Toy Story (film): Difference between revisions

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Set [[In a World|in a world]] where toys are shown to be living things [[Masquerade|who pretend to be lifeless when in the presence of their owners]], the film focuses on the toys of a six-year old boy, Andy Davis. His favorite toy is an old-fashioned cowboy doll named Sheriff Woody Pride. Woody is the head of the other toys, including Rex the Dinosaur, Mr. Potato Head, Bo Peep the shepdress, Slinky Dog, and Hamm the Piggy Bank. Andy, his single mother, and infant sister Molly, are planning to relocate the following week and have Andy's birthday early, much to the shock of the toys when Woody finds out, but Woody tries to be the optimist. He sends little green army men, led by Sarge, to survey the presents and tell the toys about it via a radio. Pretty soon, Andy gains a surprise present, which is revealed to be an electronic toy space ranger action figure named Buzz Lightyear, who actually believes that he is a space ranger.

Everybody is amazed at Buzz, and Andy begins to favor him, making Woody feel left out. When Andy and his mother decide to go to Pizza Planet for supper, Woody tries to get Buzz discarded behind the shelf, but his plan backfires and Buzz is thrown out the window by mistake. Some of the other toys, mainly Potato Head and Hamm, begin to accuse Woody of murdering Buzz out of envy, but Woody is saved when Andy decides to take him to Pizza Planet after failing to find Buzz. Buzz, thinking too that Woody tried to murder him, confronts Woody and they soon fight, which leaves them out on the street, until they find a car heading to Pizza Planet and stow away in it. However, at Pizza Planet, Buzz's delusion and still believing that he is a real space ranger leads them to eventually be captured by Andy's destructive toy-killing neighbor Sid Phillips...

 

{{tropelist|Tropes common to the franchise are listed on [[Toy Story (franchise)|the ''Toy Story ''franchise page]]. Tropes specific to this movie include:}}

* [[Abnormal Limb Rotation Range]]: Woody {{spoiler|to scare away Sid.}}

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The names of most of Sid's toys were only in shown in the script and the roll call at the end of the video game.

* [[Banister Slide]]: Woody is sent on one by Andy near the beginning.

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: By Woody, as he uses Buzz's karate action to drive away Sid's toys (who they thought were cannibals at the time).

** Not flying, but [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower|"falling with style".]]

** The rocket itself.

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: During the scene where Sid is decapitating his sister's doll, he is playing "doctor." During the "operation" Buzz says, "I don't believe that man's ever been to medical school."

* [[Covered in Kisses]]: Bo Peep does this to Woody at the end, courtesy of mistletoe ([[Fridge Logic|though it wasn't made apparent that Bo Peep had on lipstick until Woody was later seen with a face full of kiss marks, looking pretty pleased with himself]]. [[Rule of Funny]], I suppose).

* [[Creepy Doll]]: [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold|Babyface]]

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold|Sid's toys]].

* [[Hand Signals]]: During the recon operation and when the [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold|mutilated toys]] try to save Buzz.

* [[He's a Friend]]: Woody to Buzz when several [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold|other toys]] appear.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Buzz goes through a very, ''very'' humiliating one after he realizes he is a toy.

* [[Holding Both Sides of the Conversation]]: After Buzz's [[Heroic BSOD]], Woody attempts to convince the other toys that Buzz is fine by holding [[It Makes Sense in Context|Buzz's severed arm from behind a wall]] and imitating his voice.

* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: Averted. "Buzz, you're flying!" "NOT A FLYING TOY". The closest we get to even a handwave as to how Buzz can suddenly glide with flawless dexterity and accuracy at the end is "falling with style". It's still an awesome ending, but they probably wouldn't have contradicted themselves so boldly if they'd known there'd be a trilogy.

* [[Matryoshka Object]]: One of the toys is a nesting egg, called a Troika doll. Its layers are (from biggest to smallest) bulldog, cat, duck, goldfish, and ladybug.

* [[Necktie Leash]]: A variant with Bo Peep [[Fetish Fuel|using her shepherd's crook to draw Woody closer to her]].

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Done by the plastic toy soldiers near the start of the film.

* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: Sid is seen by many viewers, including [http://kotaku.com/5501908/is-the-best-way-to-play-games-the-subversive-way Will Wright], [[Jeepers Media|Mike Mozart]], and even the creators, as a kid with a great imagination. (In fact, many of the things Sid does to his toys were inspired by things ''the creators'' used to do to theirs.) Some would argue that the only reason he is given the antagonist treatment is because the movie is from a toy's point of view, however, it should also be noted that he apparently wrecks ''all'' his sister's toys (the fact that the only dolls Hannah has left to play with are dismembered and/or decapitated, and that several of mutant toys have doll legs and heads shows that the pterodactyl thing was not an isolated incident) and a little boy playing with explosives ''unsupervised'' is pretty questionable, considering the rockets he was using are not even legal in some states.

* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]]: "YOU! ARE! A! TOYYYYYY!!!"

** Also, "I AM MRS. NESBITT!"

* [[Red Alert]]: Called by the [[Expy|Sergeant]] during the birthday party.

* [[Vader Breath]]: Buzz's breathing when he first appears on the bed.

* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Sid, while in the middle of torturing Woody.

'''Sid:''' All right! }}

* [[Villainy-Free Villain]]: Sid mangles his sister's dolls but otherwise doesn't really do anything bad. How was he to know that his toys are alive and can feel pain?

** Woody also goes through this a bit, when his plan to knock Buzz between the desk and the wall results in him knocking Buzz out of the window.

 

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