Talk:The Bimbettes/@comment-34711487-20180421205604/@comment-1672596-20180424090319

It will be extremely complicated to explain regarding Belle's inner ugliness, but I'll try:

Long story short, for most of the first act, I'll be blunt, she acted like a very arrogant, self-absorbed jerk. In the opening song, she basically insulted her fellow villagers and overall acted like she was somehow better than them, and didn't like being in the village due to it being provincial. In some ways, her behavior, barring obviously falling for looks or loving her reflection, is a bit too similar to Gaston. Plus, the way she refused Gaston, by shoving him into a mudpool and basically smirking about it, wasn't really cool at all. Don't get me wrong, Gaston definitely deserved the rejection, but there were plenty of better ways to do so that didn't make Belle look about as big of a jerk as him (and unlike Jasmine where she pulled a similar trick on Prince Achmed, she didn't even have arranged marriage to Gaston as an excuse.). At the very least, have her reacting like Honoka in one of her win poses for Dead or Alive 5 Last Round if Gaston falling in mud was an accident, or heck, having her possess a stern reaction like Goku after Frieza tried to pull a Gaston if it was self-defense. And during her stay at the castle, well, her refusal to dine with Beast comes across as petty. Yes, I get it, she traded places with her dad, and Beast dragged him away before they could say goodbye, but he did ultimately grant her not just a bedroom, but also allowed her free access to the castle barring the West Wing (which went well beyond Lumiere's suggestion). At the very least, she could have gone down to dinner, while not necessarily trusting him. Doesn't help that she refused him despite Beast actually swallowing his pride and attempting twice to politely request she come down to dinner. And don't get me started on the West Wing incident, where she deliberately disobeyed Beast and his servants and went in there, with the way she reacted to learning about the West Wing indicating she didn't have any innocent reasons for going up there (ie, she didn't go up there due to curiosity, but out of spite). Then, she basically violated the agreement she created in the first place by fleeing the castle during a blizzard with wolves on the prowl, meaning not only did she just endanger herself foolishly to being wolf food or dying from the elements, but she may have just endangered her dad to being potentially recaptured by the Beast. Then afterward, she basically blamed Beast for everything, not even ONCE taking responsibility for her role in the whole affair. At the very least, she could have acknowledged that she screwed up, like how Homer and Abe Simpson in Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy apologized for their fight and acknowledged that they're both screw-ups. And while she does thank Beast for saving her, her later glare at him when he requested she close her eyes indicated she still had negative feelings for Beast, and seemed to only really fall for Beast after he gave her that library. Thankfully, she largely improved by the second act, though even there, she did end up causing the climax to happen by basically exposing Beast to the lynch mob that Gaston orchestrated, despite clearly deducing Gaston's role in the mob and why he did so (to force her hand in marriage). So, yeah, that's pretty much what occurred, and the inner ugliness that she displayed. Now, most of the Expanded Universe materials definitely improved on Belle significantly (well, save for The New Adventures of Beauty and the Beast and to a lesser extent a Disney World pin, which both had Belle basically making at least one anti-male remark).

So, yeah. You can read up a bit more with this blog I wrote here: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Weedle_McHairybug/Why_I_have_major_problems_with_Belle.

You can also get a better feel for what I'm getting at with this blog as well, since it covers the original tale, plus the various prototype versions Disney had: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Weedle_McHairybug/Beauty_and_the_Beast_version_comparisons_(which_one_is_better).

I'm not fond of having to criticize Belle, since, back when I was a child, she actually qualified as my second-favorite DP (Ariel obviously being the favorite). Unfortunately, life pretty much demoted her, namely a crappy experience in college regarding near-brainwashment, and studying up on history, plus studying development notes.

As far as Rapunzel and the triplets, well, they've got similar qualities (especially regarding eye and hair color, well, hair color in terms of Rapunzel's pre-haircut, anyway), so it's a bit of a tough match. But if we are to assume being voluptuous is the standard of beauty right now (certainly, stuff like Dead or Alive thinks it is, and it selling well would suggest it to be the case), I'd ultimately have to say the triplets, mostly because they have a rack, but it's still a very close and tough call.

Regarding who the prettiest princess is, I'd say it's a tie between Ariel and Snow White, maybe also Jasmine as well, with Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Aurora being close runner-ups.