7. Gaston - Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Gaston did a lot of bad over the course of Disney's
Beauty and the Beast, but most of it was centered around his being a massive douchebag to anybody who would give him the time of day, and acting creepy obsessed over Belle, who he was absolutely certain he would get to marry one day. Belle, of course, having some ounce of self-respect, denies Gaston's frequent advances, because she knows something that the rest of the town don't seem to realise: he's a huge dumbass. That said, once Gaston learns from her father that there's a "beast" living in a secluded castle with a tendency to capture, he does what any good citizen would do: rallies together a pitchfork-wielding posse and launches an attack on the castle. Which is fair enough, right? And here's where things get a little grey, because as far as Gaston knows, the beast has inflicted Belle with a little Stockholm syndrome. Sure, the fact that he wants to kill the beast is ego based, and he wants to do so he can marry Belle, but "beast" is the only real description that Gaston ever has at this point, and Belle's father, Maurice, only serves to enforce the fact that he's a vicious monster who likes to capture people. Gaston engages the beast in battle, of course, and continues to do so even when Belle reveals to him that the beast has changed (which he has) and doesn't want to fight (which he doesn't). Perhaps Gaston should've stopped to consider what was happening for a moment, but c'mon, it's a beast -
a beast! The Beast eventually spares Gaston's life, but the dumbass doesn't take this opportunity to make a getaway. Blinded by jealously, he stabs the Beast in the back and gets knocked off the castle rooftop to his death. Okay, so his own idiocy got him killed there, but up until that point, Gaston probably just did what most of us would have done - and even though he certainly took things too far, I don't think he really deserved to die.