Hopps Trio

Hopps Trio is the family ship between Stu Hopps, Bonnie Hopps and Judy Hopps from the Zootopia fandom.

Zootopia (2016)
Judy is the oldest child of the Hopps household.

When she was only 9 years old, Stu and Bonnie are shown attending Judy's school play. Stu is filming Judy's performance with his camcorder while Bonnie gets embarrassed at her daughter theatralics when she's pretending to be a feral animal mauled by a vicious predator. When they get to the part where the animals evolved to act civilized and coexist peacefully, Judy reveals to the audience that she wants to be a police officer when she grows up. The knowing look her parents share confirms that they were not consulted about this.

Once the play ends, Judy is happily skipping away from the theatre while being followed by her parents. They both try their damnest to convince her to drop her dream, thinking that becoming a police officer is too dangerous for her. They try to offer the alternative of becoming a carrot farmer, both revealing that they expected her to take over their business once she's an adult. Judy however dismisses their concerns and only becomes more obsessed with the idea of becoming a cop when she helps her friend Sharla against their bully Gideon Grey.

Eventually, her parents give in and Judy becomes officially enrolled in the Zootopia Police Academy. Though Judy struggles at first due to her diminutive size, like her parents feared, she eventually becomes the top student of her class by working out and studying the material, using her size to her advantage. Stu and Bonnie attend her graduation and Stu actually starts crying because he's so proud of her. However, they share a look when Mayor Lionheart reveals that he positioned Judy right in the center of Zootopia.

At the train station, the entire family had come to say goodbye to Judy, with her moving to Zootopia permanently for her job's sake. Stu cries because of how terribly he'll miss his daughter, but Bonnie gets him to control himself. Before Judy leaves, her parents show their prejudice against predators, especially foxes, reminding Judy of the incident of Gideon Grey giving her a scar 15 years ago when trying to defend Sharla. Judy laughs it off, not believing that foxes are naturally untrustworthy, arguing that Gideon was just a jerk who happened to be a fox. However, her parents were so worried about her that they packed a bag filled with self-defense trinkets against foxes, but even Bonnie tells Stu that a taser is going a bit too far. Since her parents insist on her taking them, Judy offers a compromise of just taking the fox repellent spray. When the train arrives, Judy takes a moment to hug her parents and reminding her family that she loves all of them so much.

At the end of her first day in Zootopia, she had been belittled by her Chief of Police to the position of a meter maid, had been hustled by the fox con men Nick Wilde and had been given a crummy one-room apartment to live in. She still keeps a brave face when her parents call, telling them that she's doing fine. However, they notice her orange vest and deduce that she's been giving the job of a meter maid and Bonnie is reassured, arguing that the meter maid is probably the safest job on the force. However, this and Stu happily chanting "meter maid" over and over leads to Judy hanging up on them.

When she ropes Nick Wilde into her investigation and the clues about the missing mammals going savage craze lead them right to Mayor Lionheart, Judy gets a call from her parents at the worst possible time and they are discovered. They manage to escape undetected and alert the police about the mayor's shifty businesses.

As Judy presents the evidence she found at the mayor's at the press conference, the prejudices drilled in by her parents get the better of her and she blurts out that she believes that the predators are going savage because they are reverting, which is supposedly part of their biology. This ends up causing even more unnecessary turmoil between the two factions and ends up costing Judy her budding friendship with Nick. She turns down Mayor Bellwether's offer to become the new face of the ZPD, believing that she shouldn't be heralded as a hero for holding prejudiced values.

She ends up returning to Bunnyburrow to become a carrot farmer and live with her parents. Though Judy tells them that she's happy, they can clearly see that she's not and worry about her. They tell her that they've been thinking about what she had said about foxes, showing that Gideon Grey had turned over a new leaf and became one of their most valued business partners. When two of Judy's siblings play a bit too close to repellent plants near their fields, Stu scolds them while using the scientific name for the plants. When Judy asks about them, her parents tell her that they keep the plants around to ward off bugs, but also recall a story of her uncle going insane when he nibbled on one of them, attacking Bonnie. Judy's suspicions that the plant is what's causing the predators to go savage where confirmed when Gideon refers to them as "Night Howlers", the same thing she had heard one of the missing predators call out before. She asks if she can borrow the family car and heads straight to Zootopia to patch things up with Nick first, getting back into the case second.

Nick is amazed at her parents harvesting blueberries, which comes in handy later since they look just like the pellets the villain uses to inject Night Howlers into their victims. So in a way, Nick and Judy's success in cracking the case can partially be attributed to her parents and Gideon.

Fanon
People are split about how they feel about Judy's parents, some viewers love them for how much they support their daughter, others hate them for not being self-aware about their prejudices. The movie does show them slowly overcoming their own prejudices, showcasing that even older folks are capable of changing their views for the better. Fanfictions focusing on the entire Hopps family are rare, since hardly any of them are named, besides Stu, Bonnie, Judy, Pop-Pop and Molly. However, fanfic writers love to figure out how a family with ~300 members (and counting) could possibly work.

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