In the 1979 film *The Muppet Movie*, the character outcomes are divided sharply between the protagonists, who achieve their dreams, and the antagonists, who face slapstick ruin or moral defeat.
### **Who ends up better than at the start?**
* **Kermit the Frog:** At the start, Kermit is a solitary frog sitting on a log in a Florida swamp. By the end, he has achieved his goal of making "millions of people happy." He signs a **"Standard Rich and Famous"** contract with Hollywood mogul Lew Lord (Orson Welles) and moves from being a lonely banjo player to the leader of a massive "found family" of hundreds of Muppets.
* **Fozzie Bear:** He begins as a failing stand-up comedian performing for a hostile, beer-throwing crowd at the seedy El Sleezo Cafe. He ends the film as a successful movie star alongside his best friend, Kermit.
* **Miss Piggy:** She starts as a contestant in a local Bogen County beauty pageant. By the end, she is a Hollywood leading lady and has solidified her romantic bond with Kermit.
* **Gonzo the Great:** Initially a "traveling plumber" with a penchant for performance art involving chickens, Gonzo finds a place where his "weirdness" is celebrated. He ends up with a movie career and his girlfriend, Camilla the Chicken.
* **Max (Doc Hopper’s Assistant):** Though he starts as a villainous sidekick, Max ends the film in a much better moral position. He has a change of heart, warns the Muppets about the assassin Snake Walker, and finally stands up to Doc Hopper. While he is last seen fleeing from a giant-sized Animal, he is liberated from his toxic employment.
* **Sweetums:** He spends almost the entire movie running after the Muppets’ bus, having missed his chance to join them at Mad Man Mooney’s used car lot. In the final scene, he literally crashes through the movie screen in the theater, finally catching up with his friends and joining the group.
### **Who ends up worse than at the start?**
* **Doc Hopper:** He starts as a wealthy, ambitious businessman with a dream of owning a thousand "French Fried Frog Legs" restaurants. He ends the film completely defeated. His henchmen and his high-priced assassin are scared away by a giant Animal (enlarged by Bunsen Honeydew’s "Insta-Grow" pills), and his obsessive pursuit of Kermit results in the total failure of his marketing plan.
* **Professor Krassman:** Hired by Hopper to brainwash Kermit, this "mad scientist" (played by Mel Brooks) ends up the victim of his own invention. After Miss Piggy defeats his thugs with karate, Krassman is knocked into his own **"Electronic Cerebrectomy"** chair and has his own brain "fried" (turned into "guacamole," as he puts it).
* **Mad Man Mooney:** The dishonest used car salesman (played by Milton Berle) ends up worse off financially and professionally. He is tricked into selling a car to the Muppets for only **$11.95** because a fly was smashed onto the price tag (making $1,195 look like $11.95). He also loses his "jack," Sweetums, who quits to follow the Muppets to Hollywood.
* **Snake Walker:** Hired as the "deadliest frog killer in the West," he is humiliated during the final showdown. Before he can fire a shot at Kermit, a 60-foot-tall Animal appears and sends him and the rest of the villains fleeing in terror.