49 Fun Facts About Zootopia 2

Who voices Gary De'Snake in Zootopia 2?

Ke Huy Quan voices Gary, who steals the Lynxleys' old journal in the hope that it will let his exiled family come home.

In Zootopia 2, Gary De'Snake is what kind of snake?

Pit viper: like the real snakes, Gary can sense heat, which lets him make out a hidden part of the old journal's cover that had been painted over.

Who voices Nibbles Maplestick, the conspiracy-theorist beaver?

Fortune Feimster voices Nibbles, whose podcast digs into reptile mysteries, and it is Nibbles who guides the fugitive Judy and Nick to the reptiles' hiding place.

Who voices Pawbert Lynxley in Zootopia 2?

Andy Samberg voices Pawbert, the overlooked youngest Lynxley, who turns on Judy and Gary in the hope of finally earning his family's respect.

Who voices Milton Lynxley, the family patriarch, in Zootopia 2?

David Strathairn voices Milton, who secretly controls the city's new mayor and orders him to hunt down Judy and Nick and bring back the stolen journal.

Who voices Mayor Brian Winddancer in Zootopia 2?

Patrick Warburton voices the horse mayor, who starts out as the Lynxleys' puppet but ends up taking them down himself, like the heroes he once played on screen.

Dr. Fuzzby, the ZPD partners' therapist voiced by Quinta Brunson, is what animal?

A quokka: Dr. Fuzzby runs Partners in Crisis, the police group therapy that Judy and Nick are sent to once their bickering starts to wreck their cases.

In Zootopia 2, who voices Jesús, the plumed basilisk?

Danny Trejo voices Jesús, whose name is a joke on the real plumed basilisk: it is nicknamed the Jesus Christ lizard because it can run across water.

Captain Hoggbottom heads which ZPD unit?

T.U.S.K.: its razorback captain, voiced by Michelle Gomez, spends the film hunting Judy and Nick, yet she is the one who finally knocks out the real culprit.

WWE stars Roman Reigns and CM Punk voice a ZPD cop duo known as what?

The Zebros are Gene Zebraxton and Gene Zebrowski, and only one of them is really a zebra: Zebrowski is a horse with his stripes painted on.

Alan Tudyk returns in Zootopia 2 as which small-time crook?

Duke Weaselton: his name nods to the Duke of Weselton, a schemer Tudyk voiced in an earlier Disney hit, and the sequel's credits leave the weasel in the clutches of Mr. Big.

Which former child star voices Cattrick Lynxley in Zootopia 2?

Macaulay Culkin voices Cattrick, the eldest Lynxley son, whose lie to the police that Judy and Nick attacked Chief Bogo leaves the partners hunted by their own force.

John Leguizamo voices the smuggler Antony Snootley in Zootopia 2, who is what kind of animal?

Giant anteater: Judy and Nick's destructive car chase after Snootley so enrages Chief Bogo that he warns he may have to split the partners up.

Zootopia 2's Finnick speaks through unused first-film recordings of which late actor, nicknamed Tiny?

Tommy Lister Jr. died in 2020, so the filmmakers asked for his family's blessing to build Finnick's lines from old recordings, then dedicated the film to him.

Who returns in Zootopia 2 as the arctic-shrew crime boss Mr. Big?

Maurice LaMarche returns as the tiny mob boss, who now runs a fashion business with his daughter and whisks the fugitive Judy and Nick to safety.

Which actor returned to voice Chief Bogo in Zootopia 2?

Idris Elba voices the buffalo police chief, whose accidental snakebite at the gala is blamed on Judy and Nick by the Lynxleys.

At the end of Zootopia 2, which escaped convict do Judy and Nick set out to recapture first?

Dawn Bellwether, the first film's scheming sheep, slipped out with the other prisoners Nick accidentally freed while breaking out of jail himself.

Bob Iger, Disney's CEO at the time, cameos in Zootopia 2 as what?

A tiger weatherman named Bob Tiger. The job fits, because Iger started out in television as a local weatherman.

Which pop star, a co-writer of Gazelle's new song, cameos in Zootopia 2 as a woolly barbershop customer?

Ed Sheeran voices Ed Shearin, a sheep whose barbershop makeover is thrown off course by Judy and Nick's car chase after a smuggler.

What is the title of Shakira's Gazelle song written for Zootopia 2?

Zoo: Gazelle performs it at the Burning Mammal festival over the end credits, nine years after Shakira's Try Everything anchored the first film.

Who composed the score for Zootopia 2?

Michael Giacchino, who also scored the first film, said this score had no rules, so it jumps from style to style and pushes further than the original.

In Zootopia 2, Dwayne Johnson voices Zeke, which tiny antelope that gets stuck in a tuba?

Dik-dik: Zeke is at a parade when Judy and Nick's car chase disrupts it, and a jumbo unit later has to blow him back out of the tuba.

What does Finnick pose as when Judy and Nick go undercover at the docks in Zootopia 2?

Their baby: Finnick repeats his con from the first film, playing the child while Nick and Judy pose as its parents to get close to a smuggler.

Tommy Chong returns in Zootopia 2 as Yax, the owner of which establishment?

Mystic Springs Oasis is the naturist club in Sahara Square, where the spaced-out yak turned out in the first film to have a flawless memory for detail.

Who directed Zootopia 2 alongside its writer, Jared Bush?

Byron Howard, the original film's creator, was at first not attached, with Bush announced as sole director; by September 2024 he was back as a full co-director.

Zootopia 2's Jared Bush took charge of Disney Animation when Jennifer Lee stepped down to direct which film?

Frozen 3: Lee went back to full-time filmmaking in September 2024, which left Bush running the whole studio while still writing and directing his own sequel.

At which Hollywood cinema did Zootopia 2 hold its world premiere?

El Capitan Theatre: Disney owns the 1926 movie palace and holds most of its premieres there, and this one took place on November 13, 2025.

Which first-film favourite drives Nick and Nibbles across the city in Zootopia 2?

Flash, the DMV sloth unmasked as a street racer at the end of the first film, speeds Nick and Nibbles to Judy, and his car blocks a dart fired at her.

Which Pixar film's record gross did Zootopia 2 beat?

Inside Out 2: Zootopia 2 passed the Pixar hit's $1.699 billion on its way to $1.87 billion, and within a year Disney had confirmed a third film.

Which film kept Zootopia 2 from being the highest-grossing animated film ever?

Ne Zha 2 kept the record with more than $2 billion, even though Zootopia 2 had beaten its opening with the biggest worldwide debut of any animated film.

At which of these ceremonies did Zootopia 2 win the prize for best animated film?

The BAFTAs: a mirror image of the first Zootopia, which won the Oscar but lost the BAFTA to Kubo and the Two Strings.

Zootopia 2's $158.8 million five-day US opening was spread across which holiday weekend?

Thanksgiving: at home it trailed only Moana 2 for that holiday, but worldwide the tables turned, as its $560 million debut beat Moana 2's $389 million.

In which country did Zootopia 2 set the single-day box office record for a Hollywood film?

China, where audiences had already made the first Zootopia a hit in 2016: the sequel passed that film's whole run there in five days.

Which audience poll graded Zootopia 2 an A?

CinemaScore audiences gave it an A, matching the first film, even as the Guardian's critic dismissed it as a soulless film-by-numbers affair.

Benjamin Clawhauser, the ZPD receptionist, is what animal?

Cheetah: the series casts the fastest land animal as its chubby, snack-loving desk officer, and in the sequel he helps Nick by tracing where Judy has gone.

What shared item of Judy and Nick's breaks during their argument on the climb to the lodge?

A carrot pen, the recorder Judy used to outwit Nick in the first film, falls and shatters as they fight over it; Nick hands it back repaired at the end.

The Zootennial Gala celebrates which anniversary of the city?

100th: the centennial gala at Lynxley Manor is where a hooded Gary crashes the party and makes off with the old journal on display.

How did Ebenezer Lynxley get rid of Agnes De'Snake, the real founder of Zootopia?

He framed her for murder, pinning the death of his own tortoise maid on her, and the outcry turned the city against every reptile and drove them out.

In Zootopia 2, in which secluded area of the city are the reptiles hiding?

Marsh Market was cut off from the rest of the city when Zootopia was founded, and Nibbles reckons that is why the reptiles like it there.

The reptiles' original district was buried during the building of which district?

Tundratown: Reptile Ravine was buried under snow and ice when the arctic district was laid out, and it is thawed and reopened once the truth comes out.

In Zootopia 2, the stolen Lynxley journal documents the creation of what?

The weather walls, which hold each district's climate in place: the journal shows they were engineered by a snake, not by the lynx who took the credit.

What kind of lock guards the journal's glass case, which Gary beats by kidnapping Milton Lynxley?

A retina scanner: Gary snatches the patriarch in the middle of his own gala and forces his eye open in front of the case.

Which Moana star voices the talking anti-venom pen in Gary's pouch in Zootopia 2?

Auli'i Cravalho voices the chirpy Anti-Venom Pen, the antidote that saves Judy's life after she is injected with snake venom.

When they make up in Zootopia 2, Judy tells Nick he is her what?

Fluffle, her word for a bunch of rabbits: it is Judy's answer after Nick admits he joined the police because he wanted to be part of a pack.

Who voices Judy Hopps, the rabbit police officer, in both Zootopia films?

Ginnifer Goodwin also revealed that the sequel was in production, sharing a behind-the-scenes photo when she began recording her lines in April 2024.

At which event was Zootopia 3 officially announced in August 2026?

D23, Disney's own fan convention, is also where the studio had revealed two years earlier that the second film would bring reptiles into the city.

What does Nick use to knock out Gary at the Zootennial Gala?

A frying pan: Nick swings it before he has heard Gary's side of the story, and Captain Hoggbottom later flattens Pawbert in exactly the same way.

Under what title was Zootopia 2 released in British cinemas?

Zootropolis 2: Disney said only that it wanted a unique title that works for UK audiences when it renamed the first film, and German cinemas got a third title, Zoomania 2.

What does Judy find during a smuggling raid in Zootopia 2 that puts her on Gary's trail?

A piece of snake skin turns up in the back of the smugglers' van, but with no snake seen in the city for generations, Chief Bogo refuses to listen.