King Leonard Mudbeard

"Greetings from my world, the world of the Pigs. I... am a pig!"

- Leonard introducing himself to the birds.

King Leonard Mudbeard is the main antagonist of the 2016 animated comedy film The Angry Birds Movie.

He is voiced by Bill Hader who also voiced the FLDSMDFR from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

History
Leonard first appears when he and his gang of pigs arrive to Bird Island by boat, crashing onto Red's house by the shore, much to Red's distraught. Leonard then introduces himself to the birds, claiming himself and his gang to be peaceful explorers offering friendship. Red openly suspects of the pigs' motives, but the the other birds don't listen to him (due to his anger issues). As such, Leonard starts throwing out celebrations for the pigs and birds, even introducing the latter to slingshot and heliums balloons for fun.

While Leonard hosts up a party for the birds, Red, along with his friends Chuck and Bomb, soon learn that the pigs have implanted explosives around the island and realized that they planning to steal the eggs for food (even the dance party was nothing more than a distraction to keep the birds busy). While Chuck attempts to warn the others, Red and Bomb attempt to retrieve the stolen eggs, but Leonard and the pigs escape in their ship and set their explosives to destroy the village. Declaring that he has finally got the eggs in his possession, Leonard orders his pigs to sail back to their home at Piggy Island.

As the birds (now being led by Red) construct a raft to head over to Piggy Island, Leonard returns back home to his castle and declares a feast for everyone. However, as the birds finally reached Piggy Island, they use the giant slingshot to launch themselves to the castle, deducing that the eggs are stored inside. Spotting the birds, Leonard orders his army of pigs to capture them while he prepares his feast for his fellow pigs. Eventually, Red, Chuck, and Bomb manage to infiltrate the castle and retrieve the eggs from being cooked (with the help from a arriving Mighty Eagle). However, one of the eggs gets loose and Red remains while letting Mighty Eagle, Chuck and Bomb escape with the eggs.

With his patience finally worn out, Leonard angrily tries to take the egg from Red, resulting both of them to fall into the castle's reserve of explosives. Though Leonard manages to catch the egg and is about to fry it with a candle while standing on a pile of dynamite, Red (in a rare moment of calmness) manages to trick Leonard into letting his guard down by complimenting him of his plan of steal the eggs. As Leonard fell for it, Red pulls out a box, causing Leonard to slide down and allowing Red to retrieve the egg while the candle lights up a few dynamite. Red then shields himself and the egg by hiding inside a falling giant pot while Leonard screams as the explosives go off, destroying the castle (and the rest of Piggy Island) and apparently killing him and the pigs.

With Leonard and the pigs finally defeated, Red and the birds head back to Bird Island with their eggs in peace. During the end credits, it turns out that Leonard and the pigs have survived the destruction of Piggy Island, but as the pigs dance to "I Will Survive", a vengeful Leonard swears to 'hatch up' a new plan to steal the eggs before dancing with the other pigs.

Personality
Leonard seems to be very controlling, as demonstrated when he interacts with Ross, shaming him for messing up their entrance on Bird Island. He has no fears or doubts when going onto Bird Island and greets the Birds with confidence, and makes his entrance loud and obvious. Take an international ambassador, and combine it with a used car salesman – that’s Leonard. Big L is charming and charismatic, he speaks with confidence and enthusiasm, and he just might be full of baloney and hogwash – depending on who you ask. But with a personality like that, you can’t help but fall for his charm.

Appearance
Leonard appears as a green anthropomorphic pig in a chubby build with dark green thick brows and a full beard. He also have black eyes. He first appears without a crown. Later when he steals most of the eggs along with the Pigs and to be taken in Piggy Island. Leonard is seen wearing a crown on his head adorned with rubies and sapphires as opposed only several sapphire gems .His first outfit during the theatrical trailer is his red sporty attire and during the battle against the birds in the third and final theatrical trailer, Leonard wears only his King's red cape with white black fur trim collar along with his ruby and sapphire crown.

Trivia

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