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Hoot hoot! |
” | —Hooty's catchphrase. | ||
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I will be haunted by my actions forever. Hoot hoot! |
” | —Hooty's most infamous quote | ||
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DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT MY MOTHER!!!! |
” | —Hooty attacking King when he accidentally insults his mother in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" | ||
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Law is meaningless! Stealing is legal now! I AM YOUR GOD! |
” | —Hooty masquerading as a float of Emperor Belos | ||
Hooty is the titular major protagonist in the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House.
He is a house demon that makes up the Owl House itself. His face is located on the door and he can extend his body to a large range. He is very comedic and optimistic. Most who visit the Owl House in the series are very disturbed by his strange appearance and "annoying voice".
He is voiced by Alex Hirsch, who also voices King in the same series, as well as Stanley Pines, Soos Ramirez and Old Man McGucket in Gravity Falls.
Appearance[]
Hooty has a similar face appearance as a wooden light beige owl with a darker orange upper side, with brown wide eyes, and an orange beak. As a worm-like Bug Demon, he can stretch and move around with his neck like a worm, his neck being extensively brown, and he is placed behind the door. His skin and internal organs are removable, revealing that he has an owl-like skull and endless vertebrae. In "Hooty's Moving Hassle", it's revealed that Hooty possesses huge, avian legs under the foundation of the Owl House. As the walls also breathe, it seems that the entire Owl House is his body, which seems to be the case as its door is filled with Hooty's organs. Hooty also claims to be made of around "20% mucus", and possesses teeth within his gullet, with a diagram of his anatomy showcasing that he has two stomachs and more teeth along his digestive tract.
When he removes himself from the Owl House, Hooty inhabits a small white wooden birdhouse with a red roof, a heart above where his head goes and red details, as well as brown straps. After being puppetised by the Collector, Hooty's eyes are now completely white and he becomes a jack-in-the-box like puppet. His neck is now segmented into alternating shades of light and dark brown and he inhabits a small white house with a handle, pink roof and space-themed details like the other puppets. Fortunately after the Collector's redemption and Belos's defeat, Hooty is reverted to normal as Porta-Hooty.
Personality[]
Hooty is mostly a comedic, positive, and talkative creature who enjoys interacting with others. As such, he mostly goes out of his way to engage in conversations and get himself involved in activities, much to the chagrin of others as his over-the-top enthusiasm can be rather creepy and irritating. Hooty is somewhat lacking in social awareness as well thanks to doing unnerving and annoying things to people such as spending hours talking to a fly or barfing up owl pellets, causing King to remark that Hooty seems desperate for attention. This remark does seem to be true to an extent as even when defending the Owl House, Hooty still displays a large amount of talkativeness as he holds a tea party with defeated Coven Scouts in "Agony of a Witch". Hooty also seems to be slightly sadistic, hooting with glee as he's commanded by King to stop the plush toy insurrection, mauling them to a point even King is horrified. When he also remarks that Luz running out for help in the boiling rain would be funny, King is also unamused and simply slams the door back.
Despite this, Hooty is still adamant in being helpful in whatever he does, which eventually earns him the friendship of Lilith as the two bond over their geeky and dramatic personalities. He also seems somewhat aware of how others view him as in the events of "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", he tries over and over again to help the main cast and when he believes he failed them, Hooty attempts to remove himself from the Owl House so he'll stop troubling them, only stopping when Eda, Luz and King reveal that he has indeed helped them whether intentionally or not. Thus, it's shown that deep down Hooty is truly well meaning despite his lack of social understanding, as shown when he sacrifices himself to protect Lilith, turning into a puppet in the process. After the events of the finale, it seems that Hooty has retired from his role as the Owl House's guardian and now travels the world with Lilith and her apprentice Amity, furthering their bond.
Biography[]
Background[]
Hooty's background is extremely cryptic, with his only memories of his birth being that the sky was red and that there was a hunt. He has an unnamed mother who he's apparently very protective of and an evil twin called "Booty". Amity also mentions that house demons begin to exhibit Hooty's odd behaviour when they're a few thousand years old, which could mean that he is in fact that ancient. At some point, Eda met Hooty and settled in as his tenant near a tower that used to be owned by her father Dell, naming the residence the Owl House. She later brings home King as a pet 8 years prior to the series, though after realising his sentience becomes a surrogate mother and roommate to him.
The Owl House[]
Season 1[]
Hooty makes his debut in the first episode "A Lying Witch and a Warden". He attempts to ask Eda the password only to get poked in the eyes as she claims there's no time. He bemoans that he never gets to have fun before opening his mouth and letting her and Luz in. He appears again in "Witches before Wizards", spooking Luz in the bathroom as he tries to wish her good morning, only to get karate-chopped. He angrily storms away, causing her to apologise. Later he wishes Luz and King good luck on their potions delivery. When Luz leaves on a "quest", he reveals to Eda that she went into the Bonesborough forest after she cracks his walls. Later on, in "I Was a Teenage Abomination" he points Eda in the direction Luz went: Hexside School of Magic and Demonics. Hooty appears once again in "The Intruder", first appearing and chatting with the main trio, claiming that Eda's called the Owl Lady because she eats rats. Later when the lights turn off, it's revealed that Hooty was knocked out by a cursed Eda, who didn't take her elixir thanks to King stealing it, hoping to use it and give Luz magic powers. Hooty later reawakens after they sate Eda, so Luz and King go off to help him up while she rests. He later joins the "Boo-Boo Buddy Club" after receiving some bandages from Luz.
During the events of "Hooty's Moving Hassle", Luz and her friends Gus and Willow hold a moonlight conjuring in an attempt to one-up Amity, aiming to animate a small action figure. However, they accidentally channel the moon's powers into Hooty, who enters a trance-like state and, sprouting legs from the Owl House's foundation, begins to roam about the Isle, with the three controlling him via the spell. This catches the attention of the Demon Hunters, who mistake the Owl House for a powerful demon and attempt to capture Hooty, as well as try to kill the kids. However, Luz and her friends fight back, defeating the hunters and steering Hooty back home before the moon sets, accidentally saving Eda and King from the hands of greedy businessman Tibbles as they trample his stand. With the sun rising, Hooty is reverted to normal and while Eda's reasonably miffed about the excursion, she quickly forgives the trio, letting them off with some housework and expresses that she's impressed.
Hooty makes a minor appearance in "Lost in Language", offering to share his experiences last night which everyone rejects. He's also mentioned by Eda in "Once Upon a Swap" as she proclaims that whoever manages to prove their life is easiest gets out of house cleaning duties, with Hooty rolling around in mud at that time. During the body swap, King (in Luz's body) prank calls Hooty and puts the phone in a megaphone, forcing the whole marketplace to hear his irritating voice. Later on after the trio come to understand each others' lives, Luz tries to suggest a team effort in cleaning Hooty which Eda and King quickly turn down, leaving Luz to do the job. In "Something Ventured, Someone Framed" Hooty greets Gus as he leaves the Owl House, scaring him. Later, as Eda discusses her fears for Luz joining Hexside, Hooty remarks that he turned out just fine after she taught him (which he obviously isn't), causing Eda to change her mind and enrol Luz in magic school.
During "Adventures in the Elements", Hooty offers to join King's 'boot camp' while Eda and Luz are away training, which he refuses. However, after King's animated plushies rebel against him, he's forced to enlist the help of Hooty who, after playing hard-to-get, eventually agrees when King draws him a body and rips the toys to smithereens, horrifying King. Later when the duo return home, they walk in on King congratulating Hooty for his bravery, with the ceremony abruptly stopping due to the mood being ruined. Hooty later comments that his actions that night would haunt him forever before cheerily hooting. In "Really Small Problems". he arrives and barfs up mail for Eda to read, causing her to realise the carnival's in town. As such, while the rest of the cast go off to the carnival, Hooty gets distracted by a fly and chats with it for the entire duration of the episode while they're away, accidentally eating it when they come back. In "Understanding Willow", while Amity and Luz restore Willow's memories, Gus decides to hold a competition between Eda and King to see which one to interview. However, he soon determines that as they're equally interesting, Hooty as their home must be the cause of their eccentricity and goes to interview him. Sure enough, Gus soon regrets this as Hooty's irritating voice and meaningless rambling drive him away. During "Enchanting Grom Fright", Hooty invades Amity's personal space as he greets her, annoying her as she goes upstairs to help Luz train to fight Grom. Later on as Luz and Amity have a personal discussion Hooty barges in and pokes Amity's eye, enraging her so much as she viciously assaults him, forcing him to wear an eyepatch and multiple bandages for the rest of the episode.
In "Wing It Like Witches" Hooty encounters Lilith in the forest and, tangling her up, brings her to Eda. Lilith once again tries to arrest/ convince Eda to join the Emperor's Coven, to which she is predictably turned down again. However she notices Eda looking at her grudgby photos with King and claims that she was the better player. Eda gets defensive and strikes a deal with Lilith: she'd go with Lilith willingly if the latter beat her in grudgby. With King tricked into wearing a cheerleader outfit and Hooty acting as both referee and field obstacles, Eda and Lilith play against each other, with Eda winning. Lilith breaks down and rants about how she can't go back empty handed, so Eda gives her a ring and tells her to claim the two had a good fight to her superiors. Lilith thanks Eda and leaves, but not before warning her that she won't come alone next time. Hooty bids Lilith goodbye as she walks away and later gets trampled on by Luz, Gus and Willow, though he also helps Amity into the Owl House thanks to injuring her leg.
Later on during "Agony of a Witch", Lilith arrives with a platoon of Coven Scouts as promised to try and capture Eda. Hooty awakens from his slumber and defeats them all with ease and is later seen having a "tea party" with some unconscious scouts. He later greets Luz and consoles her after Eda's captured by Lilith. Fortunately during "Young Blood, Old Souls" Lilith is redeemed, Eda is rescued and the gang return to the Owl House safe and sound, albeit with Eda losing her magic to the curse.
Season 2[]
During the events of "Separate Tides", Hooty attempts to warm up to Lilith as she spends her days with the Owl House gang, to no avail. One day, while Luz and King go off on a bounty hunt and Eda finds new ways to earn cash, Lilith decides to make a scrying potion for the gang to spy on the Emperor's Coven as a way of proving her allegiance. Hooty offers to help her which she refuses. Later, when Lilith struggles to obtain firebee honey thanks to her weakened magic, Hooty erupts from the ground offering his help again but Lilith angrily brushes him off, dismissing him as a "weird bird-tube thing" and insisting she has to do it herself to prove her worth. Hooty sadly slinks away while Lilith reattempts her heist but realises she truly needs help and calls out. Hooty quickly arrives and declares no witch to be an island before helping Lilith fend off the bees and obtain the honey as well as the other ingredients. Later on Lilith apologises for her abrasiveness to Hooty and admits she struggles at finding help for herself, to which he also apologises for being nosy. She also gives Hooty the nickname Hootsifer as a token of their friendship. Later on, after Eda, King and Luz return home, the former decides to celebrate with drawing faces on Hooty, causing Lilith to promise him she'll protect him.
In "Escaping Expulsion", Hooty helps Eda send Luz to school and later on he spends time with Lilith as she shows off her glyph mastery by making ice sculptures for him and her.
During "Echoes of the Past", Hooty accompanies Lilith as she studies glyphs and when King throws a stuffed toy at her for tripping over his "army", he takes the hit and dramatically plays dead in her arms. When she voices her scepticism at King's supposed backstory, Hooty sides with her though Luz asks of them to play along to make him happy, though all are surprised when King offers them actual evidence by bringing them to his castle, upon which Hooty follows along by removing himself from the Owl House and becoming Porta-Hooty in an unnerving process. After hours of flight they arrive at the jungle island housing the castle which only King seems to know about.
At the castle, Lilith and Hooty go off exploring the castle and after finding a mural of a King-like figure, realise that if even the best historians never discovered this island, then King really could've been an undocumented King of Demons. The duo regroup with Luz and King, apologising for their scepticism and allowing him to show them around but Luz, hearing a disconcerting noise goes off to investigate and realises that one of the deactivated golems in a room is missing and roaming the place. While King assures the trio the golems are harmless, one arrives and starts attacking but Eda manages to arrive in the nick of time and hold it off while they escape.
Eda manages to escape badly wounded, with King confused why the golem would attack him if it was his castle so Eda reveals the truth of his early life to him: he was found as a baby 8 years ago by Eda on the island, upon which she took him in as a pet when the golem attacked them both and chipped off his horn. When she took King back home, Eda realised his sentience and would play make-believe with him which would accidentally impart him with false memories of being a despot. As King holds his horn fragment that Eda produces from her hair, he is overcome with shock that his life is a lie and runs off into the jungle, causing Hooty to bawl his eyes out in regret for how meanly he treated King earlier while the group split up to find him. Fortunately, Luz finds and consoles King so the group return to the castle to try and investigate more.
While Luz, King, and Eda go and open the blockage at the ceiling, Lilith and Hooty distract the golem with the latter puking out potion bottles at the monster, disturbing everyone. The gang fly to the top where King somehow opens a secret room, where, using his horn fragment, he remembers hatching here and hearing his father call his name. When the golem enters, King commands it to halt and it obliges, revealing that it was created as his caretaker from all intruders. With this settled, King resolves to find his father and decides to take the golem home, which all but Hooty object to.
In "Keeping up A-Fear-Ances", Eda's mother Gwen arrives for her yearly attempt at curing her daughter's curse, but in the process she completely neglects Lilith. While King is hopeful that his father would arrive one day like Gwen did, Lilith cynically rants about how she was never given attention no matter what she did. Later on King and Lilith both lie on the sofa eating ice cream as they rant about their parents never being there for them while Hooty expresses his concern for their state. When Lilith hears that Gwen and Luz are busy trying to cure Eda's curse, her internal jealousy and insecurity flare up and, thanks to Gwen getting rid of the elixirs earlier, Lilith transforms into her beast form and rampages, with Eda also transforming out of rage at the danger the "cures" have brought her. Fortunately, Gwen realises the error of her ways and assists Luz and King in reverting them. Later on, Lilith announces that she's moving in with her parents to spend time with them after so long. Hooty is dismayed at his best friend leaving, so Lilith assures him that they can be pen pals. As she and Gwen leave, Hooty bemoans that he can't hold a pen.
During "Eda's Requiem", Luz reveals she's had to pause portal research after Hooty ate her echo mouse in an effort to protect her, traumatizing it and forcing it to recover for a few days.
Hooty stars as the main protagonist of the episode "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door". It's revealed that he managed to keep in contact with Lilith with a typewriter and once complained that he felt left out as the main trio went on adventures, to which Lilith encourages him that his role of taking care of them as the Owl House is equally as significant. Inspired by Lilith's words, Hooty goes inside and realises his friends' troubles: King is struggling with his identity, Luz is preoccupied with both making a portal and romancing Amity while Eda hasn't slept for ages in an effort to find out Emperor Belos's plan.
Knowing that King wouldn't willingly accept his help, Hooty abducts him with an owl pellet and brings him into a room where he decides to test King for which demon type he is: bug, biped or beast. For the bug test, Hooty tests King's ability to communicate with dance, which fails horribly after he accidentally insults Hooty's mom, with his attempt to produce silk going south as well. For the biped test, Hooty tests King's magical capabilities by pitting him against Tinella Nosa, who King is badly beaten by without even producing a single spell. Finally, King's blood is tested for the beast demon test. However, at the end Hooty reveals that every single test has come back inconclusive and he has no idea what King is. King is frustrated as he longs to know what his father and others of his kind look like and, angry at Hooty lying there'd be results, yells and unleashes a sonic blast. King is amazed at this new power but Hooty, embarrassed at his failure slinks away sadly.
However, Hooty is undeterred and decides to help Eda with her sleep problem next, fearing her insomnia would awaken the Owl Beast. He bakes a bunch of cookies with sleeping nettles in it which Eda eats, but after she realises the cookies are spiked, she informs Hooty that sleeping nettles enhance one's dreams and asks of him to not let her fall asleep. However before she can do so Eda enters a vivid dream and confronts herself over her past actions and the Owl Beast, eventually coming to terms with her curse and making peace with the Owl Beast. When Eda comes to, she realises she's transformed into a harpy/tengu-like amalgamation of her and the Owl Beast, exciting her at this new transformation. Hooty, however, believes that he somehow made the curse worse and slinks away bawling hysterically.
Finally, Hooty decides to help Luz by luring her into the basement with a bunch of poems where she finds Amity abducted in an owl pellet. A trapdoor opens underneath them, causing them to fall into Hooty's self-constructed "Tunnel of Love". While Amity finds the place endearing, Luz, fearing that she would be seen as cheesy and sappy, begins wrecking the tunnel, causing the former to believe Luz wouldn't be interested in a relationship. At the end of the boat ride both girls step out embarrassed and more romantically distant.
Seeing how horribly his plan went, Hooty emerges from the ground and begins hysterically wailing that he couldn't help anyone as he tries to remove himself from the Owl House, causing parts of it to collapse as he detaches himself from the door and rampages underground. Amity and Luz are nearly squashed by a piece of falling debris but King destroys it with his sonic yell. He and Eda try to console Hooty by telling him that he did help them but Hooty still bemoans he didn't help Luz. Fortunately, Eda encourages Luz to pick up the courage to ask Amity out and, dragging Hooty away, gives the two girls space and allows them to advance their relationship. With Hooty sated and his friends helped, Hooty returns to his role as the Owl House's guardian, though he has to promise that he'll never "help" anyone again. He chronicles all this in a letter he mails to Lilith. On the way to the post box, Hooty runs into a mysterious King-like figure, who asks him to deliver a letter to the young demon. Hooty accepts but accidentally eats it after seeing a bug crawling on it, causing him to dismiss it as junk mail.
In "Eclipse Lake", Hooty helps to guard the Owl House while Eda, King and Luz's friends take care of her after she contracts the common mold. When Amity, King and Eda go out to find Titan Blood to build a portal for Luz, Hooty helps Willow and Gus take care of her, though when she tries to call to them for help the three are too busy listening to assorted human music and noises to hear her. Later on in "Yesterday's Lie", using Amity's glove stained with blood from the portal key, Luz creates a makeshift portal leading to the In-Between Realm that Eda, King and Hooty pull her out of as it destabilises. In "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", Hooty and King help out in Luz and Eda's plan to help Kikimora go home and for Eda to find Raine. The duo operate a float of Belos that they use to release offensive fireworks and smoke to distract the Coven Scouts, allowing Luz to "kidnap" Kikimora and Eda to go meet up with Raine while the duo flee from the effigy. This turns out to be for nothing however, as Raine pushes away Eda in order to keep her safe and Kikimora forsakes her family reunion for a promotion. Hooty and the rest of the gang later watch Belos's announcement as he unmasks himself and announces the impending Day of Unity.
In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", Hooty hosts a party for Lilith to celebrate her getting a new job. When Eda's father Dell comes over to visit, he comments that he's a very nice man and asks Eda about his scars, causing her to feel even more guilty about attacking him as a teenager, though the two reconcile later. He also helps Luz hold together a badly made portal door in "Reaching Out" as she distracts herself from the anniversary of her father's death. Hooty later accompanies Luz and King to listen to Eda's story in "Them's The Breaks, Kid".
After Hunter and Luz are accidentally sent into Belos's mind during "Hollow Mind", Hooty is tasked by Eda to lock down the Owl House while she and King try and brew the potion to get them out. This proves much harder without Eda's magic, so Raine and their fellow Coven Heads send her a pre-mixed potion disguised as a bunch of flowers. Using the leftover Titan blood as fuel, King and Eda successfully rescue the duo, but Hunter is severely traumatised by what he saw in the emperor's mind and flees into the woods, fearing Belos's retribution.
Luz too is visibly shaken by her experience, but by the time of "Edge of the World", she musters the courage to reveal her findings. She informs the Owl House's inhabitants that Belos's real identity is Philip Wittebane, a human witch hunter from the 1600's (and the first to ever arrive in the Demon Realm) who wishes to end all life on the Boiling Isles to "protect" humanity. As such, he's planned a massive Draining Spell under the guise of the Day of Unity, sapping the life force of all coven members and killing them off. Luz feels extremely guilty for showing Philip the light glyph and helping him meet the spell's creator, the Collector when she time travelled in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", causing her to tear up and cry. Hooty and King hug her to comfort her while Eda asks of Luz to hid from the Emperor's Coven, which she refuses to do so as she wishes to atone for her mistakes. Lilith, having been filled in on the details arrives, exciting Hooty so much he pukes up a pile of trash. In it, King finds the envelope from 9 episodes prior, in which he finds a letter, a map and a rock fragment. The letter is an invitation from a warrior clan for King to discover his true origins, exciting him as this clan could be recruited to stop Belos. While Eda worries for the kids' safety, Lilith assures her they'll be safe and entrusts Hooty to protect King and Luz, causing her to relent.
Commissioning the ship of Luz's one-time employer Salty, the trio set sail to the island, which is revealed to be the finger of a dead Titan. As the island is completely barren, King worries that the clan may have deserted him already. However, Luz finds a hole in the finger's wall and, inserting the fragment into it, summons a portal that whisks the trio to another island surrounded by Titan corpses. The mysterious letter-deliverer confronts the trio, but after recognising King from the livestream, he happily welcomes Luz and Hooty as well. He introduces himself as Tarak, and while he informs King that he isn't his father, he's certain his father belonged to his warrior clan and offers to show the trio around the clan's island home. As they walk through streets of King-like demons, Tarak explains to the trio that his clan are the Titan Trappers: warriors called to rid the world of the wicked Titans in the name of their god, the Grand Huntsman. However, thanks to a noticeable lack of living ones most of the Trappers haven't hunted any Titans, although their elder Bill claims that the Son of the Boiling Isles is the last Titan remaining.
While King goes off to learn the ways of a Trapper, Hooty and Luz go to consult Bill and request an alliance. Bill is initially rude and dismissive of Belos's evil, but eventually agrees to their proposal. However, Bill remarks that even Belos couldn't compare with the wickedness of a Titan, recounting that the last one he saw blew his eardrums out with a roar of "weh". He goes on to describe the Titans: possessing monarchal attitudes even as babies and having insatiable appetites when they're young. When Hooty comes across Bill's shrine to the Grand Huntsman, the elder reveals that he plans to sacrifice the last Titan to the Huntsman and release them for rewards, whilst revealing he and the other Trappers are actually witches in Titan costumes. Luz and Hooty quickly put the facts together, realising that King is in fact the last Titan and thus they go off to save him. However, Bill soon realises King's true nature and decides to sacrifice him with the other Trappers.
Luz and Hooty arrive in the nick of time, rescuing King from the Trappers just as Bill is going to stab him. When they arrive in a safe spot, King is confused and angry as he believed that the Trappers were going to play catch with him later, and that all he wanted to do was find a family to replace Luz when she inevitably left. Hooty insists to King that they saved his life while Luz reveals to him that he's a Titan. The Titan Trappers arrive and Hooty takes several shots and bolas for the trio but King, still in disbelief, tries to calm Tarak and the Trappers down, saying he's one of them. However, during the scuffle King knocks Tarak's disguise off, with the other Trappers unmasking themselves and showing their true colours. Bill arrives and excitedly declares that he will receive most of the glory once they sacrifice King, confusing the Trappers as they were promised equal rewards when the Huntsman was released. Hooty and Luz quickly question Bill's honesty, but he quickly brushes it off as the duo lying and the Trappers continue pursuit. Luz, Hooty and King reach the portal, sending them back to the island, where King destroys the finger with his yell and Hooty protects them from the debris. With this adventure concluded, King is shaken and asks to go home, which Luz and Hooty agree to.
The trio arrive back in Bonesborough by the time of "O Titan, Where Art Thou", wherein after Hooty notices wanted posters of them, he, Luz and King are forced to take the long way home to avoid suspicion. On the way, they narrowly dodge Coven Scouts shipping contraband goods and upon arriving, find the Owl House completely barren and vandalised. Luz finds a secret map from Lilith and thus they track her and Eda to a remote cave on the Knee. After Hooty hurls up a shirt proclaiming "I GOT SACRIFICED TO THE GRAND HUNTSMAN" for Lilith as a souvenir, Luz explains their encounter with the Trappers, angering Eda as Lilith promised that the island was allegedly empty. However, Luz informs them of King's Titan heritage, shocking the two sisters. As King does some soul searching on being the last of his kind, Hooty and Luz comfort him but Lilith, excited to have a deity as her nephew, starts treating him as such, even getting Hooty to bow as well which unnerves King. Later on, as Eda and Luz leave to retrieve some confiscated belongings, Lilith ponders on why she was rejected, to which Hooty suggests just treating King normally which she dismisses. However, the two quickly notice that King went missing so, using Hooty as a propeller, Lilith pursues him across the Isle, eventually finding King eating burgers with her old friend and former colleague Steve. Lilith once again resumes her fanaticism, but King quickly snaps her out of it, pointing out her concerning trend of worshipping authority. Steve also offers to find her a therapist, but Hooty is suspicious of the former Coven Scout and attacks. Regardless, Hooty, Lilith, King and Steve all go to Latissa where they regroup with Eda, Luz and the C.A.T.T.s to stop Belos's plan.
During "Clouds on the Horizon", the C.A.T.T.s discuss a way to utilise Eda's curse to corrupt the Draining Spell and end it. In the end, it's decided that Eda will be branded with the Bard sigil and disguise herself as Raine, allowing her to directly corrupt the Spell while Darius and Eberwolf keep watch. As such, while Luz and King go off with Luz's friends to rescue Amity and get her parents on their side, Hooty, Lilith and the C.A.T.T.s all wear Coven Scout disguises and, boarding an airship, infiltrate the Titan's head. Arriving in "King's Tide", Lilith and Hooty ask of Eda to signal to them should she need help, to which Eda thanks them for their concern, and, bidding farewell, activates her concealment stone and joins Darius, Eberwolf and the other Coven Heads. However, it's revealed that Belos anticipated Raine's betrayal and Eda is revealed, causing a scuffle between the Coven Heads that ends in Darius and Raine reluctantly surrendering after Eberwolf is held at knifepoint and Raine is found and captured by the Abomatons, with the Abomatons capturing the C.A.T.T.s, Lilith and Hooty as well. Thus, the spell begins to initiate and all seems lost until King, having arrived at the Head to find Luz, meets the Collector who agrees to help stop the Draining Spell in exchange for playing with him. However, the day isn't saved as the Collector begins reforming the Isles to his own design, forcing King to send Luz and her friends through Belos's portal into the human realm before it self-destructs.
Season 3[]
It's revealed in "For the Future" that after King sent Luz and her friends away, Lilith and Hooty would confront the Collector out of concern for King. This would cause the child to mistakenly believe that they were trying to steal his friend, prompting the Collector to launch a spell at Lilith. Hooty takes the spell for her, turning into a puppet before Lilith herself is transformed as well. Months pass as the Collector and King play "Owl House": reenacting scenes of King's life with the latter trying to keep the Collector's destruction at a minimum. In the meantime, King also manages to snap Eda out of her beast form when the Owl Beast raged at seeing the Collector, and also manages to get the latter to free Lilith. After a session of play, King comes across Odalia (who offered her services in an attempt to gain power) cleaning up a pile of puppets and asks of her to pass him puppet Hooty. He arrives at Eda's cage and presents puppet Hooty to Lilith and Eda, with Hooty managing to recognise Lilith's voice and speak to her. King offers to get the Collector to turn Hooty back, but the Clawthorne sisters decline as they don't want King to risk himself and the fate of the Isles more than he needs to. King thus decides to try talk sense into the Collector, but thanks to a Belos-possessed Raine's manipulation the child is mislead into thinking King wants to kill him and thus when Luz shows up, he fully believes those lies and plunges King, Eda and Luz into their worst nightmares as a misguided attempt to redeem them.
Fortunately, the trio manage to redeem the Collector in "Watching and Dreaming" and defeat Belos as he possesses the Titan's heart in an attempt to complete his crusade. With this settled, the Collector restores most of the Boiling Isles' citizens to normal, and later on in the Owl House, reverts Hooty back to his normal form. Hooty and Lilith share a tearful (if awkward) embrace, and as Luz and her friends rest, Lilith introduces Hooty to Luz's mom Camila.
During the epilogue, it appears that Hooty has retired from guarding the Owl House after the Collector installed a new portal door, and instead acts as Lilith's constant companion. As the two work on a new museum wing of the Bonesborough library specialising in Titan research (of which Hooty will be curator), they are met with Hunter, Amity and Willow who reminds them of Luz's belated quinceńera. As such, Lilith uses her harpy form to pick up Raine, Alador and Darius before heading off to the party. At the party, Hooty helps out in emulating Luz's ethnic birthday traditions by hanging the Snaggleback off himself as a "pain-yata", and later bids the Collector (and the audience by extension) farewell in the series's last scene.
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Trivia[]
- Hooty's voice is Alex Hirsch doing a terrible impression of Mickey Mouse, described by Alex himself to be akin to Mickey if he had "way too much sugar and was put in a washing machine and spun around". While only intended as a placeholder voice, Dana Terrace liked it so much she got Alex Hirsch to continue using it in the series proper.
- Alex has noted that Hooty's voice is rather difficult for him to do, though with some training he has been able to voice Hooty with longer lines.
- In an AMA hosted by Dana Terrace, a fan asked a question about Hooty's full length. Dana Terrace's response was "There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty." This could imply Hooty's neck is infinite.
- It is possible Hooty will eat anything lying around, as he ate a lot of items, which he regurgitated later and ended up Eda telling him to stop eating stuff from the ground.
- He loves eating bugs and even says he enjoys it, implying, like all living things, he needs to eat to survive.
- Like King, Hooty hates wearing clothes. However, the only clothing Hooty's ever worn is an Emperor's Coven scout uniform, thus implying that either one of the characters had to force Hooty into the uniform or they managed to convince him to put it on.
- The pine tree and shooting star symbols on Hooty's puppetized birdhouse are a reference to Dipper and Mabel Pines from the Disney Channel series Gravity Falls, which was also created by Alex Hirsch.
- Lilith's nickname for Hooty, Hootsifer is likely a reference to the pairing of Lucifer and Lilith, demonic beings from Mesopotamian mythologies and religions with Lilith being Adam's first wife in Judaic mythology and Lucifer being Satan/The Devil's original name before his fall to darkness.
- "Hootsifer" could also be a reference to Calcifer, a fire demon from the book and movie Howl's Moving Castle who, like Hooty, is responsible for magically animating and caring for the titular adobes they inhabit and are bound to, with Hooty being a living door knocker and Calcifer being bound to the hearth.
- Hooty seems to be somewhat gullible as in the fourth episode of the shorts Owl Pellets, he becomes territorial around a drawing of himself and is later pacified after Luz makes cardboard cutouts of her and King, to the point where he talks to them for over seven hours.
- A popular meme in the Owl House fandom is that Hooty is often shipped with another famous anthropomorphic owl, Duolingo's mascot Duo. This may have been inspired in part to the show's creator, Dana Terrace claiming on Twitter that the two were bitter rivals but after facing a common enemy: the owls of Gahoo'le have become allies.
- Ironically, Duolingo would later be referenced in the season 3 episode Thanks to Them, with the mascot of the language app the Hexsquad learn Spanish on bearing a great resemblance to Duo, as well as giving out his infamous threats for skipping lessons.
- Unfortunately, Duolingo's Brazilian account would release a tweet, stating that Hooty and Duo had officially broken up. However, the account would also state the two remain close friends and are on good terms.
- Despite this, the official Duolingo TikTok account would release a clip of Duo and Hooty getting married, making this questionably canon as it's unknown if Dana Terrace was involved in this unofficial crossover.
- Thanks to the Titan's spirit possessing a Hooty-like being in his empty eye socket, some fans have speculated that Hooty or his species could have once been part of the Titan himself. While unconfirmed by the series creator Dana Terrace, she has confirmed in an AMA that Hooty can indeed travel throughout the Titan's body in a tapeworm-like fashion, allowing him access to his wild magic and making him a suitable conduit for any portal requiring Titan magic, such as the Titan's missing eye in the original portal.
- This has led to speculation that Hooty's species parasitised adult Titans akin to tapeworms, making Hooty a sort of "demigod" thanks to feeding off a godlike species.
- If Hooty is indeed the worm that parasitised the Titan's eye socket, this would mean he is even older than the Boiling Isles itself.
- As Hooty's species can apparently live for thousands of years, it's likely that Hooty was alive during the Deadwardian period, causing some to jokingly theorise that Philip Wittebane met him during his travels and that Hooty's obnoxious personality contributed to his intense hatred of all magic folk today.
- As shown in "O Titan, Where Art Thou", Hooty has a bounty of 50,000 Snails.
- Aside from owls, Hooty may also be based off nightjars and frogmouths, nocturnal birds that somewhat resemble owls. This may be because nightjars and frogmouths share Hooty's insectivorous diet and large mouths (though not as extendable as Hooty's).
- Along with the Titan, Hooty makes a cameo in the margins of one of the chapters in The Book of Bill, increasing connections between the universe of The Owl House and Gravity Falls.