Well, spoiler alert: he actually perishes from his wounds. While he comes back to life eventually thanks to Rapunzel's magical tears, he doesn't let the princess heal him with her hair. He cuts it all off before Rapunzel can heal him, to save her from Mother Gothel's clutches.
Thing is, Flynn totally could have waited until after Rapunzel healed him to cut off her hair. Sure, sacrificing himself was more dramatic, but he didn't need to do it! There's no denying that Rapunzel and Flynn make a pretty cute couple. However, you have to wonder whether their relationship is actually a good idea. Think about it: Rapunzel has been locked in a tower for 18 years.
The only human contact she's had is with Mother Gothel, and we all know that she didn't give the young princess any advice on how to form healthy relationships. In reality, Rapunzel probably lacks the social skills she needs to be in a happy romantic partnership. Sorry to burst your bubble, guys! One of the main triggers for the events of Tangled is Flynn choosing Rapunzel's tower as a hiding place while he's on the run from the palace guards.
Thing is, the timing of his visit to the tower is almost impossibly convenient. He just happens to rock up when Mother Gothel has gone away on a long trip. If Gothel had been there when Flynn entered the tower, who knows what she'd have done to him. It's seriously lucky that Flynn turned up almost immediately after Gothel left. Talk about an overly contrived coincidence! As has already been established, he full-on perishes after being stabbed by Gothel.
However, until that point in the film, he comes through a lot of dangerous and seemingly painful situations with little to no damage. For one, he seems totally fine shortly after being knocked out twice by a very heavy frying pan. In reality, he'd at least get a concussion from that, if not more severe brain damage. You're not fooling us, Disney! Your characters' injuries are never realistic! As we all know, the reason behind Mother Gothel taking Rapunzel is the older woman's desire to stay young.
Rapunzel's hair is apparently a potent anti-aging tool as well as a healing source, much to Gothel's glee. Whenever Gothel's grey hairs start to come back, she sings to Rapunzel's hair and regains her youth once again. Does Rapunzel never wonder why Gothel ages so quickly between hair treatments? Does she not suspect that her mother might be a bit older than she's letting on — by a few centuries, no less?
For most of her life prior to leaving her tower, Mother Gothel fed Rapunzel various stories about the rest of the human race. Gothel claimed that everyone in the outside world was a lying, cheating, untrustworthy villain. Anyway, you'd think that hearing all of this nonsense would have affected Rapunzel somewhat. Yet, when she does go out into the world, she trusts pretty much everyone she meets, even a bunch of hardened criminals.
It's sweet, but not a particularly sensible policy! Having long hair can be, quite literally, a bit of a pain. Just something I picked up from Rapunzel. The show formerly known as Tangled: The Series reached its ultimate conclusion today, neatly tying up loose ends to make way for the "Tangled Ever After" short , where we see Rapunzel and Eugene tie the knot at last. All in all, Plus Est en Vous was a mediocre finale for such a strong series, but that was primarily due to how the third season was dragged out.
In general, I find that shows tend to lose their traction after the second season, which is why many of my favorite shows, such as Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders , ran for two seasons or less. Destinies Collide , the season two finale of Tangled, was the pinnacle of suspense and emotional storytelling within the series.
It ended on such a powerful cliffhanger that nothing else even stood a chance at living up to the figurative punch in the gut that Cassandra's betrayal impacted on fans everywhere.
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I'm also on Instagram and Twitter. Would you like to contribute to The Princess Blog? Become a patron , and you could pick the topic for my next post! Post a Comment. There was a heightened level of anticipation for the latest visual novel in the Time Princess phone game.
This was the longest the app has gone without a new story in quite some time, and I was informed by some fellow social media players that the Chinese Legend of the White Snake is incredibly popular in Asia.
Although I was not familiar with it before reading this visual novel, the popular myth has had several recent film and television adaptations.
Upon first glance, I was worried that this story would just be a copy of Tang Dynasty Hunter , another recent visual novel from this app, but after playing both, I realized that the similarities were purely superficial. While both stories take place in China and follow their mythology of demons as objects or animals that can transform into humans, Tang Dynasty Hunter follows a human who hunts demons, and White Snake features a demon in disguise as a human.
White Snake tells the story of Suzhen, a white snake demon who spends her time. Read more. November 14, Today is a major accomplishment for me. I started this blog days ago, and I've managed to write a new post in it every day since then. She alternates between running around and screaming for joy and wallowing in crushing despair and guilt for betraying her mother.
Flynn is exasperated but tries to encourage her guilt, thinking that he can get her to give up and go back to the tower, and he can get away without having to take her to see the lanterns. He suddenly has an idea and says he'll take her to lunch and drags her out of the clearing. Elsewhere, Gothel hasn't gotten very far before she runs into Maximus, still searching for Flynn.
She recognizes him as a horse from the palace but without a rider. Suddenly suspicious, she runs back home and calls for Rapunzel, with no answer. She digs out the bricked-up door and runs up to discover that Rapunzel is gone. In a rage, she also discovers the crown Rapunzel had hidden, along with the wanted poster that Flynn had taken earlier.
She assumes that Flynn has kidnapped Rapunzel, so she grabs a knife and sets out after them. Flynn lies and tells her that this is considered a five-star establishment in the real world, trying to scare her into going back to her tower, but Flynn is recognized from his wanted posters before they can leave.
One of the thugs is sent to fetch the guards while the rest of them leap on Flynn and fight over who should get the reward money. They look like they're going to tear him apart when Rapunzel hits the hook-handed one in the face and demands that they let him go because she needs him to fulfill her dream of seeing the lanterns. She implores them to find their humanity and asks if they've ever had a dream.
This kicks off the song, "I've Got a Dream" amidst the entire pub, where we find out that although the thugs are a cruel and bloodthirsty bunch, they also dream of true love, enjoy sewing and baking, and making tiny ceramic unicorns. One of them does miming in his spare time. Flynn is forced to join in and sings that his dream is to retire with tons of money on a sunny island somewhere with no one else around. Rapunzel gets excited and joins in too, singing about how happy she is that she left her tower and how she never wants to go back.
Unfortunately, she sings this line right as Mother Gothel looks in the window. Gothel is furious, but before she can do anything, the thug who went to get the guards returns. The guards are right behind him, with the Stabbington twins in chains. Now that they've bonded, Hook-Handed Thug decides to help them escape, and he opens a secret tunnel in the bar floor for Rapunzel and Flynn to flee through.
Although they seem to escape without a problem, Maximus enters the pub and tracks Flynn's scent to the secret tunnel. While outside, the guards give chase, and Gothel threatens one of the pub thugs with her knife to tell her where the tunnel lets out. The Stabbington twins also give chase, having escaped their chains. The tunnel leads to a dam, where Rapunzel and Flynn appear to be cornered until Rapunzel uses her hair to swing across to a ledge. She leaves Flynn her frying pan, and he uses it to fend off the guards and swordfight with Maximus while declaring that this is the strangest thing he has ever done and it is a pretty strange scene.
Rapunzel lassoes him with her hair and pulls him off as Maximus kicks against a beam, breaking the dam and causing a huge flood of water to come crashing down on everyone. Rapunzel and Flynn try to outrun the wave and hide in a small cave, which a falling rock blocks the entrance to.
The water slowly fills up the cave as they realize it's a dead-end and there's no escape. They try to pull at the rocks to no avail, and Flynn only manages to cut his hand. They both try to look for an escape under the rapidly-rising water, but there's no light in the cave, and they can barely see each other above it.
As they think they're about to die, Rapunzel cries and apologizes to Flynn for dragging him into this, and Flynn admits that his real name is Eugene Fitzherbert because he thought someone should know before he died. Rapunzel tries to make him feel better by admitting that she has magic hair that glows, only to realize that they can use her hair to search for escape in the dark water. She sings the magic song just as their air pocket disappears, and they end up underwater, where Rapunzel's hair illuminates the cave.
They quickly dig their way through and are just about to run out of air when they break through to the outside, landing in a river. They drag themselves up onto the bank, where Flynn proceeds to really flip out about Rapunzel's hair being magic. Meanwhile, Gothel is waiting at the tunnel exit for them, but instead of Rapunzel and Eugene, she gets the Stabbington twins.
She gives them the princess's crown but tells them that she could give them something worth one thousand crowns and that they can take revenge on Eugene while they're at it.
Back with the other two, Eugene is still shocked about Rapunzel's hair, so she tells him that's not all it can do and, after making him promise not to freak out, wraps her hair around his injured hand and sings the healing song. Eugene tries very hard not to freak out but is still weirded out when his injury completely disappears. Rapunzel explains to him that Gothel told her that people tried to cut off her hair and steal its magic when she was young.
Gothel told her the reason she locked her away from the outside world was to protect her from the people who wanted to steal her hair. He leaves to get firewood Rapunzel tells her she wants to stay with Eugene because she likes him and thinks he likes her too. Gothel gets angry and tells her that she's invented the whole romance and that there's no way Eugene could possibly like her.
She gives her the satchel with the crown in it and tells her that's the only thing he wants and that the minute he gets a chance to take it, he'll leave her behind. Rapunzel says she will give back to him right then to prove that he won't, and Gothel leaves just as Eugene returns with firewood. Rapunzel starts to give him the satchel but begins to doubt herself at the last minute and hides it from him.
The next morning, the two of them wake up to find a dripping-wet Maximus standing over them. Maximus attacks Eugene, but Rapunzel manages to calm him down and begs Maximus to leave him alone for just one day, so he can take her to see the floating lanterns. Maximus is charmed by her, and when she mentions that it's her birthday, he gives in, although he doesn't like it, and continues to torment Eugene when she isn't looking. They all head out to the island city the palace is in, where Rapunzel gets her first taste of being in a crowd; she keeps bumping into people, and Eugene has to convince some little girls to do Rapunzel's hair up in a braid, so she can move around without people stepping on it.
Once that's over with, they go around the city, waiting for night to fall. Rapunzel has the time of her life, dancing around and drawing on the street in chalk. Tangled adapts the classical tale of Rapunzel, a princess with extremely long hair who gets locked up in a remote tower by her adoptive mother. On her 18th birthday, Rapunzel's lifelong dream to explore the outside world comes true when Flynn inadvertently hides in the tower where she's imprisoned after double-crossing his fellow thieves in the robbery of her tiara.
Rapunzel and Flynn strike a deal to leave the tower and flee from their respective persecutors. However, Mother Gothel Donna Murphy pulls the strings to get Flynn arrested and manipulates Rapunzel into returning to the tower.
It seems everything is back to square one for Rapunzel, but thanks to a royal-themed souvenir that Flynn had bought her, she realizes that Mother Gothel took her away from her royal family when she was a child and only sought the magical powers that derived from her hair. Flynn escapes from prison with the help of his new ally, the lawful horse Maximus, and heads to the tower to confront Mother Gothel.
In an unexpected turn of events, he finally makes the decision to cut Rapunzel's long hair off, causing the evil mother to dissolve into dust.
Flynn, now going by Eugene his real name , narrates the last scene in Tangled - where he describes how the kingdom rejoiced with the return of its princess and jokes how Rapunzel supposedly spent years asking him to get married.
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