Zeta (Angry Birds)

Evil-doer
Full Name	Zeta
Alias	Ex-Fiancé (of Mighty Eagle; formerly)
Origin	The Angry Birds Movie 2
Occupation	Ruler of Eagle Island
Powers / Skills	Leadership Genius-level intellect Manipulative charisma Control over Eagle Island Flight Advanced technologies (of Eagle Island)
Hobby	Sipping Piña Coladas. Shooting ice balls at Bird and Piggy Island to force the populace to evacuate (formerly).
Goals	Turn Bird and Piggy Island into her own resort islands. Get revenge on Mighty Eagle for abandoning her. Kill Red and his team (all abandoned).
Crimes	Destruction of property Endangerment Attempted genocide Conspiracy Corruption Terrorism Invasion Torture Arson Fraud Abuse Kidnapping Hate crimes Incrimination Disturbing the peace Unlawful imprisonment
Type of Villain	Vengeful Mastermind

“	You all must really love your islands to risk your lives trying to save them. Well guess what? I don't care, because this right here, is ice-cold, baby!	„
	~ Zeta mocking the heroes for failing to stop her, and also her most famous quote.

“	Zeta: News flash, bro: I'm over you! I'm over this place! And I am ready to get that upgrade situation going for me and my daughter! Debbie: Hey. Zeta: Well... our daughter. [Debbie gasps] Mighty Eagle: What!? [Everyone gasps] Glenn: Dios Mio! [The seal is confused] Debbie: That's my dad?! Mighty Eagle: I HAVE A DAUGHTER?! Zeta: YES! YOU DO! And I raised her all by myself in this icy wasteland! But now, I'm gonna be sipping pina coladas on those warm tropical islands LIKE I DESERVE TO!	„
	~ Zeta revealing to Debbie, Mighty Eagle, the birds, the pigs, and eagles who the real selfish one was behind all of this.

Zeta is the main antagonist of Sony Pictures Animation's 23rd feature film The Angry Birds Movie 2.

She was the ruler of Eagle Island, and the archenemy of Red and Silver and also Mighty Eagle's ex-fiancée-turned-wife, leader of her Faction of Eagles on Eagle Island as well as Debbie's mother. Zeta becomes increasingly frustrated with the frozen environment living on her polar island. She plans on turning both Bird and Piggy Islands into her own resorts, full of summer fun.

She is voiced by Leslie Jones in her first villainous role.

Appearance

Zeta is a purple anthropomorphic eagle with a fluffy head, green eyes, and black eyelashes. She also has a curved light purple beak with three sharp teeth. Zeta also has white feathers all over her body which look like a dress.

Personality

Zeta was the wrathful leader of Eagle Island. She's tired of living on a frozen island of snow and ice. She dreams of one day sipping Piña Coladas on the warm, tropical beaches of Bird Island and Piggy Island. She was sarcastic and selfish, and just cold and vindictive enough to believe she can take the two other islands for herself, but she cares for her daughter and dog very much. Not only that, Mighty Eagle is the reason why she become vengeful towards the birds (including Mighty Eagle) and the pigs. She then changes the error of her ways at the end and becomes more loving, motherly and caring

Though sassy, flamboyant, and emotionally-imbalanced, Zeta is actually quite intelligent, explaining to her top engineer how to make the ice-balls of her base's superweapon deadlier by filling them with molten lava and how to accomplish the task with advanced scientific jargon. As seen in Mighty Eagle's flashback from when they were dating, Zeta actually studied physics and he'd regarded her as the smartest girl in their school.

Biography

Past

In the 1990s, Mighty Eagle and Zeta met each other in high school, and they both started dating. They enjoyed each other's company until one day, Zeta proposed to him. Mighty Eagle, in his cowardice, was not ready for the next step, so he fled and left her heartbroken at the altar. She gave birth to their daughter, Debbie, shortly afterwards.

The Angry Birds Movie 2

By the time of the second movie, Zeta has already taken command over her own faction of Eagles and built a Ice Cannon to shoot ice balls at nearby islands. Zeta makes her first appearance near the beginning. Fed up with her cold surroundings, she shoots ice balls at Bird and Piggy Island to force their inhabitants to evacuate.

Chuck and Bomb ask Red to speed date, where he meets Chuck's sister Silver and an excellent engineering student, but she deems him incompatible. Red quits the meeting and finds Leonard, the king of Piggy Island, comes to his house to negotiate. Red reluctantly agrees to build an alliance with the pigs and they recruit Chuck, Bomb, Silver and Mighty Eagle. They hold a special meeting in Mighty Eagle’s cave. When Red shows a photo of Zeta, Mighty Eagle behaves abnormally. The meeting is disrupted when Zeta's ice ball hits Eagle Mountain and destroys it, but they escape just in time.

Later on, the team travels to Eagle Island via submarine, which is actually Garry Pig's, Leonard's assistant. Once there, Mighty Eagle reveals that Zeta is his ex-fiancée that he abandoned due to his cowardice, retreating to Bird Island. Red insists on fighting alone and Silver decides to follow him. They intrude the base from the mouth of the weapon only to be captured by her guards. The other team members put on a disguise known as Harvey, grab a key card from a staff member in a washroom, and get into the base. The guards are driven into a break-dance battle by the disguise's unusual movement, and the team find that Red and Silver were being caught. They are forced to escape when their disguise rips apart, but the guards are too busy dancing to notice.

In Red and Silver's cell, Zeta tells Red and Silver her plan to fire lava balls at Bird Island and Piggy Island, while the former regrets telling the islanders to not evacuate. After she leaves to start the countdown, Red admits to Silver that he put himself before anyone else as he's afraid of not being liked if he's no longer a hero. Silver frees them both using her Super String hair braids, reuniting with the team. Red transfers the leadership to Silver, who establishes a plan to destroy the weapon. Red and Silver will launch an ice ball down the chute, Chuck will block all the security cameras, the Pigs will push the leveler and Bomb will protect the area.

Silver and Red put themselves in an ice ball and roll towards Zeta's superweapon, but it didn't work, and the whole team are confronted by Zeta and her guards. At the same time, Mighty Eagle arrives to apologize to Zeta, but she quarrels with him, revealing his name as Ethan and that she gave birth to a chick he was unaware of named Debbie. While Zeta is distracted, Silver tells Chuck to tie up the weapon using a Super String, which catches and decelerates the lava balls when Zeta fires them. As the rope breaks, Terrence's hatchling (Zoe), her friends, and the 3 piglets traveling above Eagle Island help grasp it. The lava balls slide back into the weapon, destroying the superweapon and the entire base.

Everyone escapes the exploding base, just as Zeta notices Debbie missing. Seeing her ice shoe under debris, Zeta believes her to be dead and begins to regret her actions just as Mighty Eagle appears under the debris and protects Debbie from being crushed by a metal plate. Zeta shows gratitude to him and they finally hold a wedding ceremony on Bird Island, with Red as the chief witness. Everyone cheers Red for saving the islands, but he reveals Silver and the team deserves the real credit instead of him, unveiling a Mount Rushmore-style monument to them. To his surprise, Red finds he is beloved even more now because of his honesty and selflessness. The birds have a huge party to celebrate while Red and Silver begin a romantic relationship, until Chuck arrives and interrupts the two.

Quotes

“	There goes my toothpaste. I am tired of this.	„
	~ Zeta

“	Come on, baby. Go get it. Let's Go get it! [Dog whimpers] Go get the STICK!!!!!	„
	~ Zeta commanding and yelling at the dog

“	I can't do this anymore. Okay, Debbie? (Debbie: Okay!) I'm done! I'm done living on this frozen, seal-infested iceberg of an island!	„
	~ Zeta's expressing her frustration.

“	Zeta: What? You never heard of thermal emulsifiers? Glenn: Well, yes, yes... Zeta: You just got to get a polyacrylamide to enhance the nano-particle and surfactant association between the two materials! Glenn: Uh, okay. Zeta: So you do that, and I'm gonna go feed my baby. [Zeta takes a spoon of dogfood and tries to feed her dog, Baby, who's frozen in ice] Yes, I'm finally gonna feed my baby. There you go. Who's my baby? You're my baby [Zeta smooches Baby and a harp seal swipes the spoon of food before looking back at her] Wha- Don't- You better not wink at me. Don't you wink at me! [The Harp Seal winks and slips away, leaving Zeta to fume in anger]	„
	~ Zeta criticizing Glenn's incompetence before tending to his dog, only to be exasperated by the seal once again.

“	Zeta: Stop me? Yeah, you two lovebirds just thought y'all could sail over here and stop me. Silver: Lovebirds? No way. Red : No, no, no. Silver: We're barely, like, friend birds. Zeta: So typical. Type-A male paired with a strong female, and you just can't stand it, can you? Red: Well, I... Zeta: Let me guess. You prefer to fly solo. [Mockingly] I have to save everybody all by myself! Just like a man. Silver: Ooh, ouch. That is kinda true, though. Zeta: Maybe she was a little clingy at times. Maybe she gave you that engagement ring a little bit too early. Silver: I don't think she's talking about us. Maybe she's talking about...[Zeta covers Silver's mouth with her claw] Mighty Eagle.	„
	~ Zeta confronting the captured Red and Silver.

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Fire another ice ball!

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I am putting my...self...first!

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Are you getting smart with me right now?

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You all had the chance to evacuate. But for some reason, you didn't.

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“	Silver: It didn't work? Red: I don't get it [Zeta laughs] Zeta: Of course it didn't work. [Laughs even more] You all must really love your islands to risk your lives trying to save them. Well guess what? I don't care, because this right here, is ICE COLD, BABY!! Red: NO! Mighty Eagle: ZETA!!! Zeta: What? Mighty Eagle: WAAAAITTT!!! Zeta: What, what? Silver: Mighty Eagle! Bomb: Yeah! [Every eagle gasps, except Mighty Eagle and Zeta then Mighty Eagle lands on the ground] Mighty Eagle: I'm the cause of all this. I ran out on you on our wedding day! And ever since then, you've been tormented inside. Zeta: Right now? This is when you choose to do this? Mighty Eagle: So take me. Not these islands. Zeta: You have got some FLIPPING NERVE!!!! Mighty Eagle: I know. I ripped your heartstrings right out! Red: That's it! Super String Silver: What? Mighty Eagle: Has a burning hole in your sanity! Set yourself free Silver: Okay, I'm seeing it! Yeah Mighty Eagle: Go ahead! Do your worst to me! I deserve it Silver: Chuck! [Zeta kicks Mighty Eagle in the face] Zeta: You think this is about YOU, Ethan?! Leonard: Ethan? Zeta: Oh! That is so hilarious/embarassing/I hadn't thought about your fat butt in 20 years! Mighty Eagle: Wait, what? Zeta: You are a lazy, uncoordinated, fish-eyed fool! You ain't worth the salt in your bread. You are nothing! You are nothing to me! I don't think about you AT ALL!! I don't think about your stinky feet! I don't care about your rusty hands! I don't think about your rusty elbows... Mighty Eagle: Wait! So you have or you haven't thought about me? Zeta: News Flash, bro! I am over you, I am over this place, and I'm ready to get that upgrade situation going for me, and my daughter! Debbie: Hey. [Everyone, except Debbie, gasp] Zeta: Well... our daughter. [Debbie gasps] Mighty Eagle: What? [Everyone else gasps] Glen: Dios Mio! [Harp Seal Barks] Debbie: That's my dad?! Mighty Eagle: I have a daughter? Zeta: YES YOU DO! And I raised her all by myself in this icy wasteland! But now, I'm gonna be sipping Pina Coladas on those warm tropical islands, LIKE I DESERVE TO!!	„
	~ Zeta confronted and announcing her plan for vengeance.

“	My baby? Debbie? Mighty Eagle, where's Debbie? (later finds Debbie nearly dying) Debbie, no. Come back. [Sobbing] No, Debbie. [Cries; looks back at her volcano base now destroyed] What have I done?	„
	~ Zeta expressing her remorse.

Gallery

Zeta, Debbie and Glenn admire the destruction of Bird Island Mountain.

Zeta laughing at a restrained Red.

Zeta rising to power.

"Of course it didn't work."

"Well guess what? I don't care, because this right here, is ICE COLD, BABY!!"

"You have got some FLIPPING NERVE!!!!"

Zeta's defeat (Seeing that her Super Weapon's about to be destroyed).

Zeta realizing her terrible mistake after seeing that her daughter Debbie could be dead because of her evil selfish actions over revenge by hurting others.

Zeta hugs her daughter, relieved that she is alive.

Trivia

• Zeta is the third Sony Animation antagonist to be a female, after Smiler and Queen Victoria.
• In Angry Birds 2, she makes an appearance as the special boss.
• Zeta is the second major Angry Birds villain to be a bird, the first being Gale from Angry Birds Stella.
  • Coincidentally, both Zeta and Gale have purple feathers.
  • Thus, Zeta is the fourth Angry Birds villain to appear as a bird at all, the others being Anakin Skywalker turned evil, the Sword Spirit in Angry Birds Epic, and Gale.

External links

• Zeta on the Angry Birds Wiki
• Zeta on the Heroes Wiki