Which Zootopia 2 Villain Are You?

Learn More About Zootopia 2's Villains

Zootopia 2 arrived in theaters on November 26, 2025, nearly a decade after the original film became a surprise smash for Walt Disney Animation Studios. Directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard returned to reunite rookie rabbit cop Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and her fast-talking fox partner Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), sending the pair on a new case that digs into a part of Zootopia's history the city would rather forget: the total absence of reptiles from its founding story.

The mystery kicks off at the Zootenial gala, a lavish anniversary celebration where a mysterious pit viper named Gary De'Snake crashes the party and swallows a crucial piece of evidence — a journal tied to the city's climate and founding records. From that moment on, the film plays a clever shell game with the audience, positioning Gary as the obvious suspect while Judy and Nick chase him across the city.

Gary, voiced by Ke Huy Quan, turns out to be the film's biggest misdirect. Rather than a villain, he's a wronged party: his family and species were quietly erased from Zootopia's official history, and his frantic, seemingly criminal behavior is really a desperate attempt to set the record straight. By the film's midpoint, he's less a suspect than an unlikely ally to Judy and Nick.

The actual antagonist is Pawbert Lynxley, voiced by Andy Samberg, the youngest son of one of Zootopia's oldest and wealthiest families. Pawbert is apologetic even while committing sabotage, framing his actions as the only way to finally prove himself to a family that has never taken him seriously. As the story escalates, he grows increasingly unstable, ultimately leaving Gary for dead and poisoning Judy in a scheme designed to frame reptiles all over again — echoing the same prejudice that erased Gary's family generations earlier.

Pawbert doesn't operate alone. His father Milton Lynxley (David Strathairn) is the cold, image-obsessed patriarch holding the family's legacy together at any cost, while older brother Cattrick (Macaulay Culkin) is the ruthlessly competitive heir determined to outshine his siblings. Sister Kitty Lynxley (Brenda Song) rounds out the family as the sharp-tongued socialite who always seems to know more than she lets on. Together, the Lynxleys give Zootopia 2 its version of old-money menace — less claws-and-fangs villainy, more boardroom-and-ballroom manipulation.

Thematically, the villain arc extends the first film's central idea — that prejudice and gatekeeping don't disappear just because a city calls itself progressive — into new territory. Where Zootopia tackled predator-versus-prey bias, the sequel applies the same lens to reptiles, a group written out of the city's founding mythology entirely. Gary's arc in particular reframes who the "villain" really is: a species long assumed dangerous turns out to be the one telling the truth all along.

Critics and fans responded well to the mystery-box structure, with the Lynxley reveal landing as a genuine swerve rather than a predictable twist. It also sets up plenty of story threads for a potential Zootopia 3, particularly around Gary's reintegration into Zootopia society and whatever the Lynxleys have left to answer for.

If you've already taken our general "Which Zootopia 2 Character Are You?" quiz and found your hero match among Judy, Nick, and the rest of the ZPD, this villain-only spinoff is the natural next step — a chance to see which schemer, suspect, or secret softie you'd actually be if you crossed over to the other side of the case file.