HOPPER BUGS LIFE FULL

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.

HOPPER BUGS LIFE FULL

He leads his gang of grasshoppers, including his brother Molt and a restless, ruthless 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 past encounter with a bird. Hopper appears to have respect for his mother as he did promise her when she died that he would not murder his brother Molt and stuck to that promise despite Molt irritating him at every turn, proving that for all his cruelty, he is a man (or insect in this case) of his word and this could be seen as his only redeemable quality. Although, on the contrary, he is slightly compassionate and merciful when he gives the ants a second chance to provide food for him and his gang after Flik accidentally knocks all the food into a puddle. In any case, Hopper sees mercy and compassion as weaknesses and relies mostly on fear to maintain control over both his gang and the ants. It should reveal a huge fear toward ants, hidden by his ruthless and dictatorial manners toward ants and even his troops. He explains one rebel ant is enough to cause an entire colony's mutiny (which, ironically, will take place at the end of the movie). Indeed, during the Mexican bar scene, he expresses his gang the necessity of getting respect and obedience from the ants because they are far more numerous than them. Hopper is also briefly depicted as a very anxious character.

He dislikes being thought of as weak in any way.

He also beats up his gang members and even presumably kills three of them to keep control of his gang. Ruthless and violent, but also cunning, Hopper thinks nothing of killing ants, whom he considers lower than dirt, and his manner of speaking to Princess Atta is reminiscent of an abusive boyfriend mocking his terrified girlfriend.

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