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Snakes in Movies   Zootopia 2 (2025)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is an animated sequel to the 2016 Disney animated film Zootopia. If you were as disappointed with the lack of reptiles in Zootopia as I was, this movie more than makes up for it with a snake character named Gary who is the first likable Disney snake character who isn't a villain. He's one of the only snakes in any major animated or live action film that's a sympathetic character. Most people in Zootopia are still scared of snakes, but the audience is shown that snakes aren't the bad guys. There are also other reptiles we sympathize with, mostly lizards, because the original Zootopia was full of reptiles, but they were cheated and forced out of their homes and turned into pariahs. Righting that wrong is what drives the plot. Zootopia 2 has made more money worldwide than any other animated film - more than 1.8 billion dollars, and obviously that must be because of the cute snake, right? Maybe Disney will retire the mouse and replace him with some new blood - cold blood. Probably not, but they should at least give Gary his own ride at the Disney theme parks. Gary De'Snake, who is voiced by Oscar-winning actor Ke Huy Quan, is a typically unrealistic animated snake. He moves with his head upright like a human, he holds objects with his tail, and he has large always-erect fangs that hang outside his mouth. Animators don't know what to do with an animal without arms and legs, and they seem to think that all snakes have giant non-retractable fangs, but unlike other movie snakes, Gary's not the villain. He's venomous, but he also carries around an anti-venom pen (that plays the message "stab me straight into the heart") just in case he bites someone. The movie asks us to feel compassion for all snakes and reptiles, which have been wrongfully villainized. In the beginning of Zootopia, reptiles had their own neighborhood, but after a snake was accused of killing someone 100 years ago, all reptiles have been banished and forced to live in a swamp because their original habitat was covered with snow. The snakebite death was actually the result of a murder. The snake was framed, and Gary is on a quest to prove it before the reptile community's swamp is covered with snow. Gary does bite someone in the movie, but not on purpose. When he is struggling to escape the police, Gary gets thrown at Bogo the chief of police and he accidentally bites him in the face. He loses a fang and afterwards we see him with only one fang hanging out of his mouth. At the end of the movie, we see him in Bobo's hospital room apologizing to the chief for "fanging" him. The movie was released in 2025, the Year of the Snake, in the Chinese zodiac, which might be why it is so popular in China. According to several IMDB Trivia comments and other online sources, Gary De'Snake was based on the Indonesian Pit Viper, and he was so popular in China that people started buying Indonesian Pit Vipers as pets. It's hard to believe that the news reports aren't an exaggeration and that a lot of people bought hard-to-find exotic snakes to be pets that are dangerous and difficult to care for, if that's even legal in China, but I can believe that a few people did. It's not unusual for animals in movies to create a market for pets, and those impulse buys often lead to people getting rid of them because they weren't prepared to care for them properly. During the Ninja Turtles craze, lots of kids got pet turtle then turned them loose in local ponds and lakes when they got tired of them. Let's hope China does not become overrun with Indonesian Pit Vipers that people bought then released. Instead of buying a venomous viper, try going to the Disney website and buying a Gary De'Snake shirt or plush toy. They're much less dangerous, and a lot cheaper. Lizards and Other Reptiles Besides Gary De'Snake, we see a lot of other reptiles, mostly lizards, in a nightclub inside a submerged ship in the swamp where the reptiles are forced to live. The animators had a lot of fun with them. The shell of a giant tortoise is the door, , to the nightclub. Inside we see a jazz band of reptile musicians. The trumpet player is a frilled dragon wearing a "Crocs" t-shirt. The bass playing lizard uses his tongue for a string. There are also lots of other reptile gags: a gecko waiter walks on the ceiling; we see an advertisement for "Skink's Bug Light" beer; when a lizard orders food at the bar, the bartender turns on a light that attracts a swarm of flies, then he uses flypaper wrapped around a wooden club to catch a bunch of flies, which he then serves to the customer; at Mr. Toad's bar, a drunk lizard suddenly sheds its skin and falls on the floor, leaving the skin still standing and holding his drink; and when Nick Wilde, the fox character who is scared of reptiles, accidentally steps on the tail of a lizard drinking at the bar and breaks it off, he picks it up and tries to re-attach it, but the lizard turns around and tells him to keep it. And there's another lizard tail-dropping gag - when the police show up and the bartender rings a bell to alert the customers, one lizard yells to another to drop their tails, and they both do, so they can run away faster. The main lizard character who helps Judy and Nick search for Gary is named Jesús. He's a Basilisk, commonly known as a "Jesus Lizard" because Basilisks are able to walk on water when they need to get away in a hurry. We see Jesus run across a lake after the police arrive to avoid them.