The film begins with a squirrel known as Scrat, who is trying to find a location to store his prized acorn. Eventually, as he tries to hide it, he causes an avalanche.
In the beginning, most animals are trying to avoid the ice age by migrating south. Sid, a clumsy ground sloth left behind by his family, is attacked by two Brontops whom he angered. Sid is soon saved by Manfred ("Manny"), an agitated mammoth who fights off the two Brontops. Not wanting to be alone and unprotected, Sid follows Manny.
Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of the Smilodon pride wants revenge on a group of humans by eating the chief's son, Roshan, because the humans had wiped out half of his pack. During the attack by the Smilodon pack on the humans, the baby's mother evades the cats who are pursuing her by jumping into a waterfall. With that, Soto orders Diego to find the baby and bring it to him alive.
Sid and Manny spot Nadia near the lake having survived her fall, having only enough strength to trust her baby to Manny before she disappears. After much persuasion by the sloth, they decide to return Roshan(nicknamed "Pinky") but when they get to the human camp, the humans are gone. Diego convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the humans. The four travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to an ambush. Soon they reach a cave where Sid and Diego learn about Manny's past and his previous interactions with the humans.
At the end of the film, Diego, Manny and Sid battle Soto's pack and a short fight ensues. Diego fights against Soto, and Soto knocks Diego out. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manny, Diego leaps and stops Soto, who wounds Diego in the process. Manny, in vengeance, knocks Soto into a wall of rocks, where icicles fall and kill Soto. Manny and Sid manage to return the baby to his tribe, and Diego rejoins them, as the group begin heading off to warmer climates.
20,000 years later, Scrat is shown on a tropical island, with a coconut to replace his lost acorn, but as he proceeds to pack the coconut, it causes a volcanic eruption.
Deleted Portion
Originally, Sid was trying to avoid another sloth named Sylvia. He manages to lose her by putting her in the path of some migrating glyptodons, who unknowingly carry her off when she got caught on their backs. Later he makes it look like Diego had killed him, but she saw he was faking, so she deserted him in anger. This segment was still used in the movie, but was used for Sid to avoid the two brontotheres who were still after him, as they fell for the trick. It was kept in the storybook version, however. The deleted scenes can be viewed separately, or in Nutty Movie Mode, both of which are included on Disc 1 of the two-disc Special Edition DVD.
Scrat
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There is also a subplot where an animal named Scrat makes many comical attempts to bury his beloved acorn. His misfortunes include getting chased by an enormous glacier, being struck by lightning, attempting to thaw out the acorn by a fire too long so that it accidentally took the form of a kernel of popcorn, and finally getting cryonically frozen in an ice cube along with his much sought after nut. 20,000 years into the future, the ice cube washes up on the shore of an island. The sun slowly melts the cube, thawing Scrat and the ice surrounding his acorn, which is barely out of reach, and ends up being removed from the ice cube by the tide. Scrat then explodes out of the ice cube in anger and hits his head repetitively on a tree, which drops a coconut. Believing it to be a giant acorn, Scrat's anger immediately turns to glee at this new find. He tries to pack it into the ground as he did previously with his acorns, but in the process causes a volcanic eruption.
Scrat is known to be similar to the prehistoric animal Leptictidium.
Scrat also got his own short film entitled Gone Nutty, where he loses his meticulously-organized collection of acorns in a catastrophic chain of events occurring after ramming his acorn into the hole in the exact middle of the collection. He remains with one which is reduced to an ashen crisp after it went crashing down on him with an impact like a missile, ultimately causing the tectonic shift.
Characters
The characters are all prehistoric animals. The animals can talk to and understand each other and are voiced by a variety of famous actors. Like many films of prehistoric life, the rules of time periods apply very loosely, as many of the species shown in the film never actually lived in the same areas, let alone the same time periods.
See also List of characters in the Ice Age films
Characters who appeared in both films
Manfred
Manfred is a woolly mammoth shown as one of the main characters in both the first and second Ice Age films. While his true name is Manfred, many other characters throughout the films refer to him as simply "Manny".
In the first film, Manfred is shown going the opposite way of the crowds of animals as they all head south to escape the ice age. Manfred does not care that they are leaving and curtly insists that he is glad that they are leaving. Manfred soon meets Sid the ground sloth, whom he saves from a pair of irate brontotheres, and ends up with Sid constantly at his side, bothering Manfred with his incessant talking and presence alone.
In time, Manfred and Sid discover a human by the name of Nadia, who is dying at a riverbank, and entrusts them with her infant son Roshan, before being washed away. While at first, Manfred appears shocked, he soon leaves the baby there on the riverbank, with Sid telling him that they must return him. Manfred sourly tells Sid that he must return the baby alone, for he wants nothing to do with it. Sid reluctantly accepts, but with Manfred keeping a close eye, but when Sid nearly drops Roshan, Manfred is ready to catch the baby, taking it away from a devious Diego first, and tell Sid that the very instant that they return the baby to his family, Sid and he must go their separate ways. Manfred and Sid make it to the human camp only to find it deserted, when Diego appears, informing Manfred that Roshan must be entrusted to him. However Manfred does not trust Diego and tells him that because he thinks that he can track better than either Manfred or Sid, that he must accompany them in tracking the humans.
It is not long before the three of the mammals begin quarreling (due in most part, to Sid) when Roshan begins crying, and Sid soon suggests that Roshan must be hungry. At that moment, Manfred, Sid, and Diego spot a melon, which is taken posthaste by a dodo named Dab. Manfred and the others follow Dab to a flock of half-wit dodos that are trying to prepare themselves for the oncoming ice age and soon take part in a skirmish against the dodos, winning the melon back in the process. Manfred and the others keep traveling on when they find an ice cave, which eventually leads to a cave with paintings of all kinds of animals, one painting showing the true reasons behind Manfred's irate persona: his wife and child of many years ago were killed by humans and, while Manfred tried his best to defend them, he could do nothing to stop the marauding humans. Soon however, Manfred, Sid, and Diego become closer as friends and are soon on their way to returning the baby to his family, when Manfred quickly discovers that Diego was conspiring to kill him along with Sid and the baby. Manfred nearly kills Diego in his rage at this news, but spares him when Diego informs him that he can help them escape. Diego comes up with a plan for he, Manfred and Sid to fight back against the other saber-toothed cats, which ends up with Diego being seriously wounded. Manfred, Sid, and Roshan assume that he is dead and disconsolately leave him there soon so that they may move on and find Roshan's father. Manfred is at first suspected of trying to kill Roshan's father, but rather proves his benevolence by returning Roshan to his father.
As Manfred and Sid leave the father and son to be reunited, they too, are reunited with their old friend, Diego. They are overjoyed (namely Sid) and the three friends leave the frozen lands to head down south together.
By the second film, Manfred is acclimated to being a "herd" with Sid and Diego, and helps Sid with his goal of opening a day camp for smaller animals by telling them a story. With some of the young animals asking him questions and making comments on his stories, one eventually strikes a nerve: a small bird makes the question of where Manfred's family is. This being a serious question to Manfred, he gives no answer, and proceeds on to discredit a conniving Fast Tony, when he sees that Fast Tony is telling other animals lies about the earth coming to its end. With this train of thought, one aardvark among the crowds soon asks Manfred when the last time was that he had seen another mammoth. Manfred curtly replies that mammoths cannot go extinct, being the largest animals on Earth. Then Manfred is asked about the dinosaurs went extinct and they were much bigger than a mammoth. Manfred insists that the dinosaurs got cocky and made enemies. Eventually though, he and Diego meet up with Sid, who is trying a daredevil act of jumping off a massive ice water slide called "The Eviscerator", and they prevent the fool from jumping, but discover with that, the horrible truth: the ice surrounding the valley where all other animals live is slowly melting and being held together only by a dam of ice. At first, no one believes him, but the masses are soon persuaded otherwise by the Lone Gunslinger.
Manfred gets the masses of animals moving along towards the end of the valley, where a massive fallen tree exists and can act as a boat to help everyone escape. As he and the others keep moving forward, Sid keeps joking about how he is the last mammoth. Manfred is soon beginning to be convinced that he truly is the last of the mammoths, when he meets another: a female mammoth named Ellie. Manfred at first is overjoyed that he has found another mammoth, but is soon dismayed to see that she believes that she is an opossum. Sid, however, sees this as the ideal chance to set Manfred up with Ellie, as they are the last two mammoths to be seen. Manfred is hesitant, to go along with Sid's idea, but at least goes along with the idea of having Ellie and her brothers travel alongside them.
Manfred and the others eventually reach a great frozen lake, where they encounter Cretaceous and Maelstrom, the two monstrous sea reptiles, and Manfred wards them off by flinging Cretaceous high into the air and back into the water.
In time, Manfred and Ellie slowly fall in love , until the moment that Manfred suggests mating in order to save the mammoth species, but Ellie hesitates angrily. Manfred did not imply it to be so rude, but Ellie hardly believes him, until the exact moment when she, her brothers, Sid, Diego, and Manfred are all in peril of falling down into a deep canyon.
Soon, Ellie and Manfred are much closer than before, and Manfred realises that he and the others must cross a field of geysers in order to reach the "boat", but Ellie hastily insists that she and her brothers must not cross, or they'll be blown to bits, and so forcibly part ways. With that, Manfred, Sid, and Diego all cross the geysers, but cannot find Ellie on board the "boat", and as he looks for her, he soon finds Crash and Eddie telling him that Ellie is trapped in a cave. Manfred rushes to her rescue, almost getting killed by Cretaceous and Maelstrom in the process, but letting loose a great rock on them in the process.
Manfred rescues Ellie from the cave and soon the two are reunited with their friends, but the flooding waters seem to get the better of them, and almost drown them, but thanks to Scrat's unknowing actions, the flood was diverted. As Manfred and Ellie regroup with Sid, Diego, Crash and Eddie, a herd of mammoths appears, and thus eliminates the need for Manfred and Ellie to be together. But Manfred decides that he truly loves Ellie, and so remains with her, taking her brothers, as well as Sid and Diego along as they all head to some new home.
Manfred is voiced by Ray Romano in both movies
Sid
Sid is a ground sloth shown in both films as one of the main characters. While he is always called "Sid", Sid's full name is Sidney, as revealed by his would-be paramour Sylvia.
In the first film, Sid is first shown fast asleep while all other animals migrate in droves to a warmer climate. Sid was left behind by his own family when they'd left him behind to migrate, and so decided to travel alone without them in annoyance at being left behind. As he leaves the tree where he slept, however, he steps in glyptodont dung and is waylaid. Not far off, two brontotheres are about to enjoy one last meal before leaving to head south, but Sid, not knowing this, wipes his filthy feet on their salad and in the process, annoys them more by unknowingly splattering bits of dung into their face, but to top it all off, he eats the crucial part of their salad: a dandelion. This last act angers them to the point of wanting to kill him. As they are about to, Sid runs directly into Manfred the mammoth who saves him only because Manfred himself does not wish to see anyone killing out of pleasure. As Sid is saved, he follows Manfred in spite of the fact that Manfred wants him gone.
That night, as the two stop to rest, Manfred notices that while he himself brought many logs to make a shelter, Sid got half a stick. Sid replied that the stick was taken to create fire, but it all went wrong, as later that night, it began to rain, leaving Manfred dry in his shelter, and a very unhappy, soaking sloth in the rain, futilely rubbing two sticks together.
Their lives change substantially one day when the two intercept a baby human and Sid suggests that they return the baby back to his family. Sid at first, goes alone, but Manfred tags along (with the secret prerogative that if he does not, Sid may dosomething insanely stupid. Sid almost drops the baby from a massive height, when Diego the smilodon pops along, telling Manfred and Sid that the humans are gone (it is really part of a ruse to try to get the two to leave the baby with him) and later pops up again, telling them that he must be given the baby. The trio immediatly become friends.
Sid, Manfred, and Diego thus move on to try to return the baby. They don't go very far when all of a sudden, the baby begins to cry. It turns out that he is hungry and at that moment, Manfred, Sid, and Diego spot a melon, which is subsequently taken by a dodo, who takes it back to his flock. The flock explains that they are trying to stockpile enough food so as to survive the ice age. Sid eventually manages to take one of the melons away, giving it to the baby so that he may eat it. The next day, when Manfred awakes, he is angry to find out that Sid took the baby away from Manfred while he was asleep to impress girls. Sid lies to them, telling them that he saved the baby from saber-toothed cats, and Manfred makes his way to take the baby from Sid, leaving Sid to try to go back to impress the ladies without the baby, but as Sid goes back, in the place of two she-sloths, he finds the very same agitated pair of brontotheres that tried to kill him earlier on. Sid, in a panic, gets Diego to pretend that he had killed him, and the two brontotheres fall for it, leaving Sid more than just a little uneasy about almost being eaten, for Diego would not let go when asked to.
Sid and the others keep travelling north to find the baby's family and in due time, end up in an ice cave, where among many other sights, Sid sees his supposed evolutionary ancestors, and it is here that due to the ice being so slippy, the baby is sent zooming through the ice cave, with the other three sliding after him, trying to catch him in an elaborate labyrinth of tunnels and slides. When they do find the baby, they take him and move on, where they eventually find the cave with cave paintings of many animals, including Manfred's family, whom we find out, was taken away from him by a tribe of humans on the hunt.
Sid and the others keep travelling onward, and as they stop for the night near some rocks, Sid takes a piece of chalk that he found and draws sloths. Manfred takes the chalk and derisively draws the sloth with a rounder stomach, and as Sid scribbles this out, he makes sparks, which ignite a patch of straw, and thus create fire, as Sid had wanted to do for some time. Here Sid says to Diego, that he considers himself fortunate to have a friend like Manfred, something that Diego does not leave unconsidered.
Sid and the others soon get much closer to Half-Peak, when a field of lava bursts out from under their feet, and sends the three running to try to escape the lava. Manfred puts his life on the line trying to save Diego and tells him that looking our for one another is something that is done in a herd, and succeeds, leaving Sid stating that they are "weirdest herd I've ever seen".
When the four of them reach Half-Peak, Diego confesses that he had planned an ambush on them, and Manfred nearly kills him in rage, but Diego admits his misdeed and helps to formulate a plan to help them all escape. Sid sparks off the plan by taking what looked like the baby and escaping on a piece of bark that he first uses as a pair of skis, and later as a snowboard. Soon, what the attacking saber-tooths thought was the baby turns out to be a decoy. As Manfred and Diego fight off the saber-teeth, Sid finds the real baby and escapes a hungry saber-tooth in the process, stomping him into a tree and leaving him there.
Diego fights as gallantly as he can, but appears to be mortally wounded, and sends off Sid and Manfred to go and return the baby without him. Manfred and Sid return the baby and when they do, Sid is so shocked to see that the humans did not attack Manfred, that he faints. As the two leave, they soon find a living Diego, who Sid is overjoyed to see is alive and well, and the three thus head south.
In the second film, Sid is trying to find respect among other creatures, but due to his goofy persona, fails there. Sid and Diego seem to be the only ones who realize Manny's feelings towards Ellie, a female wooly mammoth, and Sid is the only one who notices that Diego is afraid of water(hydrophobia). Sid is eventually taken away by a group of "mini-sloths" who claim him as their leader. He makes it back to his "herd" telling them this, but they don't believe him, until the moment that Diego the saber-toothed cat sees the mini-sloths, and tell them that Sid must remain with his herd.
Sid is the talkative type, but suffers from a lateral lisp, which makes his "S's" and "C's" rather "wet" or "spitty."
Sid is voiced by actor John Leguizamo in both movies.
Diego
Diego is a Smilodon who was seen in both the first film and the second film.
In the first film, he conspired with other saber-toothed cats to kill and eat a human baby in an act of revenge because the people of the baby's village had hunted half of Diego's pack. In a deleted scene, it is revealed that Diego is the only one that Soto (the leader) trusts, and that he considered the rest of pack to be nothing more than a group of idiots. He was sent by Soto to take the baby while he and the three other pack members (Zeke, Oscar and Lenny) were fighting the adults. However when Diego tried to take the baby, the child's mother snatched him away just in time but when she was trapped between Diego and a waterfall, the mother chose to jump rather than face the angry beast. Soto was infuriated to see that Diego had come back with nothing, so he threatened Diego; he must either bring the baby to Soto at Half-Peak or be killed by his own pack.
Diego went to the bottom of the waterfall, only to see that Manfred, a mammoth, and Sid, a ground sloth, had found the baby first. Diego offered to take the baby back to his family, but clearly wished to take him back to his pack. Manfred realised Diego's intentions, but also knew that neither he nor Sid could track and so he must travel with Diego so that he could lead the way.
Later, Diego met with Oscar and Zeke, two of his pack-mates. They informed him that Soto was adamant about his plans, either Diego must come back with the baby or he could not come back at all. Diego told the two that not only would Soto receive the baby, but also a mammoth, meaning that he intended to betray Manfred. In the morning Diego saved Sid's life from a pair of angry brontotheres.
Later in the journey Diego saw that his pack had been through the same trail that he, Manfred and Sid were using. He saw one of their pawprints, and he altered it to resemble a human footprint. With this, Diego claimed to have found a shortcut through an ice cave, but Manfred and Sid insisted that it was not the most sensible idea. An avalanche started, and the three were forced to go inside. As they traveled through the ice cave, the baby soon made his way through a series of elaborate ice slides with Manfred, Sid, and Diego hurrying to get him back. After the slides had ended and everyone was no longer moving, Diego seemed to be the only one who had enjoyed himself (except for Roshan, the baby).
Diego and the others then had to stop for the night, and it was here that Diego realised that despite their differences, Sid and Manfred considered him to be a friend. This loyalty was shown further when the "herd", as they now called themselves, had reached a river of lava, and Diego had nearly fallen into it and died. Manfred caught him in time, but was nearly killed himself. Diego asked Manfred "why [he] had done that, as [he] could have been killed", and Manfred replied that "That's what you do in a herd. You look out for one another".
Soon, Diego revealed to Manfred and Sid his true intentions: he had plotted to bring Manfed and the baby to the pack to be killed and eaten, but he also explained that he wanted nothing more to do with the pack; that Manfred and Sid were Diego's true friends. The three worked out a plan to drive the pack off. It worked, but Diego was hurt in his confrontation with Soto, and while Soto had been killed, Diego was severely injured. It seemed as though he'd died and Manfred was left to travel with Sid and go to return the baby.
However, Diego survived and caught up with Manny and Sid just in time to see the baby taken by his Father. After a joyous reunion, the three friends travelled South.
In the second film Diego was considerably less hostile, and had his own personal conflict: he feared water. Diego avoided water at all times, even going so far as to fear stepping on puddles. (Although in the first movie Diego is clearly shown stepping on water, when he is chasing the mother and the child.) Eventually, however, Diego overcame his fear when he saw Sid, Crash, and Eddie drowning in a river and realised that in order to save them, he must swim. In doing this, Diego overcame his fear of water.
Diego is voiced by Denis Leary in both movies.
Scrat
| Ice Age character |
| Scrat |
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| Species: | Saber-toothed Squirrel (fictional animal) |
| Eyes: | Hazel |
| Fur: | Grayish-Brown |
| Voiced by: | Chris Wedge |
Scrat is a saber-toothed squirrel shown in both films.
Scrat is shown in the first film naïvely making his way through the ice age with his only possession: one single acorn. He tried to bury it into the snow, but with little success, as the snow itself was frozen solid. With enough force, he stomped down on it, causing the ice around it to crack. This began a chain reaction, which cracked more and more ice until an entire glacier came crashing down, nearly smashing Scrat. Scrat however, escaped, only to be stepped on by masses of migrating animals. Eventually, Scrat would make his way to a tree and try to bury his acorn there, but inevitably would use it as a lightning rod by mistake. As time went on, Scrat unknowingly followed Manfred and the others up north, getting flung into the sky, sliding through ice slides, and all other forms of mishaps.
At some point after Scrat's travels up north, he stockpiled many acorns into a tree stump, but mistakenly stocked them too tight, which caused them to shoot out of the stump and into the sky, taking poor Scrat with them and eventually, one would jet back down to Earth with the impact of a guided missile, causing the land beneath to rupture. This began the continents to drift apart, leaving Scrat stranded on a single patch of land with nothing but an empty acorn shell.
By the second film, Scrat made his way to a great glacier and yanked out his beloved acorn from the side. This let loose a stream of water, evidence that the current ice age was ending. Scrat hastily tried to plug the holes in the ice back in, but rather ended up being shot out from the glacier's side and falling down a long way down until he hit solid ice, and was sent through the icy slide when a young Platybelodon slid through there.
Scrat eventually was close to retrieving his acorn when he saw it under the icy surface of a lake. He tried to get it back by stomping on the surface, but ended up under the ice. He'd lost it when it ended up above him, and he remained on the lower levels of the ice. Eventually, he would get his cherished acorn back, fighting piranhas and baby eagles, being stomped out of a nest, scaling ice walls, and at last, reaching his cherished nut.
As Scrat had his acorn with him at one point after his being stomped out of a nest, he had little time to regroup with it, as the great ice dam behind him came crashing down, sending he and his acorn helplessly drifting through massives walls of water in a nest. Finally, Scrat had reached one of the walls that he was floating near, and began to climb it, using his acorn as a pickaxe, but rather ended up diverting the waters that had flooded the valley when the acorn had weakened the ice and broken through it, sending Scrat, his acorn and all of the water away. Scrat saved the animals but died in the process.
Eventually, Scrat made his way to a heaven for squirrels where he was among many acorns and was about to approach a giant, golden acorn, but he was brought back to life on Earth when Sid the ground sloth performed CPR on him. Scrat, after waking up, had realised that Sid had eaten his acorn and was furious, chasing Sid away.
Scrat is the main character in Ice Age 2: The Meltdown video game.
Scrat is voiced by Chris Wedge in both Ice Age films as well as the shorts No Time for Nuts and Gone Nutty.
Soto
The deadly and dangerous leader of a pack of saber-toothed cats, Soto wanted to seek out the baby Roshan and his pack, so that he could eat Roshan in vengeance for the murders of several of his pack-mates. He is the main antagonist in the first film.
As part of his plan to take the baby, Soto planned out an attack on the human camp so that while he and three other saber-teeth would attack the humans, Diego would slip in, unnoticed, and take the baby. Diego failed at this task and Soto was not pleased, telling Diego to bring the baby to Half-Peak where he would meet with the others. Soto dispatched Oscar and Zeke, two other saber-teeth to warn Diego to hurry and bring the baby or not return at all, though was reciprocated with the news that alongside the baby, Soto would receive a mammoth.
Soto eventually made it with his pack to Half Peak and informed Diego that while he had his doubts, he was pleased that Diego had made it. Soon it would happen that unbeknownst to Soto, Diego was in league with both Manfred and Sid, and so Sid would lure Soto and his pack-mates away from both Manfred and the baby with a decoy made of snow.
Soto made his way to the end of the altercation in which he made an attempt to kill Manfred, but was stopped by Diego, whom he severely wounded and then proceeded to kill Manfred, but was knocked by Manfred into a wall of ice, where he was killed by falling icicles jarred loose by his hitting the wall.
Soto was voiced by Goran Visnjic.
Zeke
| Ice Age character |
| Zeke |
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| Species: | Smilodon |
| Eyes: | Hazel |
| Fur: | Grayish-Brown |
| Voiced by: | Jack Black |
Zeke was a member of a pack of saber-toothed cats shown in the first film.
He was led by Soto, out to seek a human baby and kill it. Zeke was dark-gray and looked mangy, as well as acting the part. It is revealed in a deleted scene that he, like the other members of his pack, wanted very much to follow the "walking buffet" south, but Soto would not hear of it. Zeke accompanied Oscar to tell Diego to hurry up and bring back the baby or not to come back. He soon made it along with the rest of his pack to Half Peak, where he tried to catch Sid and the baby, but was stopped by Sid after he was stomped into a tree.
Zeke was voiced by Jack Black.
Oscar
Oscar was a saber-toothed cat shown in the first film.
He was a member of Soto's pack of saber-toothed cats and was also the most haughty of all of them, doubting in Diego's abilities because he slipped up once in bringing the baby to Soto. In a deleted scene, he told his pack-mates of his disapproval of Soto's plans to stay and hunt humans instead of follow the migrating herd animals travelling south. Oscar was sent with Zeke to find Diego and warn him to hurry and bring the baby or not to come back at all. Oscar made it with the rest of the pack to Half Peak, where he attempted to kill Manfred, but was defeated as were the others. When he and Lenny saw Soto killed, the two ran off quickly, leaving Manfred, Sid, and a wounded Diego.
Oscar was voiced by Diedrich Bader.
Lenny
Lenny was a fat scimitar cat shown in the first film.
Lenny was one of Soto's pack members that would try to rob a human tribe of their baby as vengeance for killing off their pack mates. In the deleted scenes, it was revealed that he, like others in his pack, wanted very much to abandon their chase of the humans and their child so as to follow masses of migrating animals headed south.
Lenny was the fattest of his pack and like the others, made it to Half Peak, where he was repetitively told by Zeke the joys of the mammoth's meat. He fought at Half Peak, only to be defeated in trying to kill Manfred, and left with Oscar as fast as he could when he witnessed Soto being killed.
Lenny was voiced by Alan Tudyk.
Runar
| Ice Age character |
| Runar |
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| Species: | Neanderthal |
| Eyes: | Brown |
| Hair: | Dark Brown |
| Voiced by: | actor unknown |
Runar was the leader of a tribe of Neanderthals shown in the first film.
Runar was a leader for a group of Neanderthals. He was the father of Roshan and husband of Nadia, and cared greatly for his family, all the while leading them and the rest of the tribe as a nomadic group to travel from place to place. In one encampment that his tribe set up, half a pack of saber-toothed cats was killed and the furs taken as coats and clothing. In vengeance, the acting leader saber-tooth named Soto decided to plan an attack on Runar's tribe so as to take his son Roshan and kill him in in vengeance for those saber-teeth slain in battle by Runar's tribe. The attack almost worked, but Runar's tribe had dogs that detected Soto's pack coming and the Neanderthal tribe did battle with the saber-teeth, with Soto fighting directly with Runar. In the melee, the baby Roshan was taken by his mother from a saber-tooth named Diego, and the hunters successfully warded off the saber-teeth only to find out that his son had disappeared and his wife was gone.
Runar had no choice left but to begin the travel to a settlement far off, tracking the treacherous saber-teeth on the way and finding clues as to his son's whereabouts. In time, Runar made it near the settlement and was finally re-united with his son, but not before meeting face-to-face with Manfred and Sid, the two animals who returned the child. Runar was on his guard about Manfred at first, as Manfred appeared hostile, but quickly came to see that Manfred meant no ill will, simply to return the child.
Runar thanked Manfred by giving him the charm bracelet that had once been Roshan's, and with that Runar left the scene with his tribe and his son in tow.
Nadia
| Ice Age character |
| Nadia |
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| Species: | Neanderthal |
| Eyes: | Brown |
| Hair: | Dark Brown |
| Voiced by: | actress unknown |
Nadia was the wife of the leader of a tribe of Neanderthals shown in the first film.
Nadia had a husband, Runar, and a baby son, Roshan. She and her family lived a peaceful life together with their tribe until the day when a pack of saber-teeth invaded their camp to abduct the youngest member, Roshan. Nadia staved off an attack on Roshan long enough to run away quickly from the saber-tooth who was pursuing her. Nadia ran with Roshan in her arms until she reached a great waterfall and was cornered. She jumped, holding on tightly to her son all the while; she then ended up on the riverbank below, meeting Manfred and Sid, two animals that were passing by. With her limited strength, Nadia nudged her son to these animals in the hopes that they could be entrusted with her son. Seconds after this act, she slipped slowly from the riverbank, disappearing completely. Her fate remains unknown.
Dab
Dab was a dodo shown in the first film.
Dab was the dodo who stole the watermelon that Manfred had picked out for the baby Roshan to eat. Dab made it back to the flock of dodos and set the watermelon that he had taken down with two others, shortly before spotting Manfred and the others and squawking out "Intruders!", before falling into a smouldering pit. It is implied jokingly in the 2-disc copy of "Ice Age" that it was all an act and that he is still alive.
Dab was voiced by Alan Tudyk.
Sylvia
Sylvia is a female ground sloth who was cut from the first Ice Age film, but can be found in the deleted scenes of the 2-Disc DVD release.
Sylvia was shown waylaying Sid into travelling with her, for she was seeking commitment. Sid, not wanting any of this, had her sent off as he managed to put her in the path of some running glyptodonts. Sylvia eventually found him again, though this time, she found him and was still adamant to go migrating with him. Sid agreed and told her that he would leave her for a moments to get turnips so as to stuff their cheeks to migrate, but rather ran off to escape from her without her knowing it, and she followed him to where she found him: in the jaws of Diego, the saber-toothed cat. She did not believe that Sid was truly dead, and sullenly told Diego to "eat him". It is presumed that after that, she left alone. Sylvia had red-colored fur and red, untidy hair.
Sylvia was voiced by Kristen Johnson.
Eddie
| Ice Age character |
| Eddie |
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| Species: | Glyptodont |
| Eyes: | Unknown |
| Skin: | Shell is brown, skin is gray |
| Voiced by: | actor unknown |
Eddie was a glyptodont shown in the first film during the migration scene and was shown trying to jump off a small cliff, claiming that he was on the verge of an evolutionary breakthrough. He jumped off the edge of the cliff, expecting to fly, but simply ended up falling down to the ground.
In the Spanish translation of the dialogue, Eddie's name was changed into Felipe.
The voice actor of Eddie is unknown.
Carl and Frank
Carl and Frank are two brontotheres.
The two appeared at the beginning of the film when Sid the sloth was shown stepping on their salad and eating an important part of it, the dandelion. The two animals soon chased after him in the hopes of killing him, but were stopped forcefully by Manny the mammoth, by being hurled through the air. They'd held a powerful grudge against Sid for what he'd done and when they next saw him, he was in the same hot mud pool that they were in and was erroneously referring to them as ladies. Again, Carl and Frank stampeded after the hapless sloth, but were waylaid when they saw that he had already been "killed" by a saber-toothed cat named Diego, which was part of Sid's plan to get them to be fooled into leaving him alone and not trying to kill him off, and gave up their chase post-haste, defeated. Carl had thick lips and a thick horn, while Frank had more pointed lips and a thinner horn.
Carl was voiced by Cedric the Entertainer and Frank was voiced by Stephen Root.
While their species is listed as "Brontotherium", they are more the size of Brontops dispar. It thus cannot be concluded which species they are, short of an amalgamation.
Jennifer and Rachel
Jennifer and Rachel are two female ground sloths around during the first film.
The two were shown being sweet-talked by Sid to impress them while he had the baby Roshan in tow. Jennifer admitted that she found some of Sid's qualities to be most attractive, and when Sid left, the two spoke to each other on how, despite his lack of good looks, he was a family-type and that all of the sensitive sloths were eaten.
These two female sloths (in a deleted scene from the film) were shown scorning Sid when he was shown to simply be using the baby to mate with them, though Rachel was much more straightforward as she kicked him directly in the groin while calling him "pig".
Jennifer was a thickset dark-blue sloth with short curly hair and Rachel was considerably thinner and had light tan fur and a blonde ponytail directly at the top of her head.
Jennifer was voiced by Lorri Bagley and Rachel was voiced by Jane Krakowski.
Ellie
Ellie is a female Wooly Mammoth, who Manny, Diego and Sid meet on their migration to escape the flood.
It was revealed that when Ellie was young, she was separated from her herd during the ice age. She came across two opossums named Crash and Eddie, along with their mother. She later forgot her origins and thought that she was an opossum.
Manfred met her when he was afraid that he truly was the last mammoth, and he was overjoyed that he had found another of his kind, but got a surprise when he saw that Ellie believed that she was an opossum. Nevertheless, he and his herd (or rather, Sid) welcomed Ellie and her brothers to travel with them. During this time, Ellie displayed the mannerisms pertaining to an opossum as well as insisting (despite obvious proof that she was not a possum) and this was weighing heavily on Manfred's patience, namely when she claimed that the act of bravery that he had done of fighting off the sea reptile Cretaceous was dumb.
Soon, Manfred got his time to be alone with Ellie when he and Ellie went for a walk through a wooded area, where Ellie had a flashback that told her of her past. Upon remembering this, she knew that she was a mammoth, but was soon angered at Manfred for implying that they must mate in order to save the mammoths from extinction, but in time, she apologised for over-reacting. She and Manfred also slowly fall in love now and the next morning when they resumed travel, this affinity did not seem to end.
Soon, however, this new "herd" reached a horrible obstacle between them and safety from the oncoming flood: a field of geysers, which Manfred explained must be crossed, but Ellie would not listen: she and her brothers felt that they must go around. But this proved to be disastrous: as they were trying to reach their destination, some rocks caved down and nearly crushed Ellie and her brothers, but trapped them instead in a sort of cave. Manfred rescued Ellie, for the water was flooding into the cave where she was trapped and had nearly drowned Ellie. She and Manfred escaped and regrouped with the others, but faced another problem, for the waters were still rising.
Eventually, however, the waters subsided and to top it all off, a herd of mammoths made their way into the valley. Manfred thought that because the mammoths had come, that Ellie would not want to remain with him. Manfred was persuaded otherwise by Sid and Diego and soon caught up with Ellie and confessed his feelings, saying that he wanted to be together not because they had to be, but because he himself wanted to.The mammoths trumpet while Manny and Ellie embrace. Manfred and Ellie decide to stay with their old friends, taking along Sid, Diego, and the possum brothers.
Crash and Eddie
Crash and Eddie are two fraternal twin brother opossums that appear in the second film. These two brothers were the adopted brothers of Ellie the mammoth, but cared for her all the same.
They first made their presence known to the opening characters by means of shooting pebbles through reeds at Sid and Diego, then baiting them so as to humiliate them, but Diego began chasing them, leading both Sid and Diego to Ellie. After much persuasion, Ellie and her brothers joined Manny, Sid, and Diego, though Crash and Eddie spared almost no opportunity in bothering Diego.
As they travelled with Manny and his friends, Ellie grew closer to Manny, putting both Crash and Eddie somewhat closer to Manny and his friends, but creating a short grudge when Manny tried "hitting on" Ellie. In time, however, they saw behind the petty grudges and worked together with Manny, Sid, and DIego to escape the flood, but left with Ellie when she left Manny and his friends to cross the minefield, as she claimed that it was suicide to cross it. Crash and Eddie joined Ellie in trying to escape the flood, but soon ran into trouble when they were trapped in a cave.
Ellie insisted that they leave her to the point of pushing them outwards from a small crevice, but they promised to return with help, and true to their word, sought out Manny to try and free Ellie. They eventually made their way into a rushing current of water and were almost swept away when a foolish Sid came along to jump into the current, leaving them, in addition to holding onto a branch for dear life against the current of water, trying to hold onto an unconscious Sid. Diego eventually helped when he jumped in and saved them from drowning along with Sid. When Manny had saved Ellie from drowning, they helped Ellie back onto solid ground, but almost drowned when the flood was encroaching.
Eventually however, the waters drained away, leaving Crash, Eddie, and all of the others alive. When a herd of mammoths came by (as mammoths were presumed all but extinct), they thought that Ellie would go with them and leave Manny, so they went with her. But as it turned out, Manny and Ellie stayed together because they wanted to, rather than being obligated to, and so they left onwards, taking along with Sid and Diego, Crash and Eddie as well.
Crash had a flatter nose than Eddie, had blue eyes and was voiced by Seann William Scott and Eddie had a pointed nose, brown eyes and was voiced by Josh Peck.
Fast Tony
A giant armadillo living in the days of the Ice Age, Fast Tony was a con-man trying to give off items such as reeds and bark to other denizens of the Ice Age so as to escape the world's end, which by chance, he predicted and it came true. Fast Tony would give off products in exchange for whatever the other animals would bring by with the help of his "assistant", an insipid glyptodont named Stu. He was notoriously amoral with others, even being criticised by Manny for willing to sell off "his own mother for a grape". Fast Tony immediately asked if that was an offer, then pretended he hadn't though of it for the benefit of the watching animals.
Stu was more Fast Tony's guinea pig to prove their wares' worth, rather than his actual partner and proved more useful dead than alive, as Fast Tony had taken Stu's shell (as Stu had just been killed) and shamelessly tried to pawn it off to other animals as a personal "mobile home".
Fast Tony was last seen at the end of Ice Age: The Meltdown using Stu's shell as a raft.
Fast Tony's voice is provided by Jay Leno
Stu
Fast Tony's dim-witted assistant, Stu was a glyptodont with little intelligence (to Fast Tony's chagrin) and was shown being the victim of Fast Tony's products, until the day that he had stayed behind when other animals had left the flooding lands, and Stu was killed and eaten by two (presumed frozen) sea reptiles. All that remained of Stu was his shell, which was blasted out of the water and was later used by Fast Tony as a "mobile home".
Stu was voiced by Tom Fahn.
Cholly
Cholly made his appearance in Ice Age: The Meltdown.
He is a chalicothere, who was around during the days of the flooding of the valleys where the animals lived. He suffers from chronic and extremely unpleasant flatulence which he blames upon the fact that his stomach "hates him". He is seen in the second film sitting on a log trying to direct the flatulence away from him and mistakenly letting it loose directly in front of Sid the sloth's face.
In the game version of Ice Age: The Meltdown, he plays a significantly more important role than what he was shown as in the film: he helps Scrat get from place to place by means of his flatulence, but Scrat must earn the favor by giving Cholly apples to eat.
Cholly is voiced by Alan Tudyk.
The Lone Gunslinger
The Lone Gunslinger is a vulture shown in the second film.
The Gunslinger acts as the voice that warns the other animals of the dangers coming soon due to the valley where they reside flooding up with water. The Lone Gunslinger only warns them of the danger and little else, rather hoping that one or two of the animals leaving will die, furnishing food for he and the other vultures which he is presumably family and friends with.
As he watches all of the creatures in the valley leave to safety, he makes snide remarks with his friends about it, and this escalades to the point of singing a musical number on how much they plotted to eat the other animals.
The Lone Gunslinger was last shown flying over the "boat" full of escaping animals and making snide remarks.
In the storybook version, he and his fellow vultures were shown to have ended up feasting on Cretaceous and Maelstrom.
The Lone Gunslinger is voiced by Will Arnett.
James
| Ice Age character |
| James |
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| Species: | Aardvark |
| Eyes: | Black |
| Fur: | Dark Red |
| Voiced by: | Alex Sullivan |
James is a young aardvark shown in the second film at Sid's camp, who was very mischievous and played pranks on Sid as well as being rude to him. When Sid told him not to run, James mocked him by saying 'Make me, sloth." and acted as ringleader when it came to playing pranks. During the migration, his father counted his children, but could not find James, as James was back at the waterpark, blowing bubbles in the water with his trunk. James was almost left behind during the migration to safety when he stayed by the waterside, and was frightened off by Stu, who spared him a grim fate of being eaten by a sea reptile. James was last seen getting on the boat to escape the flood. He and his family survived, witnessing the return of the mammoths.
James is voiced by Alex Sullivan.
Billy
| Ice Age character |
| Billy |
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| Species: | Glyptodont |
| Eyes: | Green |
| Skin: | Shell is green, skin is peach |
| Voiced by: | Caitlin Rose Anderson |
Billy is a young glyptodont shown in the second film at Sid's camp joining James in picking on Sid, pulling on a vine with his mouth to hold Sid up and use him as a piñata. As Sid told his friends that the young animals at the camp were fond of him, he asked Billy if he agreed, but Billy just mocked him by saying "Don't make me eat you." Billy was also shown during the migration, panicking among other animals when they realized the dam had burst.
Billy is voiced by Caitlin Rose Anderson.
Ashley
| Ice Age character |
| Ashley |
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| Species: | Beaver |
| Eyes: | Brown |
| Fur: | Brown |
| Voiced by: | Caitlin Rose Anderson |
Ashley was a young beaver shown in the second film at Sid's camp. She was known for picking her nose and also tried to play a game involving pinning a sharp stick on Manfred's behind. Ashley was also seen with others escaping the flood and was clinging to her father when she got scared of the flood coming.
Ashley is voiced by Caitlin Rose Anderson, who also voiced Billy.
Vera
Vera was a Euceratherium shown in the second film when she was walking to escape the flood, and was shown being stopped by Fast Tony, who insisted that she was fat and could lose weight with his diet. Another shrub-ox that was close to her came along, insisting that she didn't need a diet, leaving Fast Tony without any customers.
Vera is voiced by Mindy Sterling.
Cretaceous
| Ice Age character |
| Cretaceous |
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| Species: | Ichthyosaur |
| Eyes: | Yellow with red pupils |
| Scales: | Purple |
| Voiced by: | N/A |
Cretaceous is an altered ichthyosaur and one of the film's main antagonists.
Cretaceous is shown in the beginning frozen in a great block of ice that was jarred loose when the wall of ice began crumbling. The ice melted, releasing both Maelstrom and him into the lake which was all but abandoned by most animals. When they made it to the ice lake, the first animal that they had encountered and eaten was Stu the glyptodont, leaving behind only his shell. The two sea reptiles then swam further down the series of rivers where they eventually reached Manny's herd as well as Crash, Eddie, and Ellie. Cretaceous made a great lunge at Manny, but was caught on his tusks, only to be flung far off, hitting a piece of ice and falling back into the water.
Later, when the dam broke, the two reptiles went swimming on the wall of water that was slowly approaching towards the escaping masses and pulled down Manny when he was swimming to save Ellie. Manny devised a plan to rid himself of the two sea reptiles, by having them try to chase him, he tricked them into hitting a log that was wedged under a large rock. The plan worked, freeing Ellie, and the boulder, presumably, crushed and killed the two reptiles.
Maelstrom
| Ice Age character |
| Maelstrom |
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| Species: | Pliosaur |
| Eyes: | Yellow with red pupils |
| Scales: | Green |
| Voiced by: | N/A |
Maelstrom is an altered Pliosaur and is one of the film's main antagonists.
Maelstrom is shown in the beginning frozen in a great block of ice that was jarred loose when the wall of ice began crumbling. The ice melted, releasing both Cretaceous and him into the lake which was all but abandoned by most animals. When they made it to the ice lake, the first animal that they had encountered and eaten was Stu the glyptodont, leaving behind only his shell. The two sea reptiles then swam further down the series of rivers where they eventually reached Manfred's herd as well as Crash, Eddie, and Ellie. Maelstrom intended to eat Sid but could not catch him, as Sid was already escaping with Diego, and had only just escaped Maelstrom as he broke off a massive chunk of ice where the sloth and saber-tooth had stood only moments before.
Later, when the dam broke, the two reptiles went swimming on the wall of water that was slowly approaching towards the escaping masses and pulled down Manny when he was swimming to save Ellie. Manny devised a plan to rid himself of the two sea reptiles, by having them try to chase him, he tricked them into hitting a log that was wedged under a large rock. The plan worked, freeing Ellie, and knocking the two reptiles down with the boulder.
Characters who are mentioned but not seen
Manfred's family
| Ice Age character |
| Manfred's family |
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| Species: | Mammoth |
| Eyes: | unknown |
| Fur: | unknown |
Manfred's family was shown in the first film.
The family made no physical appearance but rather appeared on a cave painting, where the memories returned for Manfred: his family was taken from him by a pack of humans. It disturbed him for some time, but Manfred was told by Sid that he must let go of his past so that he could have a future.
Zach
Zach was a member of Sid's family who was mentioned in the first film as having left him behind when the migration came.
Marshall
Marshall was a member of Sid's family who left him behind during the migration.
Bertie
Bertie was a member of Sid's family who had left him behind in the migration.
Uncle Fungus
Uncle Fungus was a member of Sid's family who had left without him.
Cousin Wilton
| Ice Age character |
| Wilton |
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| Species: | Opossum |
| Eyes: | Unknown |
| Fur: | Dark Brown striped |
One of Crash and Eddie's cousins, Wilton was apparently swept up by a hawk and "taken for dinner".
Sylvia's Father
Mentioned once by Sylvia, her father apparently owned a tree of which there was a low branch open to live on. Sylvia expressed a desire to move into the branch with Sid, and her plans were to work her way up with Sid, remodeling along the way.
Ellie's "Grandma"
| Ice Age character |
| Ellie's "Grandma" |
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| Species: | Opossum |
| Eyes: | Unknown |
| Fur: | Dark Brown striped |
Shown not in the second film, but mentioned on the official website, Ellie's grandmother was the victim of a rather nasty crushing when Ellie jumped on her back for a piggyback ride.
Dung Beetle's Mother
| Ice Age character |
| Dung Beetle's Mother |
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| Species: | dung beetle |
| Eyes: | Unknown |
| Carapace: | Dark Blue |
Shown not in the second film, but mentioned by name, this character is the mother of a lady dung-beetle who gave her daughter a ball of dung as a gift.
Carl's Grandmother
| Ice Age character |
| Carl's Grandmother |
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| Species: | Brontops |
| Eyes: | Unknown |
| Skin: | presumably Gray |
Shown not in the first film, but mentioned by name in the Spanish dialogue, Carl's grandmother had a recipe for a salad made with leaves which was used by Frank as a recipe for his travelling companion, Carl.
