All of the Other Reindeer: Regarded as odd by the other townspeople for her love of reading and for being the daydreamer that she is; Belle herself has a hard time finding someone other than her father to befriend.
Ascended Fangirl: Belle reads romantic adventure stories about far-off places and magic spells while wishing for adventure in the great wide somewhere.
Badass Damsel: When the wolves came after her, she beat a wolf off her horse with just one swing of a stick, and tried to fight back before the Beast rescued her.
Denied Food as Punishment: "If she doesn't eat with me, then she doesn't eat at all!" There is actually very little effort put into enforcing that proclamation.
I Am Song: More like a 'She Is' Song, since it's mostly sung by the townspeople.
I'm Not Hungry: Belle refuses to eat dinner with the Beast (at first), with these exact words.
Impossibly Low Neckline: Belle's yellow ball gown appears like this is some shots (specifically close-ups during the West Wing Balcony scene).
Indifferent Beauty: She's considered the most beautiful girl in town, but she doesn't care.
Informed Attractiveness: While certainly pretty, she's described as an unparalleled beauty in the movie, which also depicts almost every other woman as busty and very attractive, particularly the Three Bimbettes. Of course, Belle's beauty may be due to her seeming unattainable, unlike most of the other women who absolutely swoon over Gaston. In addition, Belle designed to be as taller and more slender, thus giving her a different kind of beauty than the other women.
Also, she shines only because of her "pure" natural beauty, not even trying to play it up the slightest (before she starts dressing elegant while in the castle, at least), in contrast to all of the young women appearing in the movie. Even the only other innocent appearing girl in the town - the one with almost no speaking lines, asked in the song "Belle" how is her family - is at least more fashionably dressed than our heroines, while the rest - the Bimbettes, Babette, the woman teasing the baker - use a heavy dose of sex-appeal too.
In Harm's Way: Belle craves adventure, because her hometown is safe and happy and boring.
Love Epiphany: "There's Something There" has a moment where she realizes she is having feelings for Beast.
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Well, a bungling inventor's beautiful daughter. Unusual for the trope, she's far more loyal to her father than anyone else but considering the other villagers, can you blame her?
Pretty in Mink: Belle's wine-colored winter cape with white fur trim. In The Enchanted Christmas, she is also seen in a scarlet jacket with white fur trim, and later a matching cape and skirt for when she goes out into the woods. They seem to like putting her in furs.
She Cleans Up Nicely: She was beautiful in her plain clothes, and the time spent in the castle shows her in various elegant dresses. The ballroom scene takes it Up to Eleven.
Silk Hiding Steel: Belle is strong willed, and won't put up with Beast's tantrums. She breaks her word to stay, but when Beast rescues her from a pack of wolves, she still snaps back at Beast when he tries to just shout her down. Later, her gentle side even helps bring out Beast's.
Stockholm Syndrome: Beautifully averted in her relationship with Beast. At the beginning, when he mistreats her, she is quick to retort and very clearly uncowed by his behaviour. It is only when he starts treating her well and continues to do so for what appears to be quite a while that Belle begins to fall for him, and even then she only admits it after he frees her.
Sympathy for the Devil: Towards Beast. Justified as 'love for a monsterous beast' was the cure.
Take Me Instead: Belle says this to Beast when she wants to be in her father's place, and the Beast accepts her offer. So basically, her captivity is her word of honor.
Unflinching Walk: Belle in a somewhat comedic example, where she's able to thread her way through town on what appears to be a market day, effortlessly blocking falling water with a hanging sign as she passes under it, all the while reading a book.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Belle is most definitely a dreamer who dreams of a fairytale romance and adventure. She often lives her fantasies and dreams through reading, literature or novels.
Anti-Hero: He starts as rude, violent and annoyingly abusive towards Belle. His rudeness however starts to vanish once he rescued Belle from the wolves. From here on in he becomes more gently.
Back from the Dead: Gaston's knife wound actually did mortally wound Beast at the end, but luckily reversing the spell revived him as well as making him human again. Or maybe it's Only Mostly Dead, with The Power of Love simply resolving the balance.
Badass: Who else can handle a pack of hungry wolves and get away with only a scratch?
Meaningful Name: Depending on the context, "Adam" means either "man" or "mankind" in Hebrew.
Beautiful All Along: Although when he changed back, that wasn't good enough for Belle, and she had to see into his eyes that he was the same person she fell in love with.
Being Evil Sucks: One of the many pieces of his angst is that he really doesn't want to be a bad guy, but he's made some poor choices and is constantly tortured by them.
Character Development: He's all about character development; in fact you can tell which mid-quel takes place when, based off how much of a jerk the Beast is at the time.
Desperately Craves Affection: Underneath it all he really does, having been denied human contact for years. It even comes up in "Something There" where he's thrilled that Belle was able to touch his hands without apprehension.
Disney Death: Possibly justified because he was under a magical spell and Belle reversed it.
Family Unfriendly Violence: The Beast is on the receiving end of this several times (being one of the few Disney characters to actually bleed). He's noticeably cut up and bloody after the fight with the wolves, takes Gaston's arrow to the shoulder, and has a large bleeding wound on his side after Gaston stabs him.
Feet First Introduction: The Beast remains in silhouette until the dungeon scene, when Belle asks him to come into the light. This trope then occurs (with a brief cutaway to Belle's face up close and horrified).
Get It Over With: This is the Beast's reaction to Gaston attempting to kill him, when he thinks Belle has left him forever.
Get Out: The Beast to Belle after she ventures into the West Wing. And he gives a much colder delivery to Gaston after utterly destroying him and revealing him as the coward he truly is in the finale.
Hidden Depths: Yes, the Beast is a jerk; however he is also brave, cunning, and determined. The castle staff even state that he really isn't that bad once you get to know him, he's just angry and very, very depressed.
He's also a little bit of a Closet Geek, greatly enjoying Shakespeare and classical music.
Hybrid Monster/Mix-and-Match Critter: The beast has the mane of a lion, the beard and head of a buffalo, the brows of a gorilla, the eyes of a human, the tusks of a wild boar, the body of a bear, and the hind legs and tail of a wolf.
Large Ham: He has his moments every time he gets angry.
Leitmotif: The very first notes of the prologue are heard several times as the Beast's theme, and take on a more majestic-sounding tone during his transformation back to the Prince.
No Badass to His Valet: Belle and the Beast's relationship develops into this at first. Out of a whole castle full of servants who alternately cringe in terror of his rages, and try to bring him up like he's still a child, Belle is the only one who talks to him like an equal.
Tsundere: According to Belle: "There's something sweet, and almost kind, though he was mean and he was coarse and unrefined!....But now he's dear and so...unsure...."
Walking Shirtless Scene: Everything he wears initially is a pair of pants and a cape before start wearing a white shirt.
Windows to the Soul: A variation. We get several shots of Beast's eyes. And when he tears up the picture of his human face, his eyes are largely undamaged. After he turns back into a human, Belle doesn't actually care about that. She isn't convinced it's him until she looks into his eyes. The Beast's eyes were almost as carefully designed as the rest of his body, in order to give the impression that he was a man trapped in the body of a monster.
Abomination Accusation Attack: Gaston doesn't believe that the Beast even exists. When Belle proves him wrong, he changes his position to accusing him of eating children - never mind that the Beast has been around for a long time and the only person who had been missing was Belle herself! Or that the villagers believed Gaston over Belle even though Gaston was proven wrong immediately beforehand.
Ax Crazy: During the final showdown with the Beast. Although it's implied he was pretty messed up to start with.
Backstab Backfire: Gaston is spared by the Beast, and then stabs him in the back before falling off the ledge. However, production materials indicated that his actions were originally intended to be closer to Taking You with Me.
Badass: He's a hunter who shoots endless amounts of guns and weapons.
Bad Boss: Gaston is a warped variation. Even though he is shown to be a complete jerk in the village, and makes no effort to hide it going by his villain song, the villagers actually genuinely love him and don't follow him out of fear.
Book Dumb: "How can you read this? There's no pictures!
Bullying a Dragon: In his arrogance he attacks the Beast mano a mano while viciously taunting him. He seems to be winning handily at first, but once the Beast decides to actually fight back, Gaston is hopelessly outclassed.
Chick Magnet: Every woman in the village (except Belle) is head over heels for him.
Covered in Mud: After Belle rejects Gaston's marriage proposal, Gaston falls over and lands in the pigs' mud hole.
Crazy Jealous Guy: Enough to rally a mob and storm the other guy's house with the intent to kill him.
Did You Actually Believe?: Gaston implements this perfectly when facing off against Beast, sneering and mocking him:
Gaston: Were you in love with her, Beast?! Did you honestly think she'd want you when she could have someone like me?!
Dirty Coward: Gaston resorts to dirty fighting in his battle against the Beast, mocking Beast while he was too depressed to defend himself, then pleading for his life when he finds himself at Beast's mercy. Beast finally lets him go... only for Gaston to stab him In the Back.
Drowning My Sorrows: Averted; Gaston is so angry at being rejected he refuses alcohol.
Egomaniac Hunter: The lodge has a wall of trophies as a monument to his ego.
Establishing Character Moment: In the span of thirty seconds from the beginning of his introduction, Gaston shows off being an egotistical macho hunter with eyes only for Belle and is determined to marry her, believing she'll fall for him without hesitation.
The Fighting Narcissist: Gaston is an unusually manly example. Then again, he does have a long ponytail and does a rather effeminate pose when he sings about his skills in decorating.
Many of the male townsfolk had ponytails, especially those who were in Gaston's mob. In this case, it wouldn't be much evidence at his narcissism.
Heteronormative Crusader: Spoofed - Gaston starts out as very heteronormative in many ways, including trying to reduce Belle to a traditional passive female gender role. When he finds out of about her relationship with the Beast, he takes refuge in something that looks like a cocktail of Those Wacky Nazis and Heteronormative Crusader mixed together in a shaker built from Fantastic Racism.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: He's first portrayed as a villainous goofy buffoon but not a serious threat. He then plans to lock Maurice in the asylum and leads a lynch mob to the Beast's castle. Besides this he also manages to stab the Beast in the back. If he (the Beast) wasn't under a spell he would have surely been dead for real.
Obfuscating Stupidity: He at first seems to be an arrogant, uneducated and unintellectual buffoon. The first hint that there's more to him than that comes as he skulks away from Belle's house after his unsuccessful proposal (complete with moody music to give us a clue). Then later on in the movie he turns out to be a manipulative, deceitful and cunning psychopath. However, he's still got some obvious stupidity, as no one with half a brain cell would challenge a seven-foot-tall chimera monster to fisticuffs over a woman who doesn't even remotely like him.
Took a Level in Jerkass: As his animator once put it: "He goes from a buffoon and a jerk to a murderer."
Ungrateful Bastard: After Beast spared his life he literally stabs him in the back, causing him to fall to his death.
Villain Song: "No... one's... ... slick as Gaston! No one's quick as Gaston! No one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston!"
Villain with Good Publicity: He's a controlling and arrogant egomaniac but he's so charismatic that the people love him, to the extent that in his Villain Song his vices are spun into virtues: "In a wrestling match nobody bites like Gaston."
Villainous Glutton: Gaston may not be fat, but he eats 5 dozen eggs for breakfast.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Gaston, arguably; he seems to think he's the hero, that Belle's a Damsel in Distress, that the Beast is just a mindless hulking monster...
Xanatos Speed Chess: Gaston gets shades in the second half of the film. Belle refuses to marry him? Use Maurice's rantings to declare him insane and blackmail her. She proves Maurice was telling the truth? Rally the town to kill the Beast now that you know Belle loves him.
Gaston: Belle, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you had feelings for this monster. Belle: He's no monster, Gaston. You are!
Maurice
Voiced by: Rex Everhart
Adorkable: Just look at that face after a hunk of wood clonks him when it's thrown from his chopping machine and say with a straight face you don't go, "Awww..!"
Butt Monkey: His inventions misfire, he gets lost in the woods, he gets captured by a beast, his daughter takes his place, his village tries to lock him up in the nuthouse; this guy gets a raw deal.
Butt Monkey/Iron Butt Monkey: No matter what kind of abuse Gaston sends his way he's never worse for the wear.
Extreme Doormat: No matter how much Gaston treats him like crap, LeFou just continues to take everything Gaston dishes to him, including getting assaulted by him.
Meaningful Name: "LeFou" is a phonetic pun on "the fool" (the actual translation from French to English is closer to The Madman, the Insane, The Mad, or Insanity).
Sidekick: To Gaston. And even though he's an idiot and does have a mean streak, it's easy to feel a bit sorry for him when he's left out in the snow and slapped around by Gaston.
Voiced by: Bradley Pierce (first film), Haley Joel Osment (second film), Gregory Grudt (Belle's Magical World), Tress MacNeille (4 episodes of House of Mouse), Nikita Hopkins (1 episode of House of Mouse)
Ambiguously Gay: A lot of people assume this about Lumiere, but the eccentricities can be written off by virtue of the French accent (Plus, he's always flirting with the female feather duster).
Ambiguously Gay: Cogsworth is involved in several questionable incidents, including a rather awkward moment with Maurice. And ever since David Ogden Stiers (the voice of Cogsworth) came out of the closet the effect has only amplified.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's a Butt Monkey only just below LeFou and Maurice in terms of slapstick, but he does get his own badass moment against LeFou when the latter tries to melt Lumiere.
