 When we were putting it together and trying to figure out who Flynn Rider was in this movie , we looked at a bunch of different sources ... When you look back at some of the past Disney princes or something , a lot of them are kind of soft and they 're not like people we think are that cool , I guess . They 're good guys , so I guess we sort of took that to the other extreme . We like cocky , arrogant sort of characters , and I think there were people in our building that were a little worried because we were up in the story room and they were hearing these rumours of , well , it 's not a prince , it 's a thief , and he 's kind of a ladies ' man and he 's very arrogant ... But , I think the trick is when you 're creating a character like that , if you have this cocky character , you have to hit him over the head with a frying pan a dozen times or something , and he needs to kind of pay for being that way . Those characters , if they 're done right , can be so funny . On the flip side , if they 're not done right , they can be really off putting . 
