User blog comment:694244/PE Proposal - Gaston LeGume (2017)/@comment-39032584-20190705014313

No. I recall that he came off maybe a little worse than he did in the original film, but most of his villainy is still rather average. Essentially, all he really tries to do is kill the Beast (even if he does take some obvious pleasure in it), try to leave a man for dead then paint him as insane, and force a woman into marriage. The "leaving the villagers to fend for themselves" part isn't that bad at all since it's not like the castle servants weren't even threatening to use lethal force towards them, and killing the beast was his main priority, so it makes perfect sense he'd try to sneak by the commotion. Also, while his friendship with LaFou isn't genuine enough to be a true positive or mitigating quality, simply threatening him not to rat him out and using him as a shield against, again, what I'm pretty sure was non-lethal force, aren't especially heinous actions, even for a Disney movie.

In short, yes, he does undergo what is perhaps a slight case of "adaptational villainy", but it's nowhere near the extent of what they did more recently with Jafar, and ultimately, most of his actions are either not that bad, or are only bad in a typical Disney-villain vein of being willing to kill or leave people to die for personal gain. However, little, if any of it, is unusual or noticeably worse than what most Disney villains attempt on at least a couple of individuals. The proposal was well-written and organized though, so good job!