Who Is Esmeralda? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Esmeralda is a In the Public Domain comic book character, the alter ego of Agnes la Chantefleurie, with over 72 comic issue appearances. Esmeralda is a beautiful, kind, fearless and streetwise gypsy. She one day hopes to see outcasts like Quasimodo and her fellow gypsies be accepted into society and be treated equally.

Who is Esmeralda?

Major Story Arcs Disney The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Esmeralda is the first character to become friends with Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame when she looks past his appearance and sees him for a gentle person he is. During a festival she starts dancing on stage for some money and even skips towards Frollo gently flirting with him for show. At the festival every year there's a 'king of fools' competition where everyone there wears masks. Without thinking Esmeralda brought Quasimodo on stage thinking his face was a mask. When everyone realized that's what he looked like the crowd tortured him by tying him onto a wooden wheel and throw tomatoes at him. Esmeralda cuts the rope off which makes Frollo made that she didn't let Quasimodo suffer the consequences so he wants her to get arrested. Esmeralda runs towards a church to call for a safe point where no one can harm her as long as she's under protection. Here she meets her love interest Phoebus who at first she's very angry at even going far enough to attack him with a candle stick.

Key facts

Esmeralda is of human origin. The character is published by In the Public Domain. With 72 recorded issue appearances, Esmeralda ranks among the most featured characters in comics.