zootopepo:

Now this is interesting.

The moment Finnick opened the door, he scanned for large-sized mammals immediately. With an already-cracked baseball bat at the ready, and a clearly angry voice. And a totally hostile body language. As if this had not been his first time to be disturbed in a similar way.

Then he looked downward.

Within the space of 5-6 frames his scowl disappeared, and he relaxed slightly.

Not because he underestimated a bunny.

But he suddenly recognized, this is the bunny that broke his pal’s heart.

I don’t believe he immediately acquiesced to Judy’s plea for him to reveal Nick’s whereabouts.

My headcanon is that he would demand Judy to explain what the eff happened. He’s The Pal, and he would’ve had appointed himself as the first line of defense against additional emotional distress/trauma to Nick.

Which means his role was more than just “The One to Show the Way to Redemption”, but also prepared her to really looked inward: Was she really remorseful? Did she really understand what she had done? Could she – had she – really exorcised the last vestiges of the evil demon of prejudice?

And probably: What was Judy’s real feelings for Nick? Just friends? More than that? Finnick will not let his pal’s heart be broken further. Now that he had heard the truth from the red fox’s mouth, he would want to hear the truth also from the bunny’s mouth.

Had the feelings not reciprocated, he would refuse to divulge where Nick was. To heck with Zootopia, which had treated the foxes unfairly. It was Nick’s well-being he was the most concerned about.



Such a short sequence, easy to miss, but carries so deep a meaning.

Hats off to the animators & directors.

