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Today is a new day.
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~ Chicken Little's catchphrase.
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By the way, I'd like to say I've always found you extremely attractive!
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~ Chicken Little to Abby Mallard before their first kiss.
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You’re never there for me! You’re never there for me. I mean you were when I won the big game, but not when I thought the sky fell, and not at the ball field, and certainly not now! You’ve been ashamed of me ever since the acorn thing happened and we have to talk about it because Modern Mallard says avoiding closure can lead to molting. And I’m already small, and on top of that I don’t think I could handle being bald!
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~ Chicken Little to Buck Cluck.
Ace Cluck, better known as Chicken Little, is the titular main protagonist of Disney's 46th full-length animated feature film of the same name.
He is a small chicken who was being outcasted and ridiculed by the townspeople of Oakey Oaks after mistaking a panel for a "piece of the sky", which he believes is a product of alien intrusion from planet Earth. This all changes when he met and befriended Kirby, a young orange alien who suddenly arrived on planet Earth, and whom the aliens, lead by Kirby's father Melvin, were tracking down.
Chicken Little was originally written as a female character to have been voiced by Holly Hunter, though plans shifted when executives asked for more of a father-son dynamic in the film.
Biography[]
After Chicken Little sees a hexagon-shaped object with an image of the sky fall from the sky, he believes that the sky itself is falling and tries to warn the town, but in doing so he throws the town into a panic. This causes him to be accused of being insane by everyone, including his own father Buck, and Little is shocked that even his own father will not believe him.
This incident that Chicken Little caused has become so popular that the movie directors are advertising a movie called "The Crazy Little Chicken" which will be about Chicken Little's havoc he caused. Buck wonders if everyone will ever forget his mistake while Chicken Little wants to show everyone he is not crazy.
An outcast, however, ever since and the target of bullies, Chicken Little and his small circle of friends have since been trying to figure out a way for him to change his image. Chicken Little sees an opportunity and tries signing up for the school baseball team, like his father did years ago.
Chicken Little ends up winning a big game and is seen as popular again, but another incident with a hexagonal object and other signs of alien activity begins to unravel things. Two who apparently want to invade earth as seen in the point of Chicken Little on their global map in the spaceship with the planet earth with an X on it, attack them, but they manage to escape towards the school.
Chicken Little and his friends try to warn the town, but no one believes them due to them missing the edition. Angry people around complain to Buck not "keeping his child under control". Chicken Little tries to convince his dad that he is not making this up, but his dad says he does not believe him, shocking Chicken Little by his lack of support.
The next day, the incident is on news about "people going mad about yet another Chicken Little incident". While Buck receives angry phone calls and hate mails, Chicken Little's friends try to cheer him up, but Chicken Little wants to be alone at that moment.
Suddenly, Chicken Little notices an orange three-eyed baby alien he saw on the spaceship, freaking him out and telling his friends to run, but Fish out of Water calms them down. The alien speaks and Fish translates that his name is Kirby and Chicken Little and friends understand and realize that the aliens attacking them earlier just wanted to find their baby. Chicken Little promises that he and his friends will do whatever they can to get Kirby back home.
Suddenly the sky really begins to fall, spaceships zoom around and the whole town, including Buck, realizes that Chicken Little was right all along. Buck tells Chicken Little to get in the car so they can leave town and lets Chicken Little know he was right about an alien invasion, but Chicken Little tries to explain to his dad about it just being a rescue mission but Buck gets confused. Assuming that since Buck didn't believe him in the past, and that he still won't believe him now, Chicken Little runs away with Buck chasing after him. Chicken Little manages to save Kirby from getting hit by a truck and they land into the movie theater. Buck finds them and they argue until Abby comes and steps and calms them and encourages them to talk. Taking Abby's advice of using closure, Chicken Little calls Buck out for never being there for him except for when he won the baseball game and that he has been ashamed of him since the "sky is falling" incident. Buck admits his mistakes and apologizes to them and agrees to help return Kirby to his parents. And before they left the theater, Chicken Little quickly confessed to Abby how he always found her extremely attractive before sharing their first kiss, leaving her completely smitten for him.
They try several plans, but they don't work until the final one does and they end in the spaceship floating with other objects and a few other captured citizens who were zapped. Kirby's dad asks why they "took" their child. Buck tries to explain everything to the father and they did not take Kirby and his parents were the ones that left him behind, calling it bad parenting. Kirby's father, Melvin, doesn't believe them until Kirby explains everything to his parents, with help from his mother, Tina, and all the imprisoned citizens and town are fixed except for Foxy Loxy, who accidentally got brainwashed during the rescue mission and reconstitution.
Everyone suddenly realizes that Chicken Little was right about the first sky is falling incident when Tina reveals they come to Oakey Oaks once a year to study acorns, and when they did, the panel which was shaped like the nearby stop sign fell, with Tina remarking that one day, it could hit someone on the head, shocking everyone.
Later, they make a movie based on Chicken Little saving the town. Everyone applauds the movie. In the credits, the Chicken Little cast perform the 1970s song "Don't Go Breaking My Heart".
Other Media[]
Kingdom Hearts II[]
Little is a Summon that appears in Kingdom Hearts II. He is obtained by talking to Merlin after visiting The Land of Dragons and Beast's Castle (or Olympus Coliseum if Sora skipped either of the aforementioned worlds). To summon him, Sora uses the Baseball Charm he receives from Merlin.
When Sora, Donald and Goofy return to Hollow Bastion they reunite with old friends and Sora's magic instructor Merlin who re-teaches Sora some magic attacks, he then gives Sora a special Baseball Charm to help him along his journey. The charm summons Little who teams up with Sora and throws baseballs at enemies to stun them. Little also has a limit called FPS (First Person Shooter) Mode which allows Sora to shoot firecrackers or baseballs at enemies through a scope in a first-person shooter style.
Once Upon a Studio[]
In the short, Chicken Little makes an appearance alongside The Headless Horseman, Gaston, Happy, Milo Thatch, Thomas O'Malley, and Prince John in the men's restroom of the Disney Animation Studio. Then, alongside his closest friends, Chicken Little celebrates the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios by joining all the other Disney characters in a group photo.
Wish[]
Chicken Little briefly appears during this film's credits.
Trivia[]
In the original version of the film, Chicken Little was originally going to be female, and he was going to be voiced by Holly Hunter.
Interestingly, Travolta would later go on to voice fellow CGI protagonist Bolt in the Disney Animated Canon film of the same name.
He is the first Disney Animated Canon protagonist to come from a CGI film; not counting Aladar, as he instead comes from a CGI/live-action hybrid film. Ironically, D.B. Sweeney, Aladar's voice actor, was one of the proposed actors for Chicken Little himself.
In a picture with his whole family, he closely resembles his late mother Chloe Cluck.
He is surprisingly responsible for the pacification between the aliens and the entire planet Earth. Had he never met Kirby in the first place, then the aliens would not have been stopped from invading Earth for their needed resources.
His Hollywood self was voiced by the late Adam West. Interestingly, that version was also listed in the film's end credits with Chicken Little's real name, Ace.
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