The Terrible Version of Woody That Almost Destroyed Pixar 

I DID NOT lump the wheel, Auto, in Wall-E in with the villains as he’s more of a narrative than obstacle than a character IMO! Also: If you want more info about how the Black Friday reel came into existence, search katzenberg! Cut a line about Cohen vs coen so the joke isn’t there, but to be clear, not of the Coen brothers! A villain, is not any character that provides an obstacle, or a hurdle, it isn’t even every person that does something wrong within a narrative structure. The wheel, or AI, in Wall-e is not a villain, nor does Pixar classify him or it that way.

Woody being the jerk in toy story one ❌ Everybody being a jerk to Woody in toy story one✔

I can understand where Pixar was coming from with the original version of Toy Story. Woody becomes a huge jerk to everyone, but then he realizes what friendship is all about, and he becomes a good guy at the end. The problem was that they made Woody too much of a jerk. It's to the point where you didn't want him to learn a lesson, you want him gone. Thank goodness Pixar changed it all up and gave us the Woody we all know and love today.

I feel like you can still see traces of Woody's darker characterization in the first film. He's a lot more cantankerous and rude to the other toys than he would be in later Toy Story films.

You forgot to mention one important piece of information: apparently it was the Disney execs themselves who wanted a darker, more mature Woody. Pixar reluctantly complied and somehow the execs were surprised when the result was terrible.

_how the hell did woody not swear, he was so close to it_

1:10 C computer G generated I animation

"This isn't flying! It's falling, with style!" Has to be one of the best full-circle callbacks ever. Woody originally says it when he and Buzz are nemeses both to have a stab at him, but also make fun of the fact that Buzz thinks he's the 'real' Buzz Lightyear. Then after everything they go through, Woody learning to be more tolerant and accepting, Buzz learning that he actually really isn't the 'real' Buzz, and the pair learning to get along, work together, even like and respect each other, Buzz says it in the final triumphant moments of their arc, and it cements everything they've gone through in a beautifully neat little way. Now that's good writing.

We see a glimpse of this Woody when he scares Sid in the first movie

Moral of the story: Re-reading and Re-writing is very important. Seriously, the way he spoke to Slinky was flat out disturbing.

I always hate the mantra of "kids don't get complex characters"

Fun fact of the day: Andy used to wear glasses in these drafts

Honestly, I think an evil ventriloquist dummy Woody could be a cool villain. We've already had Buzz encounter other Buzzes, so reusing the mean, manipulative Black Friday Woody as a foil for the Woody we know and love could totally work.

I love how nobody is talking about how woody called slink a “spring wiener.” 😂 it’s comedy gold.

This is basically Woody if he became the Lotso of Andy's Room

Scar isn’t relatable? I don’t know about that. I to am a social outcast lion, longing to overtake my brother as king of our pride.

"Do any of these have Villains? No." Coco: :\

Tom Hanks literally cannot play a villain. It is physically impossible for him. He just exudes kindness and wholesomeness

I’m glad they changed Woody. He is a complete jerk in this scene...

This is so weird to see because i loved woody growing up (the new version, obviously) it’s kinda creepy seeing him act like that because we know him now as a great character with a big heart.

Even worse was hearing Bo-Peep accuse Woody and actively participate in throwing him out the window. Evil and cruel Woody aside, that part killed me within.

Woody being a jerk in the early version can be pretty much blamed on then-Disney studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg's demand that the movie be "darker and edgier."

Hearing Woody screaming at Slinky like that made me so upset😢

6:44 _who's the villain in Wall-E_ Bro that wheel looking dude

Isn't Skinner the actual villain of Ratatouille, since he's the one trying to foil the protagonist?

Honestly just hearing woody’s voice and insults made me feel bad

I always appreciated Woody’s character. He had an attitude and was flawed. But he had such good character development and for a kid, that was a good lesson to learn. However, I’m also glad that this version of Woody was never fully realized.

Even as a villain, Tom Hanks still sound so damn kind.

I will forever find it scary to hear Tom Hanks voice Woody like this

I'm starting to become convinced that you're running a factory to make these videos because you produce them so often and with such good quality

*Plot Twist:* It appeared that Woody has an evil twin brother... *_"WE NEED MORE EDGE!!!"_* ~ Pixar

I just noticed Woody's first words were "reach for the sky" and his last were "and beyond"

2:12 I felt Slinky when that Hey Arnold music hit 😔

Also really interesting how they reworked the old versions of villain Woody into the sequels. Pete had Woody's cutthroat cruelty hidden behind his old west mannerisms, Lotso had his manipulation and power as a leader of toys, and Gabby is an old doll wanting to be accepted by a child who uses ventriloquist dummies as her servants to get what she wants. It's like after Toy Story they had Woody constantly battling the worst parts of himself which makes it all so much deeper.

It seems that when we humanize the villain, the story becomes much more interesting, relatable. When we dehumanize the villain, we become more at ease in their demise.

That Woody is terrifying! Truly abusive.

"You dont deserve to wear a 10 gallon hat on ur pint sized head" Never thought I'd hear that but here we are

*_WHO SAID YOUR JOB WAS TO THINK, SPRINGWEINER?!_*

Okay so Woody is horrible here but that's kind of like the most impressive voice work from Tom Hanks and I'm kind of bummed we didn't get that lol

I remember watching the Pixar documentary and I believe that Disney asked Pixar to create an edgy storyline. I think them forcing the writers to re create Toy Story was for the better, but like they asked for edgy and they essentially got it lol.

Andy *plays with Buzz instead* Woody: murders him at night

Correction: Coco has a villain, Ernesto de la Cruz He killed Hector, stole his music, and even attempted to kill Hector AGAIN in the Land of the Dead after he pushed Hector into the pit with Miguel Ernesto de la Cruz even tried to kill Miguel which was when at that point the entire Land of the Dead(or the once living humans that were there) saw Ernesto hold Miguel and drop him down off the ledge of the building

That’s interesting that woody was originally a ventriloquist dummy and then in the last movie there was a ventriloquist dummy

calling Slinky "Spring Weiner" is absolute comedic gold!

Plenty of Pixar films have villains that play the role of a villain. Heck even in a couple of your examples Randle/Waternoose are pretty traditionally villainous. Conflict between Mike and Sully is certainly a big feature of the resolution, but the fear-narrative of children being toxic as a fraud perpetuated by Waternoose to keep selling scare energy, and Randall’s more direct antagonizing as well as his being “in” on the overarching scheme.. these are typical villainous traits and they’re the main conflict and resolution of the plot In Ratatouille, Ego is an antagonist but not a villain and he ends up being sort of.. redeemed, in the eyes of the film from his more like, “mean” natured reviews. He does sort of create the situation however, with his review taking the Gusteau stars and the implication that his restaurant failing is what kills Gusteau. And that ushers in the plot. Discovering that fact is also what exposes Remy and the rats and leads to them going to Paris. But Chef Skinner is the villain, with pretty typical villainous actions and intents. He has it out for Linguine, he’s power and money-hungry wanting to cheapen Gusteau’s name and image to profit for himself.. spying on and trying to expose Linguine and Remy. Skinner is the main antagonist and villain, though not as “evil” as most villains are. Auto in Wall-E is as much a villain as HAL on which he’s based. He’s not malicious in a human way, but he does fight against humans and Wall-E to preserve the status quo when he’s presented with opposition. He and the little robot crony he has do villainous things like attempt to destroy Wall-E, the other defective bots, the plant. All to keep the humans placated and status quo retained. That’s his motive. Other films have extremely typical villains like Syndrome, Lotso huggin bear, Hopper, Charles Muntz, Chick Hicks, Ernesto de la Cruz. Not every film, but a lot do. There can exist an internal protagonist conflict in addition to an external villain/hero one. Stories aren’t limited to 1 conflict.

Chill OUT Woody, chill. When you were running the animatic with Woody yelling at Slinky, I felt like he was yelling at me personally and it scared me a bit. Woody was my favorite character in the movie as a little kid, and still my fav now.

Yeah but i say there's still a place for charismatic evil villains. Villains like Cruella, Scar and Jafar are very fun to watch, memorable and help the movie by a lot. They are much better than Disney's now lame twist villains with barely any charisma or memorable character or personality. Give me Maleficent over sheep from Zootopia any day

This deleted scene I found on DVD was so disturbing as a kid

4:18 That music just gave me a huge amount of nostalgia. It comes from the SEGA Genesis version of the first Toy Story video game. I still own my old SEGA Genesis, and Toy Story is the only game that I had for the system.

I'm actually curious as to what the rest of the film would have been like if they finished this version of it.

They took the concept that didn’t work for Toy Story and applied it to Bug’s Life if you really pay attention. And it worked.

To people who have seen Pixar's recent movies: Do they still hold up to these sorts of standards?

Watching a lot of older videos of yours, love how consistent and highquailty you are! Amazing never stop!

Hearing & seeing Woody be so mean is so... Disconcerting. Don't like that. :(

Dude when I was younger I remember watching this and loved every moment of it.. not just because of the pretty colors or the fact that they were talking toys. But the moment when I realized that woody had a "bad side" but also had a good conscience when he did something wrong. And that for me made me love Woody from the beginning. He made mistakes but learned from them. Plus that Buzz amputated arm trick when he was in Sid's room always made me laugh!😂😂

The way his eyes look are also kinda scary.

Hey man I hadn’t seen this before. It’s great! Very enlightening. You are a deep analyzer of animation.

“Toy Story is a story about redemption” Redemption? 🤔 Cowboy? 🤔 Red Dead Redemption 😎

I wanna see the alternate history where Pixar's black friday reel was successful and they went on to create more adult-oriented animation from that point onward.

Great video! makes me want to rewatch toy story and take another look at woody's character and why it works so well.

“You would have been hung away to goodwill a long time ago” that line though 🤣🤣 10/10

As someone who considers Toy Story the best movie of all time.....I lowkey wonder what this original version would of been like lmao....I mean would the audience accept his redemption later on....or would they be appauled by the first half!?

Do you have like a backlog of videos you spent years making ahead of time

Woody acting mean feels like the teacher you liked in middle school yelling at you.

Thank you for makeing this video it was awesome thank you💜💜💜

Did did woody just *YEET* buzz out the window

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I would LOVE to see this version of Woody appear as an antagonist in a future Toy Story film. Not the Woody we know and love, but a different toy from the same assembly line who obviously went off the deep end at some stage. Toys are mass produced, there's bound to be some bad batches along the way. Why not make this Woody one from said bad batch?

Jeez, that intro animation is absolutely amazing EDIT: all the animations are absolutely amazing.

Honestly, I would love too see the scene where woody yells at slinky animated.

This channel has really been scratching my “actual thoughtful analysis of animation that isn’t a dude ranting about how modern cartoons suck” itch that I’ve been having ever since Every Frame A Painting retired.

9:17 This is a scene I genuinely get so ecstatic about that it makes me want to scream in happiness in the same way Woody is. It remains the most iconic scene in any movie in my opinion and while I understand why you cut it short, I felt sad that it was.

I start off your videos with me not liking them and then I hear really good points you make and am eventually won over.

The quality of this channel is superb! Too bad due to copyrights it can't be monetized...

I wouldn't argue that moana has a villain. The lava monster was the result of a mistake made by a guy who just wanted to be loved.

“Who is the villain of Wall-e?” Me: Auto

6:45 sad steering wheel noises

In some alternate universe...this is in the official movie and the Black Friday wheel was the normal woody that we see from the movie

Wow, your editing skills are amazing. I love the effort you've put into transitions and explanatory shots. This is super high quality production values. Great job!

But really, this guy has been uploading videos for less than two months and theyre already at this high level of quality??

The reason why Woody was so unlikeable in this version is because Disney was pushing Pixar to make the movie "edgy," like more adult in tone, and this was the result. Once the executives saw how bad it was, they encouraged Pixar to scrap it and write the characters the way they actually wanted.

"The darkest moment in Pixar's history" Soul's trailer: "I'm bout to ruin this man's whole career"

Virgin good woody vs Chad sinister woody

The villain of Wall-E is AUTO, though. There's even a fight to stop him in the third act.

Love your videos so much!!!

Love the Jim Lang music in the background! Hey Arnold vibes yes!

It would be cool if this version of woody came into the movies later from a different store like the other buzz

“pregidous” I guess there was a stab at spelling a word in there

Thorough analysis. Good work.

Toy Story is really well written. Very simple plot, but really well done

Lol the regular guy voice for slinky is hilarious. When going next to Tom Hank’s Woody.

I’m Honestly surprised and shocked by the history of the film and also the Black Friday reel I’m glad that Pixar rewrite the film in just a week to Change Woody into a Beloved and Loved Character that we know today.

7:18 Did you mean to say “prejudice” there, mate? That’s one hell of a spelling error. Also at 7:28, I get what you were going for, but acceptance isn’t the villain there. It’s the theme. Calling acceptance the villain makes it sound like it’s a bad thing.

Anyone else notice how butchered the spelling of prejudice is? "Pregidous" is a new one to me lol

C.G.I = Computer Generated Animation?? That's not the acronym.

Amazing video guy, I have never seen it that way

I’m sorry but Waternoose is absolutely the villain of Monsters Inc.

Woody: *LEGIT YEETS BUZZ OUT THE WINDOW*

Tom Hanks is a national treasure... can’t imagine him EVIL

I looked at the Deleted scenes in the DVD of TS1 and i remember being shocked and nervous as a kid, for some reason, Pixar movies from the 90s and 2000s had deleted scenes that were super dark

Woody calling Slinky "spring weiner" made me spit my drink out