Verne

Verne is a cautious and a naturally tentative box turtle, who appears in the comics and film Over the hedge as the deuteragonist. He is the former leader of the group and is RJ, Hammy and Stella's best friend.

He is voiced by the late Garry Shandling.

Beginnings
Little is known about Verne's past, as there are no information about it.

In Over the Hedge
Verne and the other animals; Hammy, Stella, Ozzie, Heater, Lou, Penny, and his triplets (Bucky, Quillo and Spike). As they wake up from their hibernation, realize afterwards that the forest where they lived was cut down to build suburbs, after a lot of events and accidents when arriving at the place.

His world will be turned upside down due to the arrival of RJ the raccoon, who shows them the chaotic life of the suburbs and the human food. During the movie, he is ignored by his own group, because they thought that RJ was the one who was right. I try to warn them about what was happening on the other side (Gladys and Dwayne LaFontant) would be setting a deadly and illegal trap to finish them off.

This is forgiven by his own group after attempting to return the food to his “owners”, destroying it in the process.

He joins into RJ's plan, attack the house of the president of HOA (first, Using Stella (disguised as a cat) to seduce Tiger, only to remove the necklace and enter the house). But goes wrong, as the raccoon reveals that the pile of food was for Vincent, a bear who threatened to eat him.

The verminator captures the animals to put them to sleep, but the raccoon reconsiders and returns to rescue them. After an epic battle against the villains, he and the family finally adopt and forgive RJ.

In Over the Hedge: The Video Game
Coming soon!

Personality
He is a caring, selfless, generous, patient, and honest but also neurotic, insecure, and cautious turtle.

In the movie, he was also terrified of change of any sort because of the discovery that half the forest had cut down during hibernation and RJ's arrival.

Appearance
He is a short turtle, with green scaly skin, brown eyes, arms that are a bit longer than his legs, stubby fingers, short legs, pointy tail and a shell that conforms to his body. When he's completely naked, Verne's monkey butt resembled a human's for he has cheeks for days Verne poops on the floor, in real life, a turtle's shell inside is actually muscle, so it is attached to them.

Trivia

 * Verne was originally the leader of the animals before RJ arrived.
 * Verne's ability to shed his shell comes from the comic strips (which is also a running gag in the film).
 * Along with RJ, Hammy and Rufus, are the only characters that appear in the original comic strip, meanwhile the other ones were created for the movie.
 * When he felt something bad was about to happen, he had a habit of saying his tail was tingling.
 * He is the only character in the film that is not a mammal.
 * A running gag in the film is that Verne is constantly mistaken for an amphibian.
 * Orginally, Verne was going to be voiced by Harold Ramis before Garry Shandling.
 * Verne's personality is based on his voice actor; Garry Shandling.
 * Verne is Garry Shandling's first animated role and also one of the two only animated roles before his death in 2016. speaking of that, both Verne and Ikki are animals.