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Zeus posted...

...roflmao. Novel Frollo has internal conflict, movie Frollo doesn't have much in the way of conflict or depth. If not for "Hellfire" lampshading some novel elements, you'd never know they existed. In fact, Disney went out of their way to change his character to remove the character depth from the novel, which is why now he's got some government role instead of playing a religious guy.

The opening number establishes that he believes himself to be righteous despite his villainy and it has him scared shitless about what might happen to him in the afterlife after killing a woman and trying to drown her baby on the steps of Notre Dame. That's already making him a more compelling character than any other villain on this list, and it's the first five minutes of the film.

Also, yes, Hellfire gives him a heaping helping of internal conflict, as opposed to it being some villain song where he gleefully sings about his delightfully wicked scheme. That also gives him depth. It's weird that you dismiss it as "lampshading" as if that entire sequence isn't featuring the Disney version of Frollo, and doesn't directly lead into the plot turn the rest of the movie takes from that point forward.

Also, the reason he's made into a judge and not a priest is because they wanted to avoid any controversy that would arise from portraying a priest and/or the Catholic church in a negative light. It's weird that you connect two totally unrelated things there, as if being a judge would magically make him a flat character; it's not like he isn't still bible-thumping as hell, he just doesn't serve the church in an official capacity because Disney didn't want to piss off the church. He does have a lot of depth from the novel sucked out, but he still remains the deepest of these Disney villains. I suppose that's a testament to how good novel Frollo is as well as how simple other Disney villains are.

There's far less to the role than people think. Between that and his character design, he ranks among the more forgettable Disney villains except when somebody is trying to be edgy.

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