History WMG / TheHunchbackOfNotreDame

[[Frollo was demoniacally possessed.]]

* (Note: being a furry does NOT NECESSARILY have A SINGLE THING to do with sex! Educate yourself on us [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom here]]) Earlier in the decade in which Hunchback came out, not only did furries start to get (largely inaccurate and stigmatizing) media attention and were discovered by the general public for the first time, but Disney also just so happened to release one of the movies that is most PopularWithFurries, WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994. And in the Feast of Fools itself, not only are there people who dress up as animals (though please note that statistically speaking, despite being one of the first things that the word "furry" conjures up in the public imagination, barely any of us wear fursuits because they're SO EXPENSIVE!), and even a shot of LITERALLY UPRIGHT-WALKING DOGS, there's also the whole reason why people go to the festival: because it allows them the freedom to fully express themselves, including traits that would be looked down upon in every other setting, which just so happens to be one of the main things that draws people to our fandom as well! Additionally, there's also... okay, my sex-repulsed UsefulNotes/Asexuality is really going to get in the way of discussing this next part objectively, BUT it's still an important piece of evidence. Esmeralda is shown to be extremely arousing and/or sexually attractive (yes, those are actually 2 different things that just stem from the same stimuli; some individuals, especially asexuals, can experience none or only one and not the other) to EVERYONE at the festival, seemingly EVEN someone as innocent, wholesome, and naive as Quasimodo! This is where [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/profile.php I]] have the bring up one of the things I HATE most about our fandom: Main/{{Yiff}}, or in layman's terms, furry pornography. I HATE IT SO MUCH, but that's besides the point. Anyways, sex, yiff, etc. play a disgustingly large role in the Furry Fandom (although there's still SO MUCH I LOVE ABOUT US that I can overlook that!), and although it's much less prevalent in the actual conventions, it's still an EXTREMELY notable similarity that strengthens my comparison! Frollo is also a heavily anti-woke person who looks down upon the festival and all those (except himself, of course) who attend it, and despite the highly unfortunate presence of occasional anti-woke furries in real-life, the majority of anti-woke people who know about our community HATE us!

* (Note: being a furry does NOT NECESSARILY have A SINGLE THING to do with sex! Educate yourself on us [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom here]]) Earlier in the decade in which Hunchback came out, not only did furries start to get (largely inaccurate and stigmatizing) media attention and were discovered by the general public for the first time, but Disney also just so happened to release one of the movies that is most PopularWithFurries, WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994. And in the Feast of Fools itself, not only are there people who dress up as animals (though please note that statistically speaking, despite being one of the first things that the word "furry" conjures up in the public imagination, barely any of us wear fursuits because they're SO EXPENSIVE!), and even a shot of LITERALLY UPRIGHT-WALKING DOGS, there's also the whole reason why people go to the festival: because it allows them the freedom to fully express themselves, including traits that would be looked down upon in every other setting, which just so happens to be one of the main things that draws people to our fandom as well! Frollo is also an EXTREMELY anti-woke person who looks down upon the festival and all those (except himself) who attend it, and despite the unfortunate presence of occasional anti-woke furries, the majority of anti-woke people who know about furries HATE us in real-life!

[[WMG: Frollo likes a forceful, strong, smart, independent woman.]]

It was not, as we all suspected, Esmeralda's dancing and beauty that turned him on, but her independent thinking, her intelligence, her defeating him (the smartest man in Paris) in a debate, and her refusal to take his crap.

[[WMG: Frollo likes a forceful, strong, independent woman.]]
It was not, as we all suspected, Esmeralda's dancing and beauty that turned him on, but her refusal to take his crap.

Since even in the novel she's AmbigouslyBrown she probably has a Gypsy father; she was taken not by an evil Gypsy who liked to steal babies but rather her father, explaining why she was treated so well.

[[WMG: The man seen protecting Quasi's mother in the opening is his uncle.]]
He looks nothing like Quasi, and refers to the baby with disdain. But he is obviously very protective of Quasi's mother. And it's not unreasonable to assume the two are related by blood. Perhaps brother and sister?

** It could be she's also a victim of trafficking, as most prostitutes are. Sharousch seems to literally own her, and I doubt he's using her solely for labor. He has to keep quiet about it, because under French law, Madeline should've been free the moment she set foot in France. Slavery was outlawed there in the 13th century. Not to mention the law in their day would've come down a lot harder on a Rom owning a white woman than it would've had their ethnicities been reversed.

Can apply to both the book Frollo and the movie Frollo. Initially he's calm, logical and intelligent, though rather serious in his faith (book Frollo's intellectualism, movie Frollo's passion for justice). However as the years pass and he becomes older, he's showing signs of disturbance, irrationality, paranoia and impulsive bahaviour - and it mutated to the point that he's manifesting psychosomatic illnesses, delirium and hallucinations (book Frollo's massive fever and self-harming, the Hellfire sequence in the movie). By the end he's completely brain damaged (book Frollo LaughingMad, movie Frollo going FinalSolution). It's rather unfortunate that his deteriorating mental health coincided with his love/lust for Esmeralda, but either way, he was a ticking time bomb anyway, and she was just the excuse. He was ''doomed from the start''.
* If one would believe the above guesses about Quasimodo being his biological son[=/=]him secretly soliciting Gypsy lovers[=/=]prostitutes, it's entirely possible that it isn't just dementia: he has ''syphilis''.

* [[https://youtu.be/FxDYiJrKI8o Proof]].

Even if he did [[TheBadGuyWins win]], the King and the Church (the ultimate authorioty in Medieval times), when he returns, will find out about all his countless crimes, including indiscriminate killing of innocent French citizens (mass murder/genocide), burning the capital of France to the ground (arson/pillaging), violating sanctuary multiple times, and even trying to destroy Notre Dame while claiming to be a Christian (the ultimate Medieval crime itself, Heresy). In absolute fury they will have him executed, and Frollo, as the Minister of Justice and a deeply legalistic and religious man, knows full well the consequences of his atrocities (the Hellfire sequence shows he's completely self-aware of this). This is why he's so desperate to have Esmeralda and had absolutely nothing to lose in his pursuit of her; it is his only chance of experiencing pleasure in his life before his inevitable demise. Trying to kill Esmeralda can even be a case of SeeYouInHell; [[IfICantHaveYou if he can't have her in this world, he will have her in the next]].

* If one would believe the above guesses about Quasimodo being his biological son[=/=]him secretly soliciting Gypsy lovers[=/=]prostitutes, it's entirely possible that it isn't just dementia; he has ''syphilis''.

Even if he did [[TheBadGuyWins win]], the King, when he returns, will find out about all his countless crimes, including genocide, mass murder of French citizens, and even burning ''his own capital'' to the ground. In absolute fury he will have him executed, and Frollo, as the Minister of Justice and a deeply legalistic and religious man, knows full well the consequences of his atrocities (the Hellfire sequence shows he's completely self-aware of this). This is why he's so desperate to have Esmeralda and had absolutely nothing to lose in his pursuit of her; it is his only chance of experiencing pleasure in his life before his inevitable demise. Trying to kill Esmeralda can even be a case of SeeYouInHell; [[IfICantHaveYou if he can't have her in this world, he will have her in the next]].

Can apply to both the book Frollo and the movie Frollo. Initially he's calm, logical and intelligent, though rather serious in his faith (book Frollo's intellectualism, movie Frollo's passion for justice). However as the years pass and he becomes older, he's showing signs of disturbance, irrationality, paranoia and impulsive bahaviour - to the point that he's manifesting psychosomatic illnesses and hallucinations (book Frollo's massive fever and self-harming, the Hellfire sequence in the movie). By the end he's completely brain damaged. It's rather unfortunate that his deteriorating mental health coincided with his love/lust for Esmeralda, but either way, he was a ticking time bomb and she was just the excuse. He was ''doomed from the start''.

Can apply to both the book Frollo and the movie Frollo. Initially he's calm, logical and intelligent, though rather serious in his faith (book Frollo's intellectualism, movie Frollo's passion for justice). However as the years pass and he becomes older, he's showing signs of disturbance, irrationality, paranoia and impulsive bahaviour - to the point that he's manifesting psychosomatic illnesses and hallucinations (book Frollo's massive fever and self-harming, the Hellfire sequence in the movie). By the end he's completely brain damaged. It's rather unfortunate that his deteriorating mental health coincided with his love/lust for Esmeralda, but either way, she was just the excuse. He was ''doomed from the start''.

Even if he did win, the King, when he returns, will find out about all his countless crimes, including genocide, mass murder of French citizens, and even burning ''his own capital'' to the ground. In absolute fury he will have him executed, and Frollo, as the Minister of Justice and a deeply legalistic and religious man, knows full well the consequences of his atrocities (the Hellfire sequence shows he's completely self-aware of this). This is why he's so desperate to have Esmeralda and had absolutely nothing to lose in his pursuit of her; it is his only chance of experiencing pleasure in his life before his inevitable demise. Trying to kill Esmeralda can even be a case of SeeYouInHell; [[IfICantHaveYou if he can't have her in this world, he will have her in the next]].

[[WMG: The Notre Dame fire damage of April 15, 2019 never happened in this universe.]]

Even if he did win, the King when he returns, will find out about all his countless crimes, including genocide, mass murder of countless Paraisian citizens, and even burning ''his own capital'' to the ground. In absolute fury he will have him executed, and Frollo, as the Minister of Justice knows full well the consequences of his crimes (the Hellfire sequence shows he's completely self-aware of this). This is why he's so desperate to have Esmeralda; it is his only chance of experiencing pleasure in his life before his inevitable demise. Trying to kill Esmeralda can even be a case of SeeYouInHell; [[IfICantHaveYou if he can't have her in this world, he will have her in the next]].