Zootopia Love #60

“What is your problem? Does seeing me fail somehow make you feel better about your own sad, miserable life?”

"It does, 100%.“



Love this little exchange. While Nick responds in his typical glib fashion, the truth is slipping out here. It’s the culmination of the evidence from his very specific ‘let me dash your dreams’ speech earlier pointing out that yes, indeed, Nick is trying to ruin Judy’s success. It’s him trying to not remind himself that he has, indeed, given up. That little Junior Ranger, who wears a shirt that reminds him of home, who still carries around his Junior Ranger scarf, that fox is still there, but it’s hiding from the world behind a slick and sarcastic shell. To keep him safe from that ever happening again. The mechanism is trying to be right by proving Judy wrong and making her fail.

It’s that shell that responds to Judy’s question.

It’s that shell, however, that starts getting disrupted on the platform in the Rainforest District.

It’s the real Nick who shows up under the bridge.