8 Movie Heroes You Didn't Realise Probably Died Horrible Deaths

1. Belle - Beauty And The Beast (1991)

The "Heroic Ending"...

Disney's Beauty and the Beast is considered a monumental feat in animation, what with that swooping chandelier shot, and classic songs like "Be Our Guest" and that one sung by Murder She Wrote. The movie tells the story of a young French girl named Belle, who finds herself held prisoner by a terrifying monster - one who slowly begins to fall in love with her, 'cause she's smokin' hot. The monster, of course, used to be a prince, and was transformed - along with the entire staff of his ridiculously massive castle - by a sorceresses who thought he was a bit of a dick.

By the movie's end, and having completed the arduous task of rehabilitating a giant buffalo/bear/wolf hybrid, our beautiful heroine, Belle, manages to survive a castle assault, a vicious attack from an old flame, and running around atop a castle roof during a thunderstorm. That said, the curse is lifted when the Beast and Belle officially fall in love, and he's transformed into a handsome chap with golden locks.

In fact, everybody who inhabits in the castle is returned to normal, the castle itself goes from black to white (bad to good, see?), and the music swells to such joyous effect that you might never be able to picture a happier moment as long as you live: "Certain as the sun/rising in the east/tale as old as time/song as old as rhyme/beauty and the beast..."

But wait...

So Belle and the Beast just lived happily ever after, right? That's what the song implied, didn't it? Uh, nope, probably not. Like, at all. Because something terrifying is looming on the horizon, and it ain't pretty. How well acquainted are you with a little thing called the French Revolution?

For anybody unaware of such history, in its simplest terms, the French Revolution basically involved the poor people of France turning on the rich ones, 'cause that's what happens when you take everything and leave nothing for the rest of society. Put even simpler, this meant rounding them up and beheading them. Anybody familiar with this particular event will know that it doesn't bode well for anybody living in the world's biggest freakin' castle.

And considering that the Beauty and the Beast story we all know and love was written (it's based on a story, yeah!) 34 years before the French Revolution took place, it means that Belle and her Prince will only get to live until they're about 50 years old before the peasants more than likely take siege on their castle home. I mean, actually imagine Belle being taken out to the guillotine, whilst the Prince looks on in despair, knowing he's next.

Still, great castle, huh?

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