Claude Frollo: Difference between revisions

After Sora regains consciousness, he returns to the Square to find Frollo already in the process of burning Esmeralda at the stake. Suddenly, Quasimodo swings down from the balcony of Notre Dame and rescues the gypsy, carrying her to safety. Enraged, Frollo gives chase and runs towards Notre Dame. When Sora attempts to stop him, he is stopped in his tracks by the [[Wargoyle]], a massive Nightmare Dream Eater that falls from the sky above.

After Sora battles the creature, Frollo corners Quasimodo and Esmeralda on the balcony of Notre Dame. He reveals the truth about how Quasimodo's mother died trying to save him twenty years ago, and he raises a sword high above his head and attempts to kill him. Both Frollo and Quasimodo stumble off the balcony, but the wicked judge's fall comes to a halt when he grabs onto one of the gargoyles below him. As Esmeralda struggles to lift the unconscious Quasimodo back onto the balcony, Frollo stands up on the gargoyle and attempts to kill her with his sword. The stone begins to crumble under Frollo's weight, and the judge loses his footing. He grabs the gargoyle by the neck, saving himself, but the creature comes to life and roars at him. At that moment, the gargoyle breaks off of Notre Dame, and the terrified Frollo plummets to his death in the flames below the cathedral.

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[[File:Frollo's Darkness 01 KH3D.png|thumb|left|Frollo attempts to punish a family for harboring gypsies, but is blocked by Phoebus.]]

===''The Sceptre and the Kingdom''===

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When Donald transports Sora and Riku to La Cité des Cloches by mistake, they appear out of the air and fall on top of Frollo. Although the two Keyblade wielders help him up, he is perturbed by their strange clothes, and when one of his thugs comments that they popped out of the air, he declares them to be witches who shall be burned at the stake. However, Esmeralda appears and hides Sora and Riku from Frollo and his thugs by taking them to Notre Dame cathedral.

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Frollo is a slender, aging man defined by his wrinkled face and white hair. As the Minister of Justice and a high-ranking public official, Frollo is most frequently dressed in black and purple robes, a purple and black striped hat with a red ribbon attached, a purple jumpsuit, and black shoulder pads with red stripes. He also wears rings on his fingers, two on the right and one on the left, with the jewels colored red, green, and blue.

==Personality==

[[File:An Unwelcome Guest 01 KH3D.png|thumb|left|Frollo threatens Esmeralda with a stake burning.]]

Frollo is a wicked, self-righteous man who seeks to maintain law and order in La Cité des Cloches by any means. Viewing himself as virtuous and on the side of God, Frollo wishes to bring others to justice, claiming his evil deeds are justified as being of divine will. One method by which he executes "righteous judgment" is by using the Wargoyle and other Dream Eaters. It is through fulfilling his wicked acts and punishments that Frollo becomes blind to his own faults.

One of Frollo's defining traits is his burning desire to eradicate all gypsies, namely Esmeralda, whom he brands a "gypsy witch". He perceives the gypsies to be a direct threat to law and order in the city and has spent decades trying to purge the city of them.

Unfortunately, his heart has become steeped in darkness in the process. When Sora visits La Cité des Cloches, Frollo reveals himself to be extremely prejudiced against those who are different from himself, assuming the Keyblade wielder is a trouble-making gypsy simply because of his "disgusting attire". In Riku's story, Frollo shows a more sadistic side of himself, relishing the view of Paris being consumed by flames. Riku confirms Frollo's dark nature, claiming that all he sees in Frollo is a "sad old man with a dark heart".

==Origin==

[[File:Claude Frollo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).png|thumb|left|Frollo expresses his infatuation with Esmerald's beauty in his song "Hellfire" from ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''.]]

Frollo first appeared in Victor Hugo's classic novel, ''Notre-Dame de Paris'', where he is the Archdeacon of Paris and the novel's tragic villain. His Disney debut was in the 1996 adaptation, ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', where he was changed from a tragic figure to a fully-fledged villain. Voiced by {{w|Tony Jay}}, this version is the Minister of Justice of Paris, and apparently the ruler or Governor of the city, given that he seems to be above every law in the city outside the cathedral, and even has his own army of thugs who dress up as soldiers to enforce his will. In the film, Frollo murders Quasimodo's mother outside Notre Dame and is forced by the Archdeacon to raise the child as atonement, an act Frollo only performs to save himself from damnation and in hopes of finding the gypsy stronghold, the Court of Miracles.  

==Notes and references==

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