Rocky Rhodes

Rocky the Rhode Island Red, or simply known as Rocky Rhodes and The Lone Free Ranger, is the deuteragonist of Aardman's film series.
He is the Rhode Island Red (though his coloring is more reminiscent of an American game fowl), who is a flying American cockerel that escaped the circus and the helper of all hens. At the end, he becomes Ginger's husband and becomes a father to Molly.
== Portrayals ==
* In the first film, he is voiced by famous actor , who also played Max Rockatansky in the Mad Max trilogy, Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon films, William Wallace in Braveheart, Thomas Craven in Edge of Darkness, Graham Hess in Signs, and voiced John Smith in Disney's Pocahontas.
* In the sequel, the role was taken over by , who also voiced Flynn Rider in Tangled, Joseph in The Star, Arcade Gannon in Fallout: New Vegas, Larry Daley in Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, and portrayed Fandral in the MCU, Shazam in the DCEU, Tobey Seville in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Chuck Bartowski in Chuck, Luke Collins in Heroes Reborn and Harold in Harold and the Purple Crayon.
==Biography==
===Chicken Run===
Rocky is first seen crash landing into Tweedy's Farm in Yorkshire and breaks his left wing. He is then taken in and tended to by the farm's chickens, who believe that he can fly, due to the circus poster of him that their leader Ginger found. Ginger, who wants escape the farm alongside the other chickens due to the cruelty of the owners the Tweedys, who kill any hens that stop laying eggs. Soon afterwards, a member of the circus arrives at the farm to look for him. Not wanting to go back to the circus, Rocky makes a deal with Ginger to teach the chickens to fly in exchange for them hiding him from the circus worker. Rocky ends up having to share a bunk with the farm's rooster Fowler, who is distrustful of him.
The next day, Rocky gives the chickens lessons on how to fly. Later, Ginger is taken by Mr. Tweedy to test out the farm's new pie machine. Upon learning about this from the other chickens, Rocky goes to save Ginger and ends up sabotaging the machine. That night, Ginger thanks Rocky for saving her. Fowler also gains respect for Rocky and let's him have the bunk all to himself and gives him one of his RAF medals.
On the day of the chickens intended escape, Ginger goes to get Rocky, only to find him gone and sees that he has left behind the medal and the missing bottom half of the poster and learns that Rocky cannot fly at all and had in fact been fired from a cannon.
Meanwhile, Rocky is seen on a tricycle before spotting a billboard advertising "Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pies". This causes Rocky to have a change of heart and returns to Tweedy's Farm to help the chickens. He arrives in time to see Ginger about to be killed by Mrs. Tweedy. Rocky uses the tricycle to cycle over the farm's fence and knocks down Mrs. Tweedy before helping Ginger put up a ramp to help the chickens' plane (piloted by Fowler) take off. The duo then use a string of fairy lights hanging from the plane to get onboard. However, Mrs. Tweedy also uses the fairy lights to pursue them. Rocky lowers Ginger down to cut the string with scissors. However, Ginger ends up dropping the scissors and it then appears that Mrs. Tweedy decapitated her, much to Rocky's horror. However it is then revealed that Ginger had ducked and had tricked Mrs. Tweedy into severing the string, resulting in Mrs. Tweedy falling back to earth. Rocky and Ginger then share a kiss as the plane flies away from the farm.
Sometime later, Rocky, Ginger and the other chickens, along with two rats named Nick and Fetcher, have taken residence on an island which they have named Chikin Sanctuary, which is eventually also populated by the hens' chicks.
===Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget===
Rocky appears in the sequel, now voiced by Zachary Levi. In this film, Rocky and Ginger become parents to a daughter named Molly.
==Personality==
Rocky loves fame, respect, recognition, attention, and adulation, which was always handed to him. He has a charm that attracts many to him, an intelligent wit, and a flair for showmanship, making him highly attractive. Rocky also tends to sugarcoat the harshness of reality, as he believes it will shatter people's wills, and tends to be rather lazy. At first, he was obnoxious, cowardly, two-faced, and lied if it meant he could evade life in the circus, suggesting he wasn't treated well there, such as claiming he could actually fly. Not having it in him to tell them the truth, he abandons the hens while leaving the other half of his poster that reveals his secret. But his heart turns out to always be in the right place and he returns to guard and protect the chickens from the Tweedy's British chicken farm. Throughout the film, Rocky becomes involved with Ginger and by the time the climax of the movie comes to a near end, he starts to have romantic feelings for her.
In the sequel he become much less cowardly, obnoxious, lazy and a lot more courageous, good-hearted and honorable freedom-fighter who loves his wife and daughter as always.
==Trivia==
* and were both considered for the role of Rocky before was cast.
**In additional to Smith and Travolta, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , the late , , , , , , and the late were also considered for the role.
*During production for Chicken Run, Rocky had a wattle on his neck that was it was accidentally left out during shooting, which also occured around the time the animators decided the wattle didn't suit Rocky.
*Rocky's name is a pun on the name of the ice cream flavor rocky road.
*In the tie-in book Chicken Pies For The Soul, it is said that Rocky was brought up in Kentucky by his mother. It is to assume that his mother died during their journey to America.
*Rocky, along with Ginger, is named after a chicken kept as a pet by Chicken Run's creator Nick Park when he was younger.
*Mel Gibson announced that he wouldn’t reprise his role in the sequel, which is why he was voiced by Zachary Levi.
*With so much poster, everyone mistakenly thought Rocky was about to be the main protagnist of the movie.
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