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| NOTE: This page is only about the original version of Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear as his counterpart from Toy Story 3: The Video Game was not voted Pure Evil, and thus only this version's info and crimes should be put here. |
| “ | Lotso: Listen up, folks. We got a way of doing things here at Sunnyside. If you start at the bottom, pay your dues, life here can become a dream come true! But if you break our rules, step out of line, try to... check out early? Well, you're just hurting yourselves. (Lotso throws down Woody's hat) Jessie: (gasp) Woody! What did you do to him?! Lotso: You all get a good night's rest. You got a full day of playtime tomorrow. (chuckles) |
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| ~ Lotso telling Andy's toys how he and his minions do things at Sunnyside and what happens when they "step out of line". |
| “ | This is what happens when you dummies try to think! WE'RE ALL JUST TRASH, WAITING TO BE THROWN AWAY! THAT ALL A TOY IS! | „ |
| ~ Lotso's breakdown and most famous quote as he loses his temper and reveals his true nature and beliefs on life as a toy to his former minions before getting thrown into the dumpster by Big Baby. |
| “ | Where's your kid now, Sheriff?! | „ |
| ~ Lotso's last words and most infamous quote as he leaves Andy's toys to die in the incinerator. |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, more commonly referred simply as Lotso, is the main antagonist of Pixar's 11th full-length animated feature film Toy Story 3, the third installment of the Toy Story franchise.
He is a large, pink, sentient strawberry-scented teddy bear who was accidentally lost and replaced by his owner Daisy, resulting in him becoming the former ruler of Sunnyside Daycare and turning it into a prison with the help of his former minions; Ken, Big Baby, Stretch, Sparks, Chunk, Twitch, the Bookworm, and the Monkey. Lotso rigged the system so that other toys would be misstated by the Daycare's younger children while he and his minions were better treated by the older children and kept toys imprisoned to ensure no one could break out of his jail at all. Ultimately, Lotso's rule ended when during Andy's toys' attempt to escape, they got into a confrontation, during which Woody revealed the extent of Lotso's true nature, which caused the other toys, including Big Baby, to turn on him.
He was voiced by the late Ned Beatty, who also played Charles Meachum in Shooter and Tortoise John in Rango. In the Japanese dub of the film, he was voiced by Nobuyuki Katsube, who also voiced Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Although Chuckles described him as a good and caring toy, all of this changed when Daisy accidentally lost him and replaced him with another Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear toy. In turn of this, he malevolently became a wrathful and abusive tyrant who illegally imprisoned and hurt various toys for his own amusement. He also gained fulfilment for his own personal life as the tyrannical ruler and turned Sunnyside into a place of despair for all toys as his sadistic entertainment.
- While he sometimes appears to be nice, happy, and affable towards other toys, it's only to cover up his true nature (and most likely so that toys won’t know they’re in danger in the Caterpillar Room until it’s too late) and he completely drops any affability after his true colors are revealed.
- Although he lets special toys, obedient toys, and his henchmen live safely with him in the Butterfly Room, this is only out of pragmatism, and he just wants to keep them submissive to him.
- He has a negatively hateful philosophy about toy ownership, as he constantly insists that toys in general are "trash waiting to be thrown away" and that humans don't love them. However, this doesn't make him a well-intentioned extremist as he still takes this petty excuse while he does heinous actions for his own personal amusement, thus also hatefully resulting in his own misanthropy toward toykind and humanity.
- In addition, he is also very hypocritical about his own ideology, as he himself actually doesn't want to be disposed in anyway (not just literally).
- He actually doesn't genuinely care for all his minions (Twitch, Chunk, Sparks, Stretch, Ken, Big Baby, the Monkey, and the Bookworm) at all, thus he is considering that he only uses them as tools that he uses to do the horrible work of ruling Sunnyside upon his laziness rather than doing all his sins himself and he was only completely pragmatic with them.
- While his henchmen are all abusive and behaving like harmful bullies towards Andy's toys, this is due to the fact that they are following Lotso's orders and because Lotso most likely told them that the Caterpillar Room kids needed toys to play with, making him indirectly responsible for their actions, and they would all eventually turn on him and redeem themselves after Woody exposes Lotso's true colors by confirming his backstory.
- What's even worse is that he called his minions "dummies" when he lost his temper, which likely indicates that he is a bad, abusive and tough boss to work with who would bark orders at his henchmen and doesn't care if they're getting tired or not.
- While his henchmen are all abusive and behaving like harmful bullies towards Andy's toys, this is due to the fact that they are following Lotso's orders and because Lotso most likely told them that the Caterpillar Room kids needed toys to play with, making him indirectly responsible for their actions, and they would all eventually turn on him and redeem themselves after Woody exposes Lotso's true colors by confirming his backstory.
- Though he has a tragic backstory that could be seen as sympathetic, as he was "abandoned" by Daisy and felt betrayed upon learning he was replaced, it is rightfully and angrily pointed out by Woody that his backstory, while pitiful and tragic, doesn't justify anything he did. No matter how much Daisy "abandoning" and replacing him hurt him, his actions surpassed the excuse for several reasons:
- The true reason why Daisy replaced him was because she lost him by pure accident, not because she no longer loved him, so she got a copy replacement to make it like it's him all over again instead of getting another toy just to not ever get herself upset without him. This also shows that he arrogantly failed to know this truth and even continued doubting against Woody while arguing with him.
- He forced Chuckles and Big Baby to leave Daisy by joining him in his suffering, even though they weren't even replaced at all; only him. Big Baby would tragically spend years mistakenly assuming he had been replaced too. Even when Chuckles tried to correctly point out the truth about his replacement, he didn't listen and instead furiously overruled him which he insisted that she replaced all of them, not being able to accept someone else having her if he couldn't, thereby making his own motive a petty and selfish one. He also smashed the pendant Daisy made for Big Baby after being exposed by Woody, thus subverting any care he had for Daisy and proving that he only selfishly cared about the love that she gave him and never about her well-being in return.
- He was unable to positively realize that the truth behind his tragedy that he was replaced only shows how much Daisy actually did intentionally love him, so that's why she got another copy of Lotso instead of another random toy, especially since she went out of her way to buy a new Lotso but not Big Baby or Chuckles. However, he mistakenly took his own loss falsely like she intentionally doesn't like it anymore and emotionally shed his own tragedy into insignificance while what's mainly personal of him is that he turned into villainy.
- The toys that he took his anger out on had nothing to do with him getting replaced and abandoning Daisy at all, with his horrendous treatment of them being his way of angrily lashing out at everyone else with the mindset that if he can't be happy, no one can. Also, when he left Woody and his gang to burn to death in the incinerator, all his sympathy was completely thrown out of the window and it was proven he truly doesn't take his tragedy personally as important at all.
- Even though his backstory scene had sad music which is beautifully heart-touching, it ultimately doesn't help anything because the events were only in the past and the fact that Lotso completely sheds any sympathetic traits in the present, which he never even cared if Daisy only replaced him.
- What doesn't make him sympathetic is that other characters such as Jessie and Duke Caboom both also went through the same tragedy. In the case of the formers, Jessie and Duke were being sent away but never fell into villainy while Daisy accidentally left Lotso behind. While Lotso remains bitter, he couldn't accept that Daisy replaced him with another Lotso only because she lost him by accident instead of malicious betrayal so he instead dictates Sunnyside Daycare with him being abusive towards all the toys and feeding them lies that they'll be thrown away if they don't ever follow his rules.
- Unlike all the villains in the Toy Story franchise, who have either positive and redeemable qualities, comedic moments or are unintentionally heinous, Lotso has no redeeming or genuinely positive qualities like a true villain fully would. He is also taken completely seriously and is actually heinous, surpassing the Heinous Standards by subjecting lots of toys to be tortured by young children along with attempting a mass murder on-screen. Also, unlike him, all the other villains are extremely bog-standard characters and baseline failures.
- While he does have some comedic moments, like when he hugs Buzz and tells Mr. Potato Head to watch out for the urine puddles, none of them detract from his heinousness and they all happen before he reveals his true nature, and he is taken completely seriously for the rest of the movie.
Background[]
- Right after seeing Daisy with another Lotso, he forced Chuckles and Big Baby to abandon her and join his empire in Sunnyside Daycare, lying to them that she replaced them all, and furiously overruled Chuckles when he correctly said that Lotso was the only replaced toy. This event caused Chuckles to become depressed and traumatized Big Baby forever, as they wanted to see Daisy anyways but Lotso didn't allow them to because he wanted them to be the first toys of the world to never have social happiness with humans by bringing them away with him from Daisy before he completely ruins this against all his kind and humanity at the future.
- After that, Lotso would gaslight and manipulate Big Baby for what appeared to be like years, making him believe Daisy abandoned and replaced him too and turning him into the abusive childlike toy he became, thus making him indirectly responsible for his actions.
- Upon arriving at Sunnyside Daycare, he became its ruler and turned it into a cruel toy prison where only toys who he views as special have the privilege of being played with nicely in the Butterfly Room while he forced the rest to be beaten, abused, and played with roughly by younger kids in the Caterpillar Room, where those who got broken and vandalised by the toddlers are disposed away in the trash and get sent to the dump, which may very well led to their incineration and presumed deaths, and those who defy Lotso are placed into the sandbox overnight to sleep dark and cold.
- It is implied that he had Chuckles beaten, broken and injured after he decided that he wasn't going to have any part of his empire, despite him once being his friend, and this got Bonnie to take the toy clown home and repair him after she found him.
- It is heavily implied that he had Big Baby beaten and abused once in the Caterpillar Room, as he is missing most of the clothing he had before coming to Sunnyside, has scribbles on his body and his left eye is broken.
Toy Story 3[]
- Just before leaving to the Butterfly Room, he manipulated Buzz and his friends when before realizing his true colors. He got them to intentionally live in the Caterpillar Room so they can stay in Sunnyside forever, making them wrongfully believe Andy no longer cared about them, causing Woody to turn against them and leave without them due to not acknowledging his truth that Andy didn't actually throw them away. Upon going to Bonnie's house, he discovered the shocking and disturbing truth about Lotso via Chuckles and Bonnie's toys.
- While he does allow Buzz Lightyear to join him and his gang into the Butterfly Room, he only does this for pragmatic reasons since Buzz proves himself to be a useful pawn, and he still doesn’t allow any of Buzz’s friends to come as well, so this isn’t genuinely a redeeming quality either. Speaking of that, when Ken tries to reason with Lotso about Buzz, he tells him to hush out of pragmatism.
- He reprogrammed Buzz by brainwashing him into demo mode when he selflessly refused to leave his friends behind in the Caterpillar Room while he only got sent into the Butterfly Room by himself, thus making him become one of his servants, manipulating him into seeing his friends as the evil loyal helpers of Emperor Zurg and having him beat down and lock up his own friends.
- After detaining Andy's toys, he showed them Woody's hat, which he accidentally left behind during his escape, under the false pretence that he killed him to break their spirits and discourage them from leaving Sunnyside.
- He had Chatter Telephone brutally beaten by his minions as punishment for helping Andy's toys and even forced him to locate their whereabouts to the dumpster.
- Seeing Slinky Dog acting as a bridge to help Andy's toys, he kicks his head to prevent Andy's toys from escaping Sunnyside before revealing the now harshly damaged Chatter Telephone to warn them that they will suffer similar punishments if they don't obey him.
- Although even if Andy's toys did go back to Sunnyside, they'll still potentially get trashed anyways upon the rough playtime and while living in the Caterpillar Room for as long as they can. They would either get damaged by the toddlers and/or already died during the playtime, and then get disposed away.
- During his argument with Woody and the rest of the toys, he still lies about Sunnyside Daycare not being a prison (falsely treating it like a family reunion). He even refuses to listen to Woody about Daisy only replacing him but never Big Baby or Chuckles.
- After Big Baby learned the truth about Daisy from Woody, Lotso, who had continuously lied to him over the years about her not loving them anymore and replacing them while also pretending to be his father figure, which is the toys' equivalent to a father lying to a child that their mother doesn't love them, smashed his pendant before abusively hitting him with his mallet in front of everyone else, including his own minions, who he ungratefully called "dummies". This angered Big Baby which would lead to him throwing Lotso in the dumpster, with said baby being completely fed up with him and his lies.
- This also confirms that he no longer cares about Daisy, simply because she replaced him with another Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear toy. Furthermore, he only selfishly cared about the love she used to give him and never about her anymore, as he drove into irredeemable evilness out of envy.
- He ordered Stretch to push Woody and the other toys into the dumpster so they would be thrown out. Amongst said other toys is Ken, whom Lotso personally threw him in as punishment for redeemably betraying him in favor of Barbie.
- Even his henchmen are disgusted by this; Stretch is visibly affected by his insults, watching her friends such as Ken and Big Baby being abused, and becomes very reluctant in pushing Andy's toys into the dumpster when being ordered to again.
- He drags Woody into the dumpster when the latter lifts the lid to free one of the Little Green Men. Upon bringing the cowboy inside, Lotso ensures that Woody will die along with him at the dump as revenge for everything he heroically did against him of sabotaging the empire of his villainy at Sunnyside, especially even for exposing his true colors. This results in the rest of Andy's toys being taken to the dump with them too after they unsuccessfully try to rescue Woody once the truck arrives, then Lotso tries to ensure that Andy's toys will all perish with him.
- After Woody and Buzz give him a boost up to press the button to stop the conveyor belt, he sadistically leaves Andy's toys to die to the incinerator despite Woody and Buzz reluctantly rescuing him from the shredder earlier, which is abhorrently his most heinous act. He tricked them all with his faux redemption, and him showing mercy about needing to be saved from the shredder was only out of his cowardice, thus meaning that Woody and Buzz should've never rescued him, but this is sympathetically valid because that they both easily got tricked by him. Luckily, this didn't succeed thanks to the Little Green Men's intervention, who saved both of them and all their friends before they almost perished to the incinerator, and if Lotso saw them alive or realized it after, he would’ve felt outraged that his plan had failed once again.
- Although he did indeed suffer a pretty horrible fate; being helplessly strapped to the front grille of a garbage truck, having to suffer from being covered by dirt, insects, mud and dust and/or to be thrown away into the incinerator for having become too dirty and this being known as the worst defeat amongst all the Toy Story villains ever, this is only played for satisfaction and never for sympathy as he deserved it for his heinous actions and for his irredeemably evil nature that defines him.
- Furthermore, all the other toys at Sunnyside, Big Baby and his minions, are shown celebrating his defeat as they are now free from the amount of abuse and torture he had inflicted on them, and they quickly accept Barbie and Ken as Sunnyside's new leaders as they turn the place into a paradise for toys while ruling it in a more benevolent way than Lotso previously did.
Toy Story 4[]
- Even after his defeat, he left a complete impact and influence on Andy's toys by showing them a different perspective way that not every kid is like Andy who took good care of his toys, which also indirectly led to Woody realizing that kids become less interested in playing with toys once they grow up. As a result, Lotso was indirectly responsible for Woody writing a note to Andy to donate his toys to Bonnie, being neglected and not played by her, indirectly making Forky to make Bonnie feel happy at school, and reuniting with Bo Peep, which ended up with Woody having no other choice but to leave his friends behind to stay with Bo Peep and making Jessie the new leader of Andy's toys, meaning Lotso has left one last laugh to Andy's toys even at being strapped to the front grille of a garbage truck.
Trivia[]
- The Black Friday Reel of Toy Story shows Woody was originally going to be a villain in the draft of the original Toy Story film until Woody was scheduled to be the main protagonist and not keep his tyrannical leadership in the film and casted Sid Philips as the main antagonist. This presumably inspired Lotso's behavior where he is a selfish and tyrannical leader and imprisons toys from escaping Sunnyside Daycare and abused his former best friend Big Baby worst than Woody’s jerkish behaviour towards Buzz as Woody was only jealous of Buzz being branded as Andy's technical new favorite toy as he wasn’t abusive towards him, except he was going to use RC to knock him under the bed not the window.
- His videogame counterpart doesn't qualify as PE due to he being a minor character, only appearing once. In the game, he wasn't attempting to kill Andy's toys by leaving them to die in the incinerator at the dump, but in the original movie, he attempts to do so, but fails.
- Though audiences who sympathized with Lotso's backstory wished that he pushed the button in the incinerator to redeem himself, Lee Unkrich explained that the filmmakers decided to drop Lotso's chance of redemption to make audiences who knew Andy's toys over the three movies care about them even more, and to avoid making it appear that Lotso got off so easily. They also decided to go back and add additional moments of cruelty, to make it clearer that he didn't deserve redemption.
- Ironically, despite being the only canonical Pure Evil in the franchise, he is the only main antagonist who hasn't done any real physical damage to Woody; Sid burned his forehead with a magnifying glass, Al McWhiggin (albeit unintentionally) and Stinky Pete damaged his right arm, and Gabby Gabby took away his voice box (though, the latter was consensual).
- It's implied that Lotso was originally going to return in Toy Story 4 to seek revenge on Woody and Buzz but eventually Lotso was written out of the story. If he was added in the fourquel, it's unknown how it would affect his PE status.
- Lotso is one of the four Toy Story villains to be Pure Evil (along with Nos-4-A2, Evil Buzz Lightyear and One-Eyed Bart).
- Not counting One-Eyed Bart, who is only imaginary, Lotso is the first Pixar Pure Evil to not have any biological origins, since he's a teddy bear toy.
External Links[]
- Losto on the Villains Wiki
- Lotso on the Disney Wiki
- Lotso on the Pixar Wiki
- Lotso on the Toy Story Wiki
- Lotso on the Main Light Horse Wiki
- Lotso on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
- Lotso on the VS Battles Wiki
- Lotso on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
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