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Plumette is Lumiere's girlfriend in Beauty and the Beast. She is a feather duster that resembles a white peacock She is voiced by Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

Their personalities are quite different that in the animation, instead of simply flirting with Lumiere and trying to get jealous, they become devoted to each other. Additionally, its feather-like appearance is stylized to resemble a peacock, allowing it to levitate and giving it the figure of a swan.

Role in Film[]

Plumette is one of the castle residents who lived with the Prince, who was selfish and cruel. Later, when the Prince transforms into the beast as punishment, Plumette and all the other residents are transformed into objects, by the Enchantress throughout the castle.

Plumette in the form of an anthropomorphic feather duster appears helping clean Belle's room, and during a relationship with Lumiere, explains that he has burned her once. Plumette and the other objects tell the Beast to talk to Belle kindly, to which Belle refuses to accept the Beast's offer because he locked her in the tower just as the Beast leaves in anger and uses the Enchanted Mirror to show her Pretty. Later, Plumette and the other plumers participate during the musical number "Be Our Guest", satisfying Belle during dinner.

Plumette and the others participate in the musical number "Days in the Sun" and after the sequence, it is discovered that after the last petal of the Rose falls, the Prince will remain a Beast forever and all the servants of the castle will be killed. They will turn into inanimate objects. Plumette and the other objects sing during the subsequent participation in "Something There", focused on the relationship between Beauty and the Beast.

Later, Plumette and the other servants prepare a formal suit for the Beast who is going to have a dance with Belle, when the two begin a romantic relationship. As Belle leaves the castle to save her father Maurice, Plumette, Lumiere, Cogsworth and Mrs. Potts are worried about Belle's plans to find her father just as everyone leaves sadly, while the Beast sings the musical number "Evermore."

When Gaston arrives with the angry mob to kill the Beast, Plumette joins the battle and fights Gaston and his villagers. After the battle stops, the last petal falls and Plumette transforms into her inanimate form like the rest of the residents.

But finally when Agathe the Enchantress uses her magic to restore the Enchanted Rose, Plumette transforms back into her human form along with the other servants of the castle. Plumette and Lumiere greet each other with a kiss that causes the latter's head to catch on fire and she immediately puts it out. Plumette and the other castle servants dance together in the ballroom during the reprise of the musical number "Beauty and the Beast."

Trivia[]

  • In the animated version, her name was Fifi. She has many different names throughout the media. (Marie, Babette, to name a few)
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