| “ | I'm not fat, I'm poofy. | „ |
| ~ Manny whenever someone calls him fat. |
| “ | That's what you do in a herd: you look out for each other. | „ |
| ~ Manny after saving Diego from the lava. |
Manfred, better known as Manny, is the main protagonist of Blue Sky Studios' Ice Age franchise.
In the films, he is voiced by Ray Romano. In Japanese dub from the movie, he is voiced by Kōichi Yamadera. In The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, he is voiced by Sean Kenin.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
In General[]
- Despite being very serious and strict when compared to other lighthearted characters, he never darkens the mood of the story and always keeps it lighthearted, he also keeps the story lighthearted with his humorous running gag of his fur being mistaken for him being obese and him having to correct those who call him fat.
Background[]
- He had a wife and child that were killed by hunters while Manny tried to save them.
Ice Age[]
- He saves Sid from two rhinos who wanted revenge on him.
- Tries to give watermelon to baby Roshan and asked cordially from a dodo flock. However, they refuse but finally the watermelon goes to the child.
- He risked his own life to save Diego from falling into the lava.
- He brings Roshan back to his tribe and protects him from a pack of sabertooths. He does this even after humans killed his wife and child.
- Killed Soto before he could succeed to kill the human child. Then he received an apology from Diego.
- His honorable actions, returning Roshan in spite of his personal loss from humans and saving Diego, was what motivated Diego’s redemption.
Ice Age: The Meltdown[]
- Saved Sid from falling off a high waterfall, nearly to his death. In this incident he also found about the ice melting and warned the other animals around him.
- Succeeds in persuading Ellie she is really "Mammoth" and not a "Possum", when she looks to him mentally suffering.
- Before he knows that his species is not extinct, he tries to connect with Ellie to save their species.
- With Sid and Diego’s encouragement, he confesses his feelings to Ellie.
- He risked his own life to save Ellie who was stuck in a cave while the whole valley was flooding with water and also killed Cretaceous and Maelstrom that threated on their life.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs[]
- He insisted Sid return the eggs he found and also because Sid is unfit to raise children. Considering one of them would have been broken from a great height and Sid would later on be kidnapped by their mother, his worries were valid.
- He and the herd go to the Lost World to save Sid, who was kidnapped by a dinosaur.
- Defends Ellie from pack of carnivorous dinosaurs when she gives birth.
- He decides to trust Diego to help him.
- Helps his friends to tie up Rudy, when he chases them.
Ice Age: A Mammoth For Christmas[]
- He tries to tell Peaches what Christmas is about.
- He felt guilty for putting Sid on the Naughty List when Peaches calls him out for it and unintentionally inspiring Santa to invent it.
- He goes to find Peaches when she sat off to get Sid off the Naughty List.
- While it did look like he was punishing Peaches, he corrects the situation by telling her he was calling Sid out. It was also justified because he endangered everyone (including Peaches) by accidently causing an avalanche that destroyed North Pole when they were getting Prancer unstuck.
- He helps repair the North Pole when it was accidently destroyed by an avalanche.
Ice Age: Continental Drift[]
- He felt remorse for embarrassing Peaches when she scolded him for it and disowning him as her father and choosing to atone for it by promising that he would return when an earthquake occurred.
- He refuses to join Gutt's crew, remaining determined to reunite with Ellie and Peaches.
- Before Captain Gutt executes Granny, he breaks the pirate's ship and save his friends. Although this lead Gutt to become obsessed to kill him at all costs, Manny acted in self-defense because Gutt tried to kill them for refusing to join his crew.
- He saves Shira from drowning, even though she and her gang of pirates took him and his friends hostage on their boat.
- He, Sid and Diego freed hyraxes from enslavement by pirates and steal Gutt's ship in order to prevent him to pursue them and get back home.
- Saved Sid and Diego from carnivorous sirens that hypnotize them, by steering the ship.
- When his daughter and his wife are taken hostage with all other habitants of the continent by Gutt, Manny decides to turn himself in to Gutt in exchange for his daughter’s release.
- He successfully managed to defeat Captain Gutt and end his tyranny. Then he apologies to Peaches and Louis for his contempt.
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade[]
- He helps Sid pick up the stolen eggs that Squint disperses.
Ice Age: Collision Course[]
- He, along with the herd, helped Buck to save the world from an asteroid that threatened to destroy the earth.
- He accepts Julian as his son-in-law.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is very jerkish and arrogant at the beginning. For example, when he meets Sid, Manny insults him in front of several people, constantly trying to get rid of him, and even after finally becoming friends with him, Manny is quite mischievous towards Sid, teasing him sometimes and can often be stuck-up and unfair with him. Although Manny has rejected some of his corruption factors, he is still too rude at times, especially when dealing with Julian later on.
- He is extremely overprotective with his daughter, Peaches, not wanting her to associate with other mammoths and wanting to prevent her from travelling with her lover Julian. Moreover, Manny was very rude to Julian, despising him at the beginning, and even throwing a puck of hiccups in his face. This also makes him egotistical and self-absorbed at times. Although his reasons are understandable, as he lost his first family and doesn't want to lose his second one and gradually learns his lesson, he can be far too overprotective to Peaches, such as when he embarrassed her in front of her friends.
- Leads indirectly nearly to kill Diego when he picked fruit from a carnivorous plant that locked on them. Even Ellie and Diego warned him ahead of time.
- Sometimes he is too much mischievous.
Trivia[]
- Manny, Granny, along with Crash and Eddie are the only Ice Age heroes to be Inconsistently Admirable.
- Originally, he wasn't considered admirable enough to qualify as Inconsistently Admirable because it was widely assumed that he was too standard. However, upon re-examination, it was revealed that he defeated a Near Pure Evil (Captain Gutt) and saved the world from an asteroid, and those actions allowed him to qualify.
External Links[]
- Manny on the Heroes Wiki
- Manny on the Ice Age Wiki
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