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I am aware that Belle keeps calling Rumple the Beast. But have they ever shown the actual original Beast?

I am confused about how this movie adaption is completely absent from OUaT.

I've only got fragments of the story, but from what I gather, Belle was given to Rumple as a servant or maybe a slave as payment for defeating the ogres attacking her kingdom. Aside from references to the Chipped Cup and Lumiere, there's nothing from the original story that seems to be present in the show.

Can anyone explain why the extreme departure and removal of the original Beauty and the Beast from the show? 