| “ | I find everyone's pain funny but my own... I'm French! | „ |
| ~ Le Frog's most famous quote. |
| “ | You stupid English, with your Yorkshire puddings and your chips and fish! | „ |
| ~ Le Frog |
| “ | Le Frog: Okay, okay, cousin, take a breath. Leave it to me. We'll get your cable, kill the rodents, and then me and my team can settle down to a decent breakfast. Okay, men. To action! Henchfrogs: We Surrender! Le Frog: No! Not that one, you idiots! The kung-fu thing! |
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| ~ The Frog exasperated by his own henchmen. |
Le Frog is one of the three secondary antagonists (alongside Spike and Whitey) of DreamWorks' 13th full-length animated feature film Flushed Away, which is also Aardman's 3rd film.
He is the Toad's French cousin and mercenary-for-hire and the leader of the Henchfrogs. His cousin tasks him in recovering the master cable Rita stole from his lair.
He was voiced by Jean Reno, who also played Franz Krieger in Mission: Impossible, Alexi Petrovich in Rollerball, Quinn in Armored, Giles Mercier in Alex Cross, Reinaldo Gómez in Who Killed Sara?, Desroche in Da Fifth Bloods and Lars Jorgensen in Lift.
Personality[]
The Frog is an extremely cynical individual, the complete opposite of his more extravagant cousin. The Frog embodies a deliberate parody of the French as seen by the Anglo-Saxons—snobbish, dramatic, and proud of his culture. He mocks the English with phrases like: "You stupid English, with your Yorkshire puddings and your chips and fish!"
Openly sadistic and sarcastic, he finds the pain of others amusing, except his own. As a competent leader, he leads a troop of ninja frogs, but his orders are often misinterpreted, resulting in farcical scenes. Always well-dressed, he moves with confidence, but his actions are often absurd or counterproductive, reinforcing his comic role.
Although, like the other amphibians in the film, he cannot help but chase flies by instinct, Le Frog is capable of overriding his natural impulses, such as when he blocked his own tongue to avoid falling into Rody's trap with the fly.
As for his relationship with Toad, he finds his cousin exasperating, but he only helps him with his projects because he's related to him. He's long been bored with Toad's backstory, especially when he has to see it in a scrapbook. Frog especially finds Toad's obsession with destroying rodents very unhealthy. Also, he gets exasperated hearing his cousin's constant complaints.
Biography[]
Le Frog's henchmen are mostly ninja frogs, along with a mime frog who holds a mobile phone where the Toad would see and speak through. They were easily distracted by a fly, leading them to be smacked with each others' tongues.
He was called by his cousin, the Toad to get the master cable back from Rita, in order to proceed his plan in taking over the sewers and annihilating all of Ratropolis. He pursues them down the rapid waters and fails in getting the master cable on his first attempt.
However, after Spike manages to kidnap Rita, Le Frog successfully grabs the cable off her and gives it to the Toad. After this, he sits in the café waiting for the Toad's plan to succeed before the latter desperately calls out to him after getting his tongue caught in the turning mechanism. As a result, Le Frog rushes towards Roddy in an attempt to engage him in combat. However, instead of that, Roddy grabs Le Frog and winds him causing his tongue to shoot out and attach itself to the ledge of the pipe.
Once Roddy freezes the oncoming attack to the rats, Le Frog shrugs it off as being a small success before Roddy launches him towards the Toad to whom he tells to accept his plan had failed.
At the end of the film, Le Frog tries to hitchhike back to Paris while his henchmen were seen dancing while he stood with an annoyed look.
| “ | Le Frog: En guarde! Deux, parry, thrust! (Successfully catches it) The Toad: (muffled) Le Frog? (retracts his tongue) |
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| ~ Le Frog eating the fly that his cousin, The Toad, wanted to eat. |
| “ | Le Frog: Bonjour. The Toad: You're late, Le Frog. Le Frog: Fasionably late, my annoying English cousin. I know no other way. The Toad: Now, listen. Rita and her new accomplice have stolen something irreplacable. Spike: It's alright, boss! We've got another one! (gets electrocuted) The Toad: A master cable of unique design and purpose. I want it back. Le Frog: (scoffs) Don't worry, I'll get it back for you. The Toad: Once it is returned, my plan will be complete; to wash away once and for all, the curse, the scourge of... (quietly) rats. (Spike and Whitey just wave.) |
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| ~ Le Frog meeting with his cousin, The Toad, who informing him on his master plan. |
| “ | Le Frog: Forgive me, my warty English cousin, (casually walks on him) but this bizarre obsession of the rats, it is not good for you. You are becoming what we French call "le fruitcake." The Toad: (grabs and takes him off of him) Perhaps you forget that it was a rat who cast me from paradise! Le Frog: Oh, please, not the scrapbook again! The Toad: (pulls out a volume of his memoirs) My memoirs. Volume One details the dire and tragic story of my youth. Le Frog: Oh, mon dieu. The Toad: Of all the pets in Buckingham Palace, young Prince Charles fancied me the best. (Le Frog groans) We would frolick, day after sunny day in royal abandon, sharing that sweet and ever magical bond between boy and toad. Le Frog: You are going to make me throw up. The Toad: We were inseparable, until... it arrived. That rat. While the poor boy's head was turned, I was cruelly plunged into a whirlpool of despair! (weeps) Le Frog: I know, I know. You were flushed away down the loo, right? |
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| ~ The Toad (re)explaining his tragic backstory to Le Frog, revealing the reason of his despicability toward rats. |
| “ | Le Frog: Henchfrogs! We have a mission. Let nothing stand in our way. We leave immediately! [walks off] Henchfrog: What about dinner? Le Frog: [comes back] We leave... in five hours. |
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| ~ Le Frog to his Henchfrogs. |
| “ | Rita: Who invited you on board? Hop it. Hop it! Le Frog: Ah, the English little girly, she's so aggressive. Rita: [groans] Le Frog. Le Frog: I like a woman with a little fire. [kisses Rita, then she slaps him] You're going to pay for that, my little chocolate croissant! But first, a word from our sponsor. Marcel? |
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| ~ Le Frog to Rita. |
| “ | He's cuckoo, but family! | „ |
| ~ Le Frog about his cousin. |
| “ | Le Frog: [unzips his jacket, revealing his face, laughing] Au revoir, ma chérie!! Rita: Keep your flippers off me! Le Frog: [grabs the master cable] I have triumphed! You stupid English, with your Yorkshire puddings and your chips and fish, you thought you could defeat Le Frog? Un... [kicks the hand] ...deux...trois! |
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| ~ Le Frog gets the master cable and leaves Rody and Rita to be swept away by the sewer currents. |
| “ | Rita: [grabs the master cable] My belt, I think. Le Frog: You rodents! |
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| ~ Le Frog is foiled. |
| “ | Let's finish this. | „ |
| ~ Le Frog confronts Rody in the final battle. |
| “ | Pfft. Big deal. | „ |
| ~ The Frog may be impressed by the rats' victory after The Toad's master plan failed. |
| “ | Toad: You wretched vermin! I'll make you pay for this! Le Frog: Aw, give it a rest, cousin. And get your kids a puppy. |
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| ~ Le Frog's last words in the film, tangled up with The Toad, tired of hearing him complain. |
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Trivia[]
- Le Frog's voice actor, Jean Reno also voiced him in the French dubbed version.
- Le Frog's name is grammatically incorrect; in French, nouns have genders. The French word for "frog" is "grenouille", which is feminine. So Le Frog's correct name would be "La Grenouille", in which he would end up being female instead of male.
- The Frog embodies a satire of French stereotypes: he is snobbish, dramatic, and obsessed with gastronomy.
- "Frog" is also a mildly abusive term employed by the British to design a French person. Within that logic, Le Frog might also be a translation to "Le Français", which means The Frenchman.
- One of his most famous lines is: "I find everyone's pain amusing, except my own... I'm French!" This self-deprecating nod is typical of the Aardman tone, mixing British humor and cultural caricature.
- The Frog being the cousin of the Toad despite them both being subspecies of amphibians is unreal outside of the film, toads and frogs are not close enough genetically.
- By the logic of the movie, Le Frog presumably has a toad parent, or The Toad would have a frog parent, which would imply that either Le Frog or The Toad is a hybrid.
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The Toad | Le Frog | Spike and Whitey | Tadpoles | Henchfrogs | Marcel the Mime Frog | Thimblenose Ted | Ladykiller | Fat Barry | Blonde Henchrat | ||