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- "My name is Leonard, though my friends call me Chuckles!"
- — Leonard, The Angry Birds Movie
- "Leonard's the man! I did everything! I got the sub!"
- — Leonard, The Angry Birds Movie 2
Leonard Mudbeard, also known as King Mudbeard, is a main antagonist turned protagonist in the Angry Birds film series. He is a pig and the current monarch of the Piggy kingdom.
Appearance
Leonard is an anthropomorphic chubby pig with green skin. His head is directly connected to his oval torso without a neck, though he has a green beard separating both parts of his body. He has thick green eyebrows, his eyes have black pupils, his ears are aligned to one side of his head, and he has a small snout with two nostrils. Also, his limbs end with cloven hooves. For attire, he sometimes wears a tall golden crown.
In the original Angry Birds, Leonard was modified to look like a round pig, just like the other characters. He was a re-skin of King Pig, though with a green beard and thick green eyebrows on his face.
In Angry Birds 2, his skin, beard and eyebrows were changed to look darker. He is a square-shaped pig with a small visible tail.
In Angry Birds Reloaded, his skin and terminal hair were changed back to look more like his appearance in the movie. He is a round pig. The enemy version of Leonard has for attire a tall golden crown like his crown from the movies.
Personality
Leonard is a charming and charismatic person. When he first met the birds, he acted polite and solidary towards them, confident that he was going to gain their trust. However, he was also easily frustrated by Red's complaints, whispering to himself that the bird was a useless jerk. It is shown that he always does everything without doubting or fearing the consequences.
Leonard in full regalia presenting the eggs, from The Angry Birds Movie.
Behind this enthusiastic persona, Leonard is a bossy, power-hungry monarch, who has no respect or empathy towards his allies; according to Pork Ogh, he spends all day giving his minions orders, and yelling at them when they fail.[2] He is also very punctual, having punished a group of pigs for having given him a Porkini Mushroom one minute after he expected to have it.[3] However, he still keeps his cool persona in public.
Media appearances
The Angry Birds Movie
Leonard discovered a not-so-distant island just across the sea from Piggy Island via a binocular, with the knowledge of the existence a second island, he led a crew of pigs and traveled to the island in a rather unconventional ship. Upon arrival to the island, Leonard stepped off and was greeted by a crowd of birds who are the inhabitants of the island, but not before dealing with technical difficulties with Ross for messing up his not-so-dramatic entrance. His charm helps him gain the birds trust, all except for Red.
Later at night, Leonard is invited up on stage in front of many birds eating outdoors. He introduces them to the trampoline and the slingshot, but is annoyed by Red many times throughout his presentation. When he chooses to pick one of the birds to slingshot, he chooses Red, mainly to get rid of him. Afterwards, Red returns with Chuck and Bomb, having brought many pigs from aboard his ship with them. Leonard lies, saying that his pigs were in need of guidance as they weren't that smart. That again wins everyone's trust, and he smirks as Red storms away from the party.
Leonard depicted with his fascination of eggs.
Sometime later, Leonard finally launches his plan into action: Stealing the eggs and destroying the Birds' village. As Chuck runs to warn the townsfolk, who were partying far off as a distraction brought on by the pigs, Bomb and Red try to free the eggs from the ship, unsuccessfully.
The next day, Leonard, having returned to Piggy Island, announces to his people as King Mudbeard that he prepares to cook the eggs for everyone to feast on. However, the birds arrive on the island and attack by launching themselves with the slingshot. Leonard retaliates and sends the pigs to capture any birds in the city and pushes the feast of the eggs to an earlier date. Luckily, Red, Chuck, and Bomb infiltrate the castle and prevent the eggs from being boiled. Mighty Eagle soon joins in and grabs the net that contains the eggs and began to leave with the other three birds. As they began to take off, Leonard grabs Red by the foot and a pig chain is formed. The pressure then forces an egg to pop out of the net and fall back into the castle, causing Red to make the choice of risking his life to save it and lets go of the net and fall back inside with it.
Leonard, with Red in the room full of dynamite.
Soon, Red and Leonard, with the egg, fell through many floors of the castle from a chandelier and into a room filled with dynamite. As Leonard prepares to cook the egg, Red is able to use his cockiness as and advantage to take it, light up dynamite, and leave Leonard in the explosion while he remains safe under a pot that was knocked over.
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Angry Birds BirLd Cup
A King Mudbeard cardboard cutout was featured as decoration throughout the entire series.
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Leonard appeared as an antagonist at the beginning of the movie, but became a protagonist, as he created a truce between the birds and pigs to stop Zeta.
Game appearances
Angry Birds Fight!
Leonard makes a surprise appearance in Angry Birds Fight! as a boss for a limited time to promote The Angry Birds Movie on May 17, 2016.
Angry Birds Football
Leonard appears in Angry Birds Football mainly in the comments section, where he is named King Pig, he talks about his team's progress and often puts the fault in the birds for lost matches, saying that they cheated to win.
His social media nickname in the game is ''@Sus_Viridus_Rex''.
Angry Birds Dice
Leonard appears in the game as an unlockable and playable character, along with his trusty assistant, Ross. He could also be fought as a boss.
As the game is monopoly-like, the player has to roll the dice and make a determined number of steps until a point is hit, which the player gains property over something or fall into a trap. He also has his special power that can be activated whenever he gets a double dice. This special move is called "Lucky Double", where he gets a given amount of JOY multiplied by the dice value he recently rolled.
Angry Birds Match
Leonard appears as a boss in Angry Birds Match.
Angry Birds POP Blast
Leonard is the last character to be included in Angry Birds POP Blast, putting him with his bird counterpart, Silver. Leonard can be unlocked from the piñatas. When his skill is ready, he can pick three random pig abilities to choose from.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure
Leonard appears in the game as a playable character that helps in missions.
Angry Birds Tennis
Leonard appears in Angry Birds Tennis as a playable character in the game who can be unlocked from the bags. Once you unlock him, he can be used in any tennis match.
Angry Birds Double Crossed
Powers and abilities
Leonard has a great durability and resistance. In The Angry Birds Movie, he was able to survive the massive explosion that occurred in the destruction of Piggy Island and only get a bruise from it. It's possible this is due to his species as a pig, as the worst injury any pig received from the explosion was a cast and mild burn marks.
Relationships
Red
Red has often been arch rivals with Leonard. They first met when he and his minions went to Bird Island. Ever since their first encounter, they have had a rather tense relationship, with Red being skeptical about Leonard, and Leonard being annoyed by Red's attitude towards him, sometimes cursing him in secret. Eventually, it turned out that Red was right about the pigs when they stole the eggs from Bird Island and bombed Bird Village. When Red and his friends attacked Pig City and rescued the eggs, Leonard's rivalry with Red was further aggravated. However, the pig once took a selfie cosplaying Red despite their arch-rivalry. Realizing that Zeta, a bird from Eagle Island was releasing ice balls onto both Piggy Island and Bird Island, he and Red agreed to team up to stop Zeta from taking over the earth.
Allies
Neutral
- Red
- Chuck
- Bomb
- Silver
- Matilda
- Bubbles
- Hal
- Stella
- The Blues
- Terence
- Mighty Eagle
- Zeta
- Eagle Guards
- Debbie
- Glenn
Name in other languages
| Language | Name | English translation |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish (Spain) | Leonardo | Leonard |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 李奧納德 (Lǐàonàdé) | Leonard |
Trivia
- In the storyboards of The Movie, Leonard was merely a short pig without a beard. Ross was bigger than him and would have translated what he was saying in symbols.[4]
- According to the The Art of the Angry Birds Movie, Francesca Natale, the designer of both pigs and birds for the movie, designed Leonard to resemble the Roman Emperor to represent her Italian heritage.[5] Leonard does not have his beard up to his snout even though he is based on the emperor.
- In a scrapped script for The Angry Birds Movie 2, he mentions that his eye color is actually blue, despite having black pupils in the movie.
- In the Peninsular Spanish version of the films, Leonard is called Leonardo, the Spanish translation to his name. However, the Hispanic American version keeps his name as Leonard.
- The Angry Birds website lists this version of Leonard as the movie version of King Pig, even though they are different characters.
Gallery
For the gallery, see Leonard/Gallery.
References
- ↑ Red the Angry Bird (December 27, 2018). Red the Angry Bird on Twitter. Twitter. Retrieved on September 2, 2021.
- ↑ Angry Birds: Flight School #3, "Zen With a Slice of Ham"
- ↑ Angry Birds: Flight School #3, "The Porkini Mushroom"
- ↑ https://danlafrance.com/2016/09/30/the-angry-bird-movie/
- ↑ File:The Art of the Angry Birds Movie Book Page 186.jpg
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