Hal, the Boomerang Bird (also known as Hal or Green Bird) is a major character in the Angry Birds franchise.
Hal debuted in Level 6 of Angry Birds known as Danger Above where he was captured but then was eventually freed, he and Terence would later save all the birds from being captured by the pigs.
Appearance
Hal is a green-feathered toucan with a very long orange beak. In his original design, he had a white belly, three black head feathers, and four pointed tail feathers. In ever earlier appearances, his beak was a bit shorter and has a yellow ring on the base.
In his would-be Angry Birds Toons design, used in Angry Birds GO!, later levels of Angry Birds Rio, and Angry Birds Comics, he resembles an emerald toucanet for having yellow eyebags, a black face, and a slimmer build. He also lacks his head feathers, and he only has three tail feathers.
His design in Angry Birds 2 resembles a limbless version of his movie design, only without head feathers. His eyes, eyebrows, and beak are larger, giving him goofier expressions.
Later versions of Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds Reloaded give him a design close to his original, but keeping the yellow eye rings from his Toons design.
Personality
Hal is a friendly bird who likes all the other Angry Birds. He loves going on adventures around Piggy Island, even though he doesn't really like the pigs. He thinks the pigs stop the other birds from having fun. But even though he doesn't really care about the birds' fight with the pigs, his friends think he’s strange because he doesn't get so upset about it. Hal doesn't like his big beak because he often trips over it or hits other things. He also loves playing his banjo, even though he doesn’t have any fingers.
He is seen playing the banjo and having fun with a cowboy pig in an illustration, which could be his friend and shows he isn’t xenophobic like terence.
History
Hal is first seen in Angry Birds on Level 6 as an update known as Danger Above where he made his first playable level in 6-4 He later appears in The big Setup where he is playable in most of the levels.
He also appears in Angry Birds Seasons where he made a special appearance on Summer Pignic attempting to defeat the Pigs. He also doesn't assist their space adventure in Angry Birds Space due to never gaining space powers.
Ability
Hal can spin like a boomerang to hit the back of structures. To compensate for his ability, he also flies the farthest of all of the birds in the game.
Relationships
Red
In the Summer Picnic Animation, Red extraordinarily dislikes Hal at the beginning, now not trusting him sufficient to use the Slingshot. They forget him, thinking he's going to best be a burden. Red pushes him away after he messes up Matilda's shot. but, after Hal saves the eggs, Red is extraordinarily thankful and accepts him as part of the flock. For the duration of the Angry Birds Mini-Comics, Red and Hal are proven to be correct pals and Hal is cheery and positive towards Red.
The Blues
Hal is often acts as a father figure by the Blues, as they choose to tag along with him than Red, who offers to follow along. Hal is willing to help them through many obstacles, like crossing a cliff, being shelter for rain, and being a boat to cross a river. It seems to be that the Blues stick to Hal more because his beak an extremely useful component of him.
Gallery
Trivia
- He, Terence, Bubbles and Ice Bird are the only birds who first appeared kidnapped by the pigs, although Orange Bird was unintentionally kidnapped.
- He and Chuck share the same injured corpse sound effects.
- He, Blu and Jewel are also the only birds to rotate when fired from the slingshot.
- Hal has a different launch voice on Angry Birds Seasons as of the Ham'o'ween update. However, the PC and Mac version of Angry Birds Classic also has the alternative voice of the bird. The phone version of the original Angry Birds has the original select and launch voice.
- Hal and the Ice Bird are the only Birds that are shown in the level before is played in as an unplayable item.
- On Chrome level 6-4 his corpse sprite disappears and is invisible, but when you unlock him, his corpse sprite will be the Angry Birds Rio sprite and he keeps the Yellow Bird pain noises but the feathers change from yellow ones to white ones.
- Boomerang Birds end their beaks with red in the old design, but in the game he has orangish yellow at the end of his beak.
- In Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Facebook, Angry Birds (Google Chrome), Angry Birds Vuela Tazos, Angry Birds Fuji TV, Angry Birds Telepizza, and Angry Birds in The Hunt For The Golden Pistachio, Al has a new design.
- Even though his full beak is all orange, in the Summer Pignic Animated Short, the top part of his beak is yellow while the bottom section is orange just like in his old design.
- Except in the comics, this is the only bird that talked in the promotional videos (In Summer Pignic, he says "ba-bye!"). However, in the Ham'oween short, while trick-or-treating at Mighty's cave, the Blue Birds do say a word that sounds like "trick or treat!", but not the actual words.
- As shown in the Summer Pignic short, he is accident prone. This is only in the non-canon Summer Pignic short, as seen in the Angry Birds Coca-Cola short, he is an excellent swimmer, and can even boomerang back in the water.
- Whenever Boomerang Bird blinks, his eyebrows disappear. This only happens for his old design.
- In Piglantis, Hal's ability doesn't work when he is underwater. The corpse will appear when the ability is activated.
- In the Angry Birds Heikki promonanal art on Angry Birds Facebook page, Al looks exactly like it's design in Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons, except the yellow ring on his beak is removed.
- Hal is the only bird who got rescued twice.
- Terence and Hal are the only 2 birds used for The Big Setup.
- Even though Hal has green feathers, yellow ones appear when he disintegrates after becoming a corpse. In Angry Birds Chrome, Angry Birds Facebook and the 2012 updated version of the original game, green feathers appear (an earlier version of the Chrome version had white feathers).
- Strangely, in the Angry Birds Coca-Cola short, he can boomerang back in the water, but in Piglantis, when he is underwater, his power becomes useless.
External links
- Hal on the Love Exalted Wiki
- Hal on the Near Pure Good Wiki
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