Dr. Madge Honey

Intro CHARACTER INFORMATION SPECIES Honey Badger GENDER Female OCCUPATION Doctor ALIGNMENT Good/Neutral HOME Zootopia POWERSABILITIES Vast medical expertise Dr. Madge Honey Badger is a female honey badger and a doctor in Zootopia.Dr. Madge's relationship with the Mayor of Zootopia seems to be fairly tenuous. At the Mayor's insistence, Dr. Madge is put onto the case of investigating why the predators around Zootopia are going savage.In one of her brief meetings with Mayor Lionheart, which can be assumed to be fairly regular, she hypothesizes that the savagery may be down to biology.The writers wanted to make sure that Judy's disastrous performance at the press conference was caused by her revealing her own bias and not by her accidentally saying the wrong thing because she was under pressure.Judy always believed that predators had an innate savagery to them as revealed during her play at the start of the film. When Dr. Honeybadger talks about biology at Cliffside, it sparks a connection in Judy about when she talked about predators and their "uncontrollable biological urge to maim and maul".This can be seen when Dr. Honeybadger says "consider their biology". There's a brief cutaway to show Judy and Nick's reactions. Judy's face lights up as if "predator biology" explains the savage behavior she's seen on the case. Nick, however, clearly looks offended at the suggestion.So, at the press conference after admitting the ZPD doesn't know why predators are turning savage, Judy stumbles into an explanation that's very much a rewording of her description of predators from the play she wrote which opened the film.Lionheart is definitely a consummate politician, but it's worth noting that he doesn't use the term "predator" or "savage" when he is first talking with Dr. Honeybadger. He specifically says he's got "a dozen and half animals here who have gone off-the-rails crazy".