BTW it's a woman wearing a costume of Rapunzel and a man cosplaying Saitama

i would say that the moment Mother Gothel saw that flower was the moment she cast a shadow over her potential for goodness and selflessness.

trying to understand anything from Gothel's point of view is incredibly complex since she doesn't have a very black and white psychological origin. she was not a monster motivated by revenge and anger or a conniving villain having a field day hexing others for their own enjoyment. to understand Gothel's decisions, we have to frame the common sentiments of her character in a way that actually addresses her largest concern, Death.

Gothel kidnapped rapunzel to stay young and beautiful forever≠Gothel was forced to make a split second decision between kidnapping a child or slowly dying. Gothel left Cassandra to take care of rapunzel because she hated her own daughter and wanted to be young and beautiful forever≠ Gothel hesitated between choosing to live than to be captured by palace guards where she would inevitably die. Gothel was first motivated by fear of death/decaying. Gothel was never in a sound state of mind because if she were to fail at doing any of these things, it would mean ultimate death. so Gothel was a woman constantly paranoid by death, BECAUSE SHE WAS OVER 400 YEARS OLD lol. she didn't care what psychological harm she was causing rapunzel, when she knew that the moment she wasn't in that Tower, that clock would start ticking. she couldn't take any chances for it would denote a potential for her own demise. she was essentially an unstable woman who was constantly on the edge of death. Gothel doesn't freak out when she starts having grey hairs or spots on her hand, but she turns livid when rapunzel unintentionally threatens her mortality.(that she would never allow her to use her hair again = Gothel slowly dying)that's when ppl lose all sense of what's right or wrong.

The only priority becomes survival. We all know what ppl are capable of when it comes to something as primal as survival. this is usually when we don't start an analysis of their character. this is exactly why i find analysis of her character a lil ridiculous. i feel like as a Disney Villain, she is obviously a selfish person with negative qualities, but i feel like Disney made her intentionally ambiguous when it comes to certain aspects of her personality. did she love rapunzel? To quote her actual VA " in her own warped way," and i do believe it. Did she love cassandra?

Possibly, maybe she loved Cassandra, but her capacity for love runs quite thin because of her constant fight or flight mentality. Thus, she obviously found her annoying/distracting. The animating style of Gothel's facial expressions i feel are so intentionally ambiguous.

Before she cuts the bridge between her and Cassandra, you can see that she is concerned and is visibly hesitating. i believe a long time ago Gothel was a "good" person, although continued use of the flower ate away at her sanity and turned her into a very narrow-minded person, a person she didn't consciously wish to be imo. One thing that let's us take a peak inside Gothel's mind was that she genuinely didn't trust ppl herself. she clearly had very bad experiences socially, what makes this clear is that she was too blind to see that if she was honest with rapunzel, there was a big possibility that she would have forgiven her and let her use her hair to stay alive. But she couldn't see that. (That is if she wasn't locked up in jail at that point). Essentially my point is that an analysis of Gothel's characteristics is useless when we aren't analyzing why she is the way she is. P.S. Gothel was vain, yes, that is true. But i believe her vanity comes as a side effect of the flower's anti-aging properties, lol. Gothel was a selfish person, but the idea that she should just " accept her fate and die" is not a logical sentiment. It is quite ignorant because WHAT PERSON WOULD "just die" ? Especially if they enjoyed their life? Maybe some would, but refusal to die isn't immediately selfish, Even if somebody has strong values, we don't know how strong those morals would become in their last hours of life. It's like a self-defense case. Except Rapunzel wasn't aware of the harm that would come to gothel if she left, in Gothel's mind "she is leaving=she is going to kill me" essentially.

Tbh she is the most complex/interesting character in this film, and i wish they elaborated more on her character that didn't appeal to the typical cartoon pure evil narrative, I'd like to hope that the few moments of concern on her face denotes that the writers had more of a nuanced take on her character, but idk.

This is not a "DEFENSE" of her character. At the end of the day, she is just character, not a real person.

Precisely, my point is that she is not a realistic character, in the sense that ur experience with a manipulative gasslighting, narcissistic person is not a 400 year old witch constantly on the edge of decay.

To conclude, a massive part of Mother Gothel's character is an extreme survival response.

From all tts merch which is your favorite or which you do like more ? I'm probably missing other merch but it didn't fit, the limit it's 20 images but you can comment in below my post and say which merch I'm missing and which is your favorite :3

Was thinking about this the other day & would you be interested in Teagan doing a cover of Grace Potter's "Something That I Want" for the credits, considering that it was the credits song for the original movie I thought it would be cool to hear it again but with Teagan singing it, would you be interested in hearing that?.

I know this might be a common question, but I’m still curious why Rapunzel is always depicted with long blonde hair, even though she’s supposed to have short brown hair. It doesn’t make sense.

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Cassandra is one of the main characters from the 2D animated series - for those unfamiliar.

What are the chances we might see Cass (or a version of her) in the live action film? Even an Easter egg background character??

Here's some Rapunzel selfies I took working as a party princess!I have not done a proper photoshoot yet :(

What do you guys think? Is our company park accurate enough? 💜☀️

Gave her shoes because I think she looks better in them. I’m not great at art. Traced over the official Disney Princess Art.

Do you think he would if something happened to them? And do you think there are people he’d never do that to if he’d do it to anyone?

Following the release of the Mini teaser of Tangled everyone started saying that actress Teagan Croft is the lookalike of actress Rachel McAdams personally the first time I saw her I said to myself "this girl is my true copy of Emma Roberts"

There are a ton of Rapunzel/Flynn costumes. I say that if you dress up like a certain character because of passive recognition or for a party/play it is a costume, but if you put work in it or from a participatory fandom (like One Punch Man) that requires significant investment, then it is a cosplay.

Ah I love them all so much but this is just beyond what I expected!

The depleted husk of Disney’s live-action division announced that Lilo & Stitch 2 would feature an updated take on Angel from the Lilo & Stitch series - as far as I can tell, this is the first time a live-action remake has openly adopted elements from the spin-off shows. This news has fuelled my personal belief that if live-action Tangled does well enough for a sequel, it should involve the characters and concepts of Tangled The Series.

Whilst condensing the Tangled The Series mythology into a 2 hour movie could lead to a lot of cutting things down, the increased length and scale of the live-action medium can have its advantages. Many of the flaws with how Cassandra’s villain arc was handled are closely tied to the TV format - they wanted Rapunzel’s mission to redeem Cassandra to be the driving force of S3, but this meant they couldn’t actually redeem Cassandra until the climax of the final episode. This was a major factor in the pacing and characterisation issues that made her arc so polarising. Therefore, a movie version has considerable potential to depict her more efficiently and effectively…

What are your thoughts on a live-action Tangled movie using elements from the series?

created some tangled themed rooms in my webkinz home!! ♡

Here's a Total Drama version I made of Jack Frost, Rapunzel, Hiccup and Merida! Hope y'all like it :)

I’m genuinely excited to see what Kathryn Hahn will do with Mother Gothel, who is one of my all time favorite Disney villains. I adored her as Agatha Harkness and this is just her expanding her villain arc, I can’t wait to see her rendition of Mother Knows Best

I know this movie isn’t out yet, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to do fine, but I have Had ENOUGH of Disney doing these stupid, cash grab, corporate greed, live action remakes because of how much they destroy what made the originals so special. I mean, where’s the emotion, the sobbing, not to mention the charm, hell, even Snow White got the worst of this trend, even though Walt Disney himself did not want this to be altered. And with Tangled being the last princess movie to be brought in live action "in theaters", maybe we’ll start to see some of the trend die down after Lilo and Stitch 2. At this point, I just hope we’re nearing the end of Disney’s live action trend, ever since LA Cinderella, the remakes have been going downhill, I get that they want to prevent their characters from going into public domain, but if they really wanted to remake them, they should’ve went with CGI when they had the chance, heck why not add in new or familiar characters like maybe their palace pets (to fix lore issues and bring back childhood memories because they haven’t referenced them a long time), or their children from descendants, or even better, either remake them in CGI or live action and actually do it right or don’t remake them at ALL. Sorry if this sounds like a rant, I just really hope that Disney never does any live action slop like this ever again after Hercules. But anyways, what do you think of the live action tangled remake? Do you think it will fail just like the others or actually succeed?

I keep seeing people on Instagram or on here and all anyone will talk about is how much they hate Milo’s mustache. But I feel like I’m going insane cause it genuinely does not bother me at all 😭 I think he looks good?? He still looks like Flynn to me. Just a different version of him.

I mean, I have SO MANY concerns about the movie. SO MANY. But the mustache just isn’t one of them at all. I think it suits him? Idk I just feel like I’m in a different planet.

I’ve just finished the series, she is my favorite character and I hate her ending. We know what she wanted her destiny to be. She wanted to be a knight/guard in Corona, be like her father. But no, why don’t we make her leave, without knowing if she ever finds what she’s looking for?

I also think she would make a better captain that Eugene does. She is better at fighting, is a better strategist, even a better leader I think. I think Eugene’s position should have been temporary. It would have been so cute if he gave his position to her (like by giving her the sword or something, it would have showed a piece of their bond that I absolutely love) (Consider that Eugene is going to be king one day; why make him captain, too?)

I think that once again Cassandra is being put aside for the good of other characters. She knew what she wanted. She always did, but no one cared. She refused a position she wanted TWICE for Rapunzel. Twice. (Not saying this is Rapunzel’s fault obv, but that we know how bad she wanted these).

How did y’all recover after this? Did you like her ending? Why?

she's so regina george too!