Sheriff Woody Pride

### Occupation

Favorite toy and leader of Andy's toys (formerly)Bonnie's toy (formerly)Lost toy

## Physical description

### Height

15.93 inches tall (with hat)15.18 inches tall (without hat)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Tom Hanks (theatrical films)Jim Hanks (whenever Pixar can't get Tom Hanks)

### Appears in

* Toy Story (1995)
* Toy Story 2 (1999)
* Toy Story 3 (2010)
* Toy Story 4 (2019)
* Toy Story Treats (1996)
* Toy Story Toons (2011)
* Toy Story of Terror! (2013)
* Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014)
* Lamp Life (2020)

Sheriff Woody Pride is the protagonist of Pixar's long-running Toy Story franchise.

## Official description

Woody is a traditional kind of toy, with his pull-string voice box and cowboy detailing. He has long enjoyed a place of honor as the favorite among six-year-old Andy's toys—until Buzz Lightyear crash-lands and shakes up his world.

## Development

In the beginning of Toy Story's development when the team at Pixar was addressing every note that the Disney company was giving them. Jeffery Katzenberg, the chairman of the Disney studio told them that with the film being about toys, it was too juvenile, and that the film needed to be more edgy to work for adults. Those notes resulted in Woody being, as Disney's former president Thomas Schumacher said, “one of the most repellent things you've ever seen on screen. You couldn't watch it.” The story team at Pixar got the first half of the film together and showed it to the executives at Disney. John Lasseter recalled “It was a story filled with the most unhappy, mean people.” Lasseter admitted that he was embarrassed by what was up on the screen as well. The screening, deemed the Black Friday reel, resulted in a complete rewrite of the film. John Lasseter recalled that the main thing to focus on with the rewrite was to make Woody a likeable character. The story team at Pixar rewrote and reboarded the entire film, and just focused on making the movie they wanted to make. They showed the overhauled version of the film to Disney, who were just about ready to shut production down, and they were impressed and saw that it showed the potential of what Toy Story would be. Disney allowed production to continue, and Woody was made into a more likeable and sympathetic character.

## Personality

Woody is a rather proud, smart, and passionate toy. He wants what’s best for his community and will do whatever it takes to help it. However, Woody is still a flawed character. He has genuine feelings of doubt, sadness, anger, stress, denial, jealousy, and uncertainty.

## Physical appearance

Woody is a fair skinned, tall man with brown hair with sideburns. He has a yellow and red plaid button-up shirt, a natrual dyed cowhide vest, blue jeans, a brown belt with a golden belt buckle with a bull engraved on it, a holster, a red bandana, a brown, hand-stitched poly-vinyl hat, and brown boots with golden spurs. On his right boot was formerly the name “Andy” with a backwards N drawn on it with a black crayon. In Toy Story 4, the Andy written on the boot is replaced with Bonnie's name.

## Appearances

### Toy Story

In Toy Story, Woody is the favorite toy in Andy's bedroom that is adored by Andy. After Andy leaves the room, Woody comes to life and calls a staff meeting with all of Andy's toys to discuss Andy's birthday party, which cause the other toys to panic about new presents that may replace them. To calm the panicked toys down, Woody sends out the troops to investigate the party downstairs. Woody is surprised when Andy shoves him off his place on the bed and a new toy replaces him. Woody goes up to the bed to see what the new toy is, and it's a Buzz Lightyear action figure. Woody is very jealous of him, and Buzz replaces Woody as Andy's favorite toy.

## Gallery

***The Unofficial Pixar Database Wiki*** has a collection of images and media related to Sheriff Woody Pride.
## Trivia

* In the documentary Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear, an early test script had him named Slim.
* Woody's forehead isn't burned anymore in the second film, like his fixed arm isn't muscular anymore in the third movie.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.pixar.com/feature-films/toy-story
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://youtu.be/KY5epYKAQSY