Toy Story (franchise): Difference between revisions

*** Straight forward to the fact that it's literally a machine that is given godlike reverence. However, this is a case of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], also, as it was clearly a [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: There's no Andy's Dad in sight. It's never explicitly brought up but fans like to argue the three possibilities: Andy's mom is a widow; Andy's mom is a divorcee; Andy's mom just happens to be a single mother. In the first two scenarios, many fans in turn assume that Woody is one of the only gifts from his father. The third could be yet another [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', since Rob's mom is single too. Food for thought: [[Reality Subtext|so is John Lasseter's mom]].

* [[A Dog Named "Dog"]]: Most striking in the case of Dolly the doll, but applies to the other characters too.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Invoked in ''Toy Story 1'' and ''2'', both with the Pizza Planet truck. The first one has the actual driver doing this. The second has the toys doing this after hijacking the Pizza Planet Truck to pursue Al and rescue Woody. Similarly, they also invoke the trope on other drivers in the first and second movie. The first was when Scud was chasing Buzz and RC (although it probably wasn't intentional on Buzz, RC, and Woody's part), and the second movie had Buzz disguising themselves as traffic cones in order to safely cross the road to Al's Toy Barn, with the results being obvious for the drivers.

** Lotso subverts it; while he pleads for help and plays nice while the heat is on, at the decisive moment [[Dirty Coward|he abandons his saviors and escapes]].

** In a very, very abstract sense, the Claw. In the first film, since it was Sid who was controlling it, the Claw seemed much more menacing as it brought both Woody and Buzz to the danger zone, being Sid's House. However, in ''Toy Story 3'' since it's the aliens who are controlling it, it actually saves the toys from danger, being the incinerator.

** Also in his cameo, Sid.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: "What do you mean, ''escape''?"