Tangled 10 Reasons Mother Gothel Is The Most Underrated Disney Villain
Tangled: 10 Reasons Mother Gothel Is The Most Underrated Disney Villain
Gothel is the main antagonist in Tangled, but she may be the most underrated Disney villains. Here’s why she’s one of the best baddies ever.
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Disney’s Tangled was released in 2010, and still, audiences love watching the love story unfold between Princess Rapunzel and thief Flynn Rider. Their journey to see the lanterns for Rapunzel’s birthday contains quite a few adventures, and naturally, an antagonist. Audiences surely remember the brutal and unforgiving Gothel, who guilt-tripped her adoptive daughter the entire way, memorably with the catchy but manipulative song, “Mother Knows Best.”
Gothel definitely wasn’t a good parent in the least and was capable of awful things. She was selfish, cunning, and smart, which made her a great villain. Audiences know that Gothel is bad news, but in certain ways, she’s still an underrated Disney villain.
10 She’s Unpredictable
Gothel will utilize whatever she has at the time to achieve her goals. Making the deal with the Stabbington brothers is one of those instances. Some of her decisions are ones that she makes in the heat of the moment, like when she kidnapped Rapunzel when she broke into the castle intending to cut off her hair for its healing power.
It makes Gothel that much more of a threat because her next moves can’t be predicted.
9 She Takes Dangerous Risks
Gothel isn’t afraid of the consequences of her actions. She’s somewhat cocky in that sense, thinking that she could get away with anything and everything forever. In the film, the first dangerous risk she takes is kidnapping the princess. She could have faced severe consequences, like imprisonment or even death, if she had been caught.
Likewise, when she made the deal with the Stabbington brothers, she risked her life to do so, given the brothers were very dangerous and bloodthirsty after having been betrayed by Flynn Rider. Still, it was just another day at the office for Gothel, as she didn’t seem to care about the repercussions of her actions.
8 She Doesn’t Connect With Anyone
Anyone she comes into contact with, she uses. Gothel used massive guilt trips to get Rapunzel to do what she wanted; she always used her specifically for her hair. 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.
7 She’s Intelligent
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.
6 She Doesn’t Love
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?
5 She’s Manipulative
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.
4 She’s Incredibly Selfish
Everything is about Gothel. Her needs, her wants, her everything. The world revolves around her, as far as she’s concerned. She doesn’t care who she hurts or takes advantage of along the way, as long as she herself is happy and fulfilled. Frankly, if she doesn’t get what she wants, she goes off the rails and does whatever she can so that the world is made right again, just for her.
Her selfishness is her drive, and has been for years upon years. Gothel was too set her in her ways to change, and her judgment too clouded to see her wrongdoing. This kind of pure self-interest makes for a fascinating kind of villain.
3 She Has No Remorse
Not once does Gothel feel even a twinge of guilt for all the things she’s done, and she’s done some truly unforgivable things. For one, she hoarded the magical healing powers of a flower, just so she could stay young and beautiful forevermore. When the flower is found by the kingdom and given to the sick queen as a cure, its power transfers to Rapunzel and Gothel, not about to let the power of it go, kidnaps Rapunzel as a baby and hides her away in complete isolation.
Not once does she feel badly for what she’s done not just to Rapunzel, but also the entire kingdom by hoarding the flower as long as she did. She never second-guesses herself, and it’s concerning that she never feels remorseful. Instead, she feels like everyone owes her something, and that she’s in the right, and everyone else is in the wrong.
2 She’s Realistic
One of the things that makes Mother Gothel so scary is the fact that she’s realistic. Unlike Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty or Jafar in Aladdin, Gothel is human and has no magical powers. She’s sneaky, intelligent, and unbelievably cunning. She’ll do anything to retain her youth.
Villains that can exist in real life, beyond the film, are scarier than villains like Freddy Krueger, who audiences know isn’t real. Gothel is dangerous in more ways than one, and audiences would never want to meet her, especially in a dark alley.
1 She Always Continued To Become Eviler
Near the film’s conclusion, Gothel declares that she’s now the “bad guy”, as if she hasn’t been already, and decides to imprison forever after Rapunzel refuses to allow Gothel to use her hair’s healing powers ever again.
Flynn shows up to save Rapunzel, and Gothel stabs him, making things worse with murder. Gothel had no way of knowing that, even after Flynn had cut off Rapunzel’s hair, that Rapunzel would still be able to save his life. Gothel had no qualms about imprisonment or cold-blooded murder, and probably would have only become eviler over time, and that makes her more than vicious. She’s definitely not a villain to trifle with.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/tangled-mother-gothel-most-underrated-disney-villain/
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