Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-694244-20160921150205/@comment-26884760-20161022031821

here's the problem, as horrible as Frollo was his methods were perfectly legal for his time (torture, even limited genocide) - it was medieval times, rulers like Frollo could do what they please and it was a bad time for everyone..

he only lost that privilage when he pushed too far and went from a Tyrant to a Destroyer, it was at that point all of Paris rebelled because he had went full Caligula and was clearly going to kill everyone if he wasn't violently removed from power - I imagine had the revolt failed the King of France would of eventually had to step up and dethrone Frollo (Frollo was not King, after all, merely a Judge).

so, sadly, for his time period Frollo was acting within the law (or at least not angering the King much) until he started to go insane.. even at his worst there was no sign of the King (or other authority figure) coming to blows with him, it was a Peasant Uprising rather than an official decree to have Frollo removed from power (had the film been historical most of the rioters would of been killed after the event (because Frollo was still technically a ruler), being Disney they wash over these things and give a happy ending (alternatively authorities did arrive, realized Frollo had went mad and glossed over the whole thing) ).