Personally Bowler Hat Guy (Michael Goob Yagoobian) is easily one of the best Twist villains Disney has done along with King Candy/Turbo, and I say he’s a perfect example on how you do a Disney Twist when compared to Hans and those released after him, even I don’t forgive *cough*Cellspex*cough* for putting Hans above Bowler Hat Guy in her Disney/Pixar Twist villains rankings Not to mention we also had DOR-15 (Doris) being the actual Twist villain of the film that a few people didn't saw coming cause we thought DOR-15 was the intelligent robotic sidekick but was more like HAL and Skynet in terms of enslaving humanity. I honestly would've preferred if Bowler Hat Guy being an Adult version of Goob would be the only plot twist in the film instead of adding another plot twist (DOR-15).
Well he's not a villain at the end. That timeline doesn't exist anymore since goob was saved and won the game. But honestly I feel he'd have been saved regardless when the dad came home and heard goob was around. He'd definitely find him eventually and force him to be a family member and goob would definitely want it. He just felt he wasn't worthy
He serves as a dark side to Lewis; both were obsessed with some events from the past (Lewis with his failed inventions, including the Memory Scanner; Bowler Hat Guy from his blundered baseball game while as a child). However, Lewis knew when to mature himself from any failure of his, while the Bowler Hat Guy wasn't able to let go of how his past screwup affected him (at least, initially). Had Lewis not learned to leave the past behind and keep moving forward, he could have ended up becoming just like the Bowler Hat Guy.
Wasn't a fan of this movie (or most of this decade's animated films, tbh), but I love the theme of "keep moving forward"--even if it feels like it slightly errs into toxic positivity territory.
Good perfectly represents people that can't leg go of their past or worst situations and spreading hate without learning from it. Worst part is people are exactly like that while making excusing as to acting this way. Goobs "blame you" speech is pretty much that
