The Bad Guys: Second Comeback

The Bad Guys: Second Comeback is a 2026 animated heist comedy-drama film loosely based around the book with the same name by Aaron Blebey, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed with Columbia Pictures. The third installment in the Bad Guys Franchise, the film was directed by Pierre Perifel with the screenplay written by Etan Cohen, and produced by Steven Soderbergh. The film stars returning voices from the first film, Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Zazie Beetz, Alex Borstein, and Lilly Singh. New voices include Bill Nighy, Mickey Rourke, George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Jim Cummings, John DiMaggio, Nicole Sullivan, Adam Sandler, and Selena Gomez.

The film concentrates on the Bad Guys doing good deeds after 1 year in prison for good behavior. Later on, the Italian and Russian mafias force Diana Foxington out of office after discovering her Crimson Paw persona. They, with new opposing allies, get revenge by robbing their casino, which had encryption since the one year they spent in prison. They later find out their true enemy, who is not any of the two mafias.

The Bad Guys: Second Comeback premiered on August 1st and was released theatrically on August 3rd. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who enjoyed the story, the heist scenes, and the characters. It became a box office success, scoring $1.1 billion, passing Shrek 2 as the highest-grossing movie made by DreamWorks Animation.

Plot
After the Bad Guys were released, they converted to doing good for the city with Diane Foxington, who decided to join the team against crime. Their actions against thieves and teams of robbers caught the attention of the Los Angeles Crime Family and the Russian Mafia, whose leaders Luck and Father Armani teamed up. One night, Diane dressed as the Crimson Paw and decided to steal a few smuggled drugs and take to the police. During the heist, some soldiers entered the warehouse and spotted Diane. She gets away but left behind her cufflink with the governor's insignia.

The next morning, Diane Foxington was in her office when she got a call from Father Armani. He pressured her to step down as governor or he would use her missing cufflink as a link between her and the Crimson Paw. The Bad Guys watched TV when they stumbled upon Diane announcing she was resigning after a conspiracy between her and the Los Angeles Crime Family. In her absence, a horseshoe crab, Riley Scorpio, announced he was the new governor of California, and promised to eradicate all crime from the state. Enraged by what they heard, Ms. Tarantula visualizes robbing the Fortuna's Wheel casino, owned by the two mafias.

When reviewing, they realized they could not do this operation alone. Mr. Wolf got in contact with one team of robbers they stopped, the Outback Outlaws, to help out. Mr. Dingo calls out the Bad Guys for stopping their warehouse operation, but Mr. Wolf helps the Outback Outlaws get ready for the operation. Ms. Tarantula and Mr. Scorpion found the Fortuna's Wheel to have high security, which needed strategy to get around.

The two conflicting teams got to the casino, with Mr. Shark getting close to the manager allowed the team to get the access code, while the vault was opened and looted with the slot machines. As the leaders went through the vault, they got an alert from Ms. Tarantula about the police and mafias arriving at the same time. Chief Misty Luggins of the police and Luck of the Russian Mafia engaged in a fistfight, but the Bad Guys and Outback Outlaws took advantage and escaped through the exit. The fight turned into a draw, but the mafia and police realized their error and teamed up.

While they rummaged through the loot, Mr. Dingo found a set of servers that Ms. Tarantula tried to access but was encrypted that even her hacking skills required quantum-level computing to crack it. She contacted a contractor nicknamed Mike, who prefers to not show himself. He pointed out the hardware recently got to the Port of Los Angeles, and that it could be used to crack the cryptic files.

Thinking that the Bad Guys never redeemed themselves, Chief Luggins contacted Father Armani, who agreed to ambush the criminals after receiving a tip they are going to the Port of Los Angeles. That night, Diane Foxington joined them so she would help them find the right container. After loading the right container onto a truck, the criminals found Chief Luggins had shown up with a SWAT team. Despite expecting the mafia to show up, neither the Crime Family nor Russian mafia showed up. Mr. Wolf expected the chief to send her team in, but she ordered them to let them pass as she saw the mafias as more dangerous.

Ms. Tarantula confirms the hardware was right but is missing an encryption key. Ms. Tarantula contacts Mike again, but the vigilantes are suspicious of Mike because they thought his voice sounded familiar. Mike met the team in an underground lot, but in a leather robe. Mike pointed them to the Los Angeles Town Hall, where there might be an encryption key. Meanwhile, Chief Luggins confronted Father Armani, but Armani said the chief and her police outlived their usefulness and tried to kill her, only for it to be an android. Chief Luggins later contacted the vigilantes, to their disappointment, but went along with Mike's direction.

The vigilantes reached the town hall, but never found the encryption key. When they reached the mayor's office, Mike shows up and revealed himself to be Riley Scorpio. He was once a successful entrepreneur of Fossil Money Corp. with several industries but was subject to robberies and heists from the mafias and vigilantes' hands. He ran for governor against Diane and lost but reached out to Luck and Father Armani for payback. When Diane left office, he took over, vowing to destroy the Bad Guys and Outback Outlaws. He then called in his mercenaries, capturing Diane, the Outback Outlaws, and Ms. Tarantula. He also shot Mr. Wolf when the other Bad Guys tried to stop him.

The captives were traced to a pizzeria, where the remaining vigilantes found them freezing and freed them. While they figured out the location of the encryption key, the police and mafia engaged in combat across the city and Scorpio did nothing to stop it. At an untouched restaurant, the vigilantes meet a donkey contractor they distrusted deeply. The contractor pointed them to Luck's mansion and provided the equipment to infiltrate his security. The vigilantes got through the security and retrieve the key, but were confronted by Luck, but successfully defeated him.

After leaking the files online, revealing Riley's plans to eliminate Luck and Father Armani after putting down mutual enemies, Riley goes into a lift underground into the head of his Spinosaurus robot. It rose from the ground, and caused massive destruction as it reached the Bad Guys' hideout. The vigilantes escape, but have their hideout destroyed. With great reluctance, they all partnered with the police and two mafias, and go against Riley. Father Armani sacrificed himself and exposed the robot's heart, causing him to retreat to town hall. The national guard joins them, and Riley almost annihilates the entire team. When Luck was going to sacrifice himself, Riley grabs Mr. Wolf and Diane. After several missile strikes, Luck drives Wolf's car into the heart, killing Riley and destroying his robot. Mr. Wolf and Diane had survived the explosion.

Two years later, Los Angeles undergoes a rebuilding process, with Scorpio Corp. being ruled as an illegal monopoly and split. The mafias later went into hiding and abandon the Fortuna's Wheel casino. The Bad Guys and Outback Outlaws, now close friends, settle into it as their new headquarters and watch as Diane was reinstated as governor.

The Bad Guys

 * Sam Rockwell as Mr. Wolf, pickpocketer wolf, getaway driver, and leader of "The Bad Guys"
 * Marc Maron as Mr. Snake, safecracker snake, Mr. Wolf's best friend and second-in-command of The Bad Guys
 * Awkwafina as Ms. Tarantula (A.K.A Webs), expert hacker tarantula and Mr. Scorpion's love interest and rival
 * Craig Robinson as Mr. Shark, master of disguise shark
 * Anthony Ramos as Mr. Piranha, the "muscle" piranha of the Bad Guys

Outback Outlaws

 * Johnny Depp as Mr. Dingo, sharpshooter dingo and leader of the "Outback Outlaws"
 * Adam Sandler as Mr. Vampire Bat, aerial spy vampire bat and Mrs. Vampire Bat's husband
 * Selena Gomez as Mrs. Vampire Bat, backup aerial spy vampire bat and Mr. Vampire Bat's wife
 * John DiMaggio as Mr. Scorpion, tranquilizer scorpion with dart gun on his tail and Webs' bodyguard and love/hate interest
 * Nicole Sullivan as Ms. Crocodile, ambush master crocodile and fatale
 * Jim Cummings as Mr. Hyena, explosives expert and butt monkey of the gang

Other characters

 * Zazie Beetz as Diane Foxington (A.K.A the Crimson Paw) a former red fox governor who resigned because of her discovered second alias
 * Bill Nighy as Riley Scorpio (A.K.A Mike) a horseshoe crab entrepreneur who seeks revenge on the criminals after he took Diane's place as governor of California
 * Mickey Rourke as Luck, a Russian brown bear mafia boss of the Russian mafia who is more feared than Father Armani
 * George Clooney as Father Armani, an Italian human mafia boss of the Los Angeles Crime Family who is more loved than Luck
 * Alex Borstein as Police Chief Misty Luggins, human police chief who realized her errors about the mafia
 * Lilly Singh as Tiffany Fluffit, a human news reporter