1. Claude Frollo

Other names: Minister, Judge Frollo, Master Frollo, Sir, Personality: Cruel, lying, threatening, sexist, vengeful, racist, pure evil, blasphemous, bad, cold, ruthless, arrogant, selfish, religious malevolent, vicious, sinister, manipulative, deluded, profane, merciless, psychopathic, turbulent, argumentative, moody, hypocritical, corrupt, oppressive, tyrannical, cunning, critical, intolerant, abusive, genocidal, murderer, dangerous, intimidating, intelligent, antiziganist, genocidal, strict, ominous, sadistic, sarcastic, seductive, proud, vain. Appearance: Serious, with wrinkles, gray hair, and black eyes. Occupation: Menacing Judge of Paris Alliance: Evil Objective: Destroy the residents of Paris (failed) Extinguishing the Roma people (failed) Home: The Palace of Justice Family: Jehan Frollo (younger brother) Quasimodo (unrecognized nephew) Enemies: Esmeralda, Quasimodo, Phoebus, Clopin, Djali, the Archdeacon, Quasimodo's Mother, Quasimodo's Father, the Residents of Paris, the Gypsies, Sora, Riku. Henchmen: Frollo's Guards, Lieutenant Eye-Contact, Sergeant Gratchett Weapons: Dagger, sword Ending: He falls from the top of Notre Dame to his death straight into the fires of hell.

Judge Frollo has an older and serious appearance and has a threatening look with wrinkles on his face, black hair with gray hair and black eyes. He always wears his black judge's robe with purple motifs, he has a large purple and black striped cap with a red ribbon and red and black striped shoulder pads. He also wears yellow rings on his fingers, two on the right and one on the left, with red, green and blue jewels.

Frollo is the embodiment of pure evil (see template) but primarily has a strong anti-Gypsyism (a deathly hatred of Gypsies), and has sent his guards to hunt down the beautiful Gypsy Esmeralda for witchcraft, in order to condemn her to death at the stake. Although she has become his greatest enemy, being one of those whose heart Esmeralda has managed to steal, he is a cruel and corrupt government official who uses his place in power to achieve his own extreme ends, even employing common thugs to enforce his interpretation of God's will while posing as "soldiers". He also believes his actions are out of religious intent but is nothing more than a hypocrite as he blames the church but not himself. Interestingly, while most Disney villains know what they do is wrong (and don't care or take pride in it), Frollo actually believes he is a good person or at least believes his actions are for the greater good, making him a very three-dimensional character as well. He repeatedly refuses to find fault with himself and is rather self-righteous, declaring himself far purer than "the vulgar, weak, and licentious common multitude" and to be above the Biblical doctrine that all men are equally sinful, confirming him as a narcissist. He believes everything he does is in the name of God, even when he attacks Notre Dame Cathedral in order to catch, arrest, and execute a Romani woman, but all of those acts lead to his end being punished for his evilness when a demon manifests in front of him and they fall together into Hell.

Twenty years ago, Frollo discovered a gypsy family arriving in Paris. The woman ran away from him, but the judge chased her, thinking she was carrying stolen goods. At the entrance to Notre Dame, he pushed her down the steps at the foot of the cathedral, thus killing her. When Judge Frollo saw that what she was carrying was a hideous baby, he threw it down a well, disgusted by its ugliness. When the Archdeacon discovers it, telling him that he will sin for it, Frollo promised to take care of the gypsy's hideous baby by raising and teaching it for eighteen years while working as Notre Dame's bell ringer, naming it Quasimodo, which means "malformed".

Twenty years later, Frollo, now Minister of Justice, summons the brave war soldier Phoebus to be his new Captain of the Guard, as the latter was "a bit of a disappointment" to him and is being tortured to death in the Palace of Justice. He hopes to drive the Roma out of Paris with Phoebus' help and go to Heaven when he dies (something impossible, due to his many misdeeds). While attending the annual Festival of Fools, Frollo discovers a Roma dancer named Esmeralda, who attracts him with her beauty. He soon learns that Quasimodo left the Belfry against his orders, entered the Festival, and was crowned King of Fools. Frollo refuses to help Quasimodo when the latter is being publicly attacked by the crowd to teach him a lesson, even when the hunchback implores his help; he delays Phoebus' request to stop him. He is enraged when Esmeralda openly challenged him for his cruelty and frees Quasimodo. In retaliation, he orders her to be arrested. After seeing her disappear into a cloud, he rashly concludes that she is a witch and immediately orders Phoebus to bring her back alive. With the help of the crowd, Esmeralda escapes to the Cathedral, where Frollo finds her talking to Phoebus and orders them to force her out of the Cathedral, but the Archdeacon rebuffs her and orders them all out. Frollo pretends to leave before surprising Esmeralda and laying his hands on her; this reveals that he had lustful feelings for her. He then confronts her and tells her that he will arrest her if she dares to leave. However, she ventures to the bell tower and is reunited with Quasimodo, who helps her escape.

That night at the Palace of Justice, Frollo is disturbed by his attraction to Esmeralda, which he believes is turning him into a sin and begs the Virgin Mary to protect him from her "spell" and to let Esmeralda taste the fires of Hell if she would not be his. Learning from a Brutish Guard that she has escaped from the cathedral, he becomes enraged and, with his guards the next day, begins a ruthless manhunt to find her, burning down the homes of anyone suspected of harboring Romani people and interrogating any Romani people who are caught. He later attempts to execute an innocent family he suspects of interacting with Romani by burning down their house with them still inside. A horrified Phoebus eventually rebels against him and rescues the family. Frollo declares Phoebus a traitor and attempts to kill him, but a disguised Esmeralda throws a rock at his horse, knocking him off and giving Phoebus time to escape. The guards shoot arrows at Phoebus, who is wounded and falls into the river, and continue to shoot until Frollo stops them. They proceed across a bridge to end the chase. Once they are gone, a wounded Phoebus is quickly rescued by Esmeralda after having been left for dead.

Upon returning to the burning city, Frollo is informed that Esmeralda is still at large. He heads to the bell tower, thinking that Quasimodo might have been responsible for helping Esmeralda. To get the truth out of him, he gives Quasimodo some grapes, hinting to Quasimodo that he knows he is hiding a secret, this is true as Phoebus survived and was in the bell tower. Eventually, Frollo deduces that Quasimodo helped Esmeralda escape after finding the wooden figure of her that Quasimodo made. Frollo angrily attacks him and is on the verge of physical abuse, but when he realizes he is losing his breath, he calms down. Suspecting that Quasimodo still has connections to Esmeralda, Frollo lies to him that he has found the Court of Miracles and is ready to attack at dawn, which was a trick. A deluded Quasimodo accompanies Phoebus to court, and Frollo and his henchmen follow them and arrest the Romani. Frollo praises Quasimodo for leading him to them and admits that he would never have found him without his help. He then notices that Phoebus has survived and remarked that he intended to "remedy" him. Seeing this, Quasimodo begs him to recall the guards. Frollo refuses and tells them to take the hunchback to the bell tower, ensuring that he stays there. In the square, Frollo sentences Esmeralda to death, but offers to save her from immolation if she chooses. She refuses to become Frollo's lustful slave, spitting in his face in contempt, prompting him to burn her at the stake. He watches and smiles sadistically as she passes out from the smoke. But Quasimodo rescues her after she faints and returns her to the cathedral, much to Frollo's anger. Shortly afterward, Quasimodo drops a large bolt of lightning that destroys her carriage and nearly crushes it, the same bolt of lightning that Frollo orders his soldiers to pick up and use to break down the doors of Notre Dame.

Angered by this desecration and attack on the beloved cathedral, as well as fed up with Frollo's tyranny and rallied by Phoebus, the citizens of Paris arm themselves, liberate the Roma, and revolt against Frollo's guards. Although the ancient doors of Notre Dame manage to hold out for a time, they are eventually breached. Frollo manages to enter the cathedral, directly challenging the archdeacon when he states that he would not tolerate violence in the church. Frollo ignores him and throws him down a flight of stairs, then locks him outside the bell tower so that he will not follow and interfere. He then confronts Quasimodo in the bell tower, falsely comforting him over Esmeralda's apparent "death" and attempting to kill him with a dagger, resulting in a brief but violent struggle in which Quasimodo overpowers Frollo, knocks the dagger out of his hands and throws him to the floor. Quasimodo then looms over Frollo, who momentarily abandons his pride and begs Quasimodo to listen to him. But Quasimodo refuses, angrily shouting that all his life Frollo has told him the world is a dark and cruel place, but now he sees that people who are like Frollo are the only reason why. Just then, Esmeralda awakens, alive and well, and Quasimodo rushes to her side, overjoyed that she is okay and carries her to safety. Enraged, Frollo draws his sword and chases them to a balcony overlooking the city, slashing them with his sword with Quasimodo unable to defend himself due to Esmeralda's protection.

In his rage, Frollo finally admits that he killed Quasimodo's mother when she tried to save her baby, much to Quasimodo's shock and horror. As such, Frollo decides to kill Quasimodo himself as he "should have done 20 years ago." In their brief fight, Frollo and Quasimodo are left dangling over molten lava. As Esmeralda desperately tries to save Quasimodo, Frollo manages to recover by positioning himself on top of a gargoyle and raises his sword to attack Esmeralda. With his eyes and teeth glowing a demonic fire-like color, Frollo laughs maniacally as he declares his final blasphemy: "And He shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the pit of fire!" Immediately after uttering these words, the gargoyle he is standing on begins to break loose and causes Frollo to lose his balance, managing to grab it at the last second but dropping his sword in the process. As he clings to the gargoyle for dear life, the stone beast appears to come to life and roars demonically at Frollo, terrifying the latter until he screams (whether this is Frollo hallucinating in his final moments, the cathedral giving the gargoyle life, or even full-blown divine intervention is unclear). The gargoyle then shatters completely, sending a screaming Frollo plummeting into the vast lake of molten copper below to his death, symbolically sending him to Hell for his sins and wickedness.

Expert Combatant: Despite his frail appearance, Frollo possesses a considerable amount of strength, shown by the muscle in his arms and the way he is able to hold his own against Quasimodo using his sword,

Frollo was very different in Victor Hugo's original novel. He was a much more compassionate, kind-hearted, and tragic young man, as well as considerably less evil, and not nearly as old as in the film (around 36 for most of the story). He willingly adopts Quasimodo as his own son when his mother abandons him in the book (rather than the Disney film's Frollo who reluctantly takes him in after killing his mother) and names him after Quasimodo's Sunday (Easter Sunday) rather than his disfigurement. He even helps Quasimodo develop a form of sign language after he is deafened by the sounds of bells. He only becomes the villain when Esmeralda enters the picture. His lust drives him to madness just as in the Disney version. The only difference at this point was that Frollo actually managed to have Esmeralda killed just before Quasimodo threw him out of Notre Dame, killing him.

Frollo is regarded as one of (if not the) darkest and most evil of all the Disney villains, even more so than his original counterpart. In fact, Frollo is meant by Disney to be as evil and as vile as possible, in an attempt to avoid the "Evil is good" trope common to many Disney villains. However, Frollo has actually become one of Disney's most popular and favorite villains (along with Scar, Hades, Ursula, and Maleficent). Some things that made him one of the darkest villains are that he is xenophobic, sexist, racist and a sexual harasser, and he blames all his actions on religion. As Frollo falls to his death, it is clear that he wants to symbolize that his soul is now trapped in eternal damnation in the Satanic fires of Hell for all eternity as punishment for his actions and to end his tyranny once and for all. Ironically, his last words in life were "And He shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit". Frollo commits many crimes in the film: Imprisonment (Quasimodo) Harassment (Esmeralda) Attempted murder (Phoebus, Esmeralda, Quasimodo, a family of four) Arson (Paris) Murder (Quasimodo's mother) Torture (his former captain of the Guard and Quasimodo) Although he is technically also guilty of attempted genocide and warrantless home searches, these were not counted as crimes in the time period of the film (15th century) as the concept of human rights including warrantless home searches was not considered until the Enlightenment movement in the 17th and 18th centuries and genocide did not formally become a punishable crime until after World War II due to the actions of Nazi Germany. Frollo's behavior strongly suggests that he is an arsonist.

Based on his mannerisms, it is implied that Frollo is ambidextrous. He apparently felt guilty about two of his sins: killing Quasimodo's mother and his lust for Esmeralda, though given his self-sufficient personality, he tries without fully believing himself to blame outside forces, such as the Devil, Esmeralda, or even God himself (whom he blames for having made man weaker than the Devil). As already stated, he does not fully convince himself with those lies and even fears for his soul because of those sins, begging the Lord for mercy numerous times. Frollo's death is more of a fear-based one than in the novel. In the film he grabs onto a gargoyle but it comes to life, breaks off, and enters the fire created by Quasimodo. This is Frollo's basic fear because he fears the damnation of his soul. In the novel, when Quasimodo sees him laughing at Esmeralda's hanging, he becomes enraged and pushes Frollo off the balustrade. A gargoyle stops his fall. He cries out to Quasimodo for help, but Quasimodo remains silent. Then, Frollo falls off the cathedral, until the roof of a house breaks his fall. He slides down the roof, hits the pavement of the town square, and dies. It is similar to Mother Gothel because they both take care of the child as if it were their own and do not allow him to leave. They both realize that they are leaving and manage to discover the truth and fall to their deaths.

hellfire- song

Oh Virgin Mary, You know I am your faithful slave My spirit walked along the righteous path. Oh Virgin Mary, I was not low, I was not weak, He was not like the vain crowd. Why Maria? On earth and in heaven, That gypsy look everywhere? Why then, Maria, A ray of sunshine in that hair Was it ready to cloud my mind more than once? And the flame of desire It torments my soul, And the breath of hell Lurks in that fire. Is it really that way? My fault That passion is sinful Was I instilled with the idea of ​​a witch? And is that really the case? It's my fault That the devil, created by the creator, Stronger than me? Oh Virgin Mary, Be my strength and protection Conquer the flame of sinful passion Make Esmeralda, To pacify your hellish spirit in fire And it would be better to become mine and only mine Oh, witch, What are you waiting for? Decide from now on - Will you come to me? Will you go up to the fire? God help her. God help me. If not to me, then to the fire!