Verne (Over the Hedge)

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Verne



Debut Year	1995
Created by	Mike Fry & T. Lewis
Species	Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina)
Gender	Male
Voiced by	Gary Shandling

Characteristics
Notable aliases	Verno

Verne is a fictional turtle in the Over the Hedge merchendise. In the movie he is played by Gary Shandling.

[edit] Appearances

In the movie, Verne is shown as a tentative, cautious and neurotic turtle who considers himself the leader of a pack forest foragers. Verne calls his pack his "family"; Verne's family includes: Hammy the squirrel, Stella the skunk, Ozzie and Heather the opossums, Lou, Penny, Quillo, Spike and Bucky the porcupines. Verne is quite disturbed when he finds out that the humans settled over their forest while they were hibernating and misses his pristine forest a lot. Verne prefers to eat the primitive way, i.e. by foraging through the forest, unlike the other foragers who are led by RJ into the neighboring suburb to steal the humans' food. Verne is also particularly suspicious of RJ, because "his tail tingles everytime he gets near him (RJ)," which is supposed to indicate something wrong.

Although the foragers keep ignoring Verne's warnings about RJ, at one point even considering him to be jealous of RJ's cool antics, in the end they regret ignoring Verne after they figure out that Verne was right. RJ used the foragers to steal all the food for an angry bear (Vincent) and afterwards dumped the foragers, leaving them vulnerable to the traps of the hi-tech pest control specialist, the Verminator. However, later on RJ helps them escape from the Verminator's enclosures, and eventually saves them from Vincent, who hunted down the pest control van after RJ threw the wagon of food he gathered for the bear in front of the van in order to distract the Verminator and allow the foragers to escape from the enclosures inside the van. Near the end of the movie, Verne officially introduces RJ to the family, saying that "this (the primitive life) is the gateway to the good life"; RJ used the same phrase earlier in the movie when introducing the foragers to suburbia.