| “ | Bean: It's so good of you to come. Lovely to see you. You're both looking splendid. How've you been, Walter? In good health, I trust. Boggis: [stammers.] Bean: Nathan, all's well? Bunce: Uh... Bean: Wonderful. Any fox problems? Boggis: Are you joking? Bunce: It's horrible. Boggis: It's miserable. Bunce: He's laughing at us. Boggis: It's humiliating. Bunce: We're furious. Boggis: I don't even want to talk about it. Bean: Perhaps we ought to kill him. Boggis: Well, that seems rather obvious. Bunce: He's too sneaky. Bean: Ah, right. Of course. He's very clever, isn't he? Might be a bit difficult, I suppose. [Bean rises from his chair and shoots out five lights before turning on his flashlight.] But I've already figured out where this fox lives and tomorrow night, we're gonna camp in the bushes, wait for him to come out of the hole in his tree, and shoot the cuss to smithereens. How's that grab you, fellas? Boggis and Bunce: Yeah. Well, let's see. Why not? |
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| ~ Bean arranging a meeting with Boggis and Bunce to kill Mr. Fox. |
Walter "Walt" Boggis, Nathan "Nate" Bunce and Franklin "Frank" Bean are the main antagonists of Roald Dahl's children's book Fantastic Mr. Fox and its 2009 stop-motion animated film adaptation by Wes Anderson. They are a trio of greedy and wealthy farmers who strive to get their revenge on Mr. Fox for stealing their poultry.
Boggis was voiced by Robin Hurlstone, Bunce was voiced by Hugo Guinness, and Bean was voiced by the late Michael Gambon.
Their Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Them Heinous?[]
- Even before Mr. Fox began stealing from them, their nasty and vile personalities became infamous even among the humans for their nasty behaviors, with the children mocking them via a nursery rhyme and even being mocked by their own crew.
- Upon being fed up with Mr. Fox's constant theft, they plan to kill Mr. Fox.
- They conducted various methods to kill Mr. Fox by ambushing him near his home, trying to dig him out, and using explosives to destroy his home.
- After severing Mr. Fox's tail during their ambush, Bean begun to wear his tail as a necktie.
- After Mr. Fox thwarted their attempts to kill him, the farmers decided to camp on the ruins of his home in an attempt to starve him out, while also leveling an entire forest and forcing the local animals to hide, even though they had nothing to do with Mr. Fox's theft.
- According to Badger, the farmers would have continued to hunt down not just Mr. Fox and his family, but every woodland creature as well.
- Upon learning that Mr. Fox and his allies robbed them clean, Bean flooded their flint mine with apple cider, driving them to the sewers and blocking their only exit with a station wagon parked over the manhole.
- After Mrs. Bean captured Kristofferson upon spotting him and Ash infiltrating his house in an attempt to recover Mr. Fox's tail, Bean imprisoned Kristofferson in an apple crate and blackmailed Mr. Fox to surrender himself.
- They sent Rat to the sewers to deliver their ransom letter to Mr. Fox, mistaking Kristofferson as Mr. Fox's son until Ash revealed himself, prompting Rat to attack him in an attempt to rectify the mistake until Mr. Fox intervened and killed Rat.
- When they receive a letter from Mr. Fox falsely offering himself to surrender in exchange for Kristofferson's safe return, they arranged an ambush for Mr. Fox upon realizing the trick.
- They disregard Mr. Fox's request for them to bring Kristofferson as they prepare the ambush and instead play a recording of Kristofferson to lure him into their trap.
- After Mr. Fox, Kylie and Ash managed to rescue Kristofferson, the farmers tried to gun down all of them until Ash thwarted them by releasing the rabid beagle Spitz upon them, giving them the opportunity to escape with Mr. Fox's severed tail.
- The farmers refused to give up their operation to kill Mr. Fox and his family and decided to wait at the manhole, expecting Mr. Fox to emerge.
- The farmers have demonstrated that they are aware of the animals' sapience, as evidenced by the fact that Bean hired Rat as his security guard and their communications with Mr. Fox.
What Makes Them Inconsistent?[]
- Several of the farmers' scenes are played for laughs, such as:
- Boggis falling for Mr. Fox's trap during his first heist as he eats a sedated blueberry and falls unconscious.
- Bunce breaking the fourth wall by asking the audience how long a fox can go without food or water before Kylie corrects him about his state as an opossum.
- Bean's harsh criticism towards Petey for his songwriting, while ironically ignoring the fact that he mocked him and his contemporaries.
- Bean's destructive tantrum against his trailer.
- The exchange between the farmers and Mr. Fox via letters consisting of words cut from magazines.
- Bean nonchalantly requesting Petey to bring them a ladder as they are cornered by Spitz.
Trivia[]
- They and The Enormous Crocodile are currently the only Roald Dahl characters to be considered Inconsistently Heinous.
