10 Best Disney Villain Songs

2. "Heaven's Light/Hellfire" - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

"Heaven's Light/Hellfire" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1998) is a legitimately scary song. Judge Claude Frollo's malevolently arrogant pleas and promises compared with Quasimodo's hopeful love melody give the starkest contrast between their characters as had yet been portrayed in the film as well as the fullest portrait of Frollo's.

Aside from not knowing that Disney could use a word like "hellfire," Frollo's half of the song displays for the first time the depths to which he is sinking into madness as he praises the righteousness and virtue of his soul while singing of his physical desire and need for the imprisoned gypsy Esmeralda, all to pious background singing in the Notre Dame cathedral.

Most villainous lines: "God have mercy on her. God have mercy on me. But she will be mine or she will burn!"

 
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