4038. Princess Rapunzel

Princess Rapunzel is the heroine of the Disney's 50th animated film Tangled.[2] She is adapted from the original Rapunzel tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. She is voiced by Mandy Moore and is the 10th princess in the Disney Princess franchise. Rapunzel is also Disney's first and so far only CGI Princess and the first official Disney Princess to appear in a PG-rated film. Biography Rapunzel's long hair, supposedly 70 feet long, has magical healing powers. If her hair was cut, it will automatically lose its power and turn to a chocolate brown, the hair color of her parents. She had been locked away in a tower her entire life. However, she still loves her overprotective "mother", Mother Gothel, who has devoted herself to Rapunzel's—or rather her hair's—protection. Rapunzel initially enjoys life in the tower, spending large portions of her days expressing herself creatively by painting the walls which line the tower. Later on, because of this creativity and curiosity, Rapunzel begins to question what else is out there, and has a hunch that there is something more inside of her. Characteristics Rapunzel is a spirited, clever, kind, ambidextrous, and playful young woman, though a bit naive, but not afraid to stand up for herself or others. Having spent all of her life in a tower with little else to do, she is very well read and talented in almost all areas such as music and baking, and even more advanced subjects like astronomy, having charted star patterns. But her greatest passion is art, turning the walls of her tower into a mural. While she longs to see the world beyond her window, she is very obedient to Mother Gothel, having major conflicting feelings after leaving her tower of excitement to finally see the world, and guilt for disobeying her mother's orders. Yet due to her experiences, she developes a strong sense of independence, refusing when Mother Gothel orders her to come home. She is quite daring, leaping from tall cliffs and swinging great lengths with her hair. She is completely immune to Flynn's so-called "charms", although this could be due to her naivety (she may genuinely not understand what he's trying to accomplish with them) and has little tolerance for his antics. She also seems to be very charismatic, able to get a group of hardened thugs to confess their dreams and convince Maximus, the captain of the guards horse, to postpone his pursuit of Flynn until the end of the festival. She has great determination to live out her dream of seeing the floating lanterns, ignoring all plots by Flynn to get her to return to her tower, but shows a little regret before actually fulfilling it, in fear of either it not living up to her expectations or losing the one thing she's yearned for all of her life. But with help from Flynn she realizes that once one dream is fulfilled, another one will take its place. Casting Broadway and Television star Kristin Chenoweth was originally called upon to voice Rapunzel before it was announced by John Lasseter, among other big news, that the cast would include singer and actress Mandy Moore as Rapunzel. As a child she is voiced by Delanay Rose Stein.