Beauty and The Beast/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** It's become a popular theory that Belle's falling in love with the Beast is really just some form of Stockholm Syndrome.

** [[Confused Matthew]] has offered a truly compelling theory that the true monsters of this film are actually the Villagers. Gaston has to merely ''suggest'' that the Beast is evil and they immediately yell to "Kill the Beast!". Gaston goes between them in turn saying ''nothing'' while they invent reasons for the Beast to be evil and form into a mob. Its because of them that Gaston has any freedom to act the way he does. Unlike ''every'' other Disney film when the villain is revealed, they don't turn against the villain, they actually ''join'' him.

*** The fact that they willingly supported Gaston's plan to blackmail Belle into marrying him, despite his revealing enough of it to know how horrific of a plan it is, with absolutely no sign of fear, strongly supports that theory.

* [[Awesome Ego]]: Gaston was written to seem incredibly egotistical and self-absorbed. [[Misaimed Fandom|The viewers loved this.]]

* [[Love to Hate]]: Gaston.

* [[Memetic Badass]] / [[Memetic Mutation]]: No one [verb]s like Gaston -- this is even [[In-Universe]]. It's also lampshaded in the reprise in the musical.

** Even prior to [[YouTube]], this was a [[Running Gag]] in [[House of Mouse]]:

** "Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest!"

** "[[Punctuated for Emphasis|GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!]]"