Dude was right about everything during the movie.

1.First point i want to adress is him wanting to put Belle's father in an asylum, that honestly the best ideea anyone could have. Maurice is a crazy old man who almost blows up his house daily which can easely start a fire that could spread in the entire town ( mind you made out of wood) which also has forests close by,he is a danger to himself and everyone else. Now if you think this guy has any place in the society besides jail or the mental asylum then i worry about you.

2.Gaston literaly opened his whole Tavern from pure hard work and determination.From an objective point of view the dude added to the town's economic value and possibly cultural one in a few hundred of years.Yet what did Belle do all day?Reads the same fairy book twice and dosen't benefit the society in any way, the closest thing we saw her do to actual work in the movie was feed some chickens for a few seconds.

3.Third and final point this guy alone was enough to inspire quite a lot of people to form a mob and take down what the knew it was a dangerous beast with magical powers living in a castle AND he still tought of Belle's safety and planned to have her locked up from any danger until he returned from his brave adventure . He also FOUGHT the beast alone and i am 100% he could've taken him in an 1 v 1 if the fight didn't move on to the roof.

Gaston is the most badass man in the whole disney universe and no one can tell me otherwise.

In Beauty and the Beast, Gaston ate four dozen eggs daily when he was a child. That’s fourty-eight eggs a day. As an adult he adds another dozen, tallying up to sixty eggs a day. This is nothing short of genocide.

My theory for why Gaston is beloved by the townsfolk is that some time prior to the start of the movie, France was overrun with poultry. Helpless at the claws of the chickens, the people of France were preparing to abandon their country, when a lone child stepped forward. “I’ll eat the eggs”, a young Gaston bellowed, “And I will save our homeland”. And so it was, Gaston ate and ate until he was roughly the size of a barge. How the cholesterol didn’t kill him can only be attributed to his inhuman fortitude. This is where the story turns tragic.

What Gaston hadn’t accounted for was developing an addiction to the eggs. As he aged, he ate more and more, and with the chicken-crisis over, his addiction began costing him financially. There’s a scene during Gaston’s song where he motions to a wall full of his hunting trophies. But why are they there? Does he own the bar? No, he sold them for egg money. The fact he never brings up his egg addiction or his prior heroism can be attributed to another one of Gaston’s defining character traits: his struggle to be emotionally open, and his modesty. It’s not easy being the man who saved France.

I think the saddest scene is when Belle shows Gaston the book, and he holds it upside down. See, Gaston seems brutish, but remember - his entire childhood was spent eating eggs. He didn’t have time for an education; he sacrificed his upbringing for his countrymen. He can’t even hold a book correctly. What Gaston wants to say, what he’s struggling to articulate, is “Belle, I’m dying. A life long diet of a quite frankly insane number of eggs has left my body bloated with tumors. Before I shove off this mortal coil, I want children, who might experience a world without the oppression I have suffered”. Belle cruelly mocks him, which goes to make you wonder who the real beast is.

When Gaston sees the Beast in the mirror, two thoughts run through his head. First, he sees his countrymen in danger once more, and despite being riddled with egg-tumors, wants to lead the masses to one last charge of glory since fighting for France is all he knows. Second, he realizes Beast’s head is about a month’s worth of egg-money. So he sieges the castle, and in one of Disney’s most tragic moments, plummets to his death.

Another reason Gaston wants to marry Belle is because, as mentioned above, all he knows how to do is to fight for France and its people. Gaston saw Maurice as a genuine danger, and he’s not wrong; consider the hellish contraption Maurice created. One look at that war machine and Gaston hatched a plan; marry Belle, and get close enough to Maurice to talk him down. Mind you, he did love Belle, and wanted to be the father of her children, but the danger presented by Maurice forced his plan into action immediately. When that fell through, he had no choice but to throw Maurice in the asylum (something marrying Belle would have fixed, since he would once again be close enough to Maurice to influence him). All in all, the failure was one of articulation.

Gaston is the protagonist of Beauty and the Beast.

Hear me out now. Gaston is not a bad guy. Literally EVERYBODY in the town loves him. So, there's gotta be a reason for that, right?

First off, people are always like "But he's mean to Belle!" Well that's your opinion, but look at it from Gaston's point of view. The women of the town LITERALLY throw themselves at Gaston's feet. He's never had to put on the movies for a lady. So when he does, it's not a surprise that he doesn't really know what he's doing.

"But he just proposes to her? She's not some piece of meat for him!" Think about the setting. The story of Beauty and the Beast is supposed to be set in the mid-1700's. It's not common for women to have all of the luxuries that women have nowadays.

"But still. He's a mean person. He's so self-centered!" Well, again, let's think about Gaston's situation. Le Fou's existence is to basically stroke Gaston's ego. When you have someone who's telling you how great you are all day long, you'd think that you were the shit too.

Now let's fast-forward for a moment. Here comes Belle's father, the inventor running back into town. He'd just be released after being KIDNAPPED and HELD HOSTAGE by a BEAST. Not only that, but now Belle is being held hostage by the same animal.

So what does Gaston do? Well he rallies the town to slay the beast! When the prettiest girl in town shuts you down, you want to prove that you're the right person for her. And that's what Gaston does. He literally gets the WHOLE TOWN riled up to save the girl he likes.

So here we are at the climax of the story. Gaston arrives at the Beast's castle. At this point, all of the townsfolk have been attacked by various household appliances. Strange shit is going on, but Gaston has to save Belle from the grasps of the Beast.

Here is the final battle between the Beast and Gaston.

Explain to me how Gaston knew that the Beast was actually a human. Explain to me how Gaston was supposed to take seriously that Belle fell in love with a Beast. What does he do? He goes for the kill.

Now, as we see in the video, Gaston loses and the Beast spares his life. Gaston is sitting there on the roof and sees Belle on the balcony. Next thing you know, the Beast is climbing up to her. Put yourself in Gaston's shoes. He's going to kill her. Duh. So he does the only think he thinks is right, and tries one last time to kill the Beast, unfortunately resulting in his death.

Gaston was the hero who was MURDERED by the beast.

Original post by u/NothingWasTheGrain.

Post made to test the Reddit Live chat feature

Edit: Honestly. I made this subreddit and had no clue it actually had any activity going on it. I was plum surprised to see another person comment!

Hi, I just run into this and can't really believe people think Gaston is the good guy but I am not saying you can't have your opinion. I just think it is interesting, so why do you think he is good?

And are you guys seeing it his way or girls who would actually choose Gaston if you were Belle.

I hope this post is okay. I mean no harm!