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Probably some slight bias, or something. I think if we see Ariel, we see major plot points taken from her story and given to Ursula. I think of it like a shared story or even better, "Representation and not Duplication". Disney Ariel is a quirky, mermaid with a lovely voice that loves a prince, wants "to be a part of his world" that has a controlling father who has a hatred of mankind due to them killing his wife.

Ursula is a mermaid with a lovely voice that has a controlling father who has a hatred of mankind due to them killing his wife.

Ariel is a mermaid that loves a prince  and wants "to be a part of his world".

Likewise, Beast is a self-loathing prince transformed into a beastly figure that improsns and falls in love with the Beauty.

Rumple is a self-loathing person transformed into a beastly figure that imprisons and falls in love the Beauty.

Phillip is a prince transformed into a beastly figure.

All he's got is the prince thing and some more animalistic curse. Now, I won't be to stubborn to not accept adaptation (stretching it). But he's not repsresenting the Beast. Even in that episode, Belle was still paralleling that situation to Rumple.