Talk:Enchantress/@comment-24726922-20141108044750/@comment-1672596-20170608124650

Sorry for not responding earlier. I had been banned for a year, and thus couldn't respond.

"The "Disney Comics" and other things like that aren't canon, they are as well as fanfiction. Someone's personal opinion, not related to the film itself or its autors. And I don't know about trailer, but trailers are sometimes misguiding in order not to spoil something from the plot (for example, trailers of Frozen showed Elsa as a villain)."

Fanfiction is created by people completely unrelated to the people who made it (think Goku's Wish: The Return of Broly), not the guys who actually made the film in the first place, so they're not fanfiction due to being made by Disney directly. And besides, I can name plenty of franchises that had canon entries from the guys that created it via comics and other things like that, like LucasFilm, or Metal Gear to some extent. And don't act like contradictions mean anything regarding Canonicity (even though I personally agree that contradictions should mean they are non-canon), as I can speak from experience regarding the Metal Gear series that even those that were undeniably canon entries tended to do retcons.

As far as the trailer, I think this was one of those 1990s trailers, and they definitely weren't misleading there since they generally gave general details about the plot. It's not like, say, Empire Strikes Back or The Dark Knight Rises where they actually HAVE a reason to hide the hidden antagonist (and even the latter has a bit of a hint inserted inside when they had the Basara Basara chant reprising the very second Marion Cotillard's character makes an appearance).

"By the way, even if Gaston did know about the curse (and it is really strange if he did; he laughed at Maurice when the latter was telling about the Beast), that doesn't necessarily mean that Enchantress told him that. Being a hunter, he could have accidentally found the castle when wandering in woods, or something. Forget what comcs say; the original film states plainly that Enchantress' goal was to teach the Prince to love. So she wouldn't intentionally prevent the curse from being broken when he did remorse. And definitely, she wouldn't try to kill him; if she wanted, she could do that immediately."

Even ignoring the comics, there's the problem posed with the fact that she cursed the forest (the stained glass windows that acted as the prologue made that much clear), which would have made even those who actually were brave or foolhardy enough to try and break the curse, so everything points to the Enchantress actually wanting him to remain cursed in the film itself. Even Belle and Maurice going there only happened due to sheer dumb luck, not because the Enchantress willed it. And the narration explicitly stated "and all who live there" when talking about the castle and Beast himself being cursed, meaning her cursing them was definitely deliberate and not an accident (besides, she'd have to be a pretty big idiot to not know that there were servants at the castle since something that size would require servants).

As far as Gaston, if that was the case, that he merely stumbled upon it, why the heck did he decide to just throw Maurice out and try to have him locked up. He'd at least have some idea of what he's referring to. And quite frankly, the entire thing made no sense regardless because the whole Mob Song bit implied it was only a walk away.