Gaston

Gaston
Biographical Information
Full name	Gaston
Age	27
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Black
Hometown	Unnamed Village
Occupation	Soldier (formerly) Hunter (currently)
Nickname	Town Hero "Tall, Dark, Strong and Handsome Brute"
Relationship Information
Family	Unknown
Friends	LeFou (sidekick) Townspeople
Enemies	Belle (ex-crush) Beast (arch-nemesis)
Other Information
Talent(s)	Hunting, gloating over his abilities and strength, receiving adoration from women and praise from the rest of the town
Strengths	Archery, strength , manipulation, and sex appeal
Secrets
Weaknesses	Arrogance, Jealousy

Gaston is the main antagonist in Disney's 2017 Beauty and the Beast. He is portrayed by Luke Evans.

Gaston is strong and handsome, and is all too aware of this. He is hailed as a local hero, desired by many of the young women of his village (he is even described as “cute, dreamy and handsome”) but he is really boorish, uncultured and egotistical. However, despite these negative qualities, he is far from stupid or brainless as Belle claims.

Gaston is the absolute antithesis of Beast. Although Gaston is physically handsome, he is very psychopathic, atrocious, shallow, completely self-centered, not very bright, and thrives on attention. However, when his ego is bruised he becomes a very dangerous foe for Beast, Belle and Maurice.

However, in this film, Gaston will be portrayed as a former soldier prior to his career as a hunter due to a portrait of him standing over fallen soldiers in the tavern.

Gaston is a war hero on top of having good looks and hunting/fighting skills, which goes further in explaining why someone so obnoxious is so beloved and trusted by the townsfolk.

Gaston undergoes this with regards to his villainy, possibly to avoid his animated counterpart gets. In this version Gaston has been harassing Belle for quite some time when the action proper begins, to the point that she avoids him whenever she can, and the villagers' admiration of him is partially out of obligation to his war heroics. He snatches an alms cup from a beggar just to check his reflection in it before his first on-screen conversation with Belle, and in his second conversation tells her that she's doomed to become a beggar herself if she doesn't get married. Later, before he tries to have Maurice institutionalized, he tries to kill Maurice by tying him to a tree in the cold woods and letting him die of exposure at best, the wolves at worst.

It is also implied that this incarnation of Gaston will be more darker than the original.

Personality

Gaston is a rude, impatient, destructive, vain, egomaniacal, manipulative, narcissistic, and psychopathic hunter who will go to any length to get what he wants, even if it involves bribing or blackmailing others. He is very conservative, narrow-minded, and misogynistic to the extent that he disapproves of women reading because he regards ideas as dangerous to them, and believes that women's only purpose in life is to serve men.

Gaston is a well-loved man. That makes him extremely dangerous -- he has the entire town on his side. Gaston has excellent hunting skill, which makes him popular (especially the butchers). Gaston combines two common Disney villain characteristics -- foppishness and hunting. 

Because Gaston is very handsome and muscular, he is also well-respected in the village as he was able to rouse a mob to help him kill Beast. This shows that he is also vengeful, since he suspected that Belle (whom he wanted to marry) had feelings for Beast.

Despite Belle calling him "brainless", he is not stupid, as he can come up with clever plans to get what he wants. In spite of his intelligence, Gaston can be quite impulsive as shown when he tried to grope Belle.

Physical Appearance

Gaston is slender, extremely muscular, hairy-chested, black ponytailed hair, blue eyes, red polo shirt with gold collar, gold gloves, brown belt, black pants, heavy-action boots.

Role in Film

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