As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
The novel
- The scene where, during the final battle for Notre Dame, Clopin runs through the crowd with a SCYTHE, hacking at the horses and guards until he is surrounded by severed limbs. He dies shortly afterwards.
The stage musical
- Quasimodo's introduction. An unnamed narrator sings Clopin's introduction from the film, and right when he asks, "What makes a monster and what makes a man?" he does a costume change into Quasimodo himself.
- The brothel madame is a One-Scene Wonder. Her brothel is known to allow Roma people to take shelter there, meaning she's stuck her neck out for who-knows-how-many persecuted people over the years. When Esmeralda is hiding there, she repeatedly lies to the guards and says she's never even heard of her, she has no idea where this "La Esmeralda" could be hiding. Even when Frollo is threatening to burn her house down, she refuses to crack!
- After Phoebus refuses to burn down a brothel in the hunt for Esmeralda, Frollo has him arrested. Cue Esmeralda throwing off her disguise and starting a swordfight with the soldiers, which is of course her MOA. But then she falls and Frollo moves to stab her, only to have Phoebus catch the dagger with his body.
- The Finale goes like this: Quasimodo, like in the movie, sends down BOILING LEAD down onto the attackers below. He even says this with this following line:Quasimodo: Oh, saints and monsters, show your power! Help me to send this raging shower, raining fire... on the stones... BELOW!
- At the end, after Esmeralda has died from smoke inhalation, Quasimodo finally snaps and wrangles Frollo to the railing. A terrified Frollo tells Quasimodo, "You don't want to hurt me!" To which the entire chorus responds:Yes, you do.
- Towards the end of the show, after Esmeralda has died, Frollo comes up to the bell tower where Quasi is, and begins to give thanks that they are now, in his words "Free of Esmeralda"; Quasimodo gets increasingly more angry, calling Frollo out on his lack of love for anything, saying "You're the weak one. You're the wicked one. And the wicked shall not go unpunished!". As he says the last line, he fully straightens his back, sounding like it takes enormous effort, stands upright to face his master, and the audience can see that he is in fact taller than Frollo.
