indication, Cassandra doesn't understand why Rapunzel doesn't break up with him]].
** At "Beyond the Corona Walls", Cassandra admits to Rapunzel that [[TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou the one thing Cassandra doesn't hate about Eugene]] is that [[OneTrueLove Eugene loves Rapunzel, more than anyone has ever loved anybody]], but given Cassandra's [[spoiler: childhood with Gothel]], she also thinks that LoveIsAWeakness.
* WomanChild: She's known for her naivety and childlike demeanor due to Gothel not raising her properly as she wanted to keep her young even when she turned 18.
* YouAreGrounded:
** In the film, Rapunzel has been grounded in the tower her whole life and when she asks to go outside, Mother Gothel snaps and yells "You are not leaving this tower! EVER!"
** In the series, she is locked up in her room by her father. It gets to tragic levels when it turns out not only he's unable to fully protect her, but such measures ''encourage'' his enemies and not deter them. [[spoiler: Sure enough, Varian endangers her anyways]].
* YouthfulFreckles: She has light freckles, mostly around her nose, to go with her youthful naivety and energy.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Without trying to, he discovers the Kingdom of Corona's lost princess who the royal guards have been trying to find for the past 18 years.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the original tale, "the prince" (whom Flynn is based on) apparently had no sort of troubles given his royal status. Here, he grew up in an orphanage with a desire to make money.
* AdaptationalBadass: In a fighting sense. The prince from the original doesn't do much aside from climbing Rapunzel's hair. Here, he is an excellent fighter when he needs to be.
* AdaptationalJerkass: In the original tale, "the prince" (whom Flynn is based on) is the stereotypical heroic character. Here, he is a selfish anti-heroic thief, but becomes less selfish after spending time with Rapunzel and steps up to true blue heroism.
* AdaptationalWimp: Downplayed. Not in a fighting sense, but his original version is royalty, not a peasant. [[spoiler:That is, until Season 2 of the series reveals that he was royalty all along.]]
* AgeGapRomance: With Rapunzel, kinda, albeit a small gap. She is clearly stated as being 18-years-old, but his age is [[VagueAge more complicated]]. In short, his age is somewhere between 18 and 26. It's clarified in the series. By the season 2 finale, it is shown that he is 25 years old. Since the season 2 finale is almost a year after the 1st season finale (Rapunzel says they've been on the road for nearly a year), which is stated to be almost exactly one year after the movie, Eugene is 23 in the movie; making him 5 years older than Rapunzel.
* AmazonChaser: He admires Rapunzel's {{Action Girl}}iness.
** He meets Rapunzel in a LoveAtFirstPunch nature. He compliments her gutsy nature when confronting the Pub Thugs, thinking she wouldn't have it in her, and it's only after this moment that he starts to fall for her. During their escape from the royal guards and Maximus, a [[FreezeFrameBonus quick moment]] shows Eugene looking in admiration at Rapunzel using her hair as a means to escape.
** In "Cassandra's Revenge," he gets to see Rapunzel [[spoiler: as she unlocks the full power of the Sundrop, faces off with Cassandra, and wins.]] He says it was awesome.
** In "Flynnposter", when the fake-Flynn Rider comments in awe about how ''they'' were supposed to save Rapunzel, Eugene proudly declares that Rapunzel is the one who normally does the saving.
* AntiHero: He's a greedy and self-centered thief; he's shown early in the movie to be perfectly fine with leaving his fellow thieves behind to keep all the goods for himself. He starts out helping Rapunzel for his personal gain, but as the story goes on, Flynn reveals that he's not really a bad person deep down. His growing love for Rapunzel is enough for him to change his ways and leave his criminal life behind.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: When he first meets Rapunzel. "I know not who you are..."
* AscendedExtra: In the original, the Prince doesn't show up until at least halfway through the story, here he's present from the very start and rescuing Rapunzel from the tower is only the beginning of the story.
* AudienceSurrogate: Flynn can be seen as this, especially during the "I've Got A Dream" song, where he is the only one (besides Pascal) who wonders why all the bar tenants of the Snuggly Duckling broke out into a CrowdSong all of a sudden. His reaction to Rapunzel's magic hair, full of shock, is also relatable. Out of all the characters, he seems to be the one that understands how bizarre the situation is like fighting Maximus (who is a horse using a sword) with a frying pan in a duel.
--> '''Flynn:''' you should know that this is the strangest thing I've ever done!
* BackFromTheDead: He initially dies in the film's climax from a fatal stab wound. But, Rapunzel's tear (which also had her healing ability) brings him back to life.
* BallsOfSteel: During his escape from captivity at the climax, he is launched high in the air and lands on Maximus on his pelvic area. He doesn't show any pain from landing like that afterwards.
* BattleCouple: With Rapunzel. They help each other fight off the guards chasing him and save each other several times as they fall in love with each other. The pilot movie for TheSeries shows that the two of them have lost none of their stride. When Lady Caine attempts to kidnap the royals, a few eye gestures between Eugene, Rapunzel, and handmaid Cassandra are all they need before they leap into action to save the day. Rapunzel even tosses Eugene a frying pan, at which point, the tide of battle really begins to turn in their favor.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Eugene mentions Rapunzel is the first person to like his real self better than whom he pretends to be, which is why he falls in love with her.
* BerserkButton: While Eugene doesn't completely fly off the handle, he really doesn't like having his abilities as a thief questioned. He reacts ''deeply'' insulted when Angry suggests he was bad at thievery, and shows only disdain towards people labeled a "master thief", dryly refusing to call the Silent Swiper by that name.
* BeYourself: His character development is kicked off with Rapunzel saying she prefers "Eugene" to "Flynn".
* BigBrotherInstinct: Develops this towards [[spoiler:Varian]] in the third season, to the point of protectively holding his hand when [[spoiler:Cassandra]] pulls them into her black rock tower.
* BilingualBonus: Eugene speaks fluent Italian and this is what tips him off when a fake Italian arrives at the castle. Eugene notices that the impostor fails at basic Italian grammar/sentence structure and thus can't be who he claims he is.
* BookDumb: The series notes that as an orphan, Eugene has had very minimal schooling (he claims three days) and so he's actually quite bad at math. He's street smart to make up for it thankfully, and surprisingly is multilingual and good enough at spelling to recognize a homograph pun.
* BrainyBrunette: No, he's not academically smart compared the other characters. But, Eugene is ''very'' quick-witted (and has dark brown hair). He has the most street-savvy, knows every criminal trick (and invented a great deal of them) and will usually rely on his wits to get out of a sticky situation. What he lacks in book smarts, he ''more'' than makes up for in street smarts.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Considering he was a selfish thief, he doesn't really remember half the things he did, including to other people. This royally serves to bite him throughout the TV show, which include:
** He doesn't recall having robbed the Queen eight years prior, because for him back in the day, she was just another noblewoman victim to his routine business. But, since he wants to marry her daughter, he has sudden reason to care.
** Years ago, he [[spoiler:left his then-fianceé Stalyan stranded at the altar when they were supposed to marry]]. Now, she's still understandably ''very'' pissed about it, while he acts nonchalant about it and insists they let it go.
** Lampshaded in "Rapunzel and the Great Tree" when he is being pursued by Hector and rescued by Rapunzel, and he's more accustomed to events that would have fazed him in the past:
--->'''Eugene:''' Two years ago, I'd call fighting jackal monsters on the back of a speeding carriage whilst a rhinoceros chases the woman I love absolutely bonkers. [[LampshadeHanging Now I call it Tuesday.]]
* ButtMonkey: He takes a lot of comedic abuse in the movie and the series as well. Though this is only of the comedic variety (with some exceptions); he considers himself an ''extremely'' fortunate person to have met Rapunzel and gained a better life.
* CannotKeepASecret: Eugene isn't very good at keeping secrets. This is one of the reasons why Cassandra didn't want to trust him with her and Rapunzel's secret of how her hair grew back.
* TheCaptain: [[spoiler: In "Flynnpostor", the Captain of the Guards passes his title to him due to not wanting to fight Cassandra, despite him being a former thief. The following two episodes have Eugene putting his new position to ''very'' good use.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: He stops caring only about himself and learns to love and care for others, as well as to just be himself. While he still maintains his aloof and narcissistic facade in company, he proves to be very insightful whenever Rapunzel's having trouble and does whatever he can to protect her and others. This is a large improvement from his originally selfish and greedy character.
* CharacterNameAlias: His real name is Eugene Fitzherbert [[spoiler: or so he thinks]]. "Flynn Rider" is the name of the hero of "The Tales of Flynnigan Rider", a story he loved as a child. He starts going by Eugene again later in the movie. However, it led some people like Varian to believe he's the real deal.
* TheCharmer: Played with. Flynn tries (and fails) to be this when first meeting Rapunzel, using his smolder, which he even attempted on ''her mom'' in the past. However, it's implied outside of the movie that he really ''was'' a successful charmer, as he [[ReallyGetsAround really got around]] prior to meeting and settling with Rapunzel. He calls himself the "dating master" and says his trick was "about the charm". On one occasion, Rapunzel orders Eugene to charm everybody out of a room. He succeeds within seconds. Later on in the series, we finally get to see the smolder to its full effect. The conclusion seems to be that rather than him simply being bad at it, Rapunzel has no experience or understanding of seduction of any kind, [[NotDistractedByTheSexy so she's completely immune to his moves (including said smolder) due to her innocence]].
** He later uses the Full Smolder on Rapunzel's evil doppelganger clone to distract her. She's so stunned with adoration, she literally cannot move and is stuck in a love-struck daze. In season 2, while on the island, he practices the smolder on a group of (implied female) crabs. One crab gasps from awe and faints. Even pure evil (and female island creatures) cannot resist the impact of this charm!
* ChildhoodFriends: He has known Lance Strongbow/Arnwaldo Schnitz since his childhood at the orphanage. They're very close friends, though their relationship went a bit rocky for a while when Eugene gave up his life as a thief.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Flynn, at least at the start of the film, cares more about what will work out best for him than keeping alliances. Right at the beginning, he betrays the Stabbington brothers by taking the tiara for himself and leaving them to get caught by the royal guards. After "agreeing" to take Rapunzel to the lights, he at first attempts to manipulate her and scare her off.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Part of his backstory is being an orphan to simplify his character in the movie. Though he does hint that there was an OrphansOrdeal back there.
* CunningLinguist: Eugene states that he's been all around the world. In "Fitzherbert P.I." Eugene, who speaks fluent Italian, smells a rat about the impersonator painter because the latter messes up his subject-verb tense. Eugene explains his [[HiddenDepths skills]] with, "Italy has stuff to steal too!" He sometimes [[GratuitousSpanish drops in some Spanish words]], too.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He grew up in an orphanage and became a criminal in order to support himself and achieve his dreams of a better life.
* ADarkerMe: Flynn Ryder is a ChronicBackstabbingDisorder GentlemanThief who thinks of himself as a LovableRogue but really is more like a SmugSnake who [[SmallNameBigEgo is not as cool as he imagines himself to be]]. He merely adopted a CharacterNameAlias of a Childhood Hero persona ([[AdultChild A fourth grader idea of someone cool]]) to cover for [[EmbarrassingFirstName Eugene Fitzherbert]], a guy who suffered an OrphansOrdeal and considers himself a ThisLoserIsYou protagonist who whenever is afraid, becomes Flynn Ryder to cover for his HiddenHeartOfGold.
** At the series, Flynn Rider only emerges whenever Eugene feels menaced, by VillainOfTheWeek, the Duckling Thugs, The Captain of the Guard but most of them all, by Cassandra. The series chronicles the evolution of Eugene Fitzherbert from a JerkWithAHeartOfGold to a HiddenHeartOfGold to TheHeart. It's only at the SeriesFinale Eugene Fitzherbert will [[BeYourself Be Himself]].
* DeadpanSnarker: He takes every opportunity to snark about his current situation.
* DeathByAdaptation: Subverted. His counterpart in the source material suffers a nasty EyeScream instead of dying. The problem is still sorted by Rapunzel's tears, though.
* DecoyProtagonist: The trailers made it seem like Flynn was the star, even though he is very much the deuteragonist. In-movie, Flynn is the leading narrator, but he quickly denounces himself from being the main character and goes on to tell that yes, this is the story of Rapunzel.
* DefrostingIceKing: At first, Flynn comes across as a self-centered jerk who doesn't really care about Rapunzel and her dreams. He only helps her because she hid the princess' tiara he stole and will only give it back to him once he takes her to see the kingdom lanterns. He even tries to trick her into giving up on seeing the lanterns just to speed up the process. But, he slowly warms up and falls in love with Rapunzel as she convinces him to just be himself.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He's the second main character after Rapunzel.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: He dies in Rapunzel's arms, albeit temporarily, as he's revived moments later. Speaking of which...
* DisneyDeath: He is stabbed to death by Gothel, but Rapunzel is able to revive him with her tears.
* DistressedDude: Rapunzel's interventions save Flynn on a few occasions, most notably during the Snuggly Duckling scene. That said, he is able to hold his ground against the palace guards and he kind of repays the favor by performing a HeroicSacrifice, thereby freeing Rapunzel from Gothel.
* DoNotCallMePaul: After his MeaningfulRename, he insists that his name is ''Eugene''. In the series, he corrects Stalyan who calls him "Flynn" and [[spoiler: his father king Edmund who calls him "Horace".]]
* DoesntKnowTheirOwnBirthday: Since he's an orphan, Eugene doesn't know when his birthday is and has never celebrated it, although it doesn't bother him. "Lost and Found" has Rapunzel giving him a birthday so they can start spending it together as a special day. [[spoiler: After meeting his father, King Edmund, he finally learns when his birthday is... and also finds out that he's a year older than he thought he was.]]
* TheDreaded: There's a reason why Flynn Rider was one of the most feared thieves -- he's evaded capture quite easily (even ''alerting'' guards to his presence just to keep things interesting), invaded one of the most impenetrable and heavily guarded castles in another kingdom (he's stated to be the only person to ever achieve this), and no prison can hold him.
* TheDrifter: This was very much his life before meeting Rapunzel, living a solitary life on the run, never forming attachments to people he meets.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: He confesses his love to Rapunzel right before he (briefly) dies.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After spending the majority of his life as an orphaned thief, Flynn/Eugene finally gets his happy ending once he marries Rapunzel and "lives happily ever after".
* EasilyForgiven:
** Between the start of the movie and the epilogue, Flynn goes from being wanted for grand theft, to presumably becoming Prince or Prince Consort, and eventually King of the same country. Wow. Well, given that he did bring back their daughter who had been missing for 18 years, you can see the King and Queen issuing a pardon there.
** Downplayed in the series. The fact that he's just the princess's unemployed former thief almost-fiancé leaves him without much of a place in the castle. The guards still don't trust him much (especially the Captain), past transgressions sometimes pop up to make things rough for him, and Rapunzel's dad takes a while to give him any true respect while Cassandra, Rapunzel's new best friend, initially sees him as a GoldDigger.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Believes this of his real name, Eugene Fitzherbert. Rapunzel doesn't think so. By the end of the movie, Eugene has embraced his real name.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Eugene almost dies no less than ''six'' times, but stays calm and self-assured every time.
** First, when he's trapped with Rapunzel in a slowly flooding cave. Rapunzel sheds TearsOfRemorse while apologizing to Flynn. He replies invoking DyingAsYourself:
--->'''Flynn/Eugene:''' Eugene Fitzherbert is my real name. Someone should know.
** The second time when the Captain of the Guard is leading him away to be executed. Though a bit unnerved and scared at first, Flynn doesn't resist, struggle, or cry, just marches along with the guards quietly... until he sees the Stabbington Bros. in a cell and realizes that Rapunzel is in danger.
** The third time is when he performs his HeroicSacrifice, [[spoiler:choosing to die in order to save Rapunzel]] instead. He even attempts to smile and comfort her as he passes.
** In "What the Hair!?", one of Varian's malfunctioning inventions causes a building to collapse. Eugene refuses to leave a stuck Rapunzel behind when she pleads for him to save himself, bravely choosing to stay with her instead. They declare their love for each other and embrace each other as the place collapses all around them.
** In "Flynnpostor", he solemnly closes his eyes when the Baron attempts to drown him and he fails to break free from the handcuffs keeping him tied to a pole.
** In "Plus Est en Vous", when he's about to be axed by his [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy father, courtesy of Cassandra,]] he simply tells him he forgives him and accepts it. [[ThePowerOfLove This breaks through to]] [[spoiler: [[ThePowerOfLove Edmund]], who promptly destroys the Mind Trap.]]
* FacialCompositeFailure: A running gag is that the "Wanted" posters he's on don't correctly portray his nose. Each time he spots such a poster, it is worse. An episode in Season 3 of the series reveals that the artist is old with cracked glasses, thus warping the way he sees Eugene.
-->'''Eugene:''' They just can't get my ''nose'' right!
* FamilyEyeResemblance: [[spoiler:He and King Edmund have the same eyes.]]
* {{Fingore}}: He isn't awake when it happens, but Rapunzel accidentally slams his fingers in the doors of her closet.
* FireForgedFriends: He and Rapunzel start to become more friendly with each other after escaping the guards chasing after them and nearly drowning together.
* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: He claims, when narrating the opening, that it's not his story, it's Rapunzel's. Which in important respects is only technically true.
* {{Flynning}}: Besides the obvious {{Pun}}, he engages in some of this with Maximus when he's wielding a FryingPanOfDoom and the horse is dueling him with a sword. He even lampshades the absurdity of it.
-->'''Eugene:''' You should know that this is the strangest thing I have ever done!
* {{Foil}}: His interactions with Rapunzel make him this to Mother Gothel. Gothel is a BitchInSheepsClothing who keeps the lost princess imprisoned into a tower by demolishing her self-confidence, Flynn is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who encourages the girl to explore the world by building her will up. Gothel is obsessed by Rapunzel's magic powers to the point she cares more for the girl's ''hair'' than her adoptive daughter, while Eugene is openly freaked by magic and falls for Rapunzel in spite of this. Gothel had MortalityPhobia that led her to exploit an innocent girl, and Eugene bravely sacrificed himself for said innocent girl's sake.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The phlegmatic. Charming, mellow, and even-tempered, but a bit lazy.
* FreudianExcuse: In the pilot movie for the series, he proposes to Rapunzel, [[InnocentlyInsensitive unaware of how stressed she is about being a princess, and the fact that he's putting her on the spot in a royal banquet doesn't help matters]]. It leads to her temporarily rejecting it. [[WhatTheHellHero Cass]] calls him out for this, and he explains later to Rapunzel (actually Pascal in disguise) that the reason why he proposed is because he grew up in an environment where he had nothing and he wants their future family to have everything. He learns to be patient with her, though, and to go at her own emotional pace.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: In the third season of the series, he becomes increasingly attached to animals, in spite of his initial antagonism against Pascal and Maximus.
* GentlemanThief: He exhibits some traits of this trope. The two times we see him actively stealing, it's from the king and queen of Corona, who wouldn't exactly be financially ruined by the loss of a tiara and a ring. Given his background as an orphan and his desire to be as rich as possible, it's likely Eugene was always after bigger fish. Furthermore, he uses violence as a last resort, preferring to either charm his victim, make a run for it, or otherwise outsmart his opponent. And he's very snarky, too. What doesn't fit is his betrayal of the Stabbington Brothers (and given their distrust of him, it's probably not the first time he tried it), seeing how it could have gotten them hanged.
* GivenNameReveal: Twice.
** In the movie, he confesses to Rapunzel that "Flynn Rider" is an alias taken from the series of adventure books he read as a child, and his real name is Eugene Fitzherbert.
** In the series, [[spoiler: [[ReallyRoyaltyReveal he is revealed to be the lost son of King Edmund of the Dark Kingdom]], and his given name is Horace.]] [[DoNotCallmePaul He still prefers "Eugene"]].
* GoldDigger: Subverted. He isn't with Rapunzel for her wealth or status, but fell for her before finding out who she really was. In the show, he's still initially seen as one by Cass, due to his unemployment and shady past. She comes to respect him more as he starts training the guards to better their technique at catching thieves.
* GoodFeelsGood: Is a staunch believer of this after putting aside his criminal ways, especially in the TV show. This is the lesson he tries to - and ultimately succeeds in - teach Red and Angry when they first meet, and whenever he meets anyone else at the cusp of changing sides he'll always say something about how being and doing good feels better and makes one happier than the alternative.
* {{Greed}}: His original motive is to be "surrounded by enormous piles of money". He gets better with CharacterDevelopment.
** He'd also love to own a private island. Though after spending an entire arc stuck on [[HiddenElfVillage Terapi Island,]] Eugene comes to the conclusion that... [[ComicallyMissingthePoint He'd like a better one.]]
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* HasAType: [[UnreliableNarrator Or so he says]]. After Rapunzel's hair turns brown, he tells her he has a thing for brunettes. Still, Rapunzel was blonde when he fell in love with her, and his PsychoExGirlfriend in the series has dark red hair.
* TheHeart: Flynn Ryder is ADarkerMe personality to cover for Eugene Fitzherbert, who turns out to be a highly empathetic guy. At season 2, Adira names Eugene as ''Fish Skin'' as the glue that keeps everything (everyone) together. He is also a DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Eugene, a highly empathic person, uses ADarkerMe in the Flynn Ryder character to confront TheRival Cassandra, and even when Eugene understands Cassandra and forgives her constant SnarkToSnarkCombat, Cassanda and him still remain HeadbuttingHeroes. The result is that Eugene cannot connect with the person who needs him the most. This would be resolved at the SeriesFinale, when Eugene, after being set up in a cruel trap by Cassandra, forgives her and hugs her with Rapunzel.
* HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices his life for Rapunzel's freedom at the end. He is saved from his fatal wound though.
* HiddenDepths:
** He casually mentions reading to the other orphans in the orphanage, and how he wants money to be able to do things and go places like a character he read to them about.
** He correctly suspects that [[{{Fauxreigner}} the supposed painter]] from "Fitzherbert P.I." is not whom he claims to be because he can [[BilingualBackfire speak Italian]].
* HiddenHeartOfGold: "You can't tell anyone about [his real name]. It could ruin my whole reputation." This, of course, is toned down afterwards. While he remains aloof and sarcastic in company, especially towards Cassandra, he provides important insight for Rapunzel in a moment of quiet. Interestingly, whenever his Rapunzel is having trouble understanding her best friend, Eugene usually knows what makes Cassandra tick.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Snuggly Duckling backfired badly on his desire to scare Rapunzel back into her tower.
* HotConsort: Through his marriage to Rapunzel, Eugene is currently Prince Consort of Corona. However, [[spoiler:since his father is King Edmund, this means that Eugene could possibly end up as King of the Dark Kingdom, and therefore hold the title of King Consort of Corona.]]
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: In the cartoon series, it's shown that Eugene's history as a successful career thief means he knows how thieves think and therefore knows how to catch them. He ends up being assigned to teach the Royal Guard how to better anticipate and catch thieves.
** Ends up going a step further in "Flynnposter" where he ''becomes captain of the guard'' at the old Captain's insistence no less. He even goes so far as to hunt down ''another'' Flynn Rider imposter.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Insists he is the "only guy allowed to annoy Cass" and will leap to her defense if another man causes her misery.
* IAmWhatIAm: Eugene's arc across the series is him coming to terms with various parts of himself. Firstly, accepting his own name instead of the Flynn Rider person, then coming to terms with who "Eugene" is and what he can do with his life now that he's no longer a thief.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: He's a thief in the first place because he wants to emulate swashbuckling adventurers.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He does pretty good at fencing with a frying pan. Better, in fact, than with an ''actual'' sword.
-->'''Flynn:''' I have GOT to get me one of these!
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Hinted at. In full "Eugene-mode" he is very sensitive and understanding, but he only shows that side around Rapunzel, whom he loves and trusts deeply. Even now that he's going under his birth name again, he acts more like Flynn Rider, uncaring, aloof and superior, especially around Cassandra, around whom he feels quite unsure. This dynamic changes at Season 3, that chronicles Eugene learning to BeYourself and becoming TheHeart.
* IronButtmonkey: He seems to be MadeOfIron when it comes to physical comedy. Not so resistant to stabbing, though.
* IronicEcho: In the trailer, Eugene calling for Rapunzel to let down her hair is humorous. Less so for the single time he uses it in the movie.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Heavily accused of that by Cassandra. And while he does still have an impressive ego, [[SubvertedTrope she's not entirely correct]], though, since CharacterDevelopment already heavily kicked in to bring out Eugene's more considerate side.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Due to growing up an orphan and becoming a thief, Eugene is a great deal more cynical in the world, and became somewhat of a jerk before meeting Rapunzel.
-->'''Teenage!Eugene:''' Yeah, well, being a selfish jerk is how you get ahead in this world!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not exactly malicious, he just gets himself in a lot of trouble thanks to his thieving and he's greedy, self-centered, and ''really'' [[DeadpanSnarker sassy]]. He gets better.
* KarmaHoudini: {{Justified|Trope}}. Since he helped Rapunzel return to her birth parents, he's pardoned from stealing the princess's tiara. However he's worried about some of his other past crimes, such as robbing the queen eight years ago (he thought she was a random noble), and tries to not get into any ''more'' trouble these days.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Gothel stabs him and leaves him to die to keep Rapunzel's existence a secret.
* LadykillerInLove: Implied. When first meeting Rapunzel, she ties him to a chair for invading her home, and he tries to flirt his way out. He remarks that it's an "off-day" for him when his smolder fails on her. In the TV series, there are several remarks about his past; Lance mentions Eugene having had a fling with twins, then there's his standing up ex-fiancee Stalyan at their wedding along with his implications of ''a lot'' of ex-girlfriends and dates. However, ever since meeting Rapunzel, he's only been devoted to her and (throughout the TV show) repeatedly states his full intention to marry her. In fact, he proposes to Rapunzel three times (and had one planned proposal get interrupted, technically making it ''four'' times) throughout the show while anxiously hoping she'll accept.
* LandInTheSaddle: Eugene is catapulted over a high wall as part of his prison breakout and lands in Maximus's saddle. Thanks to RuleOfCool, nobody gets hurt. [[LampshadeHanging He's just as surprised as anyone else about that.]]
* LazyBum: Downplayed. He starts out the series perfectly content to lounge around the castle, getting massages and manicure and enjoying the finer things in life. However, he also puts in lots of effort to support Rapunzel and look out for her. It isn't long at all until CharacterDevelopment hits and Eugene starts to become a more productive member of the castle.
* LeParkour: Flynn and the Stabbington brothers use this at times in the movie, perhaps most noticeably while climbing on the palace roof in their first scene. He uses it more often in the series.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: He eventually comes to see Cassandra as like a sister to him, even if she's an annoying one. [[spoiler:He also becomes hurt by her [[FaceHeelTurn betrayal]], though not quite as much as Rapunzel, and [[EasilyForgiven readily forgives]] her after [[HeelFaceTurn she helps save Corona from Zhan Tiri.]]]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Complete with the usual aesop. Flynn even admits that his dream involves him being alone and has to be forced into participating in the CrowdSong and the DanceLine at sword point.
* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: He briefly loses a boot when he's used as a human tug-of-war rope between Rapunzel and Maximus.
* LostOrphanedRoyalty: [[spoiler: He was orphaned as a baby, but it is later revealed in the Season 2 finale of the show that he's really King Edmund's lost son.]]
* LovableRogue: Invoked. He tries to cultivate this image, but his wanted posters [[RunningGag just can't get the nose right]].
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Rapunzel and Eugene's relationship kicks off with her knocking him out with a frying pan after he breaks into her tower. Then she proceeds to knock him out ''two more times'' afterwards. He remembers it, ironically, as a fond memory and "first date".
-->'''Eugene:''' Rapunzel, from the moment I first met you and you knocked me out with that frying pan, I knew it was love.
* LoveRedeems: His growing love for Rapunzel causes him to change his thieving ways and return to bearing his old name Eugene Fitzherbert. He also leaves his criminal past behind and goes fully legit in his life.
* LyingByOmission: His opening narration includes the phrase "This is the story of how I died." He then hurriedly adds that the audience shouldn't worry because it's actually a very fun story and it isn't really even about him, thus leading you to understand that he was pulling your leg. [[spoiler:Except he wasn't. He ''does'' die, in point of fact. [[DisneyDeath He omits that he doesn't stay dead.]]]]
* MadeOfIron: Flynn should at least be bruised from head to toe with many broken bones and concussions from all the abuse he goes through in this movie, but most of it doesn't leave a scratch on him. Though, he's still vulnerable to daggers and pointy rocks.
* MaliciousMisnaming: While "malicious" might be a strong word, as they just don't get along, it's notable that Eugene mispronounces Cassandra's name- he pronounces her name as "[[AccentOnTheWrongSyllable Cas-sandra]]", while every other character, including Cass herself and both her known parents, pronounces it "Ca-saundra".
* MeaningfulEcho:
** When Flynn and Rapunzel are about to see the lights appear, Rapunzel is worried about what to do with her life after she realizes her dream of seeing the lanterns. He consoles her by telling her, "Well, that's the good part I guess. You get to go find a new dream." This turns up again later when Eugene has returned to the tower in an attempt to free Rapunzel. After being fatally wounded, he admits to Rapunzel, [[DyingDeclarationOfLove "You were my new dream."]] Rapunzel responds, in a tear-filled voice, "And you were mine."
** In the TV show, they use the "you're my dream" line as their special way to re-confirm their love for each other.
** The first and last times Flynn sees Rapunzel's long hair emerge from her tower are nearly identical, with her golden hair forming a loop as it flies out of the window into the sunlit air as he clings to the wall of the tower. The second time, it's not Rapunzel.
* MeaningfulName:
** Eugene is Greek for "well born", so it's only fitting that he later marries the princess. [[spoiler:In "Destinies Collide", Eugene learns that his father is King Edmund, who sent him away to avoid being corrupted by the Moonstone opal's power, with his ancestors serving as mystical guardians to protect the world from the opal's power]].
** Subverted. Fitzherbert is a patronymic surname that means "son of Herbert", but he neither knows who his biological parents are nor is his father named Herbert anyways. It turns out that [[spoiler:his father's name is Edmund]].
* MeaningfulRename: He reveals in the epilogue that he goes back to his birth name, which we see happen in the series. After all, Rapunzel says she likes "Eugene" better.
* MoneyFetish: He admits his dream is to be "surrounded by enormous piles of money".
* MotorMouth: Anytime he's freaking out.
-->'''Eugene:''' I'm-not-freaking-out-are-you-freaking-out-no-I'm-just-very-interested-in-your-hair-and-the-magical-qualities-that-it-possesses-how-long-has-it-been-doing-that-exactly?
* MrFanservice: According to an interview, Flynn's design came from the artists having the female staff members writing down all of the celebrities they thought were most good-looking and borrowing from that. The creators called the gathering of female staff members "The Hot Man Meeting".
* NamedByTheAdaptation: He's only ever referred to as "the prince" in the original tale.
* NiceGuy: In the series, his [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold]] [[CharacterDevelopment shines brighter]] in the later seasons. In addition to being a ''wonderful'' boyfriend towards Rapunzel, he becomes regularly compassionate towards others, even to those he can't stand (Calliope, Brock Thunderstrike), or even have deeply hurt and wronged him (the Stabbingtons, [[spoiler:Hector, Cassandra]]). He also helps former criminals [[ReformedCriminal turn their lives around]], and [[spoiler:becomes a kind and responsible Captain of the Guard]]. Of course, he's still a DeadpanSnarker.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Rapunzel (nice), Cassandra (mean), and Eugene (in-between). He's not a saint like Rapunzel, but Eugene is still consistently loyal and selfless.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Despite being Rapunzel's boyfriend, The Series paints him as friendly and interactive towards the members of the castle staff.
* TheNicknamer: He ''loves'' giving various clever nicknames to people, but is [[AffectionateNickname especially affectionate]] with Rapunzel and Varian.
* NoHonorAmongThieves:
** He betrays his original partners in the film's opening.
** Averted in his relationship with Lance Strongbow. They're like brothers and help each other out often.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: He falls in love with Rapunzel before finding out she's the lost princess. He clearly appreciates the benefits of being the princess' boyfriend, but he makes it clear that all he truly wants is to be with Rapunzel and to make her happy. (It still doesn't stop others from believing he's a GoldDigger though.) If he wants money, he prefers to get it from somewhere else; like from a treasure hunt or a legit job.
* OfficialCouple: With Rapunzel. They become a couple towards the end of the movie and get married in the sequel short taking place several years later. The TV series takes place in between the two, with the two as a not-yet-engaged but still very serious couple.
* OhAndXDies: The opening narration starts off with Flynn stating, "This is the story of how I died." By the time it comes up in the story, odds are good you've forgotten about that line. Additionally, the first-time viewer, after observing his personality, would think he was exaggerating for drama.
* OhCrap: He gets a lot of these reactions.
** It's played for laughs during his encounters with Maximus.
** It's played for drama when the guards reveal he's going to be hanged for stealing the crown.
** Subverted anytime he sees one of his "Wanted" posters -- which would cause most people an "OhCrap", but he only fusses about how his nose is badly drawn.
** He also has some of these reactions throughout the series, given the situation.
*** In "Cassandra vs. Eugene", when he and Cassandra are confronted by the Stabbington brothers.
*** In "The Return Of Strongbow", when he realizes that the ring he stole eight years earlier belongs to Rapunzel's mother, Queen Arianna.
*** In "In Like Flynn" when he and King Frederic are surrounded by King Trevor's guards.
*** At the end of "Lost and Found", Eugene receives a fortune slip from Vigor the Visionary that warns him of impending betrayal once Rapunzel reaches the end of her journey in the Dark Kingdom. He takes a long look around their group and ganders at Cassandra, who bears a sinister smile. Eugene is shocked and his eyes widen, beginning to suspect that Cassandra will turn against Rapunzel.
* OnlySaneMan: Just check out his expressions during the "I've Got A Dream" song. He's the only Disney character (along with Robert from ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'') to question why everyone is randomly singing during a CrowdSong.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the movie, Eugene has been arrested and is being escorted out of prison for his execution. He encounters the Stabbington Brothers again in a passing cell. Rather than normally being intimidated by them, Eugene is [[TranquilFury furious]] because they found out about Rapunzel's magical hair and put her in danger. He wants to know how they found out about her ''right now''. He easily breaks free of the guards and ''cows two men twice his size and strength who are behind literal cell bars'' into answering his questions. Why do they suddenly cave so quickly? Because he's just ''that furious''.
* OppositesAttract: With Rapunzel. He's a jaded, worldly-wise thief, she's a spirited, innocent princess.
* ParentalAbandonment: He's an orphan, and he never really knew his parents. [[spoiler: He eventually gets to meet his father, King Edmund, who is the guardian of the Moonstone.]]
* PrettyBoy: Intentionally invoked; his design is a composite of many men the women in the studio deemed attractive. The Stabbington brothers mockingly refer to him as "Pretty boy" in the movie.
* PrinceCharming: Back in the day, Flynn Rider was a lying, cheating jerkass. But as Eugene, he proves he doesn't need to be a prince to embody the spirit of this trope, taking it even further than other Disney Princes by going as far willing to ''die'' out of love for Rapunzel. [[spoiler:That said, the animated series reveals that he actually is one, but Rapunzel doesn't care because in her eyes, he was always her Prince Charming]].
* ProtectorBehindBars: His imminent execution doesn't bother him as much as when he realizes that Rapunzel is Mother Gothel's captive.
* ProudBeauty: A contrast of Mother Gothel. He's proud of his handsome features, but not to the point that he will take advantage of Rapunzel like Gothel insinuates he will. In turn, when Rapunzel offers herself to Gothel to save his life, he cuts her hair, rendering its magic no more, ensuring no one will ever use Rapunzel to keep their youth and beauty like Mother Gothel ever did. That said the series establishes he has a slight vain streak, in trying to keep his good looks heavily pronounced, but not to the point its his entire personality.
* RagsToRoyalty: He is an orphan and a thief who marries a princess (though he didn't know that she was royalty when he fell in love with her). [[spoiler: Though it turns out that ''he'' was royalty all along.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: It's implied he has quite a number of ex-girlfriends from his old days as a thief, if Lance's account of a warlord's twin daughters was any indication. The fact that he got with a crime boss' daughter (only to dump her and run) and his season 2 comment about how he's had "tons of dates" while giving dating advice only increases the implication. Whenever his past gets brought up in front of Rapunzel, he tries to immediately change the subject and appears embarrassed.
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: [[spoiler:The show's Season 2 finale reveals that he is the lost son of King Edmund of the Dark Kingdom, making him a prince.]]
* RebelliousSpirit: Due to growing up as a thief, Eugene doesn't get along with rules, procedures, or any kind of authority. This shows in "Fitzherbert P.I.", where he can't keep a job because he keeps refusing to do things by the book.
* RedHerringMole: In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler: Eugene briefly attempts to prevent Rapunzel from reaching the Moonstone out of fear that its power might kill her like his mother. With Pascal's scolding, Eugene realizes he's turning against Rapunzel as Demanitus' prophecy warned and he decides to have faith in his girlfriend instead. In the end, it turns out the prophecy wasn't referring to Eugene... but Cassandra.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The laid-back and snarky Blue Oni to Rapunzel's energetic and emotional Red Oni.
* RecruitingTheCriminal: After the movie, Eugene puts his skills as a former thief to use by eventually getting a job as a consultant for the Royal Guards and helps train them to catch thieves better.
* ReformedCriminal: By the end of the movie, Eugene turns his life around, stops thieving and goes legit. [[spoiler: In the TV show, he's able to take his changed life a step further by eventually becoming the official Captain of the Royal Guard.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Near the end of the third season, [[spoiler:he takes on this role after becoming Captain of the Guard. He pardons Brock Thunderstrike, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm makes sure the people of Corona flee to safety]] when Cassandra attacks the kingdom with her black rocks after appealing to her doesn't work, and lets her off the hook following her HeelFaceTurn and rescuing of Corona with Rapunzel.]]
* ReversePsychology: Flynn uses this, trying to get rid of Rapunzel by using her fear of disobeying her mother by encouraging her to do it:
-->'''Flynn:''' Overprotecting mother, forbidden road trip... But let me ease your conscience: this is part of growing up. A little rebellion, a little adventure. That's good, healthy even. [...] Does your mother deserve it? ''No.'' Would this break her heart and crush her soul? ''Of course.'' But you've just got to do it.
* RunawayGroom: The series reveals that he left his one of his ex-girlfriends at the altar.
* RunningGag: In the movie, whenever he encounters a wanted poster, they never can draw his nose right.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Rapunzel. He just stands there and snarks at her naivety as she's excitedly running around and exploring the world.
* SecretKeeper: Rapunzel lets Eugene know her secret that Cassandra sneaked her out of the kingdom the night she got her hair back. Eugene would love to see Cassandra getting in trouble for this, but he promises Rapunzel to keep the secret.
* SmallNameBigEgo: While he does have a fair amount of wit and charm, it pales in comparison to how witty and charming he ''thinks'' he is.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: His antagonism with Cassandra leads to much verbal snipping at each other. In any other PowerTrio series, this trope would be used to showcase the VitriolicBestBuds vibes between them and show the wit of the writers. Here it's deconstructed, showing the real consequences of verbal abuse: Cassandra is Rapunzel's FirstFriend and Eugene is Rapunzel's LoveInterest. Both of them snark so much they constantly KickTheDog one to another: {{Jerkass}} Cassandra barely tolerates Eugene -- She becomes a constant ShippingTorpedo with him and Rapunzel in all the seasons, at Season 1 Cassandra's snarkiness makes her a UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom that inspires Eugene to walk into a SuicideMission. At season 2, she barely tolerates Eugene and pulls a TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou. As for Eugene, whenever he is verbally attacked, he pulls his ADarkerMe persona of ''Flynn Ryder'', who [[KickTheDog Kicks The Dog]] a lot with Cassandra. Eugene displays HypocriticalHeartwarming to Cassandra, but Cassandra is TheParanoiac and she never acknowledges it. The worst part is that when Eugene is not putting his ADarkerMe persona, he becomes a HiddenHeartOfGold. This means that Eugene gives emotional support to everyone ''except Cassandra, the person who needs it the most''. [[spoiler:Cassandra makes a FaceHeelTurn at season 3, betraying Rapunzel and Eugene. That season shows Cassandra geographically far from Rapunzel and Eugene. Without Cassandra's constant SnarkToSnarkCombat, Eugene feels confident enough to BeYourself and experimentes true CharacterDevelopment and becomes TheHeart. When Cassandra comes back, she tries her best to use SnarkToSnarkCombat to hurt Rapunzel, and prepares a DisproportionateRetribution trap for Eugene, but Eugene is now enough of TheHeart to forgive Cassandra when she makes her HeelFaceTurn.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: Flynn entering her tower to escape the guards with the stolen tiara is what leads Rapunzel to discovering her true identity.
* StickyFingers: Lifts the loot from his partners early in the film and Rapunzel's tiara in the epilogue.
* StreetSmart: Eugene knows any criminal trick to run from the law, mostly because he ''invented'' some of them. This proves helpful to catch some criminals and eventually, he's assigned to teach the royal guards how to think like a thief.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: The quick-witted and crafty Smart Guy to Cassandra's Strong Girl. While Eugene is capable of impressive athletic feats and skilled in combat, it's more of a last resort, as he usually prefers to make a run for it or outsmart his opponents, as opposed to Cassandra, whose go-to move is a direct confrontation likely involving violence.
* {{Swashbuckler}}: He wants to be one of these so much he called himself "Flynn Rider" after a swashbuckling hero in a story he read. Thus, his initial portrayal is one of a dashing thief who uses trickery and "the smolder" to charm his way through adventures. Albeit a bit more anti-heroic and snarky than usual for this kind of character.
* ThatManIsDead: Flynn Rider dies as Eugene begins embracing his true name and personality. So the TonightSomeoneDies warning at the beginning is very true; it is the story of Flynn's death and his rebirth as Eugene. However, everyone he's ever met in the past will still refer to him by his previous name. In "Beyond the Corona Walls", after Stalyan attempts to persuade him to marry her, only to be stopped by Rapunzel and Pascal saving him, he embraces his future with Rapunzel as Eugene Fitzherbert.
* TookALevelInKindness: Thanks to Rapunzel. As a career thief, he used to say, "Every man for himself," and [[NoHonorAmongThieves leave his partners in crime behind]] without a second thought, and that included not only the likes of the Stabbingtons but even his ''best friend Lance''. In "Return Of The King," he decides to [[SaveTheVillain save the Stabbingtons]] because thanks to Rapunzel he now believes in second chances, and in the series finale, he [[spoiler:[[TurnTheOtherCheek warmly forgives Cassandra]].]]
* TranquilFury:
** When Flynn gets angry, his voice gets more intense, but he doesn't devolve into shouting or a mindless rage. He's basically still himself, but suddenly a ''lot'' more willing to get physical.
** He doesn't have this in the film when he's confronting the Stabbingtons in prison, due to his anger there being fueled by fear and anxiety, but he still maintains enough control to get the information he needs.
* UnfortunateNames: His real name, Eugene Fitzherbert. The poor bastard... [[spoiler:Then he finds out his actual real name is Horace, which he finds even ''worse''.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: He announces that the story isn't about him, but rather Rapunzel. It's actually about ''both'' of them.
* VagueAge: His official age is less than clear. One popular rumor spread that Eugene was imagined by animators to be 26 years old during the movie, making an eight year age gap between him and Rapunzel (the largest age gap between any Disney couple). However, directors Bryan Howard and Nathan Greno stated their belief that Eugene is 24 years old at his oldest and the story writers see him as 22 or 23. Basically, Eugene's age is between 18 at his youngest and 24 years old at his oldest depending on whose opinion you go with. As a flashback from "The Return of Strongbow" shows, 8 years prior to the present events, Eugene is still an adult while Rapunzel is at least 10 that time around. [[spoiler: "Destinies Collide" reveals that he was a newborn child 25 years before that episode, which itself takes place about two years after the movie.]]
* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: This dialogue from ''In Like Flynn'':
--> '''The Captain:''' Your dad's lifetime rival King Trevor of Equis likes to play pranks on him.
--> '''Rapunzel:''' By just drawing a silly face on dad's statue? I can't imagine any intelligent person finding this funny.
--> '''Eugene:''': Ha ha ha ha ha.
* WouldHurtAChild: Downplayed. He sees Varian experimenting with Rapunzel's hair's durability using a machine that looks like a torture device and assumes the princess is in danger. Eugene then bursts in and threatens the boy, stating Rapunzel's hair might be unbreakable but Varian himself isn't.
* YankTheDogsChain: Played for laughs. "What The Hair" finally has a wanted poster where they got his nose right, only for it to be destroyed in Varian's lab, much to Eugene's chagrin.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre:
** Courtesy of Rapunzel: Flynn really starts to grow after Rapunzel tells him that she likes Eugene better. She also takes to calling him by that name as well, a gesture of respect that greatly fosters Flynn's later CharacterDevelopment.
** When Maximus rescues Flynn (with the help of the thugs), Eugene is truly pleasantly surprised, because he has not been nice to him.
** Eugene also is very surprised when Queen Arianna offers her hand and pulls him to be part of the group hug.
*** It's the same at the series:
** When Cassandra helps Eugene at ''Fitzherbert, P.I.'', he is again surprised,
** When the King assures Eugene that he takes him seriously at ''In Like Flynn'', he is again surprised.
** When Adira tells Eugene he is TheHeart at Season 2, he is again surprised.
** When the Captain selects Eugene to be his replacement, he is so surprised he does a SpitTake.
** It's not until the third season he will become someone who doesn't get surprised when others think well of him.
---> That's when I realized that if they believed in me, well, darn it, it's okay for me to believe in me.
** And you can see the CharacterDevelopment Eugene gets after they destroy Zhan Tiri, when he applies this trope to a reluctant Cassandra, offering her his hand and pulling Cassandra into the group hug with Rapunzel.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The only appropriate response to seeing your not-quite girlfriend making friends with the hell-beast of a horse that's been chasing you all over the place.
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* HasAType: [[UnreliableNarrator Or so he says]]. After Rapunzel's hair turns brown, he tells her he has a thing for brunettes. Still, Rapunzel was blonde when he fell in love with her, and his PsychoExGirlfriend in the series has dark red hair.
* TheHeart: Flynn Ryder is ADarkerMe personality to cover for Eugene Fitzherbert, who turns out to be a highly empathetic guy. At season 2, Adira names Eugene as ''Fish Skin'' as the glue that keeps everything (everyone) together. He is also a DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Eugene, a highly empathic person, uses ADarkerMe in the Flynn Ryder character to confront TheRival Cassandra, and even when Eugene understands Cassandra and forgives her constant SnarkToSnarkCombat, Cassanda and him still remain HeadbuttingHeroes. The result is that Eugene cannot connect with the person who needs him the most. This would be resolved at the SeriesFinale, when Eugene, after being set up in a cruel trap by Cassandra, forgives her and hugs her with Rapunzel.
* HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices his life for Rapunzel's freedom at the end. He is saved from his fatal wound though.
* HiddenDepths:
** He casually mentions reading to the other orphans in the orphanage, and how he wants money to be able to do things and go places like a character he read to them about.
** He correctly suspects that [[{{Fauxreigner}} the supposed painter]] from "Fitzherbert P.I." is not whom he claims to be because he can [[BilingualBackfire speak Italian]].
* HiddenHeartOfGold: "You can't tell anyone about [his real name]. It could ruin my whole reputation." This, of course, is toned down afterwards. While he remains aloof and sarcastic in company, especially towards Cassandra, he provides important insight for Rapunzel in a moment of quiet. Interestingly, whenever his Rapunzel is having trouble understanding her best friend, Eugene usually knows what makes Cassandra tick.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Snuggly Duckling backfired badly on his desire to scare Rapunzel back into her tower.
* HotConsort: Through his marriage to Rapunzel, Eugene is currently Prince Consort of Corona. However, [[spoiler:since his father is King Edmund, this means that Eugene could possibly end up as King of the Dark Kingdom, and therefore hold the title of King Consort of Corona.]]
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: In the cartoon series, it's shown that Eugene's history as a successful career thief means he knows how thieves think and therefore knows how to catch them. He ends up being assigned to teach the Royal Guard how to better anticipate and catch thieves.
** Ends up going a step further in "Flynnposter" where he ''becomes captain of the guard'' at the old Captain's insistence no less. He even goes so far as to hunt down ''another'' Flynn Rider imposter.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Insists he is the "only guy allowed to annoy Cass" and will leap to her defense if another man causes her misery.
* IAmWhatIAm: Eugene's arc across the series is him coming to terms with various parts of himself. Firstly, accepting his own name instead of the Flynn Rider person, then coming to terms with who "Eugene" is and what he can do with his life now that he's no longer a thief.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: He's a thief in the first place because he wants to emulate swashbuckling adventurers.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He does pretty good at fencing with a frying pan. Better, in fact, than with an ''actual'' sword.
-->'''Flynn:''' I have GOT to get me one of these!
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Hinted at. In full "Eugene-mode" he is very sensitive and understanding, but he only shows that side around Rapunzel, whom he loves and trusts deeply. Even now that he's going under his birth name again, he acts more like Flynn Rider, uncaring, aloof and superior, especially around Cassandra, around whom he feels quite unsure. This dynamic changes at Season 3, that chronicles Eugene learning to BeYourself and becoming TheHeart.
* IronButtmonkey: He seems to be MadeOfIron when it comes to physical comedy. Not so resistant to stabbing, though.
* IronicEcho: In the trailer, Eugene calling for Rapunzel to let down her hair is humorous. Less so for the single time he uses it in the movie.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Heavily accused of that by Cassandra. And while he does still have an impressive ego, [[SubvertedTrope she's not entirely correct]], though, since CharacterDevelopment already heavily kicked in to bring out Eugene's more considerate side.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Due to growing up an orphan and becoming a thief, Eugene is a great deal more cynical in the world, and became somewhat of a jerk before meeting Rapunzel.
-->'''Teenage!Eugene:''' Yeah, well, being a selfish jerk is how you get ahead in this world!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not exactly malicious, he just gets himself in a lot of trouble thanks to his thieving and he's greedy, self-centered, and ''really'' [[DeadpanSnarker sassy]]. He gets better.
* KarmaHoudini: {{Justified|Trope}}. Since he helped Rapunzel return to her birth parents, he's pardoned from stealing the princess's tiara. However he's worried about some of his other past crimes, such as robbing the queen eight years ago (he thought she was a random noble), and tries to not get into any ''more'' trouble these days.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Gothel stabs him and leaves him to die to keep Rapunzel's existence a secret.
* LadykillerInLove: Implied. When first meeting Rapunzel, she ties him to a chair for invading her home, and he tries to flirt his way out. He remarks that it's an "off-day" for him when his smolder fails on her. In the TV series, there are several remarks about his past; Lance mentions Eugene having had a fling with twins, then there's his standing up ex-fiancee Stalyan at their wedding along with his implications of ''a lot'' of ex-girlfriends and dates. However, ever since meeting Rapunzel, he's only been devoted to her and (throughout the TV show) repeatedly states his full intention to marry her. In fact, he proposes to Rapunzel three times (and had one planned proposal get interrupted, technically making it ''four'' times) throughout the show while anxiously hoping she'll accept.
* LandInTheSaddle: Eugene is catapulted over a high wall as part of his prison breakout and lands in Maximus's saddle. Thanks to RuleOfCool, nobody gets hurt. [[LampshadeHanging He's just as surprised as anyone else about that.]]
* LazyBum: Downplayed. He starts out the series perfectly content to lounge around the castle, getting massages and manicure and enjoying the finer things in life. However, he also puts in lots of effort to support Rapunzel and look out for her. It isn't long at all until CharacterDevelopment hits and Eugene starts to become a more productive member of the castle.
* LeParkour: Flynn and the Stabbington brothers use this at times in the movie, perhaps most noticeably while climbing on the palace roof in their first scene. He uses it more often in the series.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: He eventually comes to see Cassandra as like a sister to him, even if she's an annoying one. [[spoiler:He also becomes hurt by her [[FaceHeelTurn betrayal]], though not quite as much as Rapunzel, and [[EasilyForgiven readily forgives]] her after [[HeelFaceTurn she helps save Corona from Zhan Tiri.]]]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Complete with the usual aesop. Flynn even admits that his dream involves him being alone and has to be forced into participating in the CrowdSong and the DanceLine at sword point.
* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: He briefly loses a boot when he's used as a human tug-of-war rope between Rapunzel and Maximus.
* LostOrphanedRoyalty: [[spoiler: He was orphaned as a baby, but it is later revealed in the Season 2 finale of the show that he's really King Edmund's lost son.]]
* LovableRogue: Invoked. He tries to cultivate this image, but his wanted posters [[RunningGag just can't get the nose right]].
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Rapunzel and Eugene's relationship kicks off with her knocking him out with a frying pan after he breaks into her tower. Then she proceeds to knock him out ''two more times'' afterwards. He remembers it, ironically, as a fond memory and "first date".
-->'''Eugene:''' Rapunzel, from the moment I first met you and you knocked me out with that frying pan, I knew it was love.
* LoveRedeems: His growing love for Rapunzel causes him to change his thieving ways and return to bearing his old name Eugene Fitzherbert. He also leaves his criminal past behind and goes fully legit in his life.
* LyingByOmission: His opening narration includes the phrase "This is the story of how I died." He then hurriedly adds that the audience shouldn't worry because it's actually a very fun story and it isn't really even about him, thus leading you to understand that he was pulling your leg. [[spoiler:Except he wasn't. He ''does'' die, in point of fact. [[DisneyDeath He omits that he doesn't stay dead.]]]]
* MadeOfIron: Flynn should at least be bruised from head to toe with many broken bones and concussions from all the abuse he goes through in this movie, but most of it doesn't leave a scratch on him. Though, he's still vulnerable to daggers and pointy rocks.
* MaliciousMisnaming: While "malicious" might be a strong word, as they just don't get along, it's notable that Eugene mispronounces Cassandra's name- he pronounces her name as "[[AccentOnTheWrongSyllable Cas-sandra]]", while every other character, including Cass herself and both her known parents, pronounces it "Ca-saundra".
* MeaningfulEcho:
** When Flynn and Rapunzel are about to see the lights appear, Rapunzel is worried about what to do with her life after she realizes her dream of seeing the lanterns. He consoles her by telling her, "Well, that's the good part I guess. You get to go find a new dream." This turns up again later when Eugene has returned to the tower in an attempt to free Rapunzel. After being fatally wounded, he admits to Rapunzel, [[DyingDeclarationOfLove "You were my new dream."]] Rapunzel responds, in a tear-filled voice, "And you were mine."
** In the TV show, they use the "you're my dream" line as their special way to re-confirm their love for each other.
** The first and last times Flynn sees Rapunzel's long hair emerge from her tower are nearly identical, with her golden hair forming a loop as it flies out of the window into the sunlit air as he clings to the wall of the tower. The second time, it's not Rapunzel.
* MeaningfulName:
** Eugene is Greek for "well born", so it's only fitting that he later marries the princess. [[spoiler:In "Destinies Collide", Eugene learns that his father is King Edmund, who sent him away to avoid being corrupted by the Moonstone opal's power, with his ancestors serving as mystical guardians to protect the world from the opal's power]].
** Subverted. Fitzherbert is a patronymic surname that means "son of Herbert", but he neither knows who his biological parents are nor is his father named Herbert anyways. It turns out that [[spoiler:his father's name is Edmund]].
* MeaningfulRename: He reveals in the epilogue that he goes back to his birth name, which we see happen in the series. After all, Rapunzel says she likes "Eugene" better.
* MoneyFetish: He admits his dream is to be "surrounded by enormous piles of money".
* MotorMouth: Anytime he's freaking out.
-->'''Eugene:''' I'm-not-freaking-out-are-you-freaking-out-no-I'm-just-very-interested-in-your-hair-and-the-magical-qualities-that-it-possesses-how-long-has-it-been-doing-that-exactly?
* MrFanservice: According to an interview, Flynn's design came from the artists having the female staff members writing down all of the celebrities they thought were most good-looking and borrowing from that. The creators called the gathering of female staff members "The Hot Man Meeting".
* NamedByTheAdaptation: He's only ever referred to as "the prince" in the original tale.
* NiceGuy: In the series, his [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold]] [[CharacterDevelopment shines brighter]] in the later seasons. In addition to being a ''wonderful'' boyfriend towards Rapunzel, he becomes regularly compassionate towards others, even to those he can't stand (Calliope, Brock Thunderstrike), or even have deeply hurt and wronged him (the Stabbingtons, [[spoiler:Hector, Cassandra]]). He also helps former criminals [[ReformedCriminal turn their lives around]], and [[spoiler:becomes a kind and responsible Captain of the Guard]]. Of course, he's still a DeadpanSnarker.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Rapunzel (nice), Cassandra (mean), and Eugene (in-between). He's not a saint like Rapunzel, but Eugene is still consistently loyal and selfless.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Despite being Rapunzel's boyfriend, The Series paints him as friendly and interactive towards the members of the castle staff.
* TheNicknamer: He ''loves'' giving various clever nicknames to people, but is [[AffectionateNickname especially affectionate]] with Rapunzel and Varian.
* NoHonorAmongThieves:
** He betrays his original partners in the film's opening.
** Averted in his relationship with Lance Strongbow. They're like brothers and help each other out often.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: He falls in love with Rapunzel before finding out she's the lost princess. He clearly appreciates the benefits of being the princess' boyfriend, but he makes it clear that all he truly wants is to be with Rapunzel and to make her happy. (It still doesn't stop others from believing he's a GoldDigger though.) If he wants money, he prefers to get it from somewhere else; like from a treasure hunt or a legit job.
* OfficialCouple: With Rapunzel. They become a couple towards the end of the movie and get married in the sequel short taking place several years later. The TV series takes place in between the two, with the two as a not-yet-engaged but still very serious couple.
* OhAndXDies: The opening narration starts off with Flynn stating, "This is the story of how I died." By the time it comes up in the story, odds are good you've forgotten about that line. Additionally, the first-time viewer, after observing his personality, would think he was exaggerating for drama.
* OhCrap: He gets a lot of these reactions.
** It's played for laughs during his encounters with Maximus.
** It's played for drama when the guards reveal he's going to be hanged for stealing the crown.
** Subverted anytime he sees one of his "Wanted" posters -- which would cause most people an "OhCrap", but he only fusses about how his nose is badly drawn.
** He also has some of these reactions throughout the series, given the situation.
*** In "Cassandra vs. Eugene", when he and Cassandra are confronted by the Stabbington brothers.
*** In "The Return Of Strongbow", when he realizes that the ring he stole eight years earlier belongs to Rapunzel's mother, Queen Arianna.
*** In "In Like Flynn" when he and King Frederic are surrounded by King Trevor's guards.
*** At the end of "Lost and Found", Eugene receives a fortune slip from Vigor the Visionary that warns him of impending betrayal once Rapunzel reaches the end of her journey in the Dark Kingdom. He takes a long look around their group and ganders at Cassandra, who bears a sinister smile. Eugene is shocked and his eyes widen, beginning to suspect that Cassandra will turn against Rapunzel.
* OnlySaneMan: Just check out his expressions during the "I've Got A Dream" song. He's the only Disney character (along with Robert from ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'') to question why everyone is randomly singing during a CrowdSong.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the movie, Eugene has been arrested and is being escorted out of prison for his execution. He encounters the Stabbington Brothers again in a passing cell. Rather than normally being intimidated by them, Eugene is [[TranquilFury furious]] because they found out about Rapunzel's magical hair and put her in danger. He wants to know how they found out about her ''right now''. He easily breaks free of the guards and ''cows two men twice his size and strength who are behind literal cell bars'' into answering his questions. Why do they suddenly cave so quickly? Because he's just ''that furious''.
* OppositesAttract: With Rapunzel. He's a jaded, worldly-wise thief, she's a spirited, innocent princess.
* ParentalAbandonment: He's an orphan, and he never really knew his parents. [[spoiler: He eventually gets to meet his father, King Edmund, who is the guardian of the Moonstone.]]
* PrettyBoy: Intentionally invoked; his design is a composite of many men the women in the studio deemed attractive. The Stabbington brothers mockingly refer to him as "Pretty boy" in the movie.
* PrinceCharming: Back in the day, Flynn Rider was a lying, cheating jerkass. But as Eugene, he proves he doesn't need to be a prince to embody the spirit of this trope, taking it even further than other Disney Princes by going as far willing to ''die'' out of love for Rapunzel. [[spoiler:That said, the animated series reveals that he actually is one, but Rapunzel doesn't care because in her eyes, he was always her Prince Charming]].
* ProtectorBehindBars: His imminent execution doesn't bother him as much as when he realizes that Rapunzel is Mother Gothel's captive.
* ProudBeauty: A contrast of Mother Gothel. He's proud of his handsome features, but not to the point that he will take advantage of Rapunzel like Gothel insinuates he will. In turn, when Rapunzel offers herself to Gothel to save his life, he cuts her hair, rendering its magic no more, ensuring no one will ever use Rapunzel to keep their youth and beauty like Mother Gothel ever did. That said the series establishes he has a slight vain streak, in trying to keep his good looks heavily pronounced, but not to the point its his entire personality.
* RagsToRoyalty: He is an orphan and a thief who marries a princess (though he didn't know that she was royalty when he fell in love with her). [[spoiler: Though it turns out that ''he'' was royalty all along.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: It's implied he has quite a number of ex-girlfriends from his old days as a thief, if Lance's account of a warlord's twin daughters was any indication. The fact that he got with a crime boss' daughter (only to dump her and run) and his season 2 comment about how he's had "tons of dates" while giving dating advice only increases the implication. Whenever his past gets brought up in front of Rapunzel, he tries to immediately change the subject and appears embarrassed.
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: [[spoiler:The show's Season 2 finale reveals that he is the lost son of King Edmund of the Dark Kingdom, making him a prince.]]
* RebelliousSpirit: Due to growing up as a thief, Eugene doesn't get along with rules, procedures, or any kind of authority. This shows in "Fitzherbert P.I.", where he can't keep a job because he keeps refusing to do things by the book.
* RedHerringMole: In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler: Eugene briefly attempts to prevent Rapunzel from reaching the Moonstone out of fear that its power might kill her like his mother. With Pascal's scolding, Eugene realizes he's turning against Rapunzel as Demanitus' prophecy warned and he decides to have faith in his girlfriend instead. In the end, it turns out the prophecy wasn't referring to Eugene... but Cassandra.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The laid-back and snarky Blue Oni to Rapunzel's energetic and emotional Red Oni.
* RecruitingTheCriminal: After the movie, Eugene puts his skills as a former thief to use by eventually getting a job as a consultant for the Royal Guards and helps train them to catch thieves better.
* ReformedCriminal: By the end of the movie, Eugene turns his life around, stops thieving and goes legit. [[spoiler: In the TV show, he's able to take his changed life a step further by eventually becoming the official Captain of the Royal Guard.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Near the end of the third season, [[spoiler:he takes on this role after becoming Captain of the Guard. He pardons Brock Thunderstrike, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm makes sure the people of Corona flee to safety]] when Cassandra attacks the kingdom with her black rocks after appealing to her doesn't work, and lets her off the hook following her HeelFaceTurn and rescuing of Corona with Rapunzel.]]
* ReversePsychology: Flynn uses this, trying to get rid of Rapunzel by using her fear of disobeying her mother by encouraging her to do it:
-->'''Flynn:''' Overprotecting mother, forbidden road trip... But let me ease your conscience: this is part of growing up. A little rebellion, a little adventure. That's good, healthy even. [...] Does your mother deserve it? ''No.'' Would this break her heart and crush her soul? ''Of course.'' But you've just got to do it.
* RunawayGroom: The series reveals that he left his one of his ex-girlfriends at the altar.
* RunningGag: In the movie, whenever he encounters a wanted poster, they never can draw his nose right.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Rapunzel. He just stands there and snarks at her naivety as she's excitedly running around and exploring the world.
* SecretKeeper: Rapunzel lets Eugene know her secret that Cassandra sneaked her out of the kingdom the night she got her hair back. Eugene would love to see Cassandra getting in trouble for this, but he promises Rapunzel to keep the secret.
* SmallNameBigEgo: While he does have a fair amount of wit and charm, it pales in comparison to how witty and charming he ''thinks'' he is.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: His antagonism with Cassandra leads to much verbal snipping at each other. In any other PowerTrio series, this trope would be used to showcase the VitriolicBestBuds vibes between them and show the wit of the writers. Here it's deconstructed, showing the real consequences of verbal abuse: Cassandra is Rapunzel's FirstFriend and Eugene is Rapunzel's LoveInterest. Both of them snark so much they constantly KickTheDog one to another: {{Jerkass}} Cassandra barely tolerates Eugene -- She becomes a constant ShippingTorpedo with him and Rapunzel in all the seasons, at Season 1 Cassandra's snarkiness makes her a UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom that inspires Eugene to walk into a SuicideMission. At season 2, she barely tolerates Eugene and pulls a TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou. As for Eugene, whenever he is verbally attacked, he pulls his ADarkerMe persona of ''Flynn Ryder'', who [[KickTheDog Kicks The Dog]] a lot with Cassandra. Eugene displays HypocriticalHeartwarming to Cassandra, but Cassandra is TheParanoiac and she never acknowledges it. The worst part is that when Eugene is not putting his ADarkerMe persona, he becomes a HiddenHeartOfGold. This means that Eugene gives emotional support to everyone ''except Cassandra, the person who needs it the most''. [[spoiler:Cassandra makes a FaceHeelTurn at season 3, betraying Rapunzel and Eugene. That season shows Cassandra geographically far from Rapunzel and Eugene. Without Cassandra's constant SnarkToSnarkCombat, Eugene feels confident enough to BeYourself and experimentes true CharacterDevelopment and becomes TheHeart. When Cassandra comes back, she tries her best to use SnarkToSnarkCombat to hurt Rapunzel, and prepares a DisproportionateRetribution trap for Eugene, but Eugene is now enough of TheHeart to forgive Cassandra when she makes her HeelFaceTurn.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: Flynn entering her tower to escape the guards with the stolen tiara is what leads Rapunzel to discovering her true identity.
* StickyFingers: Lifts the loot from his partners early in the film and Rapunzel's tiara in the epilogue.
* StreetSmart: Eugene knows any criminal trick to run from the law, mostly because he ''invented'' some of them. This proves helpful to catch some criminals and eventually, he's assigned to teach the royal guards how to think like a thief.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: The quick-witted and crafty Smart Guy to Cassandra's Strong Girl. While Eugene is capable of impressive athletic feats and skilled in combat, it's more of a last resort, as he usually prefers to make a run for it or outsmart his opponents, as opposed to Cassandra, whose go-to move is a direct confrontation likely involving violence.
* {{Swashbuckler}}: He wants to be one of these so much he called himself "Flynn Rider" after a swashbuckling hero in a story he read. Thus, his initial portrayal is one of a dashing thief who uses trickery and "the smolder" to charm his way through adventures. Albeit a bit more anti-heroic and snarky than usual for this kind of character.
* ThatManIsDead: Flynn Rider dies as Eugene begins embracing his true name and personality. So the TonightSomeoneDies warning at the beginning is very true; it is the story of Flynn's death and his rebirth as Eugene. However, everyone he's ever met in the past will still refer to him by his previous name. In "Beyond the Corona Walls", after Stalyan attempts to persuade him to marry her, only to be stopped by Rapunzel and Pascal saving him, he embraces his future with Rapunzel as Eugene Fitzherbert.
* TookALevelInKindness: Thanks to Rapunzel. As a career thief, he used to say, "Every man for himself," and [[NoHonorAmongThieves leave his partners in crime behind]] without a second thought, and that included not only the likes of the Stabbingtons but even his ''best friend Lance''. In "Return Of The King," he decides to [[SaveTheVillain save the Stabbingtons]] because thanks to Rapunzel he now believes in second chances, and in the series finale, he [[spoiler:[[TurnTheOtherCheek warmly forgives Cassandra]].]]
* TranquilFury:
** When Flynn gets angry, his voice gets more intense, but he doesn't devolve into shouting or a mindless rage. He's basically still himself, but suddenly a ''lot'' more willing to get physical.
** He doesn't have this in the film when he's confronting the Stabbingtons in prison, due to his anger there being fueled by fear and anxiety, but he still maintains enough control to get the information he needs.
* UnfortunateNames: His real name, Eugene Fitzherbert. The poor bastard... [[spoiler:Then he finds out his actual real name is Horace, which he finds even ''worse''.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: He announces that the story isn't about him, but rather Rapunzel. It's actually about ''both'' of them.
* VagueAge: His official age is less than clear. One popular rumor spread that Eugene was imagined by animators to be 26 years old during the movie, making an eight year age gap between him and Rapunzel (the largest age gap between any Disney couple). However, directors Bryan Howard and Nathan Greno stated their belief that Eugene is 24 years old at his oldest and the story writers see him as 22 or 23. Basically, Eugene's age is between 18 at his youngest and 24 years old at his oldest depending on whose opinion you go with. As a flashback from "The Return of Strongbow" shows, 8 years prior to the present events, Eugene is still an adult while Rapunzel is at least 10 that time around. [[spoiler: "Destinies Collide" reveals that he was a newborn child 25 years before that episode, which itself takes place about two years after the movie.]]
* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: This dialogue from ''In Like Flynn'':
--> '''The Captain:''' Your dad's lifetime rival King Trevor of Equis likes to play pranks on him.
--> '''Rapunzel:''' By just drawing a silly face on dad's statue? I can't imagine any intelligent person finding this funny.
--> '''Eugene:''': Ha ha ha ha ha.
* WouldHurtAChild: Downplayed. He sees Varian experimenting with Rapunzel's hair's durability using a machine that looks like a torture device and assumes the princess is in danger. Eugene then bursts in and threatens the boy, stating Rapunzel's hair might be unbreakable but Varian himself isn't.
* YankTheDogsChain: Played for laughs. "What The Hair" finally has a wanted poster where they got his nose right, only for it to be destroyed in Varian's lab, much to Eugene's chagrin.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre:
** Courtesy of Rapunzel: Flynn really starts to grow after Rapunzel tells him that she likes Eugene better. She also takes to calling him by that name as well, a gesture of respect that greatly fosters Flynn's later CharacterDevelopment.
** When Maximus rescues Flynn (with the help of the thugs), Eugene is truly pleasantly surprised, because he has not been nice to him.
** Eugene also is very surprised when Queen Arianna offers her hand and pulls him to be part of the group hug.
*** It's the same at the series:
** When Cassandra helps Eugene at ''Fitzherbert, P.I.'', he is again surprised,
** When the King assures Eugene that he takes him seriously at ''In Like Flynn'', he is again surprised.
** When Adira tells Eugene he is TheHeart at Season 2, he is again surprised.
** When the Captain selects Eugene to be his replacement, he is so surprised he does a SpitTake.
** It's not until the third season he will become someone who doesn't get surprised when others think well of him.
---> That's when I realized that if they believed in me, well, darn it, it's okay for me to believe in me.
** And you can see the CharacterDevelopment Eugene gets after they destroy Zhan Tiri, when he applies this trope to a reluctant Cassandra, offering her his hand and pulling Cassandra into the group hug with Rapunzel.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The only appropriate response to seeing your not-quite girlfriend making friends with the hell-beast of a horse that's been chasing you all over the place.
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* ReformedCriminal: Lance was a thief who worked with Eugene in the past, but after they meet again the present, he's convinced to give up crime and go straight.
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* {{Foil}}: Lance also serves as a foil to Cassandra as they are both the best friend to a member of the main couple. While Cassandra does love Rapunzel she carries a lot of anger, jealously, and resentment towards her. Lance on the other hand shows no jealously or resentment towards Eugene's good fortune and is clearly happy that Eugene has found love and happiness. Cassandra also avoids talking about her feelings which leads to her issues getting worse which leads to Cassandra eventually betraying Rapunzel. Lance is very open with his thoughts and feelings and never has any major issues with Eugene. He is also loyal and stands by Eugene's side all the way through to the end of the series.
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* {{Foil}}: Lance also serves as a foil to Cassandra as they are both the best friend to a member of the main couple. While Cassandra does love Rapunzel she carries a lot of anger, jealously, and resentment towards her. Lance on the other hand shows no jealously or resentment towards Eugene's good fortune and is clearly happy that Eugene has found love and happiness. Cassandra [[spoiler:Cassandra also avoids talking about her feelings feelings, which leads to her issues getting worse worse, which leads to Cassandra eventually betraying Rapunzel. Lance is very open with his thoughts and feelings and never has any major issues with Eugene. He is also loyal and stands by Eugene's side all the way through to the end of the series. ]]
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Eugene's best friend from his time as since childhood. The two grew up in the orphanage together and once they were older became partners in crime. He arrives in Corona hoping to get Eugene to help him with a thief.job, but is convinced to reform and go straight. He becomes a loyal companion in Eugene and Rapunzel's adventures.
* BeautifulSingingVoice: Not surprising considering who is his voice actor is but Lance is acknowledged in-universe as having a great singing voice.
* BigEater: Lance has a very healthy appetite, able to eat whole multi-course dinners on his own. Despite this he doesn't gain any weight.
* BigEgoHiddenDepths: Lance has a very large ego and loves to boast and talk himself up. This is contrasted with the fact that he is a kind fun loving, and brave person. He genuinely cares about his friends and willing to face danger to help them.
* BigFun: While not fat Lance is the largest member of the group and the most fun loving.
* BigEgoHiddenDepths: Lance has a very large ego and loves to boast and talk himself up. This is contrasted with the fact that he is a kind fun loving, and brave person. He genuinely cares about his friends and willing to face danger to help them.
* BigFun: While not fat Lance is the largest member of the group and the most fun loving.
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* CowardlyLion: In contrast to Eugene, Lance is more unwilling to get himself into dangerous situations, but nonetheless does his best to help.
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* ConvenientlyanOrphan: Lance is an orphan who was placed in the same orphanage as Eugene.
* CowardlyLion: In contrast to Eugene, Lance ismore unwilling usually the first to get himself into dangerous situations, admit how scared he is of all the monsters, villains, and evil magic that tries to kill the heroes, but nonetheless he nevertheless does his best to help.help and is always fighting by his friends' side when they show up.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While goofy and prone to bouts of panic, Lance knows how to fight. While not at the level of Cassandra or Adira he can hold his own and he was the one to turn the tide in the battle against the ghosts of the dark kingdom at the end of season two.
* CowardlyLion: In contrast to Eugene, Lance is
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While goofy and prone to bouts of panic, Lance knows how to fight. While not at the level of Cassandra or Adira he can hold his own and he was the one to turn the tide in the battle against the ghosts of the dark kingdom at the end of season two.
* {{Foil}}: Lance also serves as a foil to Cassandra as they are both the best friend to a member of the main couple. While Cassandra does love Rapunzel she carries a lot of anger, jealously, and resentment towards her. Lance on the other hand shows no jealously or resentment towards Eugene's good fortune and is clearly happy that Eugene has found love and happiness. Cassandra also avoids talking about her feelings which leads to her issues getting worse which leads to Cassandra eventually betraying Rapunzel. Lance is very open with his thoughts and feelings and never has any major issues with Eugene. He is also loyal and stands by Eugene's side all the way through to the end of the series.
* FamilyOfChoice: Lance considers Eugene to be like a brother. He also forms a strong bond with Rapunzel and ends up adopting Angry and Catalina by the end of the series.
* FriendToAllChildren: Lance gets along very will with the ex-thieves/orphan kids Kiera/Angry and Catalina/Red. They get along so well that by the end of the series he ends up adopting them.
* FamilyOfChoice: Lance considers Eugene to be like a brother. He also forms a strong bond with Rapunzel and ends up adopting Angry and Catalina by the end of the series.
* FriendToAllChildren: Lance gets along very will with the ex-thieves/orphan kids Kiera/Angry and Catalina/Red. They get along so well that by the end of the series he ends up adopting them.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Once they reconnect Eugene and Lance become this. This is clearly shown during their musical duet "Buddy" that they sing in season two. Its all about how the two are best friends who love each other like brothers.
* TheHighwayman: Though not exclusively, Lance and Eugene did rob many a coach and carriage during their criminal days.
* TheHighwayman: Though not exclusively, Lance and Eugene did rob many a coach and carriage during their criminal days.
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* {{Manchild}}: Or at least Varian seems to think so. Him ignoring Varian's orders to ''not'' mess with his inventions is akin to a child disobeying an adult.
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* LovableCoward: Lance has shades of this as he is the one who tends to freak out the most when the group faces off against threats. That said he remains lovable since even though he is clearly scared he still stands and fights with his friends.
* LovableRogue: Though a thief, Lance has always been a nice, fun loving, and friendly guy.
* {{Manchild}}:Or While good-hearted, Lance can be very immature at least times. Varian certainly seems to think so. Him so too: Lance ignoring Varian's orders to ''not'' mess with his inventions is akin to a child disobeying an adult.
* LovableRogue: Though a thief, Lance has always been a nice, fun loving, and friendly guy.
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* ReformedCriminal: Lance was a thief who worked with Eugene in the past, but after they meet again the present, he's convinced to give up crime and go straight.
* RomanticWingman: Lance is very supportive of Eugene and Rapunzel's relationship and gives Eugene advice on what to do with relationship issues. How good the advice is varies but his heart is in the right place.
* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. Lance is the only black member of the main cast but is the least threatening and scary of the bunch.
* RomanticWingman: Lance is very supportive of Eugene and Rapunzel's relationship and gives Eugene advice on what to do with relationship issues. How good the advice is varies but his heart is in the right place.
* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. Lance is the only black member of the main cast but is the least threatening and scary of the bunch.
* SpidersAreScary: Lance has a very vocal fear of spiders.
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* VagueAge: While it is unknown how old he is, fans have guessed that he’s the same age as Eugene.
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* UnfortunateName: Lance's real name is Arnwaldo Schnitz. Like Eugene he finds his real name very embarrassing so took the name Lance Strongbow. Unlike Eugene who abandoned the name Flynn Rider and went back to his original name, Arnwaldo never takes back his original name and stays as Lance for the whole series.
* VagueAge: While it is unknown how old he is, fans have guessed thathe’s he's the same age as Eugene.
* VagueAge: While it is unknown how old he is, fans have guessed that
