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11	[[caption-width-right:350:"Save what has been lost... bring back what once was mine... What once was mine..."]]
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19	'''As a Moments subpage, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff all spoilers are unmarked as per policy.]] Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''
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22	* Just little Rapunzel calling her kidnapper Gothel her "[[DramaticIrony mommy]]" can be [[GutPunch soul-crushing]].
23	* The scene of the king, right before he and the queen release the lantern on Rapunzel's 18th birthday, is enough to make even the most heartless scrooge shed a tear. The fact that there's no dialogue just makes it even more powerful.
24	** It's even worse with the look of sheer ''pain'' on King Frederic's face as he breaks down and cries, shedding a SingleTear. That scene didn't ''need'' dialogue.
25	* Flynn's [[HeroicSacrifice heroic]] DisneyDeath at the end! Good lord, it is easily one of the saddest death scenes in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon. The expression of pure anguish on Rapunzel's face seals this particular scene.
26	** Not to mention the absolute brokenness of her words when she sings the Healing Incantation.
27	*** The last, whispered/sobbed 'What once was mine' clinches it.
28	*** Just the audio is a solid tearjerker. On the soundtrack, the song at this part is "The Tear Heals". They leave in the singing. It is absolutely heartbreaking. You can hear the pain.
29	*** The visuals themselves, or rather the details put into Rapunzel, are heart wrenching. Just take a close look at her face and you'll see that her eyes are bloodshot. Just a small detail but... argh!
30	*** The wide shots, too. Unlike the rest of the film (which is bathed in bright golden colors) it's bleached out, grey and dull. Rapunzel is alone with Flynn's body and a great rope of what's now her dark, ordinary severed hair. All the color has gone out of her life.
31	*** Shortly before, when a desperate Rapunzel starts rattling off the incantation before she realizes it isn't working on Flynn. Her panicky tone of voice was almost palpable.
32	** Eugene has ''[[https://runningracingdancingchasing.tumblr.com/post/143336642170/wait-people-are-pointing-out-in-the-movie-flynn tears in his eyes]]'' while Rapunzel sings the incantation, which only makes the whole scene all the more heartbreaking.
33	** Or when Rapunzel tells Mother Gothel that she will never stop fighting her... unless she lets her heal Eugene.
34	*** And then they show Pascal's face while Rapunzel offer Mother Gothel to exchange her freedom for Eugene's life, and Pascal realizes Rapunzel will never be free, it seems the face of the DespairEventHorizon.
35	* Also, the heartbreaking look on Rapunzel's face when she is led to believe Flynn betrayed her. She took a chance and now it seems like he just betrayed her for a quick payment.
36	* Flynn's face when he realizes where Rapunzel is. And ''worse'' once he's at the tower and thinks she's gone.
37	* "You were my new dream." "You were mine."
38	* The queen getting sick while she's pregnant with Rapunzel. Also counts as [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel.]]
39	* After Flynn has been stabbed by Mother Gothel, Rapunzel tries to heal him using the Healing Incantation, and she starts to cry when realizing it won't work. Her tears fall on Flynn's wound, healing him.
40	** What happens right before it as well: Flynn/Eugene has a chance to survive, but sacrifices his life by cutting off her healing hair so Rapunzel could be free from Mother Gothel and live the life she always dreamed of having.
41	* When Rapunzel sees her birth parents again since she was a baby. Doubles as a {{Heartwarming}} moment.
42	** The fact that Rapunzel lets out that tiny little gasp before their big embrace seals the deal.
43	* When taken out of context as a spell incantation, "Healing Incantation" is a very sad song; it's basically the pleas of someone who [[YouCantFightFate desperately wants to escape fate]] with "change the Fates' design" to "heal what has been hurt," "save what has been lost," and "bring back what once was mine."
44	** And then eventually, it's ''not'' so out-of-context.
45	* The scene where Rapunzel and Flynn are trapped in the sealed cave with rapidly-rising water, thinking they're about to die. Partly because of Rapunzel's [[TearsOfRemorse tearful apologizing]] and "Mother was right; I never should have left..." and partly because of Flynn trying to tell her it's hopeless a few seconds earlier.
46	-->'''Flynn:''' "It's no use! I can't see anything!"
47	-->''Rapunzel panics for a second, then dives underwater''
48	-->'''Flynn:''' "Hey! Hey!" ''pulls her out, holding her shoulders "There's no ''point!'' It's pitch-black down there."
49	* The FridgeHorror of Rapunzel reaching after Mother Gothel falling to her dusty death. Despite being a chronic child-abuser, she was still the only mother figure Rapunzel has ever known up to this point and even knowing what she knows, she will always have ''some'' unrequited love for her. Sadly TruthInTelevision.
50	* The DarkReprise of '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXjH_vR-Tbk When Will My Life Begin]]', even though it's a CutSong, is pretty heartbreaking, considering you can practically ''hear'' the sadness in Rapunzel's voice.
51	* Mother Gothel's lines at the beginning of "Mother Knows Best (reprise), "Why would he like you? Come on now, ''really''. Look at you, you think that he's impressed?" ''Ouch''.
52	** Before the song even begins, Mother Gothel says "This is why you never should've left!" Rapunzel just slumps her shoulders and sighs in an exasperated way as if to say "Not again." Honestly, it's a good thing that she started having her perspectives challenged by meeting Eugene and the patrons of the Snuggly Duckling or she might've gone right back with Mother Gothel.
53	** Right before Mother Gothel can even finish singing [[TitleDrop "Mother Knows Best"]] Rapunzel shouts "No!" What does Mother Gothel do? She accepts it a challenge and promptly doubles down, telling Rapunzel about how Eugene is just using her to get the tiara and once he's done with her, he'll abandon her. In a lot of ways? It's even worse than her passive-aggressive comments to Rapunzel at the beginning of the film.
54	* From the beginning of the movie, young Rapunzel.
55	--> "Why can't I go outside?"
56	* Mother Gothel's completely realistic abuse of Rapunzel is both sad and horrifying.
57	* "You'd be the first."
58	** Specifically, Flynn doesn't go by his real name, Eugene [=FitzHerbert=], because it reminds him of his past as an orphan nobody wanted. He even {{Lampshades}} it by calling it his "sob story."
59	* Mother Gothel's [[SincerityMode genuine]] and ([[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism at times]]) unfortunately [[VillainHasAPoint somewhat truthful advice]] to Rapunzel.
60	--> I really did try Rapunzel, I tried to warn you what was out there. The world is dark and selfish and cruel. If it finds even the slightest ''ray of sunshine'', it ''destroys'' it!
61	* The reprise of "When Will My Life Begin?" (sung as Rapunzel climbs out of the tower) is a joyful and excited anthem. But it doesn't begin so joyfully. She's afraid and unsure if she really wants to escape. She plucks up the courage and throws out her hair, sliding down it with an excited look on her face. That's until she nearly reaches the last few feet. She looks so nervous before touching her foot against the grass. Her joyfully singing about how the grass and the dirt is just like she dreamed it was hammers home that this poor woman has never been outside her tower prison since she was (maybe) a few weeks old. ''That'' is how powerful Mother Gothel's hold is on her.
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Context TearJerker / Tangled