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Mother knows best
―Mother Gothel

Mother Gothel is the primary antagonist of the film Tangled. She is one of Pitch's allies and is sometimes thought of as his love interest. She was once Rapunzel's step-mother although it wasn't a legitimate situation as she had kidnapped Rapunzel when she was a baby.

Appearance[]

Mother Gothel is a tall, austere woman with a similar stance to Pitch. She has hair similar to Merida, black in colour and a little sleeker. She wears golden earrings and a long, crimson dress trimmed with gold. On occasion, she wears a long black cloak over her dress, usually when going out of her house and she has also been seen to carry a green lantern.

Despite her youthful looks, Mother Gothel is actually many hundreds of years old. She once came across a magical flower produced from a drop of sunlight and, by use of a special song, she used it's powers to keep herself young for centuries. Unfortunately for her, the flower was discovered and turned into an elixir to heal the Queen of Corona.

The magical effects of the flower passed onto the queen's daughter and manifested in her hair. Somehow, Mother Gothel found out about the princess and broke into the palace. She attempted to take a cutting of the child's hair, but it turned out that, when separated from the main body, the hair turned brown and lost it's power, so Gothel had no choice, but to kidnap the child.

In her true form, Mother Gothel is a withered old crone with hollow cheeks, graying hair, many deep wrinkles and arthritic fingers. She is also covered with liverspots and agelines. Because she has lived for so long, she would be nothing but dust without the flower's magic.

Personality[]

Mother Gothel has a similar personality to Pitch. In fact they are similar in many ways; they both have black hair, they are both the main villains of their film and they both have cold and selfish personalities. Unlike Pitch however, Gothel is vain, arrogant and makes many comments concerning her image.

Gothel age

Gothel becomes young

She loves to be in control of a situation and will gloat and make fun of others when she is. She also tends to look down on everyone else around her with the exception of Pitch whom she actually respects. When her plans unravel, her demeanour changes at once; snarling, shouting and staring with horror.

Despite this nature, she does display slight compassion towards Rapunzel; making her favourite dinner and even agreeing to go on a long journey to collect seashells for Rapunzel's paints. In the long run however, she is on the look out for herself.

When it comes to Pitch however, she shows a slight passion to him which Pitch carefully returns.

Powers and Abilities[]

Though she does not possess any magical powers as such, Gothel is a master when it comes to moral manipulation (second only to Pitch) and is capable of performing quick kills with no remorse. She is also adept at moving stealthily.

She has been able to keep herself young eternally with the help of the Golden Flower (and later with Rapunzel's hair), the process completely reversed when the magic died from Rapunzel.

It is generally believed that Gothel is at least a basic knowledge of herbalism due to her knowledge of the healing flower. In some stories, Gothel can be described as a "witch", with limited magical capabilities.

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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III[]

Gothel does not see Hiccup by himself as any real threat due to his weak stature, although she does appreciate the power that intellect holds and Hiccup's vast supplies of it. She also recognises the true danger of Toothless as a creature of power and knows to be wary when dragon and rider are both together. Gothel does however see Hiccup's emotional self-doubts as a weak link in the group and uses her power with words to break his resolve (usually by threatening his friends like Pitch does). Hiccup would dislike the witch for trapping Rapunzel away and for using the powers of her hair. He would further dislike her upon discovering what she had done to her both Rapunzel and her own biological daughter as both children and adults.

Jack Frost[]

Despite the fact she is an adult, Gothel can still see Jack because of her experiences with magic. She is jealous of Jack as he has the one thing she has always wanted: eternal youth without effort. She is also angry with Jack as she believes that Jack does not appreciate his immortality while Jack himself believes that Gothel does not appreciate her mortality. As a Guardian of Childhood, Jack would be appalled and disgusted by what Gothel had done to both Rapunzel and Cassandra as children and adults (especially since she abandoned one of them and never cared for either of them at all).

Merida DunBroch[]

Merida is a person who adores an active life and seizes every opportunity to the full. She is also a rough-and-ready girl with a rebellious and fiery personality, rebellious being a quality that Gothel despises. Headstrong and free-spirited are also qualities that Mother Gothel cannot abide by. This all explains why Gothel loathes Merida and vice-versa. She may also fear that Merida could be a ‘bad’ influence on Rapunzel. She would put a facade over her fears by telling Rapunzel that she worries Merida’s adventurous personality could get Rapunzel hurt, while in reality she would worry that the Scottish princess’s rebelliousness might rub off on Rapunzel, which would encourage her to leave the tower. Meanwhile Merida shares these feelings of hate, and would especially despise Gothel for locking Rapunzel away and abusing her powers. This hate would intensify into disgust if she were to witness what Gothel did to both her adopted and biological daughters. Although, this revelation would also help Merida understand why Cassandra betrayed Rapunzel and chose a dark path, as she knows how powerful a mother-daughter relationship is and how it can effect people.

Rapunzel Corona[]

Mother Gothel has the closest relationship with Rapunzel as they have known each other all their lives. Gothel was usually an overprotective mother, but also looked down on Rapunzel, saying everytime she was naive and stupid because she wanted to go to see the world. Her love for Rapunzel is debatable though. She may have once cared enough for Rapunzel enough to go out of her way to keep Rapunzel happy (such as making her favourite dinner and collecting rare paint colours), though this might just have been to keep on being able to use Rapunzel's healing hair. However, in the movie, it was clear that Rapunzel felt some love for Gothel, as she had been the only maternal figure she had during the last 18 years of her life. Even at the end, when Gothel fell out of the tower, Rapunzel reaches out for her, which shows she still cared for her a bit, even after having learned the truth about her. Following the events of Tangled, the two have been arch-enemies.

She does not think highly of her adopted mother in the series, and has actually shown some fear when the subject of her was brought up. Rapunzel was quite uncomfortable when she heard of rumors that Gothel's ghost haunted Cassandra's childhood home, and was a bit nervous when she learned she may come face-to-face with Gothel. After discoevring the magic mirrors in Gothel's secret room, Rapunzel made a comment that it was typical of Gothel to be vain. When Cassandra asked Rapunzel on what she meant by that, Rapunzel replied that Gothel was never the nurturing type, even when she was around, and told Cassandra that Gothel never loved either of them, for her love was directed on Rapunzel's hair (although specifically her love was directed on herself, since she wanted to use Rapunzel’s hair to stay young). It was through this that Rapunzel and Cassandra began to mend their bond, until Cassandra discovered a mirror recording the first bits of affection Gothel ever gave her (unknown to them at the time, the affection Gothel gave Cassandra was really just a ruse to keep the girl busy and actually though she was a little pest, revealing that she never cared about Casaandra), and abandoned Rapunzel in the tunnels. Gothel is never mentioned again by Rapunzel, but it is most likely that whatever love Rapunzel used to have for her has faded and most likely gates her bow for everything she has done to both her and Cassandra.

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