In this 6-minute short film, the entire kingdom is preparing for Rapunzel's marriage to Eugene. Flynn returns Rapunzel to the palace, where she is finally reunited with her parents.Īt the end of the film, Flynn accepts his birth name, Eugene Fitzherbert, and reveals that he has proposed to Rapunzel. Flynn dies in Rapunzel's arms, but the flower's magic manifests itself through Rapunzel's tears and returns Flynn to life. Gothel complies, but just before Rapunzel can heal him, Flynn cuts her hair short with a mirror shard, causing it to turn brown and lose all of its magical powers, resulting in Gothel's death. Desperate to save him, Rapunzel promises to do whatever Gothel pleases in return. When Flynn escapes and arrives at the tower to save Rapunzel, Gothel stabs him. However, Gothel, unwilling to lose Rapunzel, traps her. However, before the Brothers can harm Rapunzel, Gothel knocks them unconscious and takes a heartbroken Rapunzel back to the tower.īack in her bedroom, Rapunzel suddenly regains subconscious memories of her true identity and rebels against Gothel. Soon afterwards, Flynn is ambushed and turned in to the police by his former partners-in-crime the Stabbington brothers, whom he abandoned in an attempt to outrun the king's soldiers, and is sentenced to death. Rapunzel and Flynn eventually arrive at the kingdom in time for the lantern ceremony. However, Gothel soon learns of Rapunzel's disobedience and pursues them, hiring a pair of thieves to incapacitate Flynn. As her eighteenth birthday arrives, Rapunzel grows increasingly eager to leave the tower and see the floating lanterns, and blackmails a wanted thief named Flynn Rider to take her there in her mother's absence. Gothel raises the princess in an isolated tower, from which Rapunzel sees the release of thousands of floating lanterns, unaware that these lanterns are actually the kingdom's way of remembering her. Having inherited the healing abilities of a magical flower the ailing queen ingested while pregnant, the princess is kidnapped by a vain old woman named Mother Gothel, who uses her hair to remain young and beautiful. Rapunzel first appears in Tangled as an infant princess who is born to a queen.
The tenth Disney Princess, Rapunzel was officially inducted into the line-up on October 2, 2011, becoming the franchise's first computer-animated member. The character was adapted into a less passive heroine for the film.Ĭritical reception of Rapunzel has been generally positive, with critics complimenting her spirited, lively personality and independence. Voiced by American actress and singer Mandy Moore, Rapunzel is a young princess kept unaware of her royal heritage by a vain old woman named Mother Gothel, who raises her in a secluded tower to exploit her hair's healing abilities to remain young and beautiful forever.Ĭreated and animated by supervising animator Glen Keane, Rapunzel is loosely based on the title character of the fairy tale of the same name published by the Brothers Grimm.
Rapunzel is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' 50th animated feature film Tangled (2010), its 2012 sequel Tangled Ever After, and its television spin-off Tangled: The Series. Mother Gothel (abductor and acting mother)
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Villains Click to Expand Mother Gothel, Zhan Tiri, Mrs.Others: Lord Demanitus, Madame Canardist, Vigor the Visionary, Goodberry, Seraphina, the new Flynn Rider, the Queen of Ingvarr, Princess Narcissa, Candor, Pamona Percy. The Dark Kingdom: King Edmund, Adira, Hector. Allies and Others Click to Expand Corona: King Frederic, Queen Arianna, Willow, the Captain of the Guard, Pete, Stan, Fidella, Nigel, Friedborg, Hook Hand, Big-Nose, Shorty, Vladimir, Attila Buckethead, Quirin, Monty Montgomery, Xavier, Other Residents.Tangled: The Series: Cassandra, Lance Strongbow / Arnwaldo Schnitz, Varian. Main Characters Click to Expand Princess Rapunzel, Flynn Rider / Eugene Fitzherbert, Pascal, Maximus.Characters page for the Tangled franchise.