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This page regroups works based off the Fairy Tale Beauty and the Beast.
Anime & Manga
- Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost: After her mother is killed protecting her from a monster who kidnaps women to steal their faces, Belle's father locks her in the house for the next five years. Belle suspects that her mother isn't dead, and when rumors of the Beast's return surface, slips out looking for answers. She's promptly kidnapped by one Beast, which is then killed by a second. She is soon trapped in the second Beast's castle. Much terror and horror ensues, as this retelling uses the trappings of the fairy tale as the framework for a very dark discussion of the trauma resulting from Domestic Abuse and the obsession with beauty.
- Belle (2021): When Belle's concert is interrupted by a mysterious figure called "The Dragon", she befriends him. Lots of plot riffs from the fairy tale and the Disney adaptation, including the castle-storming scene. These aren't real people, though. They are avatars in a virtual-reality universe. The actual people behind them have related-but-distinct challenges of their own.
- An episode of Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, appropriately titled "Beauty and the Beast".
Literature
- Barking Benjamin: When Barking Benjamin leaves his home cartoon continuity In the short story "The Beast", he meets aristocratic loner Mortimer Magglesworth, who has been cursed to be a giant anthropomorphic lizard. Mortimer has decided to make lemons out of lemonade, adjusting to a life of solitude and ostracism. Then he meets Cassie...
- Beast 2004: A young adult novel by Donna Jo Napoli. A prince of Persia makes a foolish choice on the day of the Feast of Sacrifices. Cursed to be a beast, he must wander the Middle East and France in search of love and redemption.
- Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge by Lisa Jensen: A semi-Deconstruction of the tale which borrows many elements from the Disney version.
- Beastly: Told through the eyes of the teenage Beast, this version has been moved to modern New York City.
- Beauty and the Werewolf, from Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, has many of the elements of Beauty and the Beast: The gorgeous girl being held at a mysterious castle, the cursed housemate, the merchant father, and the siblings (though without the jealousy and selfishness). The local Genre Savvy Godmother even thinks that the tale is playing out. The actual narrative of the plot ends up paralleling another tale entirely.
- Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast: Honor "Beauty" Huston — who believes that her nickname is a Blatant Lie — is an excellent student with dreams of attending university. She volunteers to take her father's place in the Beast's palace, as she feels that she can best be spared from home. She sets about befriending the Beast and solving the mysteries that surround her.
- The Bloody Chamber: "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" and "The Tiger's Bride" are (separate) short stories. Both are gothic tales based on Beauty and the Beast.
- Bookish and the Beast, the third book in the Once Upon A Con series—the "beast" is a spoiled Hollywood actor while the "beauty" is a girl from the small town he's forced to hide out in.
- Bryony and Roses: Bryony lives with her sisters in a small village, struggling to make a living after the death of their merchant father. When she stumbles into an abandoned manor in a snowstorm, she soon finds herself trapped with the Beast that lives there. Is he captor or prisoner? And what's with the courtyard full of roses blooming in midwinter? Bryony only has her wits and gardening shears, but she'll need to unravel the house's secrets before they swallow her down.
- Cruel Beauty: Blends the story structure of "Beauty and the Beast" with elements from classical mythology.
- The Cursebreaker Series: An 18 year old girl from modern Washington, D.C. is kidnapped into another world to try to break the curse on a prince doomed to forever repeat the fall of his 18th year, turning into an unstoppable beast at the end of each "season".
- The Fire Rose: A variant where the Beauty is hired because she's fluent in the languages that the Beast needs to have deciphered. He's a magician, and is trying to find a magical answer to his transformation problem.
- Hagenheim: The Merchant's Daughter retells the story with all of the magical bits replaced with religious elements from The Middle Ages.
- Heart's Blood: Fleeing her abusive family, a young woman finds herself among the cursed denizens of Whistling Tor. Acting as scribe to the deformed chieftain, she takes it upon herself to break the curse. Heavy elements from Medieval Ireland.
- The Last Wish: In "A Grain of Truth", Geralt encounters a man transformed into a beast by a curse. Many of the elements of the fairy tale are here, but the actual situation is deconstructed, Witcher style.
- Pulchritude: "...an ugly tale of beauty." Dark and grimmified retelling in a culturally anachronistic version of pre-Renaissance Italy.
- Rose Daughter: After a fall into poverty, Beauty lives with her father and sisters in small Rose Cottage. Trading her freedom for her father's life, Beauty's skill in tending roses becomes important when she finds that the Beast's rose garden is dying. Will she be able to save the garden? And what about the magic surrounding the Beast? Focused on the roses and magic, this retelling may not end quite how we expect.
- The Scarlet Flower: The definitive Russian-language literary version.
- Time Lord Fairy Tales has "Helena and the Beast". A woman discovers that her scientist father's latest employer is a monster who seeks a cure for his state. Realizing the creature's loneliness, she agrees to live in his mansion in exchange for her father's release. Of course, The Doctor is involved in the resolution.
- In the children's book Whatever After: Beauty Queen, siblings Abby and Jonah accidentally create a Fractured Fairytale version of the story, and have to work hard to get all characters their Happily Ever After. Pretty much none of the actual plot survives intact.
Films — Animation
- Beauty and the Beast (Disney Animated Canon, 1991): Probably the most well known adaptation.
- Disney's franchise derived from the above.
- Beauty and the Beast (Golden 1992): When her father must pay with his life for stealing a Beast's rose, Beauty agrees to take his place, fully expecting to be killed. The Beast finds her so beautiful that he keeps her captive instead, and provides her with every luxury. Very soon, she's insisting that he's actually a good person.
- Beauty and the Beast (Golden 1999): An animated film from Golden Films - not to be confused with Beauty and the Beast (Golden 1992).
- The Scarlet Flower: The 1952 Soviet animated adaptation of the Russian fairytale.
Films — Live Action
- Beauty and the Beast (1946): This version codified the "Handsome but Villainous Suitor" character, and has influenced the visual design of many subsequent adaptations, including the 1991 Disney animated version.
- Beauty And The Beast 1962: The first English film adaption of the fairy tale. The heir to the throne turns into a werewolf-like Beast because of a curse cast by an alchemist his deceased father killed many years ago.
- Beauty and the Beast (2014)
- Beauty and the Beast (2017), part of the Disney Live-Action Remakes
- Blood of Beasts: A Norse princess seeks to rescue her father from imprisonment at the hands of a bestial creature cursed by Odin.
- Panna a netvor, literally Beauty and the Beast: When her father's life is threatened for stealing a rose, Julie goes immediatly to his captor's castle to save him. Netvor is a horrifying bird-monster with a taste for blood. Wiil he succumb to his thirst, or will the power of love allow him to gain humanity? A dark, grim czech adaptation with a good deal of Gothic Horror along the way.
- Rigoletto: A young girl befriends and takes singing lessons from a disfigured man who is thought by the rest of the town to be a monster. Non-romantic retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story beats, with a few elements inspired by The Phantom of the Opera.
- The Scarlet Flower, the 1977 Soviet live-action adaptation of The Scarlet Flower, with the enchantress becoming a heavy case of Ascended Extra.
Live-Action TV
- Beauty and the Beast (1987): A beautiful Assistant District Attorney in modern New York City tries to maintain a relationship with a beastly member of an underground outcast society while dealing with crimes that affect both of their worlds.
- Beauty and the Beast (2012) A beautiful NYC cop collaborates with a former test subject from a government Super-Soldier program. When he's angry, he transforms into a violent beast. Very loosely inspired by Beauty and the Beast (1987).
- The Beauty and the Beast installment of Faerie Tale Theatre: Intended to be kid-friendly, but also very much a homage to Beauty and the Beast (1946).
Video Games
- Bronze: A work of Interactive Fiction by Emily Short. Play as Beauty from the day that you are scheduled to return to the castle. Things have gone wrong.
- Dark Parables: "The Queen of Sands" is a detective-themed Hidden Object Game set in the village of Montafleur in Provence, France. Shadowy purple mists and sightings of a mysterious beast. Elements of both Beauty and the Beast and The Sandman.
- Dark Romance: Heart of the Beast has Beatrice agree to help Jonathan undo a spell placed on him and his servants in return for an enchanted rose that could save her father's life.
- Living Legends: Uninvited Guests: Kate Petite's reunion with her cousin, Prince Leo, is derailed by the appearance of a mysterious beast in the castle that controls everything in its walls. She must break into the castle to find out what happened to her cousin and the guests.
- Mystery Legends: Beauty and the Beast is set after the classic tale. Beauty's love is turned to stone, and she figures that the original enchantress is at it again. This time, she'll deal with her personally.
Web Animation
- Beauty and the Beast (Phelous): A parody version specifically meant to make fun of Dingo Pictures' low-quality films.
- Rejection, the fourth entry in Evil Tales: Luna, a modern girl, is trapped in a twisted version of the tale that reflects the trauma in her mundane life.
Webcomics
- Megan Kearney's Beauty and the Beast: A very long, richly detailed monochrome comic retelling, pulling inspiration from many previous adaptations.
Western Animation
- The VeggieTales episode "Beauty and the Beet" features An Aesop about unconditional love, with the romance morphed into an Intergenerational Friendship.
