Mother Gothel

Madame Gothel
Home	in a tall, hidden tower in the woods
Occupation	a witch with black magic
Story appearances
Feature films	Tangled
Voice actor	Donna Murphy

Mother Gothel is the main antagonist of the CGI animated film, Tangled.

Gothel had a magical plant, grown when a drop of sunlight hit the earth. Gothel used this flower as her personal fountain of youth to keep herself young for centuries. The pregnant Queen of a nearby kingdom was near death and had her guards search for this magical plant to heal her. They find it and the Queen heals, soon giving birth to Rapunzel. The flower's magical abilities transferred to Rapunzel's glowing hair.

Gothel acquired Rapunzel as a child, stealing her from the royal nursery and hiding her in an inaccessible tower deep in the forest. Gothel lies to Rapunzel about the outside world and everyone in it being mean and selfish, making Rapunzel wary of ever leaving her protection. Later , when Rapunzel is 18 years old, she asks her to shows her the stars to find out what they mean. Mother Gothel denies it because they world is "cruel".

Rapunzel asks Mother Gother to buy her some paint so she can get her way from the tower for three days. It works. Then She forces a thief named Flynn to show her the stars, however they end up in a pub of thugs. Mother Gothel returns to the tower and is horrified to find Rapunzel missing. She steals a dagger then she sees maxs the horse on her way she find that Flynn could be the culprit.

She goes to the pub and flirts with the tiny pub thug then threatens him.She later hires two thugs, the Stabbington brothers to find flynnn and Rapunzel, taking advantage of the fact that they want revenge on Flynn for betraying them. She finds Rapunzel and then decides to teach her a lesson. She takes her to give Flynn the crown. She secretly has the Stabbington brothers kidnap Rapunzel. Mother Gothel fakes the rescue attempt by knocking out the brothers.

Back at the tower, Rapunzel sees the stars and sees her family. She realizes she is the lost princess. She tells Mother Gothel that she will never use her hair again. Mother Gothel tells Rapunzel that Flynn is going to be hanged for his crimes. Flynn gets away really easily. goes to the tower then inside, he finds her chained and gagged and Mothel Gothel literally backstabs Flynn. then she tries to take Rapunzel away. But Rapunzel fights back. She breaks the gag and promises if Mother Gothel lets her heal Flynn , she willll stay in the tower forever. Mother Gother lets her do so. But Flynn, believing Rapunzel deserves her freedom, cuts her hair and Mother Gothel ages. Pascal the chameleon, angry with Mother Gothel for her evil intentions, deliberately trips Mother Gothel by pulling Rapunzel's cut hair and she fall from the tower to her death, turning into dust when she hits the gorund.

The character is voiced by television actress and singer Donna Murphy.

Like many Disney villains, she has her own song in the movie, called "Mother Knows Best".

Mother Gothel in German means 'godmother' which she is to Rapunzel. However, Rapunzel believes her to be her real mother.

Mother Gothel is similar to Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. Mother Gothel wanted her abducted child to stay in the tower and she lies that the outside world is wicked for her own goals. Frollo wanted his adopted child Quasimodo to stay in the bell tower ad he lied about the outside world being wicked by singing Out There for his own goals. Their children disobey their masters though. Ithey both fall to their death from the high towers. Personality: she is a snobbish, judgemental, unfreindly, coldhearted, arrogant, immature, ruthless, vain, matreilistic, insensitive, uncaring, obnoxious, vicious, immoral, greedy, cruel, murderous, cowardly, ill-tempered, violnet, anti-social, unscrpulous, self-centred, misantropic, pessimistic, surly, untrustworthy, brooding, unfeeling, envyous, jealous, stingy, brutal, calculating, malicious, spiteful, hardheaded, dark, self-apperance and self-age obessed, atagonistic, pitiless, merciless, extraodinarliy crazy incredibly insane and sociopathic mean girl. she is highly vicious and incredibly ruthless as she enjoys hurting peoples fellings or takes pleasure in betraying or mudering them. an highly insensitive snob as she believes she has all the power and does not cry, incredibly arrogant and vain egomainiac who believes herself to be the most beautiful and most powerful women in charge, she is extremley dishonest and incredibly socoipathic as she has no morals and no conscience. extrodinarily rude and obnoxious as her harsh manners can break peoples hearts or make them cry. she is also extremley uncaring and very immature and highly quick-tempered as keeps complaining and is always whiney. she is also iresponsible, carless and forgetful because she does not rember or care about her birthday.