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No hunting. Well, now, we ain't gonna do none of that, are we, Copper? We're just gonna get us a no-good-fox.
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~ Amos Slade determined to have the last laugh when he's finished with Tod.
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♫I ain't got no job, I'm a hunting man. And I'd rather have a dog than a dollar. So let's go banjo ring-a-ling-a-ling, ho! Give a little hoot and a holler!♫
~ Amos's redemption, deciding to spare Tod's life.
Amos Slade is the main antagonist of Disney's 24th full-length animated feature film The Fox and the Hound (which is based on the 1967 novel of the same name by the late Daniel P Mannix) and a minor character in its 2006 midquel The Fox and the Hound 2. He is Tod's former archenemy, Widow Tweed's neighbor and Chief and Copper's owner, master and boss.
Unlike most Disney Villains, even though Amos is a hunter, he does not come across as being evil. Instead, he just hunts for a living and is very professional at it, until he gets motivated by revenge: in fact, if Amos had not broken wildlife laws and entered a sanctuary with the intent of illegally hunting down and killing Tod, he would barely qualify as a villain at all. In the end, his foul temper and desire for revenge would cause him to cross the moral and legal boundaries, though he would soon regret doing so.
In the first film, he was voiced by the late Jack Albertson (in his last theatrical film role). In the midquel, he was voiced by Jeff Bennett, who also voices Owen Burnett and Malibu in Gargoyles, Ozzy in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, Ichy in The Land before Time IV: Journey Through The Mists,Tong Fo in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness,Bradley Uppercrust III in An Extremely Goofy Movie, and Jacques von Hämsterviel in the Lilo and Stitch sequel films.
Amos is a crabby, mean, grumpy, cranky, argumentative and bad-tempered man. However, despite his impatience, he does care about his two hunting dogs named Chief and Copper. Later, Amos reforms after Tod saves him and Copper from a dangerous bear.
Biography[]
The Fox and the Hound[]
Amos is Widow Tweed's bad-tempered neighbor and is known to be a hunter. At the beginning of the film, he is seen when he has a surprise for his hunting dog named Chief, and the surprise is shown to be a hound puppy called Copper, and Amos said that Copper is someone for Chief to look after from now on, but Chief is shown to dislike him, but grows to like him later on. He doesn't like it when Copper wonders off, so he often has to search for Copper, who meets a fox named Tod, who lives with Widow. When Copper plays with Tod a couple of times, Amos finally ties up Copper at his doghouse to prevent him from wondering off again. When Tod arrives at Amos' house to see Copper, Chief alerts to his master, Amos, there, is surprised when he sees the young fox is on his property. Amos accuses the fox of chasing after his chickens, because of this, Amos tries to kill the young fox. Tod is able to escape, as he jumps into Widow's truck as Amos follows them. Widow stops her truck as she confronts Amos for trying to kill Tod as she angrily grabs Amos' gun and then uses it to shoot Amos' radiator on his truck. Amos threatens to kill Tod as he says to Widow that he will blast him if he ever catches him on his property again.
After that, Amos takes both of his dogs, Copper and Chief on a hunting trip. By springtime, Amos has collected a lot of skins and trophies with the help of a grown up Copper. Amos, Copper and Chief later return, and as Tod comes to see Copper again, Amos sees Tod again and tries to kill him once more. Chief helped Amos chase Tod to a railroad bridge, as Chief traps Tod onto the bridge. Suddenly, a train comes. As Amos tells Chief to jump, Tod escapes, but Chief falls off the bridge by the train hitting him, causing him to be injured badly, and suffer a broken leg. Amos and Copper accuse Tod of making Chief get hit by a train, and both Copper and his master, Amos want revenge on Tod by killing him, while Tod safely returned to his owner, Widow. Suddenly, Amos marches to Widow's house and attempts to kill Tod who is hiding, but Widow is able to close the door and lock it to stop Amos from killing the fox, but Amos tells her that she cannot keep Tod permanently locked up.
To protect Tod from Amos, Widow takes him to a nature preserve, believing he will be safe there since hunting is not allowed. This does not deter Amos, who is determined to avenge Chief's near-death, and believes that Widow has dropped Tod off at the nature preserve, but promises that he and Copper will get him. As Amos and Copper see Chief making a fuss over his injured leg to get attention, Amos threatens to break Chief's other leg, causing him to whimper. After that, Amos shows Copper his plan to catch and kill Tod as he shows him a trap, that traps a twig with a loud snap. After that, he breaches the nature preserve with Copper and sets multiple traps along a path, which is used by Tod and Vixey to get some water, just as Tod wanders along a forest path, which is used by him and Vixey to get some water. As Amos uses his gun and tries to shoot Tod, Tod's ear perks up, causing him to step backward, and that's when he barely escapes from the traps. Amos and Copper chase Tod and his girlfriend, Vixey. Tod manages to distract Copper by engaging him in a fight before returning to the foxhole. Amos puts fire in the den, while he and Copper wait at the other end. However, Tod and Vixey escape through the flames. As Amos continues to follow Copper chasing the two foxes, the chase climaxes to the top of a waterfall, which is where Tod and Vixey escape, just before he and Copper close in for the kill to accidentally antagonize a big grizzly furious giant bear, who suddenly appears in front of them from within the bushes. Amos shoots the huge angry enraged bear with his gun out of fear, but the shot only hurts the wrathful animal by nicking him on his shoulder. Because of this, the infuriated bear now attacks Amos and swipes his gun out of his hand, causing Amos to end up falling down the slope of a hill until he reaches the bottom. While trying to escape from the giant vicious disturbed savage bear, Amos is caught in one of his own traps and has lost his gun, that is caught on a small tree and landed slightly from his reach. However, Amos is saved from death, and when Tod and Copper intervene and save Amos by fighting the large bear, thanks to their joint effort, Tod manages to save him while Copper is vastly overpowered for being small and more agile for trying to fight the big black grizzly bear.
When Tod is gravely injured from the bear attack for saving Copper and Amos from death, Amos tries to kill Tod, only for Copper to defend him to make sure Amos can't kill Tod since they saved him from the evil grizzly bear. However, Amos suddenly redeems himself when he realizes that Copper proved that he and Tod are actually friends, and have saved his life from the monstrous bear, who has nearly killed them, as he is standing in the way of the gun. Amos eventually decides to return home as a slightly better man, while Widow fixes his injured leg, causing him to complain about his leg as his two dogs watch. It is possible that to learn his lesson about foxes being different from people.
The Fox and the Hound 2[]
Amos first appears when he is wondering where Copper is, because Copper needs a hunting lesson. As Copper talks to Chief, Amos finally finds Copper and tells him to howl, causing an apple to fall on his head. Amos and Chief try to chase after Tod and kill him, but then a bucket of milk falls on Amos' head causing him to ride on Widow's cow, Abigail causing Widow to scold Amos. After that, when Amos is thrown in the mud, Widow throws a pie at his face. Amos scolds Copper for failing at being a hunting dog. Amos and Chief enter the fair for a hunting dog contest, where Chief takes another ribbon which is fourth place for the second time which makes him seem to think makes him the champion hunting dog in the county.
He tries to look for Copper when he leaves Amos' house to join the Singin' Strays. Amos and Chief are being lead by Tod to the Singin' Strays' performance. Amos reveals that Copper is his dog, not a stray, causing Cash to scold him and fire him. When Copper ends up fired, Amos takes him back home.
Amos appears during the climax of the film as he is enjoying some pie with Widow Tweed at her house until they are interrupted as Chief, Tod, and Copper cause a chase, which ends up accidentally causing Tweed and Amos to fall. Because of this, Widow Tweed angrily attacks and hits Amos with a broom.
Amos Slade is the first main antagonist and villain in the Disney Animated Canon to be redeemed (not counting the Ringmaster from Dumbo who is more of an arrogant jerk and an an anti-villain and his redemption is not even confirmed on-screen), the other two being John Silver and Te Kā.
Amos Slade is Jack Albertson's final theatrical role before he died on November 25, 1981 of the same year at the age of 74 since he was born in June 16, 1907.
There is a small possibility that the hunter who killed Tod's mother in the beginning of the film was Amos himself.
It should be noted, however, that by the time Tod was adopted by Widow Tweed following the death of his mother, Amos was already on his way back from town after adopting Cooper while Chief was at home sleeping. So it is unlikely that Amos had ever killed Tod's mother.
While many people say that Amos is not a villain, he does commit several crimes throughout the film - for example he threatens to commit violence, endangers others with both reckless driving and reckless shooting then finally crosses an even bigger line when he deliberately breaks into a wildlife sanctuary (going as far as cutting the fence): he also uses illegal methods of hunting to try and kill Tod for pure revenge. His actions are foreseen when he is warned that his temper will get him in trouble some day, which indeed it did (both on a moral and legal ground).
Amos' performance model was made by the late Art Stevens.
Amos' animators are John Pomeroy and Ron Husband.
Amos is inspired by the Master from the original The Fox and the Hound novel.
