Belle's Sisters

Belle's sisters were two characters who were deleted from the 1988 screenplay of Beauty and the Beast, and would have acted as co-antagonist with Belle's suitors. They were cut, alongside the overall screenplay, due to then-Disney Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg feeling it wasn't what the Walt Disney Company had in mind.

Background
Belle's sisters were, as the name states, the older sisters to Belle. Having been ignored constantly by three suitors to Belle's hand in marriage, they held a huge amount of jealousy towards Belle. They also leave their father to the fate of execution by the Beast, clearly not wishing to go to him. They also later scheme to get Beast's wealth to attract Belle's suitors.

Trivia

 * When the film was rewritten by Richard Purdum in 1989, the sisters were condensed into a single character, Marguerite, Belle's aunt, who shared several similar characteristics to the sisters, most notably being vain and being obsessed with wealth. The most notable difference is that the sisters didn't want Belle to be married over them out of jealousy, while Marguerite actually does attempt to force Belle into marriage specifically to gain wealth via the suitor in question, Marquis Gaston. This character, alongside the overall screenplay, ended up cut at Jeffrey Katzenberg's order due to it being "too dark and dramatic." Any chance of the sisters returning was removed when Linda Woolverton was selected to write the final version of the film, as she decided to have them cut out of the adaptation altogether, alongside Belle's suitors/their love interests, in order to give significant focus on Belle's distaste for Gaston, the latter of whom she upgraded to main antagonist, and also because she felt they would have otherwise been mistaken for Drizella and Anastasia Tremaine from Cinderella. The closest in the final film to their characterization were the Bimbettes, three blonde triplet sisters who fawned over Gaston, although unlike Belle's sisters, they weren't demonstrated to be wicked or jealous at all in the film and were also implied to be on friendly terms with Belle (although their Marvel Comics characterization and to some extent the musical versions do depict them in a similar manner to Belle's wicked sisters).
 * Had they been kept, they would have been the first Disney Villains to act as blood-related siblings to the main protagonist (as Drizella and Anastasia were only stepsiblings to Cinderella).