![]() ![]() He then discovers Little John holding a knife to the back of Prince John's neck and attacks him, freeing the prince and resulting in the following battle against Robin Hood. After Prince John unmasks Robin Hood and sentences to beheading, the Sheriff becomes suspicious when the prince suddenly orders Robin to be released. He loses anyway, thanks to Robin Hood's skill. When the "stork" shoots, he nudges the stork's bow, in an attempt to have him miss. First he has one of the two vulture henchmen named Nutsy, hide in the target, and the vulture adjusts the target so that the Sheriff gets a bull's eye. Though the sheriff is apparently a decent and respectable archer, making it to the final round, he resorts to cheating to defeat the disguised Robin Hood. He even carries on a conversation with the "stork" about how Robin Hood did not attend, and brags that he could always see through the disguises. Once again, he is unaware of the fact that a stork archer is actually Robin Hood in disguise. The Sheriff is one of the participants in Prince John's archery tournament. The Sheriff even stops so low as to steal money from a blind beggar, while being completely oblivious to the fact that the beggar is Robin Hood in disguise. At Mother Rabbit's home, he steals the single farthing that was meant as a birthday present for Skippy. First, he takes them from Otto the blacksmith, by hitting Otto's leg until the coins that the dog hid in his cast come out, which causes obvious pain to Otto's broken leg. Later, he is shown traveling though the town for his daily tax collection. ![]() Despite his attempts, Robin Hood manages to escape by hiding in a tree. The Sheriff appears at the film's opening, sneaking up on Robin Hood and Little John as the two are swimming. He also speaks with a heavy Southern United States accent, which is likewise derived directly from British dialects which most characters speak in. Unlike most Disney villains, the Sheriff is a cheerful and polite character, but he seems to be tough, short-tempered, quarrelsome and cantankerous. The Sheriff commands a treacherous posse of archer wolves, and has authority over Trigger and Nutsy. In addition, he’s constantly fooled by Robin Hood's disguises, despite his claims to the contrary.ĭespite this, he is shown to be extremely brainy and shrewd, as he was baffled by Prince John's unexpected claim that Robin Hood should be released, and immediately grew suspicious of John's tyrannical and dangerous behavior, with his suspicions being confirmed when he found Little John holding the prince hostage via knife-back. Despite his constant attempts to capture Robin Hood, he fails at all times. He’s unsympathetic and thoughtless to the poverty of the townspeople, using immoral ways to collect taxes, such as forcing out the coins that Otto hidden in his leg cast, regardless of the pain the blacksmith would endure from his broken leg in the process, or taking the single farthing that was in the church's poor box and laughing as he did it.ĭue to this, he is hated by the people of Nottingham, who often derisively refer to him as "Bushel-britches", referring to the Sheriff's rather morbidly obese physique. In contrast to Prince John (who is the villainous mastermind behind the many plans to stop Robin Hood), the Sheriff is a more active antagonist, constantly fighting and attempting to capture Robin Hood. He was charged to collect the taxes by Prince John. The Sheriff was originally shown to be an honorable, otherwise stingy individual. The Sheriff is an obese belly gray anthropomorphic wolf with yellow eyes, thick black eyebrows, a black nose and wears red sheriff's clothing, a hat with purple stripes and a feather, crimson shoes, puffy purple sleeves with magenta stripes, a gold star badge, and a brown necklace with a gold medallion around his neck.Īt the end of the film, he was stripped and changed to prison uniforms and hat with black and white stripes, ball and chain on his leg.
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