With a majority of the film's heavy thematic elements being directly tied to Frollo's story arc - such as religion, lust, and genocide - he is widely considered to be amongst the most complex and darkest Disney villains of all time. Frollo's self-imposed mission drives him to perform inhumane acts of violence, all the while using his loyalty to God as justification. He believes Romani people (or 'gypsies', as he refers to them) to be the most heinous of all malefactors, and therefore dedicates twenty years of his life to eradicating them.
He is a powerful Parisian justice minister, who, after a series of sensitive circumstances, becomes the begrudged caretaker of the deformed Quasimodo.Īside from his political authority, Frollo is a religious zealot with intolerance for sinners. Judge Claude Frollo is the main antagonist of Disney's 1996 animated feature film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. “ Judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin.Īnd he saw corruption everywhere, except within.” ― Clopin during ' The Bells of Notre Dame'
