Who is mother gothel in tangled

She portrays some nurturing, motherly qualities; however, they are usually pretense to control Rapunzel. Mother Gothel is considered a lazy mom because she neglects her daughter Cassandra and works as the family maid.

Mother Gothel uses Cassandra to take on all the chores in their house alone as she wastes her time bragging about compliments she received from men and admiring herself in front of her magic mirrors.

She only cares about herself and her youthful appearance. She often gives Cassandra gifts to keep her away. She shows very little if any motherly love to her at all. Mother Gothel is well known for her controlling nature. She shows this side of her personality when she is getting her way. She will always make fun of others and gloat to avoid any meddling. Additionally, she even resorts to violence whenever she cannot get things under her control.

She is also known to manipulate others. However, Rapunzel discovered this manipulation tactic and knew to watch out for it.

She is a tall and slender woman. Her thick black curly hair falls on her shoulders, and three curls hang on her forehead. Her skin is smooth and flawless and looking very attractive, a youthful look. Better still, she has two large eyes with the eyelids having brown eye shadow.

She has a pale skin tone which is warmed by her dusted cheeks. She has sagging skin that is covered with wrinkles all over. She shows signs of old age on her arms, face, hands, and other body parts. Her hair has some curl but lacks full volume and is thining out. Her hair color is a combination of white and silver strands. Like most older adults, she is shown with some blood veins on her arms that are easily visible.

Mother Gothel has had many relationships. In the film, Tangled, Mother Gothel even makes alliances with other bad guys, such as the Stabbington Brothers. Again, she used the Stabbington brothers to get Rapunzel back and take care of Flynn Rider as a bonus.

As soon as Gothel gets what she wants, she's done with people and takes off whether or not she upheld her end of the deal. She's unreliable, and she can't be trusted on any level, but this makes her an excellent villain. Unfortunately, she's so good at what she does that it takes even Rapunzel a while to figure out what Gothel's true colors are.

Gothel has to be wicked smart, or else she never would've gotten away with hiding a flower, and later Rapunzel, for years on end. Being able to get into the castle despite its heavy security, and kidnapping Rapunzel, is a daunting task but Gothel made it look easy. She's good at coming up with plans, especially evil ones, and seeing them through so that they unfold the way that she wants them to.

Making herself look like the hero in Rapunzel's eyes when she saves her from the Stabbington brothers was pretty brilliant on her part. Unfortunately for her, the moment didn't last long as Rapunzel soon saw through Gothel's tricks.

Gothel never loved Rapunzel; she was just using her to get what she wanted. She doesn't love anyone or anything, even herself. Given the fact that Gothel is so hooked on her own vanity, and appears to hate herself when the healing powers wear off, revealing her actual age, it makes sense that Gothel doesn't really love herself, either.

She has no problem with her manipulative and selfish nature, but she has major problems with her looks, and if she isn't young and beautiful, then she completely breaks down.

It's pretty sad, but it explains a lot of things about Gothel. If she could never love herself, how could she ever love or even care for anyone else? Gothel is dangerously good at playing mind games to get what she wants.

Just look at how she treated Rapunzel throughout Tangled. She's good at nitpicking a person's mind, preying on their vulnerabilities and desires, and using them to her advantage so Gothel herself can get what she wants from them. It wasn't until Rapunzel left the tower that she could see past the manipulation; Gothel is that good at what she does, and she's been doing it for a long, long time.

Everything is about Gothel. Her needs, her wants, her everything. The world revolves around her, as far as she's concerned. She is rather voluptuous with a curvy figure, and she is a tall, slender woman. Her skin is flawless, smooth, and a shade of very pale ivory.

She has large gray eyes, and her eyelids have brown eye shadow. Her cheeks are dusted with blush, probably to warm up her pale skin tone.

Her curly, black hair falls past her shoulders and is rather thick and glossy, with three curls hanging over her forehead. She wears a flattering, outdated, crimson-red Renaissance-era dress with a faintly dappled pattern, gold trim, elbow-length sleeves with extended hems, a hemline that reaches her feet, brown high-heel boots, and a matching belt-like sash with a gold buckle, along with gold, diamond-shaped earrings.

Whenever she leaves the tower, she brings a dark green hooded cloak, especially to hide her face when the hair's power is low. The effects of the magic that keep Mother Gothel young wears off in short time, so she needs to replenish it very often, otherwise, her aging will return, shown when her hair starts turning gray, and she forms dark eye bags and wrinkles.

The aging returns daily, it appears - she left the tower on Rapunzel's birthday, with the magic in full effect, based on her entirely youthful look. However, less than a day later, in the " Mother Knows Best Reprise ", her black hair already possesses gray streaks, and her skin isn't as smooth as before. When Rapunzel's hair is cut off, its healing powers are gone, and when she touches the cut hair, all the centuries rush back into Gothel at once, rendering her to nothing but dust within a minute.

As an elderly woman near the end of her life, Mother Gothel is the single witness of a drop of pure sunlight falling to the ground, creating a magical flower with healing abilities. When she sings to it and strokes its petals, she becomes younger and beautiful. Determined to keep herself beautiful and young forever, Gothel selfishly hoards the flower's power while keeping its gift a secret from the rest of the world.

Centuries pass, and in that time, a kingdom prospers nearby. Its queen falls deathly ill while pregnant, and the entire kingdom searches for a cure: the fabled magic flower. Upon finding it, the king's guards uproot the plant and use it to create a tea that cures the queen, much to Gothel's dismay. The flower's abilities, meanwhile, are passed onto the Queen's child, Rapunzel.

In the dead of night, Mother Gothel breaks into the castle and uses Rapunzel's long golden hair to replenish herself. When she tries to cut some of the hair for herself, however, it turns brown and the healing powers are destroyed. Desperate, Mother Gothel kidnaps Rapunzel and disappears into the night.

She isolates the princess in a tower hidden in a forest far away from the rest of the kingdom, and raises her as her own daughter and taughts her the healing incantation. Mother Gothel refuses to let Rapunzel go outside, telling her the world is a dangerous place where selfish people would try to hurt her and use her gift for themselves. Gothel sings " Mother Knows Best ". Eighteen years after Rapunzel's abduction, Mother Gothel is still as manipulative and "overprotective" as ever.

Since childhood, Rapunzel has witnessed "floating lights" covering the sky every year on her birthday really floating lanterns the king and queen set free to remember their lost daughter and wants to find out what they are.

On the wake of her eighteenth birthday, she works up the courage to finally ask Mother Gothel permission to see the lights in person. Fearing that she may be losing control over her flower, Mother Gothel uses subtle jabs, over-the-top guilt trips, and refrains of " Mother Knows Best " to keep Rapunzel from leaving, before firmly, and darkly ordering Rapunzel to never ask to leave the tower, again. Heartbroken, Rapunzel accepts. Subsequently, Mother Gothel leaves the tower once more, and during her absence, their home is invaded by an "on-the-run thief", who Rapunzel manages to knock unconscious and hide in the closet.

When Mother Gothel returns, Rapunzel pushes her with requests to leave the tower hoping to use the unconscious Flynn as proof that she can handle herself in the outside world.

Rejected, Rapunzel changes the subject to focus on her oncoming birthday and asks Mother Gothel for paint made from white seashells as a birthday gift, which will require a three-day journey.

Confident that Rapunzel is safe, an initially hesitant Mother Gothel agrees. While on her way, Mother Gothel is encountered by a palace horse , though without a rider. Upon realizing this, she fearfully assumes the royal guards may have found the whereabouts of Rapunzel and rushes back to the tower.

There, she frantically calls for Rapunzel to let down her hair, but no response is given. Mother Gothel quickly uses the back passageway to barge her way inside and begins a search throughout the tower. Unfortunately for her, Rapunzel is nowhere to be found. She instead finds a satchel and inside lies Rapunzel's crown from the kingdom. The sight brings a rush of a shock to Mother Gothel before a further investigation reveals a wanted poster with an illustration of the thief Flynn Rider.

Mother Gothel deduces Flynn had some involvement with Rapunzel's disappearance, and leaves the tower to kill him, and reclaim her flower—dagger in hand and filled with bloodlust. When Mother Gothel comes across the Snuggly Duckling tavern, however, she overhears Rapunzel singing how happy she is now that she has left the tower. She spies Rapunzel and Flynn escaping through a hidden tunnel when the royal guards arrive and flirts with a Pub Thug before threatening him to find out where it leads.

After following Shorty's instructions to the end of the tunnel, Mother Gothel soon comes across the Stabbington Brothers , who are out to get back at Flynn for betraying them. Using this to her advantage, Gothel gives them the crown but tells them she can offer them an even greater treasure, along with revenge on Flynn.

The offer entices them, and they officially join Mother Gothel's side as her accomplices. That night, Gothel finds Rapunzel and reveals herself while Flynn is out getting firewood. She goes for a direct approach in trying to bring Rapunzel back to the tower, but Rapunzel refuses, wanting to continue her journey and admitting she has some affection toward Flynn, believing them to be reciprocated.

Though Rapunzel stands her ground, Mother Gothel's words are enough to bring doubt into her mind, successfully sparking her plot. Mother Gothel's plan is put into action while Flynn and Rapunzel watch the lanterns the next evening. Rapunzel gives Flynn his satchel to show that she trusts him. But before they kiss, Flynn spies the Stabbington Brothers on the opposite shore and tells Rapunzel to wait as he goes to talk to them. Flynn tries to apologize and return the crown to them, but they reveal that they now know about Rapunzel's powers.

They find Rapunzel and tell her Flynn left with it and told them about her healing powers. She refuses to believe them until they point out Flynn sailing away on a boat, ignoring her screams. Before they can kidnap Rapunzel, Mother Gothel betrays them to appear she's rescuing her. She leads the heartbroken Rapunzel home, and Flynn, who was knocked out and tied to the boat's mast, is caught by the guards, who prepare to hang him the next morning.

Back at home, Mother Gothel undoes Rapunzel's braid and reminds her that the world is intolerant of joy and happiness and will destroy any ray of sunshine it finds as the finishing touch of destroying the princess' glimmers of optimism.

After she leaves Rapunzel's bedroom to fix dinner, she overhears assorted commotion coming from the room and heads up to check on Rapunzel. Before she can enter, she is confronted by Rapunzel, who has managed to somehow uncover the truth behind her upbringing, confidently announcing her realization that she's the lost princess and that Gothel isn't her real mother.

Stunned, she nervously tries to suppress these revelations, but Rapunzel denies her words. With her patience wearing thin, Gothel desperately claims her actions were out of love, but her manipulations no longer affect Rapunzel.

Angered Gothel has lied and imprisoned Rapunzel her whole life for her own gain, Rapunzel physically denies the abuse and proclaims Gothel will never again be allowed to use her hair's magic from that moment forward, just as Gothel breaks free only to shatter the mirror. With her mind made, Rapunzel starts to make her leave from the tower, but a now openly sinister Mother Gothel retaliates.

Meanwhile, Flynn manages to escape the palace and journeys to rescue Rapunzel. When he arrives at the tower, he is fatally stabbed in the stomach by Mother Gothel. As Flynn starts to die from blood loss, Gothel begins to forcefully drag a shackled Rapunzel out of the tower, with intent on finding a new hideaway where Rapunzel will be forced into slavery. Desperate to save Flynn, Rapunzel promises to go with Mother Gothel quietly if she is allowed to heal him.

Knowing Rapunzel never breaks a promise, Mother Gothel agrees.