Stinky Pete

**Stinky Pete** (also known as **The Prospector**) is the main antagonist of the 1999 Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 2 which is the sequel to Toy Story. He is a prospector doll based off a character in Woody's Roundup who wants to go to the Konshi Toy Museum in Tokyo, Japan due to him never experienced a child's love.

He was voiced by Kelsey Grammer.

## Toy Story 2

Stinky Pete is first seen when Jessie tells Woody to say hello to him. Stinky Pete was surprised that Al got Woody while also pretending to nice towards him. Woody was confused at first due to the fact that he never knew that he was famous. When Stinky Pete notice this, he tells Bullseye to show all of the merchandise to Woody which caused him to be surprised.

That night, Woody was fine in Al's apartment along with his new friends as well as watching show and looking at the merchandise. When Woody, Jessie, and Bullseye play with the record player, Stinky Pete reveal Al's plan to sell Woody and his Roundup gang to the Konshi Toy Museum in Tokyo, Japan which cause Woody to be shocked since he needs to go back to Andy given that he wasn't supposed to be at the yard sale and the main reason he went there is to rescue Wheezy. Just then, Al came and takes a picture of Woody and the Roundup gang, after Al accidentally ripped Woody's right arm, Woody panic which is before Stinky Pete tells him that his arm can be easily fixed. When the toys were sleeping, Woody tries to escape from Al's apartment in order to go back to Andy but however, Stinky Pete secretly turn on the TV and frame Jessie for that. Once Woody is back at the case, Stinky Pete saw Woody and Jessie fighting as well as pretending that he did not know how the TV turned on and telling Woody that cleaner will come to fix his arm in the morning.

That next day, after Woody got fixed, Stinky Pete tries to make Woody stay by convincing Woody to make amends with Jessie before he leaves. After Jessie reveals her backstory, Woody still tries to leave before Stinky Pete tried to manipulate him even more which caused Woody himself decide to stay.

After Woody decides to stay, his friends soon arrive to Al's apartment to save him as well as also attacking the new characters due to them believing they're torturing him. During that, they tried to convince Woody to come with them, but he refused due to them being locked in the storage if he's going with them. Buzz then tells Woody that he is not a collector's item and instead a toy, but Woody still refuses due to also believing that Andy will be done with playing with him. After that Woody refuse to go back to Andy, Buzz and the rest of the toys left. Just then, Woody hears **You Got a Friend In Me** which caused Woody to change his mind as well as convinces Jessie and Bullseye to come with him to Andy. Stinky Pete then lock them up in Al's apartment revealing his true nature and he is one who turn on the TV. Woody and Jessie were mad at Stinky Pete for that and tells him how really stinky he is and that is not fair. Stinky Pete just then angrily reveals his backstory where he never sold to a child. When Woody calls Buzz, Stinky Pete said it's too late and calls Buzz's surname Lightweight causing Woody to yell at him, saying his name is Buzz Lightyear and Stinky Pete said whatever and he hated those space toys before going back into his box. After Al leaves with his luggage, the toys tried to rescue Woody but Stinky Pete shoves him back at the luggage and foiling the toys' plan.

At the airport, When Buzz tries to save Woody, Stinky Pete punches him saying take that, space toy. Woody notices this and attacks Pete for punching Buzz, only for Stinky Pete to kick Woody off of him and reopens his old rip in his right arm with his pickaxe. He then gives Woody a choice which is go to Japan or in pieces, assuring that Al will have him fixed again as well as ordering Woody to get back in the box, but Woody angrily refuses. This left the Prospector had no choice but to rip Woody's arm again which is before Buzz and the rest of the toys arrive flashing at the cameras at Stinky Pete in order to save him. This gives Buzz a chance to capture Stinky Pete by the collar of his shirt. Stinky Pete rants that the toys are idiots for wanting to go with Andy, saying that children destroy toys, and they will be ruined, forgotten and they'll soon be taken away to rot in a landfill.

Woody then orders his friends to put Stinky Pete in a backpack of a child as punishment for his actions as well showing him the true meaning of playtime.

## Personality

Stinky Pete seems to be a nice and wise toy at first but however later turns out to be actually an evil and manipulative toy who just wants to go to Japan due to the fact he was never sold to a child.

## Trivia

* His nickname, Stinky Pete, is also a colloquialism of Saltpeter, a primary ingredient in making gunpowder and explosives,
* His name may be named after Pete from the Mickey Mouse franchise since they're both villains who serve as enemies to the heroes (Woody and Mickey Mouse) as well as the fact that Dinsey distributed the Pixar movies.
* In the film's credits and various tie-in books, he is simply credited as the Prospector.
* Stinky Pete serves as a foil to both Woody and Jessie since...
	+ Woody only wanted to go back to Andy while Stinky Pete didn't want to get adopted by a child as he hates children. If Woody still decides to stay in the museum along with the Roundup Gang instead of going back to Andy, he will end up like Stinky Pete.
	+ Like Woody, Jessie only wanted to be played while Stinky Pete only wanted love and adoration. Stinky Pete also represents what Jessie would have become if she didn't want to be played with.

* Stinky Pete didn't appear in Toy Story 3 nor was mentioned, but he did predict some of the events of the film:
	+ Pete's talk with Woody about what would have happen to him and the gang when Andy grew up became a big plot point in Toy Story 3.
	+ In one Toy Story 2 outtake, he was talking, he was talking to two Barbie dolls in his box, promising them a role in Toy Story 3, which of them did with a Ken doll.
	+ Also, his prediction of Andy being unlikely to take Woody to collage with him as a teenager came true in Toy Story 3, through at first, Andy considered taking Woody to collage along with putting the other toys in his attic, therefore almost denying the Prospector's expectations. However, at the end, Andy gave Woody, and the rest of the gang to Bonnie.
	+ He said, "Children destroy toys!" and "You'll all be ruined", foreshadowing the rough play scene in the Caterpillar Room.
	+ He even predicted the climax of Toy Story 3, where the toys would end up at a landfill.

* Stinky Pete is the first main antagonist in a Pixar film who was not to be revealed to be evil at first.
* Some storyboards of the film shows that Stinky Pete was originally going to be already hostile towards Woody as well as being outside of his box before the latter decided to go back to Andy. This was cut from the final cut of the film likely in order to make the audience not be suspicious of Stinky Pete and the plot twist of him being the villain very shocking.
* During the television scene, Stinky Pete said Yow, my biscuits are burning, this is a reference to what Yosemite Sam said in the 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
* According to his box, he had only a total of nine sayings, such as "There's gold in them hills", Help! I think I'm stuck", "Aw, shucks-a-roo!", and "Oh boy! Beans for Dinner!."
* At the end of Toy Story 3, Andy mentions Jessie and Bullseye by name to Bonnie, implying that since the events of Toy Story 2, Andy, at some point, learned their identities from the Woody's Roundup TV show, but it is currently unknown whether Andy knows anything about Stinky Pete.
* Unlike in the film, Stinky Pete had henchmen (Gunslinger and Blacksmith) in the videogame version on Nintendo 64, PlayStation 1, and PC.
* In 2019, the film's 20th anniversary and also the same time that the fourth film was released, the outtake where Stinky Pete talks to the Barbie twins about them getting a role in Toy Story 3 was removed to reflect #MeToo movement and the ousting of John Lasseter as head of animation amidst sexual harassment allegations.