User blog comment:JoxFox2109/PG Proposal: Judy Hopps/@comment-39032584-20191007130513

While I totally understand why certain factors like her deep-rooted prejudice against foxes and blackmailing Nick over committing tax fraud would put some people off, I'm actually willing to give her a yes. Remember, her prejudice against foxes was not intentional, to the point that she didn't even realize she had it, and when she did realize she felt that way, she felt horrible and made an honest effort to better herself.

With regards to blackmailing Nick... if she had resorted to it more immediately as a normal go-to solution, I'd agree it's disqualifying. However, the circumstances she did it under were very specific; she was practically being set up to lose her job by Chief Bogo, over his own lack of faith in her, on only her second day as a cop (which has her lifelong dream that many tried to discourage her from following) by giving her just 48 hours to find Emmitt Otterton, the missing otter she offered to help find, and with no leads, witnesses or resources to help her. So Nick was her only potential witness and means of tracking him down, and even then, she only resorted to this after she tried asking nicely, to which he kept snarking at her, and refusing to comply (even though he admitted he knew Emmitt Otterton) or treat her like a real cop. From her perspective, this was basically a last resort that she felt she had to use to fufill her promise to Mrs. Otterton to find her missing husband, prove to her superior she deserved to be there, and of course, not immediately have to resign from her life's dream just for trying to do the right/responsible thing earlier.

So does she have her own minor flaws such as being impulsive, being unconsciously prejudiced towards foxes over being bullied by one, and is willingly to use extreme methods if it means doing the right thing? Yes. However, I don't think any of these things truly detract from the fact that she's kind, loving and selfless by default, whole-heartedly dedicated to doing her part to make the world a better place, and has no problem acknowleding her own shortcomings and trying to better herself along the way. To me, she's a more "human PG character"; she has minor flaws, but nothing truly bad or corrupting that actually detracts from her unambiguously good will.