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Character page for the main characters of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''.
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!!Rapunzel
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[[caption-width-right:350:"When will my life begin?"]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Click[[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2020_05_23_at_11637_pm.png[[/labelnote]] to see her with her hair cut.]]
->'''Voiced by''': Music/MandyMoore, Delaney Rose Stein (as a child, film), Ivy George (as a child, TV show), Kelsey Lansdowne (''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'') (English)\\
'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Creator/RominaMarroquinPayro (trailer and ''[[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries The Series]]''), Danna Paola and Sara Paula Gómez Arias (as a child)\\
'''Voiced by (French):''' Maeva Méline\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/ShokoNakagawa\\
'''Voiced by (Swedish):''' Music/MollySanden (Movie, first half of season 1), Dominique Pålsson Wiklund (Second half of season 1-season 3)\\
'''Voiced by (Korean):''' Park Ji-yun, Park Sae-byeol (singing), Kim Mi-rang (as a child)\\
'''Voiced by (Hebrew):''' Meshi Klainstein\\
'''Appearances''': ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries The Series]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/TangledEverAfter Ever After]]'' | ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''[[note]]TheCameo only[[/note]] | ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst''[[note]]as a magical summon[[/note]]\\
'''Appearances in alternate continuities''': ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity'' | ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' | ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''[[note]]Retelling of ''Tangled''[[/note]]

Born to a queen who needed the power of a magic flower to come to term with her, she was stolen by the witch Gothel who had been previously using the flower to remain forever youthful. The witch discovers that Rapunzel's hair now holds the power of the flower unless it is cut, and so keeps her locked in a hidden tower and unaware of her heritage, until the thief Flynn Rider (Eugene Fitzherbert) tries to make her tower a hideaway spot. She strikes a deal for him to bring her to see the floating lanterns that have appeared every year on her birthday, in exchange for the object he stole: the Princess' crown.
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* TheAce:
** 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 life and had to keep busy to basically keep her own sanity and find ways to pass the time, year after year.
** 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 5 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 undergoed a StartOfDarkness.]]
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* 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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%%%%%* RebelliousPrincess:
* 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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* AffectionateNickname:
** Eugene calls her "blondie" and "sunshine", while Cassandra calls her "Raps".
** [[Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh A recent remake]] of Creator/{{Disney}}'s centennial short ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio'' even shows WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} taking after Cass and abbreviating Rapunzel's name to "Raps" at one point; a sign of how close all the Disney characters truly are.

** [[Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh The aformenetioned remake]] of ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio'' shows Rapunzel, along with, Eugene, Cinderella and Prince Charming to have a significantly increased role in restoring the morale of all the other characters following Goofy's unfortunate accident. This involves Rapunzel starting up a new rendition of [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} "When You Wish Upon a Star"]] on her guitar and Cinderella singing the opening lines. This new rendition steadily gains momentum as more and more characters join in, and it ultimately becomes an even grander and more epic finale than that of the existing OUAS.

* AffectionateNickname: Eugene calls her "blondie" and "sunshine", while Cassandra calls her "Raps".

* 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,

* 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.

* 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.

* TheCutie: She's not just more cute than beautiful, but also beautiful and attractive in her own right, and her mannerisms and personality make her the one of the most adorable Disney Princesses.

** [[Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh The aformenetioned remake]] of Creator/{{Disney}}'s centennial short ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio'' shows Rapunzel, along with, Eugene, Cinderella and Prince Charming to have a significantly increased role in restoring the morale of all the other characters following Goofy's unfortunate accident. This involves Rapunzel starting up a new rendition of [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} "When You Wish Upon a Star"]] on her guitar and Cinderella singing the opening lines. This new rendition steadily gains momentum as more and more characters join in, and it ultimately becomes an even grander and more epic finale than that of the existing OUAS.

* 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.

* 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]].

* 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 [[MsFanservice beautiful woman]] who wears clearly feminine dresses.

* MsFanservice: She's not just more cute than beautiful, but also beautiful and attractive in her own right and in general (which she didn't know yet), as Eugene would declare.
--> '''Eugene''': Well, hey there, beautiful.
** She may appear flat-chested, but her dress shows a bit of cleavage.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Despite being 18-20 years old, a [[TheCutie cutie]] and a [[MsFanservice beautiful woman]], Rapunzel not only looks like a child, but she especially [[LadyLooksLikeADude looks a little like a boy]].

** '''Eugene''': Well, hey there, beautiful.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Despite being 18-20 years old, a [[TheCutie cutie]] and a [[MsFanservice beautiful woman]], Rapunzel not only looks like a child, but she especially looks a little like a boy.

* LadyLooksLikeADude: Rapunzel, when she turns 18, looks a little like a boy due to her being a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak, despite being a [[TheCutie cutie]] and a [[MsFanservice beautiful woman]].

* 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.