Judge Claude Frollo is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Disney's 1996 animated film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He was based on Archdeacon Claude Frollo from Victor Hugo's 1831 novel. Although Frollo is ranked one of the greatest villains in Disney Renaissance, he is widely regarded one of the most evil, darkest, and most terrifying animated film villains ever created of all Disney animated films, noted as a devoted religious, genocidal, and tyrannical character.