Characters / Chicken Run

This is the character sheet for the DreamWorks/Aardman film Chicken Run and its sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.

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Chickens

Ginger

Voiced By: Julia Sawalha (Chicken Run), Thandiwe Newton (Dawn of the Nugget)
Dubbed By: Hiroko Okabe (Japanese); Valérie Lemercier (European French, first film)

The unofficial leader of the chickens, who is determined to escape and free her fellow chickens.

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• Action Mom: While she spends much of the sequel wanting to put her action days behind her, she drags her Action Girl tendencies out of the mothballs when Molly is kidnapped. Later, she decides to rescue all the chickens and she ends the story attacking another chicken farm.
• Affectionate Nickname: Rocky calls her "Ginge" a few times in the sequel, replacing any of the belittling and condescending terms like "babydoll" and "angelface" now that the two are in a loving relationship.
• Animal Nemesis: She serves as Mr. Tweedy's nemesis thanks to her numerous escape attempts.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Rocky. The two constantly bicker in the beginning, with Rocky clearly not taking Ginger's plight seriously and being condescending towards her, while Ginger basically forced him to help them by threatening to expose him to the farmers. That said, they end up developing genuine feelings towards each other over the course of the first movie.
• Break the Cutie: Ginger is hit with this hard. First, she faces the realism that she and the others may never escape. Then, she learns that Rocky lied about flying when she stumbles upon an intact flyer of him. Which is after Rocky abandons them out of shame.
• Brutal Honesty: She flat out told the chickens that the Tweedys are going to slaughter them after realising that they are stuffing the chickens up with a lot of food, which Rocky calls her out on and tells her to never mention death to others because they don't take that word well.
• Butt-Monkey: In the opening sequence and main titles, Mr. Tweedy grabs Ginger by the neck and literally throws her into solitary confinement many times after she's caught in numerous escape attempts. In other scenes, she's sometimes the No Respect Chicken.
• Damsel in Distress: When she is captured by the Tweedys and is put into the pie machine. A second time this happens is when she is brainwashed by a collar in the sequel. Rocky and Molly save her on each occasion respectively.
• Deadpan Snarker: Ginger is particularly lippy towards Rocky, mostly due to his selfish nature.
• Determinator: Determined to save her fellow chickens from the Tweedies.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Played as straight as possible. After years of heartache and failed escape attempts, she finally leads the other hens to safety, gets the freedom she's always wanted and starts a relationship with Rocky.
• "Eureka!" Moment: While the chickens are brawling in the mud during the Darkest Hour, Fowler's winged "medal" gives her the idea to "build a crate".
• Everyone Has Standards: She doesn't like Nick and Fetcher for their unwillingess to help the chickens escape, unless they are paid with chicken eggs, which is also what the chickens need to stop Mrs. Tweedy from taking them to the chop. She, however, doesn't approve of Rocky taking advantage of the rats by "promising" to lay eggs for them personally in exchange for their merchandise, knowing that the rats don't know that roosters can't lay eggs (a fact that they don't learn until later).
  Ginger: You've lied to them.
  Rocky: I didn't lie, doll face. I just...omitted certain truths. I'll give them what I promised.
  Ginger: Which is nothing.
  Rocky: Which is what I'll give them.
• Fiery Redhead: Has distinctively orange feathers, with her even having a name that alludes to it, and she is one brave, determined and stubborn hen who isn't afraid to stand up for what she thinks is right.
• Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: As of Dawn of the Nugget, she has this kind of relationship with Rocky. While Rocky isn't exactly stupid, he is very impulsive and does things without thinking them through, a stark contrast to the more serious and cautious Ginger who prefers to have things planned out.
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!:
  Ginger: We'll either die free chickens, or die trying!
  Babs: Are those the only choices?
• Heroic BSoD: Ginger becomes utterly defeated after Rocky's deceit is revealed along with his departure.
• I Just Want to Be Free: Ginger's personal reason for escaping is to live in a place with no fences and fresh grass underneath her feet.
• Indy Hat Roll: Ginger rescuing her beret after going under a closing oven door.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She may take her Brutal Honesty too far (which Rocky call her out on), but it's only because she cares about what happens to her friends and wants to shake them out of their complacency so they can escape.
  Rocky: You know what your problem is? You're... difficult!
  Ginger: Why? Because I'm honest?! I care about what happens to them!
• The Leader: Type II (Levelheaded) and III (Headstrong).
• Malicious Misnaming: Hates being called "Dollface".
• Mama Bear: Is willing to fight humans ten times her size to save her daughter.
• Meaningful Name: Ginger is a "ginger" (meaning "reddish") chicken.
• Official Couple: With Rocky. Ending with a kiss after the climax.
• Only Sane Woman: More intelligent and practical than the other chickens.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Dawn of the Nugget, Ginger goes from a brave freedom fighter willing to save all the chickens to an overprotective hen who prefers to hide and look the other way despite knowing that other chickens are being sent to their deaths in a new farm next door, and this change in character hasn't gone unnoticed by Mac. Ginger admits that she would have otherwise charged into the fray to save those chickens, but she is deeply afraid of jeopardizing the safety of Molly and her home if she were to do so. The rest of the film deals with Ginger finding her old, fiery spirit back and resolving to save all the chickens from farms.
• Parental Hypocrisy: In Dawn of the Nugget, Ginger is vehemently against allowing her free-spirited daughter Molly to leave the island, turning the peaceful idyll into a Gilded Cage. When Molly finds out the circumstances of how the chickens came to the island and Ginger's role in the escape, the irony is not lost on the young chicken. In the end, Ginger seems to realize this, apologizing to Molly and admitting that she should have expected her own daughter to be just like her.
• Parents as People: She is clearly a very loving and caring mother towards Molly, but the trauma from being from a chicken farm where she watched a lot of her allies die caused her to be quite overprotective, which ends up being the conflict of the sequel.
• Red Is Heroic: A ginger chicken and is the heroine.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She has green eyes and red feathers.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Ginger was annoyed and put off by Rocky's Casanova attitude. She starts to grow feelings for him after he cheers up the rest of the hens and saved her from death.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: With Rocky. She'll always put Rocky in his place with a slap whenever he exhibits selfishness, but is more than willing to forgive him with a kiss whenever he proves himself heroic and selfless.
• Stepford Smiler: She puts on a brave face as the determined leader of the chickens' escape efforts, but when alone Ginger breaks down in tears at the hopelessness of their situation and repeated failures, weakly stating "Heaven help us..."
• Tough Leader Façade: While she plays the role of a strong, confident leader around the other chickens, it's clear when the story begins that she seriously doubts her own capabilities and is losing hope of ever escaping the farm.
• Trauma Button: As shown in the sequel, her experience on Mrs. Tweedy's chicken farm causes her to become legitimately triggered when the idea of another chicken farm showing up and possibly taking her daughter shows up. It gets even worse when she finds out that Mrs. Tweedy is running it.
• Tsundere: To Rocky, in their Slap-Slap-Kiss dynamic.

Rocky Rhodes

Voiced By: Mel Gibson (Chicken Run), Zachary Levi (Dawn of the Nugget)
Dubbed By: Goro Kishitani (Japanese), Gérard Depardieu (French, first film)

An American rooster on the run from the circus.

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• Action Dad: He becomes a father to a chick named Molly in the sequel and after she gets captured, he goes full Papa Wolf and doesn't hesitate to face Fun-Land Farms' threats to rescue her.
• Actor Allusion: It was inevitable that a Mel Gibson character in a prison break movie would yell "FREEEEEEEDOOOOOM" somewhere in the script.
• Alliterative Name: Rocky Rhodes.
• All There in the Manual: The tie-in book Chicken Pies For the Soul goes into a few details on his backstory. Notably, he was raised in Kentucky by his mother.
• AM/FM Characterization: Rocky is heard singing and later listening to The Wanderer by Dion. Fittingly, the song is about a free-spirited man who likes to travel around and flirt and spend nights with various women without really getting to know them much beyond that.
• Becoming the Boast: Rocky and Fowler are an interesting contrast. Both of them make big boasts that they can't live up to (Rocky's claim that he can fly, and Fowler's exploits in the Royal Air Force). Rocky runs away rather than face the shame of exposure; Fowler comes clean about the fact that he was a mascot, not a pilot, and at Ginger's urging, he takes the pilot seat in the chickens' home-made aircraft.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • At the end of the first film, he arrives Just in Time to rescue Ginger from being killed by Mrs. Tweedy and helps the chickens escape.
  • In the sequel, he destroys Mrs. Tweedy's Sadistic Choice by swinging in just in time to snag her axe before she can behead Molly, allowing Ginger to focus on keeping the brainwashed chickens from marching into the grinder and pushing her friends in with them.
• Bumbling Dad: Downplayed. Rocky isn't stupid per se and he has his fair share of clever and resourceful moments, but he is kind of a clumsy goofball whose impulsiveness sometimes causes issues to him and others around him. In spite of that, he is a loving and protective father towards Molly and is always there to cheer her up. He's also physically adept enough to accomplish feats such as snatching an axe out of Mrs. Tweedy's hand with a cable that he's currently swinging on.
• The Casanova: He says he was brought to England because of all the beautiful English chicks. A few moments later, he is mid-sentence in that scene when he meets the rest of the chickens properly, he turns to one of them, winks at her and goes smoothly, "Hi, how are you?", causing her to faint.
• Changed My Mind, Kid: Rocky returns to the farm in time to help Ginger set the ramp back in place and the pair climb aboard the plane by grabbing a string of lights hanging from the landing gear.
• Character Development: Upon first arriving at the egg farm, Rocky makes it clear to Ginger he has no intention of helping her or the other hens escape and is only interested in his own freedom. As the first film progresses, it becomes apparent that, in his own way, he starts to care for the hens' well being and even organises a dance party to cheer everyone up. After he escapes the farm in the middle of the night, he celebrates his freedom by riding on a (most likely, stolen) tricycle, but when he sees the billboard for "Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pies," he turns around and helps Ginger and the hens escape, and even helps found the "'Chikin' Sactuary."
• The Charmer: In rooster form. He instantly makes all the hens at Mrs. Tweedy's farm swoon over him with his flirtatious, witty and confident demeanor and he even manages to befriend Nick and Fetcher by flattering them. It's also shown that his general charisma lends itself to him being good at brightening the mood when things get dour.
• Chick Magnet: Pun intended. All the hens go gaga over him. The only hen who isn't as easily swayed by his charms is Ginger and even then, she ends up developing feelings for him in the end.
• Court-martialed: Fowler threatens Rocky with this at one point.
• Covert Pervert: He stares at Ginger's backside during the training montage. When Ginger notices it, he chuckles nervously.
• Cowardly Lion: He's scared from the thought of going back to the circus, but he does go to rescue Ginger.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Heavily implied given him begging for Ginger to hide him from the circus and stating that he's never going back.
• Deadpan Snarker: He enjoys making one-liners when he gets the chance.
• Egg-Laying Male: Invoked when he gets thieving rats Nick and Fetcher to help by promising them all the eggs he'll lay... which, being a rooster, would be none. Eventually, they (or at least Nick) catch on.
  Nick: Right, just like the ones that rooster was gonna lay. Only roosters don't lay eggs, do they?
  Fetcher: Don't they?
  Nick: No, it's a lady thing, apparently. Ask your mum.
• Exact Words: He promises Nick & Fetcher every egg he lays for the next month. Ginger confronts him about his deceit:
  Rocky: Don't worry, I'll give them just what I promised.
  Ginger: Which is nothing.
  Rocky: Which is what I'll give them.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Rocky let his "flying rooster" reputation go to his head. Once he had to give an actual demonstration, he chickened out.
• Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: As of Dawn of the Nugget, he has this kind of relationship with Ginger. While Rocky isn't exactly stupid, he is very impulsive and does things without thinking them through, a stark contrast to the more serious and cautious Ginger who prefers to have things planned out.
• Incoming Ham: When we first see Rocky enter the story, the very first thing he says is "FREEEEEEEDOOOOOM!".
• Jerkass Has a Point: Rocky wasn't wrong when he calls Ginger out for getting carried away with her Brutal Honesty and not realising how she's making the other chickens feel.
  Rocky: Listen! I've met some hard-boiled eggs in my day, but I'd say you're about 20 minutes!
  Ginger: And what's that supposed to mean?
  Rocky: It means you gotta lighten up. You see, over in America, we have this rule: If you wanna motivate someone, don't. Mention. DEATH!
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's very believable as to why Ginger couldn't stand him in the beginning. But Rocky ultimately proved to be fearless and caring in the end.
• Ladykiller in Love: Flirtatious charmer Rocky falls in love with Ginger and ends up settling down with her.
• The Lancer: To Ginger's Hero.
• Leeroy Jenkins: In Dawn of the Nugget, it's shown that he tends to leap into action without thinking or planning things through first, which causes some problems for him and others. This is best shown by him jumping into the Fun-Land Farms without any plan, which results in him getting sucked into a garbage chute and when he jumps into a corn silo when he sees the other chickens in it, even though there's no way out of it.
  Rocky: Sometimes, you just gotta take a leap, Ginger.
• Let Me Get This Straight...: His exact reaction when Ginger explains that she wants his help to free every chicken in the farm.
• Liar Revealed: Ginger and the other chickens finds out that he too can't fly because he was shot out of a cannon.
• Official Couple: He eventually gets together with Ginger towards the end of the first film.
• Panicky Expectant Father: He has a nervous fit when Molly starts to hatch.
• Papa Wolf: He may be a goofball, but he will go up against humans ten times his size to protect his daughter.
• Punny Name: His name is a pun on Rocky Road ice cream.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: To an extent. He becomes a bit ditzier in the sequel with several stupid moments before eventually jumping down into a massive silo because he couldn't hear what the other chickens were saying, somehow not realising this would get him stuck and leave them with no way to get out.
• Took a Level in Kindness: See the Jerk with a Heart of Gold section. He came back to help the hens and saved Ginger from almost being squished. By the time the sequel comes around, while he is still quite cocky and often does things without thinking, he is noticeably much kinder and more caring towards others (especially Ginger and his daughter Molly) than he ever was at the beginning of the original movie.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Rocky is right when he calls Ginger out on her Brutal Honesty, which he states could demoralize the chickens. His calling her out reaches to the point where Ginger fights back saying that she cares about what happens to them, something that he wouldn't understand.
  Rocky: Listen! I've met some hard-boiled eggs in my day, but I'd say you're about 20 minutes!
  Ginger: And what's that supposed to mean?
  Rocky: It means you gotta lighten up. You see, over in America, we have this rule: If you wanna motivate someone, don't. Mention. DEATH!
  Ginger: [scoffs] Funny. Over here, the rule is: Always tell the truth!
  Rocky: Oh, hey, that's been working like a real charm, hasn't it? Here's some free advice. You want them to perform? Tell them what they want to hear.
  Ginger: You mean lie? [walks away]
  Rocky: [sighs] Here we go again. Y-you know what your problem is? You're... difficult!
  Ginger: Why? Because I'm honest?! I care about what happens to them! Something I wouldn't expect a lone free ranger to know anything about.
  Rocky: Hey, if this is the way you show it, I hope you NEVER care about ME!
  Ginger: I can assure you, I never will!
  Rocky: GOOD!
  Ginger: FINE!

Fowler

Voiced By: Benjamin Whitrow (Chicken Run), David Bradley (Dawn of the Nugget)
Dubbed By: Hisahiro Ogura (Japanese)

A grumpy old rooster who always goes on about his time in the Royal Air Force.

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• All There in the Manual: The tie-in book Chicken Pies For the Soul goes into a few details on his past life prior to the Tweedy’s farm. Including his life in boot camp among other reflections.
• Berserk Button: Fowler is very proud of his medal and cares for it diligently. When Bunty loses her temper and knocks it into the mud, Fowler hits her over the head with his cane.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has big bushy ones which give him a stern look. Notably, he's the only chicken to have them.
• Cool Old Guy: He earns that status by story's end. In the beginning, he's a pompous windbag who doesn't inspire much confidence in the other chickens. When he gives them the idea to build a plane, he seems to earn everyone's respect... until he explains that he’s somewhat of a Phony Veteran, having served as a mascot—obviously, the British air force wouldn’t let a rooster pilot a plane. When he stands up and flies the plane to freedom, he earns their respect for real, as shown by the chicks listening to his stories of the escape with genuine intent.
• Demoted to Extra: Downplayed. He actually has a lot more dialogue in Dawn of the Nugget than in the first film, being included in several conversations back on the island but much of that is spent in the first half, with the second half only occasionally cutting back to him telling a boring story to a poor snail nearby as he has the assigned role of "getaway", while the rest of the crew break into Fun-Land Farms, which the story focuses more on.
• Exact Words: Fowler constantly talks about his time in the RAF during the war and the aircraft involved in it. He never once said that he had flown a plane before, as he was a mascot, and the RAF would obviously never allow an animal to be a pilot, something the other chickens don't realise until he actually tells them.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: While he never outright said he was a wartime hero, his ramblings gave off that impression. When he finally admits he was just the mascot, he insists that it should have been obvious, since no one would employ chickens as pilots.
• Foil: To Rocky. Rocky is charismatic and friendly to the chickens, thus earning their admiration in turn, while Fowler is often ignored or found to be irritating to talk to due to his grumpy attitude in general as well as his constant stories about his "old days" in the RAF. However, Rocky is also shown to be dishonest and cowardly in his worst moments, as he ditches the pen and leaves the chickens to their fate on the day he demonstrates his ability to fly, too ashamed to admit to everyone that he could never truly fly. Meanwhile, Fowler never once lies about his status in the RAF, being a mascot chicken and not an actual flier, and does step up to the challenge instead of backing out when Ginger and Bunty motivate him to fly the crate to finally escape.
• Grumpy Old Man: His attitude towards everyone, but mostly towards Rocky, whom he threatens at one point to court martial. Of course, real roosters get along very poorly with each other, often killing each other if forced to coexist.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Warns Ginger to not trust the "yank" (Rocky) so easily, and is proven to be correct when Rocky is revealed to be incapable of flying all along.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While irratable in general and also shown to be suspicious towards Rocky's inclusion in the pen, Fowler does care about the wellbeing of the chickens, and does give Rocky his respect after he risks his life to save Ginger from the pie machine.
• Last-Name Basis: When he takes his place as pilot, he addresses himself as "Wing Commander T.I. Fowler".
• Military Brat: According to Chicken Pies For the Soul, he was an undisciplined youth.
• The One Guy: Initially starts out as the only rooster on the farm, until Rocky arrives.
• Phony Veteran: At least semi-phony. Fowler did serve in the military, but only as a mascot. He never once actually lies to the chickens about his service in the RAF or even intentionally withholds the truth. He just doesn't explain what he really did. In fact, Fowler seems completely shocked when he finds out the other chickens thought he was a combat veteran, thinking it should have been obvious to the other chickens that, while the British military is quite known for eccentrics, even they wouldn't put a chicken behind the controls of a bomber aircraft.
• Racist Grandpa: The big reason he despises Rocky is because he's a "yank".
  Fowler: Pushy Americans. Always showing up late for every war. Overpaid, oversexed, and over here!
• Rambling Old Man Monologue: He will not hesitate to tell anyone who's around to listen about his days in the RAF, whether they want it or not.
• Taught by Experience: Fowler has never flown a plane before, obviously, but he's been on so many flights as a mascot that he's learned all the processes involved. He may not have first hand experience with the controls, but he knows enough to show the chickens how to build their own crate and guide them through proper takeoff procedures. When he does finally fly, he shows no difficulty in the act.
• Team Dad: Averted; he might be trying to evoke this sense about him (in an A Father to His Men sense), but fails. Played straight when he manages to pilot the plane at the end of the first film.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: He's noticeably a bit more scatterbrained in the sequel, with his age seemingly starting to catch up with him.
• Verbal Tic: He tends to end some of his sentence with "What, what", even his crowing.
  Fowler: Cock-a-doodle-doo... what, what!
• Would Hit a Girl: When he finally loses his temper at Bunty, he whacks her in the head with his cane. He does try to apologise once he realises what he did, but he's interrupted by her unleashing a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in retaliation.

Babs

Voiced By: Jane Horrocks
Dubbed By: Ai Sato (Japanese)

A cheerful but rather dimwitted chicken constantly seen knitting.

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• Author Appeal: Nick Park also loves knitting and features it frequently in his work.
• Beware the Nice Ones: As gentle as she is, Babs is not averse to engaging in a fight, and even joins in with the others when attacking Mr. Tweedy in the final act and one of the farm guards in the sequel.
• Big Eater: She loves to eat chicken feed.
• Big Fun: Babs is the widest of all chickens, and is also the most jovial and optimistic, though a little ditzy.
• Cloudcuckoolander: She say a lot of...odd things.
  Babs: I don't want to be a pie! I don't like gravy!
• The Ditz: The farm's resident "knit-wit."
• Flanderization: While Babs occasionally seemed naive in the original film, she was never outright dumb and was still aware of the situation, with the subtle implication that her ditziness was at least partially a coping mechanism to numb herself to the horrific reality of the farm. In Dawn of the Nugget, her airheadedness is treated as completely genuine and amplified even further, to the point where almost every conversation consists of her Comically Missing the Point.
• Genius Ditz: While Babs might be the farm's resident oddball, she sure knows her way around knitting and sewing, which proves to be essential during the creation of the flying crate and also comes in handy for restraining a guard during the sequel.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Babs wears a purple necklace around her throat and she's the most feminine member of the main cast.
• The Heart: Babs offers a lot of optimism throughout the series.
• Innocently Insensitive: Misinterprets Edwina being taken away from the farm as her "going on holiday", seemingly not aware that she is being led to her execution.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: The most oblivious and dim-witted of the hens, but she is also always kind, friendly and gentle.
• The Medic: Downplayed. She merely provides a bandage for Rocky's broken wing, which Mac makes good use of.
• Nice Girl: Despite her ditziness, Babs is a kind, friendly chicken.
• One-Track-Minded Artist: Artist is possibly pushing it a bit... but she's a very skilled knitter, and is seemingly obsessed with this. Even when the chickens are all about to take off in the 'crate' and escape the farm, she is busily knitting and too distracted (and short) to actually pedal like the rest of them!
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When she becomes scared or stressed, there's usually a very good reason for it.

Bunty

Voiced By: Imelda Staunton (English), Kazue Komiya (Japanese), Josiane Balasko (French, first film)

A big, cynical chicken who doubts Ginger's plans.

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• The Big Girl: The biggest chicken who lays the most eggs, and is also physically the strongest among the group.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Female example.
• Boyish Short Hair: Has a comb resembling a flat top.
• Brawn Hilda: She is the muscle of the gang.
• Character Catchphrase: "Give over!"
• The Cynic: Doubts Ginger's plans and the idea of escaping their predicament. She eventually grows out of it by the time the crate plan proves worthy enough to finally save everyone.
• Deadpan Snarker: Of the cynical, dry wit variety.
• Elder Abuse: Fowler is not immune to her aggressive side, and suffers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown after he whacks her on the head with his cane.
• Explosive Breeder: Lays the most eggs among all the other hens in the farm. It's implied she hands off extra eggs to any of the chickens who aren't laying to keep them from getting the axe.
• Hot-Blooded: Doesn't hesitate to start a fight, if pushed.
• Hysterical Woman: In spite of her tough exterior, she's usually the first to panic at the first sign of danger, such as when Ginger is taken to the pie machine, and later when she misinterpets Ginger's line about not "losing their heads".
• Jerkass Has a Point: When she suggests they give up trying to escape, Ginger reminds her about Edwina. Bunty simply points out that if Edwina hadn't spent so much time trying to escape, she might have been able to lay a few eggs, which might have prevented her death.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Normally a cynical, grouchy hen but she does deeply care for her friends. Case in point: She was devastated that Edwina didn't ask for any of her eggs to save her from the chop. She even backs Ginger up later when encouraging Fowler to fly the plane.
• Oh, Crap!: If she had any doubts about Ginger's desires to escape, these are quickly pushed aside the moment she realises the entire flock is to be baked into chicken pies.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Bunty often doubts Ginger's plans of escape. But when Ginger orders an attack on Mr. Tweedy, Bunty exclaims, "Nice plan!" before she joins the attack. That's when you know that things are about to get serious.
• Ship Tease: With Fowler. She is seen dancing with him at Rocky's party and at the end of the first film, on a tree behind Bunty and Babs, there is a heart carved into the trunk that reads "Bunty + Fowler."
• Suddenly Shouting: When Ginger gives her impassioned speech about what freedom would be like beyond the fence, Bunty sums up her thoughts.
  Bunty: In all my life, I've never heard such a fantastic load of TRIPE!

Mac

Voiced By: Lynn Ferguson (English), Takako Kato (Japanese)

An intelligent, Scottish chicken and Ginger's right hand.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: After Bunty throws Babs' knitting cloth on the wet ground in a fit of rage after discovering that Rocky had abandoned the hens, Mac's response is to call Bunty out on her overly aggressive nature and shove her hard enough to almost knock her to the ground. When a livid Bunty fights back, Mac takes as much force from the others to pull them away from each other.
• Blind Without 'Em: She claims that she "cannae see a sausage" without her glasses.
• Einstein Hair: Or Einstein Crest. It's similar to the crest of a Polish chicken.
• Informed Flaw: She's supposed to be hard to understand, but she just talks really fast with a few Scottish expressions thrown in on occasion. In fairness, the only one really shown struggling to understand her is Rocky, who's only known her for a few days or a week at most, while everyone else most likely knows her for years.
• The Medic: She's the one who helps apply Babs' bandage to fix Rocky's broken wing.
• Motor Mouth: Talks so fast that Rocky can't understand her.
• Nice Girl: Mac is generally very polite and helpful towards the other chickens. The one time she gets aggressive, it's to defend Babs from Bunty.
• Number Two: To Ginger.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Mac uses big words when it comes to her plans.
• The Smart Girl: The one who makes the inventions that Ginger needs for her plans.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: The only chicken to wear glasses and the smartest of them all.
• The Unintelligible: Just to Rocky apparently. Ginger and the rest of the chickens can understand her even when she talks rapidly, though in fairness, they've likely been around her all their lives while Rocky's only known her for a few days or a week at most.
• Violent Glaswegian: Averted, or perhaps inverted. Although she's the only chicken with a Scottish accent, she's actually the most intelligent and even tempered of the chickens, except for when Bunty pushes her too far.

Edwina

A chicken from the same hut as Ginger. She later becomes the Tweedys' dinner when she can't produce enough eggs.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's never explicitly stated whether she was really no longer able to lay eggs, or if she purposely stopped laying them because she wanted to die.
• Driven to Suicide: A possible interpretation of her death. It's mentioned that she didn't tell anyone she hadn't laid any eggs when it seems to be an established system within the flock for laying hens to share their eggs with those who cannot lay any more to prevent them from being killed, implying she either forgot or willingly neglected to tell them.
• Killed Off for Real: She is the only character in the first movie to die.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Is ironically named after former British Health Secretary Edwina Currie, responsible for the 1988 salmonella scare that led to egg sales in the UK dropping by 60% and a cull of four million chickens.
• Off with His Head!: Gets her head chopped off by Mrs. Tweedy (offscreen).
• Red Shirt: She is only shown in the roll call scene before being taken to the chopping block.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Killed early for not laying eggs for at least three days. It's supposed to showcase the kind of hell the chickens live in and their motivation to escape it.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Her death reaffirms Ginger's desire to escape.
• The Voiceless: She never speaks in the first film due to being killed before she gets the chance.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Is only shown for a brief minute in the beginning of the first film before she becomes dinner for the Tweedys.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Is killed and eaten by the Tweedys for failing to produce enough eggs.

Molly

Voiced By: Bella Ramsey (Dawn of the Nugget)

Molly is the 11-year-old daughter of Ginger and Rocky and has inherited Rocky's wild side and determination along with Ginger's social skills.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: Being the child of Ginger and Rocky, what else could you possibly get?
• Affectionate Nickname: She's "Mollypod" to her parents.
• Break the Cutie: Happens to her twice.
  • First time is when Dr. Fry puts a brainwashing collar on Frizzle when the two try investigating Fun-Land Farms, as she realizes she is now completely alone. However, she gets over it relatively quickly.
  • The second time is when she, her parents and their entire team get trapped in a corn silo. She completely blames herself for getting them into that situation and ends up being cheered up by some encouragement from her parents.
• Cheerful Child: At the beginning of the sequel, she is shown to be a playful, enthusiastic, slightly rebellious, yet clever young girl. She goes through some Break the Cutie moments over the course of the movie, but ultimately keeps her optimism and thirst for adventure.
• Deadpan Snarker: Inherits this from both of her parents.
• Fiery Redhead: Inherits Ginger's comb color on two of her comb points and her feisty personality. Interestingly, the far right comb point is a vibrant light purple color. It could be an indication that she's still a juvenile, since all her comb points were purple when she was an infant.
• Generation Xerox: It's remarked upon several times that Molly is strikingly similar to Ginger.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She has huge blue eyes and is a very sweet girl who is (initially) rather naïve about the outside world.
• Kid Hero: She is 11, the protagonist of the sequel along with her parents and is every bit as brave and capable of facing threats much larger than her as them.
• Morality Pet: Nick and Fetcher develop a huge soft spot for her. Even though they initially refuse to help Ginger break into the chicken farm, even after finding out that Rocky has been taken by it, they instantly shift gears when they find out Molly has been taken as well.
• Plucky Girl: Ever since she was in her egg, Molly has been hyperactive and adventurous, ignoring any possible danger around her. Over the course of the movie, her bravery and optimism really shine through as she doesn't hesitate to find out what's going on in Fun-Land Farms and then rescue Frizzle and all of the chickens from the place at the end.

Frizzle

Voiced By: Josie Sedgwick Davies (Dawn of the Nugget)

A chicken that Molly meets on the mainland.

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• '60s Hair: Frizzle has an afro style complete with a go-go headband, a very popular style in the '60s.
• Advertised Extra: Frizzle appears in a lot of the sequel's marketing, making it seem like she'll be a central character. While she definitely does have plot relevance, Frizzle's screentime is 20 minutes at most, as she spends a good majority of the film brainwashed.
• Cool Big Sis: Has a sisterly dynamic with Molly. Given her confidence and knowledge of the world compared to Molly, Frizzle often comes across as a big sister towards her.
• Free-Range Children: She's first introduced to Molly when they're both wandering by the road in the middle of the night. No mention is ever made of her family or if she even has one.
• Minor Living Alone: While Frizzle tells Molly that she was left behind when the other chickens were taken from her old farm, she never mentions any family members. During the climax when they attempt to save the chickens from the grinder, she never appears upset that anyone she knew previously could have been killed, possibly implying she didn't have any family or guardian figures to begin with. By the end of Dawn of the Nugget, she's moved to the island.
• Virtuous Character Copy: She is basically a female version of Candlewick from Pinocchio, being a fellow kid Molly (who, being the main Kid Hero of the movie, is somewhat analogous to Pinocchio) meets after disobeying her parents who also encourages her to go with her to Fun Land Farms, basically the movie's Pleasure Island and gets somewhat corrupted (in this case, brainwashed) by the place. However, unlike most versions of Candlewick, who are usually a Toxic Friend Influence on Pinocchio, Frizzle genuinely doesn't mean any harm and is very friendly to Molly, with the two staying good friends by the end.

Humans

Mrs. Melisha Tweedy

"I'm sick and tired of making minuscule profits!"

^{Click here to see her redesign for the sequel.}

Voiced By: Miranda Richardson
Dubbed By: Mizuka Arima (Japanese)

The cruel owner and "warden" of the chicken farm.

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• Actor Allusion: Miranda Richardson has a knack for playing Axe-Crazy tyrants with a foundess for chopping off heads.
• All There in the Manual: Chicken Pies For the Soul goes into her backstory, involving both her parents and the reason why she is so money-hungry.
  • The first movie's tie-in book Cutting Loose: Behind the Fences at Tweedy's Farm also reveals that she married Mr. Tweedy primarily for his money and that she has an older sister whom she doesn't get along with.
  • "Chicken Pies For the Soul" reveals that she has several nieces and nephews, including one named Chrissy.
• Ambiguous Situation: At the climax of the first film, Melisha has absolutely no reaction to the chickens being intelligent, or having a fully functional plane. Instead, she opts to simply fight with Ginger and try to force down the crate. Did she suspect something was up all along? Did she just know and not act on it? It could be that her rage and desire to kill the hens overpowered every other thought in her head, but we don't know either way. Come the sequel, she no longer has anything ambiguous about the sapience of chickens.
• Ambitious, but Lazy: In both films, Mrs. Tweedy is solely motivated by fame and riches, but primarily relies on get-rich-quick schemes and the hard work of others rather than putting in any actual effort of her own.
  • In the original film, she is not shown doing much work on the farm, leaving all the manual labour to her husband (except when it's time to kill a chicken that is failing to lay eggs), and spends most of her time calculating their finances and complaining about her "minuscule" profits. Even when she decides to switch their business from eggs to chicken pies, rather than doing any cooking or baking herself, she invests in an automated machine to mass produce the pies for her, but still brands and advertises them as "Mrs. Tweedy's homemade chicken pies".
  • In the sequel, her scheme depends entirely on Dr. Fry's money, land and inventions, and she contributes nothing to the recipes, cooking or production processes, but once again insists on being recognized as the genius figurehead of the organisation.
• Arch-Enemy: To Ginger, being the biggest threat to her ultimate plan in escaping Tweedy's farm. On Mrs. Tweedy's side, she only sees Ginger as bit of a nuisance compared to Mr. Tweedy's personal hatred of her, and is more concerned about making a profit off of chicken pies before she and Ginger eventually clash in the climax. However, it becomes much more personal in the sequel where Mrs. Tweedy swears revenge on Ginger after her humiliating defeat.
• Ax-Crazy: She literally goes nuts with an ax at the end of both films.
• Bad Boss: Especially regarding her henpecked husbands.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Her preferred targets are chickens and she goes even further after losing the ones on her farm. The guard dogs' fearful reaction to seeing her heavily implies she's also abusive to them.
• Berserk Button: Ginger becomes this to her in Dawn of the Nugget. The mere sight of Ginger is enough for Mrs. Tweedy to suffer a memory flood of her humiliating defeat in the first film. But unlike Ginger's reaction, Tweedy responds with pure, feral rage. She could barely maintain her friendly facade towards Smith when she knows the bane of her existence is on the loose.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of both films.
• British Teeth: Her teeth have a yellow tint to them in the sequel, possibly due to age.
• Cold Ham: She dominates every scene she's in, being a larger than life figure whom everyone fears, yet she rarely raises her cold voice to a pitch even when angry.
• Cruella to Animals: She doesn't simply see chickens as a means to make money, she revels in killing them, as seen with her Slasher Smile at Edwina. This is why she's still in the poultry business in the sequel despite losing her farm and chickens, as she wants to satisfy both her revenge and revenues at the same time.
• Deadpan Snarker: When she buys a pie machine for the chickens, her husband asks what flavor the pies are gonna be and she sarcastically says it's for apple pies, only to yell at him that the machine is for chicken pies when he takes her seriously.
• Death Glare: Her default expression is a permanently pissed off face that brings fear into her husband and her dogs. For the chickens, they're more afraid of her Slasher Smile since it signifies a chicken is going to die.
• Domestic Abuse: One of her primary acts of cruelty, the other being slaughtering chickens. In both films, she married a man solely for both money and resources (and in Dr. Fry's case, his mind) and to have a weak-willed henchman to order about and spends most of her interactions insulting and/or physically pushing around said man and forcing him to do most of the work for her while she takes credit.
  Mrs. Tweedy: Husbands and chickens, the bane of my life!
• The Dreaded:
  • She's feared by the chickens, the guard dogs, and most of all her husband. Look no further than her introduction during Ginger's failed escape attempt in the opening scene, where everyone mentioned goes Oh, Crap! when they see she's come outside because of the commotion.
  • When her former chickens come to rescue Molly in the sequel and see that she's back and the true mastermind behind Fun Land Farms, Ginger understandably reacts with horror upon meeting her again (and even beforehand, she has a nightmare of her threatening to eat her daughter) and the others react just as fearfully when she appears in all of the camera screens (Babs even faints). That said, she doesn't appear to be this way towards Dr. Fry or her guards.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Her skin is noticeably paler in the sequel, and she's even deadlier there.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: Despite Mrs. Tweedy being a greedy and vengeful sociopath who’s incapable of caring about anyone but herself, her second husband, Dr. Marcus Fry, seems to genuinely love her, being willing to follow her commands out of devotion rather than fear.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She doesn't understand why Ginger would try to escape her farm, claiming that she gave her a warm hut to sleep in and a lot of food to eat. Never mind that the hut was in a small, cold prison of a farm, and the food was just plain chicken feed. As a result, Mrs. Tweedy decides the perfect punishment for Ginger is to be brainwashed into happiness with her mind-control collar in Dawn of the Nugget.
• Evil Is Bigger: She is quite tall, towering over her husband and the circus man.
• Evil Laugh: She never laughed at all in the first film, but she gets a few in the sequel as part of her new vengeful personality.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: Some of the only makeup on her face is around the eyes, and her malice is pretty apparent early on.
  • In the sequel, her eyeshadow stands out even more, along with the addition of eyeliner.
• Fat and Skinny: She is the Skinny to Mr. Tweedy's Fat. Repeated in the sequel where she's the Skinny to new husband, Dr. Fry's, Fat.
• Faux Affably Evil: She acts "somewhat" amiable when it conveniences her, but it's only skin deep.
  Mrs. Tweedy: [in polite tone] He's valuable, you say?
  Ringmaster: Sure.
  Mrs. Tweedy: [to her husband in her default tone] Get the torch!
• Feet-First Introduction: She's first revealed from Ginger's perspective, whose eyeline only comes up to her feet, emphasizing how she towers over the farm.
• Final Solution: Wants to kill all of her chickens and turn them into pies just to make big profits out of her failing farm. In the sequel, she plans to turn all the chickens in the world into nuggets to satisfy her revenge against Ginger... and make some revenue in the process.
• Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: Has this dynamic with both of her husbands.
• Freudian Slip: In the sequel, during her talk about globalizing her chicken nugget franchise, she boasts that she will finally have her "revenge", referring to Ginger and the other chickens that previously escaped from her. Reginald Smith, naturally, isn't sure what she means by this, which prompts Tweedy to hastily clarify that she meant to say "revenue".
• Gold Digger: Cutting Loose: Behind the Fences at Tweedy's Farm reveals she married Mr. Tweedy for his money. In the sequel, when talking to Reginald about Dr. Fry, she talks about his wealth and assets before claiming she married him for his mind. Her interactions with Reginald Smith also imply that she would ditch Dr. Fry and get married to him in order to profit off of their partnership.
• Greed: Her primary motivation in the first film. While she's changed her motivation to revenge by the second film, she still has no issue profiting off of her company, which could have gone global.
• Hate Sink: Played straight for the first film, then subverted in the sequel:
  • In the first film, she is characterized as a vile and greedy "warden" responsible for all the misery on Tweedy's Chicken Farm. She runs the coop like a concentration camp, forcing the chickens to constantly lay eggs to fill her profit margins and sadistically killing any that fails to deliver the quota. When she becomes unsatisfied with their egg production, she decides to turn them all into chicken pies for short-term profits. She is also extremely abusive to her husband, dismissing his concerns about the chickens plotting an escape as mere delusions and forcing him to build (and eventually repair) the pie machine alone. She even kicks him hard enough to leave an imprint when he fails at mending the machine the first time.
  • The subversion in the sequel is that she is still the same cruel chicken-hating woman and toxic wife she was before and even Took a Level in Jerkass, but her change into a cackling Bond-esque supervillain as part of her more vengeful personality makes her surprisingly less hateable and more fun to watch than she was in the first film when she was the "warden" of her farm. Her new chicken farm's evil lair-like atmosphere and the (slightly) less sympathetic way her abuse of Dr. Fry is treated (since he remains loyal) also helps.
• Heroic Ambidexterity: Inverted. She is capable of going Ax-Crazy with both hands equally well, with her right hand being dominant in the first film and her left hand being dominant in the second.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: At the end of the climax where she tried to chop off Ginger's head, she ended up accidentally cutting off the Christmas lights she was holding on to, causing her to fall off the aircraft the chickens built and into the pie machine she had ordered to deal with her chickens for good, ending up with a face full of boiling gravy, a destroyed machine, and a barn door pushed on her by her Henpecked Husband for good measure.
• It's All About Me: She's an incredibly greedy woman especially when she says that SHE will be poor no longer despite being married to a husband who, she states, had a poor and worthless family.
• Jerkass: A horribly condescending, spiteful and cruel woman who abuses her husband and takes sadistic pleasure out of killing chickens.
• Joker Immunity: By all accounts, she should have been dead several times over. In the first film, she is caught in an explosion of boiling gravy at point blank range face first, and then her husband pushes the barn doors on top of her. But due to being such a memorable villain and the source of Ginger's personal trauma in the first film, she is brought back as the Big Bad for the sequel and survives being put through a nugget processor, which involves a meat grinder and a deep fried batter, with a sharp ax accidentally thrown into the mix. Even when she's last seen surrounded by exploding ducks and Fun-Land Farms blows up shortly afterwards, there is no certainty she finally bit the dust given that she survived everything else.
• Knight of Cerebus: Quite possibly one of the most chilling examples. Mrs. Tweedy starts off the first movie beheading one of the characters, is absolutely cruel and controlling with her husband, and comes off as a sociopath overall. Even the comparatively Lighter and Softer sequel takes a significantly darker turn when she is reintroduced, and every action she makes escalates the dire situation for the poultry protagonists.
• Lack of Empathy: Aside from feeling nothing about the chickens she slaughters, she feels zero empathy for even other humans, viewing them as either extensions of her own selfish ambitions, business partners, or gullible fools she can manipulate into thinking she's nicer than she truly is. A prime example is in the first film, when she insults Mr. Tweedy's family to his face when he questions her intention for them to stop being chicken farmers.
• Lady Macbeth: To her husband, Mr. Tweedy. Mr. Tweedy is technically the owner of the farm, inherited from his father's side of the family, but it's clear right from the start that Mrs. Tweedy makes all the decisions on the farm, including converting the family business from egg collecting to chicken pie production. Mr. Tweedy could only nod and follow her orders. In the sequel, Mrs. Tweedy does the same thing to her second husband, Dr. Fry. Fry technically owns the land estate, wealth, and technology of Fun-Land Farms, but Mrs. Tweedy is clearly the one running the place as she sees fit.
• Large Ham: As part of her Sanity Slippage and more vengeful persona, she went from Cold Ham to this, as she has more moments of cackling and over the top supervillainess-like lines.
• Lean and Mean: She's skinny and she is the Big Bad.
• Literal Asskicking: After one of Mr. Tweedy's attempts at fixing the pie machine gets her sprayed with a concentrated stream of gravy, she calls him an idiot and kicks him in the rear hard enough to send him forward a few feet.
• Made of Iron: During the final escape, she gets hit in the head with a tricycle, slams face first hard into a billboard, drops from an enormous height and lands in the pie making machine, has her head trapped in an enclosed space filled with boiling gravy, and then survives the machine blowing up. And then her husband seemingly pushes a door on top of her. Her return in the sequel reveals she survived that and at the end of the film, she manages to survive going through the grinder and getting a deep fried coating of bread crumbs.
• Mask of Sanity: She acts professional when she needs it, mostly when someone comes to her with an offer that could give her money, such as the ringmaster's reward for finding Rocky and her business arrangement with Reginald Smith. It's taken to a more literal level during the climax of the first film, when she gets the nice, smiling photograph from her billboard stuck to her face, then tears it off to reveal her vicious, furiously snarling real face beneath it.
• Moral Myopia: She seeks revenge on chickenkind because the ones on her farm escaped (and especially because Ginger led them to freedom). True to her nature, she treats this as them being ungrateful for her "hospitality", instead of, you know...an understandable reaction to being used as ultimately disposable slave labor and later a liability whose only purpose is to be cooked into pies.
• More Deadly Than the Male: Mr. Tweedy and Dr. Fry (who are dangerous in their own right) act as saints compared to their monster of a wife who abuses and bosses them around.
• Narcissist: Aside from being incredibly greedy and selfish, she takes every opportunity imaginable to bring others down while raising herself up, as exemplified by this small exchange of many:
  Mrs. Tweedy: Imagine it. In less than a fortnight, every grocers' in the county will be stocked with box upon box of Mrs. Tweedy's Homemade Chicken Pies.
  Mr. Tweedy: Just "Mrs."?
  Mrs. Tweedy: Woman's touch. Makes the public feel more comfortable.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: Given the original film's status as "The Great Escape with chickens", she naturally fits into the role of the Nazi prison guard, as well as her pie machine being a literal gas chamber of a Nazi prisoner of war concentration camp.
• Never a Self-Made Woman: She sees herself as the most important person in the world, and is eager to show off her face as the future of poultry industry. In reality, the chicken farm belongs to her husband whom she married for money and she appropriates his family's name as her own, even when she ditched Mr. Tweedy for Dr. Fry. Even her "revolutionary" ideas are nothing more than using industrial machineries she bought from the catalog, and making her husbands do all the hard work of building them.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: A billboard Rocky passes during his ride on a likely stolen tricycle advertising her chicken pies causes him to go back to her farm and rescue Ginger from getting beheaded.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: A cruel woman who constantly abuses her husband and takes the lives of any chickens who don't lay eggs. She stays this way in the sequel, with the added bonus of knowing the sapience of the chickens, but cranking up her desire to slaughter them via brainwashing them into being happily suicidal.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: The moment she realizes that the chickens are close to escaping, she personally steps in with an axe to kill them all. After discovering Ginger has returned in the sequel, Mrs. Tweedy ensures she is captured and tortured, planning to kill her along with the other chickens.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: One can be forgiven to assume her chicken pie scheme is a last-ditch attempt to keep her farm from going to bankruptcy, but her round-the-clock abuse on her husband makes it clear that's all about her wealth status and not the family's. In the sequel, she presents her proposition to Reginald Smith as a way to create a more modern and tastier brand of chicken nuggets to give to people around the world, but in truth, it is just another get-rich-quick scheme motivated by her selfish need for profits, and even moreso a way to get revenge on all chickens. She even unintentionally blurts out that last part in a Freudian Slip before correcting herself.
• Pet the Dog: Subverted. She gives the chickens a double ration of food but just to fatten 'em up.
• Pragmatic Villainy: This is pretty much the gist of her plan in the sequel, which involves luring chickens into Fun Land Farms with a fun Pleasure Island type funland for them to play in and placing Mind Control Collars on them that can make them happy to the point of wanting to become nuggets. It's not out of mercy, mind you, and she obviously doesn't regret her previous abuse towards the chickens of her farm. It's because forced happiness produces tastier and more favorable nuggets that she can sell to the Sir Eat-A-Lot restaurant chain and makes it all but impossible for the chickens to stage revolts and escapes.
• Punny Name:
  • Her first name is pronounced quite similarly to the word "militia".
  • Can somewhat cross-over to Meaningful Name as it's easy to mishear it as "Malisha", as in malicious.
• Revenge: Her primary motivation in the sequel. While she does plan to make profits out of her chicken nuggets, Mrs. Tweedy's Freudian Slip of wanting revenge makes it clear that this whole franchise is one big retaliation on Ginger's successful escape from her old farm. When she sees Ginger again, her first instinct is to force a mind-control collar on Ginger to destroy her strong will. And when that doesn't work, Mrs. Tweedy plans to kill all the chickens just to make Ginger suffer, especially when she finds out that Molly is her daughter.
• Sadist:
  • During the Roll Call, she loves scaring the chickens by snapping her glove in order to keep them in line and she smiles evilly when she picks up Edwina for slaughter. This should indicate that unlike any other farmers who simply kill their own animals just because they have to, and probably feel a little sad about it, she ENJOYS what she does. It's so bad that she appears to get aroused by the thought of further brutalizing the chickens, seen when she gives Mr. Tweedy a pinch on the bum while fattening up the hens.
  • Her sadism only becomes worse as her becoming aware of the chickens' sapience doesn't stop her from wanting them dead. She happily watches Dr. Fry's demonstration of mind controlling a chicken to get ground into nuggets and enjoys her attempts to spite Ginger, from having her brainwashed at maximum power to forcing her to make a choice between saving her daughter Molly and stopping the rest of the chickens from getting slaughtered.
• Sanity Slippage: She is indicated to have undergone this after her attempt to cook her chickens into pies was foiled and she finally became aware how organized those chickens actually were. While she is still somewhat composed and professional when it benefits her, she ends up blurting a Freudian Slip about her true motives to Reginald while she makes an uncomfortable face complete with an eye twitch.
• Serial Spouse: The sequel reveals that, at some point following the events of the first movie, she and Mr. Tweedy separated as she has since gotten remarried to Dr. Fry.
• Slasher Smile: She shows an unsettling one before measuring Babs and, later, when she thinks that Ginger is dead.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Mrs. Tweedy believes herself to be a highly intelligent visionary who will revolutionize the food industry. In reality, she's merely a lowly farmer's wife squandering her money on far-fetched get-rich-quick schemes.
• The Sociopath: At first it might seem that she's just a harsh, ambitious woman whose job involves killing poultry, but as the first movie progresses, she proves to be extremely callous and self-centered, to the point that she treats her husband as a mere tool for her plan. She's also prone to fits of anger and seems to enjoy killing chickens. Just like many real life sociopaths, she's able to hide these traits behind a veneer of politeness when it conveniences her. Her return in the sequel further highlights her sociopathy even more. Rather than realize how wrong she was in killing and eating a sapient species of birds that escaped as a result of her treatment towards them, she merely doubles down and plots to cause a mass murder of the chickens on an even larger scale in order to make her chicken nuggets for the sake of petty revenge and profit. That and she treats her new husband Dr. Fry no better than the last one and she seems to tolerate his incompetence merely due to his genius and his more submissive nature making it less likely for him to turn against her this time around.
• Sore Loser: Clearly, the chickens managed to build a flying aircraft to successfully escape the farm, but Mrs. Tweedy continues pursuing them by grabbing onto the dangling rope tied to the aircraft as she still wants to kill them. Even after her barn is destroyed and her Butt-Monkey of a husband tells her she should have believed him about the chickens, it only fuels her anger even more. In the sequel, she recognizes Ginger immediately and proceeds to strap her down and torture her when she is captured.
• Straw Hypocrite: She advertises herself as the kindly owner of Tweedy's farm who personally make chicken pies by hand at home even though in reality, she's the sociopathic wife of Mr. Tweedy, the actual owner of the farm, who makes chicken pies using an automated machine she bought from another company. She knows this, but wants to maximize the sales of her pies with a friendly facade.
  Mrs. Tweedy: Woman's touch. Makes the public feel more comfortable.
• Super-Persistent Predator: She fights the chickens even while airborne just to get her pies and later has no problem standing on top of a moving truck covered in breadcrumbs in order to kill them before they can free the Fun Land Farms chickens.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The Huge Girl to Mr. Tweedy's and Dr. Fry's Tiny Guy.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: As hard it is to believe, given how horrible she is in the first film, she's only gotten worse in the sequel. Now that she knows the chickens are sapient, Mrs. Tweedy goes out of her way to plan her ultimate revenge on chickens, with profits being a secondary concern. She divorced her husband so she could marry a rich scientist to invent a mind collar to fry the brains of chickens so they would willingly walk to their deaths and become nuggets. And when she sees Ginger again, she first tries to break her mind with the mind collar as revenge for her defiance, then settles on killing Molly and the chickens just to make Ginger suffer.
• Uncertain Doom:
  • It was unclear if she survived the door falling on her until she returned in the sequel.
  • In the sequel, it's left unclear if she survived getting attacked by her security drones or Fun-Land Farms exploding.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: She spends most of the first movie oblivious to the true nature of the chickens and finds her husband's suspicions of it to be absolutely ridiculous. When she finally does discover it when the chickens are attempting to fly off in the plane, she does not seem surprised in the slightest, immediately proceeding to try and prevent their escape without a moment's hesitation.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: She significantly darkens the tone of this family film. Despite the sequel being Lighter and Softer, she is NOT, and, in some aspects, became even worse as she became more vengeful.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • Towards the end of the first film. Compare how she is towards the beginning where she has her husband send Ginger to solitary confinement and tells him that the chickens aren't organised, to the end, where she grabs onto the Christmas lights and attempts to attack Ginger.
  • Happens again in Dawn of the Nugget when she first falls into the machine at Fun-Land Farms and emerges fried and coated in breadcrumbs before proceeding to murderously pursue Ginger and her friends, once again with an axe. After she went through the machine, she barely speaks at all (not even bothering to use her friendly facade in front of Reginald this time), borderline feral as she continues her chase.
• Would Hit a Girl: There are only hens in her farm with Fowler as the sole exception (Rocky wasn't supposed to be there so he doesn't count). She still kills or tries to kill them regardless.
• Would Hurt a Child: She threatens Molly's life with an axe to force Ginger into either saving her or the rest of the chickens. That and she doesn't care if there are young chickens in her factory like Frizzle about to be ground into nuggets.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Like most farms, chickens that can't lay any more eggs get killed and eaten. Unlike most farmers, Mrs. Tweedy is downright happy about this and is doing this out of sadism more than necessity.

Mr. Willard Tweedy

Voiced By: Tony Haygarth
Dubbed By: Henri Guybet (European French), Terumi Yoshida (Japanese)

The long-suffering husband of Mrs. Tweedy who is (correctly) convinced that the chickens are organised.

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• All Love Is Unrequited: It's implied he has some genuine feelings for his wife as he calls her "love" twice and he at first appears worried for her when she falls into the pie machine. Obviously, the feeling is not mutual as she constantly mistreats him and it's implied she married him just for business reasons. By the sequel, the two are implied to have separated as Mrs. Tweedy has since remarried to Dr. Fry.
• All There in the Manual: The first movie tie-in book Chicken Pies For the Soul explains why he is suspicious of the chickens: his Uncle Jimmy got himself killed by a big rooster named Brute.
• Anti-Villain: He goes along with his wife's plans, is most antagonistic against Ginger and is wary of the chickens, but otherwise he is much more of a bumbling moron trying to do his job than a straight Jerkass like Mrs. Tweedy.
• Awful Wedded Life: With a wife like this...
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Just like his wife, he can be pretty mean to the chickens when he wants to.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He may be your typical Henpecked Husband... but he's just as ruthless to the chickens as his wife when he puts his mind to it.
• Bound and Gagged: When the chickens fight back in the climax, they tie up Mr. Tweedy, stuff his own hat in his mouth, and place him under one of the coops to keep him out of their way as they escape the farm.
• Bumbling Sidekick: Mrs. Tweedy practically treats him as lowly henchman instead of a husband and often puts him down for being an idiot which is somewhat fair considering he's too incompetent to control a bunch of chickens.
• Butt-Monkey: At the hands of his wife.
• The Cassandra: From the very beginning of the first film, he tries to warn Mrs. Tweedy that the chickens are very organised and is convinced that Ginger is their leader, especially after he keeps foiling her escape attempts, but Mrs. Tweedy forces him to accept that "it's all in his head". At the end, when the chickens escape on their flying machine, and the barn is destroyed in the pie machine explosion, he tells his wife she should have believed his warnings.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He is moronic and weak-willed around his wife, but he is very menacing to the chickens.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: Mr. Tweedy is correct about the hens being smarter than they look, which Mrs. Tweedy finds out the hard way.
• The Dog Bites Back:
  • He has a minor moment when he's ordered by his wife to build the pie machine on his own with no help from his partner whatsoever:
    Willard: [sarcasm] I'll put it together then, shall I?
  • Mr. Tweedy manages to combine this with Throw the Dog a Bone. After having been humiliated and doubted by his wife, Mr. Tweedy delivers a subtle I Warned You to her after the chickens escape, and just as she's about to lose her marbles on him, the disgruntled husband seemingly drops a door on her out of anger.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Downplayed. While Mr. Tweedy's abuse at the hands of his wife is Played for Laughs, she is clearly a villain and he is blatantly portrayed as more sympathetic.
• The Dragon: Mrs. Tweedy's (former) henchman.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He respects his family who has run the farm for generations as chicken farmers.
• Extreme Doormat: For the most part of the first film, he's often verbally and physically abused by his domineering wife while also a massive pushover at the same time.
• Fat Bastard: Subverted. He's an antagonist, but he's more sympathetic than his abusive wife and just appears to be doing his job as a chicken farmer. He's also shown to have a legit reason for his grudge against Ginger in that her continued escape attempts have gotten him in trouble with his wife.
• Freudian Excuse:
  • He has a personal hatred of Ginger, though given her constant escapes and trouble making get Mr. Tweedy in trouble with his unpleasant wife, it's no wonder why.
  • His abuse of the chickens also most likely stems from him taking his anger at his wife out on them.
• Henpecked Husband: Pun almost certainly intended. He meekly goes along with his wife’s plans for the chicken farm and he never stands up for himself when she verbally or physically abuses him. The ending of the first film indicates that he is growing out of it.
• Hidden Depths: He's a bumbling oaf of a man, but he's completely correct in his belief that the chickens are intelligent and organised, something his wife mocks him for. He's also shown to be very handy with machinery, as he assembles (and later repairs) the huge, automated pie machine all by himself.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Subverted. His status as a Henpecked Husband is pitiable, but he's much smarter than he looks. This is best shown when his wife orders him to get a chicken to test the pie machine on: he immediately selects Ginger, having accurately pieced together that she is the chickens' leader.
• It's Personal: He definitely has it out for Ginger, given all the hell she's raised for him in the presence of his wife. He clearly takes great pleasure in (almost) seeing her reduced to a pie when he has the opportunity to be rid of her.
• I Warned You: Once the chickens escape, he gets the final insult on his wife after the barn is destroyed following the chickens' escape.
  Willard: [nervously] I told you they was organised!!
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Despite being goofy and meek, he's always managed to catch Ginger when she tried to escape. The other examples here say it all. Also, while somewhat less evil than his wife, there are times when he can be equally violent and cruel to the chickens, especially Ginger. He almost thwarts the final escape attempt in the climax despite being tied up.
• Properly Paranoid: Is indeed correct in thinking the chickens are up to something. But his wife won't believe him at first.
• Put on a Bus: Mr. Tweedy doesn't appear at all in the sequel. It's implied that, at some point following the end of the first movie, he and Mrs, Tweedy separated as she's remarried to Dr. Fry during Dawn of the Nugget.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Doesn't understand his wife's sarcasm. It's evident when she introduces the pie machine.
  Mrs. Tweedy: Chickens go in, pies come out.
  Mr. Tweedy: Oh, what kind of pies?
  Mrs. Tweedy: Apple.
  Mr. Tweedy: My favourite!
  Mrs. Tweedy: Chicken pies, you great lummox!
• Sycophantic Servant: Perhaps more of a Love Martyr, and/or he fears her.
• Trademark Favourite Food: As he says, he loves apple pie.

Col. Daniel Spoon

Voiced By: John Sharian (Chicken Run)

Rocky's former owner.

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• No Name Given: He doesn't have a name, but he's often referred to as the Ringmaster.
  • According to Rocky's poster, the first movie's tie-in book Cutting Loose: Behind the Fences at Tweedy's Farm and a newspaper clipping seen in Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the Circus Man's real (or possibly stage) name is Colonel Daniel Spoon.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The Ringmaster was never seen again after he talked to the Tweedys, likely having travelled on looking for Rocky or cut his losses with the escaped rooster.

Dr. Marcus Fry

Voiced By: Nick Mohammed (Dawn of the Nugget)

The chief scientist of Fun-Land Farms, and Mrs. Tweedy's second husband.

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• Affably Evil: Far more genuinely polite about his villainy than his wife is.
• Ambiguously Brown: Has a dark skin tone and a British last name, but apart from that fact nothing is made of it, so he could be of either, Indian, North African, or Italian decent.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He is a Ditzy Genius with the ditzy part being on full display, but just like his predecessor, he can be a real threat to the chickens when he puts his mind to it. His response to seeing that Frizzle didn't get a mind-control collar is to personally confront her (while in a chicken costume) to fix that.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dr. Fry has degrees from Oxford and Cambridge in clinical neurology, behavioral psychology, genetic engineering, and drama, and the result is a state of the art, hi-tech chicken farm with mind control collars that can brainwash chickens into happiness. It's not obvious at first glance as demonstrated by Reginald Smith's reactions to Dr. Fry still wearing parts of his chicken costume, getting confused on the several remotes, and believing the CEO's name is actually Sir Eat-A-Lot.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: As Mrs. Tweedy’s second husband, he is this to Mr. Tweedy. Whereas Mr. Tweedy was a traditional egg farmer who, in spite of his own ditziness, could show a serious and angry side to him, is loyal to his wife more out of fear (which seems to have ended by the end of the first film) and has a personal vendetta against Ginger for her escape attempts getting him into more trouble with Mrs. Tweedy than usual, Dr. Fry is a Laughably Evil mad scientist factory farmer who always keeps a positive demeanor, has more of an Unholy Matrimony relationship with her without a hint of fear, and shows more sadism but doesn’t have anything personal against any chicken (In fact, it is Mrs. Tweedy who has taken things personally this time around after what happened last time).
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Downplayed. He's not violent about it, but he quickly picks up on his wife making eyes at Reginald Smith and responds by ushering the CEO back to his car with a slightly annoyed expression.
• Ditzy Genius: He seems rather distractable and definitely a bit of a Cloud Cuckoo Lander, but as pointed out by Mrs. Tweedy, he has multiple university degrees and he is still the man behind the ridiculously advanced chicken farm that is the setting of the second movie.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He seems more genuine in his love for Mrs. Tweedy (Though since it IS Mrs. Tweedy, it’s obviously one-sided). He even spent the last of his screentime trying to warn her about the collapsing factory.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite being a mad scientist who specializes in mass poultry brainwashing (and doing this to help his new wife who has gone further off the deep end), he prefers to treat the chickens in Fun Land Farms in a gentle manner and doesn't wish to give them unnecessary harm (while this could be him being just as pragmatic as Melisha, he seems to genuinely enjoy seeing the chickens having fun on the attractions, including the "new egg-cup ride"). The one time he objects to Mrs. Tweedy's orders is due to not wanting Ginger's mind to be irreparably damaged by cranking the power of his mind collars to a degree that's never before been tested.
• Fat and Skinny: The Fat to Mrs. Tweedy's Skinny.
• Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: As with Mr. Tweedy before him, he and Mrs. Tweedy have this dynamic.
• Geniuses Have Multiple PhDs: Mrs. Tweedy introduces Dr. Fry as a genius (though she claims it's not evident from his appearance). He has degrees in multiple scientific fields, as well as one in drama, but it's not declared what level of degree they are.
• Happily Married: Well, at the very least he is happily married to Mrs. Tweedy, since he seems genuinely happy to be her husband and help her with her goals without a hint of fear or hesitation. Of course, the happiness is only one-sided since Mrs. Tweedy doesn’t return his affection and only married him for his wealth, vast lands, and genius.
• Henpecked Husband: He is Mrs. Tweedy's new husband, but she certainly doesn't treat him any better than Mr. Tweedy.
• Hidden Depths: One of his many degrees is in drama, of all things, and it's implied that he narrated (or at least scripted) the animated Fun-Land Farms presentation.
• Large Ham: He does have a degree in Drama after all!
• Laughably Evil: He's a Mad Scientist who enslaves chickens with his Mind Control happy collars, but he's such a giddy klutz that it's hard to take him seriously at all.
• Mad Scientist: He has the name, appearance, and personality down, having invented the mind controlling collars which can change the emotions of chickens.
• Meaningful Name: As in fried chicken, which is what Mrs. Tweedy has decided to focus on making now. He also invented the mind collar, which fries the brains of chickens to make them become docile and happy.
• Second Love: He seems to be this for Mrs. Tweedy, since he’s the second person in the series that Mrs. Tweedy has married. Of course, Mrs. Tweedy shows Dr. Fry the same amount of love she showed her first husband (i.e. none), while subjecting him to the same amount of abuse.
• Sycophantic Servant: He is willing to serve Mrs. Tweedy’s goals and whims, in fact even moreso than Mr. Tweedy.
• Uncertain Doom: He is last seen trying to get Mrs. Tweedy to evacuate just as she's being attacked by her own security ducks. Things don't look well for him since there's no indication he shares his wife's Made of Iron abilities, but it's hard to tell for sure if he perished or not.
• Unholy Matrimony: His relationship with Mrs. Tweedy is much closer to this trope than Mr. Tweedy's was. Fry does not seem to fear or resent his wife at all, but instead supports her ambitions and shares in her passion for cruelty towards the chickens. Not that this makes her any better of a wife to him.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Mrs. Tweedy is still her Knight of Cerebus self, while Dr. Fry, though not a person to trifle with, shows a large amount of funny moments due to him being a Ditzy Genius.
• Villain Respect: He is genuinely impressed by Ginger’s strong will (even if she still succumbs to the mind-control collar) and he also seems to enjoy Rocky’s breaking out in dance.

Reginald Smith

Voiced By: Peter Serafinowicz (Dawn of the Nugget)

The "slightly bemused" CEO of Sir Eat-A-Lot family restaurant chain who is visiting Fun-Land Farms to find a new product for his menu.

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• Affably Evil: Evil may be a stretch, but he is polite and generous to his potential business partners and while he still continues with the order even after learning of the fact that the chickens can exhibit fear and happiness (he's more confused at this than anything else), he has no malicious intent towards them and isn't even part of the conflict between Mrs. Tweedy and Ginger.
• Greater-Scope Villain: As the CEO of the Sir Eat-A-Lot family restaurant chain, Smith would enable Fun-Land Farms' business to go global if he accepts their chicken nugget product. However, he's less of a villain per se and merely an opportunistic businessman who is clueless about the chickens' escape at Fun-Land Farms, and thus he has no personal stake in the second film's climax beyond losing out on his first batch of chicken nuggets.
• I Am Not Shazam: In universe. He has to repeatedly remind Dr. Fry that Sir Eat-A-Lot is the name of his restaurant chain, not his own name.
• Kitschy Themed Restaurant: Owns the Sir Eat-A-Lot franchise, a medieval-styled family restaurant chain with a knight mascot eating a drumstick.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He's merely doing his job as a CEO and seeking a partnership that can improve the restaurant chain.
• Uncertain Doom: He is last seen inside Fun Land Farms, but whether he was able to escape the collapsing factory in time or not is unknown.

Fun Land Farm Guards

Humans who are assigned to patrol and guard Fun Land Farms from intruders.

• Ambiguous Situation: Unlike their bosses, Mrs. Tweedy & Dr. Fry, whether they can tell the chickens are sapient, or at least how sapient they are is never revealed.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: They are basically the second film's replacement of the guard dogs from the original, except they are both human and operate in greater numbers.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: We don't know exactly how Mrs. Tweedy treats her guards (though even if she does treat them well, it's more likely she's being pragmatic), but there are some female guards and those of color working there, meaning she has no trouble with diverse employees.
• Mooks: There are an assortment of these which serve as living obstacles the chickens must avoid or remove from the way.
• Punch-Clock Villain: As far as we know, they are just doing their jobs as guards to get paid. Their bosses just happen to be a sociopathic woman who hates chickens and a Mad Scientist who is married to her.
• Uncertain Doom: With the likely exception of that one guard who was tied to a tree some distance away from the factory, we never see which, if any, of them escape.

Others

Nick & Fetcher

Voiced By: Timothy Spall & Phil Daniels (Chicken Run), Romesh Ranganathan & Daniel Mays (Dawn of the Nugget)
Dubbed By: Shin Aomori & Toshiharu Sakurai (Japanese)

A pair of enterprising rats who supply the chickens with equipment.

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• Ascended Extra: Dawn of the Nugget makes them more active participants in the main plot. Instead of merely providing the chickens with resources and gear, they come along on the mission to rescue Molly and destroy Fun-Land Farm.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Like all the chickens, but they wear pants.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Fetcher, Nick's slow-witted partner.
• Deadpan Snarker: Nick offers snarky one-liners.
• Fat and Skinny: Nick and Fetcher, respectively.
• Friend in the Black Market: They demand eggs for their services, something that Ginger is initially adamantly against, understandably regarding them as too valuable. Once Ginger starts freely paying them in eggs, they prove very competent in delivering everything Ginger demands.
• The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson: During the dance sequence, they apparently do moves inspired by The Blues Brothers and Saturday Night Fever almost twenty years before their creation.
• Honorary Uncle: In the sequel, Molly calls them "Uncle Nick" and "Uncle Fetch". They are obviously touched by this. When they learn that Molly is stuck in Fun-Land Farms, they don't hesitate to join the chickens in rescuing her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: They're pretty slimy and shady characters and find the chickens' attempts at flying hilarious, but they do seem to care about the chickens and are just as overjoyed when they escape. They even sacrifice their eggs to save Ginger, though visibly sob as they do so. And in the sequel, they Took a Level in Kindness: they develop a huge soft spot for Molly after she calls them her uncles, and do not hesitate to help the chickens rescue her when they learn that Molly has been captured and sent to Fun-Land Farms. When Ginger plans to rescue the other chickens from the farms, they join in on the rescue without hesitation and are even shown at the end of the film joining the chickens in rescuing other chickens from other farms.
  Nick: [as Fetcher sobs at the chickens happily dancing] What're you sobbing about, ya nancy?
  Fetcher: Little moments like this, mate. It's what makes the job all worthwhile!
• Meaningful Name: The items they Fetch are usually Nicked from Mr. Tweedy's workshop.
• Missing Steps Plan: Rocky scams them by promising them eggs that he will personally lay (a case of Exact Words as roosters don't lay eggs). After Ginger learns about their deal, Nick turns to Fetcher and mutters "Sucker", causing them both to snigger before walking away. They evidently think all of Rocky's eggs for the month, in exchange for what they can provide, is a great deal for them. They mention that they found out about the biological issues later on.
• Papa Wolves: Being her honorary uncles, when they learn that Molly has been captured and sent to Fun-Land Farms, they immediately agree to help the chickens rescue her.
  Fetcher: Anything for our little Molly!
• The Rat: Bonus points for the farm's resident scroungers being actual rats.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Eggs. They use them as a price for their work.

Guard Dogs

A pair of Manchester Terriers owned by the Tweedys that are trained to stop the chickens from escaping.

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• All There in the Manual: The first movie's tie-in book Cutting Loose: Behind the Fences at Tweedy's Farm reveals their names to be Mr. Bonzo (the dog with the darker eyes) and Fido (the dog with the lighter eyes).
• Angry Guard Dog: Both of them are trained guard dogs, and they're very effective at their work.
• Beware of Vicious Dog: They're very aggressive and brutish towards the chickens, even though they are never seen hurting them, just herding them.
• The Brute: These two are the ones who patrol around the farm and are responsible for catching any chickens trying to escape, whether on their own or on Mr. Tweedy's leash. We see them responsible for stopping several such attempts in the opening montage as Ginger tries (and fails) to get past them.
• Dark Is Evil: They're both dark-furred and very ferocious towards the chickens.
• Punch-Clock Villain: They're just trained animals doing what they're supposed to do as guard dogs.
• Put on a Bus: Just like their master, they don't reappear in the sequel.
• Right-Hand Attack Dog: They are the Tweedys' guard dogs whose job is preventing the chickens from escaping.
• The Voiceless: Unlike the other animals in the films, such as the chickens and the rats, these dogs don't speak and only bark and growl.

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