Be Very Afraid

Be Very Afraid is the tenth episode of the season three of *Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure* and it is the fifty-second overall. It first aired on October 18, 2019 to 0.33 million viewers.

## Synopsis

When Corona is overcome by a new strain of rocks that induces fearful visions, Rapunzel teams up with Varian to put an end to the new threat.

## Plot

Cassandra is telling the Enchanted girl about her doubts about her destiny. The Enchanted girl assures Cassandra that she does have a destiny and tells her that is to destroy Rapunzel. Cassandra, shocked and scared at this news, begins to question it but red rocks (much like the Black Rocks just a different color) spike out of the ground and to Corona in which the Enchanted girl tells her that the moonstone responds to whatever Cassandra is feeling, even fear.

Meanwhile, back at Corona, the red rocks are causing ruckus and showing everyone their worst fears; Varian is seeing Quirin being in the amber again and having an angry mob lash out at him; Eugene’s hair has a "cowlick" in it: Attila sees his burned baked goods come alive and chase him; Maximus keeps on seeing criminals but is unable to chase after them and Lance sees a clown spider (much like the one from It). When asked about her fear, Rapunzel claims that she doesn’t have one. Varian, who has been studying the rocks ever since they appeared, finds out that the rocks show people their worst nightmare and they become literally petrified in terror if they stay scared for too long. Upon realizing this, Varian and Rapunzel decide to work together to get rid of the rocks, cutting off the first part of them by using one of Varian’s chemicals. While the two of them stop the rocks, Eugene and Lance throw a talent show to distract people from being scared.

In the underground tunnels, Varian reveals to Rapunzel that the chemical he's using is the same one that encased Quirin a year ago and his fear of having Corona hate him. Rapunzel assures him that he's not hated. Meanwhile, at the talent show, people are still being scared. Eugene decides they need to step it up and asks Lance to sing but Lance refuses due to his stage fright.

Rapunzel and Varian enter the Demanitus chamber, where Rapunzel was leading them, and pour the solution on the red rocks but find out that it doesn’t work on the red rocks. Spotting a single black rock at the top, the two of them start to head up. Meanwhile, Lance decides to face his fear, realizing that he's bigger than his fear.

Varian’s fears start to become the better of him. Rapunzel, who's been hiding her fear, finally admits that her fear is Cassandra coming and destroying Corona, although her greatest fear is losing Cassandra as a friend forever. Varian decides to go through with it.

While Varian is pouring the solution on the black rock, Rapunzel is able to feel Cassandra through the rocks and vice versa. Once the rocks are destroyed, Rapunzel congratulates Varian on facing his fear and later tells everyone about what he did, labeling him as a hero.

Cassandra, who felt Rapunzel through the rocks, becomes upset when the rocks are destroyed. The ghost girl uses this to tell her that if she doesn't destroy Rapunzel then Rapunzel will destroy Cassandra.

## Characters

#### Main

* Cassandra
* Princess Rapunzel
* Varian
* Eugene
* Lance Strongbow
* Pascal
* Ghostly Girl

#### Minor

* Montgomery "Uncle Monty"
* Maximus
* Ruddiger
* Quirin
* Feldspar
* Old Lady Crowley
* Keira and Catalina

## Elements

#### Magical Objects

* Magic Blonde Hair
* Moonstone Opal
* Black Rock Spikes
* Shadow Blade

## Continuity

* Lord Demanitus was mentioned for the first time, since inhabiting the body of Vigor the Visionary during the episode Lost and Found.

## Trivia

* The episode title is from a well-known saying to negative feelings of fright and terror *"Be afraid, be very afraid."*
* Lance is revealed to have coulrophobia, as well as the fear of singing publicly, on top of his already established arachnophobia. He overcomes his fear of singing by the end of the episode, but his other two phobias are left up to interpretation.

## Goofs

* When Varian and Rapunzel at Demanitus' chamber, she touches the red rocks. Rapunzel's eyes are brown in that scene instead of green also Rapunzel's eyes are brown when Varian asked her to give him a lift and when she tells him about her fear.
	+ Plus, when Rapunzel shows Varian a drawing of him being terrified, one of her eyes are brown.
* Varian is scared of climbing the Demanitus Device during the episode but his solo song Let Me Make You Proud, he was climbing a mountain without being scared.
* When Varian is at home, entering Corona to search for Ruddiger, when he climbs the Demanitus Device, pouring his solution on a black rock and when he jumps down from the Demanitus Device, he isn't shown to be wearing his backpack.
* When Varian talks to Rapunzel and Eugene about the new rocks that can bring everyone's fears to life, Varian is missing his two hair strands that sticks out.

## References

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