“ | And He shall smite the wicked, and plunge them into the fiery pit! | „ |
~ Frollo’s last words |
Judge Claude Frollo (also simply known as Frollo) is the main antagonist of Disney's animated feature film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is based on the 1831 French novel of the same name by the late Victor Hugo.
History
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What Makes Him Pure Evil
- Devoting his life to a genocidal crusade against the Romani people, persecuting countless of them on account of their ethnicity.
- Killing Quasimodo's mom in the prologue merely under the suspicion that she's running off with stolen goods, then almost drowns baby Quasimodo in a well upon viewing his deformed face and deeming him a demon from Hell.
- Only taking Quasimodo and raising him to make up for his sin for killing the mother of Quasimodo, out of fear of God's judgment.
- Raising Quasimodo in the Notre Dame clock tower, sheltering him from the world whilst incessantly reminding Quasimodo of his belief that the world would torture him due to his monstrous appearance, psychologically abusing him in this wise.
- Refusing to save Quasimodo from the crowd that was torturing and throwing stuff at him, as he felt Quasimodo needed to be punished for defying him.
- Projecting onto Quasimodo after finding that the latter had befriended Esmeralda by exploding at and berating him.
- Forcing Esmeralda in a double bind between submitting to him or burning alive, due to his own insatiable lust for her, and attempting to burn Esmeralda at the stake when she refused his offer.
- Setting fire to a large part of Paris, directly attempts to burn a family alive simply because he, delusionally, concludes they're traitors, on the flabby grounds that they've accommodated gypsies in the past.
- Attempting to have Pheobus promptly executed for not following his orders to burn a family alive.
- Attacking and defiling the Notre Dame cathedral.
- Attempting to murder his own foster son, Quasimodo, when the latter wrenches free from his guardian's grasp, even after Quasimodo had saved Frollo from falling just moments before.