History Awesome / BeautyAndTheBeast

** Another moment for the design team: the way they mix his voice with animal noises. It adds an extra bit of power to his voice and emphasizes just how utterly ''terrifying'' he can be when he's angry.

* The fact that this is the ''first'' '''ever''' ''animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture.'' Sure it didn't win, but it did what was considered to be impossible for animation at the time and establish it as a medium of story-telling and not [[AnimationAgeGhetto kid fodder]]. It remained the only animated feature ever to be nominated for the award for 18 years. It's nomination is believed to be the reason the Animated Feature category was eventually added.

** Also a Moment of Heartwarming, Belle's fear of Beast apparently disappears after he saves her. He roars right in her face when she accidentally aggravates his wounds and she doesn't even flinch. Heck, she talks back to him as he complains. Probably because the wold fight shows her that for all of his tantrums he could never and would never actually hurt her.

** Hell, the entire castle siege in general was amazing, considering it was an angry mob of simple-minded townsfolk armed with torches and pitchforks against an entire castle of servants transformed into ordinary household objects who turn out to be NotSoHarmless. You try and fight against drawers of living cutlery with a ''very terrifying cooker'' as their leader, a hat rack with incredible boxing skills, a pile-driving wardrobe, a cannibal chest, a living candelabra, a scissor totting clock and an ApronMatron teapot who utilizes her tea cup children into ''scalding'' people.

** Tacked onto that is one for the person who convinced her to do it, as she hadn't wanted to perform the song and only agreed to do the one take that made it into the movie.

* The fact that this is the ''first'' '''ever''' ''animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture.'' Sure it didn't win, but it did what was considered to be impossible for animation at the time and establish it as a medium of story-telling and not [[AnimationAgeGhetto kid fodder]]. It remained the only animated feature ever to be nominated for the award for 18 years.

* The fact that this is the ''first'' '''ever''' ''animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture.'' Sure it didn't win, but it did what was considered to be impossible for animation at the time and establish it as a medium of story-telling and not [[AnimationAgeGhetto kid fodder]].

* And that goes double for Howard Ashman, Menken's songwriting partner since practically the start of his musical career. Some time before ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' won Oscars for Best Song and Best Score, Ashman was diagnosed as HIV-positive. When he was put to work for ''Beauty and the Beast'', Ashman was noted to be irritable and would soon not even be able work in the studio. But did he give up on his work? HELL NO! He would instruct recording sessions via telephone even when he was weak and he wrote what are probably some of the most memorable songs in cinema, period, during the last year of his life (the title song's lyrics undoubtedly being his MagnumOpus). Even though he never lived to see the finished film, Ashman's sheer dedication to his work counts as this trope, a TearJerker, and a great SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. The dedication at the end of the film states he 'gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul'.

** Also a Moment of Heartwarming, Belle's fear of Beast apparently disappears after he saves her. He roars right in her face when she accidentally aggravates his wounds and she doesn't even flinch. Heck, she talks back to him as he complains.

** Hell, the entire castle siege in general was amazing, considering it was an angry mob of simple-minded townsfolk armed with torches and pitchforks against an entire castle of servants transformed into ordinary household objects who turn out to be NotSoHarmless. You try and fight against drawers of living cutlery, a hat rack with incredible boxing skills, a pile-driving wardrobe, a cannibal chest, and an ApronMatron teapot who utilizes her tea cup children into ''scalding'' people.

** Preceding all that? Just as the VillainSong ends and they break in, it's quiet and dark, almost too much so (the villagers even seem a little suspicious) - still, they keep moving slowly, with LeFou grabbing a 'mere' candlebra to see...

![[Series/BeautyAndTheBeast The TV Series]]
* By the end of the third season, Vincent finally confronts Gabriel, [[spoiler:Cathrine's killer and his son's kidnapper]]. Despite the shit he's done towards Vincent, he spares his life. And this is Vincent, who pretty much killed half the villains of the week for the first season (though he had a HeroicBSOD when he killed someone in the second season), so it was a pretty awesome closure to his development. Even more awesome? After he leaves, [[spoiler:''Diana'' is the one who kills Gabriel after he flat out tells her that he'll just get away scot free. Diana even uses Cathrine's own gun for the killing!]]

* Gaston's rousing song in the bar is awesome [[AwesomeEgo in it's own right]]. It's nothing but 2-3 minutes of him and the townspeople claiming BadassBoast after BadassBoast and as we all know, [[MemeticBadass no one strokes his ego like Gaston]].

** The Oscar for Best Animated Feature was added a decade later. Some have speculated that the Academy added this category specifically to ''prevent'' animated movies from having a shot at the Best Picture award. And it ''[[{{Up}} didn't]] [[ToyStory3 work.]]''

** The Broadway musical makes the Castle Battle an even greater moment of awesome, as it gives all of the objects a chance to absolutely go to town on the people trying to destroy their home. Highlights include Babette the feather duster [[ShowSomeLeg flirting with a marauding villager]], which in turn allows Lumiere to burn the guy in the backside; Chip spitting hot tea in [=LeFou=]'s face and Mrs. Potts whaling on him with her spout-arm; Madame de la Grande Bouche (the wardrobe) dressing as Brunhilde from Wagner's ''Ring Cycle'' (complete to the music of "Ride of the Valkyries") and scaring off [=LeFou=] with an extremely high note and razor-sharp spear; and the napkins (who, in the musical, are a group of can-can dancers) using their high kicks to knock the majority of the villagers unconscious. Depending on the skills of the ensemble of objects in each production, other impressive tricks are possible: some examples on YouTube have the actor playing a throw rug perform complicated acrobatics, the whisk spinning its headgear like a giant flail, and the salt and pepper shakers dumping their contents all over the villagers, leading to sneezing fits.

** Preceding all that? Just as the VillianSong ends and they break in, it's quiet and dark, almost too much so (the villagers even seem a little suspicious) - still, they keep moving slowly, with LeFou grabbing a 'mere' candlebra to see...

** Let's not forget Mrs. Potts's PreAssKickingOneLiner as she prepares to pour tea on a villager: "UP HERE, YA SCURVY SCUM! ''NOW!''"

** The Oscar for Best Animated Feature was added a decade later. Some have speculated that the Academy added this category specifically to ''prevent'' animated movies from having a shot at the Best Picture award.

** Hell, the entire castle siege in general was amazing, considering it was an angry mob of simple-minded townsfolk armed with torches and pitchforks against an entire castle of servants transformed into ordinary household objects who turn out to be NotSoHarmless. You try and fight against drawers of living cutlery, a cannibal chest, and an ApronMatron teapot who utilizes her tea cup children into ''scalding'' people.

''Phillipe the horse proceeds to violently kick open the doors...''' '''with Belle on his back'''.

** This is the first movie that this troper remembers seeing in theaters. You could hear a pin drop when the Transformation scene was happening and the moment the Beast's face changed, the whole theater erupted in applause.