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. Gaston's view of women is extremely sexist even by standards of the time in which the film takes place, and while he appears charming to all of the other women of the village, such as Notably, at the start of the film and musical play, Gaston did not seem truly evil. He mainly carried a quiver of arrows on his back and wore a cape during cold evenings and his final battle with the Beast.
He then successfully Though roughly even with his adversary, Gaston soon realizes that he cannot rely on brute strength alone to kill the Beast, and instead begins taunting him in order to infuriate him enough to let his guard down, pushing the final button by claiming that Belle could never love a monster and that she would always be his. She rejects him to his face and declares that she has an Agitated and aggressive as usual, Gaston tries to subdue his anger by going around the Kingdom and flaunting his greatness. Gaston returns, once again in search of Belle's love. Despite laying a deep stab on the Beast, Gaston would die alone that night; just as the Beast nearly succumbed to his own wounds, Belle confessed her love for him just before the last petal of the Gaston was one of the many villains to join the takeover in After his death, Gaston grew further villainous, as the circumstances of his death caused him to blame Belle for his death. His obsession turned him into a ruthless and traitorous villain, especially upon his discovery that Belle's love was not for him, but for the Beast.
This drive will blind him to the dangers of climbing a balcony, which overlooks a deep abyss, causing him to fall to his death.
After Jeffrey Katzenberg demanded a rewrite of the film, Gaston's characterization was altered significantly, being made into the town hero as well as the village's local hunter. Now that it's been 2 years since the live action movie and I've had time to watch both versions, I have to say I prefer both of them... Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Even so, Belle goes to the castle to deal with Gaston herself.
While it is not clear if he considers himself as a good person or not (like Ratcliffe and Frollo do), the villagers very much do, considering how popular he is with them (especially the Bimbette triplets), and seem unaware of his true nature (Gaston reprise in the original film notwithstanding), and this serves to fuel his already massive ego. He also wore a red tunic and black tights, alongside boots. However, this was edited out due to the dark nature of the scene. After Belle and Rumplestiltskin turn up in the Just like his animated counterpart, Gaston is well-liked and respected in the village for his previous war heroics against the Portuguese and aims to have Belle as his wife. In addition, Gaston, after Beast decided to be merciful and spare him, proceeded to run Beast through the back with his sword, with Beast, in turn, punching him off the balcony to his death. [Bridge] Nooo Oneee 2 2 3 4 2 2 0 0 [Verse 5] C shoots like Gaston G Makes those beauts like Gaston G7 C Then goes tromping around wearing boots like Gaston Am D I use antlers in all of my decorating G (Stop strumming) Oh, what a guy G C (Single down for these 2 chords) GASTON However, in the "Gaston" song, he at one point accurately used the word "expectorating" in reference to his skills at spitting ("expectorating" being a more fancy way of saying the term "spit").
With his obsession consuming him, Gaston became manipulative at this point; his speech to get the mob to kill the Beast in order to protect the village was nothing more than a ploy to get them to help him infiltrate the castle. He dirties her book for the second time and Later, during a snowstorm, Gaston is in the tavern sulking after being rejected and humiliated by Belle, so the villagers along with LeFou, When Belle and Maurice eventually return to the cottage, LeFou immediately informs Gaston, and he sets his plan into motion. His role is largely the same as in the film, although because of the songs (including the Gaston reprise) being cut from the comic, it is implied that only he, LeFou, and Monsieur D'Arque knew about the blackmail plan unlike the film where the other villagers were strongly implied to be in the know about the plan. As the villagers flee away in humiliation and defeat, Gaston heads over to the West Wing, where he finds the Beast sulking (as the latter lost his will to live after letting Belle go).
In an earlier version of the story, he was even going to commit suicide after killing the Beast as he knew that no matter what he did, Belle would never love him.
[Gaston:] And every last inch of me's covered with hair [Crowd:] No one hits like Gaston Matches wits like Gaston [Lefou:] In a spitting match, nobody spits like Gaston [Gaston:] I'm especially good at expectorating [Crowd:] Ten points for Gaston! Gaston – Josh Gad – Beauty and the Beast / (play A+ as x0232x) / [Intro] – fast 6 count / D A7 D A7 D A7 / [A] / Bm Bm Bm Bm Gosh, it disturbs me to see you Gaston, Looking so down in Overcome by this revelation of "sorcery," and believing that this Beast has put Belle under some sort of love trance, an angry Gaston snaps out by stealing the magic mirror and rallies the villagers into helping him kill the Beast, much to Belle and Maurice's horror. 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".
The villagers instantly laugh at this as they find Maurice to be insane (due to a spell cast by an enchantress that erases all the townsfolk's memories of the castle), but Gaston decides to tag along, seeing an opportunity to get Maurice's approval for Belle's hand in marriage.