- “Fire in the hole!”
- ―Stella.
Stella is a skunk and a main character in the DreamWorks film, Over the Hedge. She is one of RJ's friends and Tiger's girlfriend.
Background[]
Not much is known about Stella's past, other than the fact that she has disliked the fact that she is a skunk for quite some time. Due to this, her search for a mate has been unsuccessful, and she is quite aggressive on the subject involving men.
Personality[]
Stella is sassy, sweet, tough, and quite bossy. She used to get offended when it was suggested that she needed a male in her life until she met with Tiger.
Physical Appearance[]
Stella is a striped skunk with green eyes. She has a light pink nose.
Role in the film[]
Stella had just finished hibernating, and it was spring. When the other animals refused to get out of the log, she made them get out by threatening to spray them. Penny is shown telling her she needs a man in her life, making her increasingly rude and sassy.
When Verne falls through the hedge, she threatens to spray it, thinking it ate him, until Verne reveals he simply tripped. When RJ arrives, he reveals all the food that the humans have and convinces them to come and eat there. She eats from a trash can until she and the others are chased off by a woman named Gladys Sharp.
Later on, she helps RJ and the other animals steal from the humans. She plays a key role in one of them, hiding in a birthday cake and bursting out, scaring off all humans, allowing the animals to take the food, prompting Gladys to call the Verminator. After Verne loses all the food and makes a comment that hurts their feelings, RJ helps her and the others reconcile with him.
RJ then plans to get all the food back by stealing it from Gladys' house. The first step is to get the collar from her pet cat Tiger. Next, Stella is all black, her white stripe is gone. At first, Tiger does not buy it, but after she starts tongue lashing him, which he sees as bold. They talk with each other about their lives while the animals steal the food. During the conversation, they start to fall in love.
Stella is unforgiving and threatens to gas him until Verne convinces them he means good. At the end of the film, the animals are celebrating, and Tiger escapes into the wild because he likes it now, and from what is shown, he has become Stella's boyfriend.
Trivia[]
- Stella's surname is "Stinkarella", according to the Over the Hedge joke book.
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