This is why the idiotic "feminazi" slant added by Calvert's team was pointless. Yum-Yum is already quite a leader and outside of the normal conventions of princesses in films. She saves Tack, goes on the journey to the Witch, and calls on the brigands.
Come to think of it, "Thief" breaks a lot of rules in terms of characters. Whenever the egos of Zig-Zag and Mighty One-Eye are going over the top the film basically mocks them. Phido just rolls his eyes at Zig-Zag when he's attention whoring to him. Mighty One-Eye has the long drawn-out speech while the one survivor is getting away. King Nod acts a little senile, but it's hinted that he was probably once a great fighter (the original dream scene with him punching the air).
Tack is sort of a reluctant hero, but he's always doing what's good for everyone else. Peaceful and calm, too - this is why I'm glad the fight was cut out between Zig-Zag stepping on a tack and him being carried off (it's in the script only). As Yum-Yum says, he's resourceful. He immediately goes to work breaking out of his cell, immediately ties up Roofless's shoes, and goes on a chase just for a shoe.
The thief? He's the best example of obsession in the film. It doesn't matter how many times he has to attempt to do so, he'll get the gold or jewels. Seems like a lot like how Richard Williams would allow things to be re-done over and over again until it was right. Yeah, it's impractical, but that's obsession.
Also, I went through The Princess and the Cobbler and that WIP again... all the vocal stuff they added for Zig-Zag is laughably bad. They recycled his laugh from the card shot twice in a row at one place. The one line of dialogue added ("What, cobbler?") is a horrible impression of Vincent Price. At times, I hated how squeaky Yum-Yum's voice was (Bobbi Page redubbed all of her for the Princess cut, right?) while Hilary Pritchard's voice was more intelligent. For those familiar with MST3K, the narration and new audio dubs are as bad as the narration for The Creeping Terror. Yes, we need to know that Tack is cobbling in his sleep since it's not obvious enough while we're looking at him...