| “ | She's the one! The lucky girl I'm going to marry! The most beautiful girl in town! That makes her the best! And don't I deserve the best? | „ |
| ~ Gaston ogling Belle and venting to LeFou. |
| “ | The Beast will make off with your children. He'll come after them in the night. We're not safe until his head is mounted on my wall. I say we kill the Beast! | „ |
| ~ Gaston convincing the town to help him murder the Beast. |
| “ | Were you in love with her, Beast? Did you really think she'd want you, when she had someone like me? It's over, Beast! Belle is mine! | „ |
| ~ Gaston's most famous quote, stating his intent to marry Belle during his fight with the Beast. |
Gaston LeGume is the main antagonist of Disney's 30th full-length animated feature film Beauty and the Beast.
He’s a treacherous, chauvinistic, egotistical, deceptive and conceited hunter from Belle's village, who was after her hand in marriage by any means necessary (regardless what she thinks about his offer). He is Belle and the Beast's arch-nemesis.
He was voiced by Richard White.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- He constantly harasses Belle and tries to marry her, even though she makes it abundantly clear she not only is not remotely interested in his romantic pursues of her but rightfully looks down on him for having no genuine respect for her as a person and for being a misogynistic and illiterate narcissist who wants to ban women from reading and writing.
- He hypocritically scolded LeFou for making fun of Belle's father, even though Gaston makes fun of Belle's dad too.
- When he is humiliated after Belle's rejection, he furiously storms off, and he also vows to make Belle his wife regardless of her refusals and violently throws LeFou into the mud.
- Although Belle did that to him, he quite literally walked right into it, and she probably didn't even mean to.
- He bribed Monsieur D'Arque to take Maurice to the mental asylum for being supposedly insane in an attempt to further try to goad Belle into marrying him, so this would mean that he is blackmailing her by imprisoning an innocent senior.
- He incited the villagers to work together to storm the castle with the intention of murdering the Beast, just because Belle had feelings for him.
- He even manipulates the villagers into thinking that he cannot stand by as Belle and Maurice betray their own people by warning "the creature" to justify locking them away in their own cellar.
- He shoots an arrow into the Beast's backside, vandalizes the West Wing's back window, gives him two highly brutal kicks, and nearly pushes his skull in with a makeshift mace right in front of his beloved while she is begging him to show mercy to the Beast.
- He also taunts him about his kindness and tries to gaslight him into thinking Belle would never reciprocate his feelings for her.
- He stabs the Beast, despite the fact he showed mercy towards him by letting him go. This shows that he isn't honorable in the slightest.
- Because of this, the Beast briefly died of the wounds inflicted upon him by Gaston’s attack before being revived minutes later as a human.
- While he does have some comedic moments, his actions are still taken seriously.
- He cares nothing for Belle and only wants to marry her to justify his egocentrism.
- While he seems friendly to the townspeople, he doesn't care for them given how he only views them as a motivation to keep boasting about his own ego. This is proven when they were attacked by the servants, thanks to Lumiere and Cogsworth’s respective bravery and leadership, seemingly apathetic towards what happened to them.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- While him attempting to force Belle to marry and have children with him, as well as killing the Beast in front of Belle (his beloved) even after he spared his life is enough to pass the baseline and even with less resources, he still fails the heinous standards to Maestro Forte, an attempted mass murderer who tried to destroy the castle and attempted to murder Belle, the Beast, and all of their friends in order to ensure that a powerful curse would be permanent.
External Links[]
- Gaston LeGume on the Villains Wiki
- Gaston LeGume on the Disney Wiki
- Gaston LeGume on the VS Battles Wiki
- Gaston LeGume on the Base Breaking Character Wiki
