| “ | This is what happens when you DUMMIES try to think! WE'RE ALL JUST TRASH WAITING TO BE THROWN AWAY!! THAT'S ALL A TOY IS!! | „ |
| ~ Lotso's villainous breakdown as he reveals his true nature and beliefs on life as a toy to his former minions. |
| “ | WHERE'S YOUR KID NOW, SHERIFF?! | „ |
| ~ Lotso's last and most infamous line as he leaves Andy's toys to die in the incinerator. |
Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, commonly referred to 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 used to rule Sunnyside Daycare like a prison with the help of his former minions - Ken, Big Baby, Stretch, Sparks, Chunk, Twitch, the Bookworm, and the Monkey. 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 was changed when Daisy accidentally lost him and replaced him with another Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear toy. In turn, he became a wrathful and abusive tyrant who imprisoned and hurt hundreds of toys for his own amusement.
- While he sometimes appears to be affable, nice and happy towards other toys, it's only to cover 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.
- Even though he lets obedient toys live safely in the Butterfly Room, this is out of pragmatism and he just wants to keep them submissive to him.
- He has a 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 really 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 amusement.
- In addition, he is also very hypocritical about such ideology, as he himself actually doesn't want to be disposed in any way (not just literally).
- He doesn't care for any of his minions (Twitch, Chunk, Sparks, Stretch, Ken, Big Baby, the Monkey, and the Bookworm) at all, thus he is considering that he only sees them as nothing but tools that he uses to do the horrible work of ruling Sunnyside.
- While his henchmen are abusive and behaving like 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 eventually turn against him after Woody exposes his true colors.
- 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, as Woody points out, 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 following reasons:
- The reason why Daisy replaced him was because she lost him purely by accident, not because she didn't love him.
- He forced Chuckles and Big Baby to leave Daisy and join him in his suffering, even though they weren't even replaced at all; only him. Big Baby would spend years assuming he had been replaced too. Even when Chuckles tried to point out the truth about his replacement as well, he didn't listen and instead furiously overruled him and insisted that she replaced all of them, not being able to accept someone else having her if he couldn't, thereby making his motive a 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 he only cared about the love that she gave him and never about her well-being.
- He was unable to realize that the fact he was replaced only shows how much Daisy actually loved him, as she went out of her way to buy a new Lotso and not Big Baby or Chuckles.
- The toys that he took his anger out on had nothing to do with him getting replaced and him abandoning her 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 thrown out of the window.
- Even though his backstory scene had sad music, it 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.
- Unlike all the villains in the Toy Story franchise who have either positive redeeming qualities, comedic moments or are unintentionally heinous, Lotso has no redeeming qualities, is 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.
- While he does have some comedic moments, like when he hugs Buzz and tells Mr. Potato Head to watch out for 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. Even if he does have comedic moments after his true colours are revealed, they do not detract from his heinousness and are only funny to the audience and he is still taken seriously in-universe.
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 said that Lotso was the only replaced toy. This event traumatized Big Baby forever, as he wanted to see Daisy anyways but Lotso didn't allow him to.
- 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 responsible for his actions.
- Upon arriving at Sunnyside Daycare, he became its ruler and turned it into a 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 break are tossed in the trash and sent to the dump, which may very well lead to their incineration, and those who defy Lotso are placed into the sandbox.
- 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.
- 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 and the Caterpillar Room into staying here forever, making them believe Andy doesn't care about them anymore, causing Woody to turn against them and leave without them, upon going to Bonnie's house, he discoverd 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 in the butterfly room, he only does so 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 a redeeming quality.
- He reprogramed Buzz by brainwashing him into demo mode, thus making him become one of his servants when he refused to join the Butterfly Room alone, manipulating him into thinking that his friends are loyal helpers of Emperor Zurg and having him beat down and lock up his own friends all while Lotso is smiling maliciously.
- After detaining Andy's toys, he showed them Woody's hat, which he leaves 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 just to have him expose Woody's big escape plot after discovering the toys have escaped and even forces him to locate their whereabouts to the dumpster.
- 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 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 lead to him throwing Lotso in the dumpster as revenge for taking him away from Daisy.
- This also confirms that he no longer cares about Daisy, simply because she replaced him with another Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear toy.
- He ordered Stretch to push Woody and the other toys into the dumpster. Amongst said other toys is Ken, whom Lotso personally threw him over there as punishment for 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 to ensure that Woody will die with him at the dump as revenge for exposing his true colors. This results in the rest of Andy's toys being taken to the dump with them after they try to rescue Woody once the truck arrives, then Lotso tries to ensure that Andy's toys will all perish with him once they got themselves thrown out too.
- After Woody and Buzz give him a lift to press the button to stop the conveyor belt, he leaves Andy's toys to die in the incinerator despite the fact that Woody and Buzz risked their own lives to save him from the shredder earlier, which is his most heinous act. He tricked them all with his faux redemption, thus meaning that Woody and Buzz should've not rescued him but it's sympathetically valid because that they both easily got tricked by him. Luckily this didn't succeeded if not for the Little Green Men's intervention.
- Although he did indeed endlessly suffer a pretty horrible fate of being 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 also known for the worst defeat amongst all the Toy Story villains ever, it's not played for sympathy and he deserved it for his heinous actions.
Trivia[]
- 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.
- Ironically, despite being the only 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 and Stinky Pete damaged his right arm, and Gabby Gabby took away his voice box (though the latter was consensual).
- Despite not being successful in indirectly killing Andy's Toys in the incinerator, a Toy Story 3 creepypasta, named Alternative Ending, actually shows an edited version of the movie in which the toys aren't saved by the Little Green Men, leading to their slow and gruesome deaths, with even the entire audience mourning their deaths, showing how monstruous Lotso can really be.
External Links[]
- Lotso on the Villains Wiki
- Lotso on the Hate Sink Wiki
- Lotso on the Disney Wiki
- Lotso on the Pixar Wiki
- Lotso on the VS Battles Wiki
- Lotso on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
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