Tangled - How Did the Tear Work? Random Theory

Note: Serious spoilers for Tangled's ending. I'm not even joking here. Just... all the spoilers.

In Tangled, the only magic seems to be magical healing hair. But at the end Rapunzel revives Flynn by a tear...

So, how does that even work?

One idea often expressed is that the tear was the drop of sunlight from the start of the movie, but I don't like that theory. The reason is because at the start, the drop of sunlight was yellow, whereas the tear that revives Eugene is clear.

Not that sunlight comes down in drops anyway. It's either particles or waves.

But if it isn't the drop of sunlight, what could it be?

The best way to consider this is by looking at magic. The magic in Tangled seems to be almost a form of energy that is passed from one living being to another. Exactly how this happens I'm not quite sure yet, but any way you go about it, when Rapunzel's hair gets cut off, there's a load of magical energy in her body looking for an outlet, since it can't travel down her hair follicles any more. The closest place that the energy could be used is in the eyes, and as she cried, she used the energy to revive Flynn. After all, it's never stated that she couldn't revive with her hair, just that she only used it for age reversal and healing.

I wonder what would have happened if she hadn't used the tear to revive Flynn though? Reasonably, you could say that it could have overloaded somewhere in her body unless she could let it out some other way.

Considering that... I'm out. Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate! I'll try to think of a more Christmas related topic for next week.

Kat.