Chuck/Angryverse/Classic

is the deuteragonist of the Angry Birds series of games created by Rovio Entertainment. Chuck is a Canary He was introduced in 2009 as a member of the core flock. After his first appearance in Poached Eggs, Chuck has become a very prominent character in multiple installments for the series.

Appearance
Unlike the other birds, he is cone shaped, with a mop of black head feathers and red eyebrows. However, in the early cutscenes, he was the size of The Blues and had top feathers like Red. In his earlier cartoon version, Chuck appears as a large cone shaped bird and the mop black head feathers are large similar to a mohawk, his beak is also large and has large black feathers on his back.

In Angry Birds Toons until Angry Birds 2, Chuck's appearance remains the same as the mop of black head feathers are now four instead of three on top of his head and the black feathers on his back are the same size as the mop of black feathers on his head.

Personal Data

 * Name: Chuck
 * Known Aliases: Yellow Bird, Lazer Bird, Han Solo Bird, Lando Bird (in Star Wars)
 * Group Affiliation: The Flock, The Space Flock, The Star Wars Flock
 * Best Friends: Red and Bomb
 * Voiced by: Antti LJ Pääkkönen (Angry Birds Toons)

Personality
Chuck has a very mixed personality, having different personalities in different media. In the comics, Chuck is enthusiastic and arrogant. He always wanted to be the best of the Flock, and is one of the most restless Birds in the Flock. In the opening scenes of Poached Eggs and Mighty Hoax, while The Flock examines the empty nest with question marks above their heads, Chuck exclaims a "#" sign after realizing that the Bad Piggies stole their eggs.

In the animated game trailer, Red, Chuck, Blue Jay, and Bomb were the first to discover the Flock's eggs missing after severely attacking a butterfly for landing on their eggs.

In the TV Show, Chuck is clumsy, easily distracted, and a bit arrogant.

When not fighting Pigs, Chuck is a practical joker and uses his jokes to liven up the Flock (which sometimes offends Bomb). He is also known as Maching bird, a name that describes his penchant for jokes as well as his intense speed. He is described as enthusiastic and restless, although a little unconfident in the comics. He is the best friend and confidant of Red.

Angry Birds
Chuck is the third bird type to be introduced, while he is in mid-air, the player can tap on the screen to accelerating his speed, making him fly faster than normal, this can be useful for reaching far distances and hiting things really hard, he is also really great with smashing wood.

Angry Birds Seasons
Chuck appeared from the very start of the game when it was first known as Angry Birds Halloween. After his first appearance in "Trick or Treat", he is a playable character in all of the themes that follow.

Unlike other installments of the series, Seasons keeps the characters' original designs, so Chuck's sprites are not updated as they eventually were in the original game.

Chuck has unlockable costumes like all of the other characters. However, a very noteworthy one is his Pikachu costume, based on the respective character of the Pokémon series.

It is also notable that very early on in the game, when it was still known as Angry Birds Halloween, Chuck used his red-like design that previously appeared in cutscenes for the original Angry Birds game. Of course, this design was only used in the early cutscenes for "Trick or Treat", and has since been removed.

A pig dressed as Chuck appears in the cover art for Haunted Hogs.

Chuck often appears in animations and promotions for the game.

Chuck has the same ability that he does in the original game and is still an effective wood breaker. No changes are made to his speed, size, or strength.

In the Piglantis theme, Chuck's ability goes pretty effective with water. If his ability is activated in the water, he will increase speed in the direction he is going, so if he is still sinking, he will shoot even further into the water. If he is beginning to rise and his ability is activated, then he can shoot out of the water at great speed and can destroy the structures above him somewhat effectively.

Angry Birds Rio
Chuck, Red, Jay, Jake, and Jim are all kidnapped by the smugglers and taken to the Smugglers' Den in Rio, where they are all put in a room filled with captive, rare birds. They realize they are being sold for profit, and see the abused birds around them. This puts them into a rage, and because of their strength and anger, they manage to break out of the cage. This then begins the events of the game. Chuck is once again the third bird to be introduced, and after his introduction level, he is a playable character in all of the themes that follow.

Once they defeat Nigel and free all the captive birds, Chuck and the rest of the flock manage to hijack the plane and fly back to Piggy Island, where they come back just in time to save the eggs from being stolen by the pigs once again. Chuck then travels back to Rio with his flock to visit their friends, Blu and Jewel. This then starts the Rio 2 segment. Like all the other characters Chuck receives a design change in this segment, taking on his Toons animation style. Changes are made in the position of his face, slight adjustments are made to his feathers, and he is given a slightly lighter hue in color. He also receives different outlines and better shading.

On February 3, 2020, they announced the game along with Angry Birds Star Wars and Angry Birds Star Wars II to be deleted and discontinued.

Chuck has the same ability that he does in the previous two installments, having not much change when it comes to speed, strength or size. His battle cries, launch sounds, and corpse noises are the same. Notably, caged birds/dolphins and marmosets are much stronger than the easily popped pigs, so Chuck cannot destroy the targets as easily as he can when it comes to pigs. In boss battles, Chuck is a very useful character to have. He can access farther places that hold TNT, stone spheres, or heavy structures that can fall onto the boss. He can also be used to directly hit the boss, as he can change the speed in case the boss jumps/flies in a different direction. On Rocket Rumble's bonus levels, he appears riding a big purple firework rocket and he wears pilot glasses. When he is launched, he starts to spin around while flying and he will fly very fast to the direction that his firework is pointing at. When the screen is tapped, the firework wrecks everything it hits and will finally explode in the same way as a normal firework does.

Angry Birds Friends
Chuck makes a comeback in Angry Birds Friends, as the deuteragonist once again. He appears in both of the history and tournament levels. Unlike the other birds, guest characters replace Chuck in some of the tournaments, such as Hockey Bird and Shakira.

Chuck has the same ability that he does in the previous two installments, having not much change when it comes to speed, strength or size. His battle cries, launch sounds, and corpse noises were the same. He had separate new sounds in-game once but were removed in an update for the Facebook version.

Like all of the characters (Except for Bubbles, as his design doesn't change in Toons), Chuck received a new design based on his Toons design in an update with new sprites. In another update, he got new sounds which are his Toons sounds.

On the April 20th 2017 Weekly Tournament, there was a bonus where Chuck would give more points, giving a hint about the Star Cup, in which he can get more feathers and give more points.

He once dressed up as Freddie Mercury on the Freddie For A Day Tournament, which he wears a crown, a tank top and has a mustache and chest hair.

He didn't appear as a playable character in the tournament but appeared in the level select screen along with the other birds.

Bad Piggies
Chuck appears in Bad Piggies a bit into the game, through the Flight in the Night episode. Though he did not appear when the episode was first released, he appears in the second and third chapters as an enemy, and then on appears often as a hazard to the player.

This is the first time in any Angry Birds game that Chuck was, rather than being introduced from the very start, included through updates.

Angry Birds Go!
Chuck appears as the very last character of the game to be introduced, appearing in Stunt as a boss to defeat. After the player unlocks Chuck in the game, they can use Chuck in any of the levels as they please. (provided that the player has enough energy) Chuck is yet the fastest character in the entire game, surpassing the speed of Red, The Blues, or any other character whose ability is based on a boost. In the game, it may not seem as if Chuck is progressing that quickly when the player activates his ability but actually slows down the time, which is why it seems as if he is not progressing in speed. In boss battles, he can leave wheel boosts behind for the player.

Since the update v2.0, Chuck is playable after the player receives at least one star in Campaign level 11, race 5.

Like all of the other characters of the game, Chuck uses a 3D model for the game. His appearance is based on his Toons animation style and has the same voice used in the series. Chuck is more versatile because of his newer 3D model, allowing him to be much more expressive.

Chuck also appeared as a limited edition version of the legendary racer Ayrton Senna, who was just a costumed version of Chuck. Ayrton Senna's ability is just a slightly faster version of Chuck's. (he is no longer playable as of update v2.0 though.)

Angry Birds Epic
Chuck appears in Angry Birds Epic as the second character to be introduced. Once Red frees Chuck from captivity by the pigs, he becomes one of the 5 playable characters in the story mode.

Chuck, like all of the other characters, can be upgraded and changed to the player's preference with the resources he/she has.

Angry Birds Transformers
Bumblebee Bird is the first character to be freed from his glass prison. In contrast to the balanced Optimus Prime Bird, Bumblebee Bird's more about speed than defense, and is easily one of the fastest characters in the game; in vehicle mode he can actually outrace missiles, getting out of their range. Like Chuck in the classic Angry Birds game, his missiles can destroy wood blocks with ease, but weak against glass. However, upgrading his weapon will rectify that weakness. Also unlike Optimus, he can only shoot six missiles at a time before having to reload.
 * -| As Bumblebee =
 * Squad: Rescue Bots
 * Mission Type: Investigator
 * Unlock Type: New Area (70 pigs)

The Eggspark created another Bumblebee Bird in inverted stealth colors, which caused some tensions between him and the original. He has higher overall stats, especially in the speed department, and shoots his missiles very rapidly. As a Variant Version character, he gets double coins from completed events, but gets nothing if he fails.
 * -| As High-Octane Bumblebee =
 * Squad: Variant Versions
 * Mission Type: Investigator
 * Unlock Type: New Area ( 2000  2800 pigs)

Who would have thought that a Bumblebee would be redecoed as a Rodimus? As both Rodimus and Chuck are headstrong and impatient, they go quite well together! It took the Autobots a quite a while to find him because he's always moving.
 * -| As Rodimus =
 * Squad: The Hotrods, The Wreckers
 * Mission Type: Investigator
 * Unlock Type: In-app purchase, Challenge Event Prize

Appropriately enough, his weapon shoots fireballs that burn targets over time, much more quickly than incendiary rounds. The flames spread quickly to wood and glass and breaks them, but does poorly against stone.

He was first available during the Black Friday sale in 2015, in the Fire Bundle which also contained 250,000 coins and 100 gems, at the low price of $3.99. (Among the other offers at that time were accessory bundles and discounted gems.) And for those who didn't want to buy a new character, almost a year later he and his accessories were available as a the main prize during the "You've Got the Touch" challenge event, also celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie. Codes to unlock Rodimus were also distributed by developer Exient at the TF Nation 2016 fan convention.

Who would have thought that a Bumblebee would be redecoed as a Rodimus? As both Rodimus and Chuck are headstrong and impatient, they go quite well together! It took the Autobots a quite a while to find him because he's always moving.
 * -|As Energon Bumblebee =
 * Squad: The Iconic Transformers
 * Mission Type
 * Unlock Type: In-app purchase, Challenge Event Prize

Appropriately enough, his weapon shoots fireballs that burn targets over time, much more quickly than incendiary rounds. The flames spread quickly to wood and glass and breaks them, but does poorly against stone.

He was first available during the Black Friday sale in 2015, in the Fire Bundle which also contained 250,000 coins and 100 gems, at the low price of $3.99. (Among the other offers at that time were accessory bundles and discounted gems.) And for those who didn't want to buy a new character, almost a year later he and his accessories were available as a the main prize during the "You've Got the Touch" challenge event, also celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie. Codes to unlock Rodimus were also distributed by developer Exient at the TF Nation 2016 fan convention.

Who would have thought that a Bumblebee would be redecoed as a Rodimus? As both Rodimus and Chuck are headstrong and impatient, they go quite well together! It took the Autobots a quite a while to find him because he's always moving.
 * -|As Nemesis Hot Rod =
 * Squad: Enslavers
 * Mission Type
 * Unlock Type: In-app purchase, Challenge Event Prize

Appropriately enough, his weapon shoots fireballs that burn targets over time, much more quickly than incendiary rounds. The flames spread quickly to wood and glass and breaks them, but does poorly against stone.

He was first available during the Black Friday sale in 2015, in the Fire Bundle which also contained 250,000 coins and 100 gems, at the low price of $3.99. (Among the other offers at that time were accessory bundles and discounted gems.) And for those who didn't want to buy a new character, almost a year later he and his accessories were available as a the main prize during the "You've Got the Touch" challenge event, also celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie. Codes to unlock Rodimus were also distributed by developer Exient at the TF Nation 2016 fan convention.

Who would have thought that a Bumblebee would be redecoed as a Rodimus? As both Rodimus and Chuck are headstrong and impatient, they go quite well together! It took the Autobots a quite a while to find him because he's always moving.
 * -| As Classic Bumblebee =
 * Squad: The Iconic Transformers
 * Mission Type
 * Unlock Type: In-app purchase, Challenge Event Prize

Appropriately enough, his weapon shoots fireballs that burn targets over time, much more quickly than incendiary rounds. The flames spread quickly to wood and glass and breaks them, but does poorly against stone.

He was first available during the Black Friday sale in 2015, in the Fire Bundle which also contained 250,000 coins and 100 gems, at the low price of $3.99. (Among the other offers at that time were accessory bundles and discounted gems.) And for those who didn't want to buy a new character, almost a year later he and his accessories were available as a the main prize during the "You've Got the Touch" challenge event, also celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie. Codes to unlock Rodimus were also distributed by developer Exient at the TF Nation 2016 fan convention.

Cliffjumper is one powerful warrior. His intimidating red paint and long sharp bull horns are very well known to scare off Deceptihogs easily, as well as his catchphrase: “Let me at ‘em!” And he is a Volkswagen Beetle in vehicle mode. Yeah. Anyways, Cliffjumper fires a salvo of missiles that fly to the target in a very wobbly way. And boy, are they destructive!
 * -|As Cliffjumper =
 * Squad: Support
 * Mission Type
 * Unlock Type: Challenge Event Prize

He was available in the event of the same name in October 2019, for the prize of 10000 Tokens.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an alien angry bird/transformer hybrid with guns! Cosmos is Chuck’s newest incarnation in the game, and a real extraterrestrial one! Cosmos can reach velocities high enough to get him to space, where he often just looks around for any Eggbot activities. Did you know most of the map nodes are actually there because that guy detected them? Way to go, Star-Lord!
 * -|As Cosmos =
 * Squad: Reinforcements
 * Mission Type
 * Unlock Type: Challenge Event Prize

His weapon is a single green or purple taser bullet that, similar to Classic Bumblebee’s weapon, rockets pigs and blocks up in the air. The only thing that really makes Cosmos’ weapon different from Classic Bumblebee’s, is that it doesn’t overheat. And if that weren’t enough already, this Autobird has a vehicle-mode-special-ability-thingy or whatever that’s called. Upon seeing Cosmos’ flying saucer form, the piggies will be baffled by this bizarre appearance and they’ll completely lose their aim for as long as that thing is flying around.

Cosmos was one of the 3 new characters added in the 2.0 update, along with General Optimus Prime and Lord Megatron.

Angry Birds POP!
Chuck first appeared in the game as a limited edition character and was only available for a short period of time. Here, he was an option as a playable character in all of the levels of the game.

Later on, when the game was added onto the Angry Birds series rather than an attachment to Stella, the characters were changed (excluding Stella) to members of Red's flock. Chuck appears in the Piggy in the Middle levels of the game, replacing Dahlia.

In the Piggy in the Middle Level, the player must use bubbles to destroy the objects surrounding a pig to beat the level.

When Chuck was a limited edition character, his own special ability bubble was the Flash Pop, which popped all of the bubbles and objects in a column.

However, when he was introduced as a permanent character his ability was changed to replace Dahlia's, whose pop was the ''Color Pop. The Color Pop can'' pop all of the bubbles of the color that it touches.

Angry Birds Fight!
Chuck appeared in Angry Birds Fight! as a main character. He was one of the 6 playable characters that the player could choose from. Other than being a playable character, Chuck also appears on the matching board as an icon.

Chuck appeared often in promotional material and trailers for the game.

Certain parts of the game are in computer animation, including the player's customizable characters. Chuck's animation is taken directly out of the Angry Birds Toons series.

Like all of the other characters, Chuck could be customized to the player's preference, with costumes and weapons that could be purchased with in-game currency.

As of August 1, 2017, the game has been discontinued and removed from the Play and App stores, and the servers have since been shut down.

The game wouldn't include direct gameplay with the birds, but rather a tile-matching objective. Matching 3 of the bird's icons would pop the birds out, matching 4 of the icons would activate that specific bird's ability. If 4 of Chuck's icons were matched, he would create horizontal lines, stopping the opponent from matching.

At the end of the round, the two players would begin fighting, and the one that made the most points during the round would win the battle.

Angry Birds 2
Chuck appears in Angry Birds 2 as a main and playable character of the game. Once Chuck is unlocked, the player receives his character card, which can be used in any of the levels.

The game uses computer animation for the birds and pigs, which had never happened before. (the games prior used set sprites for the birds when they were launched, idle, squawking, etc.) Chuck appears in his Angry Birds Toons animation style, as well as the same voice used in the series.

Chuck has the same ability to increase in speed that he has in the original game.

Chuck is much faster in this game, zipping by in a nearly straight line until he hits a structure. However, when his ability is activated he can still be affected by fans and other things that may alter his direction.

He is also much stronger when it comes to destroying wood, and can shred through entire wood structures with ease. However, he is still very weak when it comes to destroying glass and stone, at times not even managing to knock down smaller glass/stone structures due to this weakness.

When the player is aiming Chuck, wooden objects will be highlighted, indicating that that is the material Chuck is best at destroying.

Like all of the other characters, Chuck's card can be upgraded with feathers. He also has hats that can be purchased with black orbs. These factors along with the slingshot level affect his score multiplier.

Angry Birds World Tour
Chuck appears in Angry Birds World Tour as once again the deuteragonist and a main character. Like all of the characters in the game, he uses his Toons design. Chuck has the same ability that he does in the previous installments, having not much change when it comes to speed, strength or size.

Angry Birds Ace Fighter
Chuck appeared in Angry Birds Ace Fighter as a main and playable character. He appears in promotional material and trailers for the game.

Chuck's Description In-Game:

''A bird of broad interests and insight. Indeed, some would even call him a true visionary. The problem is that there's so much going on in that bird brain of his that he has trouble focusing on one thing. He's liable to do something then instantly change his mind when thought it through.''

Rovio announced that the game would be shutting down due to adjustment of structure platform, as well as an expired contract with Siamgame. On September 6, 2016, the game was removed from the App and Play stores and recharge was turned off, making the game nearly impossible. On October 10, the servers were shut down.

The game is based on a "shoot-em-up" style, with the player placed at the bottom of the screen as enemies fly down from above. Not much is known about Chuck's role specifically in the game. It is known that he was one of four playable characters, and could be paired with different kinds of planes.

Angry Birds Blast!
Chuck appears in Angry Birds Blast! as a main character, but not a playable character. (as none of the characters are) He appears in promotional material and trailers for the game. Every character has his/her own unique quest, and Chuck's is to "look for disciples". The player has to beat a level with a pink hatchling and a level with a purple hatchling on it to complete the quest.

Chuck appears in multiple parts of the game in his Angry Birds Toons animation style, but the Chucks encased inside of the balloons appear slightly different, taking on more exaggerated appearances. The player's objective in the game is to pop 2 or more groupings of the same balloons. Multiple Chucks can be found in yellow-colored balloons. Other than this, there is not much direct gameplay with the birds. Unlike past installments of the series, the gameplay is left directly with the player, no birds are used with their unique abilities.

There's also an event named Chuckenstein, which the player has to beat 3 levels in a row without losing a life to get rewards.

Angry Birds Evolution
Chuck (labeled as Classic Chuck) is a character added to the game to promote the franchise's 10th Anniversary. He was formerly unplayable but was later added as an obtainable bird in events, along with his Master form. Unlike other birds in the game, he is a classic version of a bird and doesn't have limbs.

Angry Birds Reloaded
Chuck appears in Angry Birds Reloaded as once again the deuteragonist and a main character. Like all of the characters in the game, he uses the exact same sprite from Angry Birds Friends. However, the opening cutscene in Piglantis showcased him in his original design from the first game. Chuck has the same ability that he does in the previous installments, having not much change when it comes to speed, strength or size.

Angry Birds Toons
Chuck is featured as a main character in the Angry Birds Toons series and makes multiple appearances in many of the episodes, sometimes the subject on his own. The series shows more depth to Chuck as a character and his interests other than what the games have shown us.

For example, in "Chuck Time", Chuck saved Red from a great height. He transformed somehow, making him have an ultra speed boost.

Piggy Tales 4th Street
Chuck makes a cameo appearance in Slingshot Delivery, where he was trying to launch himself off the slingshot, but a Minion Pig took it from him, making him fall.

Gameplay
Chuck first appeared in the 16th level of the first episode, Poached Eggs and has appeared as a playable character in every version and episode of the game (except The Big Setup) released so far, though he is not necessarily in all levels. In the Fuji TV exclusive episode: Sakura Ninja, Chuck appears dressed as a samurai. This was the first time he has appeared in costume in any game and completely new game sprites were created for this episode.

To activate the Chuck's speed rush ability, a player must launch him into the air, then tap the screen or click the mouse to activate the speed boost. The most effective attacks with Chuck are to launch him upward and let him arc down onto a target, or to fling in a straight line horizontally at a target.

Chuck's rush ability allows him to pick up speed to cause the most possible damage to the Pigs and their fortresses. Much like many of the other birds, his strength usually varies depending on the block and angle that is struck. Chuck is most effective against wood obstacles, able to penetrate several walls easily due to his speed. However, he is weak against glass/ice despite it having a much weaker strength than wood.

Trivia

 * Throughout Season 1 of Angry Birds Toons, Chuck's feathers turn from normal yellow to pale yellow.
 * Ayrton Senna is the sixth bird to be based on a real person, the first three being the Developer Birds (based on Peter Vesterbacka, Jaako Iisalo, and Serdar Soganci), Freddie Mercury being the fourth and Slash being the fifth.
 * Senna is also the second bird to have his character modeled on Chuck, the first being Freddie Mercury. They are also the only birds made in tribute to deceased people (Freddie died in 1991 and Senna died in 1994).
 * The reason why you have to win 41 races as Senna to get his helmet is because this is the same number of victories the real Ayrton Senna had during his Formula One career.
 * When he turns into a corpse, Chuck rolls like a ball, even though his body is a cone.
 * In the early cutscenes before the Birdday update of Angry Birds, Chuck was the same size as the Blues along with having a similar design to Red, but was later on changed to his normal appearance.
 * Chuck has astraphobia, a great fear of thunder, shown in Thunder Chuck.
 * As revealed in the Angry Birds 2 website, Chuck can run up to 100 mph, and sometimes faster.
 * Chuck is a little different in the bonus levels of Rocket Rumble in Angry Birds Rio. He has a big fire arrow hanging under his body and he wears pilot glasses. When he is launched, he starts to spin around while flying and he will fly very fast to the direction that his arrow is pointing at when the screen is tapped. The arrow wrecks everything it hits and will finally explode in the same way as normal firework does.