Matt Walsh Explains Why These Movie Villains Were Right 

Tidbits of wisdom from Matt Walsh: "Killing your brother, and trying to kill your nephew is inappropriate."

Gaston having traditional values is certainly commendable, but you can’t blame Belle for being repulsed by his narcissism. Besides, there’s plenty of other women in the village who would’ve happily said yes to him. Why pursue a woman who keeps saying no?

Disagree on the Beauty and the Beast analysis. Gaston was a jerk, probably borderline sexual assaulter, and creep. Belle did know the Beast was human because of the painting of him and the conversations with the talking furniture. And Gaston didn't go to save Belle out of love, it was jealousy, ego, and the accolade of killing the creature.

I even said to my parents 'there's a fundamental moral dishonesty in this film mom and dad' 😂

Scar actually wasn't his real name. It was a nickname he picked. His real name was Taka, which translates to "trash," while Mufasa translates to "king." It's arguably worse to name one kid trash and another king. No wonder Scar hated Mufasa so bad.

I will never stop being impressed with how Matt can say anything and everything without laughing.

Gaston isn't hideous because he's muscular, it's because he's self-absorbed and absolutely incapable of loving anyone but himself. For the prince Beast is a reflection of his inner self when he is cursed Belle is disgusted by the beast when she first sees it. And when the beast turns into a prince, he is not some abnormally ugly man, on the contrary, he is quite masculine

“They happen to have a full size glass coffin just laying around, which makes you question their motives”. 😂 There was some absolute gold in this one.

Describing Scar killing Mufasa and trying to kill Simba as “inappropriate” is peak Matt Walsh right here

“I’m surrounded by idiots.”-Scar from the Lion King 🦁 👑 That was my mood during the entire pandemic.

Fun fact about Beauty And The Beast. The story has been rewritten many times, but the original story was in the late 1700's.The original story was a LOT more complex...also Beast was just as much a victim as Bell (who's name was Beauty, not Bell) In the original, prince Adam was not cursed for being mean to an old lady, he was cursed for *spurning the unwelcome romantic **_advances_* of an old woman, who was also his former nanny....Chris Hanson? Where you at? I'll summarize bellow. In the original, before the events of the story there's a prologue. Two fairies, one old, even by fae standards is board and goes to the human world for a change of pace, getting a job caring for the then toddler age prince Adam. Meanwhile a king and queen from a nearby kingdom are killed by assassins and their infant daughter is about to be killed. Another, young and beautiful fairy spirits the baby away. Looking for somewhere safe for the girl, the good fairy finds a family that just had a baby, but their baby died in its sleep. The good fairy swaps the princess for the child that died. Much later, puberty hits prince Adam like a truck. He's grown into a handsome young man who is also kind, generous and noble. The old fairy, gets ideas...gross ideas. She approaches him and proposes marriage, fully expecting him to reciprocate her feelings and does NOT take rejection well. She curses him with her fairy magic. Now, in the world the author made, there are limitations on curses. Basically powerful curses have to have a 'way out' clause to function. There has to be a built in way to break them. That key to breaking them can be convoluted and *almost* impossible, but it does have to be possible. The curse turned him into a sort of lizard man (yeah, in the later version he was more like a lion man or something, in the original he was more dragon-esk) The fairy would lift the curse if he agrees to marry her and it will kill him after a certain amount of time. The way out clause had the following rules. 1. To break the curse, he had to get a woman of royal birth to say she loved him and agree to marry him. 2. While physically in her presence, he had to act like he was mentally challenged. 3. He could tell her nothing about the curse After that all happened, the good fairy from the prologue approached him with a plan. She orchestrated Beauty's father stealing from the castle. He did do it on his own, but the fairy pretty much knew he would and trading his freedom for Beauty taking his place as a prisoner? His idea, the fairy lead him to it, but he still suggested it once lead to the idea. (dad of the year everybody). Now a fun fact. In the original, it wasn't Beast who needed to learn a lesson, it was Beauty. She was kind, generous and a good person, but she was also vain and judgmental. She needed to learn to not judge a book by its cover basically. Every evening, Beast would invite her to dine with him. He would make small talk, pretending to be dumb, then at the end of the meal, he would ask her to marry him. She would disgustedly refuse and he would storm away crying. Then she would head back to her room and go to bed. Now, the good fairy had found a loophole in the rules for the curse. The second rule, where it mentioned being *physically* in her presence. She used her magic to allow him to enter her dreams as his true self. He still couldn't tell her who he really was or anything about the curse, but he could talk to her without pretending to be stupid. Beauty was _immediately_ smitten with him. They would talk through the night then when morning was near, he would ask her to marry him using the same phrasing that he had the evening before. She would agree, then wake up. That continued for a while until she started to realize that Beast was not a monster and she eventually figured out that he and the prince from her dreams were one and the same person. One night when he asked her to marry him, she said yes, and told him she loved him, breaking the curse.

Gaston is a narcissistic jerk. Never gave a damn about what Belle wanted. When Belles father told him about the beast and Belle’s imprisonment, Gaston laughed at him, called him crazy and threw him out. He then had Belle’s father thrown in an asylum and tried to force Belle to marry him. After he learned Belle had feelings for the beast, he went into a fit of homicidal jealousy and rallied a mob to kill the beast. After beast beat him and showed mercy, Gaston slipped and fell to his death after LITERALLY stabbing him in the back.

I said to my parents "there's a fundamental dishonesty in this film". Well said.

Parents everywhere: "Yeah, it's so crazy and totally random that our daughters are so rebellious." Disney Movies: Literally every plot revolves around a girl coming of age, and finding her true purpose and happiness in life by disobeying her father.

My wife loved Bambi as a kid. She'd eat venison while watching it. And to be fair, the villains in Bambi weren't just hunters, but poachers, which is probably the only reason there wasn't a lot of backlash to it at the time, as hunting was much more popular back then.

So he bursts into her house without invitation, spends more time talking about himself, insults her for reading, locks up her father to manipulate her, and gets so jealous of another man that tries to kill him and you defend his character?

The problen with Scar is, that when he eventually became king, he didn't know what to do. He was just lying around.

The real villain of the story in Beauty in the Beast was the witch to put the curse on the castle. He was a 9 year old boy who didn't let a stranger inside the castle, then was turned into a beast. Again you could look at everyone in the castle as the villains, they kept belle around to break the curse.

I am the exact same age as Matt, and I personally love Bambi. It is exquisitely beautiful and poetic. The characters are charming, and the death scene is heartbreaking. (Admittedly, I was an odd child with unusual preferences) My father complained about Bambi stating it portrayed hunters inaccurately, shooting indiscriminately without looking and repeatedly setting the forest afire. He said no hunter would kill a doe with a fawn next to her. Hunters are typically conservationists because they want to ensure there is a forest full of animals to hunt for generations. Killing anything that moves and burning it all down endangers the forest, animals, and the hunters themselves. The novel itself is believed to be an allegory of the persecution of Jews. The author was Jewish and suffered through growing antisemitism in Europe between the world wars. The lonely existence of a hunted animal.

Gaston didn't try to save Belle, though. He locked her in a cellar to go kill the beast. Maybe you interpret it as him trying to save Belle from her twisted infatuation with a beast...

I showed this to my wife and got an hour long explanation on why Gaston really is a bad guy....so thanks for that.

To Disney and to Breadtube, Matt is a super villain

His description of the beast as looking like an "Evil water buffalo" and "Giant mutant mountain goat" had me LMAO 🤣🤣🤣

'Umm, excuse me what the actual *_f---k_* are you doing in my house?'

"you should never eat anything if the person offering it is laughing while they hand it to you" - matt walsh

I would pay good money to see a movie about the evil queen as a misunderstood advocate of property rights.

"So everyone speaks perfect English including the trees "😂

As the theater kid who played the villain in all of my school plays, I absolutely love this message😂

I totally sympathized with Hades in Disney's Hercules. All the Olympians were just chilling and having fun, eating, drinking and having intercourse on the mountain while he was doing all the hard work, by himself, in the Underworld, surrounded by fire. He had every reason to be pissed at the others, espcially that perverted lunatic Zeus.

Matt you missed an important detail about Pocahontas: The main "villain" John Radcliffe, was lied about in the film. he did not lose vs an Alliance of Pocahontas and John Smith and get shamefully imprisoned, he was actually lured with several of his men under promise of truce to a meeting place where the Powhatan braves betrayed and brutally murdered his men, then strapped him to the trunk of a tree and built a fire below him, slowly roasting him to death.

What people overlook with Gaston and beauty and the beast is this: there is a castle that no one remembers. They haven't been ruled in a very long time. Gaston is the closest thing they have to a prince (it's in one of the scores they call him a prince which isn't really common or possible he's just wealthy) so what made him wealthy? He's most likely the huntsman of the village. He's not just the huntsman but he's taking more than his fair share. He eats 2 dozen eggs etc. And everyone wants to be like him because they are starving and he's hoarding the food. Just keep that in mind.

from playing video games, i want to point out that villains usually have a grand ideal, either perfecting the world, preserving it in some way, or changing things they see wrong with it , and might stop at nothing to achieve that goal..some bad guys are bad guys because they were put into that situation not of their own accord, but out of fear to protect people they love.

I’ve never felt more proud to recall that my peers awarded me the superlative of “The Gaston Award” in high school. Now I realize that they were just calling me “Based Chad” in a more politically discrete way. 🏆

We have an apple tree in our garden that gets the most awesomely red apples on it. One day a tiny little girl was walking past with her mom and they stopped to look at the tree. My wife offered the little girl an apple and the little girl gave my wife a serious hard stare and asked "It's not one of those poisoned ones it's it?". It was adorable.

Even as a kid I thought that Gaston was the good guy. Because Belle at the start talks as if the whole town is beneath her and looks down on everyone there. The whole town seems to dislike her as well but they all love Gaston. What's going on? What happened off screen for him to be so loved? They act like he is the hero of the town.

There's a whole other movie we'll never see where Gaston marries, has seven strapping daughters, teaches them to hunt and chop firewood. The only thing he was guilty of was being a jerk..... but so was the Beast. Even more so actually.

Even better question. Why was the prince changed into a beast for simply telling a complete stranger she wasn't allowed inside his home unannounced?

Official petition for Matt to have a 2nd channel exclusively for movie reviews.

The Beauty and the Beast bit had me rolling “Mountain Goat” and “Mutated Water Buffalo” LMAO

"killing your brother and trying to kill your nephew is inappropriate.." classic. 😂😂❤

The level of satire demonstrated in this video is truly inspiring.

That [VISIBLE DISAPPOINTMENT] joke with Belle as Beast transforms back killed me. That aspect of the story never sat right with me even as a child. Seriously, she didn't know but was ready to throw down with whatever the beast was. Also with Scar, his naming gets worse. Supposedly his actual name is Taka, which translates to "waste." Right from birth his parents told him he was unwanted.

This is nothing. Other good guys include: Titanic - Rose's real husband. Edward Scissorhands - The "crazy" Christian lady. Dawn of the Dead - The security guard. Avatar - The humans. Karate Kid - Johnny and Krease. People Under the Stairs - The couple. Saw movies - John Kramer "Jigsaw" Princess Bride - Prince Humperdinck and Vizzini Mean Girls - The "mean" girls. Addams Family - Everyone except the Addams Family. Especially the campers. Gangs of New York - Bill the Butcher The Little Mermaid - King Triton Lord of the Flies - Jack (the Blonde kid). Barbie - Ken If anybody has anymore suggestions please let me know! 👍

The prince met snow white at the beginning of the movie so he already knew her. After she ate the apple, she wasn't dead but asleep. The queen even said so when she conjured the poison apple, mentioning that the spell could be broken with loves first kiss. Also mentioning that the dwarves would believe she's dead and bury her alive.

I strongly suspect Matt is being satirical here... Anyways, Bambi is about survival when faced with trauma at a young age. Bambi had to overcome death of a loved one, learn own survival skills and form friendship in order to survive. Basically teaching us; if you give up, you die. Forming bonds with others and pick yourself up is what is needed to succeed in a world where nothing will be handed to you for free.

Gaston's ambitions to become a husband and father are actually good but are not why he is the villain of the story. He is the villain of the story because of his narcissism and lack of genuine concern for others. Belle isn't actually much better since we mainly only see her concerned about herself as well at the start of the film but my point is that there is more than just Belle's feminism going on to make Gaston undesirable. He's utterly unconcerned with Belle's needs and desires, which is not how a good provider should be. He also doesn't take the time to properly court Belle, jumping straight into a marriage proposal without even meeting her father. Most significantly, look at how Gaston treats LeFou. He'd obviously treat anyone around him that way including his wife and any children he might have and Belle doesn't want to be on the receiving end of that. So to be a good husband, being manly is good but it isn't enough by itself. On the other hand, I don't think Gaston was irredeemable. He just needed to learn some humility and to prefer others over himself. Then with his obvious strengths and talents, he could be a great man.

I love the satire but there is a point to be said about characters like Belle and also Ariel for instance. They get into trouble because they are not satisfied with the lifes they have, they could be more grateful for their comfortable lives thanks to their parents. That's just the other side of the coin though, their curiosity and wanderlust do bring them a lot of good as well.

I've never seen hunters as villains and I grew up watching Bambi over and over again. It's a magical forest where animals have rationality, and the hunter is just supposed to represent the sad reality of death. The fire is the real villain of the finale of the movie

The whole "scar" naming thing is actually worse, because according to the book "A Tale of Two Brothers," Scar gave himself the name. His birth name was "Taka" which means "waste" in Swahili. This is compared to his brother, Mufasa, which means "king."

Matt Walsh is hilarious. Never lets you down.

In regards to Gaston: 1. He said to Belle, "It's not right for a woman to read because then she'll start getting ideas and thinking." Considering that Belle loved to read and Gaston saw women as less than, that doesn't sound like it would have led to a happily ever after for Belle if she had hooked up with him. Plus, any guy who doesn't value a woman's right to think for herself isn't a very nice guy. 2. He proposed to Belle, with the wedding already planned and ready to go that day, even though he had never even dated her or asked her if she was even interested in him. Does that not strike you as odd?! This is comparable to your criticism of Snow White eating the poisonous apple. Of course, Belle would feel uncomfortable and opened the door to let him out. She didn't push him out, btw, he did that himself when he leaned in for a kiss that she moved out of the way for. 3. Gaston didn't believe Belle's father when he told him that Belle was locked up in a dungeon by a horrible beast. In fact, he had convinced a shrink to help him blackmail Belle to marry him. Gaston, the shrink, and the asylum staff showed up at Belle's house to take away Belle's father and lock him up in an asylum. When Belle protested (the beast let her go), Gaston told her that he might be able to clear up that little misunderstanding if she married him. Do you really think that behavior represents traditional values?! Did you forget this part or what? I find your analysis on this one confusing and way off. Maybe you should re-watch it. 4. Gaston didn't storm over to the castle to rescue Belle from the beast. Gaston locked her locked up with her father in a cellar, so they couldn't warn the beast that Gaston and the villagers were on their way to kill him. Belle even told Gaston that the beast was nice and kind, but he didn't care and wanted to kill him anyway. So, Gaston told the villagers a bunch of lies about the beast to get them to join him in his mission to kill the beast. Again, those are not traditional values, and Gaston was no saint. Plus, you misrepresented why Gaston stormed the castle with the intention to kill the beast.

Gaston is misuderstood but you're definitely missing something here. "See what whacky old coot is Belle's father, and his sanity's only so-so. Now the wheels in my head have been turning since I looked at that loony old man. I promised myself I'd be married to Belle and right now I'm evolving a plan!" He fought to throw Maurice in an asylum to emotionally force Belle to marry him. It's like, the plot is right there in the film. He was not innocent, that level of emotional pressure is never okay. He plots with the evil asylum man to do it too, bribes him too. He only marches on the Beast when it turns out Belle had feelings for him. PS: I'm with a traditional nuclear family, but a woman reading isn't a bad thing.

My best friend actually had a theory about the end of Snow White that the prince, when he sweeps her off her feet and rides off into the sunset, is actually taking her to heaven. This is supported by, in the direction they're riding off, the castle is seen in the clouds. This would actually make the prince more of an angel of death that escorts her up to the kingdom of heaven. When you think about it in that light, it actually makes the end of the story much, much sadder than it is.

I didn't think about how Gaston never knew the Beast was a human. In his mind, he was doing the right thing all along.

Gaston was portrayed as a sexiest jerk. That's why you're meant to hate him. Not cause of anything else. If you just remember, he couldn't take no for an answer and Belle had expressed before his proposal that she wasn't interested several times. Sure, the beast wasn't a nice guy at the start but the story is about his redemption. Gaston did think the beast was evil but Belle did try to explain and he never listened and locked her up in a wagon. He also tried to get Belle's father falsely convicted into the asylum. It's said that the enchantress was the true villain for cursing a young boy into a beast alongside all the castle staff in the first place for being a brat.

To be fair Gaston wasn’t fighting for the woman he loved, he was fighting for the woman he couldn’t get, which is the only reason he wanted her. She wanted nothing to do with him. It’s the chase.

When people say Gaston is a villain, I argue that I think he’s more like a fallen hero, corrupted by jealousy. When people say he’s the worst and most evil Disney villain there is, I argue that they need to go outside and touch grass

Gaston was scummy for trying to get Belle's dad institutionalized but he was right to protect the village from a scary beast that could possibly eat the villagers.

It’s incredible how little media literacy matt Walsh has.

I think Matt Walsh missed the point that Gaston was going to throw Belle's father in an insane asylum. Unless there is a deleted scene where Gaston is given medical power of attorney, this is a huge misuse of civil liberties on Gaston's part.

I always took the hunters in Bambi as just another hazard the animals have to navigate. Not a villain plotting the downfall of the protagonist. The rival buck is more a villain to Bambi. At least he was trying to steal Bambi's girl.

Gaston was an imperfect man, but he was a man of principle, he wanted a family and he was obviously a gym bro. RIP Gaston, you will always be my north star.

I think the Beauty and the Beast point was the best and most convincing one Matt made

A fawn is usually born out of hunting season, so Bambi’s mother was shot by poachers. Also no real sportsman would shoot a deer when she has nursing fawn.

Fun fact about Scar’s name that makes his situation even worse. Scar isn’t his real name, but rather a nickname. His actual name is even worse. His real name is Taka, which in Swahili can be interpreted to mean “waste” or “filth.”

I would also like to point out in the Beauty and the beast the reason the beast was transformed is really messed up he was a young child at home without his parents and he makes the very rational decision to refuse to let a suspicious stranger into his home.

Whoever put the fullmetal alchemist reference is my hero!❤ it just made ne respect this show and the editors so much more! Someone give them a raise!!✨️

Thank you for this. I have been saying for years that Gaston is no villain. Belle is imprisoned by a literal beast. She manages to escape and then clearly shows she is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Gaston knows that both Belle and her father have been imprisoned by this monstrous roaring beast that Belle shows him via the mirror and makes the rather logical decision to go kill that mutant who has been imprisoning villagers. How is that villainous behavior? It isn't. You want a villain? How about the enchantress at the very beginning of the film who curses an eleven-year-old boy and everyone else in the castle because he won't let a stranger come into his home? THAT is your main villain. Beast gets an honorable mention for imprisoning villagers.

We need a Daily Wire animated feature with Matt as the "villain". Play it like he's the villain, but it turns out in the end he's the hero when everyone is proven wrong. Then he begrudgingly saves them all somehow. "Print it- I'll be in my 3-story trailer"- Calculon

I know it’s satire but Bambi is a classic because of the animation techniques at the time. There was no villain in Bambi it’s simply nature. Her death made him stronger and eventually he grew into a strong man-I mean Strong Buck.

My parents were great at explaining the agendas in Disney movies to me as a kid. Helps me spot an agenda a mile away to this day. It’s mostly painting good as weird or bad.

Gaston wanted Belle but he also wanted to get rid of her dad and have him institutionalized, yes he's the villain. And so is the beast.

In the beast’s defense, I believe a book mentions that I would be his 19th birthday when the last petal fell. Lumiere says that they have been cursed for 10 years in the song “Be Our Guest”. That means the enchantress showed up at the castle in the middle of a dark stormy night in the disguise of a haggard old woman, asked a 9 year old boy (why was he answering the door? Where were his parents? Where were the servants?) if she could spend the night, and cursed him when he followed the rules of stranger danger. The enchantress is the true villain of Beauty and the Beast, but for some reason she always gets a free pass and it’s sickening to me. Edit: Correcting my mistake, the Beast was 21 when the last petal fell. Meaning 11. Still insidious on the part of the enchantress

Beauty and the Beast was my favorite movie as a kid. Gaston wanted to provide, protect and was willing to ignore the skanks because he wanted Belle. The Beast was a whiney entitled Prince who was willing to doom all his servants because he couldn’t realize he had the best life of anyone. Then was willing to imprison an old man and his daughter just because he could. Gaston wanted a family, the Beast wanted to break a spell. Btw, Gaston is one of the only villains that Disney actually has live character meets with. That tells you people secretly love him.

Will say this about Gaston... if he truly eats as many eggs as he says, he has driven his village into despairing poverty.

Cats don't eat prey alive,bears do

you might think it's weird that Matt is routing for the villains in these movies, but to be fair, they do have the best songs in the movies, so it's hard not to be on their side.

I can’t tell if Matt is joking about Gaston or if he is serious 😂. Like the dude tried to force Belle into a relationship with him by threatening that if she didn’t he would have her father thrown into an insane asylum. He’s clearly a narcissist. Never would have actually treated Belle as a partner. The dude is basically the Andrew Tate of Disney villains. Also to top it all of if you watch the film Gaston at multiple points shows extreme lack of gun safety. Pointing his gun at others and at a certain point even has his own barrel pointing at his head as he RESTS on it. As a deer hunter this lack of safety and carelessness cannot stand!

Let me ask you Matt a question about Gaston: Has he EVER mentioned that he LOVES Belle? NO. He said "she is the most beautiful girl in town and I deserve only the BEST" so she was nothing more than a trophy to him. And when the "prey" became hard to get he needed to set a "bait": Her father.

- Given its late in winter i assumed the hunter in Bambi was an out of season poacher - Pocahontas definitely has noble savage vibes but our ancestors were far from decent human beings, the way we treated natives is nauseating - Gaston is a misogynistic narcissist who jealously attempts to murder his crush's lover

I can’t 💀 😂 Honestly I don’t understand how Matt didn’t go into law. The argument for Snow White got me in tears 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love Matt Walsh's satire. Well executed, sir.

Fact: Bambi's mother was shot by Gaston from "Beauty and the Beast"! This has been a fan theory for years, but Disney confirmed it a few years ago. Disney's animated movies are all connected to one another. (By the way, RU-vid unsubbed me again)

Radcliffe was the villain Pocahontas. He inspired fear to get the people to join him in war and wanted to steal treasures from the Native Americans.

Always amaze me with your content. And the editors? ON TOP. You never lack of good ideas. Props

Gaston was literally the only person in the whole town who didn’t think Belle was a “funny girl” or a weirdo. He was the one person who tried to be her friend and marry her to give her a peaceful and traditional life, but instead she develops Stockholm syndrome for a rich man-child who doesn’t know manners or social skills. Plus his reasoning was entirely sound for gathering the men to attack the castle. He was shown actual witchcraft seeing a monster in a magic mirror, and Belle was acting irrational now that he knew her supposedly insane father was actually telling the truth and that she had indeed been locked in a dungeon by a monster. The only rational conclusion would be that Belle really had been bewitched and the Beast was a danger to the community.

Gaston’s vision of home and family isn’t the problem. He’s a self absorbed narcissist. He doesn’t love Belle. He loves himself and as Belle is recognized as the most beautiful woman in the village, her as his wife would only add to his own image.

4:48 the antelope don’t turn into grass, but their bodies turn into dirt and the grass needs dirt to grow. Which is what he meant.

Scar's parents didn't name him Scar. They named him Taka. Scar is a nickname he got after getting the scar on his eye.

Yeah, let’s just ignore the scene where Gaston threatened to lock Belle’s dad in a nuthouse as blackmail for not marrying him. The context there was WILDLY misunderstood.

Gaston did not immediately march to the castle. He threw Belle's father out into the snow and laughed at him. Not a good samaritan

The villain in "Frozen" is the King. He locks one daughter up in a room for most of her childhood and separates her from her sister because he's afraid of what people will think.

I don't know how seriously we're meant to take these reviews, but Gaston tries to lock Belle's father in an asylum and then locks her up as well when things don't go his way. She very clearly explains that the Beast is kind, but he can't take the blow of her rejection and instead tries to play the role of hero that will save the town from the Beast. He doesn't go to rescue her at any point- when her father begs him to help he ignores his pleas and throws him out into the cold. There's nothing in him that could be misconstrued, he's a villain through and through.

You are right about Beauty and the Beast. We are kind of brainwashed to see everything wrong and not think.

Big cats (lions, tigers, leopards, jags etc) typically suffocate their prey by grabbing the neck or severing the spine BEFORE they eat in order to reduce risk of injury. Bears eat their prey alive though. They just hold it down and start ripping chunks out.

Matt Walsh: The hunter is not bad for hunting animals. Also Matt: Mufasa is bad because he hunts animals. lol

Matt Walsh destroying childhood nostalgia one at a time

Ezma wasn’t evil. She wanted to protect the country from a young, inexperienced, self loving, ruler. Kuzco wasn’t ready to lead and she knew this. Now, in the spirit of one of the greatest Disney movies of all time, it’s time to “pull the lever Kronk”

Two out of five is a 40% grade. You nailed it with Bambi and Pocohontas. The other three, not so much. 1. Scar: The sheer hypocrisy of praising the hunters who killed Bambi's mom, while villifying Mufasa for doing the same thing is unconscionable. Further, once Scar and the hyenas were in power, they over hunted the land, causing a localized extinction. The abundance of healthy game animals under Mufasa's rule means that he was managing the local wildlife populations VERY effectively. The antelope obviously had enough food to be healthy, which means he was preventing overpopulation; and the opening sequence alone shows that the herbivore populations were not threatened with extinction under Mufasa's rule. 2. The witch queen of Snow White: While Snow White's naivity is substantial, I don't see naivity as evil in and of itself. Aladdin's Princess Jasmine shows the same naivety in the market when she's trying to run away from the Sultan's palace. Characterizing the dwarve's response to Snow White as "Stockholm Syndrome" is also making a diagnosis that I doubt you have the needed professional license to make. The witch-queen's willingness to use poison for no better reason that assuaging her vanity makes her a despciable villain despite you lame attempt to characterize her as favoring "personal property rights." 3. Gaston While I'm about the farthest from being a feminist that one could possibly imagine without being a chauvinist, Gaston's womanizing and attempts to coerce Belle into an unwanted marriage (attempted r@pe???) clearly put him the despicable villain category. The Beast, while possessing human flaws, is not the villain you make him out to be either. For one thing, he didn't try to rape Belle, even when he could have, nor did he try to coerce her into a marriage that she didn't want. As for the bestiality thing, I think you should let he who is without sin cast the first stone. You're reaching with that one.

Gaston was a narcissist and he refused to respect Belle. He bribed the head of the insane asylum to put Belle's father away as a way to force her to marry him. He set up a wedding before proposing. The beast could only be cured by learning how to love, and Belle helped him learn to be a better person. His personality before learning how to be a good personality was similar to Gaston. Gaston only went after the beast because he realized saw him as a rival. He only talked about protecting the town to get people scared so he could manipulate them. Gaston looks good on the outside, but he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. The most dangerous enemy wears the mask of a hero.