- “This is one farmer's wife you don't want to piss off.”
- ―Rebecca Brayton from watchmojo.com on Mrs. Tweedy[src]
Melisha Tweedy, better known as Mrs. Tweedy, is the main antagonist of Chicken Run. She is Mr. Tweedy's ex-wife and former leader and boss and Ginger's arch-nemesis.
Personality
Mrs. Tweedy is an extremely greedy, selfish, short-tempered, cruel, cold-hearted women who only uses chickens to get money, which she and her husband are very low on. She is always looking for a chance to bully Mr. Tweedy and the chickens, and despite her nastiness, she does show cleverness at times - she is the one who comes up with the idea of buying a pie machine to use to make more profit from the chickens.
Role in the film
Mrs. and Mr. Tweedy take Ginger and tried to kill her in their chicken pie machine, but Rocky rescues her and clogs the gravy sprayer, almost destroying the machine.
When the chickens try to use an airplane to fly out, Mrs. Tweedy tries to stop them with her hatchet. But Rocky's bike knocks her unconscious accidentally throwing the hatchet in the air. Mrs. Tweedy gets up and sees the hatchet land right next to her neck, she then passed out again.
Mrs. Tweedy then woke up and went in pursuit, wielding her hatchet as the chickens were flying in their airplane. Ginger tricks Mrs. Tweedy into cutting the rope with her hatchet, and she landed onto the top of the pie machine, which caused it to explode. At that rate, Mr. Tweedy berates Mrs. Tweedy for not coming to the fact that the chickens were organized in the first place, then shuts the door down on her, killing her.
Trivia
- Mrs. and Mr. Tweedy's last name were presumed named after Tweedy from the Looney Tunes
- Mrs. Tweedy is similar to Curella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians: Both are animal haters who yell a lot. They both also have henchmen who eventually redeem themselves by standing up to their respective leaders after spent enough time suffering miserably under their respective leaders' abuse.
- Mrs. Tweedy also resembles Gladys Sharp from Over the Hedge: Both are animal haters, both have one man working with them, and both get annoyed with their henchmen. Both are the main antagonists of their respective DreamWorks films and both want to exterminate the animals in the film to achieve bigger profits.
- Mrs. Tweedy is considered to be one of DreamWorks' most evil villains (along with General Mandible, Lord Shen, Gallaxhar, Rumplestiltskin, and Drago Bludvist).
Quotes
It's a pie machine you idiot. Chickens comes in, pies come out.
Mrs. Melisha Tweedy
Chicken Pies you great lummox
Mrs. Tweedy telling Mr Tweedy