Gaston LeGume

""Were you in love with her, Beast? Did you honestly think she'd want you when she had someone like me?""

- ~Gaston

Gaston is the main villain of the story Beauty and the Beast. He is voiced by Richard White in the Disney adaptation of the story. He is depicted as narcissistic, egomaniacal, and rude, and is willing to go any length to get what he wants.

In the Story
At the beginning of the story, he tries to propose marriage to Belle, who refuses. Depressed and upset, we find him later at a bar, where the song Gaston is sung in an attempt by Lefou to cheer him up. It works, and Gaston begins to plot with Lefou on how to get Belle to marry him. Knowing that Belle cared deeply for her father Maurice, he planned to bribe the Monsieur D'Arque into locking him up in the asylum until Belle agreed to marry him. Gaston knows that this act will rouse little suspicion because Maurice already seemed to be insane to the rest of the town, raving about how a monstrous beast kidnapped his daughter Belle. Even when D'Arque comes to take her father, Belle refuses, and proves that the beast indeed does exist by causing him to appear on the magic mirror that the Beast gives her. Gaston, suspecting that she has feelings for the Beast, gathers up a mob to lay siege to the Beast's castle. Gaston himself finds the Beast, and beats him down, taunting him, while the Beast refuses to fight back. When Belle appears, however, the Beast begins to fight, and is about to kill Gaston, but doesn't, because he had become more human through his love for Belle. He throws Gaston aside, telling him to get out. Just before he can confront Belle, Gaston jumps onto the Beast and stabs him with a dagger, but loses his footing and falls off the castle to his death.

Personality
As stated earlier, Gaston is a rude, egomaniacal narcissist who will go any length to get what he wants, even if it involves bribes or blackmail. He is also well respected in the village- he is able to rouse a mob whose intent is to kill the Beast. This goes to show that he is also very vengeful, since he suspected that Belle, whom he wanted to marry, had feelings for the Beast.

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