History TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney / TropesOToZ

* ShownTheirWork: The Cathedral of Notre Dame is drawn with perfect accuracy. The artists painted ''every single statue correctly as possible'', particularly since they included the medieval statues which were once part of the facade of the cathedral and are now stored in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musee_de_Cluny a small museum on the other bank of the Seine]].

--->'''Frollo''': Burn it.

--->'''Frollo''': Nor would I.
** And still later:
---> '''Frollo''': I should have known you would risk your life to save that Gypsy witch, just as your own mother died trying to save you.

---> '''Guard''': Minister Frollo, the gypsy has escaped.

* TruerToTheText: Due to being more of a remake of the 1939 film than its own adaptation, it has some small instances where it is more faithful to the original novel than its base film such as the main antagonist Claude Frollo rather than his younger brother Jehan (renamed "Jean" in the 1939 film) and Phoebus surviving.

** To avoid offending religious groups, the film follows the 1939 film by having Frollo be a judge rather than the archdeacon , with the difference being it is Claude rather than his younger brother, whom is omitted. Strangely, by the point the film had been made, adaptations had dropped changing Frollo's occupation by 1976.

* PervertedSniffing: Frollo sniffs Esmeralda's hair at one point. Both the audience and Esmeralda herself know that he was '''not''' imagining a rope around her neck, as he claims he did.

* VillainSong: "Hellfire" is partly about Frollo's HolierThanThou attitude and his EvilPlan to reconcile it with the trope below.
* VillainLoveSong: "Hellfire" speaks of Frollo's lust for Esmeralda.

* WouldHurtAChild: You would think that Frollo would have learned his lesson after the Archdeacon points out that drowning a baby would damn his soul. Sadly not; while burning down all of Paris to find Esmeralda, he's perfectly willing to drown and chain up Romani children alongside their parents and elders while demanding Esmeralda's location. Phoebus turns against him when Frollo orders him to burn down the miller's house...with the miller, his wife, and two children inside, one of which is a baby. The hiding Roma murmur about this while Esmeralda watches, that Frollo has gone too far.

* VillainRevealsTheSecret: During the final part of the climax, Quasimodo finally knows of his lost mother's fate-she died while trying to save him. Frollo had told him his entire life his mother was heartless and unable to feel "real love". As he tells the truth, Frollo finally attempts to kill his foster-son.

* WarningSong: Clopin begins the film putting on a little theater for a group of children, all the while singing ''"The Bells of Notre Dame"'' to tell them the story of how the titular hunchback, Quasimodo, came to be the bellringer of Notre-Dame, and under the care of [[BigBad Judge Claude Frollo]]. Ostensibly, the song is to warn the children the dangers of corruption that power brings, and that ''no one'' is above the judgement of God. The latter of which, within the song itself, is sung to Frollo by [[BigGood the Archdeacon]] as a warning in and of itself. The Archdeacon gave Frollo that warning after Frollo claimed a clear conscience for murdering Quasimodo's mother on the very steps of the church; the Archdeacon himself was too late to stop him, but arrived in time to save the infant Quasimodo's life.

* VillainRevealsTheSecret: During the final part of the climax, Quasimodo finally knows of his lost mother's fate, who died while trying to save him. Frollo had told him his entire life his mother was heartless and unable to feel "real love". As he tells the truth, Frollo finally attempts to kill his foster-son.

* VillainousValour: Frollo proves in a small way that he can get his own hands dirty in the climax when the cathedral is under siege. He takes a sword from one of his men and braves a torrent of molten lead to hack down the thick and hefty wooden doors. Then goes upstairs and briefly wrestles with Quasi, a man half Frollo's age who has proven he is [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower strong enough to shake the cathedral at its foundations with his exertions]], and swings his sword with enough force to crack solid brickwork. Not bad for an [[EvilOldFolks old man]].

* SnowMeansDeath: The film's prologue takes place on a snowy night when Frollo killed a Romani woman and ordered to raise her child as his atonement.

* ShutUpKirk: When the Archdeacon angrily rebuffs him for bringing violence into the church, Frollo merely shoves him aside, snarling that he won't be interfering with his directions again. Given the Archdeacon was about the only entity that could keep Frollo under control, this is a sign he's [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped the slippery slope]].

** In the same scene as above, Frollo's revelation to Quasimodo on the truth of his mother seems identical to [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack the moment Luke finds out what really happened to his father]]. Less dramatic, though.