History WMG / Zootopia

* [[WMG/Zootopia+ Zootopia+ Theories]]

It would be the first time since the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection VHS of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' and its followup Limited Issues DVD that a movie joined a specialty brand right out of theaters; the Masterpiece Collection and its predecessor, the Walt Disney "Black Diamond" Classics, along with ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' for the Walt Disney Mini Classics, are the only lines to have this happen to them (''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidI'' joined The Classics out of theaters to start that 90's trend.)

* Jossed. The Blu-ray was a standalone Blu-ray, though it has several variations and is the first Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Blu-ray since ''Wreck-It Ralph'' and the Diamond Edition of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidI'' to have a 3D Blu-ray available for sale. The second release in the Signature Collection line, like with both the Diamond Editions and its predecessor, the Platinum Editions, was ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', which is part of the current Disney Vault roster.

[[WMG: Inevitable [[Manga/{{Beastars}}]] crossover theories:]]

[[WMG: Inevitable [[Manga/Beastars]] crossover theories:]]

[[WMG: ''Zootopia'' will be the second installment in the Walt Disney Signature Collection [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo Blu-ray/DVD series]] because it's the most critically acclaimed film since ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' AND it is a mammoth success at the box office.]]
It would be the first time since the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection VHS of ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' and its followup Limited Issues DVD that a movie joined a specialty brand right out of theaters; the Masterpiece Collection and its predecessor, the Walt Disney "Black Diamond" Classics, along with ''Disney/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' for the Walt Disney Mini Classics, are the only lines to have this happen to them (''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' joined The Classics out of theaters to start that 90's trend.)

* Jossed. The Blu-ray was a standalone Blu-ray, though it has several variations and is the first Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Blu-ray since ''Wreck-It Ralph'' and the Diamond Edition of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' to have a 3D Blu-ray available for sale. The second release in the Signature Collection line, like with both the Diamond Editions and its predecessor, the Platinum Editions, was ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', which is part of the current Disney Vault roster.

* Jossed. The Blu-ray was a standalone Blu-ray, though it has several variations and is the first DisneyAnimatedCanon Blu-ray since ''Wreck-It Ralph'' and the Diamond Edition of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' to have a 3D Blu-ray available for sale. The second release in the Signature Collection line, like with both the Diamond Editions and its predecessor, the Platinum Editions, was ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', which is part of the current Disney Vault roster.

As for anyone drunk with power, she would go on onto instilling fear of the predators among the prey citizens of Zootopia. After imprisoning all of the predators, she would start segregating the rest according to species. This is clearly visible with her choice of the assassin and her body guards - Rams! This brings us to further [[{{Pun}} ramifications]] - discrimination based on size or abilities. Basically, [[AnimalFarm Animal Farm]]

This of course would also make ''Zootopia'' the very first Disney Animated Classic released past 1999 and past the exit of Michael Eisner, as well as the first film supervised by John Lasseter and Ed Catmull and released under Bob Iger, to be included in the major animated specialty brands by Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo; the next oldest film to be released in one of those brands was ''WesternAnimation/MickeysOnceUponAChirstmas'', which was a DirectToVideo film in 1999 that was repackaged as a Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection VHS/DVD the next year.

[[WMG: ''Zootopia'' will be the second installment in the WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneySignatureCollection [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo Blu-ray/DVD series]] because it's the most critically acclaimed film since ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' AND it is a mammoth success at the box office.]]
It would be the first time since the WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyMasterpieceCollection VHS of ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' and its followup [[WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyGoldClassicCollection Limited Issues]] DVD that a movie joined a specialty brand right out of theaters; the Masterpiece Collection and its predecessor, the [[WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyClassics Walt Disney "Black Diamond" Classics]], along with ''Disney/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' for the WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyMiniClassics, are the only lines to have this happen to them (''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' joined The Classics out of theaters to start that 90's trend.)

This of course would also make ''Zootopia'' the very first Disney Animated Classic released past 1999 and past the exit of Michael Eisner, as well as the first film supervised by John Lasseter and Ed Catmull and released under Bob Iger, to be included in the major animated specialty brands by Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo; the next oldest film to be released in one of those brands was ''Disney/MickeysOnceUponAChirstmas'', which was a DirectToVideo film in 1999 that was repackaged as a WaltDisneyGoldClassicCollection VHS/DVD the next year.

This of course would also make ''Zootopia'' the very first Disney Animated Classic released past 1999 and past the exit of Michael Eisner, as well as the first film supervised by John Lasseter and Ed Catmull and released under Bob Iger, to be included in the major animated specialty brands by Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo; the next oldest film to be released in one of those brands was ''Disney/MickeysChristmasCarol'', which was a DirectToVideo film in 1999 that was repackaged as a WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyGoldClassicCollection VHS/DVD the next year.

Due to size, this page has been divided into four subpages.

Due to size, this page has been divided into three.

* [[WMG/ZootopiaPostRelease Post Release Theories/world building/timeline theories.]] WARNING: Unmarked spoilers!

Due to size, this page has been divided into four.

* [[WMG: ZootopiaCrossoverFanArt]]

Due to size, this page has been divided into three.

[[WMG/ZootopiaPostRelease Post Release Theories/world building/timeline theories.]] WARNING: Unmarked spoilers!

[[WMG/ZootopiaPreRelease Pre-Release Guesses]] (a.k.a. "What will be in it ?")

[[WMG/ZootopiaSequelPredictions Sequel Predictions]]

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: Post Release Theories/world building/timeline theories. WARNING: Unmarked spoilers!]]

[[WMG: [[MafiaPrincess Fru-Fru's]] husband's name is Carlo.]]

And unlike the [[Film/TheGodfather original]] [[DomesticAbuse character]], he's a NiceGuy who doesn't want anything to do with the [[TheMafia family business]].

[[WMG: Nighthowler isn't going away.]]
That proverbial cat is out of the bag and people in the real world do much crazy things to get high. It's pretty likely Nighthowler in some form will become a street drug similar to bathsalts, popular among people stuck in poverty who's lives completely suck with no hope of improvement and are desperate for some sort of release for all the stress that makes the pain go away. The streets of Zootopia just got a lot more dangerous. The sort of thing that someone discriminated out of legitimate work like Nick but without the skill as a conman might turn to so that for a few hours at least they won't have to worry about where the next meal or rent payment is going to come from.
* Probably not, for exactly the same reason that [=PCP=] isn't a popular street drug in RealLife any more. Because there are probably drugs out there with ''much'' more pleasurable effects than semi-permanently turning you into a murderous raging lunatic.\\\
You mentioned the "bath salts", but the main issue with that drug is that for a while it was actually trying to skirt around anti-drug laws by being labeled as [[BlatantLies actual bath salts not for human consumption]] since it wasn't actually a controlled substance ([[ObviousRulePatch yet]]), and the fact that it was technically legal and available for "legitimate" sale at shady gas stations rather than as an actual illicit street drug made it briefly appealing to junkies despite its properties as a drug not otherwise being particularly desirable. Nighthowler, on the other hand, is probably going to be enforced against very vigorously now that a plot to use it as a chemical weapon has been uncovered, so it certainly won't have the advantage of being an easy drug to obtain, so that's not a very good parallel.\\\
If there is a drug problem in Zootopia, the junkies will probably stick to things like [[HighOnCatnip catnip]], rather than try to use Nighthowler recreationally.

* A fair number of points though this person would like to clarify that the bathsalts was a comparison of effects in this case not street availability and legality. Also would like to reiterate that people do far crazier things to get high IRL and are likely just as crazy in Zootopia.

* Alternatively it will be used as a performance enhancer, If concentrated it is more potent, then logically diluted it would be less.

[[WMG: Nick and Judy are neither a couple, nor are they just friends.]]
They simply don't agree on what they are. Nick who hasn't really had anyone in his life that we are aware of beyond Finnick and other business partners thinks of himself and Judy as a budding couple. Judy who's still learning to see her own biases sees them as very close friends because the idea that they even could be a couple is utterly alien to her. So they aren't one or the other, one thinks they are one and the other thinks they are the other.
* Apparently, [[WordOfSaintPaul the voice actors]] of Nick and Judy sort of support this, with Ginniffer Goodwin thinking of them as just friends and Jason Bateman thinking of them as a couple.

[[WMG: In tandem with above: Judy is {{Asexual}}.]]
Bunnies are normally thought of as [[LovableSexManiac hypersexual]], but that wouldn't be the first bunny stereotype for Judy to avert. Indeed, she devotes her life to her work and is never really shown being attracted to anyone in that way. It may be more than just her racial biases keeping her from seeing Nick as more than just a close friend; she may be incapable of seeing ''anyone'' in that way.

If you combine this with the above WMG about Nick and Judy not being on the same page about the nature of their feelings for each other, you'd have the makings for an interesting fanfic where they eventually have to confront that issue.

[[WMG: Mr. Big has connections in the ZPD... besides Judy.]]
The original mafia style groups evolved out of necessity to keep the peace where the official authorities can't, Mr. Big plays that role in little Rodentia. As such his business has an unofficial deal with the police, Mr. Big keeps his dealings to nonviolent crime and in return he keeps the peace in little Rodentia without outside interference since the police can't normally enter that area of the city without causing lots of collateral damage. Judy is the exception to the rule because she didn't know but proved herself to be both driven by a sense of justice, fulfilling the role Mr. Big had to regardless of danger to herself which he respects even if he wasn't happy it meant going after him so openly, and saving his daughter which made him like her in general enough that he gives her unofficial permission to investigate in his sphere of influence when something too big or too twisted to handle alone comes up.

[[WMG: Clawhauser is [[CampStraight straight]].]]
Zootopia is all about defying stereotypes, so it would make perfect sense for a character who acts so much like a gay stereotype to not actually be gay at all.

[[WMG: Mayor Lionheart is secretly the reincarnation of [[Characters/WarriorCats Lionheart]].]]
Lionheart (from Warriors) died before becoming leader. What if he was reincarnated into this universe as a mayor and actual lion?
* [[Tropers/WarriorSparrow I]] was thinking the same thing when I Learned what his name was!
[[WMG: Prince Hans's animal incarnation is now a pastry chef in Zootopia.]]
[[WMG: This movie takes place in the same universe as ''Disney/RobinHood''.]]
And Nick might be Robin and Marian's descendant.
* If the above is true, Judy is a descendant of the rabbit family and Mayor Lionheart is descended from King Richard.
* Going with this idea, "Lionheart" might actually be a name that was passed on from King Richard to his descendant, the Mayor.
** Nevermind that the real Richard the Lionheart never had kids and was succeeded by John, who made a significant impact on Europe's gene pool.
*** But then, neither was he an anthropomorphic lion.
*** Alternatively Lionheart might be John's descendant instead.
*** They do favor the same species of henchmen.
* But Robin Hood had anthropomorphic birds and reptiles, while Zootopia is just mammals. So, [[FridgeHorror what happened to the birds and reptiles?]]
** It is interesting to note that most reptiles/birds seen in ''Robin Hood'' are Prince John's minions. He may have introduced them from another city, ''Disney/TheLionKing'' style…
** Also, nobody said that Nottingham ''was'' Zootopia; just that Nottingham and Zootopia shared a universe. It's not because Zootopia only includes mammals that other cities on Earthy might not have also included reptiles and birds.
** At one point it was specified that this was a mammal city, which implies that there are other cities for other types of animals. Looking at the precinct maps on the wall at the police station shows that each area in Zootopia is built to be habitable to certain kinds of mammals (like, you know, a zoo), so one presumes they have similar tailor-made cities elsewhere.
*** Considering how much Zootopia suffers from FantasticRacism (Judy Hopps, a rabbit, gets lowered to the position of meter-maid because she's a tiny animal), [[FridgeBrilliance it makes sense]] [[FridgeHorror why mammals and birds would live in entirely different cities each.]]
*** Not to mention that the city already put a lot of effort into suiting the different needs of the various mammal species. Birds, reptiles and especially fish have very different physiology and thus different needs, and making the city suit them as well would require a lot more effort.
*** Then add in the differences in the bird world alone as well. We have terrestrial based birds, ones that fly, those that swim. We have birds of prey, song birds, and carrion feeders. If birds are in this world, the differences in them alone would probably be at least 2 cities in and of itself as well as the FantasticRacism of the differences I mentioned.
* If fact #97 on the [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PcF_D6c5NwY 107 Facts About Zootopia]] video is any indication, Robin Hood does in fact take place in the Medieval times of Zootopia.
** Not entirely confirmed. Fact 97 states that the crew considers it to be set in the same universe, but Disney itself has not said either way if this is actually true.

[[WMG: The tramp from Lady and the Tramp, Flynn Rider, and Nick Wilde are different reincarnations of the same person]]
What about Lady and Rapunzel?
* I could see similarities with Nick and Flynn, but Lady, Rapunzel and Judy are much different. Judy is more of a Tiana/Anna blend.

[[WMG: Going with the above entry, this movie takes place in the same universe as ''Disney/TheLionKing''!]]
No humans ever appear in ''The Lion King''. It could place take in literally any time period current animals existed... even .... in the past. The city of Zootopia could be what descendants of the animals all evolved into in the future, and set in the United States instead of Africa, when they immigrated there. Major Lionheart could be distantly related to the royal family of the Pride Lands!
* Even if it isn't a historical documentary, ''Disney/TheLionKing'' could still be a popular movie; one of the pivotal scenes involves Simba switching from the "barbaric" consumption of prey species (zebra, antelope, hippo, etc.) to a more "civilized" insectivore diet.
** Though if uncut it wouldn't be a movie for the kids. The scene with Scar dropping a severed zebra leg and the hyenas chowing down would almost definitely push it into R-rated territory.

* Alternatively, it could be possible that ''Disney/TheLionKing'' and ''Disney/TheLionKingII:Simba'sPride'' are merely this universe's incarnation of ''Hamlet'' and ''Romeo and Juliet'', the famous Shakespeare plays.

[[WMG: This movie takes place in [[Disney/BedknobsAndBroomsticks Naboombu]] ]]
More than ''Lion King'' or ''Robin Hood'', ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' goes much farther with FantasticRacism and the problems with different species living all in the same place, and it is implied to be a CrapsaccharineWorld… ''Zootopia'' is the future of Naboombu.
* That being said, ''Robin Hood'' might have taken place before ''Bedknobs'', making it a Disney Funny Animal Trilogy.
** Or tetralogy, if ''The Lion King'' is also in the same universe.

[[WMG: It is set in the same universe with ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''.]]
Both movies are set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals with no humans around. Only ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' takes place many centuries earlier.

[[WMG: The scene for Naboombu, The Lion King, Robin Hood and Zootopia are the same universe separated by time.]]
* In The Lion King the animals are still animals except with human-level thought. It's explained in the Naboombu scene that a wizard made animals more human. The animals eventually managed to leave the island and either found their own land or integrated with humans (yeah The Rescuers I and II, most of Disney's sidekicks). The Middle Age Kingdom in Robin Hood was founded on non-human populated land and gradually became the modern Zootopia, though the birds and reptiles were forced to live in other cities.

[[WMG:Gazelle is only a stage name.]]
Given the world Zootopia is set in, the ADogNamedDog trope would be in poor taste. Really, it's like name your kid "Girl" or "Human." Gazelle's real name, however, isn't that far off: [[ALizardNamedLiz Elle]].
* Entirely possible. But, to be fair, "Guy" is an actual name in our world, which is almost the human equivalent of ADogNamedDog.
* This Tweet from Rich Moore, her name [[https://twitter.com/_rich_moore/status/734475537586872320 IS]]Gazelle.

[[WMG: Judy is actually a human cop having a DyingDream]]
* She sees her life flash before her eyes but sees herself and everyone around her as animals. Sometime after the events of the film, she was mortally wounded on the job, and this is the last thing she sees.

[[WMG: Chief Bogo wasn't actually going to shunt Judy off into the meter maid position forever.]]
She just assumed that she was being discriminated against due to Bogo's curt demeanour. At the start Judy was a completely inexperienced rookie and Bogo didn't have an experienced partner to assign to her due to the department being overworked from all the missing mammal cases. So rather than take the risk of a rookie messing up or worse, getting hurt or killed due to inexperience, he put her into the one job that didn't require on the job training. It was only when she blatantly disregarded orders and flaunted the chain of command that he really had it in for her.
* Agreed; I got the impression from the morning debrief (where he doesn't bother to introduce her, then gives her a menial task) that it was not personal, but just some mild hazing of the newest member. It also makes sense to make Judy a meter maid initially; since she's just moved to Zootopia, it would be a way for her to learn her way around the city without being at risk.
** I also agree with this statement. I feel as though Bogo was keeping her safe. Everybody starts at the bottom, no matter how you excelled during the police academy. Another thing I wanted to bring up was that Bogo had every right to fire her, even though she did a good job by arresting the perpetrator in question, she left her position. She's lucky that Bellwether saved her or the movie would have ended a lot quicker.
* Chief Bogo says there are "new recruits" in the plural, so Judy was not assigned to parking duty because she was a rookie.

[[WMG: Rabbits are an ethno-religious group who have their own traditional beliefs.]]
Said religion is a sun-worshipping religion very similar to the creation myth followed by the rabbits in ''Literature/WatershipDown''. May be called Lapinism or Frithism or something similar and may include the use of a traditional language similar to Lapine.
* As a huge fan of both ''Literature/WatershipDown'' and ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', if someone fanfics this I will happily read it!

[[WMG: The anthropomorphic animals did not evolve]]
They were [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]] by a [[{{Precursors}} precursor species]] who disappeared so long ago that the memories of the uplifting has been largely forgotten perhaps existing only as one of the many religions of the anthros. It would also explain why Dawn Bellwether has domesticated traits which should not exist in a natural selection evolution. The reason why why don't see other anthros with domesticated traits is that the anthros descended from Domesticated animals prefer to live in separate settlements from anthros descended from wild animals.
* If so, then said precursors (humans presumably?) also completely exterminated all non-anthropomorphic mammals.
** OR, they were exterminated by anthros slightly later on but well before the present. Before predators stopped eating preys, non-anthro preys were probably easy pickings for hyperintelligent predators, and may have been hunted to extinction. Also, anthro preys living at the same time as both anthro and non-anthro predators may account for the idea later on that predators used to "go savage" and have wild rampages in the past (leading in turn to mistaking the Night Howler effects for a re-emergence of this phenomenon), and the natural history museum had an exhibit of a group of spear-wielding anthro caveman-rabbits surrounding and presumably about to kill a larger "savage" predator.

[[WMG: Most animals in Zootopia are fixed.]]
Basically, we're shown that the animals reproduce at a rate comparable to their real life counterparts, but unlike in real life they have no natural predators or other external means of keeping the population growth at check. So how have they managed to avoid a crippling overpopulation problem? The answer is, with voluntary removal of reproductive functions. It's socially expected that the animals in this society have to choose between career and family at a young age, with the majority choosing career and giving financial support to their siblings who decide to start a family, which tends to involve taking care of dozens if not hundreds of children over the decades, making it a full-time job in its own right.
* Or they use, you know, contraception.
* Given that the only family we see in the film with multiple children (granted, Nick doesn't talk about his family much) are farmers, and family farms are one of the few places where child labor is still allowed, it's possible that most stop at one litter or 1.5 average single births.
** An average of 1.5 births per family would actually result in a rapidly declining population over a relatively short amount of time, which does horrible things to an economy and how a society functions. A flat replacement rate (barring heavy casualties due to some outside force, such as predators in the real world) would be 2.11 on average (this replaces the parents and allows for some deaths before the animals had a chance to reproduce along with those that choose not to reproduce at all.
* Not sure how relevant this is, but another factor to consider is that while Fru-Fru shows us that the animals here reflect their real world counterparts gestation period, Judy shows us they have human like lifespans, seeing how she's shown as a 9 year old in the opening sequence, then as a 20 something when she becomes a cop, an age where a real life rabbit would be...well if not dead, then extremely old. Also if Judy's math with Nick's earning is accurate (Assuming she had a file on him, she did use his full name) then that puts his age somewhere around 32, once again a nearly impossible age for his species in real life.
** ''Does'' Fru-Fru show us that, though? According to WordOfGod, there's actually a TimeSkip of about ''six months'' between Judy inadvertently playing into Bellweather's plan at the press conference and her returning to Zootopia to mend bonds with Nick and stop Bellweather. That's plenty of time for a woman to get pregnant and develop a visible baby-bump, especially if we presume the conception happened on the wedding night -- [[ShotgunWedding or even before it]]...
*** I thought it was more like ''one'' month.
* The theory is supported by a poster seen in the background, showing two adult bunnies and a bunch of small bunny children asking if it was time you get fixed. Maybe vasectomy ''is'' a common practice in Zootopia.

[[WMG: Related to the above: ''Judy'' is fixed.]]
If the reproductive rate isn't the only thing about their reproduction that's the same as with real animals, then that would mean un-altered bunnies would be "in heat" (i.e, extremely horny) almost all the time. Even if less extreme methods of birth control are available, this could make spaying & neutering an attractive option for them. Judy didn't want that distraction getting in the way of her career, so she had herself spayed before entering the police academy.

[[WMG: Animals in Zootopia don't have litters]]
The shrews seem to have a gestation period like real life, but Mr. Big refers to his future "grandchild" in the singular and shrews have large litters irl. In addition, most rabbit species average four litters of five per year, the timeskip suggests Judy is in her twenties, she could have over four hundred younger siblings if her parents bred like real bunnies. But if they had an average of two per birth and a gestation period like real life they could easily produce the 276 kits they are stated to have in 35 years.
* While Fru Fru does seem to support that theory, Judy actually already had 275 siblings when she was nine, and her parents continue to be surrounded by babies and children well into her adulthood, indicating that the number is much higher in the present day of the movie.
** Those babies and children could be Stu and Bonnie's grandchildren from older offspring who stayed on the family farm, alternatively.
* The Ottertons have two kids that appear to be different ages. River otters have litters as large as five.

[[WMG: Clawhauser was Bellwhether's next target.]]
Doug is ordered to attack a Cheetah with the Night Howler darts. Clawhauser is Cheetah, and what better way to spread more panic than demonstrate that the friendliest face of the ZPD could go feral?

[[WMG: Zootopia is a City-State]]
We're told that Zootopia is where predators and prey first started working together and there's no indication of other major metropolitan areas, just small farming towns like the Bunnyburrows.
* "Zootopia" ''is'' written on the address card at the DMV where a state name would be.

[[WMG:This world has non-mammal animals, but only mammals became sentient.]]
Predator mammals survive by eating birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects. "Try Everything" uses the word "birds," and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDisIKoGLQM this interview]] states that the carnivores eat insects (although nothing like a "Bug Burger" appears anywhere in the film), but they could very well eat other meat.
* There are signs for and trash from restaurants that serve bug burgers, though.
* Possibly jossed, as WordOfGod hinted that birds and reptiles are anthropomorphic like the mammals and live in different cities.

[[WMG: Nick and Judy aren't actually that much higher on the police squad at the end.]]
They're essentially on traffic duty, only dressed up much more positively. That's not exactly high end police work, but still more acceptable for a new rookie to enter into with a partner.
* Well, they are both relatively new, Nick especially.

[[WMG: Zootopia is relatively new.]]
* Several areas of the town : tundra, dessert and the jungle is clearly man-made ...er, animal-made, and it would require a high technology to create and maintain it. Assuming the technology progressing like in human world, Zootopia is relatively new.
* It is mentioned it is (one of?) the first town where all kinds of mammals live together, which implied they mostly lived on their own beforehand.
* This WMG suggest that : Zootopia (as we know it) was just recently created when Judy was 9 years old. It was a hot news and advertised as a town 'Where everyone can be anything' in order to attract many kinds of mammals to inhabit the city.
* WordOfGod has stated that the city is built around a water hole that was the first place in history where predators and prey learned to live in peace with one another. But it's perfectly possible that it only grew up to its current magnificence during the last couple of generations.
** Well, if they just recently decided to make a super-metropolis where absolutely everyone could live together, as a symbol of the unity of all mammals, I guess an important historical site with huge significance to predator-prey relations would make sense as a site for it.

[[WMG: Zootopia suffered a major cataclysm within the past twenty or thirty years or so.]]
* Continuing some of the points from the "Relatively New" WMG posted above, the technology necessary to achieve some of these habitats can't have existed hundreds of years ago. The thought behind this is that at some point, a major earthquake or other disaster nearly completely wiped out Zootopia-that-was, clearing out most of the buildings and infrastructure. This led to the City being rebuilt using modern technology to create the various ecosystems that make up the city today. There is precedent in our own world; after World War II, European infrastructure was nearly gutted, allowing all the factories that would make up the majority of their infrastructure to use new technologies, making them more efficient.
** It might also explain why Judy and her classmates were putting on a play advertising Zootopia; the city was trying to attract new people to come to the city after the disaster, and was paying the class or whoever was putting on the play for the ad.

[[WMG: There will be discrimination against sheep instead.]]
* It isn't easy to erase discrimination. They just change the target from predators toward sheeps.
** This is actually sort of implied at the end of the movie. Though it was sort of PlayedForLaughs as a LiteralMetaphor version of a "wolf in sheep's clothing", a wolf police officer at the end is shown putting on a sheep costume for an undercover assignment. This sort of implies that sheep are now going to be targeted for heavy police surveillance at the very least, in the aftermath of Bellwether's conspiracy.
** Another possibility is that the "wolf in sheep's clothing" was part of a team trying to address violence against sheep. Imagine the surprise when some thugs ambush a "helpless sheep", only to discover that it's really a wolf ZPD officer with backup.

[[WMG: Nick is in debt to bad people.]]
* If his claim of earning $200 a day is even remotely true and he pays no taxes, his monthly income is in the vicinity of 6000 dollars! With that kind of money his partner in crime shouldn't have to live in a van, and Nick himself doesn't seem all that wealthy, himself, so where does the money go? He probably tried to score lots of easy money when he was younger, only to cross wrong people in the process, and ended up with an ever-increasing debt that he's still trying to pay off.
** We've already seen he's familiar with Mr. Big and his gang (knows the goons on a first-name basis). Perhaps the [[NoodleIncident skunk butt rug]] was just one of many run-ins?

[[WMG: Alternately, Nick is secretly and extremely charitable.]]
Some of it undoubtedly goes to Finnick, hence why Finnick has a van to live in and maintain, but maybe he gives away the rest to some cause he believes in, sacrificing his own well-being for others.
* The movie itself gives very little indication of Nick having any such tendencies prior to Judy [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosting]] him. However, this theory is interesting if for no other reason than how well it fits with the comparisons often made between ''Zootopia'' and ''Disney/RobinHood''.

[[WMG: Alternately, Nick lied about how much money he made.]]
When he said 200 dollars a day, he was trying to boast to Judy. He didn't realize she was recording the conversation. In reality, he didn't make enough money to require filing taxes. He made sure to run the rest of his scam by-the-books, tax fraud doesn't seem like a mistake he would make.

[[WMG: Alternately, Nick doesn't work every day.]]
These scams may actually take a while to plan, he may not be able to run them every day.

[[WMG: Alternately, these dollars are not worth very much.]]
Who's to say that a Zootopian dollar is the same as a U.S. Dollar? $200 a day of their currency may not actually be a terribly high income, especially when you also factor in that large cities tend to have a high cost of living.

[[WMG: Alternately, that $200 figure is actually the combined total of what he and Finnick make in a day, and he only actually gets to keep half of it.]] He didn't make that clear because he didn't know he was being recorded and wanted to exaggerate his income for bragging purposes.

[[WMG: Chief Bogo had his own dreams crushed by species-ism when he was younger.]]
* His diatribe to Judy about how she can't be more than what she is seems to be quite personal. He wanted to be a dancer -- see his fascination with the Gazelle app and how he dances at the concert. There's only so many "bull in a china shop" remarks you can hear before you give up.

[[WMG: Some of the Zootopians are descended from immigrants.]]
* I mean, you don't usually see creatures like a fox and a rabbit alongside creatures like a lion and a cape buffalo in real life, except in a zoo. So, depending on where on Earth Zootopia is located, either Nick and Judy's ancestors were immigrants or perhaps Chief Bogo's or the mayor's.
** Considering the vegetation around Zootopia (as seen when Judy takes the train), the climate appears to be temperate rather than sub-tropical. So most likely foxes, rabbits, deer, bears etc. are native to the area while lions, buffaloes, elephants, gazelles etc. were those who immigrated.
*** And yet, the scene starting with walking to Manchas at dusk to the Skyway ride during the solar morning, combined with the extremely short sunrise, suggests a far north locale in late spring/early summer. Or this could just be a Lampshade for CartoonlandTime or the WritersCannotDoMath.
*** If the African species immigrated, then they must have done so very early in the city's history, because they seem to be the ones with most of the established institutional power. The mayor is an african lion, and with the exception of a few tigers, bears, and wolves, the police force seems to be composed almost entirely of African megafauna like cape buffalo, cheetahs, elephants, hippos, rhinos, and lions. Also, one of the most blatantly racist characters in the movie is an elephant, who has unbridled contempt for the (apparently native) foxes. A bit of FridgeHorror there in that this raises the possibility that African mammals founded Zootopia in Europe or North America as a "colony" and in the process basically run roughshod over the rights of the native peoples like foxes, rabbits, sheep, weasels, etc, similar to how natives were often treated by conquering powers in real life. This seems like it might contradict the backstory of Zootopia being founded at the watering hole where predators and prey first made peace, but it could still make sense if the African species started conquering other lands even before, for example, the lions agreed to stop eating the zebras and such.

[[WMG: Zootopia was founded around the water hole in ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa''.]]
* As mentioned above, WordOfGod states Zootopia was founded around a water hole where predators and prey learned to live in peace with one another. The majority of ''Madagascar 2'' takes place next to a water hole that is exactly like that, with anthropomorphic animals of near-human intelligence to boot. This can also mean that Lionheart descended from the pride of Alex! (Maybe a great-great-grandchild of the pompous, sleazy, manipulative JerkAss Makunga?) Of course, this contradicts the whole "humans never happened" idea, so rather unlikely.

[[WMG: ''Zootopia'' is set in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''.]]
* The two films have a lot in common: both are set in a world of anthropomorphic animals living in a modern city, full of pop culture references, and feature at least one animal who doesn't like being stereotyped based on their species (Lenny the shark, who dresses up as a dolphin to avoid becoming a mobster). Both movies even have a Godfather-like mob boss in their cast. It's speculated that besides the mammal city there's a bird city, a reptile city and a fish city - maybe the fish city is Reef City from ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''.
** A lot of FridgeHorror in that considering that it's implied that polar bears and other predator species ''eat'' fish.

[[WMG: Only mammals are intelligent.]]
The creators put a lot of thought into how everything else works, perhaps there was a ''reason'' why the film only uses mammals. Consider this: Predators ''have'' to eat meat in order to survive, no way around it. The meat has to come from somewhere, but if ''all'' animals were intelligent, that would raise a few moral questions. So, only make one type of animal (mammals) intelligent, while the rest stay more or less like they are in real life. That way, the world can function normally without [[UnfortunateImplications raising too]] [[ArtisticLicenseBiology many questions]].

[[WMG: Chief Bogo's first name is actually [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Chief.]]]]
Considering that the majority of characters in the film have stated first names either in the film itself or it supplementary materials except Bogo. Maybe Bogo's first name really is Chief. Also, the door to his office at ZPD has the name 'Chief Bogo' on it.

[[WMG: ''Zootopia'' will be the second installment in the WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneySignatureCollection [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo Blu-ray/DVD series]] because it's the most critically acclaimed film since ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' AND it is a mammoth success at the box office.]]
It would be the first time since the WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyMasterpieceCollection VHS of ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' and its followup [[WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyGoldClassicCollection Limited Issues]] DVD that a movie joined a specialty brand right out of theaters; the Masterpiece Collection and its predecessor, the [[WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyClassics Walt Disney "Black Diamond" Classics]], along with ''Disney/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' for the WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyMiniClassics, are the only lines to have this happen to them (''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' joined The Classics out of theaters to start that 90's trend.)

This of course would also make ''Zootopia'' the very first Disney Animated Classic released past 1999 and past the exit of Michael Eisner, as well as the first film supervised by John Lasseter and Ed Catmull and released under Bob Iger, to be included in the major animated specialty brands by Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo; the next oldest film to be released in one of those brands was ''Disney/MickeysChristmasCarol'', which was a DirectToVideo film in 1999 that was repackaged as a WaltDisneyHomeVideo/WaltDisneyGoldClassicCollection VHS/DVD the next year.

[[WMG: The Oryx-Antlersons are step-siblings]]

They don't behave like a married couple and seem too young to be married. They are most likely step-siblings and changed their surnames so they'd match their parents who hyphenated.

[[WMG: It's a world where 'humans never happened...']]

...because it literally is not Earth. Humans are space-traveling aliens who terraformed some random world and dumped genetically uplifted species on the place ForScience!
* It's the humans from ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''! Either Ecosystems Unlimited, or more likely, some kind of Querty/Dvorak project (it's exactly the kind of thing these two would come up with). Which means there are probably descendants of Florence Ambrose running around. Hopefully no sqids, though...

[[WMG: The ZPD forces in Precinct One are the elites of the ZPD]]
And the police stations in the other districts are less capable graduates. When Lionheart was giving his speech at the graduation ceremony for Judy’s class, he specifically mentioned that she was being assigned to Precinct One and that she was the Valedictorian of her Class.

It is likely that the students who cannot overcome all the obstacle courses but still pass are assigned to the district that they did the best in. They mainly solve crimes in their district because they cannot overcome all the other districts.
The Precinct One officers proved that they could face every district. When there is nothing going on, they simply patrol their beats. When something big is happening, or when there is a crime that crosses between districts, they are the officers assigned the case.
* Notice how wolves are the most common cops in the canteen. Wolves are animals that live and roam across many ecosystems, letting them thrive and operate in most/all districts easily. The other cops in the room were from species that would struggle outside of their ecosystems (Polar Bears overheating in the desert, lions and elephants freezing in the tundra, etc). The non-wolves in the class worked hard to overcome their biological limitations and managed to get assigned to the city center. Judy and (presumably) Nick had to learn to fully exploit their agility, but both had the advantage of being animals from temperate regions, letting them experience the same advantage as the wolves.
* Judy may have been upset at being put to parking duty because the officers assigned to Precinct One are usually tasked with bigger things than simply ticketing cars, which a cop from one of the other districts might usually do, or even have designated civil servants who were not full cops doing that task.
* Most of the assignments Bogo gave out are the kind of things that are handled by detectives instead of uniformed officers in most police agencies. Missing persons, undercover, tracking a known street racer...

[[WMG: Judy accepts the offer of being on the recruitment posters]]

…After the movie. Having brought the real culprit to justice, she would feel that she had actually made the world a better place, fixed her mistakes, and earned such recognition. She also insists on having Nick with her in the poster, both because she had his assistance when finding the missing animals and tracking down the Night Howlers, and because having a fox and bunny together on the poster would send the message ‘Predators and Prey Alike Working To Keep You Safe’/’Anyone Can Be a Cop’.
* I imagine she probably would, assuming the offer is even still on the table. It was Bellwether who made the offer in the first place, and she only did so with the intent of using it as "prey supremacy" propaganda. Whether they reinstate Lionheart or get a new mayor entirely, either way it can't be taken for granted that the offer is even still on the table (though it very well may still be, after all if they're inviting her to be the keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony for the police academy, they may want her in their advertising as well).
[[WMG: The Big Bad has been planning the attacks for years]]
A chemical extraction process like that may have taken years to perfect, coupled with more years to refine the delivery method into those Nighthowler pellets that are effective through the skin. She framed Mayor Lionheart because he was mean to her and a convenient scapegoat.
* Fridge Horror: How many test subjects did she go through until she got those pellets in their final form?

[[WMG: Bellwether being mistreated by Lionheart was her own fault]]
On top of having to administrate a city, he had been dealing with containing the savage animals and trying to finance research for a cure. Being overworked like that made him short tempered, which coupled with Bellwether being insistent on a lot of bureaucracy led to him lashing out verbally at the sheep when he had legitimately more important things to do.

[[WMG: Judy’s apartment does not have a bathroom in her room]]
The apartment complex was meant for many species, with differing hygiene and waste removal needs. A toilet sized for a bear would be far too large for a rabbit, and might even be uncomfortably large for a wolf. Some animals cannot bathe with water (example: chinchilla fur is so thick that if they got wet, the deepest layers of fur would never air dry and could grow moss, or even rot and gangrene.) Other animals would need very different shower/bath systems simply due to size. There is probably a large collection of communal bathrooms set up for different size ranges in the apartment tenants.
** The concept sketches for the apartment show a second door inside the room and it can't be a closet since there's a bar in the room she hangs her clothes on. It might be something else but it logically seems like a bathroom. Though obviously, concept sketch, not necessarily canon.
** Consider the age of the apartment: The external wiring (the switch on the wall has wiring on the surface of the wall), the "greasy walls," the coat-rack, the hardwood floors that have seen much use all suggest a place that is easily a century or two old. Even in our own universe, such apartments lacked bathrooms -- they were communal. Judy must've been really hard-up to have to rent there! Reminds one of the room Elwood had at the beginning of ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''.

[[WMG: The ZPD are now getting immunizations against Nighthowler]]
The public has been informed that it was a plant causing the savage attacks. While this relieved the public, it also told prospective criminals one way they can make a distraction and escape from the police: hit one of the cops with Nighthowler and escape while the cops are busy restraining their comrade. The ZPD might head this idea off by making themselves immune to the plant, or carrying the antidote to protect their partners from future attempts.

[[WMG: Judy tracked down most of the Big Bad’s network]]
…While Nick was going through the Police Academy. Chief Bogo needed to keep her busy while waiting for her soon-to-be-official partner to graduate. He acknowledged her investigative skills and had her tracking down the last of Bellwether’s goons, weapon/supply/Night Howler stashes, evidence.

[[WMG: Bogo has yet to acknowledge Judy’s fighting skills]]
The missing animals case had been unsolved for more than two weeks, possibly more than a month. There were no leads, witnesses, or evidence. Despite this, Judy and Nick found all the animals, not just Mr. Otterton, in less than two days. Bogo believes in their investigative skills. In the future, he will not question their competence in tracking down other difficult cases.

Nonetheless, he has yet to see Judy’s fighting ability. Against Mr. Manchas, they ran. Against Bellwether and her goons, they ran. He may rationally acknowledge that both instances were times when running was more prudent than fighting, but they say Seeing is Believing. If the cops frequently visit a gym or dojo to maintain their fighting edge, he could see Judy taking down a rhino in five seconds. Then he would begin believing her academy records.

Incidentally, he will also try to keep the nature of her fighting style a secret to prevent criminals from getting a new species of fighters: the small mammals that practice Judy Kata.

[[WMG: Finnick is Nick's half-brother]]
It is possible that Finnick could be his half-brother. We as an audience don't know too much about Nick's backstory other than he was bullied by the Junior Ranger Scouts for being a fox. They are both foxes and seem to have known each other for years.
* They are unlikely to be ''biological'' half-brothers, because Nick is a red fox and Finnick is a fennec fox. Although the two species are closely related, they are still distinct enough to not hybridize.

[[WMG: The original script for Zootopia (AKA: the one with predator shock collars in a quasi-totalitarian state) is actually the timeline where Judy never become a cop and Bellwether wins]]
Without Judy getting in the way, Bellwether succeeded in tainting predators' reputation and turned Zootopia into a police-state, where preys live comfortable lives up the society's hierarchy while predators are forced to wear shock collars 'for protection', with Nick being one of them. Then Nick meets Judy of this timeline, and together they go on an adventure that will change the outlook on predators of Zootopia, and will conclude with Bellwether poisoning Nick with the Night Howler gun in order to keep preys (and also herself) in power, for real this time, but against all odds, Nick successfully fights off the urge to go savage, and together with Judy, both of them take down Bellwether and reveal her corruption, finally returning Zootopia to its truly utopian society.
* In the concept art Judy was a cop. Though she appears to start out in the ZPD's call center with a bunch of other bunnies.
* The same premise could still happen. Judy did become a cop, but never got involved in the missing mammal cases and therefore never stopped Bellwether from achieving her plans. Despite her being the top graduate from police academy, having never solve the case, she's still stuck in a low position in the ZPD.

[[WMG: Tools in Zootopia are very different than the ones in our world.]]
Basic and maybe even more advanced tools could be more directly inspired by the natural abilities of certain animals that the tool emulates. For instance knives are likely very obviously claw shaped like say a [[http://lcdn.knifehog.com/media/catalog/product/cache/3/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/MontengFile/UC2791.jpg kerambit]] and shovels and spades are designed and function more like hooves used for digging. We kind of see something like this with how the [[http://jalopnik.com/how-disney-s-zootopia-got-its-cars-from-legendary-car-d-1762567392 cars]] in the world are designed.
* The equivalent of knives would probably be even more claw-like than the karambit. Knives (or at least daggers, kitchen knives and utility knives might be a different story) would probably never have even been invented. Instead, prey animals probably would have invented metallic strap-on WolverineClaws to allow them to imitate the natural fighting style of predators. Predators would probably eventually go full circle and adopt these weapons as well, since steel is far superior to keratin.

[[WMG: Guns for killing exist in Zootopia's world; the city just has stringent gun control laws.]]
There are tranquilizer guns and the gun that shoots nighthowler pellets. Why wouldn't there be lethal guns?

[[WMG: The reason the world isn't overrun by species that birth large litters is because many animals end up in inter-species romances that cannot produce children.]]
Inter-species romances - and the rare offspring they produce, such as ligers or zebroids - aren't seen as a negative thing, or even particularly uncommon. However, relationships between predator and prey are very much looked down on.

[[WMG: Finnick secretly likes wearing the elephant costume.]]
Don't tell Nick!
* The fact that he keeps sucking on the pacifier all day, even when he doesn't need to keep up the baby guise anymore, at least implies that he enjoys it.

[[WMG: Rabbits are raised communally]]
While it makes for a funny one-liner, It wouldn't make sense for Judy to be getting so much of her parents' attention if she was only one of hundreds of siblings. If "siblings," in the context of rabbits, instead meant "all the young rabbits in the area," with all local rabbits thinking of each other as family, that would mean that the eight to ten youngsters seen trailing the Hoppses are her only actual blood relations. Still a large family by human standards, but not completely insane.

[[WMG: Judy is Male-to-Female transgender.]]
The "Jude the Dude" line seemed to be referencing something from her childhood, and her father seemed awkward about it (hoping it would bring up a happy childhood memory, but uncertain). She transitioned early in childhood, before the opening.
** Plausible, but it's more likely meant as a cheesy "dad" joke and didn't really mean anything beyond the fact that it rhymed. Alternatively, because Judy doesn't really act particularly feminine (outside of some of her interactions with Fru Fru), maybe it was her dad calling her a tomboy.

[[WMG: Alternately, Bellwether is either transgender or an EvilEunuch]]
A bellwether being a castrated ram that leads a flock of sheep.

[[WMG:Bellwether checked the gun.]]
It was dark in the museum, and she didn't have much time between getting the case and catching up to Nick and Judy. She no doubt checked the cartridge of the gun to make sure it was still loaded, but she just gave it a brief glance and saw, yes, it was loaded with what (in the dark, without taking the time to look very closely) looked like the serum pellets. Had she taken the time to look more closely, felt them, or smelled them, she no doubt would have recognized them as blueberries, but why would she find that necessary? It's understandable that the possibility that Judy and Nick would just happen to have something of the exact same size, shape, and color as the Night Howler pellets on them never occurred to her. If she suspected anything, in context, it could only reasonably be that they would have taken the serum, not that they would have swapped it with an identical but harmless substitute.

[[WMG: Chief Bogo's given name is a secret, InUniverse]]
He chooses not to disclose his first name with anyone he doesn't have an intimate relationship with because he wants to avoid people getting too casual or chummy with him.
** Alternately, it's an EmbarrassingFirstName like Gaylord or Marion or Bentley.

[[WMG: How adoption works]]
The species that apply for adoption most often are homosexual couples, couples whose species are completely genetically incompatible (marrying outside a species is rare but not unheard of) and mules. (Due to sterility.) The species most commonly put up for adoption are rodents and lagomorphs. (Lets face it, most families just can't raise a whole bunch of kids and eating your young is not socially acceptable in this world.) Adoption agencies try to put kids with similar species. (A mule for example stands the best chance of adopting a horse, donkey another mule or even a zebra.) Size is taken into account (Can you imagine a shrew trying to care for a baby elephant?) as is environment. (A polar bear cub might not be able to adjust to living in the rain forest even with the nicest of jaguars as parents.) Also, it's rare that a predator is allowed to adopt a prey. There's no practical reason beyond prejudice for this, but it happens.

[[WMG:The world of Zootopia has an offshoot of BDSM, Prey play]]
Well, if you already have a relationship between a prey and predator animal... Well, use your imagination, the Judy and Nick shippers will have already.
* They've already got [[http://www.bdsmwiki.info/Primal something like that]] IRL.

[[WMG:Finnick didn't how dangerous the missing mammals case was going to be]]
It was obvious that he'd ditched Nick because he was still mad about having dress and act like a baby in public. He didn't know that he unintentionally put his friend in danger. He thought it was going to be one of those talking to mammals and boring paperwork cases. He probably felt a little bad when he reunited with Nick later on since Nick almost died a few times. It seem like that they talked to each other after that awkward press conference and that's why Nick's seemed so chilled during the reuniting scene with Judy and why Finnick knew where Nick was.

[[WMG: Under Da Sea....]]
Yes, there is a place where sea mammals live, but of course it can't exist in Zootopia. It has to be under the ocean. It's inhabited by cetaceans, manatees and pinnipeds, with the pinnipeds making limited visits to land. Otters may visit/live in the suburbs of Seaville, but are more frequently seen on land. Land animals rarely visit Seaville for obvious reasons. They get the odd land tourist, there to take pictures and maybe buy some souvenirs, but they're usually gone by lunchtime. They've developed an underwater breathing helmet that allows communication through a speaker, but they can't eat with it on.

[[WMG: Under Da Sea again....]]
Here's how the plot of "The Little Mermaid" worked in this universe. It was called "The Little Hippocamp". It was the story of a young hippocamp named Ariel who sold her voice so she could have (hooved) legs to walk with on land after she fell in love with a horse prince.
* Or Ariel in this universe is a seal who falls in love with a dog prince. Or a manatee who falls in love with a bull prince.
* The fact that the equivalent of "Part of Your World", as seen on Judy's playlist, is called "Part of Your Wool" implies that Prince Eric might, in fact, be a sheep in this universe.

[[WMG: Chief Bogo was betrayed by a fox friend when he was younger as a CynicismCatalyst.]]
Chief Bogo is very cynical and has an unambiguous prejudice against foxes. He is also very honest, and likely had to be taught the hard way others wouldn't necessarily give him the same benefit. Perhaps he used to have a fox friend, who betrayed him. When he told someone else about it, they told him, "Well, you should know better than to trust a fox" continuing the vicious cycle.

[[WMG: How barbers work]]
Very few of the animals have head hair. Gazelle might be wearing extensions and some sheep might use product to make the wool on their head extra fluffy. Fur needs occasional trimming and those bits on the back and hard to reach places require a little help. Animals with very long fur might want the fur around their buttocks trimmed so it doesn't get matted with fecal matter. (All the more reason for Mr. Big to be insulted by the skunk rug.) Many barber shops in this world have private rooms where a customer can be groomed discretely by a same gendered barber. Woolly animals like sheep, alpacas and some breeds of rabbit may even be paid to be sheared so less furry animals can have sweaters.

[[WMG: Fru Fru's [[FurryFemaleMane hair]] is a wig]]
I mean, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zootopia_fru_fru.jpeg just look at it, it doesn't really seem to be attached to her head at all.]] Also it's ''huge'' -- even Gazelle's hair can't compete with it in terms of how far it is from any natural hair formation on their respective species. And the kicker is that ''it's not even the same color as the rest of her fur'', setting it even further apart from ''every other case in the film'' of an animal having something resembling human head hair. Now the only question is: [[FridgeLogic in a world without humans, where did they even get the idea for a wig that looks like that?]]
* A large head of hair draws more attention to the face. They may have gotten the idea from horses and male lions. Putting on a wig or extensions may be a way to draw more attention to one's face.

[[WMG: Massive property damage is a frequent occurence in Little Rodentia]]
Weaselton is probably not the only small-but-still-much-bigger-than-rodents criminal to figure that ducking into Little Rodentia is a good way to escape the police since they are too big to follow. This is mitigated by A) The fact that the houses are made out of such lightweight materials that not even a mouse could be crushed to death in the event of a collapse, and B) Instead of conventional construction, most of them are mass-produced using similar factory methods to a toy dollhouse. The reason they don't appear to have foundations is that they ''don't'', most of them are just set in place, as they are replaced frequently.

[[WMG: Nick had a long conversation with Finnick about Judy between the PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure and Judy's return.]]
And before the conversation, or at least before the end of the conversation, he had already concluded that he would like to reconcile with Judy. He must have spoken to Finnick at length about Judy's good qualities, or else Finnick would probably have not been so quick to give Judy his location when she came around asking for it.

[[WMG: Why Nick forgave Judy so [[EasilyForgiven quickly and easily]] later on despite how upset he was at the press conference]]
It may have something to do with the point where Nick storms off after the press conference, and Judy tries to follow, but is accosted by the press, and she tries to backpedal out of the mess she just made but they keep twisting her words. He may have seen that on TV later and realized that even though the things she said made him feel [[EtTuBrute betrayed and hurt]], she really didn't mean anything by it and felt bad about it afterward, and despite her unresolved biases she did still care about him very deeply. And that's when he decided he would like to reconcile with her.

[[WMG: This world averts ThereAreNoTherapists]]
As noted on "SophisticatedAsHell" on the character page: when Gideon apologizes to Judy, he gives an uncharacteristically eloquent statement about his "self-doubts that manifested in the form of unchecked rage and aggression" when he is otherwise portrayed as not being very good with words. This leads me to believe he'd been seeing a psychotherapist, and that statement was more or less a verbatim repetition of something his therapist told him.

[[WMG: Weaselton wasn't Doug's first supplier]]
It seems a little strange that Bellwether would hire a thief to steal night howlers from florists. It's also a little strange that she knew of one random person who had an idea about what she was doing. It's possible Otterton was snooping around and got caught, but what if he was Doug's first supplier? Doug buys the night howlers off of him. Since they're a class C botanical, Otterton sees some authorization (which Doug could certainly get) and the transaction is done. Soon, the primalizations happen, and Otterton starts forming a theory. He refuses to sell to Doug and tries to get Mr. Big's protection. This obviously fails, leading Doug to find another source.

[[WMG: Sheep in this universe have a BizarreSexualDimorphism]]
While they are all born as cute, anthropomorphic lambs, females (such as Bellwether) remain that way, while males (like Doug, Woolter, Jesse and the other rams we see) grow larger and less anthropomorphic when hitting puberty.
* That's an interesting interpretation, although I always just assumed that Bellwether was some obscure breed of miniature sheep.

[[WMG: The Night Howlers are inspired by the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic and its associated conspiracy theories]]
[[WebVideo/GameTheory Film Theory]] makes the case [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nMmC3YvR6M here]].

[[WMG: Judy (and possibly her hundreds of siblings as well) are adopted.]]
There's not quite enough family resemblance for the Hoppses to be the same ''species'', much less the same bloodline. Judy is slender with huge ears like a hare, but her parents are more rotund with shorter ears like rabbits. Also, Bonnie and Stu look different enough from each other to be ''different species'' of rabbits, which would mean that they either couldn't produce offspring at all, or it would be infertile hybrids.

It's possible that instead of rabbits retaining their ExplosiveBreeder qualities in this world, instead farmers are allowed to adopt freakish quantities of children as farm labor.

This has some FridgeHorror to it, and makes you question how high the orphan bunny population must be for the government to be willing to send them off as free labor to anyone that can feed them, but fortunately Judy managed to get a decent amount of individual attention from her "parents" despite this (although it's not clear that her "siblings" got the same level of attention, many of them may have been raised primarily by older siblings).

[[WMG: Bogo and Clawhauser are fans of Gazelle for completely different reasons.]]
Now, this theory ''does'' rely a bit on stereotypes, but hear it out:

Clawhauser's obsession with Gazelle can be seen as a play on how many gay men admire pop divas like Music/{{Madonna}} or Creator/BarbraStreisand, assuming that he's gay. Bogo, on the other hand, could just be enjoying her for [[MaleGaze the reasons a lot of straight men]] [[ThreeMinutesOfWrithing admire pop divas]] (seeing as how Gazelle is played by sex symbol Music/{{Shakira}}), assuming that he's straight or at least bi. Their mutual love of her is just a coincidence.
* Given the movie's penchant for subverting stereotypes, it would be hilarious if both those statements were true, but for [[CampStraight opposite]] [[StraightGay characters]] than expected.

[[WMG: Judy not wanting other animals to call her "cute" has more to do with feminism than racism]]
At first glance, Judy's line about bunnies calling each other cute being okay but other animals doing it isn't seems like a play on NWordPrivileges. However, [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19718181/ a fan comic]] by ''WebComic/SabrinaOnline'' author Eric W. Schwartz theorized that calling a bunny "cute" in this world is more akin to a woman constantly being told by men that she's pretty: it implies that, even if people don't outwardly hate you, they certainly don't respect you.
* [[SarcasmMode Yeah, because any man who tells a woman she's pretty is a sexist who holds no respect for her.]] In all seriousness, that whole exchange seems like a ''TakeThat'' to NWordPrivileges, or at least a satire on the idea, rather than a straight example.
** It's context-dependent really. One can call a woman pretty as a compliment, but can also be used in a condescending manner (especially if the woman wants to be taken seriously). And, on the topic, calling a woman [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/maisie-williams-im-fed-up-with-being-called-cute-im-bossy-and-and-proud/ cute]] can also be seen as condescending...

[[WMG: The sloths at the DMV are not actually slow, but are just pretending to be slow to screw with everyone]]
The sloths at the DMV all got together and agreed to harness their species stereotype to pull off an epic troll on the public. This is supported by the fact that Flash is secretly an illegal street racer, as if he was as slow as he usually acts his reaction time would be too slow for that to be possible.
* Flash is a three-toed sloth; three-toed sloths can move ''shockingly'' quickly when they're under stress. Very likely he races so he can experience life at the same speed as other animals.

[[WMG: Judy fell asleep at the DMV]]
When Judy exits the DMV she's surprised that it's nighttime. She's far too observant not to notice that much time has passed unless she was unconscious for most of it. Flash's languid pace plus Nick's stalling bored her to sleep.

[[WMG: The ram journalist at Judy's press conference is Doug.]]
When Judy gives the press conference about the missing mammal case, there's a ram who looks exactly like Doug, who asks Judy whether only predators can go savage. Maybe it ''is'' Doug, who is in the crowd by Bellwether's request, disguised as a journalist, to make Judy say anti-predator statements with some well-directed questions.
** Even if it's not Doug, it seems highly probable that he was working for Bellwether, given the fact that she was shown to have many other ram minions. Honestly, that the ram journalist was part of the conspiracy seems so probable that it almost seems outside the realm of WMG, and more in the realm of RewatchBonus.

[[WMG: Before the crisis, Zootopia was a literal place where the lion laid with the lamb]]
The lion was [[SleazyPolitician Lionheart]] and [[StartOfDarkness the lamb]] was [[CastingCouch Bellwether]]. [[BrainBleach You are welcome.]]

[[WMG: Clawhauser was FormerlyFit]]
It can be assumed he used to have that slender body that cheetahs are known for. So what happened? He gained weight due to stress eating; most likely a result of social prejudice (to bring him further into TheWoobie territory, he was also ridiculed by his own brethren for being a fan of Gazelle - his family if not most of the cheetah demographic do not get along with gazelles for obvious reasons).
* This makes sense, since he probably couldn't have gotten onto the police force to begin with if he was always that out of shape. And there are plenty of alternative possibilities in addition to those you listed for why he got so out of shape.\\\
Maybe he used to be a patrol cop but got reassigned to a desk job after an injury, and for some reason he wouldn't or couldn't take painkillers so he just constantly guzzles sweets to distract himself from the pain.\\\
A dark interpretation might be that he witnessed something horrible and traumatizing in the line of duty and requested a transfer to a desk job after that, and eats to distract himself from the horrible memories (although either this, or your social bullying explanation, would [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation turn him into]] a StepfordSmiler, since they're not really compatible with his cheerful friendly demeanor unless it's just a facade).
* It doesn't even need to be that dark. There's a reason that so many high school jocks struggle with weight as adults - sometimes athletic people have terrible diets but since they work out all the time they remain trim. It's possible Clawhauser always ate tons of donuts but when he was on the force he worked out and then chased down suspects and the like and burned off all the calories, but then got moved to desk duty either for an injury (which could be as innocuous as tearing a muscle or damaging a joint jumping a fence) or just because it fits his personality better he stopped working out, but kept eating the donuts and put on the weight.

[[WMG: Musings on what animals exist and are sentient in the Zootopia universe]]
So first of all, we know for a fact that mammal species that would exist without human intervention exist and are sentient. Hard to dispute that one. More interestingly, though, some animals that wouldn't normally exist without humans appear: namely domesticated pigs and sheep. My goal here isn't to say how or why they exist but that does open up the door to other animal breeds that humans have created. In fact, C. lupus familiaris (domesticated dogs) had to at least have existed at one point because dingoes are referenced in supplemental material, and worst case, it's not like a dog is a completely different species than anything else that existed in canon because even if it is a different subspecies, C. lupus familiaris is still C. lupus, the common wolf. More complicated are cats. Known to exist in canon are wildcats (F. silvestris) which are close genetic ancestors to housecats (F. catus) but unlike dogs and wolves, it is an actual distinction of species, rather than subspecies. Thankfully, once again the example of sheep to the rescue, as domesticated sheep (O. aries) are classified as a different species than wild sheep.
So tl;dr pretty much any mammal has a place in Zootopia canon, domesticated or wild.
What about reptiles, fish, birds, and other kinds of animals?
Well, fish are easiest to cross off the list. They exist, and they're used as food in Tundratown. Probably not sentient. This is also helpful because clearly it means that the requirement for sentience isn't just being a vertebrate animal. Birds almost definitely exist because they're referenced in "Try Everything," though no mention is made of their sentience. Reptiles, etc. aren't mentioned. so we need to look at the details, which means it's time for my favorite topic, linguistics. The police department is dealing with a number of missing mammal cases. Not missing persons. Not missing animals. Mammals. If mammals were just one kind of sentient creature, why would it be specified like that? I mean, sure a lot of people are pretty racist, but in real life we've never felt the need to specify a "missing white person" case. If anything it would be more likely that it would be specified if the missing individual is of a demographic OTHER than that of the speaker.
So tl;dr while all mammals exist and are sentient, ONLY mammals are sentient.

[[WMG: Bellwether's plot is a lot more sophisticated than it seems at first glance]]
This solves a number of apparent plot holes the film has, some of which are detailed in the Headscratchers section:

Firstly, how exactly does Lionheart contain the savage predators quickly enough to hide their affliction from the public? He's not part of Bellwether's plot, so he doesn't know where Doug the toxic sniper is going to hit next, yet his wolves manage to snatch Manchas before the police arrive despite the fact that Hopps called for backup immediately. Without knowing who is going to go savage next, that kind of reaction time would require monitoring every single predator around the clock and having lots of vans ready and waiting all around the city, as traveling from the out-of-city base would take too long.

Even if Lionheart could finance, organize, and keep secret such a huge operation, how did he even know there would be something he'd want to keep hidden from the public in the first place? The first predator going savage was just an isolated incident of someone going nuts, Lionheart couldn't have been prepared for that. And he couldn't have known it wasn't an isolated incident, so the second one must have become known as well. Without inside information about the plot, Lionheart could realize that this was going to be a serious problem only after the second incident, by which point it would have been be too late.

Furthermore, the investigations are for missing persons, not kidnappings. This indicates that nobody saw Lionheart's wolves capturing the savage predators, which in turn indicates that Doug shot them in isolated locations with nobody else around. Doug is even dispatched to dispose of the only witness there is, Manchas. If Bellwether's plot was merely to cause a panic in order to turn prey against predator like she says when confronting Hopps, this makes no sense. Wouldn't it be better to strike in public places with lots of witnesses/potential victims? Especially after being thwarted and having her savage predator disappear without anyone even noticing it for the fourteenth time?

And finally, Bellwether says that she framed Lionheart. But did she? There's no implication at all from anyone, neither Bellwether nor the police, that he's somehow responsible for making the predators go savage. The only thing he's guilty of is illegally detaining them, and he did that on his own.

All of the above inconsistencies go away if you assume Bellwether was anonymously informing Lionheart about the attacks ahead of time. Taking over a city government is a risky venture at the best of times, you don't want the added uncertainty of doing so while the public is rioting in the streets. Causing a panic was therefore only the second stage of Bellwether's plan, first she needed to secure her place as mayor while things were still nice and peaceful. The first stage of her plan was to anonymously feed Lionheart information about the impending attacks, let him capture and hide away the savage predators, even silence witnesses where necessary in order to keep the whole thing hidden from the public, and wait for the police to discover the illegal detention facility. Only once she was firmly in control would she move on to stage two, striking openly to incite panic to push her anti-predator agenda, as indicated by Doug saying his next attack, the first after Lionheart's arrest, is going to make the news. No wonder the poor lion was in such a foul mood most of the time; he knew he was being played like a fiddle but unable to do anything about it. Even though he's in jail during the credits, he's a lot happier and looks like a weight has been lifted from his shoulders.

[[WMG:Pigs and sheep are descendants of slaves]]
Somewhere during the development of civilization, predators went through a Spartan-like phase where the predators were warriors and certain prey were slaves bred for work, wool and food. The predators were later defeated by civilized prey and forced to give up on this system. This is why the world of Zootopia, where humans "never happened" according to WordOfGod, has clearly domestic pigs and sheep, rather than wild boars and mouflons, but not dog breeds (because wolves were not enslaved). This shameful past has made pigs and sheep very sensitive to racist attitudes against them, and at the same time strongly prejudiced towards predators.
* [[FridgeBrilliance This could be one additional reason]] why Bellwether, in particular, has anti-predator sentiments.

[[WMG: Cheap mass-produced ready-made clothing never became economically viable in this world]]
due to the wide variety of species with very different needs (wildly different overall sizes, different limb lengths and girths, size and placement of the tail hole on the pants, etc). Instead, everyone has to visit a tailor to get all their clothes custom-made.

[[WMG: One or both of the sheep kids getting bullied by Gideon at the beginning grew up to work for Bellwether.]]

[[WMG: [[Disney/ChickenLittle Foxy Loxie]] is a close relative, perhaps a cousin, of Gideon Grey.]]
...and witnessing her infamous MindRape [[ScareEmStraight shook him to the core]] and convinced him that, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone if that's what being a bully got you]], then he would never do it again (granted, Foxy Loxie didn't ''deserve'' what she got, making Gideon RightForTheWrongReasons).

[[WMG: "Mutton chops" is extreme profanity by sheep standards]]
To a sheep, "mutton chops" means "chopped up bits of old people". To the viewer, it may seem like a folksy [[GoshDarnItToHeck minced oath]], but for Bellwether, it was actually a PrecisionFStrike.

[[WMG: Bunnyburrow is not the name of Judy's home town, but rather a larger region surrounding it.]]
The sign as she was leaving Bunnyburrow listed the population as over 80 million. Even accounting for the fact that it might not have been that high when she was 8, the Carrot Days festival, crowded as it was, didn't seem nearly big enough to be the main harvest festival for nearly that big of a population, and the area didn't seem that densely populated. Instead, perhaps it was the harvest festival for an unnamed small town within the Bunnyburrow region.

[[WMG: The original story is a parallel universe]]
In a parallel universe, Nick and Judy were both born 20 years later. Since they weren't around to stop Bellwether, her plan succeeded, leading to the world with the shock collars.

[[WMG: WesternAnimation/TaleSpin occurs in the past of this universe]]
Both show technologically advanced societies of animals. If Zootopia is set in the 2010's, Talespin is their version of the 1940s or 50s. The cultures of the islands might have had more tolerant approaches to predator/prey relations. It might also reflect changing standards of clothing decency as many of the characters are depicted as wearing pants, but others aren't.

[[WMG: Predator/Prey relations were actually quite good for a long time until fairly recently.]]
This is sorta related to, but not necessarily dependent on, [=WMGs=] such as the one directly above this one that put Zootopia in the same universe as other WorldOfFunnyAnimals media that [[CarnivoreConfusion completely ignore predator/prey issues]].

Maybe for a long time predators and prey got along just fine, until people started studying... anthropology? zoology? Not sure what it would be called in this universe, anyway, at some point they rediscovered the long-forgotten fact that, shock horror, these mammals used to eat each other. Which, understandably, freaked everyone the hell out and put them a bit on edge, setting the stage for Bellwether's plot.

However, this may be a mostly separate issue from why [[AcceptableEthnicTargets everyone seems to hate foxes]]. Foxes may have been a discriminated group even before this happened, though it may have given those with the inclination to hate them an excuse to hate them even more.

[[WMG: If Bellwhether won with her schemes, Zootopia would've became an Orwellian dystopia.]]
As for anyone drunk with power, she would go on onto instilling fear of the predators among the prey citizens of Zootopia. After imprisoning all of the predators, she would start segregating the rest according to species. This is clearly visible with her choice of the assassin and her body guards - Rams! This brings us to further [[{{Pun}} ramifications]] - discrimination based on size or abilities. Basically, [[AnimalFarm Animal Farm]]
* This troper is pretty convinced that he original draft with the shock collars is what would have happened if she succeeded.

[[WMG: Flash's full name is "Flash Flash"]]
When Nick addresses him as "Flash Flash, Hundred-Yard Dash," the "Flash Flash" part is his full name, not simply one name repeated twice.

[[WMG: Sexuality amongst these animals is not fully anthropomorphized]]
Although monogamous marriages seem to be standardized across all species, other elements may remain more animalistic, such as female desire being regulated by a seasonal estrus cycle in most species, and male desire being based almost entirely on pheromones released by females in heat. This theory probably throws off most people's shipping, but putting it out there anyway.

[[WMG: Birds and reptiles don't have as much of a nudity taboo as mammals do.]]
Because birds and reptiles don't really have external genitalia or nipples in real life (just a small and barely visible "vent" on the underside of the tail), unlike mammals, so there isn't much to cover.

[[WMG: The scare quotes around "organic" on Nick's pawpsicle stand were some sort of LoopholeAbuse]]
Similar to "red wood", they give him PlausibleDeniability about his misusage of a regulated term. "No, I didn't actually claim that they were Certified Organic by the Department of Agriculture, I just meant that they were organic in the sense that they contain carbon."

[[WMG: Most predators are [[BoomerangBigot ashamed or afraid of their heritage]] to some degree]]
Having grown up believing that eating other mammals is very wrong, knowing that their ancestors used to do it must be rather unsettling for them, to say the least. Especially considering the fact that substantial elements of their biology (sharp teeth, keen sense of smell in some cases, etc.) are the way they are primarily to help them hunt down and eat prey, making ''their very bodies'' into a constant, hard-to-ignore reminder of this heritage.

Although Nick got angry at Judy for suggesting that the savage incidents were related to biology, most other predators didn't seem to blame her, with the predators in the crowd at the press conference looking more worried than offended, Clawhauser not seeming to blame her for his getting reassigned, and Mrs. Otterton willingly turning to Judy for comfort shortly afterward when confronted with the sight of her feral husband. Rather than seeing the idea as the offensive and obviously untrue spoutings of a racist, most of them probably thought it to be rather plausible and responded not by being offended, but instead by being afraid that they too might suddenly go savage.

Remember that it wasn't even Judy who came up with the idea; she was just repeating speculation she heard from a ''badger''. The badger doctor's mistaken suspicions may be indicative of a deeply repressed fear, which is fairly widespread in the predators' culture, that their origins would one day come back to haunt them in such a way because something savage and monstrous from their past was still hiding in their DNA.

Another example of this is how Gideon, while threatening Judy as a child, mentioned that "that killer instinct's still in our [[{{Malaproper}} dunnah]]". It could be that his childhood insecurities stemmed from this idea that something immutable in his genes made him a monstrous killer, and that [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex pretending to be proud of it]] and [[InternalizedCategorism using it as a basis for bullying prey]] was his immature way of coping with it.

Probably the reason Nick took offense to it when other predators didn't, had to do with his childhood trauma where he was bullied for being a fox, which lead him to associate any reference to the idea of predators being biologically predisposed to violence with hostility to himself and his kind. Most other predators, particularly better-respected species such as otters and big cats (which under normal circumstances, outside of the unrest that ensued after the press conference, don't seem to usually be subjected to nearly as much shit as foxes), probably didn't have similar experiences. This means that unlike Nick, their own personal experiences didn't lead them to assume any ill-will on the part of Judy, as they didn't associate the ideas she was spreading as being used as excuses to mistreat them, but were familiar with the ideas only as fears already lurking in the backs of their minds.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Pre-Release Guesses (a.k.a. "What will be in it ?")]]

[[WMG: This will be the most [[TearJerker heart-wrenchingly sad]] movie ever made.]]
You thought you cried at ''Disney/WreckItRalph''. You thought ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' was sad. You thought you bawled your eyes out at ''Disney/BigHero6''. Well, ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' will have a hidden plot twist so shocking and such a gut-punch to the viewer that it will cause global mass suicides.
* It's more than likely going to be a family-friendly movie, but it'd be pretty damn awesome if you were right.
* While the first two trailers played up the comedy aspects of the movie, the last trailer shows some drama with Judy struggling against the FantasticRacism, and some really heartfelt moments between her and Nick. This being Disney, some TearJerker moments (and possibly the DisneyDeath of a character) are inevitable.
* Looks like it's Confirmed, based on the sheer amount of scenes listed on [[TearJerker/{{Zootopia}} this movie's Tear Jerker page]].
** Well... the movie has its share of sad moments, but calling it "heart-wrenchingly sad" is pushing it, especially considering that [[spoiler:it has a HappyEnding]].
** Jossed. It has some sad scenes here and there and it carries a serious subject (racism in society), but it's overall in tone much more merrier than ''Big Hero 6'' or ''Frozen'', which were downright depressing in some parts.

[[WMG: This will be a great big {{Deconstruction}} of the WorldOfFunnyAnimals trope.]]
Every single problem or FridgeHorror with this setting will be addressed directly, either as brief gags or major dramatic plot points. It also makes sense, given that ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' deconstructed video game characters, ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' deconstructed fairy tales, and ''Disney/BigHero6'' deconstructed some super hero elements.
** Sorta confirmed. [[spoiler: They carefully talk about how the city has to accommodate each different animal with their different needs and wants (a small residential area for rodents, specialized drinks for giraffes). And there's this big racial commentary regarding different species and how they're treated based on the species' stereotypes (bunnies are small and mild so they can't be police officers, foxes are sly and cunning so they can't be honest citizens...). It's certainly much more thought up than your typical WorldOfFunnyAnimals.]]

[[WMG: Contrary to what the ads and synopsis say, this world won't JUST be anthropomorphic mammals.]]
The story will take place in a mammal CITY, but there will also be mentions of a bird city, a reptile city, an amphibian city, a fish city, and an invertebrate city. If this doesn't happen in the film, the fanfic writers will write stories based on this idea.
* Perhaps things like poultry and seafood exists, otherwise where do they get the meat in this universe? I mean, there are carnivores living among the animals, they gotta eat something.
** Maybe the film's setting is a {{Veganopia}}?
** Or there are non-sentient animals used for food and possibly pets. Or only vertebrates are sentient with insects and other invertebrates being used as food for carnivores and omnivores.
* Jossed, the only seen animals in this movie are mammals.

[[WMG: Lt. Judy Hopps' actual first name is "Lieutenant".]]
The initial work for the film suggests she is trying to make it big in the police force. She might not actually be a Lieutenant. It's altogether possible this is a case of WhoNamesTheirKidDude
* Then again, since rabbits are being established as {{Explosive Breeder}}s, it may also be a case of her parents going overboard trying to find a unique name for her.
* [[AwesomeMcCoolname You make that sound like a bad thing]].
* Jossed. Her first name is Judy. She is also no longer a lieutenant, the script having changed to [[FantasticRacism her being made a meter maid because no one thinks a rabbit is capable of doing anything else.]]

[[WMG: Creator/AlanTudyk is going to be in the film.]]
Come on, he was King Candy, The Duke of Weasel-town and Alistair Krei. Odds are that he's going to be in this movie as well, and since he went from main antagonist, to secondary antagonist, to innocent RedHerring, by following that pattern, he's most likely to be a supporting ally in this one.
* He'll be playing a petty crook named Duke Weaselton. More details [[http://blogs.disney.com/oh-my-disney/2015/10/25/meet-the-characters-in-zootopia/ here]].

[[WMG: "The Fox" by Music/{{Ylvis}} will be referenced in the film]]
Given that there will be a lot of animal-related jokes, and that one of the protagonists is a fox, this seems like a good possibility.
* It's a possibility, but I hope you're wrong about this. The last thing Zootopia needs is a dated reference.
* Jossed. But Zootopia has a lot of references that would possibly make it dated in a few years: selfies, iPhones, and Shakira are some of the few "modern" things that appear in the film.
** Self-portraiture is a form of art OlderThanDirt. It's not likely that selfies - a form of self-portrait - would become dated in a few years. And iPhones as well (they're the most popular brand of smartphone and have been for a decade; they're not likely going anywhere in the near future, either).
** The song IS referenced, though, in... the movie's official Spotify playlists. So is [[MemeAcknowledgement "Never Gonna Give You Up."]]

[[WMG: SeldomSeenSpecies will appear in the movie]]
Alongside the species that we see in practically every WorldOfFunnyAnimals, Disney will once again push the boundaries by including species we've hardly seen in this trope at all. It would be pretty cool to see a pangolin, tapir, bushbaby, or other kinds of animals rarely used in fictional works here.
* The confirmed cast includes a cape buffalo, a fennec fox, and a yak, which are all species you don't see that often in media.
** Confirmed. The cast is varied between common-seen animals and rare ones (gazelles, buffalos, yaks, fennec foxes...).

[[WMG: The main villain will be [[KillerRabbit a cutesy animal]] who serves as a {{Foil}} to Judy.]]
Like Judy, this character is also trying to prove his/her value, but plans to do it in a much more aggressive, dishonest way.
* Something like probably running a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar 'not-drug cartel' that makes special 'not-steroids' that they'll sell to other weak animals]] and if the character is about to get caught, [[VillainousBreakdown he/she will inject a huge dosage into his/her own body]] and become a [[OneWingedAngel giant hulking beast.]]
** Fennick the fennec fox has a major chip on his shoulder based on his cutesy species being discriminated against. Maybe it will be him.
** Alternatively, it will be Assistant Mayor Bellwether, a cute, pushed-around sheep. See further details below.
** [[spoiler: Confirmed. Assistant Mayor Bellwether is the villain of the movie.]]
** [[spoiler: Also, the prediction that a "drug" plays an important role in the BigBad's EvilPlan is Confirmed. However, instead of turning small cute animals into OneWingedAngel, it turns predators into feral savages.]]

[[WMG: There's going to be multiple references to the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom.]]
"Be-fur" is not going to be the only poke at it. There will also probably be references to fursuiting, conventions, music, art and etc.
* Jossed.

[[WMG: At the very least, "{{yiff}}" will replace the F-word in the movie's world.]]
You mean, like "cuss" did in [[WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox another animated film starring a fox]]?
* Doubt it. The last thing Disney needs are dozens of lawsuits from angry mothers whose kids were a little too curious with Google Image Search.
* Jossed. Not one use in the film. Thank you for playing.
%% And no, I don't think this one needs a spoiler tag.
* Do you really think they'd have put in something that contentious as well? Given the great issue of perception in the furry fandom, the last thing a company making a movie to appear to kids is include something they will search for and very much upset parents.

[[WMG: The villain will be a mouse.]]
Tied in with the "deconstruction of WorldOfFunnyAnimals" theory and the trend of seemingly nice guys turning out to be depressing, horrific psychopaths, the main villain will be a brutal deconstruction of NiceMice protagonists. Hey, the mouse ''is'' one of their main symbols, [[spoiler: [[Disney/{{Frozen}} and the prince has already been a villain.]]]]
* Adding on to this, Disney will take things one step further and make the mouse villain a full-on EvilCounterpart of Disney/MickeyMouse. Mortimer Mouse might already exist, but he's an obvious slimeball. This mean mouse would have Mickey Mouse's charm and manners, but none of his morality.
* Semi-confirmed: a cute shrew is featured as a mafia boss, and at first he does look like a mouse (or like the rats from ''Ratatouille''). Whether he's really the main villain or simply an innocent suspect is yet to be confirmed.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. The main villain is Assistant Mayor Bellwether. The shrew mafia boss, Mr. Big, has nothing to do with the main conflict, and eventually becomes an ally to the heroes.]]

[[WMG: There will be ''Disney/LionKing''-related EasterEggs]]
''Disney/TheLionKing'' was Disney's highest-grossing movie before ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' came along, and even still it holds up as a classic to this day. It'll be a surprise whether or not you'll see at least one hidden reference (and maybe cameos?) in this animal-centric film.
* Well, it's confirmed that the Mayor's design was based on Mufasa, so you might be right on that one. The movie also references Robin Hood, for that matter.

[[WMG: The grass-eating wildebeest is the villain]]
Disney seems to be setting a trend for making the villains the least obvious culprits. In ''Wreck-It Ralph'', the loopy, Mad Hatter-esque King Candy ended up being a world-surfing egomaniac. In ''Frozen'', the charming Hans ended up being a power-hungry sociopath. In ''Big Hero 6'', the villain was the genial professor turned vengeful supervillain. That derpy-looking wildebeest, or at least ''one'' of them, is ''clearly'' hiding something behind those spaced-out eyes. [[Disney/TheWild It also wouldn't be the first time a wildebeest was the bad guy in a Disney flick]].
* [[Disney/TheLionKing Or at least had a hand in the main villain's plot]].
* [[spoiler: Jossed.]]

[[WMG: Going with above theories, the film will involve/break AnimalStereotypes]]
Possibly to play on racism. Judy being the first bunny in a police force of big, tough animals could be one point. For another theory, it could play on GoodAnimalsEvilAnimals - it could make the audience believe the antagonist is something like a [[YouDirtyRat rat]] or [[SavageWolf wolf]] before revealing he/she is really a creature they'd least expect.
* It would probably play out like having one of the predator animal cops being a JerkAss to Judy throughout the whole film, and after she and Nick find incriminating evidence that points it all to him/her, it turns out to be a setup and Judy says that he/she isn't going to get away with this, *name of the predator cop*! But after a WhamShot and or WhamLine later, [[RedHerring we see the character they assumed was the villain is tied to a chair and beaten up.]]
** We already have a confirmation that the kind of career options you have are based on preconceived notions about your species and that this forced Judy into a meter maid position so maybe.
** Confirmed.

[[WMG: Judy's incredible hearing and Nick's night-vision will both be [[ChekhovsSkill Chekhov's Skills.]]]]
Judy's hearing could turn out to develop into something that makes her a LivingLieDetector and Nick's vision ends up saving the pair's lives when the villain's schemes put them in a situation where they're trapped in the dark.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. While their animal attributes are mentioned/shown -- Judy can hear an expired parking meter from a block away and Nick puts "excellent night vision" on his job application under "Talents" -- it's their intelligence, not their species, that's of importance to the plot.]]

[[WMG: [[NeverTrustATrailer Contrary to the trailer,]] there are humans. [[HumanitysWake Or at least were.]]]]
Or, on a lesser note, there will be references, like "a popular paleontologist [[PunnyName Sam Loth]] found bones of an extinct ape."
* Jossed.

[[WMG: The villain will put Nick in a FriendOrIdolDecision.]]
The villain, sensing that the budding friendship between Nick and Judy will enable the pair to bust him (or her), makes Nick an offer that will set the fox for life...all he has to do is betray Judy or at the very least, stop working with her. During Nick's wrestling with himself over the choice, Judy catches wind of it and [[PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure breaks off their partnership, believing Nick to be a traitor]]. Later, when the villain has captured Judy and is in the process of disposing of her, he gloats about how she did his job for him by getting rid of Nick, the one thing that could have helped her stop him. Judy laments her foolishness but suddenly Nick bursts in and knocks out the lights, blinding the villain (assuming he can't see in the dark) and freeing Judy. Then the two of them beat down the villain.
* Although Gazelle's probably going to be placed on the good alignment than anything else, the friend or idol decision might be between her and Judy.
** Actually there are many clues that indicate Gazelle will ''not'' be placed on the good alignment; see the WMG several paragraphs below.
** Jossed, but [[spoiler: Bellwether puts the heroes in a position where she'll make Nick try to eat Judy.]]

[[WMG: Nick is a JerkassWoobie]]
As mentioned else where on the film's main page, Judy has difficulty being accepted among the police force, because they think that rabbits are too nice and cuddly to be police officers. This type of classical stereotyping is seen in Mayor Lionheart (lions are usually depicted as [[KingOfBeasts brave, natural born leaders]]) and the sloths at the DMV (doing everything really slowly). Likewise, foxes are usually depicted as being [[CunningLikeAFox cunning or dastardly]]. Much like how Judy is treated unfairly for being a rabbit, Nick probably has trouble with being a fox. It's very likely that, for his whole life, everybody expected him to be a thief or criminal. While Nick is indeed a ConArtist, it's likely just because [[BecauseImGoodAtIt he thinks that he can't do anything else.]] While he does seem to be a {{Jerkass}} (tripping Judy and wasting her time at the DMV), it's equally likely that the poor son of a bitch [[IJustWantToHaveFriends just wants to have friends]], and is lashing out at the society that rejected him.
* Considering the Japanese trailer has Nick saying (via voice-over) "I used to have a dream, too..." this looks incredibly likely.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed: Nick originally wanted to be a Junior Ranger Scout, but preconceptions about foxes made [[KidsAreCruel the other scouts drive him away]].]]
** [[spoiler: Confirmed. He gets the closest of all of Disney's woobies for us to feel genuine sadness for.]]

[[WMG: Nick is LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya]]
Because why not?
* Again I must ask, what is it about Haruhi that WMG loves so much? Why all this "X person is Haruhi?"

[[WMG:Flash will become ChekhovsGunman.]]
Sometime near the climax, word will reach him that Nick and Judy are in danger, so he goes to rescue them. However, because he's so slow, he doesn't get to pull his BigDamnHeroes moment until seconds before it's too late.
* Or, maybe it will turn out that [[SuperSpeed he can move really fast]] when he needs to, hence his name.
* And when he finally shows up to save the day, a few riffs from the ''Film/FlashGordon'' theme by Music/{{Queen}} will play. He'll save every one of us, indeed!
* [[spoiler: Jossed. After the DMV scene, the next time we see him is at the end of the story in a speed gag. He has no bearing on the plot beyond running the plate.]]
* I did get ''one'' thing right, though - [[spoiler: he ''can'' go really fast, just not on foot like I was expecting.]]

[[WMG:Mrs. Otterton is the villain.]]
Going with "the villain will be a cute and innocent-looking animal" theory, she's also a possible candidate.
* [[spoiler: Jossed.]]

[[WMG: Chief Bogo is the villain.]]
Going along with how Mr. Big is not the villain, who would ever expect--or suspect--that the police chief himself is the villain? He is a main character and yet doesn't seem to be involved in Nick and Judy's case, but why? Because he wants to run his police force the way he wants to; by excluding Judy or anyone else he deems unworthy. He has Mayor Lionheart under his control to keep the people unaware of his corruption ("Anyone can be anything"?) and others like Clawhauser are intimidated from squealing by him. The movie seems to be focused on the Zootopia police force, so why couldn't Bogo be the BigBad? He made up a plan of the otter's husband gone missing or involving a plan with Mr. Big as the villain, when it was all a trap/hoax. (Especially since Nick seems to be framed for a crime he didn't commit, Bogo could have been behind this.)

After ''Disney/BigHero6'' having PoliceAreUseless when they dismiss Hiro, Disney could probably go the extra mile and show that even police aren't always good. It's 2015 and I think Disney can take a chance to teach children that you can trust police forces but that you shouldn't trust EVERY single police officer. Or that not all police officers or forces are using their authority for good. Could also help to show that corruption in the police force is a [[TruthInTelevision very real thing.]]

Possible ending scenario: Chief Bogo gets exposed and arrested and they need a new police chief. What better way to end Judy's journey on becoming a police officer than having her rise to the rank of the police chief of Zootopia? Plus, female chief of police. Goes to show that there are good cops and bad cops. The end. (Although I can already see the UnfortunateImplications that arise from this...)
* [[spoiler: Jossed. However, the real villain does have some cops helping her, so the "DirtyCop" trope was used.]]
** [[spoiler: Were they actually "DirtyCop"s or were they just dressed up as cops? I don't remember seeing any of them in the police station at any point during the movie.]]

[[WMG: Clawhauser is the main villain.]]
There is a possibility they'll pull an [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Adachi]]]] with him.
* Some people in favour of this theory created [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/5f886daf5a21d5e7b86f9a57c9ccfc89/tumblr_inline_o0bhnj1Vpx1swkhf4_540.jpg this picture]] (spoiler for ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'').
* [[spoiler: Jossed. He's just as sweet as he seems.]]

[[WMG: Judy will leave the police and become a PrivateDetective]]
She wouldn't have to answer to any racist superiors that way. And Nick could be her partner.
* [[spoiler: Jossed ''and'' confirmed. Judy stays on the force, and Nick becomes her partner.]]

[[WMG: Zootopia is an actual zoo.]]
Per the most recent trailer we see that part of the conspiracy deals with animals going native, so that could be a clue as to what the city really is, and why it's apparently the only city in existence to them.

[[WMG: The HatePlague in Zootopia is actually a G-Rated version of rabies]]
The frothy mouth of the animal (Mr. Otterton?) that attacks the panther cab driver, and the fact he passes it on to his victim, support this.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. The HatePlague was actually the cause of a flower used to repel pests from crops, but it makes animals go crazy when they make contact with it.]]

[[WMG: As a TwistEnding, [[spoiler: Zootopia will reveal to be an experiment of making animals sentient]]]]
Which means the movie is [[spoiler: a Disneyfication of ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''.]]
* [[spoiler: Jossed.]]

[[WMG: Nick will be affected by the HatePlague at some point, possibly the climax.]]
It ''looks'' like it can spread, if the panther that lunges at Nick in the second trailer is the same one attacked in his cab earlier. Aaaand foxes ''do'' kill and eat rabbits in real life...
* Alternatively, it might hit Judy instead. Less of a problem, but it would give Nick an opportunity for moral/character development. (Provided that ThePowerOfLove is a viable cure.)
* [[spoiler: Confirmed, more or less: Bellwether doses Nick with what she ''thinks'' is the plague, but it turns out he's just pretending to be infected.]]

[[WMG: [[TrailersAlwaysLie Contrary to the trailers]], this movie will also be a musical.]]
Well, why not?
* Not impossible, but not very likely either. With the massive success of ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', Disney knows that animated musicals sell well again, so they would play up the musical aspects in the advertising. However, Shakira's character Gazelle will undoubtedly sing a song or two in the movie.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. In fact, "Try Anything" is the only new song.]]

[[WMG: Gazelle is actually the BigBad!]]
Whilst I was browsing on Tumblr, this particular post caught my eye:

http://spaceprincesslevi.tumblr.com/post/136447600520/zootopia-spoilerstheory

It speculates that Gazelle is actually the one spreading the plague (or at least organizing it) that's turning the Zootopians feral. Several WMG's above speculate that the villain ins someone we would not suspect, and her unassuming appearance does make her fall on the category. And if this is really the case, then her song "Try Everything" might actually be a cleverly hidden villain song, and the title is using exact words: She really wants to try everything like being Zootopia's supreme ruler (or something ?).

And also, it's about time we had a female villain again! The last female villain we had was [[Disney/{{Tangled}} Mother Gothel]] back in 2010.
* You may be onto something, as well, given TheLawOfConservationOfDetail. It's a little suspicious that an apparently ordinary pop star gets so much billing and a big-name celebrity voice actress, as if she's not the villain, it seems unlikely that she'd play that big of a role, let alone enough to get a big flashy musical number with backup dancers onscreen.
* If she is, indeed, the villain, she may pull a WoundedGazelleGambit, pretending to be the victim rather than the mastermind - which would double as a clever StealthPun.
* And let's not forget the latest trend in Disney villains: a comic authority figure, a wise mentor, a handsome prince? It's not unreasonable to suspect the celebrity might be more than just a big name to slap on the poster.
* Further building on this: that facility in the trailer looks less like a holding cell and more like a secret lab where the virus is being manufactured, given the secretiveness, and the tiger? One of her backup dancers/guinea pigs.
* From same tumblr account, concept art of what seems to be an early design for Gazelle and four feral tigers with some sort of special collar (likely a control collar): http://spaceprincesslevi.tumblr.com/post/136845371125/zootopia-spoilerstheory (the image is far down).
** [[spoiler: The collars are actually from a previous draft of the movie, in which all predators were required to wear one. They're not present in the final version.]]
* [[spoiler: Jossed. She's just the Celebrity Guest Star of the movie.]]

[[WMG: The movie's climax will play out like a ZombieApocalypse scenario.]]
If you think about it, the "savage" HatePlague has very similar effects to a zombie virus, making previously sapient creatures mindlessly attack others. Perhaps by the end of the movie, the majority of Zootopia's population will be affected, with Judy, Nick and a few others having to stand their ground. Then maybe even Nick gets affected (as suggested above), attacking Judy like a predator, but Judy is able to stop him with the PowerOfFriendship. Then somehow (probably with the help of a ChekhovsGunman) they will find a formula to cure the savage animals and turn them back to {{Civilized Animal}}s.

[[WMG: The film will have heavy feminist undertones.]]
Note that Judy is not only the only small animal at the police, but also the only female. While her gender will never be directly addressed, the discrimination against her species will heavily parallel how women are treated when they take traditionally masculine jobs. This would certainly not be the [[Disney/{{Mulan}} first]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Disney]] [[Disney/{{Frozen}} movie]] with feminist undertones.
* In another trailer there was at least one female in the briefing room besides Judy, an elephant. It was her birthday. The film itself might show more.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. While one could argue that the hardships Judy goes through during the police academy training and at the precinct reflect the hardships of a woman having a masculine job, the main message is more about racism than feminism. There are already women on the force when Judy joins. In fact, Judy's supervisor in the academy is a female polar bear.]]

[[WMG: Zootopia's inclusiveness is unique in the film's world.]]
A lot of effort is put in the trailers into showing how the city puts great effort into accommodating animals of all shapes and sizes comfortably into one society, but at the same time prejudice is shown to run rampant between different species. This would seem to indicate that the melting pot of Zootopia is not the norm, but that outside the city different species lead very segregated lives in their own, separate communities. Hell, Zootopia could be a literal attempt at creating an experimental utopian city-state in a world where nations are traditionally strictly divided by species lines.

[[WMG: The HatePlague isn't turning animals rabid.]]
Rather, it reduces them to functioning on their basest instincts. Sort of un-anthropomorphizing them.
* And ''Judy'', not Nick, will be the one affected. Come on, rabbit rebelling against AnimalStereotypes, plague that reduces [[CivilizedAnimal Civilized Animals]] to instinctive behavior, it's obvious.
* Does that mean that only predators and dangerous animals turn aggressive from it, and rabbits and other harmless animals, instead, become timid and flee from their former friends?
** The [[AnimalStereotypes stereotypically]] harmless animals, like rabbits, [[{{KillerRabbit/RealLife}} are actually not exactly innocuous.]]
** [[spoiler: Confirmed for how the HatePlague works. Jossed, sort of, for who gets "afflicted" among the principal characters. All though during the conversation that clues in Judy to what's going on, her father mentions that her uncle was exposed to an excess of the night howler their family used to keep bugs away and attacked her mother when they were children - [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence apparently biting a chunk out of her arm.]] ]]

[[WMG: Judy gets infected and becomes scared of Nick.]]
Carrying on from the above WMG, at one point Nick will try to snap her out of feral mode and we get a POV shot from Judy that makes it look like he's trying to eat her.
* [[spoiler: Jossed.]]

[[WMG: Clawhauser's obsession with Gazelle is actually a repressed predatory instinct.]]
Consider this: gazelles in real life are the primary prey for cheetahs. Clawhauser's official description says he "loves two things: pop star Gazelle and donuts". Maybe he has an [[CarnivoreConfusion appetite for Gazelle]], and eats donuts to oppress it, which in turn made him so fat. Once he's hit with the plague he will go full predatory on her.
[[spoiler: Jossed, but the villains were suggesting that they planned on hitting a cheetah with the plague next. And he happened to be the only cheetah shown so far...]]

[[WMG: Judy will get promoted to a Lieutenant at the end of the film.]]
Since she was originally planned to be a Lieutenant before the film's creators decided to make her the main character, this would be a clever DevelopmentGag.
* While a neat gag, it would be a bit odd without a TimeSkip. Going from new police officer to lieutenant is a huge jump.

[[WMG: This film is going to turn out to be FlameBait on the internet for political undertone]]
Going off several above [=WMGs=] on it [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructing]] the WorldOfFunnyAnimals or having feminist undertones, there's a lot of different ways for the story team to talk about contemporary issues through animal allegory. To list a few possibilities: Gender roles in the workplace, racism, police culture, tokenism, criminal elements in a "utopia" and different ways to tackle that problem, freedom of expression, and possibly even on what it means to have "human nature". Hence the the whole 3rd trailer thing about them all being evolved, but still animals, and how change "starts with you."

[[WMG: Judy will have a WorldOfCardboardSpeech in the ending.]]
When Judy says "No matter what type of animal you are, change starts with you.", who is she talking to? It doesn't sound like she is talking to Nick or Bogo, it sounds more like she is announcing a speech to a group of people. In this case, at the ending when she solves the case, she is congratulated by the mayor at a ceremony and she makes that speech to the public at the end of the movie.
* Confirmed! She is giving the speech to the latest batch of police academy graduates.

[[WMG: The BigBad will be none other than Mayor Lionheart]]
This is a movie where cartoon animals break AnimalStereotypes. But remember, not every stereotype is negative. When you picture a lion, you probably imagine something like [[Disney/TheLionKing Simba]], [[Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion Kimba]], or [[TheWizardOfOz the Cowardly Lion]]. The image of courage, nobility, and above all, heroism. The lion is also regarded as the king of beasts, the top of the food chain.

Now imagine a world where all animals have human or near-human-level intelligence, and have access to technology that enables them to match or even surpass the once mighty king. What do you suppose would happen if the lion stumbled upon a way to regress them to a more... ''manageable'' state? There would be no one left able to challenge his position as the top of the food chain. All it would take to stay in charge would be a show of strength and a mighty roar. No more politics, no more having to ''talk'' to those lower than him, there wouldn't even be any question.

If the Zootopians were all made feral, the lion would benefit the most. And the best part is, he can set this whole plan into motion without anyone suspecting a thing. After all, how could a noble lion possibly be anything but heroic?
* Consider this: His voice actor, Creator/JKSimmons, is voicing the BigBad in [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3 another upcoming animated movie]] that takes place in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals. Coincidence?
* Admittedly, this would be another strike against AnimalStereotypes, considering male lions are (outside of [[Disney/TheLionKing certain films]]) known to be lazy cats that fob off all of the work on the females.
** Actually, TLK portrays this accurately. It ''is'' mentioned by Scar that the lionesses are the ones doing the hunting.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. As it turns out, it's his Assistant Mayor behind all this.]]

[[WMG: There will be a BeYourself message]]
Sure, "anyone can be anything" sounds good on paper, but it isn't applicable to anyone. Some people (or animals in this case) are limited by what they are physically able to do. The tiny, the huge, the fast, the slow, the ones that can fly, the ones that can't, and so on. Some have advantages that others don't. But, that's okay. You ''should'' still try to follow your dreams, but you shouldn't try to be something you're not. Judy will spend the whole movie biting off more than she can chew and trying to exceed her limitations in order to prove that a rabbit can do all the things that other animals can do, but won't be able to escape the reality that she has limitations. Then, at the climax, she will realize that she's had a ChekhovsSkill all along that ultimately saves the day. She will still prove her worth as a cop in the end, but she will be effective in a different ''way'' than her coworkers are because she has advantages that they don't. And that's okay.

[[WMG: The protagonists will uncover an even grander conspiracy]]
Whoever the BigBad is will actually be revealed to be working with a GreaterScopeVillain. they will likely be from another city, either a city of avians or reptiles (a city with anthropomorphic marine species however seems unlikely but not impossible). As such, it will give the protagonists an excuse to venture outisde of Zootopia should a sequel be made.
* I bet it's the birds. Zootopia is specifically mentioned as a mammal city. Mammals appeared at the same time as dinosaurs, but were mostly rodent-like vermin that either served as food or weren't cared about. Then [[TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed the meteor]] came and mammals came to be the ruling class. ''And'' '''''who''''' ''birds originated from, again?''
* It definitely shouldn't be the reptiles. Because the stereotype about them is that ReptilesAreAbhorrent, but the creators' purpose is to deconstruct AnimalStereotypes.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed. While the initial conspiracy is that animals are disappearing, it's to try to hide an even bigger one- one to make people think that predators are dangerous, potentially berserk creatures who can devour you at a moment's notice.]]

[[WMG: [[WickedWeasel Duke Weaselton]] will turn out to be not such a bad guy.]]
The creators' purpose is to debunk AnimalStereotypes, correct?
* [[spoiler: Jossed; he's even worse than he first appears. He's not just a petty crook, he's supplying Bellwether and company with (some of) the night howlers.]]
* [[spoiler: Also, not the most productive bulb in the farm; as a predator, he's working for a scheme that ultimately harms him. He's just too [[{{Greed}} greedy]] to realize that.]]

[[WMG: The sloths are actually trolling their customers by playing the AnimalStereotypes absolutely straight.]]
The sloths might not actually be all that horribly slow as the trailers shows them to be. Perhaps the sloths in the DMV department spend most their time pretending to be slow as molasses just to get a rise out of their customers for fun.
* [[spoiler: Played with- while from what we see the sloths are pretty slow, Flash street races for fun.]]

[[WMG: Nick will call Judy a {{hypocrite}} following the sloth scene.]]
When Judy first interrogates Nick, he tells her "they should have sent a real cop". Judy will tell him if he thinks that just because she's a rabbit, she can't be a real cop. Then at the DMV, when Judy sees that Flash is a sloth, Nick tells her "are you saying that because he's a sloth, he can't be fast?" Hours later, when they are done, Nick will point out that just like a sloth can't be fast, a rabbit can't be an efficient police officer, making Judy [[MoodWhiplash feel absolutely heartbroken]].
* This will be dealt with later with the explanation that even though some stereotypes may be right in as far as basic physical qualities go, the animals each have something that makes up for it i.e. Judy has her speed, and the sloth could become a ChekhovsGunman later. Judy also looks set to realise that she has her own prejudices against predators.
** Blink and you miss it scene from the trailers; Judy is seen looking a little nervous next to a large tiger on a train. The scene in the trailer makes it look like she's just upset from the missing mammal case, but you can bet in the movie it demonstrates early signs she has her own prejudices against predators.
** [[spoiler: That last part is confirmed; Judy's InnocentlyInsensitive remarks about predators lead to a PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure with Nick.]]

[[WMG: The film will also deal with implicit gender roles.]]
Nick comments at one point in the trailers that bunnies are 'emotional'. This feels like a comment on how girls are expected to show emotion and boys aren't. Nick will help teach Judy how not to show the others that they knocked her down, while she will teach him that he doesn't have to be in sour armour all the time.
* [[spoiler: Jossed, essentially. The 'emotional' line is a one-time thing, and the sex of characters is never brought up at all. The film focuses more on species preconceptions, ignorance and bigotry, much akin to racism.]]

[[WMG:''Everyone'' is evil.]]
With all these theories on who the villain will be, ''someone'' had to say it.
* This ''is'' a detective movie, after all, so no wonder we speculate so much about who could be behind the crimes. The entire world having a giant conspiracy against Judy would certainly be an unexpected twist.
* I, the OP, imagined it more like this: Everyone, including Judy, has their own evil plan, leading to a GambitPileup of epic proportions! ''[[SarcasmMode Probably]]'' going to be jossed, but wouldn't this be hilarious?
** Definitely jossed, but the premise is great FanficFuel!
*** Cointerpoint for a confirmed-ish: [[spoiler: Almost all of the main characters who aren't hate plague victims are various diameter dickholes through at least character establishment, but some go all the way. Even Judy winds up as the large-diameter variety in the mafia interrogation scene with Weaselton.]] Though, given the odds of this churning out a massive franchise of canon, I'd say just from the events in this movie, everyone's got a lot of dirt on everyone else. Heck, if Zootopia's laws work like the real world, then, [[spoiler: Hopps and Wilde are screwed if Weaselton goes to the media about their mafia connections, kept in check only by mutually assured destruction at the hands of Mr. Big.]]

[[WMG: The rodent neighbourhood is a hotbed of crime and corruption.]]
That's what you get when you only hire large, intimidating animals into the police force. No-one can fit to investigate any crime scenes or tail after suspects in a tiny town.
* And considering how everyone is expected to follow [[YouDirtyRat the stereotypes]], this might just create a SelfFulfillingProphecy.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. It looks like any other part of Zootopia, just miniaturized to the point that even Judy is strong enough to stop buildings from toppling over.]]
** [[spoiler:Not 100% Jossed. It didn't get much screentime, and while it looked normal on the surface, that doesn't mean that the lack of police presence hasn't had effects, it just means these effects are not super-obvious.]]

[[WMG: At one point, Nick and Judy will investigate a comedy club.]]
Presumably before or after they investigate Gazelle's club. They'll sit around to try and see anyone suspicious, and then a comedian will start telling hurtful, offensive jokes about rabbits, making Judy so upset she wants to leave. Because, let's face it, if this is a film involving FantasticRacism, then why not go all the way?
* [[spoiler: Jossed. They do investigate a nudist colony, though.]]

[[WMG: There will be a minor and/or background openly gay couple.]]
Considering the rise of children's cartoons with implicitly gay characters like ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}'', ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', and ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''...well, why not? Or, even better...
* Judy's neighbors in her apartment building are two male antelopes living together. Make of that what you will.
** Or they could just be heterosexual roommates. Those exist.
*** Probably jossed; though while not seen, it seems unlikely that their apartment isn't also a single-room studio sharing a bathroom like Judy's is. The two also have the same hyphenated last name during the credits and are not the same species Could possibly be adoptive brothers, but that wouldn't really stop much given the implied incest in ''The Lion King''. If they pushed the rating slightly harder, rather than the Office Space Apartments conversation through the wall, they could have just gone at it to remove all doubt and still driven home the shabbiness of the housing.
** Also, Courage is not a "recent" cartoon.

[[WMG: One of the main characters will be revealed to be openly gay or bisexual.]]
Oh man, what ''are'' Disney's limits for their modern movies?
* Well, they certainly won't allow ''Disney/SongOfTheSouth'' like, for the rest of human existence.
** Well, it ''is'' true that the topic of racism is a tad more sensitive than the subject of homosexuality...
*** And as society progresses, racism is becoming less and less accepted, while homosexuality becomes more and more accepted.
** On the other hand, the main problem with ''Disney/SongOfTheSouth'' is that it doesn't have ''enough'' racism in it to satisfy modern sensibilities regarding the South. That was why the NAACP came out against it.
* Both of the above are Jossed. There are no openly gay characters in the movie. The only characters whom we know a sexuality for are probably Judy's parents and the Ottertons.
** [[spoiler: And Nick and Judy, of course.]]
** In the credits Judy's "loud neighbors" are listed as having the same last names, and they're both male and different species (of antelope), which implies that they are either a married gay couple, or adopted siblings.
** There's still time for Clawhauser. He either is the most secure metrosexual ever, or going to be seriously surprised if someone thinks he's straight if it comes up later in the franchise. Haven't seen someone sneeze that much glitter since Sterling Archer in Honeypot...
*** On the other hand, in a film about not stereotyping people, isn't saying that "Clawhauser acts stereotypically gay, thus he must love men," kinda missing the point?

[[WMG: Lionheart will turn feral near the climax.]]
From what the trailers reveal, the plague mostly affects carnivores. And who's the most powerful carnivore in Zootopia? The Mayor himself. In fact, if Assistant Mayor Bellwether is indeed the BigBad, as speculated above, then it might be her plan all along - with the Mayor losing his mind, she becomes the most powerful animal in the city.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. Lionheart never goes feral, but he's falsely imprisoned for masterminding the HatePlague, leaving Bellwether (the real villain) free to replace him.]]

[[WMG: Mr. Otterton is Patient Zero.]]
[[spoiler: Based on the fact that we've only seen Mr. Otteron in Feral state in the back of a Black Panther's Cab who then later comes in with a scratch over his eye in Feral state as well. Also, due to the fact that only after Judy gets more in depth to Mr. Otterton's history is when she gets the idea that it's bigger than everyone thought.]]
* Entirely possible, given TheReveal. [[spoiler: The HatePlague is a serum made from Night Howlers -- a type of flower. Mr. Otterton, if you examine his file when Judy reads it, is [[ChekhovsSkill a florist]].]]
* [[spoiler: Jossed. It's not suggested he's the first, and the HatePlague turns out NOT to be a contagious disease.]]

[[WMG: The Naturalist Club is trying to stop the plague by reuniting with their feral selves...]]
In a CONTROLLED enviroment. With safety guards in place, the more they spend Natural, the more comfortable they are. They may think that in case the Plague affects them, they will be better equipped to deal with it due to their increased familiarity rather than someone who stays "Anthropomorphic" the entire time.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. The club has been open for a long time, it's only goal is to be a nudist club, and the "Feral Selves" bit is artificially induced via precisely targeted chemical weapons.]]

[[WMG: Nick and Judy will be the FanPreferredCouple of the Disney fandom as a whole]]
Based on their chemistry and how overall people seem to like them as a pair. Forget [[DidNotGetTheGirl Quasimodo/Esmeralda]] and [[DatingCatwoman AnnaxHans]], this'll be the ship everyone would want it to become canon.

[[WMG: The two tiger police officers seen in the briefing room moonlight as Gazelle's backup dancers.]]
* They certainly both look like the dancers.
* The tiger on the subway that frightens the bunny mom is one of the dancers, too.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Sequel Predictions]]

[[WMG: The sequel will involve the Zootopians figuring out how to cross universes into our world and we will be the ones being discriminated against. It will push the idea of not discriminating against others to it's logical extreme by depicting a human falling in love with a Zootopian animal and the sequel will be called Zoophilia]]

[[WMG: A second film will have heavy shades of Bones, or other similar cop/procedural stories where they revolve around two characters with explicit romantic implications.]]
Right at the tail end of the film, a relationship between Nick and Judy, even if it just beginning, is revealed. This could be a subject of a possible future sequel.

[[WMG: A sequel will touch on the question of ConflictingLoyalty Judy might have in the future]]
When Judy came to Zootopia, all she cared about was the job. Living the dream, making the world a better place and so forth. But then the movie happened, and there were other priorities that began cropping up. Priorities to make things right with Nick, looking beyond herself, making a personal connection with Mr. Big's family. A sequel could start addressing the question of what to do when one thing you value might come into conflict with another thing. Maybe Nick's tax evasion problems crop up on him. Or perhaps Mr. Big gets into a Mafia war with other zootopia empires, meaning Judy might have to deal with her godchild's grandfather some day. It will be a movie about understanding the reasons you value something, and how to harmonize between them all.

[[WMG: Finnick will be the villain of a sequel]]
He sees Nick joining the police as a betrayal, and he loses his income from Nick's scams. That results in a blend of bitterness and desperation that brings him into outright crime. My personal guess is he starts dealing in Night Howler extract. Maybe he alerts the IRS to Nick's unfiled income.

[[WMG: The inevitable sequel will address InterspeciesRomance]]
Given Nick and Judy's FanPreferredCouple status, the writers will both take the opportunity to take some really good chemistry to the next level AND deliver another Aesop about non-traditional love.
* From what this troper knows, interspecies relationships already exist in-universe (as confirmed by the directors), but they're not really shown in the film itself; it could be said that in-universe, said relationships are frowned upon and therefore kept hidden. How about something for that? Plot or subplot, it could work.

[[WMG: The sequel will be about mayoral elections]]
One of the candidates will be a raging bigot who wants predators to wear shock collars, and probably will try to stage more "incidents" to provoke more hatred towards preds.
* They might want to ban interspecies marriage too.
* If Shakira is available again Gazelle might be the opposing candidate.
* Mayor Swinton, a deleted character from the original, Nick-centered version of the movie, could be used as one of the candidates.

[[WMG: There will be a prequel]]
* Following the WMG how 'Zootopia is relatively new', the prequel would be about the creation of Zootopia itself.
* Zootopia is kind of similar to Republic City from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', in a sense it was the first place where every culture (animals?) mixed up while each of them used to live separated.
* At one point in the past, there was a war (or cold war) between various kinds of animals. Then the heroes managed to end the war. They attempted to create peace, to create a town where many kinds of animals lived together in harmony. Basically, this is Zootopia's creation. The discrimination we see in the film is actually a step up since it's just 'discrimination' and not outright 'war'.
* We might see a relative of Lionheart involved in the town's creation.

[[WMG: There will be an interquel]]
An interquel that took place in between the apprehending of Bellweather, and Nick's graduation as a ZPD officer. It'll be ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' with animals! And we could have more building on the relationship between Nick and Judy.
* Well, it ''is'' implied that there was a pretty significant timeskip between Bellwether's apprehension and Nick's graduation, so I guess you could fit a whole movie into the gap. I'm not sure exactly how long the police academy lasts though. (Weeks? Months?) And on the other hand, it seems odd to give a whole movie to something that when Judy went through it in the first movie, it skipped through it in a short montage. For what it's worth, there is at least one [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11874821/1/Stars fanfic]] that explores this angle, though it uses the odd framing device of being an email correspondence between Nick and Judy, and doesn't bear much resemblance to ''Film/PoliceAcademy''.

[[WMG: If this movie ever gets a sequel, Interracial/Interspecies Marriage will be a major theme in it]]
And it will revolve around Nick and Judy.

[[WMG: When (let's not kid ourselves) this sequel gets a sequel, it will be a Fast Five send-up]]
Seriously, did nobody else get that feeling from the whole final gag?

[[WMG: In an interspecies relationship-driven sequel, Gazelle will also be in an interspecies relationship]]
And her partner will be played by Shakira's real-life partner, Spanish footballer Gerard Pique.
* Maybe a wild boar named Gerard [[ALizardNamedLiz Pige]]?
** Wouldn't fit with Shakira's theme of felines. Perhaps one of her backup dancers, like Madonna? The name "Gazelle" has already been used in an Adele pastiche. Why not another allusion?
*** Well if you look closely at the poster that's the main page image you can see Gazelle walking with a tiger that looks like he could be one of her backup dancers in plain street cloths.
*** During the peace protest Gazelle was attending, you see her holding hands with one of her tiger dancers.
*** Also note when the dancers surround her at the end of the concert, one is gazing at her with clear adoration.
** How about a cheetah athlete named Guepard? It would keep both the pun on Gerard and the feline theme, while also being a BilingualBonus, as Guepard is French for Cheetah. Plus, an athlete is an obvious job for a cheetah in a world where animals get jobs based on the stereotypes associated with them.

[[WMG: Nick and Judy will go undercover as a married couple in the sequel, with Finnick playing their baby[=/=]child]]
Worked for Nick before; why stop later? They could have Finnick go straight and become an undercover specialist.
* And of course, this could help drive Nick and Judy's possible relationship.
* In a bit of FridgeBrilliance, a fennec fox with its long ears, small stature and cute features could pass as a fox-rabbit hybrid.

[[WMG: The sequel will involve Nick and Judy visiting the bird and reptile cities.]]
I'm still trying to think of a good plot, though. It can't be a repeat of the anti-racism moral in the first film, neither can it be a [[BrokenAesop contradiction of it]] ("Birds and reptiles are bad! Let's never visit their cities again, and we won't let them in ours!"). If anyone has any suggestions, that would be nice.
* Maybe a storyline focused more on international armed conflicts, their consequences to both the involved parties (in this case, reptiles vs birds) and other nations, as well as the subsequent political and moral dilemmas. Perhaps Zootopia has to suddenly receive a massive influx of refugees from one of the warring nations or help mediate the conflict, but a mysterious individual tries to sabotage their efforts.
** A bit TOO topical, even for the Zootopia team.
* OP here, I finally came up with an plot. Maybe it could reveal that the birds and reptiles were segregated from the mammals long ago to live in their own city, where the birds discriminate against the reptiles like how predators are discriminated in the first film. Anyways, two new protagonists (one bird and one reptile) find out that their city is planning to bomb Zootopia as revenge for the segregation. So they go over to Zootopia to warn the mammals and encounter Nick and Judy (who play the role of {{Decoy Protagonist}}s), resulting in a lot of confusion and explaining.

[[WMG: There will be a spin-off cartoon series.]]
Think about it. The very nature of the Buddy Cop genre makes it ideal for a series. Several other films with this formula were indeed made into cartoon series, and they didn't do too badly. Therefore, if Disney really wants to cash in on Zootopia's success...well, you get the idea.
* Hopps and Wilde: Z.P.D. - coming to Disney XD this fall. Makes sense, assuming they don't want to tie up the design team on a full sequel.
** It could also be named after that iOS game, ''Zootopia: Case Files''.
* It'll be traditional animation, or retro-animation (like ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'', and/or ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''). The opening might parody 70s buddy cop movies and shows.

[[WMG: There will be a spin-off based on the lives of the rodent populace.]]
Imagine how different perspective the mice, rats and other tiny animals have to Zootopia compared to the larger animals, how much of their society must exist literally underground, hidden from the eyes of the larger species, and how it connects to Zootopia as a whole. Imagine a neo-noir about a rat private detective bent on solving a small time crime that ends up having repercussions on the entire city.

[[WMG: Judy and Nick will adopt a child of another species]]
Specifically, a black sheep.

[[WMG: The Reptile population is similar to First Nations and Pre-Columbian Civilizations]]
It might be that they had tribal societies and later Egyptian/Mayan/Aztec-like societies after the equivalent of the K-T Mass Extinction, and had a major decline during the equivalent of the Ice Age, with rivalries with bird-based societies (this might be a good prequel, with birds and reptiles each seeing themselves as the rightful successors to the dinosaurs, whilst the early mammals watch and wait for their turn). We don't see any of these civilizations so far because their heyday has come and gone. A sequel might therefore involve archaeological findings of ruins or artifacts that proves these civilizations existed-perhaps ruins just under Zootopia's foundations itself; but there are those in Zootopia's government who want to bury these findings because it would mean having to include reptiles in society and acknowledge their worth.
** On the other hand, this would be hamfisted for a franchise that appears to be going [[ADogNamedDog Dog Named "Dog"]] with the names but treating the social aspect with some depth.

[[WMG: The sequel will center on a community of marine mammals.]]
Dolphins, whales, seals, sea lions, etc.

[[WMG: Just as this movie took cues from ''Kung Fu Panda'', the sequel will take cues from ''Kung Fu Panda 2''.]]
For example, as suggested above, interspecies adoption can be a major theme in it (just like Po being adopted by Mr. Ping was a major plot point in ''[=KFP2=]'').

[[WMG: Judy and Nick will have made detective at some point.]]
Because the police procedural genre tells us there's only so many cop stories that can be told about officers on the beat. Judy's so good that she can get anywhere in the force and Nick's too clever (okay, they both are) to be wasted in traffic. And being plain clothes officers gives a good excuse to change up their clothes for the sequel.

[[WMG: Nick and Judy will ''not'' become an OfficialCouple in the sequel.]]
Simply because romance between male and female leads is becoming cliche. When was the last time you saw a platonic male/female relationship as the main relationship in an animated film? The last I can remember is ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. (And no, ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' doesn't qualify, since Ralph and Vanellope are of different ages.) At best, there will be a bunch of [[ShipTease teasing]] between the two.

[[WMG: If Nick and Judy do have an InterspeciesRomance...]]
Nick will be reluctant to take it further (going public with it, proposing, etc.). He's probably still traumatized by his childhood experience, and believes that an InterspeciesRomance (especially between a predator and a prey animal) would cause outrage and hostility, which he is desperate to protect Judy from. Refreshingly, there will be no "are you embarrassed of me?" line and Nick will be upfront with Judy about his feelings.

[[WMG: Hot Fur]]
Hot Fuzz, literally! Nuff said!
* And Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will be involved.

[[WMG: Primates will show up in the sequel.]]
They aren't found in Zootopia because they live in their own city - a totalitarian city-state where they aim to become a "master race" (i.e. humans) to rule over the "inferior mammals".
* And the name of their leader? [[VideoGame/StarFox Andross]].
** It will be revealed that primates were involved with the creation of Zootopia and the technology in this city. However, they eventually came to see themselves as superior to the 'lesser' mammals, so they left and their involvement in Zootopia was kept a government secret. They could be viewed as aliens due to their advanced minds and because they're the closest things to humans.

[[WMG: The sequel will focus more on the police force and prejudice against "unpopular animals"]]
Both of these subjects were introduced in the first film, but never got much focus. Judy barely interacts with her peers in the police department, and the discrimination against foxes gets swept away under a more general prejudice against predators as a whole. As such, it would be logical ground to build upon for the sequel, portraying the wicked circle of "bad" animals like foxes, hyenas, rats or weasels constantly facing negative expectations, and ending up living up to them, and even taking twisted pride from their "rough" status, much like some minorities in real life. Nick, in the face of this all, would be shunted into the tokenist position more than Judy before, being used as "proof" that there is no such prejudice in the police force, all the while he has to witness firsthand how what happened to him is repeated on every step of the society.

Heavy stuff to be sure, but if any franchise can make such subject kid-friendly, it's Zootopia.

[[WMG: There will be spin-offs taking place in the same universe]]
* However it'll take place in different town instead of Zootopia. Maybe a bird town, reptile town, or water-themed town for mammals like whale or dolphins?
** Or it could even take place in the city of Zootopia itself, but not focus on the police.

[[WMG: If a sequel movie does get made, because we won't know for sure just yet...]]
...then it will focus on entirely new characters. Considering the name of the movie by itself, this could make perfect use of world-building in the setting we're only partially familiar with; after all, we haven't seen everything in Zootopia.
* But some characters from the previous film can still play parts, [[DemotedToExtra just not as main characters]]. Just a thought.

[[WMG: Jack Savage would be the main villain in the sequel.]]
Maybe set up as a potential LoveInterest to Judy (and a romantic rival to Nick, if the Nick-Judy shippers are right), and then revealed to be a villain?

[[WMG: The sequel will be about racism against non-mammals.]]
In a world where all animals are supposedly living in peace and harmony, reptiles and other non-mammals are notably absent. Also, missing person cases are instead called "missing mammal" cases in this world, carrying the implication that non-mammals are not considered people. In the less dark interpretation of this, you could just assume that non-mammals never evolved sapience, in which case it would be a good, relatively-non-disturbing explanation for [[FridgeLogic what the predator species use for food]]. However... the other interpretation, which is so incredibly dark (especially if the food supply for predators thing still holds true) that the possibility that a sequel would explore it seems unlikely (if interesting), is that reptiles, etc. are just as sapient as everyone else but are not given citizenship rights or any respect whatsoever, and are held in some sort of slavery-like conditions.

[[WMG: The sequel will be about a bunny overpopulation crisis]]
Because the uncontrolled population explosion in Bunnyborough is bound to cause problems sooner or later.

[[WMG: Racial double standards will be mentioned at some point.]]
For example, a bird or reptile could make a mammal joke, and everyone laughs. But when Nick or Judy makes an equally offensive joke about birds or reptiles, ''then'' everyone will complain.

[[WMG: The sequel will contain a Star Fox reference somewhere]]
Specifically in the form of Judy saying something to Nick which is verbatim the same as one of Peppy's lines to Fox. The more famous ones like "Use bombs wisely!" or "Do a barrel roll!" would be hard to fit in and too unsubtle, but I could easily something along the lines of "It's quiet. Too quiet... be careful, it's a trap!" Alternatively she could get one of Peppy's other lines (not to Fox) like "I won't let you get away from me!"

[[WMG: Nick and Judy's children will be an orange bunny and a silver fox.]]
Works perfectly, really.

[[WMG: Nick will have an emotional breakdown in the sequel.]]
Like something bad happens to Nick that make him upset in the sequel, it could be anything. Nick is a character who hold in his emotions. In a weird way, I think that Nick sort of blames himself for being bullied. Logically he's know it isn't his fault but emotionally he feels like it is his fault. Judy is probably one of the few mammals that Nick truly does trust in Zootopia. I feel that Judy should break down those doors to let Nick out.

[[WMG: The sequel will be set about 15-20 years after the original, and will involve Judy returning home to Bunnyburrow to run for sheriff.]]

[[WMG: It will be a prequel focusing on Bellwether.]]
It will start with her as a child, as we learn where her prejudice against predators came from. (Maybe some of her family was killed by wolves or something.) Then we'll learn how she came to work for Lionheart, how she found out about the night howlers and what they can do, and how she hired Doug and the other rams. Then it'll end with Judy and Nick coming to visit her in prison, Judy explaining that what she did was no better than what the wolves did to her family, and a hint at her possible redemption.

[[WMG: The sequel will contain a flashback that shows Clawhauser's sad past.]]
He was a thin, fast cheetah when he joined the force, but a leg injury left him unable to run. Rather than have him leave the force, they made him the receptionist. His constant happy demeanor is actually to cover-up the fact that he's sad about his fate.

[[WMG: The Planet Zootopia takes place on is a Recreation of Earth, and some discoveries are going to shake what the Animals knew to their very core.]]
I was thinking that perhaps after a few assignments with Judy and Nick. A archaeologist requests some police assistance to protect their archaeological site they are digging out of from grave robbers and looters. As they Dig through, Perhaps Nick and Judy accidentally touch one of the artifacts and they see images. A history of trange bipedal hairless creatures walking a savannah hunting prey simply by chasing it down until the prey collapses from exhaustion. These same creatures then settling down and forming civilizations, seeing many rise and fall through conflict, with their technology advancing more and more. However, the artifact gets overpowered and destorys itself, knocking Judy and Nick out. Nick and Judy have to figure out what those images in their heads even mean. [[spoiler: It's revealed that the creatures were in fact humans, and they had advanced to such a degree through genetic and cybernetic/nanotech augmentation that they have essentially become gods. They soon return to Zootopia to welcome their "children" to the stars.]]

[[WMG: The bullies from Nick's childhood will appear.]]
They're still hostile towards him for being a predator. They even act like jerks towards Judy for being his partner. But by the end, they realize their ignorance and apologize to him. As a heartwarming token, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming they made him an "honorary scout"]].

[[WMG: The villains will be a bunch of predator extremists]]
Because of the predator discrimination in the fist movie, a real extremist group will emerge, promoting the dominance of predators. They may target Judy, thinking her a little rabbit with no legitimacy, prompting Nick to risk to the occassion and save the day.

[[/folder]]

Although Nick got angry at Judy for suggesting that the savage incidents were related to biology, most other predators didn't seem to blame her, with Clawhauser not seeming to blame her for his getting reassigned, and Mrs. Otterton willingly turning to Judy for comfort shortly afterward when confronted with the sight of her feral husband. Rather than seeing the idea as the offensive and obviously untrue spoutings of a racist, most of them probably thought it to be rather plausible and responded not by being offended, but instead by being afraid that they too might suddenly go savage.

Probably the reason Nick took offense to it when other predators didn't, had to do with his childhood trauma where he was bullied for being a fox, which lead him to associate any reference to the idea of predators being biologically predisposed to violence with hostility to himself and his kind. Most other predators, particularly better-respected species such as otters and big cats (which under normal circumstances, outside of the unrest that ensued after the press conference, don't seem to be subjected to nearly as much shit as foxes), probably didn't have similar experiences. This means that unlike Nick, their own personal experiences didn't lead them to assume any ill-will on the part of Judy, as they don't associate the ideas she is spreading as being used as excuses to abuse them, but are familiar with the ideas only as fears already lurking in the backs of their minds.