At that point, the continent separated, sending Manny, Sid and Diego out to sea. Manny followed, and an argument ensued, resulting in Peaches furiously disowning him as a parent. It culminates when He embarrasses her in front of the all the teen mammoths. Years later, Manny grew more overprotective of his teenaged daughter : Peaches was growing up fast and he became more and more uneasy and overprotective with her social interactions with boys. Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Ice Age 4: Continental Drift Braving the perils of the underground dinosaur world where Sid was taken with the help of a weasel named Buck, Manny returned to the surface with his herd and his newborn daughter, a mammoth calf named Peaches.
Manny grew protective of Ellie and was forced to deal with Sid's disappearance as he was abducted by a Tyrannosaurus named Momma, whose eggs Sid unknowingly abducted in the hopes of having his own family. Some time later, Manny and Ellie were expecting a child of their own, and Manny grew uneasy with his status as a father.
Regardless, Manny and Ellie stayed together, taking Sid, Diego, Crash and Eddie with them as part of their herd. Soon after, however, the flood ended and mammoths made their presence known as they marched through the valley. Manny led these three to safety as well, initially with the intent of choosing Ellie as a mate to spark the mammoth population. This changed when he met a female mammoth named Ellie, who believed she was a possum, along with her adoptive brothers Crash and Eddie. With this, Manny and his herd led the other herds of animals to safety, though throughout that time, Manny grew uneasy, thinking that he perhaps was the last mammoth alive. Manny's whole word turns upside down with Ellie.īy the second film, Manny and his herd made their home in a valley that was surrounded by ice, which was due to flood as the immense amounts of surrounding ice were hastily melting with the spring. Despite Diego's duplicity, Manny forgave him and formed a herd with both the saber and the sloth, heading south. Sid found a human baby named Roshan, who was separated from his tribe, and Manny, along with a saber-tooth tiger named Diego, helped him to return the baby to his tribe. Manny, however, met a ground sloth named Sid one summer, who insisted on staying close to Manny as the mammoth rescued him from an attack brought on by two rhinos. This left Manny embittered with the world at large, being harsh and indifferent towards other creatures. Manny attempted to fend them off but was unsuccessful as his wife and child were killed. Once a devoted father and husband, Manfred loved his wife and child dearly, protecting them well until a band of humans on the hunt came between them.
He is the main protagonist of the films (expect Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs as he appears as the deuteragonist), a major character in the Christmas Special, the deuteragonist of the Easter Special and a supporting character in The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild. He is Ellie's love interest and later, her husband, Peaches' father, and Sid and Diego's best friend. Manfred, better known as Manny, is the main protagonist of the Ice Age franchise. ~ Manny, after saving Diego from the lava That's what you do in a herd: you look out for each other.