Hazel the Goat

Hazel is the deuteragonist of the 2018 canadian animated film Elliot the Littlest Reindeer and the 2023 film Elliot 2. She is a loony goat who ends up at the North Pole with her best friend Elliot the mini horse during the Christmas period.
She was voiced by Samantha Bee.
==Personality==
Hazel is a rather eccentric, narrow-minded, sometimes rude and reckless goat. She prefers to act rather than to let logic dictate her actions, like when she says she doesn't care about global warming or when she eats a magic cookie with warnings but since she can't read she just didn't care.
Stomach on legs, Hazel loves to eat anything and everything and never seems to get enough. Her appetite often leads her to eat junk food like converse boxes despite the problems it has caused her in the past.
She openly despises reindeer because of their egocentricity and their revolting speciesism, seeing them as eternal jerks and is not afraid to stand up to them.
Even though she doesn't have much respect for authority figures, Hazel is still loyal to her friends.
==History==
Hazel first appears at Witty Bitty Farm, cheering on an Eliott training in reindeer trials. As Eliott decides to skip the last part of the practice of climbing a snow bump, Hazel uses a mixture of reverse psychology and demeaning to force the little horse to go all the way, which succeeds but Elliot ends up. stuck in the snow so Hazel gets out of it by rushing into the heap only to be reprimanded by their owner, Walter for using the snow cannon again before being sent to the goat race.
In the barn, another miniature horse named Peanutbutter tries to keep order among the rowdy goats, to the amusement of Hazel who does not waste an opportunity to make fun of her elder. After the run, Hazel and Eliott boredly watch the reindeer show, mostly centered around DJ, a pretentious and contemptible reindeer.
At night, Hazel got her head stuck in the fence while trying to eat a tin can. Eliott, who had fallen asleep after realizing that his life on the farm was worthless, notices his friend in trouble, as well as the tin can on his horn. Hazel at first tries to deny that she eats canned food but ends up admitting it and begs Eliott to get her out of there rather than judge her. Once Hazel is unstuck, the two friends overhear a conversation between Walter and a strange woman named Ludzinka about the sale of all farm animals except reindeer. Shocked by what they found out, Hazel and Eliott warn Peanutbutter of the situation, only to learn that he already knew it and hadn't even tried to attempt anything. Hazel suggests escaping into the wilderness, which Eliott disapproves of and instead plans to travel to Santa Claus' village to find a solution.
Stashed in Walter's flying car trunk, Hazel's stomach hurts from the canned food she swallowed after getting her head unstuck. After Walter, accompanied by Clyde the horse and DJ, took off for the North Pole, the state of the goat worsened and she ended up admitting that she had already had such incidents in the past because it was not. its first preserve. A few moments later, the engine of the flying machine stops and nose down, rocking the duo in all directions and Hazel ends up out of the trunk while trying to hang on as much as she can but eventually let go. . Fortunately Eliott catches it in time. Despite what she nearly took a fatal fall, Hazel is content to let it be known that the tin came out on its own.
Arrived at the Christmas village, the two friends slip out of the safe and go to the registration office only to be turned away by Joleen because they do not have the required papers. Luckily, Hazel picked up a wildcard from a manager whose reindeer had been disqualified for magic cookie abuse. Hazel dressed in a chef's hat and Elliot disguised as a reindeer nammed Glitzen, retries the blow and ends up being entered into parties thanks to the permission of the chief elf, Lemondrop.
Walking throughout the training area for the trials, Hazel listens to Elliot talk about the competitors not to be taken lightly before going to Lemondrop's speech which is mostly derogatory to the reindeer. Hazel then watches Elliot pass the first test and encourages him as much as she can despite the crowd blocking her view. Elliot finishes in the last place of the selected and Hazel comes to congratulate him but the two are recognized by Clyde. Despite everything, the old horse abstains from denouncing them to Walter.
After that, Hazel goes to the buffet to fill her stomach while an Elliot, demoralized by Clyde's criticisms, suggests going home to take the risk with Ludzinka. Again, Hazel disagrees with her reverse psychology. Sasha another competing reindeer then arrives to offer Elliot to come with her for an event only for reindeer, much to Hazel's annoyance.
Hazel literally devours the entire buffet before noticing the reporter Corkie opening a secret door. Believing that this is where the elves keep the dessert, the goat enters. Inside, Hazel finds mechanical sleds en masse before she and Corkie are surprised by Lemondrop. To keep up appearances, Corkie asks Hazel to pretend to be her goat in exchange for a snack. Corkie then questions Lemondrop about the usefulness of the sleds and Lemondrop suggests that he plans to replace the reindeer with these same sleds.
The next day, the goat suddenly wakes up Elliot to tell him about what she saw but the mini horse only brags about the wonderful night he spent with the reindeer instead of listening to Hazel's fears, even calling DJ a great guy when you know him. Confused, Hazel reminds her friend that the reindeer are just fools and that they've only been nice to Elliot because they believe he's a reindeer and they'll reject him when Elliot reveals what he is really. Tension builds between the two after Elliot claims he will never remove his antlers and doesn't seem to really care about the real reason for their presence here anymore.
Still hungry, Hazel tries to reach another buffet but the pile of reindeer blocks her path and one of them dares to kick her. Exasperated, Hazel prepares for revenge until she sees a cook coming out of the kitchen with cookies. Entering without announcing herself, Hazel devours the cookies from a tray marked with warning but she doesn't care since she can't read. She then runs away before being noticed.
As she enters the reindeer stage, Hazel begins to hallucinate her friend Lama Ignacio and then starts flying uncontrollably in the air because of the magic cookies. A few moments later, Hazel manages to better control her flight and inadvertently discovers a masked elves giving DJ more cookies. Realizing that DJ is just a cheater, Hazel decides to go warn Elliot in the second tests but her poor flying skills slowed her down.
Arriving at the scene after Elliot's victory, Hazel accidentally walks past DJ, allowing the arrogant reindeer to understand Elliot's deception. DJ confronts Hazel on top of her, so the goat calls him a cheater, which makes him so angry that he kicks Hazel who crashes into Elliot, removing his fake antlers. While everyone is outraged by this revelation, Hazel tries to save the day by exposing DJ who, while trying to contradict her, unmasks himself by revealing that he can still fly. The DJ playdoyers only allow Lemondrop to discriminate against the loyalty of the reindeer and thus push Santa to cancel the tests as well as his old tradition with the reindeer.
Hazel and Elliot escape from the angry crowd thanks to the remains of the goat's flying power. An ungrateful Elliot accuses Hazel of ruining his newfound friendship with the reindeer only to have Hazel remind him once and for all that reindeer are nothing but eternal jerks and that they only came to save their friends. Unfortunately, when Hazel asks Elliot whether they are still there for each other account in his eyes, the mini horse responds ambiguously and walks away, leaving Hazel alone.
Depressed about being the most hated animal in the arctic, Hazel goes to lament at the buffet where Corkie tries to figure out who to give DJ the cookies. Hazel knows it but Corkie is unable to understand her. Joleen walks by to pick up the remaining food and Hazel notices her tattoo on her arm which is exactly the same as the masked elf. Quickly making the connection, Hazel takes Corkie to where she can manage to talk goat.
Hidden in a broom closet, Hazel tries to instill Corkie with the computer's translation system which is not translating her language very clearly. They end up conducing Blitzen and learn from him that it is Lemondrop who organized his retreat. With all the truth uncovered, Hazel and Corkie come to confront Lemondrop in front of everyone and also reveal that Joleen helped him with his plot. Lemondrop tries to deny it until Hazel shows Blitzen's statements about the role he played in his departure on the big screen. Corkie then reveals that Lemondrop had actually orchestrated the reindeer departure since 1953, which Hazel shows with surveillance footage. Now exposed, Lemondrop furiously activates the Thunderdome, causing a massive storm across the village.
During the chaos, Hazel is struck by a scrap of metal and ends up blown away by the wind. Sasha manages to grab Hazel but the thunder makes her let go and the goat is engulfed by the tornado. Elliot ended up shutting down the out-of-control machine, believing that Hazel didn't make it. Hazel is revealed to be alive as she falls straight from the sky towards the earth rifts caused by the Thunderdrome. While all seemed lost for her, Hazel is saved in extremist by Elliot.
Hazel and the others then return home to stop Ludzinka only to find that the little goats have already defeated the dastardly meatwoman. Moments later, Santa himself arrives at the farm and offers Elliot a place on his reindeer team, much to the joy of Hazel who finally sees her best friend's dream come true. She then watches him in wonder soar high in the sky.
== Quotes ==
==Trivia==
*Hazel claims that the language of goats is too complicated for translation machines.
*She has heterochromia.
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