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What is the big deal about Rapunzel and Flynn?

I do like the both of them, but I never saw the hype about either one of them. Rapunzel and Flynn are pretty generic to me, even though they are likeable, and bring ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NEW to the princesses and princes. They are everyone's favourites now, and I don't see it. People hate the others even though for example Flynn have the same qualities that people dislike in the others. I think that the fan's reaction is why I am liking them less and less each day. I think Flynn's dialogue is corny, and Rapunzel does not warrant much interest to me. Can someone explain, so I can at least get the hype about boy of them?

* both of them

Jayden-G posted over a year ago

I agree with you. I like them, but they really aren't high on my list.

MalloMar posted over a year ago

Jayden-G posted over a year ago

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Swanpride said:

Didn't you read my recent article about that topic? I explained in great detail why this pairing is different from all the other DP Pairings (and certainly something new).

posted over a year ago

I meant them as individuals, not a couple. But tht article was very detailed about all of the couples

Jayden-G posted over a year ago

Animated_Paint said:

I think they have the best chemistry and the best relationship. They're both equals and have a friendship as well as romantic interest. For me, their love story is the most realistic, and has the best story.

posted over a year ago

I see how they work as a couple, but I don't get the hype about them as individuals.

Jayden-G posted over a year ago

I guess it's just a matter of opinion ^^ I could list all the qualities I like about them (yeah, they do have flaws though) but if you don't really like them now... I don't think I could change your mind.

Animated_Paint posted over a year ago

It's not that I don't like them; I do, but I just don't get the hype or the big deal that the general audience has of them. I would like to hear what you think

Jayden-G posted over a year ago

Jessikaroo said:

Flynn/Eugene's hype comes from his realism as a character. Yeah, he might be a little cliched, but he's a well rounded, three dimensional character who experiences real growth in the film. Plus he's witty, attractive, and sweet.
Rapunzel, I've touched on before, is an extremely calculated character. Everything about her was made with the general audience in mind, so she appeals to a very large group of characters.
Both are wonderful characters, and in response to liking certain qualities in Eugene yet hating them in others is pretty understandable. Every character is different, so certain traits work better with different characters. For example, selfishness works with Eugene and not Naveen because Eugene is more easily redeemed It's easier to excuse Eugene's actions as Flynn because of his self esteem than Naveen's actions as himself because he was raised as a prince to the general public, you feel me?
If you think about it, they do offer new things to the princesses/princes. We may have seen these individual traits and ideals before, but never in the same character. We've seen charming thieves and spunky princesses, but we've never seen an emotionally insecure man hiding behind the mask of a charming thief or an emotionally damaged young girl coming into her own as said spunky princess before. They're refreshing in their own way, and like I said, very well thought out.

posted over a year ago

You've always had my vote Jessikaroo :D

hajirah4 posted over a year ago

Thanks hajirah :)

Jessikaroo posted over a year ago

Thank you for answering my question. I do agree with you that selfishness works better on Flynn than Naveen. Rapunzel does come form a naive, innocent character into a woman, which Snow White and Aurora never did. I never hated them and Tangled, because I do go on their Fanfiction, and did watch it more than a few times since it came out

Jayden-G posted over a year ago

LatinoLollipops said:

I only don't understand why people hate Naveen but like Flynn? I'll have to re-watch the film to figure out why I like them so much because they are defiantly in my top 5 couple.

posted over a year ago

Because Neveen really is a womanzing A-hole, who plans to marry Lottie for her money, while Flynn is a construct Eugene created because he thought that nobody would care about Eugene. People don't like necessarily Flynn, the like Eugene, tho orphan who took care of the younger kids in the orphanage and dreamt of a better future.

Swanpride posted over a year ago

Flynn uses his charm and sex appeal to get what he wants from girls, so clearly he slept around. And because of the fact that he chose to act like that made it no better. So he left his orphanage to be a lying, selfish rouge. He was putting a bit of a front, but he has been acting like that for a majority of his life , so it is second nature to him. He is really not much better than Naveen

Jayden-G posted over a year ago

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^I don't think he was actually a 'womanizer', even though sometimes he hints at it, I think he just wanted everyone to think he was really 'manly and tough' and all that. I think he was just putting it on to look cool, he never really did anything besides flirt alot. That's just a theory though, he may very well have been like what you said :)

Animated_Paint posted over a year ago

Flynn only uses his "smolder" as last weapon and even says that he doesn't really want to do it (doesn't work either way). With Naveen, womanizing is his default setting. Plus, it's less the womanizing which bothers me, and more the "marrying for money" part. And Eugene didn't want to be a selfish rouge, he wanted to be Flynnigan Rider, Gentleman and Adventurer. The Flynn Rider in the book wasn't a thief after all, just a guy who had everything, and Eugene wanted to be this guy who had everything (he is kind of like Aladdin). Naveen always had everything and acted like a prat nevertheless. I don't have much patience for that.

Swanpride posted over a year ago

^ He said that she forced him to do this in a taunting, teasing, and a joking kind of way, so he clearly had no problem with it. Aladdin did want to have everything like Flynn, but Flynn deliberately robbed from many people and back stabbed people to do that. A true end of the day, he chose to do and to use those types of methods. He has a sad backstory, but since he chose to life that type of lifestyle for many years and to act that way for many years, that starts to reflect on your actual personality. I do agree with you about Naveen through the most part. It is still obvious that Flynn has experience with women and since he is always up and leaving to do aomething else and to go somewhere else, he clearly left a trail of heartbroken girls. I it was hinted more than once, than clearly he was a stud and a gigolo with the ladies. I don't have a problem with that part of his character though

Jayden-G posted over a year ago

I personally doubt Flynn had serious experience with the ladies. He didn't have the emotional strength to pull it off, he's a really messed up guy. The Flynn Rider mask was good enough to fool everyone he ever met, what's it too say it didn't fool you?

Jessikaroo posted over a year ago

Flynn? Sleeping around? Who becomes that messed up after a children's book? Let's be a bit reasonable here. He had his entire life as an orphan and he finally quit. He felt too sorry for himself and wanted to be like his imaginary big brother or his rolemodel. I don't think a kid would be the guy that gets all the ladies and dates each one of 'em. I think it was just an exaggeration or a comedy stunt to show that he, Flynnigan Rider, had everything. I could see him leaving a girl heartbroken but only in rejection like you see in Manga. 'I'm sorry, Kotoko. It's me, i'm not the guy you know...' I think Naveen is only a flirt and that guy in class who would do well in some of the subjects, but never takes it seriously and sees no point. He just does it by force, and he never find a meaning. Exactly with girls. He does it for women to be swooning over him- for praise. After Tiana I doubt that's what it's like. He found out what true love is like, and Tiana put him in the friendzone for a moment. He looked heartbroken. His flirting definitely ended at that point.

hajirah4 posted over a year ago

AudreyFreak said:

agreed. I would like them more as a big brother/little sister type of friends.

posted over a year ago

That would be different I guess. I just do not see how they are so interesting as characters that barely anyone explains

Jayden-G posted over a year ago

I like that! :)

MalloMar posted over a year ago

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