History Characters / BeautyAndTheBeast2017

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may have always agreed on Gaston about everything, but even he's uncomfortable about [[spoiler:Gaston leaving Maurice to die in the forest]]. Later, his conscience is even more alarmed when [[spoiler:Gaston whips up the angry mob, and has a line in the "Kill The Beast" song.]] Near the end of the film, when Gaston [[spoiler:uses [=LeFou=] as a human shield to save himself, he realizes Gaston's true ugly nature and renounces his ties to him]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may have always agreed on Gaston about everything, but even he's uncomfortable about [[spoiler:Gaston leaving Maurice to die in the forest]]. Near the end of the film, when Gaston [[spoiler:uses [=LeFou=] as a human shield to save himself, he realizes Gaston's true ugly nature and renounces his ties to him]].

* CollateralDamage: Everyone at the castle was cursed, even though the prince was the one to instigate it. Including two visiting guests, Madame de Garderobe and Cadenza, and Chip, a young child.
** This may possibly be subverted in this version, as the servants mention that they never intervened when the Beast's father began mistreating him, allowing him to become a self-centred brat. This could suggest they (or some of them, at least) were cursed to become household objects for [[BystanderSyndrome standing by and doing nothing]].

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: It’s heavily implied that the reason why his father hasn’t completely corrupted him into someone as self-absorbed as Gaston is because he misses his mother, who protected him from his father when he was young and died of the plague, giving his father the opportunity to raise him.

-->'''The Prince''': I … am not … a beast!

* AdaptationalJobChange: He was the maître d’ in the original; but this time, he actually serves as the first footman in this film, according to the novelization.

* AgeLift: He's played by the elderly Creator/IanMcKellen here, thus making Cogsworth an old man in his late 60’s and early 70’s while his original counterpart is somewhere in his mid 30’s to early 40’s. (See Mrs. Potts below).

* AdaptationalBadass: Mrs Potts is more active in the fighting than she was in the animated film — using her spout like a gun to shoot piping hot water at foes. She and Chip also gain the power to throw saucers at people.

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Tells Belle he will let Maurice go if she marries him. During the final battle, he furiously states that he will force Belle to marry him and use the Beast’s head as a wall decoration.

-->'''Gaston''': I don’t care!

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He's a vainglorious sociopath who has raven-black hair and wears a red coat and black boots

* {{Yandere}}: Even ''moreso'' than in the original. He relentlessly pursues Belle's hand in marriage and he’s willing to eliminate anyone that stands in the way between him and Belle, even attempting to kill both her father and the Beast.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Belle’s mother was a fairy in the original fairytale. In this film, she is a human.

[[folder:Henri Cogsworth]]

* MorphicResonance: Some of his carving reflects the wig (now white instead of auburn, like the original animated film) and epaulets of his human form, and said human form has Roman numerals on his buttons, like his clock markings, and an uneven mustache like his clock hands.

* AdaptationalVillainy: While Gaston in the original animated film is a narcisstic boor, he is significantly darker in this version, as he displays more of his sociopathic and manipulative nature. Examples like stalking Belle at the beginning of the film, [[spoiler:leaving Maurice to die in the forest and tying him up so he won't escape his fate]], getting him institutionalized in order to not only blackmail Belle into marrying him but also to cover his tracks of his [[spoiler:evil deed to Maurice]], using [[spoiler:[=LeFou=] as a human shield and then leaving him to die, and then attempting to murder the Beast without qualms.]] Luke Evans in an interview acknowledged that this version of Gaston is more evil than the animated counterpart.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/Cinderella2015 Cinderella's stepsisters]], as they all share similar garish fashion sense and shallow personalities. (Perhaps this village is where the stepmother and stepsisters resettled, and this trio and the mother are their descendants?)

* CoolLoser: Just like her animated counterpart, she is smart, nice, considered the most beautiful girl in the village by the townspeople and has the popular Gaston falling all over her, so by modern-day standards she would be very popular, but despite that is pretty much outcasted by most of her village due to her love of books and has trouble making friends outside her eccentric father.

* AdaptationalVillainy: While Gaston in the original animated film is a narcisstic boor, he is significantly darker in this version, as he displays more of his sociopathic and manipulative nature. Examples like stalking Belle at the beginning of the film, [[spoiler:leaving Maurice to die in the forest and tying him up so he won't escape his fate]], getting him institutionalized in order to not only blackmail Belle into marrying him but also to cover his tracks of his [[spoiler:evil deed to Maurice]], using [[spoiler:[=LeFou=] as a human shield and then leaving him to die, and then attempting to murder the Beast without qualms.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Despite being more FauxAffablyEvil than his animated counterpart, he is still as self-absorbed and arrogant as ever. Only this time, he is far more psychopathic than his animated counterpart, as he is shown leaving Maurice to die in the woods just because he refused to him marry Belle (though he was threatening to feed him to the wolves before then), used [=LeFou=]'s loyalty and feelings to save his own skin, later threatening to have him institutionalized just for protesting, and finally using him as a human shield before leaving him to die.

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* TheDarkChick: During the climax invasion, he is highly reluctant to participate and [[spoiler: switches sides]]. This leaves Clothilde to take his place as Gaston's right-hand man.

** This may possibly be subverted in this version, as the servants mention that they never intervened when the Beast's father began mistreating him, allowing him to become a self-centred brat. This could suggest they (or some of them, at least) were cursed to become household objects for standing by and doing nothing.

* AdaptationalJobChange: He was the maître d’ in the original; but this time, he actually serves as the first footman in this film, according to the novelization.

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DanStevens

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Henry Garett

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Maurice is an OverprotectiveDad who makes music boxes rather than a wacky inventor, which alters his role in the plot because he isn't initially seen as crazy by the townspeople. Gaston only comes up with the ploy of getting him institutionalized after [[spoiler:his previous ploy of leaving him to die in the enchanted forest fails and he is accused of attempted murder by Maurice.]]

* OverprotectiveDad: Maurice is very protective of Belle because he could not save her mother.

** Horribly subverted later during the battle against the castle servants, where Gaston [[spoiler:uses [=LeFou=] as a human shield before leaving him for dead, an act that even one of the servants is even horrified to witness.]]

* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Creator/IanMcKellen.

->'''Voiced by:''' Melissa "Meli G" Gedeón (Latin American Spanish dub), Natsumi Kon (Japanese dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Sergio Zaldívar (Latin American Spanish dub), Songha (Japanese dub)

* TenorBoy: Courtesy of Ewan McGregor.

* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Ian McKellen.

* AgeLift: He's played by the elderly Creator/IanMcKellen here, this making Cogsworth an old man in his late 60’s and early 70’s while his original counterpart is somewhere in his late 30’s and early 40’s. (See Mrs. Potts below).