History Characters / TheHunchbackofNotreDame

* KarmaHoudini: Phoebus, who has no problem taking advantage of Esmeralda's innocence, or [[spoiler:letting her die]] on trumped up charges [[spoiler:including charges of his own murder]]. However, he suffers a tragic fate at the end: he gets married.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the book, he's a womanising {{Jerkass}} who gets no comeuppance. Here, he's more of a NiceGuy or JerkWithAHeartOfGold, who opposes Frollo whenever he can.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Phoebus, as he notes means ''"sun-god"''. Esmeralda is less than impressed.

* BirdsOfAFeather: While Esmeralda and Phoebus are both sarcastic and rebellious to do what is right, Phoebus doesn't rebel against Frollo until Frollo attempts to burn down a house with an innocent family still inside.

* DecompositeCharacter: The conflicted Archdeacon Claude Frollo is split into the good Archdeacon and the evil Justice Minister Claude Frollo. This was apparently done to make sure that they didn't get any religious controversy, and to avert any UnfortunateImplications that might come about from Frollo's AdaptationalVillainy.

* DumbBlonde: Averted.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Quasimodo.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He is this to a fault, especially in the Sequel when it came to Sarsousch and Madelline.

* KnightErrant: See KnightInSourArmor.

* [[ABoyAndHisX A Man And His Horse]]: His white stallion, Achilles, is his loyal friend.

* OfficialCouple: With Esmeralda.

* TheStarscream[=/=]HeelFaceTurn: He does this to Frollo, especially when after freeing himself, he takes leadership of the people he was ordered to oppress, and turns them on Frollo's soldiers.

* MadonnaWhoreComplex: While Quasimodo sees Esmeralda as an angel sent by God himself because she was so kind to him (and he wasn't familiar with kindness), Frollo sees her as a devil seductress and whore sent by Satan. Neither view of her is healthy or realistic, and it is Phoebus (who sees the middle ground, recognizing both Esmeralda's merits and quirks) who strikes the right note with her in the end.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Tragically [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. Esmerelda believes Phoebus is a KnightinShiningArmor when he saves her from the hideous Quasimodo but he's really a jerkass who only wants her for sex and whose selfishness is ultimately responsible more than even Frollo for ruining her life.

* DudeMagnet: To her disadvantage.

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* MeaningfulName: And how. Her name Esmeralda coming from her necklace, her real name (Agnès) meaning "lamb" or "pure/chaste", and Phoebus' nickname for her (Similar) being comparable to Quasimodo's name meaning something along the lines of "almost".

* SilkHidingSteel: For the time that she can, she keeps a knife under her skirt despite it being explicitly illegal and will not hesitate to use it at the slightest provocation, all while being a demure, innocent teenage girl.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: If she wasn't so beautiful, none of the bad things in the novel would've happened.
* StalkerWithACrush: A recipient of this from Frollo and Quasimodo. Esmeralda herself is this to Phoebus.

* GentleGiant: Semi-averted. Except to the people he loves (all two of them), Quasimodo is unsociable, violent, and mean.

* AffablyEvil: Is a startlingly decent guy, in contrast to his movie counterpart.

* LoveAtFirstSight: For Esmeralda.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine in a four suitors ensemble.

* KnightInShiningArmor: Phoebus more or less fits this trope, especially in Esmeralda's eyes. He's still a jerk, though.

* InterspeciesFriendship: With Esmeralda [[spoiler:and Gringoire]].

* NonHumanSidekick: A goat for Esmeralda.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Esmeralda for Phoebus.

* SexyJester: Probably unintentional, but he spends most of the movie dressed as a jester and remains sexy throughout.

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* [[spoiler:DiedInYourArmsTonight]]: Inverted with [[spoiler: Esmeralda. She was already dead when he found her. He spent the rest of his life cradling her corpse. The DownerEnding ends with people trying to separate the skeletons, but the skeletons disintegrating instead.]]

* [[spoiler:HookedUpAfterwards: Immediately begins a relationship with an unnamed, female horse at the end of the sequel]].

** BadassBeard: His beard is pretty cool looking. Probably to match his skills.
** BadassInCharge: Downplayed. He's the NumberTwo under Frollo but no doubt badass. In the sequel, he is probably number two to the king, but his authority appears to be almost at the same level as Frollo's.
** BadassOnPaper: His impressive career in the army is what made Frollo choose him.
** FourStarBadass: He was a French Knight in the King's Army.

* ObliviouslyEvil: Unlike most Disney villains, he believes himself to be the most righteous person in this story.
* OmnicidalManiac: Frollo wants to burn down the entire city of Paris all so he can find Esmeralda and either have him for himself or kill her.

* StrawHypocrite: [[HollierThanThou For a man who claims to be of god]], Frollo is demeaning to his underlings, isn't really part of the church, insulting to the citizens of Paris, boasts about his faith and righteousness, repeatedly denies that feeling lust for Esmeralda is his fault, denies that it's his fault that [[spoiler:Quasimodo's mother died (he ''kicked her in the head hard'')]] and says that he'll find Esmeralda "If I have to burn down all of Paris!" and fully intends to violate the vows of chastity that he's implied to have taken in order to have sex with Esmeralda. He also shows complete disregard for Church authority when [[spoiler:he tosses the Archdeacon down a flight of stairs for trying to stop him from reaching Quasimodo]].

* StrawHypocrite: [[HollierThenThou For a man who claims to be of god]], Frollo is demeaning to his underlings, isn't really part of the church, insulting to the citizens of Paris, boasts about his faith and righteousness, repeatedly denies that feeling lust for Esmeralda is his fault, denies that it's his fault that [[spoiler:Quasimodo's mother died (he ''kicked her in the head hard'')]] and says that he'll find Esmeralda "If I have to burn down all of Paris!" and fully intends to violate the vows of chastity that he's implied to have taken in order to have sex with Esmeralda. He also shows complete disregard for Church authority when [[spoiler:he tosses the Archdeacon down a flight of stairs for trying to stop him from reaching Quasimodo]].

* StrawHypocrite: [[HolierThenThou For a man who claims to be of god]], Frollo is demeaning to his underlings, isn't really part of the church, insulting to the citizens of Paris, boasts about his faith and righteousness, repeatedly denies that feeling lust for Esmeralda is his fault, denies that it's his fault that [[spoiler:Quasimodo's mother died (he ''kicked her in the head hard'')]] and says that he'll find Esmeralda "If I have to burn down all of Paris!" and fully intends to violate the vows of chastity that he's implied to have taken in order to have sex with Esmeralda. He also shows complete disregard for Church authority when [[spoiler:he tosses the Archdeacon down a flight of stairs for trying to stop him from reaching Quasimodo]].

* PromotionToParent: Frollo's parents die while he's a young man, leaving him to raise his baby brother, and then Quasimodo, whom he adopts.

* GreenEyes: In combination with her dark skin, she's a dead ringer for various Gypsy/Arab/Indian people.

* HelloNurse: Many men who see her go ga-ga over her. This is helpful to attract attention on the street, where she's dancing for coins, but less so when an evil man lusts over her.

* HangingJudge: He is described by Clopin as the judge, jury and executioner rolled into one, as shown when he sets up a public execution for the gypsies.

* SinisterMinister: To balance out the Archdeacon being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, he is a racist bigot.

* StrawHypocrite: For a man of the Church, Frollo is demeaning to his underlings, insulting to the citizens of Paris, boasts about his faith and righteousness, repeatedly denies that feeling lust for Esmeralda is his fault, denies that it's his fault that [[spoiler:Quasimodo's mother died (he ''kicked her in the head hard'')]] and says that he'll find Esmeralda "If I have to burn down all of Paris!" and fully intends to violate the vows of chastity that he's undoubtedly taken in order to have sex with Esmeralda. He also shows complete disregard for Church authority when [[spoiler:he tosses the Archdeacon down a flight of stairs for trying to stop him from reaching Quasimodo]].

* {{Foil}}: Easily this to Frollo. Both are very religious men, but Frollo is a more corrupt example, whereas the Archdeacon... well... ''[[WellDuh isn't]]''.

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: UpToEleven. Quasi is a sweet and sensitive soul, but people (except Esmeralda and Phoebus), judge him harshly because of his deformity

* EgocentricallyReligious: Frollo is a [[SarcasmMode devout and righteous man]], [[HolierTHanThou and everyone else is not]]. He seems incapable of separating his faith from his {{Pride}} and arrogance, and is far more concerned with his own salvation and purity than the souls or the lives of anybody else, since he thinks that pretty much everyone else in Paris [[MisanthropeSupreme is pure and utter scum]]; this, naturally, means he is no where near the good, just or humble Christian he likes to think he is, and attention is drawn to his hypocrisy throughout the movie, even in his own VillainSong where the Latin choir is telling him to be humble, forgiving and repentant at the exact same time he is [[NeverMyFault blaming God himself for his own lust]] and threatening to [[OmnicidalManiac burn Paris to the ground]] if [[IfICantHaveYou Esmeralda won't surrender herself to him]].

* AFriendInNeed: Quasimodo is a very good friend, is loyal to Esmeralda and Phoebus and is incredibly supportive of both of them.

* OfficialCouple: With Quasi.

* HeroicAlbino: His parents were more dark skinned, while Quasi was born with pale skin and red hair.

* HairOfGold: Although anti-heroic, Phoebus still has a good heart.

* AllLovingHero: She's no saint but she shows great compassion to Quasimodo when everyone else was throwing produce at him.

* UsefulNotes/{{Roma|ni}}: He's half Gypsy on his mother's side.