

Nicholas Piberius "Nick" Wilde is a fox and the deuteragonist of Zootopia.įor the initial production of the film, Nick served as the film's protagonist. Īlliance of Women Film Journalists awarded Judy the Best Animated Female award in 2016 (shared with Moana from the film of the same name after a tie). She found that unlike the stories from characters such as members of the Disney Princess franchise, focused on romance or family loyalty, her focus is on her dream career as a police officer and serving her city. In The Daily Telegraph, Rosa Prince singled out Judy Hopps as a welcome change for Disney animated feature film heroines. In Disney Parks, she is a meet-and-greet character at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Judy also appears as a playable character in the video games Disney Infinity 3.0, Disney Magic Kingdoms, Disney Heroes: Battle Mode, and Disney Mirrorverse. She also appeared as a playable racer in the racing game Zootopia: Racing Carnival. Judy is also a main character in the video game Zootopia: Crime Files, where she investigates cases with Nick. In "Dinner Rush", she and Nick are shown stopping Flash's car.

She also appears in "The Real Rodents of Little Rodentia", during the time that she saves Fru Fru in Little Rodentia. In Zootopia+, she appears in "Hopp on Board", where she is seen during her train trip into Zootopia. Subsequently, Nick joins the police force, becoming Judy's partner, both being assigned by Chief Bogo to their first job as a team. Finally, they end up discovering that the mastermind behind the plot was Bellwether, who they manage to set up to record her confession, getting her arrested. She returns to her family farm in Bunnyburrow to work with her father, but upon discovering that the flowers Weaselton had stolen were the cause of predators in Zootopia going wild, Judy returns to Zootopia, where after reconciling with Nick, they both return to investigate the case. Judy feels proud to solve the case, but because the fame gained from the predatory animals after the case going wild negatively affects her friends like Nick and Clawhauser, and the situation begins to cause chaos in the city, feeling guilty she decides to resign from the police force. Otterton and other missing predators, in addition to discovering that it is Mayor Lionheart who has them locked up. Judy and Nick continue their investigation, discovering from traffic cameras that Manchas was taken in a van to an asylum, where they find Mr.

At that point, Manchas ends up going wild as well. Big, grateful for saving his daughter, gives her the address of the limo driver, Manchas, who tells them that Otterton went wild and fled after attacking him. Big, a crime boss who is about to freeze Judy and Nick, until he is stopped by her daughter Fru Fru, who recognizes Judy for saving her during Duke's chase. Investigating, Judy decides to ask Nick for help, who introduces her to his friend Flash from the traffic department to find the limo where Mr. Otterton false hope, but instead offers her two days to solve the case, or else she will be fired. Otterton to find her missing husband, Bogo prepares to expel her from the police force for giving Mrs. Subsequently, she is caught up in a manhunt to catch Duke Weaselton, but although she succeeds, the ruckus she caused enrages Chief Bogo.

However, she discovers that they are not father and son, but two con men who wanted to use the ice pop to resell small ice pops. While she is working, she runs into Nick Wilde, a fox who wanted to buy his son a large ice pop but had no money, so Judy offers to pay for it. Since she was a child, she has dreamed of becoming Zootopia's first police rabbit, and although she finally succeeds, on her first day she is assigned to take care of the parking meters. With Judy being an optimistic protagonist, and her struggle to insert herself within the harsh world of reality, the story and themes made much more sense. To Nick, the Zootopia city was broken from the beginning, and following the story of a cynic protagonist would degrade both the message of the story and the city itself. She was an already established lieutenant of the Zootopia Police Department, with the goal of assisting Nick in clearing his name after being framed for a crime he did not commit. Officer Judith Laverne "Judy" Hopps is a female rabbit and the main protagonist of Zootopia.įor the initial production of the film, Judy was not the protagonist of the story, instead being a sidekick for Nick, with the plot centered around him. Officer at the Zootopia Police Department
