Frollo

Frollo is the main antagonist of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He is voiced by Tony Jay.

Frollo is prejudiced against Gypsies and wants to imprison or kill them all. At the beginning of the film he chases after a woman whom he thought was carrying stolen goods. After killing her, he found that she was really carrying a misshapen baby, whom he tries to drown in the well, before the Archdeacon stopped him and told him to care for the child to save his soul from going to hell. So he raised him in the bell tower so no one could see him, and named him Quasimodo.

Frollo forbad Quasimodo from going outside, but one day he snuck outside to go to the Festival of Fools. When the crowd began to throw things at him, following the example of two of Frollo's guards, he refused to help him, and a gypsy woman named Esmerelda confronted Frollo about his cruelty. Frollo told his captain, Phoebus, to arrest her. She escaped with a magic trick, and Frollo accused her of witchcraft. She entered the cathedral, to which Frollo could not arrest her as she claimed sanctuary, however, he put guards at every door so she could not escape.

Quasimodo helped Esmerelda escape, while in the meantime Frollo was disturbed by his own lust for Esmerelda, fearing eternal damnation for it. Upon hearing of Esmerelda's escape, Frollo began threatening people, and attempted to kill the miller and his family by burning down the mill, but they were rescued by Phoebus. Frollo tried to have him killed for his insubordination. After Phoebus was shot by an arrow, Frollo left him for dead, but Esmerelda rescued him, while Frollo set Paris on fire.

Upon realizing Quasimodo's hand in Esmerelda's escape, Frollo told him that he knew where the gypsies' hideout was and that he'd attack at dawn with a thousand men. This was a trick so that Quadimodo and Phoebus could lead him to the Court of Miracles. He imprisoned all the gypsies and tried to burn Esmerelda at the stake as a witch, but she was rescued by Quasimodo. Quasimodo, Phoebus, the gargoyles, and the people of Notre Dame fought against Frollo and his guards, winning the battle when Quasimodo poured a cauldron of molten lead over the edge.

Though the Archdeacon confronted Frollo for attacking the cathedral, Frollo decided to kill Quasimodo once and for all without the Archdeacon's interference. This led to a final showdown at the edge of the cathedral, where Frollo revealed to Quasimodo the true nature of his mother's death (he previously told him she abandoned him). Frollo stood on a gargoyle and was about to kill Esmerelda when the gargoyle he was standing on crumbled, sending him falling into the lava below.