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ranminfan · 8 months

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Goodness- I can't....

I've listened to Hellfire numerous times, and I still get chills on how beautiful Tony Jay sang.

His baritone voice made it seem that Frollo sang so passionately, singing his heart out of the temptation he's trying so hard to deny.

As if he's convincing Beata Maria (or really, himself) that this was not his fault... this is not his doing....

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It started off like a prayer...

Adoration, yet it's filled with prideful remarks of his own regards, praising himself instead of God. Then transitioned to sound like accusations, Why does he sees her, why does he feel her?...

It went to Confessions.... only, he didn't acknowledge his wrong doings.... instead he claims it's not his fault, and even had the gall to blame Esmeralda...

Beautifully partnered with an ensemble singing Mea Culpa.... through my fault, through my fault... through my most grievious fault... The penitential act, he's supposed to confess his sins, and yet he didn't...

Then finally, Supplication, humbly begging for assistance... guidance... protection... yet even still he demanded for the source of his sins to burn...

The part,

"... or else let her be mine and mine alone...", absolutely chilling, gives me goosebumps everytime. Even in prayer he acts as if he has the power to let things go his way....

.....Was it even a prayer?

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I'm convinced not even Disney's live action remakes can top Hellfire, no matter how many artists they hire to sing, no matter how famous, they cannot make another song sound so haunting and beautiful at the same time.

#Yes I just analysed this song as Frollo's failure #Hellfire is a mess of a prayer #I need you to listen to it again #This movie is utterly amazing #the hunchback of Notre Dame #Claude Frollo #Tony Jay #THoND #Judge Claude Frollo #Disney #text #rmf speaks #parts of a prayer #hellfire

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mysterywriter2187 · 4 months

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We all knew it was going to come out one way or another…

#fake tweets #claude frollo #hellfire #the hunchback of notre dame #disney #parody #cancel culture #meme #twitter #tony jay #judge claude frollo

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feel-the-fire · 9 months

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Tony Jay, may you rest in peace but also how dare you make a literally chair faced man attractive—

#j’s art #chairface chippendale #the tick #superheroes #supervillains #tony jay #90s cartoons

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docgold13 · 11 months

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Profiles in Villainy

Chairface Chippendale

Not much is known about the origins of the villainous mobster known as Chairface Chippendale. He is a cunning and ruthless criminal mastermind who grew up bitter and resentful over the way in which his chair-like deformity caused him to be alienated from society. Utilizing his shrewdness, Chairface sublimated his anger into criminal enterprises and quickly rose to the rank of kingpin of the underworld.

Fancying himself a sophisticated man of tastes, Chairface often shies away from the dirty work of his criminal endeavors, employing minions to tend to such matters in his stead. Chairface first encountered the hero known as The Tick when he the villain attempted to use a stolen super-laser to carve his name into the moon. This scheme was thwarted by The Tick, but not before the first three letters of the villain’s name was etched onto the moon. It would prove the first of many matches between Chairface and The Tick.

Actor Tony Jay provided the voice for Chairface Chippendale with the villain first appearing in the second episode of The Tick animated series, airing on September 17th, 1994.

#Profiles in Villainy #Chairface Chippendale #The Tick #Tony Jay #cut-out #paper art #Villains!

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jurijurijurious · 7 months

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Dropping in for #ReBootober day 7 - Virus. My beautiful boi.

#why is he so hot?#megabyte #team megabyte #reboot #rebootober #reboot fanart #tony jay #corrupt and conquer #rebootober 2023

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stabby-apologist · 2 years

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Them:

Me:

No one is topping this masterpiece. No one.

#judge claude frollo #hunchback of notre dame #best villain song #tony jay #disney villains #mother knows best #mother gothel #frozen #hans

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teenageoaffireknight · 3 months

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tony jay

RIP tony jay

february 2, 1933-august 13, 2006

2/2/33-8/13/06

1933-2006

the bells of notre dame

out there

hellfire

frollo-the hunchback of notre dame

dr lipschitz-rugrats

baron mordo-spiderman the animated series

lord dregg-tmnt (1987)

shera khan-talespin

wrath-the mighty ducks animated series

megabyte-reboot

#tony jay #villains #the hunchback of notre dame #frollo #disney #rugrats

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professorambrius · 8 months

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Favorite Tony Jay Roles

This past August 13th, marked the 17th anniversary of the passing of actor and voice over actor Tony Jay. Known for his deep baritone voice, Tony would go on to voice many villainous characters in his career.

He performed in several Disney productions and famously provided the voice to the evil Judge Claude Frollo from ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' where he not only provided Frollo's voice but also performed the song 'Hellfire'' which is considered by many as the best Disney villain song.

Thanks to Tony's distinctive voice, he would go appear in numerous cartoons in the 80s through the 2000s. He would also go on to appear in many tv shows where he played both good and evil characters. Tony did get show off his humor in several roles.

Despite his talent for playing evil roles, Tony Jay was a kind and wonderful man who many enjoyed working with.

Judge Claude Frollo, Disney's ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''.

Shere Khan, ''TaleSpin''

Shere Khan ''The Jungle Book 2''

Monsieur D'Arque, Disney's ''Beauty and the Beast''

Chairface Chippendale, ''The Tick''

Baron Mordo, ''Spider-Man the Animated Series''

Dr. Werner Lipschitz, ''Rugrats''

Rex Smythe Higgins, ''Hey Arnold''

Nigel St. John, ''Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman''

Laszlo Glagorian, ''The Golden Girls''

Some of my favorite Tony Jay roles.

#My post #Tony Jay #in remembrance #actor #voice over actor #Disney #Disney Villains #Spider-Man the Animated Series #Rugrats #Hey Arnold!#The Golden Girls

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wonderfulworldofmichaelford · 1 year

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Psycho Analysis: Judge Claude Frollo

(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)

The Disney Renaissance was home to some of Disney’s greatest villains. Scar, Ursula, Gaston, Jafar… The films from 1989 to 1999 all redefined what it meant to be an animated antagonist. But while there were many great villains during that time, one in particular managed to be regarded as one of the darkest and most terrifying villains in the entire Disney Animated Canon: Claude Frollo, the sinister minist—er, judge who serves as the main villain of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

The man is heavily entwined with the more complex themes of the movie as well as a lot more cold and vicious than one might expect from the company that brought you Mickey Mouse, but what exactly is it that makes him such a great villain? Well, read on, because I try my best to explain it.

Motivation/Goals: Frollo is a horrible, bigoted prie—er, judge who wants nothing more than to totally eradicate all of the filthy Romani from Paris in the name of the Lord. Unfortunately, he ends up falling hard for one of them, Esmeralda, after watching her do a saucy dance routine. From there, Frollo is consumed by a single-minded lust for the woman that drives his actions, with his conflicted feelings on the matter leading him to blame her for giving him sinful thoughts and determining that all of Paris needs to burn because he is… well… he’s a

I get a lot of mileage out of that gif.

Performance: Tony Jay was picked specifically for this due to his memorable bit role in Beauty and the Beast, and boy does he manage to prove that that was the best decision Disney could have made. His naturally magnificent voice lends Frollo the class, dignity, and intimidation it deserves. One could even say that Dr. Lipschitz is off his shits for this one.

Final Fate: As he attempts to slice through a gargoyle and sent Quasimodo and Esmeralda tumbling to their dooms, he loses his footing and ends up clinging to his gargoyle for dear life. Said gargoyle comes alive, breaks off, and sends Frollo hurtling into a river of fire below, which ends up being a pretty spot on interpretation of his attempted one-liner: “And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!” With this in mind, it’s pretty easy to interpret what happened to him as karmic divine intervention—Whether you think it’s God Himself, the spirit of Notre Dame, or something else entirely enacting it upon him is up to interpretation, and ultimately unimportant. What matters is he didn’t go to heaven where the angels fly; he fell in a lake of fire and fried. And we definitely won’t see him again on the 4th of July.

Best Scene: It is really not even a contest here. “Hellfire” is without a doubt the greatest Disney villain song ever made (and maybe even the best villain song period) and is a prime showcase of Frollo’s internal struggles and motivations, so of course it is his best scene.

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Best Quote: When finally he has Esmeralda at his mercy near the film’s end, he echoes a line from “Hellfire” and says ”Choose me or your pyre.” It’s such an unsettling line that really highlights how deep into his lustful entitlement Frollo has fallen, and what’s more these words echo the real life sentiments of certain disturbed individuals. It’s a truly timeless villain quote in that regard;there are men who would rather a woman die than not be with them, unfortunately, and Frollo is the poster child for that brand of manchild.

Final Thoughts & Score: At the start of the movie, Chopin asks, “Who is the monster, and who is the man?” in regards to Quasimodo and Frollo. While the answer is fairly obvious even just after the opening number—Frollo attempts infanticide after murdering a woman, after all—the way the movie goes about expounding in the two characters in a way that explores this question is deeply fascinating.

Frollo is an incel to put even Gaston to shame. Almost immediately after seeing Esmeralda for the first time, he begins to obsessively lust for her, but his bigotry and zealotry leads him to condemn her because he’s unable to get a grip on his emotions. He ends up being the latter extreme of the Madonna-Whore Complex, contrasting Quasimodo as the opposite extreme. It should come as no shock that Quasi picked up some negative traits from the guy who raised him, but thanks to being a supremely nice guy his incel traits manifest as venerating a caricatured ideal of Esmeralda rather than condemning. There’s a reason the end of “Heaven’s Light” segues right into the start of “Hellfire;” both men have toxic views of Esmeralda, objectifying her in opposite yet equal ways.

It is how they deal with these toxic mindsets that ultimately resolved the question posited at the start, as well as cementing Frollo as one of the darkest villains Disney has ever done. Quasimodo, while not happy at being rejected, still cares for Esmeralda and does all he can to help her, culminating in him saving her from being burned at the stake. His experiences lead to him accepting Esmeralda and Phoebus as couple gracefully, shedding away his toxic mindset. This ends up reaffirming his humanity, earning him the adoration of Paris and the end to the loneliness he’d experienced for so long; he is the man.

Frollo, on the other hand, deals with rejection by going on a racist, genocidal rampage against the Romani, setting the city ablaze simply because his perverse affections aren’t reciprocated. This culminates with him offering Esmeralda either death or to give in to his advances, and when rejected conclusively he doubles down on his murderous rampage, which ultimately leads to his doom. His inability to see Esmeralda as a complex human being instead of an object to lust after, an inability brought on by his own bigoted views, is what ultimately peeled away his humanity and revealed him as he truly was: A monster.

And Frollo is a monster in a very resonant, chilling way. In this day and age, we see people like Frollo all the time. They’re in our schools, seething when the girl they like rejects them for another; they’re on the internet, spewing misogynistic bile because they can’t get dates; they’re in our churches, preaching intolerance to their mass while desperately trying to bury their own sins; and they’re in our government, using their power to oppress and demoralize those with less power than them. “Choose me or your pyre” is the sort of attitude you see in the incels who end up on the news for committing or planning to commit atrocities.

And this is what makes it so good and cathartic to see him fall. We want people like him in real life to face the consequences of their actions, and we can only wish that said consequences are falling into a river of molten lava. It ends up being all the sweeter if you interpret his fall as being an act of God, as mentioned above.

Tony Jay apparently described his role as Frollo as his “bid for immortality,” and it’s safe to say he succeeded. He pretty much singlehandedly elevated the film he’s in so far above its flaws that it’s astounding and proved to the Disney Renaissance, all while giving us a villain song more incredible than any seen before or since. Thank God I’m doing fractions now, because this man deserves a 10.5/10. He’s not quite an 11 because I wouldn’t call Frollo one of the most important and influential villains in the vein of, say, Darth Vader, Count Orlok, or Fu Manchu, but he’s still a cut above the rest when it comes to villains. He’s easily the second most incredible antagonist Disney has ever made, and the only flaw he has is that you don’t get to personally beat his ass in Dream Drop Distance, which is especially bad since he straight up racially profiles Sora before immediately calling him a slur.

#Psycho Analysis #the hunchback of notre dame #claude frollo #tony jay #Disney #Youtube

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crossoverheaven · 7 months

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#Reboot #Megabyte #Disney #TaleSpin #Shere Khan #Tony Jay #villains #tumblr polls #poll

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roskirambles · 4 months

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Animated Movie of the Day: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, a building witness to countless stories. The most famous, however, involves two men (one young and malformed, the other old and in power) who fell in love with a Roma girl. While the young one let her go once he saw her heart belonged to another, the older one decided to have her whatever the cost. Or in the words of the street performer Clopin, the story of a man and a monster.

The house of the mouse is no stranger to toning down their literary inspirations to appeal to a general audience. Problem is, with an author as cynnical as Victor Hugo you can only tone down so much before the story loses it's point. So taking a gamble, the end result is a shockingly dark movie that explores authoritarianism, psychological abuse, systemic discrimination, lust, posessiveness and objectification, with some theological unpacking about the nature of sin and virtue at that. Seriously, it says a lot this movie's take on Claude Frollo is the most disturbing villain in the entire Disney canon by a landslide (with some people even having drawn paralels to characters like Griffith from Berserk… and having a point at that).

At least, that's when they don't try to get cute. Either as a genuine but misguided attempt to bring some levity into a movie that can genuinely get intense or a compromise to get the thing greenlit, the addition of the comic relief gargoyles and slapstick gags stick out like a sore thumb. And that's not getting into their depiction of the Roma people still potentially falling into stereotypes, but that's a whole separate can of worms.

It's an imperfect package, but a bold move that only could've happened in the Disney Renaissance. Whether it's the powerful human drama, a fantastic central cast of heroes, a breathtaking visual rendition of the Notre Dame Cathedral or the majestic score by Alan Menken. its strengths do outweight its weaknesses.

And do not misunderstand my words. The movie IS drastically different from the book as most of the cast was given a more sympathetic and audience appropriate portrayal(the way Phoebus is portrayed is night and day compared to the novel). Still, in contrast to many of the Disney adaptations they still had to bite the bullet when it comes to some of the thematic content.

#roskirambles #animated films #victor hugo #gary trousdale #kirk wise #tab murphy #irene mecchi #bob tzudiker #noni white #jonathan roberts #tom hulce #demi moore #tony jay #kevin kline #paul kandel #drama film #musical film #the hunchback of notre dame #disney

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thecourtofgraywaves · 2 months

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I swear on my very-little honor Chris Pratt's presence is NOT intentional.

#meme #disney #disney villains #nintendo #super mario bros #super mario bros movie #the hunchback of notre dame #tony jay #jack black #judge claude frollo #claude frollo #bowser #hellfire #peaches

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jurijurijurious · 11 months

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“Feel you runnin' on my mind Creepin' up and down my spine No one thinks like you and I 'Cause I got these sick thoughts” - Lewis Blissett, Sick Thoughts

Flirting can be a dangerous business. I love this ship, damn it.

Totally inspired by @buginateacup's fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44176990/chapters/111087172

#reboot #megadot #megabyte x dot #dot matrix #megabyte #reboot fanart #reboot fanfic #dangerous flirting #tony jay #al's diner #lewis blissett #sick thoughts #reboot cartoon #enemies and lovers #control freaks

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filmjunky-99 · 9 months

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