Mike Wazowski

Marry Celia MaeCelia (failed, but continued his romantic relationship with her).
Help Sully return Boo home (succeeded).

### Heroic Achievements

Exposing Mr. Waternoose's plan to kidnap a thousand children
Playing a big role in stopping the energy crisis

### Type of GH

Comedic Sidekick

**Michael "Mike" Wazowski** is the deuteragonist of the movie, *Monsters Inc.*, the main protagonist of *Monsters University* and the overarching protagonist in *Monsters at Work*. He is the best friend and former rival of Sulley, former friend and current enemy of Randall Boggs, and Celia MaeCelia's love interest

## What makes him a Guile Hero?

### In General

* He genuinely cares for many people (e.g. Sulley, Celia, and Boo) and shows kindness towards them on multiple occassions.
* While he has corrupting factors, they are really only him being egotistical and thinking highly of himself.

### Monsters, University

* He tried to boost Oozma Kappa's confidence of winning the Scare Games by taking them to the factory of Monsters, Inc., showing them that they can use their non-scary looking appearances to their advantage, even if they don't look like the scarers you'd expect.
* He expressed tons of remorse over being so much of an arrogant jerk to the members of Oozma Kappa.
* He helped Oozma Kappa any way he could in the Scare Games, and despite the fact that they have bumbling incompetence, he never gave up on helping them.
* After he learned how Sulley is very insecure, he encourages and helps him, which allowed him to scare the adult humans, as well as motivating Sulley to be truer to how he wants to act rather than acting like how he thinks others would expect him to act like.
* He comes up with a clever plan to generate enough scare power from the other side of the door after he and Sully were trapped in the human world due to the monsters turning off the power to the door.

### Monsters, Inc.

* He helped defeat Randall in the door scene.
* In the climax, he tricked the CDA into thinking he had Boo and tricked Waternoose at the end of the film by exposing his plan to the CDA. Though not initially interested in her, he learned to care for Boo too.
* When they're about to return Boo home, he gives her a handshake, and when she responds with a hug, he reciprocates the embrace.
* When Sulley is saddened that he won't see Boo again and Monsters, Inc. is now shut down, Mike comforts Sulley by telling him that they finished their goal.
* He rebuilt Boo's door so that Sulley could see her one more time.
* Discovered that laugh energy (which is 10 times more powerful than screams) could be obtained without scaring the children but making them laugh instead.
* While he tried to send Boo home in selfish ways, he subverted this trait which doesn't detract from how guile he is.

### Monsters at Work

* He became Monsters, Inc's top employee after they switched from scream to laugh even when the company was struggling to find more Monsters to become jokesters and played a pivotal part in keeping them afloat to the point that in one episode, he ran himself ragged working 18 hours straight.
* When he became Vice-CEO of Monsters, Inc., his first action was promoting Celia to the floor supervisor. He created a comedy class so that scarers could now become jokesters.
* He and Sulley forgave the members of M.I.F.T. for almost getting Monsters, Inc. shut down due to their bumbling reckless behavior.
* He and Sulley took care of Snore, whom of which was an infant, while M.I.F.T. repaired the damage to the baby's room, and Mike eventually grew attached to the child, reluctantly returning him/her home.
* He promoted Tyler to a jokester in the finale of season 1 after looking up to his persistence and played a big part in helping Monsters, Inc. generate 1 million gigglewatts in 1 whole day to save the company from being shut down.

## Trivia

* He is the only Monsters Inc character to be considered a Guile Hero.
* He, and Woody are one of two Pixar characters to be a Guile Hero.

## External Links

* Mike Wazowski on the Heroes Wiki
* Mike Wazowski on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
* Mike Wazowski on the Disney Wiki

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