- “What are you looking at, butthead?”
- ―Michael J. The Fox to Nick
Michael J. The Fox is a minor character in Disney's 2025 animated feature film Zootopia 2. He is a fox inmate in one of Zootopia's prisons.
Background[]
Personality[]
Michael J. The Fox is a aggressive inmate in one of Zootopia's prisons, intimidating any prisoners who get on his way like a leopard cellmate of his.
Physical appearance[]
Michael J. The Fox is a fox very similar to Gideon Grey in appearance who dresses with a typical orange inmate prison suit.
Role in the film[]
Michael J. The Fox was in prison before Nick Wilde was arrested after being framed.
Trivia[]
- Michael J. The Fox's name is an obvious parody and reference to the name of his voice actor Michael J. Fox. In fact, Michael J. The Fox marks Fox's first voice acting role, and first role overall, since his latest retirement from acting in general in 2020 due to his complications from Parkinson disease.
- Ironically, Fox's actual middle initial is A. He refused to go by Michael A. Fox, as he was worried that publications would make jokes out of his name: Michael, A Fox.
- Michael J. asks, "What are you looking at, butthead?". This is a nod to his Back to the Future co-star Thomas F. Wilson, particularly his character, Biff Tannen.
