10 Best Disney Villain Songs

9. "Gaston (Reprise)" - Beauty And The Beast

This is one of the villain songs that is so catchy that it takes a few listens to really absorb the lyrics. "Gaston (Reprise)" is follow-up to a song that was basically glorifying the deplorable Gaston, but the humor in this is much darker than in the first. It follows the cruel rebuffing of Maurice as he comes to beg for help to rescue his daughter from the clutches of the Beast.

Gaston, apparently not curious about where Belle actually was even if she hadn't been abducted by any semi-local monsters, decides to seize the opportunity to have Maurice declared insane. The institution of her father, he reasoned, would then lead Belle to fall into Gaston's arms for help, presumably having gotten the vapors from reading too many books. By this point in Beauty and the Beast (1991), Gaston is already plenty unappealing.

If his admonishment to Belle that it wasn't right for a woman to read hadn't been enough, his proud declaration that "every last inch of is covered in hair" would have finished off pretty much everyone else. Granted, "Gaston (Reprise)" is actually pretty funny, but the contrast between the desperate Maurice and the scheming Gaston marks him as a formidable foe.

Maurice's expulsion also demonstrates the loyalties of the villagers to Gaston, a quality that will become important later in the film. Honestly, if the Beast had not turned out to have a heart of gold, Belle would have been left to rot.

Most villainous lines: "No one plots like Gaston, takes cheap shots like Gaston, plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston!"