Ginger (Chicken Run)

Ginger is the main protagonist of Aardman’s film series.
She is a Rhode island red hen who has adapted into a responsible leader of the chickens at Tweedy's Farm. At the end of the film, she becomes romantically involved with former circus rooster Rocky Rhodes and becomes his wife by the end then becomes a mother to a girl chicken named Molly.
In and flashbacks from , she is voiced by . In the sequel itself, she is voiced by .
==Biography==
===Chicken Run===
Ginger is the leader of a group of chickens living on a farm ran by Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy in 1980s Yorkshire, England. They must lay eggs consistently, or they will be slaughtered. Ginger has attempted many times to help her group escape Tweedy's Farm, but each time has been foiled by Mr. Tweedy and their dogs. She has been put in solitary confinement dozens of times before returning her to the other chickens. After a chicken named Edwina is killed by Mrs. Tweedy for not lay eggs, Ginger is determined more than ever to find a way to get the chickens away from Tweedy's Farm.
One night, an American circus rooster named Rocky The Rhode Island Red crash-lands in the farm and is taken in by the hens, but the farm's rooster Fowler is suspicious of him. After seeing a circus poster of Rocky supposedly flying, Ginger entrusts Rocky to teach the chickens to fly so they could escape. He, despite not being able to fly, reluctantly agrees to avoid being turned back into the circus. Ginger is immediately skeptical of Rocky's supposed ability, who excuses himself due to his injury.
Ginger later learns that Mrs. Tweedy is wanting to turn all the chickens into pies as it would make her more money than eggs. Ginger is then taken by Mr. Tweedy to be put in the pie machine to test it. However, Rocky manages to save her and ends up sabotaging the machine.
The next day, Ginger and the other chickens look forward to Rocky helping them fly to escape. However when Ginger goes to get Rocky, she finds him gone and finds the bottom half of the circus poster and learns that Rocky cannot fly at all and had in fact been shot from a cannon. This revaluation causes Ginger and the other chickens to lose hope of escaping until Ginger remembers Fowler talking about his days in the RAF and decides that the chickens should built a plane in order to escape the farm. Ginger assigns two rats named Nick and Fletcher to steal tools from Mr. Tweedy in order to build the plane.
On the night of the flight, Mr. Tweedy has finally fixed the pie machine and goes to get a chicken to put in it, only to discover that they have his tools. The chickens attack Mr. Tweedy and tie him up and prepare to fly away with Fowler as pilot, only for Fowler to admit that he did not fly in the RAF and was just a mascot, but Ginger convinces him to do it. However, Mr. Tweedy knocks over the ramp, resulting in Ginger to get out of the plane to put it back up, only to be confronted by Mrs. Tweedy who tries to kill her. However, Rocky (having had a change of heart) arrives and knocks down Mrs. Tweedy with his tricycle before helping Ginger put up the ramp for the plane to take off. Ginger and Rocky then grab onto some fairy lights hanging from the plane in order to get on it. Ginger at first slaps Rocky for leaving but then is about to kiss him for coming back but then sees Mrs. Tweedy climbing up the fairy lights after them. Ginger climbs down the fairy lights and tricks Mrs. Tweedy into cutting the part of the lights she is clinging onto, causing her to fall onto the pie machine and makes it explode. Ginger and Rocky then kiss and the plane flies away from the farm.
Sometime later, Ginger, Rocky, the other chickens and Nick and Fletcher have made a new home on an island which they call Chikin Sanctuary, which is eventually also populated by the hens' chicks.
===Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget===
Ginger appears in the sequel. In this film, Ginger and Rocky become parents to a daughter named Molly.
Ginger must once again fight against Mrs. Tweedy, whom had returned with a new plot that would brutally turn chickens into food. Often alone, but also helped by her friends, husband, and daughter, Ginger must come to terms with her past to stop the mad Mrs. Tweedy and her new husband, wealthy heir and mad scientist, Dr. Fry.
==Personality==
Ginger has many plans for how to get out of the fence and escape the chicken coop, although many of these plans are thought up of by her friend Mac. No matter how many times she fails to escape, she refuses to give up; when Bunty laid out the odds of escaping to her, she merely replied "Then there's still a chance". Her determination is not without justification, however, due to Mrs. Tweedy's tendency to kill the chickens when they can't lay anymore eggs.
Despite not thinking much of Rocky at first, she nonetheless puts up with him as he is (seemingly) their best chance to escape the farm. Upon discovering the devastating truth beyond his flying ability, her determination almost cracks and she very nearly gives up trying to escape. She is also shown to have a bit of an 'eye for an eye' policy, slapping Rocky for abandoning the chickens and kissing him for coming back. By the end of the film, she officially became his wife.
While Ginger believed in honesty as a vital attribute, in the sequel, her fear for her daughter, Molly's safety, dreading the risk that she will suffer a battery farm as she did, made Ginger shift away from her openness; instead of teaching Molly about the world, good and bad, Ginger withheld information in a misguided attempt to protect Molly from danger and pain; while within a utopia, ironically Ginger forbid Molly from exploring the outer world, leaving her trapped within a contained locale as she once had been. 
Since Molly has the intelligence and exuberance of her mother, and the adventurousness and carelessness of her father, Molly ended up leaving the insular Chikin Sanctuary, proving Ginger's deception had failed to dissuade her daughter and actually endangered her. Due to mother and daughter, and other allies, overcoming the threat from Mrs. Tweedy's latest scheme, along with bonding over the adventure, Ginger and Molly's relationship was repaired, and Ginger returned to her prior adherence to honesty, since she learned that Molly is capable enough to face what they fear.
==Appearance==
Ginger is a Rhode Island Red chicken with green eyes. She wears a knitted green hat on her head and a white scarf with blue and yellow flowers around her neck.
==Trivia==
*Ginger is Dreamworks' first female protagonist.
*In an earlier draft of Chicken Run, Ginger had a younger brother named Nobby, but was written out.
*In 2012, Ginger appeared in a Christmas advert for Google Hangout alongside Wallace, Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Piella Bakewell, Fluffles and Trixie and Captain Cuddlepuss from Creature Comforts.
**This is non-canon (or possibly universal gathering) due to Chicken Run taking place in the 1980s and the sequel, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, taking place in the 1990s.
*Drew Barrymore, Winona Ryder, Brittany Daniel, Linda Cardellini, Edie Falco, Meg Ryan, Jennifer Aniston, Jodi Benson, Samanatha Mathis, Jada Pinkett Smith, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Wiig, Joan Cusack, and Jessalyn Gilsig were all considered for the role of Ginger.
*Ginger, along with Rocky, is named after a pet chicken owned by Chicken Run's creator Nick Park when he was younger.
*Ginger's original voice actress Julia Sawalha was replaced due to getting too old, although her old voice was used as footage in film. Though, the replacement, being only 4 years younger, suggests that age wasn't the reason or that it wasn't Sawalha was "too old," but "sounded too old."
*In the sequel, Ginger has PTSD, shown when she has nightmares of Mrs. Tweedy and later has brief flashbacks of her upon seeing her again.
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