PTSD!LeFou
Let’s talk about this deleted scene from Beauty and the Beast.
So - throughout the entire movie, LeFou is portrayed as an incredibly strong character. He never slips for a moment, keeping his calm even when Gaston does not. He questions Gaston’s morals and even outright disagrees with him right before “The Mob Song.” It’s been explicitly stated that both he and Gaston fought in a war (probably the Seven Years’ War), and even though Gaston shows blatant signs of PTSD, LeFou, for some reason, doesn’t.
In this moment, LeFou shows a strange, OOC moment of vulnerability. He mutters, “I shouldn’t be here, I shouldn’t be here,” to himself and hides in a water closet for a few moments (until his moment of peace is interrupted by Monsieur Toilette).
I feel like this deleted scene shows how repressive LeFou was of his PTSD - and maybe even emotions? Being friends with Gaston sadly conditioned him into thinking that none of his feelings mattered - the whole relationship was very convoluted and Gaston-centric. As evidenced in the scene in the forest with Maurice, he’s one of the only people who can calm Gaston down when he’s angry (by referencing “the war” and “widows,” even if it might pain him to do so).
Besides the obvious, I think one of the reasons this scene was cut is because it shows LeFou being weak and displaying a certain helplessness. The rest of the movie doesn’t portray him in this way, and it’s frankly very uncharacteristic. If this scene had been included in the movie, however, it would’ve told us that LeFou is definitely repressing... well, if not PTSD, then something.
(Above gif is from this gifset. Full scene can be viewed here.)