Agnes De'Snake

Agnes De'Snake is an overarching protagonist in Disney 2025 animated feature film Zootopia 2. She is the late great-grandmother of Gary De'Snake and is the matriarchal founder and creator of Zootopia's Weather Walls.

Background[]

Personality[]

Agnes is shown to be a philanthropic, elderly viper who created the Weather Walls of Zootopia in the means of all types of animals to enjoy their lives in the city. She also has a sense of naivety, entrusting her patent for the project to a fraud that would eventually betray her and destroy the very meaning of her plans for the Weather Walls to enforce the beginning of his family's century-long legacy. That being said, she also has a sense of trust in others, as she believed in Ebenezer Lynxley's tortoise maid to hold onto the patent should she ever need to take it back and hide it from any dangers.

Physical appearance[]

Agnes De'Snake is an anthropomorphic pit viper, bearing resemblance to all of the succeeding members of her family, especially her great grandson, Gary. She is covered with pale-blue scales across her entire body, with wrinkles on her mouth and bags under her eyes to show her age. She has small little black eyelashes and pit molars beneath her nose.

In terms of attire, Agnes wears a large burgundy Victorian hat with white balls in it and a large green frill sticking out as well as a small feather from the back. She also wears a frilled white-lace necklace with a blue gem embedded in it.

Role in the film[]

When Gary De'Snake ignites a fire and observes the Lynxley Journal's metal cover, he uses his heat vision and starts to see what the journal's cover originally had: a hidden doodle of a small district nestled between Tundratown and Sahara Square named Reptile Ravine.

In a flashback, Agnes De'Snake was shown to be writing a journal and creating blueprints detailing the plans of creating the Weather Walls for all of Zootopia's main districts, including Reptile Ravine so that all animals are welcomed. However, she needed an investor to fund the project, so she submitted her patents to build the walls to a wealthy but shifty entrepreneur, Ebenezer Lynxley. Unbeknownst to her, Ebenezer was a fraud who carved out Agnes De'Snake's patent out of her journal and inserted his own. However, when he attempted to destroy the original patent, his elderly tortoise maid secretly recovered it. Subsequently, to get Agnes out of the way, he murdered the maid using a dose of snake venom and left her body outside Agnes' home. When Agnes came out to investigate, Ebenezer showed up with the police to arrest her. Spotting her patent clutched in the tortoise's hand, Agnes quickly retrieved and hid it in her home before she was arrested. The frame-up resulted in snakes and reptiles becoming outcasts and initiating the Tundratown Expansion, which froze over Reptile Ravine, causing their population to flee while the Lynxleys gained more territory.

Many years after her death, her great-grandson, Gary De'Snake had teamed up with police officers, Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde along with their buddy, Nibbles Maplestick, in order to take down the Lynxleys and retrieve her original patent, which was kept in a little box with a pop-up of a snake and a rabbit inside the De'Snake residence. After revealing the truth about Zootopia's Weather Walls and the Lynxley family, following their arrest, Reptile Ravine was thawed out and reopened by Gary in honoring her memory with a commemorative statue of herself, allowing reptiles, having their reputation restored to return and repopulate the district. This ultimately starts fulfilling Agnes's original vision for animals of all kinds to enjoy and live together in Zootopia, no matter their differences.

Trivia[]

In an early version of Zootopia 2, one of the original founders of Zootopia was a tortoise named Tor-Toise Shelldrick, an elder who was over one hundred years old.
- It is unknown whether or not Shelldrick is Ebenezer Lynxley's maid or if the maid was a separate tortoise character.
Her role recalls Henriette D'Andrésy from the Arsène Lupin stories, in that they were both ancestral figures framed for a crime they didn't commit and their legacy was tarnished. The difference being that while Agnes had power and influence, Henriette found herself in a servile position despite her noble heritage.