Claude Frollo

Judge Claude Frollo is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Disney's 34th animated film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). He was based on Archdeacon Claude Frollo from Victor Hugo's 1831 novel. Frollo is ranked one of the greatest villains in the Disney Renaissance, and widely regarded one of the darkest animated film villains in the history of Disney animated films. Personality Frollo is portrayed in the film as the ruthless, self-righteous, narcissistic, hypocritical, short-tempered, manipulative and fanatically religious French Minister of Justice. He views the world and everyone in it (except for himself) as corrupt and sinful, and reserves particular hatred for Paris' Romani population, whom he longs to exterminate. Like his original character in Hugo's novel, Frollo adopts Quasimodo as his son and lusts after the Romani girl Esmeralda to the point of obsession, and resolves that she will submit to him or die. Frollo believes everything he does is in accordance with God's will, despite his hypocrisy in lusting after Esmeralda and treating her people and Quasimodo with cruelty. Director Gary Trousdale described the film's Frollo as "a horrible, horrible person", while Tony Jay, who voiced him, compared him to Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.