Hopper then declares how dangerous ideas can be and that ants are mindless, soil-shoving losers, put on this earth to serve the grasshoppers. He then signals Thumper to give Flik one last kick. After five kicks, Hopper signals him to stop. Flik defensively orders Hopper to leave Atta, Dot, and Dot's friends alone and then confesses that the bird was his idea. Furious and embarrassed, he interrogates the ants, including Princess Atta, to find out who is responsible for the ruse. Hopper is initially terrified at the sight of the bird, due to his ornithophobia (fear of birds), but soon discovers the bird is fake when P.T. After Manny takes the Queen for a magic trick, Hopper interrogates him to tell where she has gone by strangling him, only to be cut off by a fake bird, that the ants have made earlier in the season, which comes down swooping toward him. The circus bugs present their act in front of the grasshoppers to distract Hopper, who initially orders his henchmen to squish them, but later decides that they can use a little entertainment.
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After hearing from Dot about Hopper's plot, Flik and the circus troupe return to the island to rescue the Queen by putting his plan into motion.
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When he is dissatisfied with the amount of offering the ants give him after a second chance, he usurps Ant Island and plots to squash the Queen after enough food has been gathered. Hopper, unlike his gang, does not underestimate the ants' strength he knows that while weaker than the grasshoppers as individuals, the ants outnumber his gang a hundred to one.ĭuring Hopper's first visit to the colony, the gang finds the food supply ruined, so he throws the blame on the ants and demands them to gather double the amount he has initially requested by the next season.
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He leads his gang of grasshoppers, including his brother named Molt and his violent and savage enforcer named Thumper, who keep full control over the ants. In the film, Hopper is a feared grasshopper who is blind in one eye due to a scratch caused by a previous encounter with a blue jay. When Flik leads him to the nest of a real bird, Hopper thinks it is just another trick, and that he is too sharp to be fooled again. However, Hopper has a flaw: He believes he is smarter than anyone else. With a thick exoskeleton that cracks and rattles like armor, and spiny legs and feet, Hopper towers over the ants looking like their worst nightmare.
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Cruel, heartless, and absolutely ruthless, he doesn't even hesitate to bury his own followers in a grain avalanche.