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Frollo sentences Esmeralda to be burned at the stake as Sora arrives on the scene. As Quasimodo rescues Esmeralda, Sora confronts Frollo, ready to fight him, but Frollo summons the Gargoyle again and follows Quasimodo into the cathedral, where they end up fighting on the balcony of Notre Dame. During the battle, Frollo spitefully reveals that he murdered Quasimodo's mother twenty years ago, in stark contrast to the tale he had brought him up with about his mother abandoning him, and knocks him off the balcony, but Quasimodo pulls Frollo down along with him. Frollo hangs onto a nearby stone gargoyle and climbs up, ready to kill Esmeralda and Quasimodo, but the gargoyle he is standing on breaks off and he falls to his death.
Frollo sentences Esmeralda to be burned at the stake as Sora arrives on the scene. As Quasimodo rescues Esmeralda, Sora confronts Frollo, ready to fight him, but Frollo summons the Gargoyle again and follows Quasimodo into the cathedral, where they end up fighting on the balcony of Notre Dame. During the battle, Frollo spitefully reveals that he murdered Quasimodo's mother twenty years ago, in stark contrast to the tale he had brought him up with about his mother abandoning him, and knocks him off the balcony, but Quasimodo pulls Frollo down along with him. Frollo hangs onto a nearby stone gargoyle and climbs up, ready to kill Esmeralda and Quasimodo, but the gargoyle he is standing on breaks off and he falls to his death.


Riku, conversely, arrives to find Phoebus rebelling against Frollo after the latter ordered him to burn down an innocent man's barn. Using his inner darkness, Frollo summons the Gargoyle Dream Eater to fight Riku and Phoebus as he flees back to the cathedral. Riku follows it up to the top balcony of the cathedral, where Frollo stands atop the railing madly, witnessing the damage below. Frollo summons the Gargoyle Dream Eater to battle Riku, but the ensuing vibrations cause Frollo to lose his balance and fall to his death while laughing madly.-->
Riku, conversely, arrives to find Phoebus rebelling against Frollo after the latter ordered him to burn down an innocent man's barn. Using his inner darkness, Frollo summons the Gargoyle Dream Eater to fight Riku and Phoebus as he flees back to the cathedral. Riku follows it up to the top balcony of the cathedral, where Frollo stands atop the railing madly, witnessing the damage below. Frollo summons the Gargoyle Dream Eater to battle Riku, but the ensuing vibrations cause Frollo to lose his balance and fall to his death.-->
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Revision as of 17:06, 31 March 2012

Template:Enemy Claude Frollo is a character who appears in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. He comes from the Disney film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Story

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

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Appearance

Frollo appears as an 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 dark robes, a purple and black striped hat with a red ribbon attached, and 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.

Development

Frollo was the first Disney villain confirmed for the game, and he was first revealed to appear in the game in the November 2011 issue of V-Jump, where he was depicted meeting Sora alongside Phoebus, as well as harassing Esmeralda in another scene. These scenes or others featuring Frollo later appeared in the Jump Festa 2012 and February 2012 Special Trailers.

Origin

Frollo's original appearance dates back to 1831 in Victor Hugo's classic novel, Notre-Dame de Paris, where he is the Archdeacon of Paris and the novel's tragic villain. This incarnation of the character first appeared in the 1996 adaptation, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, where he was changed from a tragic figure to a fully-fledged villain. In this version, he 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.

Twenty years later, Frollo falls for a young gypsy girl, Esmeralda, but also makes himself her enemy when he orders her arrested for defying him in public by defending Quasimodo. Frollo's lust reaches the point of obsession when he begins a ruthless manhunt to find her, burning down most of Paris in the process. Eventually, Frollo finds the Court of Miracles with Quasimodo's unwitting help and sentences Esmeralda to execution when she refuses to become his mistress. This, however, proves to be his final mistake, since it arouses Quasimodo's anger and results in a ferocious battle between the citizens and Frollo's army of thugs. Frollo forces his way into the cathedral and attempts to kill Quasimodo, but the two end up fighting across the balconies of Notre Dame. During the battle, Frollo spitefully reveals that he killed Quasimodo's mother, but the fight eventually culminates in Frollo falling to his death into a lake of molten copper.

Other appearances

El Cetro y el Reino

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 boys helps 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 suddenly appears and hides Sora and Riku from Frollo and his thugs, by bringing them to the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

  • Frollo is one of the few Disney Villains in Dream Drop Distance to not be a boss, the other being CLU.

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