History Characters / BeautyandtheBeast

* MeaningfulName: The servant’s names are related to the objects they’ve been turned into.

* MeaningfulName: His name relates to cogs, which are machinery found in a clock.

* ExplosiveBreeder: Despite Chip being her only child given much attention, it's shown in one scene where she's tucking Chip in for bed into the cupboard that he has a large number of brothers and sisters sired by her also turned into cups. In a ComicBookAdaptation, Chip is stated to be Mrs. Potts' twelfth child.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: "Mama, there's a girl in the castle!"

* WithFriendsLikeThese: He treats his friend Lefou terribly.

* SociopathicSoldier: While it wouldn't be until the remake that this was explicit, there are some implications in the original film that Gaston had some experience as a soldier such as his coat he wears at his wedding looking like it belongs to a soldier's uniform, declaring that the mob would lay siege to the Beast's castle, and his order to the mob to take what ever booty he can find suggests he is very much familiar with warfare.

* SociopathicSoldier: While it wouldn't be until the remake that this was explicit, there are some implications in the original film that Gaston had some experience as a soldier such as his coat he wears at his wedding looking like it belongs to a soldier's uniform and his order to the mob to take what ever booty he can find suggests he is very much familiar with the concept of spoils of war.

* SociopathicSoldier: While it wouldn't be until the remake that is was explicit, there are some implications in the original film that Gaston had some experience as a soldier such as his coat he wears at his wedding looking like it belongs to a soldier's uniform and his order to the mob to take what ever booty he can find suggests he is very much familiar with the concept of spoils of war.

* ShadowArchetype: It's subtle at first, but Gaston acts exactly as spoiled, selfish and rude as the Beast did before his curse. By the end of the film Gaston's gained the same kind of awful temper Adam had, and unlike Adam he never learned how to control his own selfish desires. G

* NoSocialSkills: Obviously him spending years isolated in a castle did no good for his social skills. Since he's so insecure and repulsed with his own beastly appearance, it played a huge influence on how he treated people who would show up to his castle uninvited.

* CoolLoser: She is an intelligent and kind woman who is universally considered the most beautiful in the village and has the popular Gaston falling all over her. Despite that, she is pretty much outcast by most of her village due to her "oddness" (love of books) and has trouble making friends outside her eccentric father.

* JerkassHasAPoint: He comes off as a bozo when he tells the others to stop being nice to Maurice when he stumbles in, and to kick him back out into the cold blizzard. However, as all the others seemed to have forgotten, being stuck in a cold blizzard is ''much'' better than the alternative: pissing off The Beast.

* ReallyGetsAround: It's implied in the stage version. He and Babette love making each other jealous. Simone, Michelle, Veronique... It's PlayedForLaughs.

* ClingyJealousGirl: In "Belle's Magical World", Fifi gets angry when she wrongfully assumes Lumiere was planning a date with Belle and goes to sabotage it. Unknown to her, he was actually getting Belle's help to set up a date with Fifi herself, making her get an OhCrap realization.

%%* InnocentSoprano: Courtesy of Kimmy Robertson.

* SuddenNameChange: She's had three different names over the years. The stage musical calls her Babette, the animated sequel ''Belle's Magical World'' calls her Fifi, and the [[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 live-action movie]] calls her Plumette and gives her a more birdlike design.

* AscendedExtra: Like Babette, she's a much more prominent character in the stage musical, and is even given a bit of backstory (she was a famous opera singer whose career abruptly ended after the curse).

** He frequently abuses [=LeFou=], punching him several times or dropping very heavy objects on him, or making him wait for Belle in the cold and snow without any concern for his safety, though [=LeFou=] never seems to mind and continues to adore him.

* BadBoss: Gaston is a warped variation. Even though he is shown to be a high-grade jerk in the village, and makes no effort to hide it going by his VillainSong, the villagers genuinely love him and don't follow him out of fear. This is part of the movie's message about not relying too much on outward appearances; Gaston's an oafish thug, but he's a ''handsome'' oafish thug, and the villagers end up focusing so much on the former that they miss the latter.

* Foil: To Belle. He's completely defined by his relationship to Gaston, not too bright, and has no real will of his own. Belle on the other hand never takes any of Gaston's shit, is very intelligent, and is very much her own independent woman.

* {{Gonk}}: He looks rather funky, at least in the movie, with his GagNose and gap-toothed mouth making him look a lot more "cartoony" than any of the other human characters. Averted in most stage productions though, where he merely has to be visibly smaller than Gaston.

* UndyingLoyalty: While far from being a sympathetic character, he's a true friend to Gaston.

* RedHotMasculinity: The [[TestosteronePoisoning exaggeratedly manly]] Gaston wears a deep red costume in contrast to the earth tones of the rest of the village and Belle's TrueBlueFemininity dress.

* SpoiledBrat: Gaston is an interesting example of this because he was inadvertently spoiled by the villagers of the town, who venerated him for his hunting skills and beauty. These compliments inflated his ego by the tenfolds and it reached a point where he can't comprehend why Belle would keep rejecting his advances.

* HypocriticalHumor: When [=LeFou=] insults Belle's father, Gaston laughs along with him. Then, after Belle reprimands them for insulting her father, Gaston tries to scold [=LeFou=] for insulting him, when he was doing the same thing moments earlier.

* InsufferableImbecile: Belle describes Gaston as being "Boorish, Brainless...", and she's quite on the money, with Gaston being illiterate and airheaded while also being arrogant, sexist, and rude.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: It's more of an obsessive love than true love, but after Belle opens the door he has her pinned against and sends him flying headfirst into a large mud puddle, a furious and humiliated Gaston [[BigBadSlippage starts doing truly awful things in the name of making Belle his wife]], which includes rallying a mob and storming the other guy's house with the intent to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill him after realizing that Belle prefers this "monster" over him]] and even feels that ''[[GreenEyedMonster Gaston]]'' is the real monster.

* ARealManIsAKiller: Implied. Gaston is an avid hunter and cruelly taunts the Beast for not fighting back against him.

* AntiIntellectualism: At first, he [[StrawMisogynist disapproves of the thought of a woman reading, and therefore thinking]]... but later, it seems he opposes the idea of ''anybody'' thinking, agreeing with [=LeFou=] deeming it a "dangerous pastime" even for men. However, [[{{Hypocrite}} he himself seems to have some learning]], as covered in HiddenDepths.

* UnnamedParent: Her first name is never brought up.

'''Maurice''': My daughter odd? Where'd you get an idea like that?\\
'''Belle''': I don't know? It's just, people talk.

* IRejectYourReality: He refuses to believe any of Belle's words. He even lampshades this when she says that Belle is as "crazy as the old man".

* AintTooProudToBeg: No one begs for his life like Gaston! Despite his [[{{BullyingTheDragon}} goading the Beast to fight him,]] once the Beast gains his HeroicSecondWind and holds Gaston over the castle rooftop Gaston pathetically begs The Beast to not hurt him saying he'll do anything The Beast wants.