Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-24469175-20160518184507/@comment-26205772-20160520065635

Victor Hugo's take on Frollo in the original story was a much more tragic and three-dimensional character as opposed to the fanatical monster the Disney version is. Even considering how developed Frollo is as compared to other Monsters or even a lot of other Disney villains, the qualities which make Victor Hugo's version so great are only touched upon in the Disney version, which is ultimately still very much distilled from Hugo's Frollo. It would have been interesting if we saw more of Frollo's self-hatred and collapse into sin even as he tries to resist it; Disney rarely uses anti-villains as Big Bads (only Long John Silver and Callaghan come to mind, both of whom rank among my favorite Disney villains as a result) in the main animated canon.