2. The rude chop
Eugene makes the executive decision that Rapunzel is not free as long as her magical hair is attached to her head, so he cuts it with a mirror shard. Without asking her first, without wondering if she wants the same thing or not, without asking himself what would happen with the girl once her kidnapper no longer has a use for her, he cuts her hair.
What’s more, her hair had healing powers prior to being cut, and he’s wounded, so why did he cut it before she could tend to his stab wound? Surely, it couldn’t have taken long for her to fix him right up.
1. That’s not how it works
This one is the biggest plot hole of them all for Tangled and it’s closely related to the one above. So, Rapunzel’s hair gets cut, and the magic is gone. Gothel turns back into an old hag in a nanosecond, but Eugene’s hand doesn’t split back in half even though it was the same magic that fixed him up.
What’s more, her hair turns to brown. All her hair. That just doesn’t make sense. In the first few minutes of the movie we see Gothel cutting a small strand of hair and immediately the golden color drains away, which is why she decides to kidnap the girl.
That scene, along with this one, doesn’t make sense from a logical standpoint. The magical powers of her hair should come from her roots, which means that the remaining hair on her head should have stayed blonde. Alas, she turns into a brunette that her parents somehow recognize many years after getting kidnapped. That’s a wrap on the 11 glaring plot holes in Disney’s Tangled.
