Chicken Little (real name: Ace Cluck) is the main protagonist of Disney's 46th full-length and first computer animated feature film with the same name.
He was voiced by Zach Braff. In the Japanese dub from the movie, he was voiced by Keiko Yamamoto.
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 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 own father will not believe him.
This supposedly incident that Little caused has become so popular that the movie directors are advertising a movie called "The Crazy Chicken" which will be about Little's havoc he caused. Buck wonders if everyone will ever forget his mistake. Chicken wants to show everyone he is not crazy.
An outcast however ever since and the target of bullies, Little and his small circle of friends have since been trying to figure a way for him to change his image. Little sees an opportunity and tries signing up for the school baseball team, like his father was years ago.
Little ends up winning the 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.
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". Little tries to convinces his dad that he is not making things up but his dad says he does not believe him, shocking Little.
The next day, the incident is on news about "people going mad about another yet Chicken Little incident". While Buck receives angry phone calls and hate mails, Little's friends try to cheer him up, but Little wants to be alone at that moment.
Suddenly, Little notices an orange threee-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 and Kirby speaks in alien and Fish translates and Little and friends understand and relalize that the aliens attacking them earlier just wanted to find their baby. Little promises he and his friends will whatever it to get Kirby back home.
Suddenly the sky really begins tofall and 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 Little know he was right about an alien invasion. But, Little tries to explain to his dad about it just being a rescue mission but Buck is confused. Assumign that Buck didntt believe him in the past, he wouldn't believe him now, Little runs away with Buck chasing after him. Little manages to save Kriby 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 comes him and encourages them to talk. Little yells Buck says he was never there for him except for when he won the baseball game and that he has ashamed of him since the sky falling incident. Buck admits his mistakes and apologizes to them and agrees to help return Kirby to his parents.
They try several plans but they don't work until the final one does and they end in the spaceship floating will other objects and a few other captured citizens who were zapped. Melvin in his Big Voice tool askes why di d they "take " his child Buck tries to explain everything to the father Melvin and they did not take Kriby and his parents were the ones the ones that left them behind, calling it bad parenting. Melvin doesn't believes them until Kirby explains everything to the parents. and all the imprisoned citizens and town are fixed except for Foxy Loxy who got accidentally brainwashed.
Everyone suddenly realizes that Little was right about the first sky falling incident when Tina reveals they come to Oakley Oaks once a year to study acorns and when they do the panel which was shaped like a stop which fell again now, falls and Tina has one days it is going to hit someone on the 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 70s 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.
Gallery
Chicken Little and Abby Mallard at the Oscars 2006.
Trivia
Michael J. Fox, Christian Slater, David Spade and Matthew Brodrick were all considered for the role of Chicken Little before Zach Braff was cast.
