Andy Davis

**Andrew "Andy" Davis** is a major character from the Toy Story franchise.

## Background

### Development

According to Toy Story producer Ralph Guggenheim, John Lasseter, and the story team for Toy Story reviewed the names of Pixar employees' children looking for the right name for Woody's owner. Andy was ultimately named after Andy Luckey, the son of legendary animator Bud Luckey, Pixar's fifth employee, and the creator of Woody. The younger Luckey in interviews has claimed he wasn't aware that he was the namesake of the character, stating in Animation magazine that he believed it to be an urban legend and that he had assumed the character to have been named after Pixar animator Andrew Stanton.

### Physical Appearance

Andy has fair skin, brown hair, and blue eyes. In the first two movies, he wore a red cowboy hat, which he stopped wearing prior to Toy Story 3. At the beginning of Toy Story, he wears a green t-shirt with a cowboy playing the guitar in the top right corner, blue shorts, white socks, and white sneakers with blue laces. When he goes to Pizza Planet, he wears a purple polo shirt but keeps his blue shorts. On moving day, he wears a light blue t-shirt with light brown shorts. However, He wears his original outfit in a shot where he sadly leaves his old room holding his hat and Buzz's box, but this could either be an error, or he slept in those clothes. He is seen in two sets of pyjamas. They both consist of white short-sleeved raglan shirts with coloured sleeves, shorts, and white socks. His first set is yellow with a cowboy on the shirt, and the other is blue with Buzz Lightyear on the shirt.

In the first part of Toy Story 2, he wears a white t-shirt with the bull-headed logo of Triple-R Ranch, dark blue cargo shorts, and greyish-blue sneakers. When he returns from Cowboy Camp, he wears a dark green t-shirt with grey cargo shorts and the same colour amount of sneakers.

In Toy Story 3, Andy, now a teenager, has developed freckles and grew out his hair into messy bangs. He now wears a blue t-shirt with darker blue trim, blue jeans, and grey and brown sneakers. In the end, he wears a blue dress shirt with a white undershirt, but his jeans and sneakers remain.

In the flashbacks at the beginning of Toy Story 4, Andy appears as a kid again, but a few years older. He is seen wearing a blue baseball t-shirt with white sleeves and a darker blue border, blue jeans, and black converse sneakers. In a couple more flashbacks, he can be seen in other blue shirts: one with stripes, and another one that is similar to the shirt he wore in Toy Story 3.

### Personality

As a child, Andy is portrayed as an eager, imaginative boy who lives with his mother and younger sister Molly; his father is never seen or mentioned in the films. He is 6 years old in his debut and is the owner of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the other toys, which he treats with a large amount of love.

As a teenager, Andy's personality changes drastically. He is now portrayed as being a gruff, easily irritated, and lethargic seventeen-year-old, but still a kind and compassionate person. Though he no longer plays with his childhood toys, he still cherishes them because of their importance to him as a child and finds it hard to let them go with Bonnie, especially when he found Woody (who had the same problem with his owner) inside the box.

## Film Appearances

### Toy Story

In Toy Story, Andy and his family are preparing to move to another house the following week, so his mother decides to hold his birthday party a week earlier. During the party, one of his gifts is a Buzz Lightyear action figure from his favourite film, Lightyear, causing tension between Buzz and Woody, who has always prided himself on being Andy's favourite. He spends much more time with Buzz and begins to favour him over Woody, but he still held a special place in his heart for Woody himself, as evidenced when both toys went missing for a time and he fears they would be left behind after he moved to a new house with his family, when, unknown to him, Woody and Buzz are in Sid Phillip's house. Fortunately, he is able to find them as they are driving to their new house after he discovers that they were in the car the whole time (by that time, Woody and Buzz have put all tensions aside and become friends). Later that year during Christmas, he receives a puppy, though his bond with this new pet is never developed beyond his excitement about having one.

### Toy Story 2

In Toy Story 2, one year after the events in Toy Story, Andy is now 7 years old and is seen only at the beginning, and for a short while at the ending. However, during the short time he is in the movie, it is easy to tell that he still loves his toys very much and they still feel the same about him. While Woody is having a nightmare after his arm accidentally ripped while playing with Buzz, Andy notices his rip and says that he does not want to play with Woody anymore and drops him into the cards left on the floor by Rex and Mr. Potato Head which lead Woody to land into a trash can filled with severed hands, Woody sees this yelling Andy not to do it and the severed hands grabs him by the neck sinking him and Andy sadly says goodbye to Woody and closes the trash can ignoring Woody's pleads. At the end of the film, Andy returns home from Cowboy Camp and is pleased to have five new toys, Jessie, Bullseye, and three Squeeze Toy Aliens, added to his collection and fixes Woody's arm which had been fixed by the cleaner earlier and had been ripped open again by Stinky Pete, although he made it tighter and stronger than the cleaner did. Whenever Andy labels two of his new toys with his name on the soles of their feet. In Bullseye's case, Andy prints each letter of his name on each of Bullseye's hooves.

### Toy Story 3

In Toy Story 3, ten years after the events in Toy Story 2, Andy is now 17 years old and preparing to leave for college. At the urging of his mother, he intends to put most of his toys in the attic and take Woody to college with him. Despite the fact that Andy has not played with his toys for years, he still cares about them and is visibly upset when he cannot find them. At the end of the film, Woody persuades him from afar to give them to Bonnie, the daughter of a family friend, who he realizes will look after them. When she finds Woody in the box as well, Andy shows great reluctance to pass on his favourite toy (who had the same issue with him throughout the film) but relents, allowing them to stay together in an environment where they'll be loved and played with. He spends a while playing with Bonnie and the toys one last time before leaving for college. From afar, his former toys see him off as Woody gives a final farewell.

### Toy Story 4

In Toy Story 4, Andy, as a child, makes a brief appearance at the beginning of the film during a flashback segment two years after Toy Story 2 and five years before Toy Story 3. During a rainy night, Andy is first seen heading into his room, putting his toys on his bed before heading downstairs for dinner, and later, as Bo Peep was being given away, Woody considered going with her until Andy ran outside looking for him, making Woody realize just how much Andy needed him. He eventually finds him on the driveway. He is then seen in a few more flashbacks of him playing with his toys, and in another flashback of him as a teenager, giving his toys to Bonnie. Andy is probably still in college.

Woody mentions Andy several times throughout the film. When Bonnie is distressed over starting kindergarten, Woody compares her to his original owner, much to Dolly's dismay. When Woody walks Forky back to the Andersons' RV, he mentions Andy again, resulting in a conversation about Woody's previous life, with the cowboy doll wistful over his time with Andy. The spork takes this knowledge to heart, and after being held in the Second Chance Antique Store, he tells his captor, Gabby Gabby, about Andy. After a failed attempt to rescue Forky, Woody confronts Gabby Gabby again, but ultimately gives her his voice box in exchange for Forky after she expresses her longing to spend time with a child, just as Woody had done with Andy.

### Short Films

#### Toy Story of Terror!

Although Andy doesn't appear in Toy Story of Terror!, he is mentioned by Ron when he notices Andy's name on Woody's boot, thinking that it's his name.

#### Toy Story That Time Forgot

Andy was mentioned by Rex in Toy Story That Time Forgot while trying to make Trixie feel better about never being played with as a dinosaur. Also, Bonnie and Mason mark their favourite toys, Trixie and Reptillus Maximus, respectively; just like Andy did with his four favourites.