#gantu

Gantu responds with “I’m from Samoa” or “I’m Samoan”.

The bystanders usually accept this flimsy excuse and go about their business.

I'm sorry but...

There is just no way they're gonna do that like that would be so fucking bad man

He's obviously an antagonist in the sense that he's going separate Lilo and Nani

But a straight up villain? That would be one of the worst decisions a live action remake has made since the casting of Gal Gadot in Snow White.

For the record, besides modern Disney execs being the ones who effectively call the shots on story in their films despite being hacks, I'm not unconvinced that the reason they didn't want to do Gantu in the remake is because Gantu is huge and that would be too much for the budget.

Still, it sucks that they axed Gantu and gutted Jumba as a result...

Honestly, Gantu had it goin on.

He was a bad cop who was called out and fired for being a bad cop.

He then was a lacky for a criminal basically as revenge before turning on said criminal when he remembered what he's actually about. Then, when given his position back by the Grand Council Woman, he accepts on the condition that his stoner Rob Paulson friend whom he abandoned on Earth be there to keep him in check:

Everyone talks about Anastasia Tremaine and Iago in terms of 'Disney villains who did a character development' and got 'reformed' into good guys, but no one mentions Gantu enough and you should be ashamed.