# Who hates chickens? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642 "2010-11-14T16:43:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/1 "2010-11-14T16:43:13Z")
No, not ‘who’ here. There was a movie in which one of the characters hated chickens. I have an idea it was the hero (or anti-hero), but it may well have been the villain. Anyone know the movie and the character? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/2 "2010-11-14T17:48:28Z")
Chicken Run? > **[Chicken Run](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Run)** > > Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animated adventure comedy film produced by Pathé and Aardman Animations in partnership with DreamWorks Animation. Aardman's first feature-length film, it was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park from a screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick and based on an original story by Lord and Park. The film stars the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Tony Haygarth, Miranda Richardson, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, and Benjamin Whitr Released t... Or do we limit this to live action movies? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/3 "2010-11-14T17:59:03Z")
It was a live-action movie. Sorry, I should have mentioned that. ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/4 "2010-11-14T22:23:28Z")
The Gnome King from _Return to Oz._ ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/5 "2010-11-14T23:08:01Z")
I need to get my glasses fixed. I read “Who hates _children_” and thinking Man, Johnny’s gonna get flamed for that! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/6 "2010-11-14T23:55:37Z")
> [@smoke](#): > > The Gnome King from _Return to Oz._ This would’ve been my guess. And it wasn’t the chicken that got him, it was an egg. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/7 "2010-11-14T23:59:30Z")
I never saw _Return to Oz_. I think this was an action movie or similar. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/8 "2010-11-15T15:44:31Z")
I took the liberty of posting your question on the IMDb board, and one of the experts posited that your movie might be [Angel Heart (1987)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/9 "2010-11-15T15:47:40Z")
Was it Indiana Jones? “Chickens. Why’d it have to be _chickens_?” Maybe I’m misremembering. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/10 "2010-11-16T03:21:04Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > I took the liberty of posting your question on the IMDb board, and one of the experts posited that your movie might be [Angel Heart (1987)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/) I think that’s it. I’ll have to pull it off the shelf sometimes. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/11 "2010-11-16T07:17:15Z")
Colonel Sanders. He started out just killing them. Eating their corpses was a later addition. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/12 "2010-11-16T08:45:09Z")
Actor David Boreanez has a pathological fear of chickens. They worked it into **Angel** at least once or twice; I don’t know about **Bones**. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/13 "2010-11-16T16:59:44Z")
Randy on _My Name Is Earl_ had a fear of chickens. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-hates-chickens/560642/14 "2010-11-16T17:08:06Z")
As was already answered, I’m pretty sure the OP is thinking of _Angel Heart_