Woody Pride

Woody Pride, also known as Cowboy and Sheriff Woody, is the main protagonist from the Toy Story series.
== Charactah Account ==
Woody is a vintage pull-string cowboy doll that originally belonged to a boy named Andy Davis. As Andy's favorite toy since kindergarten, Woody served as the de facto leader of the household playthings.
When Andy enters adulthood and leaves for college, Woody is donated to a little girl named Bonnie Anderson, whom he remains with for some time before choosing to become an owner-less antique devoted to helping lost toys find owners, alongside his girlfriend, Bo Peep.
Woody is a loyal toy who has been Andy's favorite toy since kindergarten. Woody is a smart, determined, and passionate man, and would do anything for his nearest and dearest friends. He considers his friends as family and he tries his best to keep them together at all times. Yet, he is also a flawed character. He has a lot of doubt, anger, frustration, uncertainty, and sadness, almost like a human. But despite his jumbled emotions, he tries his very best not to show them to his friends, so he can seem brave and courageous, but he's not afraid to confront or comfort his friends with utmost care.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Lamp Life
* Toy Story of Terror!
* Toy Story That Time Forgot
* Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation
* Toy Story Toons: Partysaurus Rex
* Toy Story Toons: Small Fry
* Toy Story Treats
=== Comics ===
* Darkwing Duck
* Disney Adventures
* Disney Adventures Comic Zone
* Disney Comic Hits
* Donald Duck
* Donald Duck & co
* Muppets Presents: Toy Story
* Nickelodeon Magazine
* Toy Story
* Toy Story 2
* Toy Story 3
* Toy Story 4
* Toy Story Adventures
* Toy Story Magazine
* Toy Story: Free Comic Book Day Edition
* Toy Story: Mysterious Stranger
* Toy Story: Some Assembly Required
* Toy Story: Tales From the Toy Chest
* Toy Story: The Return of Buzz Lightyear
* Toy Story: Toy Overboard
=== Manga ===
* Kingdom Hearts III
=== Movies ===
* A Bug's Life
* Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
* Toy Story
* Toy Story 2
* Toy Story 3
* Toy Story 4
* Toy Story 5
=== Video Games ===
* Disney Art Academy
* Disney Crossy Road
* Disney Dreamlight Valley
* Disney Emoji Blitz
* Disney Getaway Blast
* Disney Heroes: Battle Mode
* Disney Infinity
* Disney Magic Kingdoms
* Disney Magical Dice
* Disney Mirrorverse
* Disney Sorcerer's Arena
* Disney Speedstorm
* Disney Tsum Tsum
* Disney Tsum Tsum Land
* Disney Wonderful Worlds
* Disney's Buzz Lightyear 2nd Grade
* Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure
* Kinect Disneyland Adventures
* Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure
* Kinect: Disneyland Adventures
* Kingdom Hearts III
* Kingdom Hearts Union X
* Kingdom Hearts: All In One Package
* LEGO The Incredibles
* Meteos: Disney Magic
* Minecraft
* Pixar Pals
* Shooting Beena Toy Story 3: Woody to Buzz no Daibouken!
* Toy Story
* Toy Story 2
* Toy Story 2: Activity Center
* Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue
* Toy Story 2: Operation Rescue Woody
* Toy Story 3
* Toy Story 3: The Video Game
* Toy Story Drop!
* Toy Story Mania!
* Toy Story Racer
* Toy Story: Activity Center
* Toy Story: Animated StoryBook
* Toy Story: Smash It!
== Trivia ==
* It was revealed in August 2009 by Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3, on his Twitter account that Woody's full name is "Woody Pride", and has been since the earliest days of developing the original Toy Story. However, his last name, which was based on actor Woody Strode, was never used in the films. In the documentary Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear, an early test script had him named Slim.
* Woody's forehead isn't burned anymore in the second film, like his fixed arm isn't muscular anymore in the third movie.
* Lotso actually served as a dark counterpart to Woody, because Woody would have ended up like Lotso if he didn't move on with his life (or in the first film, if he allowed his jealousy to completely consume him).
* Woody was originally going to be a ventriloquist dummy, as seen in early Toy Story sketches. He was later changed to be a stuffed cowboy doll because he looked sneaky, disturbing, and mean as a dummy.
* What attracted Tom Hanks to voice Woody was that during his childhood he would always wonder if his toys were alive and moved around when nobody was in his room.
* Woody's design bears a striking resemblance to the French comic character Lucky Luke, in particular Lucky Luke's earliest design, with his yellow shirt with red checkered pattern, dark blue jeans, brown boots and red scarf, and while his hat isn't the same color, it does have a very similar design. The only thing Woody doesn't share with Luke's design is his cow print vest and sheriff badge.
* Woody's appearance in A Bug's Life is the first time a Toy Story character created by Pixar has appeared outside the Toy Story franchise.
* Woody is the only Pixar movie franchise protagonist to be the protagonist of all the movies in his series.
* While Woody is voiced by Tom Hanks in all the films and few of the toys, his brother, Jim Hanks, voices most of the Woody toys and him in the video games and Toy Story shorts (excluding Toy Story Toons).
* When Jessie first meets Woody in Toy Story 2, she exclaims, "Sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln!" Abraham Lincoln's mother was Nancy Hanks, a blood relative of Woody's voice actor Tom Hanks, who is a direct descendant of an uncle of Nancy Hanks.
* Woody is based on John Lasseter's Casper doll, as well as the Howdy Doody puppets from the 1950s.
* Woody's pull-string voice box has many phrases and presumably can say nine like Jessie and Stinky Pete or maybe even more. Seven of them have been heard, sometimes more than once in the films: "Reach for the sky!", "You're my favorite Deputy!", "Somebody's poisoned the waterhole!", "Yee-Haw! Giddyap Partner. We've got to get this wagon train a-movin'!", "There's a snake in my boot!", "This town ain't big enough for the two of us!", and "I'd like to join your posse, boys, but first I'm gonna sing a little song." The others could possibly be "Yee-Haw!" as heard in a cutscene of the Toy Story 2 video game, "Ride like the wind, Bullseye!" from the Woody's Roundup television show and his signature saying that is shown on his merchandise "Hey! Howdy! Hey!".
* Woody is the first and only one of Andy's toys to "come alive" while in the presence of a human.
* Woody has 229 animation points of movement on his face.
* Woody, along with Buzz, was originally going to be in Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix as new summons but were later scrapped.
* In Toy Story 2, when Woody uses his pull-string to swing from the airplane onto Bullseye, none of his phrases are heard when the string retracts. However, in the Toy Story 2 video game cutscene, the phrase "Yee-Haw!" is heard. This is also a reference to the first Toy Story video game where Woody could use his pull string to swing across hazards using nearby hooks.
* Woody's facial features are slightly based on a talking Casper the Friendly Ghost doll that Lasseter had as a kid.
* Woody losing Bo Peep between Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 makes him the third Pixar protagonist to lose his love interest after Marlin and Carl. He is also the first Pixar protagonist to not to have married his love interest before losing it, and the first one to lose the love interest without her dying (as Bo Peep was sold, and her reunion with Woody is the main plot of Toy Story 4).
* Paul Newman was the original first choice for voicing Woody in early production, but he turned down the role later on. He would later work with Pixar as the voice of Doc Hudson. In addition to Newman, Robin Williams and Clint Eastwood were also considered to voice Woody.
* Steve Guttenberg was also considered to voice Woody, but turned it down.
* In the Toy Story 2 blooper reel, Woody played several pranks on Buzz like they were actors on a set.
* The scene where Woody is looking at the Woody's Round-Up merchandise, Tom Hanks genuinely had several of the items he looked at during recording.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Woody at Disney Wiki
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