Gary De’Snake

Gary De’Snake’s Story in Zootopia 2

Sneaking into Zootopia inside a crate to find the Lynxley Journal that holds proof of his family’s innocence, Gary is immediately mistaken for a villain — a misread the film lets breathe long enough to mirror how prejudice actually works. Beneath the cerulean scales and a single remaining fang (the other ended up in Chief Bogo’s head in a genuinely unfortunate incident) is a character who cannot stop talking, cannot stop hoping, and will risk his own life before he lets another reptile spend another generation in exile. His heat-sensing abilities, used to reveal the journal’s hidden contents by a desert bonfire, underscore how Gary’s so-called dangerous nature becomes the very tool that saves everyone around him.

Who Voices Gary De’Snake in Zootopia 2?

Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan brings Gary to life in the English version, lending him the kind of earnest, irrepressible warmth that made Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once one of cinema’s most beloved recent characters. The casting carries an extra layer of resonance: Quan’s breakthrough role was Short Round, the young companion of Indiana Jones — a man famously terrified of snakes — and the film quietly nods to that history through Gary’s own family’s visual cues. In the Japanese dub, the role is handled by Hiro Shimono, a prolific voice actor widely recognized for his work as Zenitsu Agatsuma in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.