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| |name=Mother Gothel | | |name=Mother Gothel |
| |image=[[File:Mother Gothel KHIII.png|350x400px]] | | |image=[[File:Mother Gothel KHIII.png|350x450px]] |
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| |katakana=ゴーテル | | |katakana=ゴーテル |
| |romaji=Gōteru | | |romaji=Gōteru |
| |jpname=Gothel | | |japname=Gothel |
| |type=Entelechy | | |type=Entelechy |
| |charworld1=Kingdom of Corona | | |charworld1=Kingdom of Corona |
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| |company=Disney | | |company=Disney |
| |enva=Donna Murphy | | |enva=Donna Murphy |
| |envan=<ref>[http://press.na.square-enix.com/releases/1274/starstudded-voice-cast-unveiled-for-disney-and-square-enixs-kingdom-he '''Square Enix Press Release''': STAR-STUDDED VOICE CAST UNVEILED FOR DISNEY AND SQUARE ENIX'S KINGDOM HEARTS III]</ref> | | |envan=<ref>[http://press.na.square-enix.com/releases/1274/starstudded-voice-cast-unveiled-for-disney-and-square-enixs-kingdom-he '''Square Enix Press Release''': STAR-STUDDED VOICE CAST UNVEILED FOR DISNEY AND SQUARE ENIX’S KINGDOM HEARTS III]</ref> |
| |java=Miyuki Tsurugi | | |java= |
| |game1=Kingdom Hearts III | | |game1=Kingdom Hearts III |
| |journalKH3='''First entry'''<br>Tangled (2010)<br><br>Rapunzel's mother. She left the tower to look for her missing daughter.<br><br>'''Second entry'''<br>Tangled (2010)<br><br>Rapunzel's mother. She left the tower to look for her missing daughter.<br><br>However, we came to learn this was all a lie. "Mother" Gothel was the one who took Rapunzel from her real parents—for no reason other than to exploit the mysterious healing powers in the girl's hair.
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| {{Q|The outside world is a dangerous place. You must stay here, where you're safe. Do you understand, flower?|Mother Gothel to a child Rapunzel}}
| | '''Mother Gothel''' is a character from the [[Kingdom of Corona]] in ''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''. She originated from the Disney film ''{{w|Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled}}''. |
| '''Mother Gothel''' is a character from the [[Kingdom of Corona]] in ''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''. She is the adoptive mother of [[Rapunzel]], although Rapunzel has been led by Gothel to believe that she is her biological mother. She originated from the Disney film ''{{w|Tangled}}''. | | |
| | She is the adoptive mother of [[Rapunzel]], although Rapunzel has been led by Gothel to believe that she is her biological mother. |
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| ==Story== | | ==Story== |
| ===Before ''Kingdom Hearts III''=== | | ===''Kingdom Hearts III''=== |
| Mother Gothel was an old crone who kidnapped Rapunzel as a baby upon discovering that her hair had the ability to heal. Gothel raised Rapunzel as her own daughter within a tower, hiding her from the rest of the world by warning her of its dangers, all to exploit her mystical hair to keep herself eternally young. | | {{section-stub}} |
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| | ==Appearance== |
| | Mother Gothel has rather curly black hair and gray eyes. She wears a shiny dark magenta dress with a black cape. |
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| [[File:Mother Gothel 01 KHIII.png|thumb|left|Mother Gothel deems the trio useless in locating Rapunzel as she walks away.]] | | {{sec-stub}} |
| Upon finding that Rapunzel has disappeared from their tower, Mother Gothel discovers a wanted poster for [[Flynn Rider]] within a satchel containing Rapunzel's stolen tiara. She is approached by [[Marluxia]], who offers to help her retrieve Rapunzel. As he approaches her, Mother Gothel's eyes glow pink.
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| | ==Origin== |
| | Mother Gothel first appeared as an antagonist in the Disney animated film ''[[wikipedia:Tangled|Tangled]]'' in 2010, voiced by Donna Murphy. She is based on the evil witch Dame Gothel from the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale. |
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| | In ''Tangled'', Gothel was originally an elderly woman who kidnapped the baby princess of Corona, Rapunzel, from her parents.<!--ONE paragraph. ONE. |
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| | Queen Arianna and King Frederic. Gothel greedily wanted to use the magical powers of Rapunzel's hair to live as long as possible. Gothel convinced Rapunzel she is her real mother and has kept Rapunzel in a secluded tower for eighteen years. Gothel tells Rapunzel that the outside world is cruel and dangerous. Rapunzel asks Gothel for paint requiring a three day journey on her birthday which Gothel reluctantly agrees to. |
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| While searching for Rapunzel in the forest, Mother Gothel encounters [[Sora]], [[Donald]], and [[Goofy]] walking around and remarking on Marluxia, whom they had just met. Gothel watches for a few moments before dismissing the conversation as unimportant, but doubles back when Sora calls out for Rapunzel and Flynn. Gothel presents herself and asks them if they know Rapunzel, informing them that she is her mother. Sora tells Mother Gothel that they accidentally lost Rapunzel, causing her to dismiss them as useless as she walks away to search by herself. Gothel eventually finds Rapunzel and gives her the tiara Flynn stole, plotting to split the two of them apart.<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts III]], Gummiphone, Story, Kingdom of Corona:''''' "It was also Mother Gothel who had brought Rapunzel the tiara in an attempt to drive her and Eugene apart."</ref>
| | However, unbeknownst to Gothel, she had been sent away so Rapunzel could sneak out of the tower along with the captured thief Flynn Rider so she could see the lanterns that appear every year on her birthday. During Gothel's journey, she comes across Maximus, and soon realizes that Rapunzel could be in trouble, and quickly rushes back home. However, she discovers that Rapunzel has left, but has left behind a wanted poster of Flynn along with the crown of the lost princess. |
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| Following the lantern festival, Mother Gothel seems to save Rapunzel from [[Nobodies]] using a log and she convinces her to return home after it appears that Flynn has abandoned her for the tiara. However, at the tower, Rapunzel confronts Mother Gothel about her realization that she is the lost princess of Corona. Mother Gothel tells Rapunzel that she was trying to protect her, but Rapunzel leaves to save Flynn from his death sentence. Mother Gothel is able to trap Rapunzel, then bounds and gags her. When Flynn, who has managed to avoid his death sentence, comes, Mother Gothel stabs him.
| | Gothel later tracks Rapunzel to a pub called the Snuggly Duckling, where she witnesses Rapunzel singing how glad she is for leaving her tower. Upon witnessing Rapunzel and Flynn sneak out through a tunnel, she interrogates one of the pub thugs, Shorty, on where the tunnel leads to. |
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| Rapunzel tells Gothel that if she lets her heal Flynn with the powers of her hair, Rapunzel will do whatever Gothel asks, sacrificing her freedom for the rest of her life, which Gothel accepts. While talking with Flynn, he cuts off Rapunzel's hair, removing its healing properties. Gothel begins to rapidly age before [[Pascal]] trips her, which causes her to fall out the window and wither away until only her cape remains. Marluxia observes from a distance, determining that her lingering [[darkness]] now poses a threat to Rapunzel's pure [[light]], and subsequently uses that darkness to create the [[Grim Guardianess]] [[Heartless]], which Sora and his friends destroy.
| | Some time later, Gothel waits outside of the exit of the tunnel, intending to slay Flynn and take Rapunzel back, only to be met by the Stabbington Brothers, whom Flynn was associated with but later betrays them to the royal guard. She makes them a deal that would be worth far more than the crown they had stolen at the beginning. |
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| | That night, Gothel comes across Rapunzel while Flynn is away gathering firewood, and attempts to goad Rapunzel into returning home, but Rapunzel refuses. Gothel then reveals the satchel containing the crown, and tells her to test Flynn's loyalty. |
| Mother Gothel has curly black hair and gray eyes. She wears a shiny dark magenta dress with a black cape. After Flynn cuts Rapunzel's hair, Mother Gothel begins to age rapidly. In the last moments of her life, her face and hands are gaunt and wrinkled, and her curly hair is a silvery white.
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| | The next night after the lantern festival, the Stabbingtons knock out Flynn and attempt to take Rapunzel away once they heard of her magic hair, but both are knocked out by Gothel, who had staged the entire setup as a "rescue", and shows Flynn sailing away on a boat with the crown. (In truth, he was unconscious and tied up, and the boat set to arrive at the kingdom docks where the guards are waiting) |
| {{Q|You want me to be the bad guy? Fine. Now I'm the bad guy.|Gothel trying to excuse her future actions by blaming Rapunzel}}
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| Mother Gothel, to Rapunzel, appears to be a kind and loving mother. However, she is actually rather selfish, narcissistic and deceitful, having lied to Rapunzel about her past and stolen her away from her true family in order to keep the mystical powers of Rapunzel's hair all to herself. Her narcissism manifests itself in consistent psychological abuse towards Rapunzel: consistently telling her that the world is a dangerous place in order to keep her in, and even gaslighting her with the implication that a good, loving daughter would never leave the tower. Although Gothel tells Rapunzel that everything she has done is to protect Rapunzel, Gothel's methods are extreme and overbearing. Gothel also cruelly binds and gags Rapunzel when Rapunzel attempts to leave the tower to rescue Flynn. She later stabs Flynn in both an act of cruelty against him and Rapunzel.
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| | Despite finally shattering Rapunzel's belief of the outside world being inviting and safe, the lost princess realizes the truth of her heritage thanks to pictures of the kingdom's sun symbol she had unknowingly painted in the tower, and attempts to leave to find Flynn, but Gothel restrains her, then uses her to bait Flynn back to the tower. |
| {{Q|Oh, I just listened for the sound of complete and utter betrayal and followed that.|Mother Gothel to Rapunzel about how she found her}}
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| [[File:Rapunzel embracing Gothel - Tangled (2010).png|left|thumb|Mother Gothel, embracing Rapunzel, from ''Tangled''.]]
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| Mother Gothel first appeared as an antagonist in the 2010 Disney animated film ''Tangled'' in 2010, voiced by Donna Murphy. She is based on the witch Dame Gothel from the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
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| In ''Tangled'', Gothel was an elderly woman who kidnapped the baby princess of Corona, Rapunzel, from her parents, in order to exploit the magical youthening ability of Rapunzel's hair. Gothel employed cruel psychological abuse and manipulation to keep Rapunzel dependent on her and afraid to leave her prison, but Rapunzel grew curious about the flotilla of lanterns put out by her parents' kingdom on her birthday, and manages to escape while Gothel is outside of the prison. Gothel tracks Rapunzel and her accomplice in escape, Flynn Rider, and very nearly manages to convince Rapunzel to return with her to save Flynn's life, but he surprises them by cutting Rapunzel's hair and destroying their magical power, causing Gothel to suddenly expire of old age.
| | Gothel stabs Flynn, and attempts to take Rapunzel away, but the princess begs to heal Flynn, on the promise that she will go with Gothel if she saves his life. Though skeptical at first, Gothel allows Rapunzel to heal him. But before she could, Flynn grabs a mirror shard and cuts off Rapunzel's hair, causing the magic to vanish and accelerate Gothel to her true age, until she falls out of the tower. Once landing on the ground, her cloak reveals that she has aged so much she has turned to dust, finally ending Gothel's terror. |
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| ==Notes and references== | | ==Notes and references== |
| {{reflist}} | | {{reflist}} |
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