| “ | Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, you've been a wonderful audience. | „ |
| ~ Rocky's appearance and his most famous quote. |
| “ | Sleep tight, Angel-Face, the Rock's on the case. | „ |
| ~ Rocky Rhodes |
Rocky Rhodes, or simply known as Rocky, is the deuteragonist of the 2000 film Chicken Run (which is Dreamworks' 4th full-length animated feature film and both Aardman and Pathe's 1st animated feature film) and the tritagonist of its 2023 Netflix sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.
He is a Rhode Island Red who is a flying American cockerel who crash-landed on the Tweedy's farm after being shot out of a cannon and helps Ginger and the hens escape the farm. At the end, he becomes Ginger's husband.
In the first film, he was voiced by famous actor Mel Gibson. In the sequel, he is voiced by Zachary Levi, who also played Shazam in the DCEU and Eugene Fitzherbert in Tangled.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Good?[]
In General[]
- Despite starting off having too many extremely jerkish moments, such as when he lies to Ginger and the other chickens, because they believe that he can fly, due to the circus poster of him that Ginger found and not having it in him to tell the chickens the truth, and abandons the hens while leaving the other half of his poster that reveals his secret, he does come to regret this decision and ultimately comes back, and he loses almost all of his corrupting factors by the second film.
Chicken Run[]
- After Ginger informed the other hens that the Tweedies are trying to fatten them up to kill them later, Rocky tried to keep morale up by trying to get Ginger to lie to them & assure them they would be fine. While this was the wrong way to go about it, he still expresses sadness upon seeing the chickens emotionally down.
- When Ginger is taken by Mr. Tweedy to test out the farm's new pie machine, he goes to save Ginger and ends up sabotaging the machine, which plays a crucial role in their eventual escape.
- After Rocky has left, he sees a billboard advertising Mrs. Tweedy's chicken pies and returns to the farm out of guilt for abandoning the chickens, who are still in danger as he correctly assumed from the poster alone.
- Using the tricycle to cycle over the farm's fence, he knocks down Mrs. Tweedy and helps Ginger put up the ramp to help the chickens' plane take off.
- He uses a catapult to launch eggs on Mrs. Tweety’s face after she grabs hold of the string of lights that was on the plane and to help Ginger.
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget[]
- During some of Molly's childhood, Rocky decided to put his past behind so he and Ginger could help Molly have a better life then they did when they were younger.
- He tries to stop his egg from being destroyed after it started hatching.
- He tried to help Molly lose her interest in the outside world so she wouldn't get herself in danger.
- He and the rest of the group went to search for Molly after she left the island.
- He tried to rescue Molly after she was captured by a Fun-Land Farms' worker.
- He tried to break into the factory to rescue Molly while not putting anyone else in danger.
- He distracted Mrs. Tweedy, Dr. Fry and their coworkers long enough for Molly and Ginger to escape from them.
- He comforted Molly after they got stuck in a corn silo and apologized for indirectly causing her to decide to explore the outside world and putting herself in danger.
- He and Ginger defeated Dr. Fry and stopped him from brainwashing all the chickens in Mrs. Tweedy's factory.
- He tried to deactivate Mrs. Tweedy's brainwashing of the chickens.
- He saved Molly from Mrs. Tweedy, which allowed Ginger to deactivate the collars that were brainwashing the chickens, which stopped them from throwing themselves into the processor.
- He saved Ginger and Molly from falling into the processor.
- At the end of the film, he and the rest of the group rescued thirty chickens that were being held in a farm.
What Prevents Him From Being Pure Good?[]
- He has some arrogant qualities that he doesn't fully subvert by the sequel, such as holding the belief he could rescue Molly by himself and telling Nick and Fetcher that they'd slow him down. That being said, he's far humbler about it and is willing to apologize when he screws up, so it's only a minor prevention.
Trivia[]
- Rocky is the first overall NPG to come from a DreamWorks film.
- Rocky, alongside Joseph and Wallace are the only DreamWorks Near Pure Goods to originate from films not distributed by Paramount Pictures nor to be computer animated. In his case, he comes from a stop-motion animated film.
- Rocky is, alongside Wallace and Shaun the Sheep, one of the three Aardman Animations heroes to qualify as Near Pure Good.
- He, alongside Wallace are the only Stop-Motion Dreamworks Near Pure Good.
- There is a chance that his status may change if a third Chicken Run movie comes.
External Links[]
- Rocky Rhodes on the Heroes Wiki
- Rocky Rhodes on the DreamWorks Wiki
- Rocky Rhodes on the Chicken Run Wiki
- Rocky Rhodes on the Aardman Wiki
