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* DracoInLeatherPants: Frollo falls victim to this in almost every work he's in. Even when he's portrayed as the villain, like in "The Disney Seven," descriptions surrounding him tend to be sexually charged.



* RonTheDeathEater: In ''Back to the Frollo'', Esmeralda gets treated like she's a horrible person for standing up to Frollo and not letting him sexually assault her.



** Iggy for being irresponsible and feeding people pot brownies without their knowledge.

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** Iggy for being irresponsible and feeding people pot brownies without their knowledge.knowledge.

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* AcceptableTargets: Throughout all of Frollo Freak's work, gypsies are considered an acceptable target by every sympathetic character in the cast. Even characters who are supposed to be paragons of virtue and acceptance hate gypsies.
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"Idiot Plot" and "Unfortunate Implications" are now Flame Bait.


* IdiotPlot: The entirety of ''Didn't It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo?''. Most of the latter half involves characters frantically trying to find a stolen artifact in order to save a man from being executed for a crime he didn't commit. The characters have time travel, which they decide to use in a very convoluted and complicated way instead of just going back in time to prevent the artifact from being stolen. Also, since Claude Frollo is one of the most powerful people in Paris, he could probably just pardon the accused man with little to no consequence.



* UnfortunateImplications: These are frequently present in her work, especially her Disney-centered fanfic:
** ''Back to the Frollo'' reviewers have pointed out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkD8bC09BwI&list=PLW4DLFZ6sE6EKsBlyh9zn6YEi5iG20Cje over]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/coeqeu/frollo_fanfiction_community_that_awkward_moment/ over]] and [[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/refia/back-to-the-frollo-reviews-t890.html over again]] that the series' handling of Esmeralda implies that sexual assault is the victim's fault and that racism is okay as long as it's anti-Romani.
** ''Didn't It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo?'' is [[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/refia/didn-39-t-it-blow-your-mind-claude-frollo-reviews-t867.html often]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkD8bC09BwI&list=PLW4DLFZ6sE6EKsBlyh9zn6YEi5iG20Cje&index=1 criticised]] for implying that getting someone high on pot without their consent is fine and that dodging the draft for a desk job is easy. Then there's everything about the empress Theodora, a real-life historical figure Danisha supposedly admires—she makes it sound like we're supposed to admire Theodora, too, but the narrative's gratuitous use of innuendos about her "box" veer into subtle SlutShaming.
** ''The Disney Seven'' has been criticized by some reviewers for implying that Cruella de Vil making children work in a sweatshop is on par with Frollo cancelling a basketball game.
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** ''The Disney Seven'' briefly mentions Sid from the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' movie becoming a MadScientist when he's older. Come ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', we actually do find out what an older Sid does for a living: [[spoiler: he's a trash truck driver]].

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** ''The Disney Seven'' briefly mentions Sid from the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' movie becoming a MadScientist when he's older. Come ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', we actually do find out what an older Sid does for a living: [[spoiler: he's a trash truck driver]].
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* IdiotPlot: The entirety of ''Didn't It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo?''. Most of the latter half involves characters frantically trying to find a stolen artifact in order to save a man from being executed for a crime he didn't commit. The characters have time travel, which they decide to use in a very convoluted and complicated way instead of just going back in time to prevent the artifact from being stolen. Also since Claude Frollo is one of the most powerful people in Paris, he could probably just pardon the accused man with little to no consequence.

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* IdiotPlot: The entirety of ''Didn't It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo?''. Most of the latter half involves characters frantically trying to find a stolen artifact in order to save a man from being executed for a crime he didn't commit. The characters have time travel, which they decide to use in a very convoluted and complicated way instead of just going back in time to prevent the artifact from being stolen. Also Also, since Claude Frollo is one of the most powerful people in Paris, he could probably just pardon the accused man with little to no consequence.



* OlderThanTheyThink: Certain aspects of the Claude & Me series were lifted from the original Hunchback of Notre Dame novel, such as Frollo's more sympathetic traits. The supporting cast is also a mixture of actual characters invented by Victor Hugo and random OCs invented by Frollo Freak.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: Certain aspects of the Claude ''Claude & Me Me'' series were lifted from the original Hunchback of Notre Dame novel, such as Frollo's more sympathetic traits. The supporting cast is also a mixture of actual characters invented by Victor Hugo and random OCs invented by Frollo Freak.


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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The time-travel mechanic in the ''Claude & Me'' series is only ever used to allow Danisha and Frollo to visit each other. It's nowhere to be found when plot-related issues arise, and although characters frequently mention or allude to other historical periods, they never actually try to go anywhere but medieval Paris. One has to wonder how much more interesting the series would be if Danisha and co. actually travelled to these time periods they love so much instead of just mentioning them offhandedly every so often.
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* EightDeadlyWords: This tends to come into play in the ''Claude and Me'' series, as most of the supposedly "good" characters are either irresponsible, clueless, selfish, or downright cruel to the point where readers don't want to root for them.
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* MagnificentBastard: ''[[Fanfic/WhatReallyHappened What REALLY Happened]]'' ([[https://crazedwriter.tripod.com/revealed.html link]]): [[AdaptationalVillainy Clopin Trouillefou]] is the leader of the UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} population of Paris who seeks revenge on Claude Frollo, France's Minister of Justice, and also wishes to [[WellIntentionedExtremist end gypsy persecution]]. To this end, he makes an arrangement with an old rival of Frollo's named Jean-Michel du Champs who wants to be Minister of Justice. The night after the Feast of Fools, Clopin imprisons Frollo in his own dungeons and replaces him with a disguised Jean-Michel, who begins sullying Frollo's name by persecuting many Parisans. Learning of Jean-Michel's plans to betray him, Clopin [[OutGambitted outplays him]] by subtly getting Quasimodo and Phoebus on his side, resulting in Jean-Michel's death. Even after being paralyzed in a violent incident at the Court of Miracles, [[{{Determinator}} Clopin still refuses to give up]] and is soon working on new plans. Only failing due to things he had no reasonable way of knowing about, Clopin proves a genuinely cunning and compelling antagonist.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Her ''Jedi in Oz'' series, a crossover between ''The Wizard of Oz,'' the ''Star Wars'' movies, and various Disney properties. Decades after the series was written, Disney bought Star Wars ''and'' produced a prequel to the ''Oz'' books, making the possibility of a crossover of some kind much more likely.

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* HilariousInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight:
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Her ''Jedi in Oz'' series, series is a crossover between ''The Wizard of Oz,'' Oz'', the ''Star Wars'' movies, and various Disney properties. Decades after the series was written, Disney bought Star Wars ''and'' produced a prequel to the ''Oz'' books, making books.
** ''The Disney Seven'' briefly mentions Sid from
the possibility of first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' movie becoming a crossover of some kind much more likely. MadScientist when he's older. Come ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', we actually do find out what an older Sid does for a living: [[spoiler: he's a trash truck driver]].
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* UnfortunateImplications: These are frequently present in her work, especially her Disney-centered fanfic:
** ''Back to the Frollo'' reviewers have pointed out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkD8bC09BwI&list=PLW4DLFZ6sE6EKsBlyh9zn6YEi5iG20Cje over]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/coeqeu/frollo_fanfiction_community_that_awkward_moment/ over]] and [[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/refia/back-to-the-frollo-reviews-t890.html over again]] that the series' handling of Esmeralda implies that sexual assault is the victim's fault and that racism is okay as long as it's anti-Romani.
** ''Didn't It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo?'' is [[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/refia/didn-39-t-it-blow-your-mind-claude-frollo-reviews-t867.html often]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkD8bC09BwI&list=PLW4DLFZ6sE6EKsBlyh9zn6YEi5iG20Cje&index=1 criticised]] for implying that getting someone high on pot without their consent is fine and that dodging the draft for a desk job is easy. Then there's everything about the empress Theodora, a real-life historical figure Danisha supposedly admires—she makes it sound like we're supposed to admire Theodora, too, but the narrative's gratuitous use of innuendos about her "box" veer into subtle SlutShaming.
** ''The Disney Seven'' has been criticized by some reviewers for implying that Cruella de Vil making children work in a sweatshop is on par with Frollo cancelling a basketball game.
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** Then again, considering [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire just who Theodora was]], it's hard to tell how accidental the innuendo is.

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** Then again, considering [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire [[{{UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire}} just who Theodora was]], it's hard to tell how accidental the innuendo is.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Her ''Jedi in Oz'' series, a crossover between ''The Wizard of Oz,'' the ''Star Wars'' movies, and various Disney properties. Decades after the series was written, Disney bought Star Wars ''and'' produced a prequel to the ''Oz'' books, making the possibility of a crossover of some kind much more likely.


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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It's obvious in hindsight that most of her stories were written in the '90s. ''The Disney Seven'' has characters use very dated-sounding slang, and the ''Claude & Me'' series gives Danisha and Frollo pagers.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Most of her stories offer up alternate interpretations of Frollo, which tend to paint him as more sympathetic and attractive. It's also become popular for readers to make their own interpretations of Frollo Freak's original characters, interpreting Danisha as racist and shallow and Iggy as an irresponsible loser.
* BileFascination: Most of the interest in Frollo Freak's work comes from this. Many of her stories have received dramatic readings, sporkings, and parodies, and she's been featured multiple times in online forums centered around "fanwank" and Internet drama because of her gatekeeping behavior.
* DesignatedHero: Danisha Wood. As the ''Claude & Me'' series went on, Danisha's friends and acquaintances fell into this, too.
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* AcceptableTargets: Throughout all of Frollo Freak's work, gypsies are considered an acceptable target by every sympathetic character in the cast. Even characters who are supposed to be paragons of virtue and acceptance hate gypsies.


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* DracoInLeatherPants: Frollo falls victim to this in almost every work he's in. Even when he's portrayed as the villain, like in "The Disney Seven," descriptions surrounding him tend to be sexually charged.


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* EpilepticTrees: A number of elaborate and extremely unlikely fan theories are present in Frollo Freak's body of work. The most notable is a recurring theory that Claude Frollo was actually nice all along, and that all of the evil things he did weren't really done by him; rather, an evil clone of him, who was made by the gypsies after the real Frollo was drugged with hallucinogenics, committed all the crimes, and Frollo himself was an innocent victim.


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* OlderThanTheyThink: Certain aspects of the Claude & Me series were lifted from the original Hunchback of Notre Dame novel, such as Frollo's more sympathetic traits. The supporting cast is also a mixture of actual characters invented by Victor Hugo and random OCs invented by Frollo Freak.
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* CharacterDerailment: If a character had a good arc in the movie they came from, there's a non-zero chance that Frollo Freak will completely derail it in her fanfiction.

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* EightDeadlyWords: This tends to come into play in the ''Claude and Me'' series, as most of the supposedly "good" characters are either irresponsible, clueless, selfish, or downright cruel to the point where readers don't want to root for them.
* FetishRetardant: Any sexy scene with Frollo in it.
* IdiotPlot: The entirety of ''Didn't It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo?''. Most of the latter half involves characters frantically trying to find a stolen artifact in order to save a man from being executed for a crime he didn't commit. It's an IdiotPlot because:
** the characters have time travel, which they decide to use in a very convoluted and complicated way instead of just going back in time to prevent the artifact from being stolen, and
** Claude Frollo is one of the most powerful people in Paris and could probably just pardon the accused man with little to no consequence.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Frollo and Danisha for being needlessly cruel, petty, and dramatic. Iggy for being irresponsible and feeding people pot brownies without their knowledge.

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* CharacterDerailment: If a character had a good arc in the movie they came from, there's a non-zero chance that Frollo Freak will completely derail it in her fanfiction.
* EightDeadlyWords: This tends to come into play in the ''Claude and Me'' series, as most of the supposedly "good" characters are either irresponsible, clueless, selfish, or downright cruel to the point where readers don't want to root for them.
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* FetishRetardant: Any sexy scene with Frollo in it.
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* IdiotPlot: The entirety of ''Didn't It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo?''. Most of the latter half involves characters frantically trying to find a stolen artifact in order to save a man from being executed for a crime he didn't commit. It's an IdiotPlot because:
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The characters have time travel, which they decide to use in a very convoluted and complicated way instead of just going back in time to prevent the artifact from being stolen, and
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stolen. Also since Claude Frollo is one of the most powerful people in Paris and Paris, he could probably just pardon the accused man with little to no consequence.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: RonTheDeathEater: In ''Back to the Frollo'', Esmeralda gets treated like she's a horrible person for standing up to Frollo and not letting him sexually assault her.
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Frollo and Danisha for being needlessly cruel, petty, and dramatic. dramatic.
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Iggy for being irresponsible and feeding people pot brownies without their knowledge.
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* Fetish Retardant: Any sexy scene with Frollo in it.

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* Fetish Retardant: FetishRetardant: Any sexy scene with Frollo in it.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: Everything about Theodora's box, the central macguffin of ''Didn't It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo?.'' It's almost never called "the artifact," "the container," or even just "the box," it's always ''Theodora's'' box. The way male characters describe it makes it sound like they're talking about a "box" in the slang sense.
** Then again, considering [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire just who Theodora was]], it's hard to tell how accidental the innuendo is.
* EightDeadlyWords: This tends to come into play in the ''Claude and Me'' series, as most of the supposedly "good" characters are either irresponsible, clueless, selfish, or downright cruel to the point where readers don't want to root for them.
* Fetish Retardant: Any sexy scene with Frollo in it.
* IdiotPlot: The entirety of ''Didn't It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo?''. Most of the latter half involves characters frantically trying to find a stolen artifact in order to save a man from being executed for a crime he didn't commit. It's an IdiotPlot because:
** the characters have time travel, which they decide to use in a very convoluted and complicated way instead of just going back in time to prevent the artifact from being stolen, and
** Claude Frollo is one of the most powerful people in Paris and could probably just pardon the accused man with little to no consequence.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Frollo and Danisha for being needlessly cruel, petty, and dramatic. Iggy for being irresponsible and feeding people pot brownies without their knowledge.

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