Barbie

### Friends

Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Slinky Dog, Rex, Hamm, Mr. Potato Head, Mrs. Potato Head, Little Green Men, Jessie, Bullseye, Big Baby, Ken (boyfriend), Stretch, Chunk, Twitch, Sparks, The Monkey

### Enemies

Lotso, Big Baby (formerly), Ken (briefly), Stretch (formerly), Chunk (formerly), Twitch (formerly), Sparks (formerly), The Monkey (formerly), Gabby Gabby, The Bensons

## Appearances

### Debut

Toy Story 3

**Barbara Millicent Roberts** (better known as just **Barbie**) is a major character in *Toy Story 3*, the protagonist of the *Toy Story Toons* short film *Hawaiian Vacation*, and a non-speaking cameo in *Toy Story 4*.

Barbie is a inanimate toy, originally belonging to Molly Davis. After being donated to Sunnyside, Barbie griefs and believes her only purpose has been destroyed. But when Barbie meets Ken, she immediately finds happiness.

She is voiced by Jodi Benson, who also voiced Ariel in *The Little Mermaid*. She also voices Barbie’s *Toy Story 2* counterpart, Tour Guide Barbie, along with all the other Barbie’s in the four films.

## Biography

### Background

Not much is known about Barbie prior to her appearance in *Toy Story 3*.

Barbie was Molly’s toy and possibly her last Barbie before being donated to Sunnyside. It is unknown when she got her, or how long Molly had owned her.

### *Toy Story 2*

The morning after Andy's toys return home, three of Molly's Barbies are seen providing background vocals for a fixed Wheezy as he sings "You've Got a Friend in Me" in celebration of Woody being back. It is inferred one of the Barbie’s might be the *Toy Story 3* Barbie.

### *Toy Story 3*

One of Molly's Barbie dolls has lasted up until this point, but Molly tosses her into a box bound for Sunnyside Daycare. Soon Andy's then remaining toys - Woody, Buzz, Rex, Hamm, Slinky, Mr. Potato Head, Mrs. Potato Head, Jessie, Bullseye and the Aliens - join Barbie to go to Sunnyside as well, now that Andy is going to college. Mrs. Potato Head tries to comfort Barbie, who is crying about being abandoned by Molly, but when Woody describes daycare as a sad, lonely place for toys who have no owners, she begins to bawl and sob hysterically.

At Sunnyside, Barbie first shakes one of Stretch's tentacles. Shortly thereafter, Barbie and the toys meet Lotso, the head toy at Sunnyside, who then calls for Ken to join the tour. As Barbie and Ken catch sight of each other, they walk toward one another, and Barbie asks if she and Ken have ever met. Little does Barbie know that Ken works under Lotso. As Lotso assigns Andy's toys to the Caterpillar Room, Ken asks Barbie if she wants to live in his Dream House in the Butterfly Room, and when the toys approve, Barbie willingly departs the Caterpillar Room to go with Ken and Lotso's other gang members. While Barbie is gone, Woody goes back to Andy but ends up being found by a girl named Bonnie Anderson.

That evening, Buzz, who has left the Caterpillar Room to go see Lotso, witnesses Barbie and Ken spending some more time together as they share their love dialogue, until Chunk and Twitch, two of Lotso's evil accomplices, walk by and take Ken with them to head for the Vending Machine located down the hallway to gamble. When Ken doesn't seem to come back, Barbie goes out of the Butterfly Room to investigate. Finding Ken in the Caterpillar Room, she asks him what is happening, only for Ken to tell her to wait in his Dream House, but upon discovering that Ken and the other Sunnyside toys have locked up her friends, Barbie becomes angry with Ken and subsequently breaks up with him as she snatches away the scarf she has previously given to him. She is then imprisoned with the rest of the toys.

The next day, after Woody, having been told by Bonnie's toys - Mr. Pricklepants, Buttercup, Trixie, Chuckles and Dolly - about how Lotso really runs Sunnyside, arrives back at Sunnyside to rescue his imprisoned friends, Barbie takes part in Woody's plan to escape the daycare. After Ken and Buzz take roll call, she calls Ken over and begs him to let her stay with him at his Dream House. Hearing Barbie's sobs, Ken becomes stuck in a dilemma, but gives in to Barbie's plea, making her promise to do what he says. At the Dream House, Barbie is awestruck at Ken's vast collection of clothes, but when Ken, thinking Barbie is still angry at him for what he has done to her friends, bitterly says how no one appreciates his clothes, Barbie sweet-talks him into showing off his many outfits to her, making Ken's spirit reinvigorate. Barbie becomes amused and applauds as Ken shows off his various outfits to her.

As Ken shows off his martial arts in his Kung-Fu fighting outfit, Barbie tackles Ken from above and demands him to tell her what Lotso has done to Buzz and how to get Buzz back to normal. Realizing that it is a ploy by Barbie, Ken initially protests, but decides to see her try. Barbie then ties up Ken (who is now in nothing but his underwear) to a paddle and interrogates him by making fun of his outfits as she tears them in half. Ken tries to remain defiant as much as he can, but when Barbie brings out his Nehru jacket that she claims is from 1967, he begs her not to rip it. Despite Ken's pleas, she starts ripping the jacket until Ken, unable to bear it anymore, mentions about the instruction manual as he falls over in the paddle that he is tied to.

As Ken confesses to Barbie that Lotso has switched Buzz to "Demo" mode, Barbie puts down the Nehru and demands Ken to tell her where to find the manual, then disguises herself using Ken's space suit and asks Bookworm to hand her the Buzz Lightyear instruction manual (Bookworm becomes disgusted when he sees "Ken" wearing high heels). She reaches Woody and shows him the manual, then they return to the Caterpillar Room to catch up with Hamm and Rex, who have trapped Buzz in a storage bin, but Buzz kicks the bin off and tries to escape. After Hamm and Rex recapture Buzz and hold him down, Barbie unscrews Buzz's back compartment so Woody and Rex can have access to the "Play-Demo" switch and the reset hole, respectively.

However, the toys end up resetting Buzz into a Spanish version of his deluded, Space Ranger self, leaving Barbie and the others in bewilderment. Nevertheless, Barbie and the toys escape Sunnyside through the garbage chute, but Lotso and his gang corner them. Barbie, supporting Jessie's claims about Sunnyside not being a place for family but a prison and Lotso being a liar and a bully, stands up and tells Lotso with her surprising understanding of civics, "Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from the threat of force!". Lotso then has his henchwoman, Stretch, push the toys (including Barbie) into the dumpster, but then, Ken appears to stop Lotso from doing so, making Barbie surprised at his sudden appearance.

As Lotso mocks Ken for loving Barbie, stating that there are millions of Barbie dolls everywhere, Ken turns to Barbie and says to him there's not, which makes Barbie become affectionate again. Angered, Lotso grabs Ken and throws him across the dumpster to force him to join Barbie, but Ken is rescued by Woody, who catches him in mid-fall and pulls him up to the chute with help from the other toys. Barbie runs over and hugs Ken, making him astonished to have won her back. Ken then declares that fair treatment of the toys can make Sunnyside a cool and groovy place and labels Lotso as a dictator. When the toys end up being loaded into a garbage truck, Barbie attempts to help, but is stopped by Ken from risking her life. Barbie is shocked to see her friends being loaded into the garbage and screams sadly as Ken holds her. After the Aliens save them, Woody thinks Barbie died and the toys go on without her.

However, it is later revealed that she is still alive and later makes amends and reconciles with Ken, and the two reestablish their relationship, becoming boyfriend and girlfriend once again. Together, they revolutionize Sunnyside, turning the daycare into a true toy paradise for toys of all kind, and become its new leaders. Under Ken and Barbie's leadership, the daycare toys now rotate their time between the Butterfly Room and the Caterpillar Room, hold beach parties at the sandbox, and gather together in the Butterfly Room for disco parties. The next day, the toys, now residing at their new home at Bonnie's house, receive a message from Sunnyside and read it, thinking it is written by Barbie (as remarked by Buzz about the fancy handwriting), only to discover Ken's signature at the end, much to their dread.

### *Hawaiian Vacation*

Barbie is first seen along with Ken as they unzip Bonnie's backpack and emerge into Bonnie's room. There, they meet Woody, Buzz, and other toys, but Ken becomes depressed when he finds out that he and Barbie have ended up in Bonnie's room and missed their "flight" to Hawaii. After Ken sinks back into Bonnie's backpack in great depression, Barbie reveals to Woody and the others the vacation plans she and Ken have formulated for each other. Soon Woody and his friends recreate "Hawaii" for the couple, such as deep-sea diving, guided nature walk, and an entertaining dinner. After their various adventures in "Hawaii," Ken and Barbie share their first kiss in the snow at sunrise, as Woody and his friends watch through a window, but then the two fall into the snow, prompting the toys to come to their rescue by digging them out and releasing them from a block of ice.

### *Toy Story 4*

Barbie and two other counterparts briefly appears in the prologue of *Toy Story 4*, helping Woody, Jessie, Bo Peep, and Buzz save RC from the rain.

## Trivia

* According to Mattel toy line history, Barbie's full name is **Barbara Millicent Roberts**.
* All the Barbie dolls who appear in the series are voiced by Jodi Benson, famous for voicing Ariel in Disney's *The Little Mermaid* movie trilogy and TV series. She also voiced Barbie in many commercials for the doll, and on CD-ROM games with the character.
* Barbie was meant to appear in the original *Toy Story* as Woody's girlfriend, in place of Bo Peep. However, Mattel would not allow the use of Barbie because they didn't want her to be given her own personality (it was important to them that the girls who buy the toys would imagine what Barbie is like themselves, thus making the toy unique to each girl). Also, they didn't think it would succeed being the first computer-animated film. After *Toy Story* was a success, Mattel decided to put that policy aside and allowed her to appear in *Toy Story 2*, and also with her boyfriend Ken in *Toy Story 3*.
	+ In addition, her personality was intended to be modeled after Sarah Connor from the *Terminator* franchise, even saying, "Come with me if you want to live," when she rescued Woody and Buzz from Sid's mansion, with Woody remarking in reply that he "Wish[ed] [Woody] was anatomically correct."
* The Barbie in *Toy Story 3* is based on the real life 1983 *Great Shape Barbie* toy. It was also reproduced to include the accessories of a jacket or a play Walkman. Mattel also included a separate self-assembly workout center.
	+ The phrase, "Love your leg warmers," which Ken says to Barbie in their first meeting, was used in the original *Great Shape Barbie* toy commercial.
* All Barbie‘s in the series are different characters. A lot of people assumed Tour Guide Barbie was the same Barbie who appeared in *Toy Story 3*.
* The two other Barbies that appear with Barbie in *Toy Story 4* have a resemblance to the dolls Christie and Teresa who were Barbie's friends in the Mattel franchise.