Vincent (Over the Hedge)

"Moon's full, RJ. (Sing-song voice) See you in the morning!"

- Vincent to RJ

Vincent is the hidden main, but true, antagonist of Over the Hedge. He is RJ's arch-nemesis and former best friend.

Beginnings
One night, Vincent is asleep in his cave and his food is almost stolen by a hungry RJ, who instead wakes up Vincent. Eventually, he accidentally destroys all of his food when the wagon carrying the food falls in the middle of the road and is run over by a truck. A mad Vincent threatens to kill RJ, but he instead decides to give RJ 1 week to collect all the food after a full moon when he wakes up, or else he'll hunt RJ down and kill him. A nervous RJ accepts the deal and goes to get Vincent's food for him.

Over the Hedge
When RJ is unable to get food, he notices Vincent's cave and quietly enters to steal his food, but to no avail. He ends up losing the food that soon gets crushed by a truck and Vincent angrily pursues RJ. He manages to stop him, picks him up, and opens his jaws to swallow RJ. However, RJ begs VIncent not to eat him and offers to give him his food back in a week. Vincent accepts, but threatens to kill RJ if he doesn't get his food back in a week.

After making the deal with Vincent, RJ finds a group of woodland animals, whom he decides to use to collect his food. In the end, he betrays them, and he leaves with the wagon of food.

When the week is over, Vincent arrives. RJ's betrayal of his friends remind Vincent of his old ways, and he suggests to RJ that selfishness will take him far. At the last minute, RJ chooses to help his friends and give the food back to them, which of course, angers Vincent. He attacks RJ and he threatens to kill him and his friends, but before he can, Penny stings Vincent with her quills. Sooner or later, Vincent gets caught by some clown balloons and he is carried away, yelling in anger, "Oh, RJ!".

Later on, the balloons don't last as Vincent floats back down (to which a scared Hammy points out by saying, "Scary clown!" and pointing up at Vincent) and he uses the quill in his nose to pop the balloon. After that, Vincent roars and goes to finish RJ and his friends off.

While the animals hide in the middle of the hedge, Vincent is on the other side trying to claw the gang, with Gladys trying to kill them with her weed hacker and Dwayne trying to use his cattle prod on them. At one point, Dwayne accidentally shocks Vincent, who swipes at him in anger. This provokes Dwayne and the fight continues. Soon, RJ and Verne get an idea and have Hammy drink a soda that freezes time. While this happens, he goes into Gladys' yard and activates the Depelter Turbo; as well, he senses something and finds a cookie on the roof of Gladys' house and hurries over to it and eats it while going back to the hedge. As things start moving again, Vincent falls into Gladys' yard after trying to eat RJ (who wore Verne's shell as bait) and the three villains fall into the rays, which turns on the Depelter Turbo and the trio get a stinging from the machine.

Afterwards, Vincent is captured by Animal Control officers and he's sent to the Rocky Mountains.

Over the Hedge: The Video Game
In the video game, Vincent is mind-controlled until he is freed by RJ and his friends and is later redeemed.

Bee Movie
In Bee Movie, Vincent makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in court.

Personality
Vincent is a mean and nasty bear who likes to sleep, and he believes that selfishness will take him far, and he even tells RJ that he's gonna be like him some day; however, this proves to be wrong as RJ instead uses the wagon of food to help his friends, thus betraying Vincent and making himself a better person.

Appearance
Coming soon!

Trivia

 * Vincent is constantly believed to be the secondary and tertiary antagonist of the film.
 * In the film, Vincent was taken away by animal control and remained the animals' enemy. However, in the video game adaption of the film, Vincent stayed in the outdoor woods and redeemed himself, thus becoming the animals' new friend.
 * Vincent made a non-speaking cameo appearance in Bee Movie when he was in the courtroom.
 * After Over the Hedge was released, DreamWorks released another film titled Open Season, in which the film's protagonist Boog was modeled after Vincent.