History WesternAnimation / TheHunchbackOfNotreDameGoldenFilms

* BrokenAesop: The movie is supposed to teach that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside, but Quasimodo became beautiful, so the moral is: looks don't matter as long as you're handsome. Not helping by the fact that Quasimodo doesn't even look grotesque in the first place and that Quasimodo barely gets to do anything noble or heroic -- besides saving Melody from being executed by Jean Claude right at the end, mostly by ironically enough, ''not'' doing something -- during the whole film.

* EverybodyLives: Yes, everybody lives. Including the bad guys.

** Jean Claude often has a habit of doing this. Such cases include calling himself “Le Grande Fromage” (Which translates to "The Big Cheese"), and when he uses a Lasso, he says “Le Yee Haw!”.

* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: In the book, Frollo (whom Jean-Claude is based on) is Quasimodo’s adopted father. Here, they are half-brothers.

* CompositeCharacter: Jean Claude takes the antagonistic role from Claude Frollo, while his name is a combination of Frollo and his brother Jehan's. His military style is taken from Phoebus. His appearance was taken from Gaston from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' despite not being a character in the original story.

** The story supposedly happens in medieval France, but in the opening song the people are wearing clothes from the 18th and 19th centuries. The Can Can first appeared in 1830 and yet the opening song is a StandardSnippet of the Can Can.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the book, Frollo (whom Jean-Claude is based on) is Quasimodo’s adopted father. Here, they are half-brothers.

* AbledInTheAdaptation: Quasimodo's deafness from the books is absent. Not only that; he ceases being a hunchback.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Quasimodo cannot really be called ugly, unlike Victor Hugo's creepy one. He even becomes handsome at the ending.

* AdaptationalJobChange: Jean Claude is inspired on Claude Frollo, a SinisterMinister. However, he works as an aristocrat instead.

** The story supposedly happens in medieval France, but in the opening song the people are wearing clothes of the 18th and 19th centuries. The Can Can appeared in 1830 and yet the opening song is a StandardSnippet of the Can Can.

** Frollo or Jean Claude or whoever has an aerosol spray can... in the Middle Ages.

* BeautifulAllAlong: Quasimodo was a handsome {{Hunk}}.

* CompositeCharacter: Jean Claude takes the antagonistic role from Claude Frollo, while his name is a combination of Frolle his brother Jehan's. His military style is taken from Phoebus. His appearance was taken from Gaston from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' despite not being a character in the original story.

* {{Disneyfication}}: Exaggerated. This adaptation eliminated all the violence, and even the religious context. In fact, it Disneyfied the story even more than Disney's own adaptation.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Melody is a prime example of this and so are a number of background gypsies, namely women. She's even barefoot at her wedding, at which she is wearing a full wedding dress.

* InNameOnly: The narrative is completely different. This seems more of a Beauty and the Beast story than one of the Hunchback. The [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Disney version]] had more to do with the source material than this. The trope also extends to the few remnants of the book, especially Quasimodo, who is neither ugly nor a real hunchback.
** Pierre, who in this adaptation is Jean-Claude's sidekick rather than a poet in love with Esmeralda/Melody

* JesusTaboo: Aside from being set around a cathedral, this adaptation largely avoids religious references.

* PeekABangs: Half of Quasimodo's face is covered by his hair. It's not hiding any deformities like the character is supposed to have.
* PlotHole: Melody's song implies that her magical powers are just part of her imagination, but if that was true, that would mean the instruments aren't real and therefore they couldn't tell Quasimodo not to play the bell. If all is real, why doesn't she escape from the jail?

** Quasimodo. Well, Every One, really?
** In the book, Frollo became an orphan at early age due to the Black Plague. Jean Claude's father is alive on this adaptation.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: This movie focuses a lot more on Melody's instruments and Jean Claude instead of Quasimodo and Melody. Seriously, name a scene that doesn't have the instruments talking or doing anything.
* TalkingAnimal: The Bats of Notre Dame hold conversations between them.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Quasimodo drops one to Jean Claude, calling him an oppresor.
* TheThemeParkVersion: Not only the film, but the opening song. The opening song is just reduced to stereotypes about Paris.

* {{Disneyfication}}: Exaggerated. This adaptation eliminated all the violence, and even the religious context.

* FunHatingVillain Jean Claude bans singing, dancing, and any kind of recreation so that people will work hard to pay their taxes.

** The antagonist goes from Claude Frollo to Jean-Claude. It’s possible his last name is still Frollo, but it is never mentioned.

* BrokenAesop: The movie is supposed to teach that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside, but Quasimodo became beautiful, so the moral is: looks don't matter as long as you're handsome. Not helping by the fact that Quasimodo doesn't even look grotesque in the first place and that Quasimodo never does anything noble or heroic during the whole film.

* DastardlyWhiplash: Jean Claude is a stereotypical, mustached villain.

* CompositeCharacter: Jean Claude is a composite character of Claude Frollo, his brother Jehan, Phoebus and even [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]].

* ProducePelting: That's how Jean Claude is banished.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Quasimodo. Well, Every One, really?

* TalkingAnimal: The Bats of Notre Dame can do some dialogs.

* WickedStepmother: Quasimodo's stepfather neglected him and made him work on mines.

* BeautifulAllAlong: Quasimodo was handsome.

* BigBad: Jean Claude.

This is the 1996 Creator/GoldenFilms AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' (the Creator/VictorHugo novel), which [[TheMockbuster strangely was released near the date]] of [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the Disney adaptation]].

* CompositeCharacter: Jean Claude is a composite character of Claude Frollo, his brother Jehan, Phoebus and even [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]].

* {{Expy}}: Jean Claude is a blatant one to Gaston from Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''.

* InNameOnly: The narrative is completely different. This seems more of a Beauty and the Beast story than one of the Hunchback. The [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Disney version]] had more to do with the source material than this. The trope also extends to the few remnants of the book, especially Quasimodo, who is neither ugly nor a real hunchback.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the book, Frollo (whom Jean-Claude is based on) in Quasimodo’s adopted father. Here, they are half-brothers.

* InNameOnly: The narrative is completely different. This seems more of a Beauty and the Beast story than one of the Hunchback. The [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Disney version]] had more to do with the source material than this. The trope also extends to the few remnants of the book, especially Quasimodo, who is nor ugly nor a real hunchback.

* AdaptationNameChange: The gypsy is not Esmeralda, but Melody. Since there's no reason to believe the creators of this ever read the book, it's possible they incorrectly assumed the name Esmeralda was owned by Disney and thus replaced her with a CaptainErsatz for nonexistent legal reasons.

* AnachronismStew:

** Frollo or Jean Claude or whoever has an aerosol spray can... in the Middle Ages. They also have guns, in the Middle Ages.

* AnimateInanimateObject: Melody's instruments and a decorative bell chain.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Jean Claude and his glutton father, the Baron.

* CaptainObvious: At one point, Jean-Claude says "Doing anything against the law is illegal."

* AdaptationNameChange: The gypsy is not Esmeralda, but Melody. Since there's no reason to believe the creators of this ever read the book, it's possible they incorrectly assumed the name Esmeralda was owned by Disney and thus needed to replace her with a CaptainErsatz for legal reasons.

* AdaptationNameChange: The gypsy is not Esmeralda, but Melody. Since there's no reason to believe the creators of this ever read the book, it's possible they incorrectly assumed the name Esmeralda was owned by Disney and thus needed to replace her with a CaptainErsatz.

* AdaptationNameChange: The gypsy is not Esmeralda, but Melody.

** Frollo or Jean Claude or whoever has an aerosol spray can...in the Middle Ages. They also have guns, in the Middle Ages.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Melody is a prime example of this and so are a number of background gypsies, namely women.