| Gaston LeGume | |
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| Series | Beauty And The Beast |
| Age | 25 |
| Birthday | April 14, 1996 |
| Sex | Male |
| Species | Human |
| Height | 8 ft 10 inches |
| Weight | 1000 lbs |
| Alignment | Neutral Evil |
| “ | "It's over, Beast! BELLE IS MINE!" | „ |
| ~ Gaston's most famous quote |
Gaston LeGume is the secret main antagonist of Disney's 1991 feature film Beauty And the Beast, as well as its 2017 remake. He is an arrogant and rude love rival and hunter who is the arch-nemesis of the Beast. He is also one of Belle's rivals.
Appearance[]
As noted throughout the film, Gaston possesses an athletic build, a double square chin, and a handsome appearance. He has icy blue eyes and his black hair is long and tied with a crimson band into a ponytail. He generally wears yellow hunting gloves, although he discards them by the midpoint, but wears them again towards the end of the film. Gaston also wears a red tunic and black tights, alongside black boots. He mainly carries a quiver of arrows on his back and sports a cape during cold evenings and his final battle with the Beast. He also has a lot of hair on his chest.
During the failed wedding attempt, Gaston wears a red tailcoat trimmed with gold fabric, a waistcoat, black ribbon tie, breeches, black boots, and white tights with rose socks with gray toes and heels (the right one has a hole where one of his toes are revealed).
As a child, Gaston's hair was slightly disheveled with its ends standing on top, although he retained the ponytail. In addition, he possessed freckles, and his outfit consisted of a shirt, pants, and elf-shoes.
Personality[]
Gaston is strong and handsome and exploits these traits to the fullest. While it is not clear if he considers himself as a good person or not (like Governor Ratcliffe and Claude Frollo do), the villagers very much do, considering how popular he is with them (especially the Bimbette triplets), and how they seem unaware of his true nature (Gaston reprise in the original film notwithstanding), and this serves to fuel his already massive ego. A narcissist who sees himself as superior to everyone around him, Gaston is proud, boorish, uncultured, greedy, short-tempered, bad-mannered, narcissistic, and sexist. He is also impulsive and arrogant, as evidenced by his setting up a wedding before he even proposed to Belle under the expectation that she'd approve of becoming his wife, thinking she was in love with him. Convinced that he is powerful enough to defeat the bigger and stronger Beast by himself, Gaston even taunts the Beast, wanting him to fight back as he wants to prove that he can kill him in a fair fight. However, his arrogance makes him underestimate his opponent and once he realizes his life is on the line, he may have to rely on desperate measures to survive. Despite this, he was not arrogant enough to believe there was no risk of being killed by the Beast, as he freely admits that fighting the Beast does have the likelihood that he or the other villagers might very likely die during "The Mob Song".
Trivia[]
- Gaston is ranked #11 in Top 30 Disney Villains.
- Originally, in his final battle with the Beast for Belle's love, Gaston was intended to say, "It's over, Beast! TIME TO DIE!", however, it was changed to make sure that Gaston's reason for his anger is clear and to the point. However, when he says, "BELLE IS MINE!", he still lip-syncs, "TIME TO DIE!", which possibly suggests the line was changed late in development.