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Personality
Nick's personality is quite interesting because there are two layers to it on display in the story.

His primary expression is the Sly Fox which is the persona he adopted after his traumatic encounter with Pack 914 as child. However, at heart, Nick has always wanted to be a Junior Ranger Scout and the qualities they demonstrate. There are hints throughout the movie that he never fully gave up that dream.

The Sly Fox
This is the primary image Nick presents during the film. This "Nick Wilde" is shifty, sly, and cunning, traits supposedly common to all foxes. He is easygoing and slick, easily conning and tricking others through his charm, quick-talking and friendly demeanor. He nearly always has a sly smile on his face with half-lidded eyes and appears unfazed throughout most of the film.

This personality is Nick's response to being the shifty and untrustworthy fox that society expects of him as well as providing a mask that he can hide behind so they can never see that they got to him.

The Sly Fox is particularly good at reading his fellow mammals such as what he learns about Judy at their first encounter at the ice cream shop. He's aware that she's carrying fox repellent on her belt. He notices how quickly she corrects the owner when he calls her a meter maid even pointing out her badge to confirm she's an officer which gives Nick a clue that she is not happy with her current position. He sees that she's able to recall health code violations off the top of her head, showing she's intelligent and studious. He watches her fall for Finnick's disguise completely so he sees an opportunity to hustle her into paying for the jumbo-pop. Outside he notices that she puts down the owner's "backward attitude" toward foxes even as he knows she's wearing the repellent and thus notes some hypocrisy in her values. Finally he watches her give Finnick the pep talk about "anyone can be anything", alerting him to her high level of idealism and naivety. The Sly Fox takes all he has learned and distills it into the devastating "whoopsie" speech he give later.

The Sly Fox is quite intelligent and has become quite experienced with the the way the city works. He learned what permits and paperwork were necessary to allow him to run his pawpsicle scheme within the letter of the law giving him protection from arrest. He's learned the layout of the city, knowing the various maintenance tunnels and layout of the city's camera system that would allow him to move throughout the city without detection.

Because Nick has operated as the Sly Fox for 20+ years, many of the traits of this mask are now part of Nick's personality. His snarky attitude leads to him to always having a clever and irreverent answer. His feeling that he needs to be shifty has led to a cynical outlook on life in Zootopia such that he feels that animals can only be what they are and never what they want to be.

The Junior Ranger Scout
As a young kit, Nick had different qualities of his personality on display. Stories of his childhood like "Magical Mystery Nick" as well as the flashback in the movie itself show that he is kind, clever, mischievous and even a bit idealistic. Although he knew that Pack 914 was all prey and he was going to be the only fox, he truly believed it would not make a difference and entered their initiation with buoyant enthusiasm.

Although the Sly Fox mask is now prominently on display, the movie shows that underneath it all Nick would still love to show he can be a trustworthy Junior Ranger Scout. Nick is a classic case of acting like a jerk but having a heart of gold.

There a numerous little examples of the Junior Ranger Scout peeking out throughout the film. When Nick visits Flash at the DMV, he responds warmly to Nick conveying that there's actual friendship between them and that Flash is not just a DMV resource that Nick uses as needed. He kept his scout bandanna which he uses as a handkerchief. His carefree attitude toward the Otterton case quickly fades away once he's confronted by the apparent evidence that Mr. Otterton had been attacked in the back of the limo. He stands up for Judy when Bogo demands her badge. After they escape Cliffside Asylum and hit the river, a very concerned Nick calls out "Judy" by name when she still hasn't surfaced. Even after being hurt by Judy at the press conference, he still kept the carrot pen she gave him.

The most telling of example of Nick's basic decency occurs when he and Judy are being chased by Manchas after he went savage. As they approach the sky tram platform in the Rainforest District, Nick happens to reach the car first and it's notable that he opens the door, turns to Judy and says "get in" as he holds the door open for her. Nick could have just leapt into the car for safety then turned to pull Judy inside, but the Junior Ranger Scout was willing to remain in harm's way so Judy could get in first.

During his initiation, Nick as a Junior Ranger Scout promises to be brave, loyal, helpful and trustworthy. During his time with Judy, he fulfills every aspect of that oath.
 * Brave - Nick stands up to Chief Bogo in the rain forest to save Judy's job.
 * Loyal - Nick flat out refuses to leave Judy in the museum after she injures her leg even when she insists.
 * Helpful - Nick's knowledge of Zootopia and having a friend at the DMV, helped Judy's investigation immensely.
 * Trustworthy - Judy trusted that Nick would pretend to be savage and clamp his teeth around her throat but not hurt her.

Observations
As a kit, Nick proclaims that he always wanted to be part of a pack. By the end of the movie, he joins the ZPD to work with his friend Judy and is finally part of a pack that accepts him and gives him the chance to prove that is trustworthy.

This is apparent by the way the animators have mirrored Nick's joyful moment when about to join the Junior Ranger Scouts with the joyful moment he's about to receive his ZPD badge.



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Musically, a suite is a series of distinct instrumental movements or sections with some element of unity, usually intended to be performed as a single unit. Michael Giacchino arranged the three most prominent themes of Zootopia into a single performance.