FAQ

Welcome to the TangledBEA FAQ! I know a lot of people come here to ask me for help finding things, to learn about Tangled the Series and the fandom, and to ask my opinion, and I am very okay with this! I just ask that you please read this FAQ before asking me anything, as what you want to know may have already been answered!

I will add and update questions as they occur to me or come up. So please, always check the FAQ before asking, even if you’ve checked it before.

Last updated March 27, 2024

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1) “When will the series resume?”
It won’t. The series ended on March 1, 2020 after three seasons with the series finale, “Plus Est En Vous.”

2) “Is Season Three going to be put on Disney+?”
Season Three is on Disney+ in the United States. I don’t know when/if other countries can expect it.

3) “Is there a chance it will be renewed for a fourth season?”
No. Three was all it was ever going to be. In an interview with Zachary Levi done before the series ever started, he said it was going to be three seasons long. There is no Tangled department at DTVA studios anymore. Everyone has moved on to other projects both within and outside of Disney. Three is all we’re getting, and three is all we were ever going to get.

4) “Season 3 was supposed to have 36 episodes. What happened?”
Season 3 was never supposed to have 36 episodes.
What happened was this: Before the series began, Zachary Levi was in an interview with ET online (which, unfortunately has since been removed from the ET site, so I don’t have proof of it any longer, even though I still have the link) in which he said the series was going to be three seasons and 78 episodes. That averages to 26 episodes per season. This is what I reported to Tumblr (and the internet at large) back in 2016 before the series began to air, and before we knew that there was going to be a separate pilot movie, and this is what the Tangled Wiki put on their page, thus making it more common knowledge.

HOWEVER, this is not taking into account that multi-part episodes can be (and usually are) considered as one episode, even though they have multiple production numbers. For example, “Queen For a Day” is actually two episodes, and those episode are split into their respective parts on Disney+, but were aired as one episode originally. Also, a lot of people fail to consider Tangled Before Ever After when they’re counting episodes of the series, since it is technically a Disney Channel Original Movie (and the pilot episode) and “What the Hair?!” is technically season 1, episode 1.

Taking this into consideration, the pilot is 2 episodes, season one has 23 episodes, and season two has 24 episodes, which is 49 episodes. Subtracting from the originally announced amount, this leaves 29 remaining episodes.

But people weren’t counting double-length episodes as two episodes. They were counting them as one. And many weren’t counting TBEA, either. To most people it looked like season one and season two had 21 episodes each, leaving 42 aired episodes in total at that point. 78 - 42 = 36.

Now, at some point while season one was still in production, Disney did reduce the total number of episodes they decided to give the series. They went from 78 to 70, shaving a few episodes off each season in the process (only two episodes per season, if you think of TBEA as being outside of the usual episode count, but still included in the total). So, we now have 49 aired episodes and 21 left to go. And guess how many episodes are in season three when you count the multi-part episodes as separate? 21.

As far as I know, the Tangled Wiki never updated the information on it, even though I’ve been explaining this for years now, and so every now and then I still get this question.

5) “Do you have any fanfic recs?”
I actually don’t read much fanfiction, so I’m not really the person to ask that. Here is a list (mostly M rated) that @kelseyfitzherbert recommends. You can also check my Fanfiction tag for the stuff I’ve reblogged. If I read it and liked it, I reblogged it.

6) “How old is Varian, in relation to Rapunzel?”

I have an entire tag dedicated to this subject. Please look for it here: Varian’s Age

7) “How tall do you think the characters are?”
Eugene is canonically 6'1" according to this screencap from a Disney-made promo short:

His face characters at the parks are cast from actors between 5'10" - 6'0". The “life-size” standee cutout of him is about 6'0" - 6'1".

Rapunzel’s cutout is 5'0" - 5'1", and at the parks, she is cast from women who are 5'4" - 5'7".

Keep in mind for both of the face character height requirements that most of the actors are cast to play more than one character, and that’s why there’s a range.

I think Cassandra is 5'6" - 5'7", according to the height of the “life-size” standee cutout.

As is true with all animation, comparative heights fluctuate according to framing. Sometimes Varian appears the same height as Rapunzel, sometimes noticeably shorter or noticeably taller, depending upon the season. That being the case, I range him from 4'10" - 5'0" in S1 and 5'3" in S3.

Lance, I figure, is around 6'3" - 6'4".

Adira, who is recognizably tall, I peg at around 6'6".

8) “In the movie, the brown lock of hair Rapunzel showed Eugene is still short. Can Rapunzel’s not hair grow after it’s cut?”
There is no canonical answer to this question, but there are two schools of thought:

No: Just like how a cut flower petal turns brown and can’t grow after it’s cut (she is, after all, the new Sundrop flower), her hair turns brown and cannot grow, either.

Yes: Since that lock of hair is the only one that won’t be “damaged” if she cuts it, she takes all her curiosity about hair-cutting out on that one lock of hair.

Neither of these answers are technically correct, though, since we were never told definitively what the answer is. So whatever your preferred answer is is right.

9) “Do you ship _____________?”

Cassunzel (Cassandra x Rapunzel): No, I don’t. Honestly, I am adamantly opposed to it. I don’t see the affection Cassandra has for Rapunzel as anything but platonic, and vice versa. I think them in a romantic relationship is incredibly toxic. I have the tag blocked and I prefer not to talk about it.

Does this mean that I think Cassandra is straight? Not necessarily. We have seen nothing to imply that she is. We don’t know what her preferences are, canonically, and frankly, I’m glad they kept it ambiguous. Because now, any headcanons about her being gay/bi/straight/pan/demi/ace/aro/anything are just as true as anything else. Many of the artists who worked on the show deliberately coded her as attracted to women through their art, but since nothing was canonically stated, there is no canon answer. (Plus, attraction to women does not necessarily erase attraction to men.)

Classy (Cassandra x Lance): Nope! I actually don’t ship Cassandra or Lance with anyone in particular! I’m a firm believer that not every character needs to be paired up with someone, and I think it’s very important to show characters who are single and happy that way. I just don’t think it’s necessary.

Adirance (Adira x Lance): See “Classy”. I actually really love Lance’s one-sided adoration of Adira, and as that’s all that was ever made of it, I was happy with it. I like that Adira doesn’t reciprocate.

U Knighted Dream (Cassandra x Rapunzel x Eugene): See “Cassunzel” entry. I also don’t see Eugene being comfortable sharing Rapunzel with anyone, and Rapunzel clearly has jealousy issues she didn’t previously know existed. I also have this tag blocked.

Cassarian (Cassandra x Varian): He’s a minor. She’s an adult. I don’t approve of it. I have the tag blocked. And it’s not the age gap, it’s that he’s a literal child and she’s an adult. That’s a hard stop, right there. Even aged up, they met when he was a child and she was an adult.

Beyond that, people can ship what they want, but I don’t see the chemistry that other people see. He had a crush on her that she didn’t reciprocate and found annoying, she used him to get what she wants (guard duty), and then he tried to kill her to get back at Rapunzel. In Season Three, she abducted and drugged him to get information. Nothing about this is healthy. No thank you.

Varipunzel (Varian x Rapunzel): See the first paragraph under “Cassarian”.

10) Any question regarding my opinion of the Live Action Tangled, including my opinion of it existing at all and who I think should be cast as any character.

Please see my Tangled Live Action tag.

11) “What is Cassandra’s sexuality / Is it okay if I see Cassandra as bi/ace/aro/etc and not a lesbian?”
Cassandra does not have a canon sexuality. But good news! This means that you can headcanon her as whatever sexuality you see fit, and you’re not wrong! You’re not going against canon! Also, you don’t need anyone’s permission to headcanon anything you want, even if it’s not canon-compliant. That’s the joy of headcanons.

Yes, it’s true that there are artists and animators that deliberately coded her as wlw, but there are also writers who deliberately coded her as into men. And in an interview, Eden Espinosa said that she didn’t really put any thought into Cassandra’s sexuality and figures that love and romance aren’t at the top of her priority list at this stage in her life (meaning she wasn’t given any specific direction on the subject to advise her performance).

I personally headcanon her as bi, preferring women/aro.

12) “What are your headcanons for the characters’ sexualities?”
Rapunzel: demisexual, biromantic
Eugene: bisexual
Lance: bisexual
Varian: biromantic (undetermined on sexuality)
Cassandra: bisexual, homoromantic aromantic

If they’re not listed here, I don’t have a headcanon for them.

13) “When does Tangled take place?”
Ye olde tymes.

There was a time when it had a specific time period in mind, but that was movie production from a long time ago, well before it became the movie we know and love now. The city of Corona looks like a Renaissance Pleasure Faire (where guests are dressed from hundreds of years’ span of time periods), and in Tangled: Before Ever After, there is a Victrola in the castle. The Victrola wasn’t around until 1901.

Hot air balloons (Under Raps) were invented in 1783.
Mozart (mentioned in I’ve Got a Dream) reached the height of his living popularity in the 1780′s.
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Eugene is whistling it in Tangled: Before Ever After) was first performed in 1824.
The Tudor fashion of clothes, which is what Arianna and Frederic’s outfits are based on, was popular in the 1500′s.
Powdered wigs and coiffure, such as Lady Caine wore when she was masquerading as the Duchess of Quintonia, and later, Rapunzel wore to hide her hair, were popular in the 1700′s.
Wooden hoops, such as the one Rapunzel wore under her coronation dress, were popular in the 1800′s.
Eugene’s coronation suit has 1800′s flare, while Cassandra’s handmaiden outfit recalls the same Tudor fashion mentioned above.

And these are just a few of the many, many examples of ways in which the time period wobbles across the centuries.

So, as you can see, the time periods are all over the place, stretching from the 1450′s all the way up to the early 1900′s. (And that’s not even taking into account Gothel’s Medieval fashion sense, which made her already appear out of time with the rest of the cast, a deliberate design during movie production. I believe Edmund was given the same treatment.)

15) “How old is ________?”
Adira - No younger than 45, but probably older. (And this goes for all of the Brotherhood.)

Kiera (Angry) and Catalina (Red) - While we have no actual clues to their ages, I’ve always felt they were about 9-10 when we met them and about 11-12 at the end of the series.

Vex - We know she’s a teenager, and she reads to me like she’s 16.

16) “Do Rapunzel and Eugene at the Disney Parks know about the Series?”
Some do, some don’t. The only required viewing for the Tangled face characters are the movie and the Tangled Ever After wedding short, so it’s kind of hit-or-miss whether the ones you’re meeting with will know the characters and events from the series. I, personally, have had it go both ways since the series began. I’ve even had ones who vaguely knew who the characters were, but not well enough to even talk about them as people. Just their names, appearances, and basic roles in their lives.

17) “Do you think Varian and/or Cassandra will ever get a spinoff series?”
No. Disney has said that they’re not interested in doing a spinoff of a Princess franchise where the main character is not the princess of said spinoff. That’s why Varian and the Seven Kingdoms was rejected, and I don’t think a Cassandra spinoff was ever even on the table.

18) “What is Varian and the Seven Kingdoms?”
Varian and the Seven Kingdoms (or Vat7K for short) was a proposed spin-off comic book that Kay Hayes, Anna Lencioni and Alex Bosy came up with, which would follow Varian after the events of the series. Everything they’ve posted about it can be found in this master post.

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