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In August 2016, the clips and posters for Storks introduced a cast of birds, babies and improbably organised wolves; the searches that kept arriving are all character questions. What follows is the character guide: everyone in Storks, who voices them, and what each is for.
The storks, and the company they work for
Storks runs on one premise: the storks got out of the baby business decades ago and now deliver packages for Cornerstore.com, a mountaintop warehouse operation. Junior (Andy Samberg) is its ace courier, one promotion from running the place, provided he handles one small liability. Hunter (Kelsey Grammer), the boss with an office of glass he insists birds can see, supplies the corporate-satire villainy: his evil plan is, in full, a org-chart restructuring. And Pigeon Toady (Stephen Kramer Glickman) (tiny, gelled, fluent in bro) is the office informer the internet correctly identified as the film’s actual antagonist and best joke about workplaces.
Tulip, and the baby who starts it all
Tulip (Katie Crown) is the film’s heart and its inciting error: the one baby the storks never delivered, her address beacon broken eighteen years ago, raised inside the warehouse as an enthusiastic hazard. Pairing her with Junior, who must quietly dispose of the company’s living liability, gives the film its road-trip spine. The trip exists because of Nate Gardner, a lonely kid whose letter to the storks accidentally reboots the baby-making machine and produces Diamond Destiny, the pink-haired infant whose delivery the whole plot chases. Nate’s workaholic parents (Ty Burrell and Jennifer Aniston, the cast’s marquee names in the film’s smallest arc) supply the theme: the family that forgot to have time for one.
The wolves, briefly and correctly celebrated
The characters this page’s searches most want confirmed: the wolf pack, alpha and beta voiced by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, who intercept the baby, melt collectively, and refuse to give her up, solving every logistics problem by assembling themselves into machinery. Wolf bridge, wolf minivan, wolf submarine: the escalation is the film’s signature bit and its trailer’s whole engine. The other scene reviewers kept, the penguin fight conducted in total silence around a sleeping infant, belongs to the same insight: the film is best when its comedy is choreography.
The film around the guide
Storks (2016) came from Warner Animation Group between the Lego films, directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, and landed as the overachieving mid-tier entry of a crowded animation year: strong reviews for its joke density, modest business, no sequel ever announced — the tracker files that silence with all the others. Its studio’s other cast file on this site is the Lego Ninjago voice roster, from the following year, a different franchise, the same WAG habit of hiring comedians and letting the ensemble carry it.