Hopper

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**Hopper** is a member of the Jiminy Pack and is a recurring antagonist in the *Sean In The Vyond World* series. He was taken from the 1998 Disney and Pixar film *A Bug's Life*.

## Personality

Hopper is a ruthless, violent, intimidating, belligerent, cunning, manipulative, egotistical, and cruel tyrant who thinks nothing of killing ants, a species he considers lower than dirt. He heels at the idea of being thought of as weak in any way, which could be why he abuses everyone around him. Hopper specifically expresses his desire to be powerful in acting like he believes grasshoppers are better than ants in every way. Hopper believes that ants were put on Earth to serve them, though mostly him, and having most of the people in his gang serve him as well. His rule over them mainly comes from instilling fear, and seeing them mainly as pawns in his game to win against the ants.

In general, Hopper is a bully who seems to derive control from making others afraid to anger him in any way, which also extends to most. His persuasive manner of speaking to Princess Atta is reminiscent of an abusive and argumentative boyfriend mocking his terrified and pusillanimous girlfriend. He also often beats up his own henchmen, on one occasion punching Thumper in the face purely out of rage he promised to never exercise on Molt. To emphasize Hopper’s cruelty and desire for total control, he even kills three of them just to paint a narrative to the others, showing how little he cares for them. Furthermore, while he won't kill him, Hopper still constantly abuses Molt and despises him despite the fact that he is his brother. The stark contrast is clearly present as opposed to how much he hates Molt, he refuses to kill him as his below-mentioned promise towards his mother. This seems to imply that if he respects anyone other than himself, it would be his late mother.

However, in spite of his generally merciless and inhumanly cruel nature, he is capable of some humane demonstration as seen when he gives the ants a second chance at providing food after they fail miserably despite having no reason to do so. Otherwise, Hopper sees mercy and compassion as weaknesses and relies mostly on fear to maintain authority, proving that he only acted merciful because he thought that they weren't a threat (however he was quick to insult the ants for attempting to fix things with him and instantly upend any mercy). Hopper was the only grasshopper who knew the ants outnumbered them from 100 to 1 and to truly know how strong they are, despite being strong. He believes that the ants are like helpless wards who cannot really think for themselves, as already mentioned seeing them below him, but still fears an ant uprising and attempts to retain complete control over them to snuff out any rebellion.

Throughout the film, Hopper grows more concerned about Flik confronting him as one rebel ant is enough to cause a whole colony's mutiny. The inference from this being how as the film goes on it is revealed that although he thinks lowly of ants, he does not just fear an ant uprising, but hates them as a whole because of it and wants to snuff out all of them. Hopper becomes gradually more clearly shown to be quite anxious about ant rebellions in front of his gang, thinly veiling his anxiousness by threatening ants and presumably killing two members of his own gang while representing how ants can stand up against grasshoppers. After Thumper beats Flik due to P.T. Flea aiding Hopper (accidentally), he also called the ant colony along with the Circus Bugs including P.T. Flea (who regrets his horrible mistake) mindless soil-shoving losers, demeaning them in order to keep them in line; however, it could be seen that he himself is the real “mindless soil shoving loser” as when encountering the real bird he mistakes her for a fake bird and taunts her which ultimately leads to his death.

His only slightly redeeming quality aside from being somewhat reasonable at times is that he may have loved (or at least respected) his mother enough to honor her deathbed promise to never kill Molt. However, he does demonstrate that he would have killed him if not for his promise. He also demonstrates having some level of affection and care for his gang members at times, but at the end of the day does not seem to respect them very much and, as aforementioned, mainly acts as if he sees them simply as pawns.

All in all, Hopper, who had a manipulative and serious personality, was also more of a magisterial and oppressive leader who would do anything to get food, even if it meant committing genocide. Also, aside from his promise to his mother, he doesn't show any regard for his family as he never shows any care for Molt, making him a truly vicious and evil bug.