Mother Gothel

Mother Gothel is one of the many Disney Villains appearing in the Sora and Pretty Cure's Adventures series. She is the main antagonist of the 2010 Disney animated film, Tangled. She is also the mother of Rapunzel’s best friend, handmaiden and bodyguard, Cassandra in the Disney Channel animated series, Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure. Despite her appearing in Kingdom Hearts III, she isn’t a member of the Council of Villains. In the Sora and Pretty Cure’s Adventures series, Mother Gothel will serve as one of the many members of the Council with the goal to seek to harness the power of the Heartless, Nobodies, Unversed and Nightmares to take control of Kingdom Hearts to rule all of the worlds home to Sora and numerous Disney characters.

History
Gothel is a fun villain because she straddles the two types of classic Disney villain: Supernatural Witch and Emotional Manipulator. She steals Rapunzel as a child to take advantage of her hair’s healing powers and then locks up Rapunzel in a tower far away to keep her hidden which is super mean. But she’s no Lady Tremaine about it. Over the course of Rapunzel’s life, she convinces her quote/unquote daughter that everything she does, she does out of love. She’s “protecting” her daughter. Mother Knows Best. When the jig is up, she tries to murder Rapunzel’s newfound love, Eugene who courageously sacrifices himself by cutting Rapunzel’s hair, ending her magic. This causes Gothel to revert to her true age and die. A truly fitting ending.

Powerfulness and Weaknesses
Mother Gothel was like other villains such as Madame Medusa. In that, she was a successful kidnapper. But her tactic was a little different. Taking Rapunzel at a very young age to convince the girl she was her mother and making it difficult for Rapunzel to leave the tower. We don’t see her use much magic aside from making herself younger with Rapunzel’s hair, but she does have a way of getting people to do things for her and see her side of things. She’s a manipulator that has no issues using a blade when words don’t sway her victims. This may not seem like true power, but it really is and arguably an even more dangerous type of power because how it flies under the radar.

Intelligence
There’s no doubt that Mother Gothel is one of the most toxic and abusive parental figures in all of Disney. No one really didn’t think anyone could ever come close to Frollo’s lies, but Gothel proved them wrong. Much like Madame Medusa, she knew how to distance the child she kidnapped from the rest of society. Unlike Medusa however, she didn’t let Rapunzel know she wasn’t her daughter. It was a way of keeping the young princess in line while Gothel used her healing abilities. Gothel’s plan would have worked too had Eugene not taken her out of the tower. She’s definitely a character who has a lot of wit given her strong abilities in manipulation representing a dangerous sort of intelligence that exists in real life and often flies under its victims’ radar.

Arsenal
Her Dagger: Mother Gothel's dagger was used to try and murder Eugene Fitzherbert when he came to rescue Rapunzel from her.

Sundrop Flower: The Sundrop Flower is a magical flower which Mother Gothel used to maintain a youthful appearance. In other words, Mother Gothel used this magical flower to keep herself young and beautiful. Once the flower was used to heal Queen Ariana (Rapunzel's mother and the Queen of Corona) who had fallen sick while pregnant with Rapunzel (who had also fallen sick as well), this is the cause of Gothel kidnapping Rapunzel as a child, brainwashing her into fearing the outside world and keeping her locked in the tower for nearly twenty years. In the Sora and Pretty Cure's Adventures series at the villains' lair, Mother Gothel has an entire garden full of Sundrop Flowers to keep herself young and beautiful and with each one she takes with her on her missions with the other villains, a new one bloom's in the position of the original one she took.