10 Disney Movies With Completely F*cked Up Morals

4. Beauty And The Beast - Love By Coercion

On the surface Beauty and the Beast might be a moral fable about learning to look for inner beauty however deeply buried it may be under layers of fur and anger issues, but the message it really sends out is that it’s okay to obsessively pursue the object of your affection – even going so far as to kidnap them – until they are finally yours.

Poor Belle, apparently a clever bookworm but not quite bright enough to realise how f*cked up the situation is, is held prisoner at the Beast’s castle until Stockholm Syndrome gradually takes over and she realises she actually quite likes the bad-tempered, hairy creature that previously subjected her to captivity and angry outbursts.

He’s not even the worst of Belle’s suitor options – the only other guy in the village not put off by her unladylike hobby of reading books (well apart from her dad, but let’s not go there) is Gaston – a rather nasty fool who threatens to have her father carted off to a mental asylum if she refuses to marry him and then locks them both up when she declines his offer. Talk about a rock and a hard place.