Henry J. Waternoose III

**Henry J. Waternoose III** (also known as Henry J. Waternoose, Mr. Waternoose or just Waternoose) is the secondary antagonist of the 2001 Disney/Pixar animated film, Monsters, Inc. and a cameo character in it's prequel, Monsters University. He is the (former) CEO of Monsters, Inc., Sulley, and Mike's former boss, and one of Randall's former henchmen.

He is voiced by the late James Coburn.

## Monsters, Inc.

Mr. Waternoose is first shown at the beginning of the film, strictly informing Thaddeus Bile, and the trainees about the dangers of a human child after Thaddeus has unsuccessfully tried to frighten a smulated child in the bed.

That afternoon, Mr. Waternoose congratulates Sulley for having an entire slumber party. Shortly afterwards, the CDA arrive, when George Sanderson get a sock stuck on his back. Mr. Waternoose expresses displeasure at the scare floor being put out of commission, Shortly after, Mr. Waternoose asks Sulley to come to the training room to give the trainees a scare demonstration, Sulley agrees, saying to start with the "Old Waternoose Jump and Growl".

Later, when Sulley, and Mike tried to alert Mr. Waternoose about Randall's evil plan while he was attending a training session for new monsters. However, he asks Sulley to demonstrate his scare tactics, and when Sulley growls loudly, he accidentally scares Boo who reveals herself as a human child. Mr Waternoose later brings a door that takes Mike, and Sulley to the Himalayas in Nepal, revealing that he is actually one of Randall's henchmen, and also banished them there but Sulley later came back to the monster world.

Back at the secret lair, Waternoose regret banishing Sulley, and trusting Randall with his plans, and also said that because of Randall, he had to banished Sulley. He then watches Randall, and Fungus testing the scream extractor on Boo, but Sulley came to rescue Boo, and throws the scream extractor at Randall, and his henchman. Waternoose later order an already-angered Randall to stop Sulley but Mike came, and throws the snowball at Randall which cause Randall to stop attacking him, and Sulley knock him out. Waternoose later order Randall once again, and said that threre can't be any withnesses, and Randall repiles, there not be.

After Randall's defeat, it reveals Waternoose free himself from the scream extractor, and called the CDA blaming Mike, and Sulley for the entire incident but however Mike throws a sock at one of the CDA, and runs away which cause to distract the CDA but Watenoose chases Sulley, and Boo but however Mike exposes Randall's plan, and the CDA arrested Waternoose for being cahoots with Randall.

## Monsters Univeristy

Waternoose does not appear in the prequel but however makes a cameo at in the end of the film.

## Monsters At Work

Mr. Waternoose does not appear in the series due to his arrest but however he was mentioned, and his picture is seen. It also reveals that Waternoose invited Tylor Tuskmon to join the company before his arrest for being one of Randall's henchman.

## Personality

Mr. Waternoose use to be have a calm, and fatherly personality but ever since he hepled Randall with his plans, he became a villain.

## Appearance

Mr. Waternoose is a large gray obese crab/spider like monster. complety bald, have five eyes. walks around 6 crab like legs. He was always seen wearing a black tuxedo jacket over a white shirt , a black tow, and a red vest.

## Trivia

* Mr. Waternoose is often thought to be the first film's main antagonist, and Randall's (former) boss. The reason for this could be at one point, Mr. Waternoose was seen ordering Randall a few times and Mike explains everything to Celia as he says "Waternoose has this secret plot". However, this is obviously not true as there are hints proving that Randall is the mastermind behind of the plot, and not Waternoose (despite him ordering Randall a few times and Mike saying "Waternoose has this secret plot as he could have just assumed).
	+ One example is when Mike tries to make Fungus let him go, Fungus said that Randall told him that he is not allowed to fraternize with victims of his plan (stating that the plan was Randall's, and not Waternoose's).
	+ A another hint of Mr. Waternoose just being a henchman is that after banishing Mike, and Sulley, Waternoose regrets doing so, and admits that Randall is behind everything when he tells him that he should never trusted him with the plan since it resulted in him having to betray his own employees, which Randall brushes off and forces Waternoose to be silent.
	+ Waternoose does have good intentions in the beginning of the first film as shown which can't prove that he was the mastermind behind of the plot, and not to mention there's no real proof that those intentions were fake.
	+ after the Scarers take a break, Mr. Waternoose discusses his plans to save the company which also cannot prove that Waternoose is the mastermind behind of the plot (depsite that foreshadowing his true role), and plus, there's no proof that he pretend that he did not know how to save the comapny.
	+ If Waternoose was really the mastermind behind of the plot, he would told Mike and Sulley about it after his betrayal.
	+ When Waternoose said that he, and Boo have seen too much, he meant too much of Randall's plan. Then when he said he had no choice to make things be that way, this shows that Waternoose just went along with Randall's plan to save the company, and Plus, when Waternoose said that he will kidnap a thousands of children before he lets the comapny die, and also silence anyone who gets in his way, he was doing it for Randall, and his plan.
	+ Although Mr. Waternoose later turned evil, he is nowhere near as evil as Randall.
	+ Most of the adaptations mention that Waternoose was working or cahoots with Randall instead of saying that he was behind of the plan.
	+ In the Disney As Told My Emoji episode which is based off the first film, Waternoose seem to very sad rather than be evil which is most likely based off the scene where Randall, and Waternoose argue, and it also reveals that Randall force Waternoose to banished Sulley, and Mike.
	+ Even CEOs, and elderly people can be henchman or minions as they are just people. and not some kind of gods or anything like that.

* Mr. Waternoose is one of the last chracters to be played by James Coburn before his death in 2002.
* Although Waternoose ended up becoming involved in abucting Boo despite his claims of human children being toxic, it is never been clear whenther he already knew that human children aren't toxic, and lied about the dangers of them to the monsters, or if he truly did believe they were toxic, but felt saving the company from bankruptcy was worth the risk of being poisoned by a child.
* Mr. Waternoose was the first Pixar villain to have his true motives caught on camera, the second being Ernesto de la Cruz from Coco. However, Waternoose had more firm, and understanable reasons for his actions as he was trying to save the company from bankruptcy and stop the energy crisis.
* Mr. Waternoose was originally going to voiced by Kelsey Grammer (who previously voice Stinky Pete from Toy Story 2) in Monsters University replacing James Coburn after his death in 2002 but he was dropped out for unknown reasons.
* In Monsters Univeristy, Waternoose resembled the late painter Bob Ross (due to his afro, and facial hair).
* his first name, Henry was never metnioned but was shown in the Monsters, Inc. commercal (showing his full name is Henry J. Waternoose)
* It's unknown what the J stand for but it was rumoured that the J stand for James.
* Microsoft's Xenon processor for the Xbox 360 was codenamed "Waternoose" in honor of the chracter.
* Waternoose is more of an anti-villain since his only goal is to save the company, for which he meant well with good straegy, only to end up purshing it in the wrong directions afterwards.
* Previously, the only confirmation that Waternoose was the third member in his family with that name was a brief mention in the DVD commentary for Monsters, Inc. by the director. The first episode of Monsters at Work shows a letter from him with his full name on it.