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It recently occured to me that The Beast is more scared than angry.


When he has to stop Belle from touching the enchanted rose in The West Wing, Beast is more scared than angry. Many people were like,"Boy, The Beast is really pissed off in this scene!" No, he is more panicking than angry! Even when he slowly turns to Belle and gives her a glare, it is a look of concern, panic, and worry. The only times he shows real anger is when Belle starts making flimsy excuses on why she disobeyed him and he shouts,"Do you realize what you could have done?"(There is still a note of utter fear in his voice at the fact that Belle could have caused him to remain a Beast for the rest of his life) When he shouts "Get out, get out, he is pissed and scared at the same time.


Drake is repetitive. He just raps the same thing over and over as if he is in an insane asylum!LOL:D

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I also think he's a tormented individual. He seems tormented by his loneliness.

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Can you really blame him for being terrified or, heck, even being angry at Belle? Belle came this close to destroying his literal lifeline to his original form, not to mention the original forms of his servants. Had delayed interfering by a minute, heck, a second even, not even Belle acknowledging Beast's love and loving him in return would be able to undo the curse at all. Despite what Belle angrily told Beast in their later argument, Beast had EVERY reason to act the way he did. The only thing he was actually to blame for was losing control of his temper to such an extent that he smashed furniture in front of Belle.

This is almost a role reversal of the situation in the Grotto in The Little Mermaid, where Beast was in Ariel's position, and Belle if anything was in Triton's position, and is arguably even worse (Triton, while nonetheless an extremely jerkish move on his part, at least had the authority to do something like that. Belle did that when she clearly didn't have that authority, although she didn't know what she may have done, unlike Triton who clearly knew what he was doing).

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No, no, no. Triton is clearly more like The Beast than Belle is. Beast and Triton both have very bad tempers feel like crap when they see a girl crying(Beast felt bad when he saw Belle crying and Triton felt bad when he saw Ariel crying. They are both protective(Triton was worried that a human could kill Ariel, his youngest daughter) and Beast was worried that the wolves would eat Belle.

Drake is repetitive. He just raps the same thing over and over as if he is in an insane asylum!LOL:D

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No, no, no. Triton is clearly more like The Beast than Belle is. Beast and Triton both have very bad tempers feel like crap when they see a girl crying(Beast felt bad when he saw Belle crying and Triton felt bad when he saw Ariel crying. They are both protective(Triton was worried that a human could kill Ariel, his youngest daughter) and Beast was worried that the wolves would eat Belle.


Actually, in Triton's case, it came across more that he didn't like humans and didn't even care if Eric had been at near death when Ariel saved him. He even implied that he probably would have found it preferable if Eric and any other human drowned just for their species, which would have made him about as genocidal as Claude Frollo if taken to the worst case outcome (When Ariel pointed out Eric would have died if she didn't save him, Triton said in response, and I quote, "One less human to worry about." The fact that Eric had been unconscious and never even got a good look at Ariel never seemed to even cross his mind at all. And even if he did see Ariel, he wouldn't have realized she was a mermaid. At most, he assumed she was merely a human girl.). Also, Triton was the one who entered Ariel's room and nearly made a mess of things, while Belle is the one who entered Beast's room and nearly, albeit unintentionally in her case, made a mess of things.

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Even when he gets angry at Maurice, he does it because he's afraid people will find out he's a beast and make fun of him or do worse. Now, it's kind of his own fault for keeping a stranger prisoner in the first place, but he did tell Belle to stay away. His life depended on the rose, it's understandable.

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What could he be scared of Belle touching the Rose, I believe everybody expect for you believes he was angry in this scene.

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It's heavily implied that if the rose is even merely touched, it would get destroyed, and as a result, Beast and the servants would NEVER return to their original states (in fact, even worse, the servants will be dead, and Beast would be reduced in mindset to a literal animal, just as much as his physical form is an animal). So yes, Beast would obviously be very terrified at that prospect, not to mention angry.

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And why do you think he was so angry? Not just because Belle went somewhere where she wasn't allowed to go.

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