Talk:Dawn Bellwether/@comment-3003347-20160307012036/@comment-1672596-20160309113427

Regarding Gaston, I'm not sure all the villagers were dumber. Based on the triplets not even singing along with the chorus, let alone actually participating in the plan at its culmination, they certainly did manage to quickly deduce enough of the plan to not support it at all.

Besides, I'm not actually sure his plan came all that close to working: The second Belle heard Gaston's proposal, she immediately realized Gaston was trying to blackmail her, and she outright refused. Heck, those triplets' plans in the comics came far closer to actually working than Gaston's did.

But I do agree with you on Hans, it definitely was all over the place, doesn't even LOOK like he planned things, almost as all over the place as most Metal Gear plotlines. Personally, Scar came across far better between the two, him and Ratigan, anyway: Not only did he actually make sure that he only divulged his plan to those who supported him (the Hyenas, who had their reasons for wanting Mufasa and Simba dead), but he also made sure to bribe them as further incentive and possibly use moral justification depending on whether you count the whole "never go hungry again" line as moral justification or not, and for Ratigan, 1. Those were his henchmen who were all crooks of various sorts he relayed his plan to, and 2., he also kept them in line via fear (as best demonstrated with his implicitly threatening to feed them to Felicia if they didn't continue singing their praises to him).