Talk:Claude Frollo/@comment-26173537-20150306154240/@comment-1672596-20150306181743

To be honest, I didn't see him as being all that evil. The darkest Disney Villain? Sure. But I'm pretty sure Maleficent and the Evil Queen far outrank him (in fact, how can he outrank Maleficent when she is explicitly stated to be "the mistress of all evil"? And keep in mind, I'm referring to the original Maleficent, not the hatchetjob version done by Linda Woolverton). At least he had remorse for his actions to some extent (wouldn't take Quasimodo in if he didn't have remorse, and Hellfire wouldn't happen if he lacked remorse), while they didn't. And while I will concede that Sarousch from the sequel was poorly written, there's no denying he was actually far more evil and scary than Frollo was when you truly think about it. Unlike Frollo, where it's not even made clear whether Frollo even intended to use Quasimodo to arrest all of the Gypsies until AFTER the latter basically disobeyed him by participating in the Festival of Fools (in fact, the fact that he had him locked up in the bell tower, forbade him from ever leaving, and didn't even indicate his gypsy heritage implies he probably didn't initially intend to use him to do a RICO case against the Gypsies), it was made very clear that Sarousch took in Madeline specifically to use her for various crimes of theft, and was perfectly willing to kill her when her usefulness was at an end with no hesitation.