Floyd is a butterfly and one of the main protagonists in the Just So Movie.
Background[]
Floyd is the eleventh and final member of the Main Eleven since he has been a frequent visitor of the Grover Zoo and is good friends with Bigmouth, Humphrey, Wrinkles, Spot, Trunksworth, Joey, Penny, Arnold, Clyde, Carl, and Joe. His home is outside the zoo, which he often visits and he likes to get together with his friends at the aquarium when Joe's not around. His ancestor is from "The Butterfly that Stamped" and made him like all other butterflies.
Floyd is a monarch butterfly with orange and black wings with white spots while the rest of him is completely black.
Appearances[]
In the movie, Floyd is seen as a fully-grown butterfly in the zoo along with his friends ever since Joe became the head zookeeper and before Marty died. When the zoo gets run down, the butterfly refuses to bear his friends leaving like the other animals. Hearing the news about Julia wanting to buy the zoo unless Joe pays his debt within two days, Floyd and his friends get together trying to think of how they can save their home when Mother Nature appears, telling the Main Eleven that she will take them back in time to see their ancestors.
While the Main Eleven keep talking and Humphrey wishes for the other animals to return, the others object as Floyd explains about the frogs, chameleons, and turtles always trying to eat him despite his poisonous taste.
While the Main Eleven is asleep at night, Mother Nature, who is true to her word, takes them back in time to see their ancestors. Floyd watches his ancestors while the whole story of "The Butterfly that Stamped" being acted out, though it rather surprises him a bit. Back at the zoo, the next day, the Main Eleven explains about what happened, realizing that their ancestors made them what they are and that they can save the zoo.
When Joe (who has lost all hope) comes to feed them for the last time and explain that he's going to sell, the animals try to tell him about meeting their ancestors, but he can't understand them since animals can't speak human language.
Having lost hope the next day, Floyd and his friends decide to make the best of missing each other (though they don't know what Julia has in mind for them), when Joe, who finally came to his senses from seeing his own ancestors last night, tells his animals friends that they can save the zoo after all. The Main Eleven gets ready as the sing, "Got to Save the Zoo".
The moment Julia arrives and Mr. Grover stands up to her refusing to sell the zoo, the landlady gets attacked by the Main Eleven. Floyd guides Joe and Sally to Julia's car where they find the evidence for Julia's scheme while the other animals attack the landlady. After Julia gets arrested, the police allow the zoo to remain open forever, and Sally quits working for the landlady, Joe thanks the Main Eleven for believing in him ever since they were young.
Floyd even compliments his friends and his ancestors, knowing that things are going to get much better. After the zoo is renovated, new animals come to live in the zoo, including a new female butterfly who Floyd has many caterpillars with.
Video Games[]
Carl appears in the Just So Game as a playable character with abilities to fly, hover, and glide though he's not much of a fighter. He eats zoo chow to restore his health. When visiting his ancestor, he has to defeat a praying mantis by dodging its legs and luring it into hitting branches.
Trivia[]
- Floyd can talk to his friends while he only flaps his wings to humans, which is why Joe can't understand him.
- Monarch butterflies don't fight, their bright colors warn other animals that they're poisonous to the taste because of the milkweed they consume. However, praying mantises are immune to the poison, which is why Floyd has to dodge the mantis and lure it into hitting branches in the video game; yet, Floyd is still enemies with Julia.