Pascal and Maximus Figure Play Set features miniature figurines of both Pascal and Maximus in addition to Rapunzel, Flynn Rider and Mother Gothel. However, merchandise inspired by Maximus remains less common. The character's likeness has, however, been adapted into a plush toy. Pascal and Maximus Pascal and Maximus are a pair of fictional characters who first appear in Walt Disney Pictures' 50th animated feature film "Tangled" (2010) as supporting characters, and subsequently star in its short "Tangled Ever After "(2012), television film "" and television series "". Created by directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, both characters are voiced by American actor Frank
Mother Gothel Howard. However, in the Brothers Grimm's original fairy tale, Gothel is very much depicted as a typical witch-like character, an idea that was modified for the Disney film adaptation in favor of having Gothel's agelessness instead be "derive[d] ... from Rapunzel's hair." Seeking inspiration for Gothel and Rapunzel's "bizarre" relationship, Greno and Howard conducted a series of interviews with several female Disney employees, asking them to list qualities in their mothers that "they found annoying and cloying or restricting", specifically "the things that their ["sic"]" "mothers would do that made them feel trapped or made them feel smothered" in order