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| “ | I am about to revolutionize the scaring industry. And when I do, even the great James P. Sullivan is gonna be working for me. | „ |
| ~ Randall trapping Mike and explaining his plan.
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| “ | Look at everybody's favorite scarer now, you stupid, pathetic waste! You’ve been number one for too long, Sullivan! Now your time is up. And don't worry! I'll take good care of the kid. | „ |
| ~ Randall as he prepares to drop Sulley to his death. |
| “ | (laughs evilly) Hahaha! Mission accomplished, boss. | „ |
| ~ Randall at the end of "Descent Into Fear" of Monsters At Work, revealing himself to still be alive. |
| “ | Let me tell you a story. Me and Johnny go way back to MU. We were practically joined at the hip… besties. He saved me from those swamp people, so I owed him one. You see, Fear Co. had a problem: scream power was kaput and Johnny needed to protect his family legacy. So, we cooked up a brilliant scheme. We pretended to invent a scream amplifier that would save the scaring industry. Meanwhile, I use my very particular set of skills to sneak into Monsters, Inc. in the dead of night, and nab the MIFTers' key to their holding pen, steal those dummies' laugh energy, and then pass it off as our own. I even rewired the empty canisters, so that no one noticed the missing laugh energy. Those clowns didn't have any idea what was going on. Ha! Then I tipped off the clueless media about the leaky canisters. Suddenly, Monsters, Inc. couldn't meet the energy needs of the city, and caused a catastrophic blackout. And along the way, I had some fun sticking it to that one-eyed cretin Wazowski. But I wanted nothing more than to wipe that smug grin off Sullivan's stupid blue face! And we found some poor schmuck close to him to help us out. | „ |
| ~ Randall explaining to Tyler of how he escaped his banishment in the human world and returned to Monstropolis thanks to Johnny Worthington III, who save him and brought him back to Monstropolis and spend a long time working for Johnny and Fear Co. and ruining Monsters, Inc.'s reputation to get revenge on Mike and Sulley. |
Randall Boggs is the main antagonist of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. franchise.
He is a chameleon/gecko-like monster who resides in Monstropolis and works as a Scarer at Monsters, Inc. He is also James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski's arch-nemesis, although he and Mike formerly started out as friends in college because they were originally roommates.
Wishing to "revolutionize" the Scaring industry in his search to gain fame and fortune, Randall secretly teams up with Waternoose to solve the city's current energy crisis, with Randall coming up with a torturous device to get as much screams as they need. As his plan fails, he gets sent to exile in the human world, but escapes and works on a related conspiracy with Worthington, who tries to cement Fear Co. as the sole energy provider of Monstropolis by artificially producing an energy crisis.
Although his main personal goal overall is to fulfill his own revenge against both Sulley and Mike upon petty lifetime resentment through any unpredictable ways whatever is successfully possible as long he spites them, also mainly and firstly because of his humiliating failure incident at the Scare Games which was accidentally thanks to Sulley.
He was voiced by Steve Buscemi.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General/Background[]
- While he was formerly and originally once a benevolently shy and a kindhearted nerd, he would eventually become a sadistic jerk who betrayed his roommate Mike for a popular fraternity and firstly corrupts a bit by taking pleasure in humiliating Mike's new fraternity.
- Even though he was very friendly towards Mike when he first met him, he ultimately subverts it by betraying him to join Roar Omega Roar and even backstabs Mike by even humiliating him and his team at Johnny's party. But after his Scare Games incident that made him completely petty and fully corrupted thanks to Sulley, he attempts to murder both him and Mike to their future adulthood without mercy at all.
- And although he used to have insecure traits in Monsters University such as wanting to have good friendships that were portrayed sympathetically, these traits were completely lost after the events of the prequel as Randall turns into a complete evil monster after being a benevolent nerd while Sulley became a completely good softy after being a gruff immature bully.
- The pink hearts incident at the Scare Games in the prequel doesn't make him tragic at all but only petty that defines him changelessly that he never lets it slide either, as he chose to grudge against Sulley for losing popularity rather than on Roar Omega Roar for rejecting him, showing that he didn't genuinely care about them anymore as friends after Chet berates him.
- He also sadistically swore under his breath that the Scare Games incident is the last and only time he "loses" to Sulley again, which indicates he cared more about simply being beaten in the Scare Games rather more than the public humiliation, which makes his eventually homicidal grudge against Sulley more petty and egotistical that ever.
- While he got a job as a Scarer at Monsters, Inc., this is simply just to follow Mike and Sulley that also went there after despite their expelled dropout from college by Hardscrabble. He cared more about outranking Mike and Sulley to look more professional than them to fulfill revenge rather than help producing energy for the monster realm which is what the titular factory is all about, even picking on them unprovoked like scaring Mike at the lockers and boasting about how he is going to beat their scaring record.
- He abuses his assistant Fungus, constantly ordering him around and showing no respect to him whatsoever. He even once threatens to kill Fungus with the factory's shredder if he doesn’t get doors for him fast enough, due to Sulley defeating him in a matter of seconds. It is obvious because Fungus is much happier once Randall was banished.
- While all Scarers (like Sulley) agree to scare kids, they only do so because Monstropolis relies screams to produce energy and electricity meaning they are never meant to be sadistic at all upon that, Randall however is implied to be the only one who does this out of sheer sadism and seriously takes this malevolently. He also wanted monsters to remain as scarers instead of jokesters, proving the above information.
- Though Randall cooperates with Henry J. Waternoose III, their interactions clearly demonstrate their partnership is a pragmatic relationship, as Randall needs Waternoose's approval and resources to use his Scream Extractor on children.
- In fact, he heavily indicates he plans to bet Waternoose so he can become Monsters Inc's CEO by looking at him angrily when cruelly promises to him that there would be no public witnesses finding out about them and their conspiracy thus he gets into the duty to kill Mike and Sulley for being the first witnesses also to succeed his resentful revenge against them too as his main personal goal overall.
- He explains to Mike that "he" would revolutionize the industry and make even Sulley work for him without even hinting this at Waternoose. Although in fairness this could have just been so Mike doesn’t catch on to the fact Waternoose is involved rather than out of a desire to usurp Waternoose, as there is no reason to tell them he was involved. In fact, them not knowing he is involved helps him out later on when Waternoose tricks Mike and Sully into banishment. But going back to the original implication, he more than likely plans to kill Mike later on so there will be no worry in his mind revealing Waternoose's part in the scheme.
- While he does have several comedic moments, like his defeat, most of them take place in the prequel and he has very few in the original film, in which even despite an inherently comedic defeat, it is played more for karma and satisfaction over Boo confronting her fears as Randall and the crimes he does are taken with the utmost seriousness for nearly the rest of the film.
- Even in his return at the sequel series, Randall even horrifyingly becomes an even bigger menace who threatens the city and escapes police custody, so the few times he ends up on the brunt of slapstick comedy don't detract from his viciousness.
- His main personal yet petty goal which importantly matters to him is to fulfill his revenge against Mike and Sulley through any ways possible whatever he randomly comes across and unpredictably plots just to succeed in spite because of lifelong resentment against them both firstly since their humble youth beginning at college as young adolescents and also by that Scare Games incident which began it all of his irredeemable evilness too.
Monsters, Inc.[]
- To solve the energy crisis and to "revolutionize" the scaring industry, Randall allied with Mr. Waternoose to create the Scream Extractor, a torture device designed with multiple children in mind to extract their screams upon restraining them to a chair through means of suffocation, which as seen with Fungus is extremely painful and causes him to nearly lose consciousness as he screams in pain when the machine is on for less than ten seconds.
- Not only will this render all Scarers jobless, but it is possible that the Scream Extractor could have potentially endangered, if not outright kill several children due to how much pain and suffering Fungus endured when the machine is on for less than ten seconds.
- He tried to kidnap Mary "Boo" Gibbs, a two-year-old girl, as his first test subject from her room while she was still sleeping, only failing because Sulley had accidentally let her escape.
- It is also implied that Randall has scared Boo before, as evidenced when she shows Sulley a crayon drawing of him.
- He painfully twisted Mike's arms to make them act like clock hands to instruct him what to do if he wishes to get rid of Boo, offering him to let Boo go back to her bedroom when in reality he had never got this intention of sparing her either.
- He kidnapped Mike by trapping him inside a box due to mistaking him for Boo, and when Randall found out it’s Mike, he attempted to use the Scream Extractor on him just as a test and to torture him to incite Mike into not giving Boo's location.
- He ignored how Fungus was suffering when Sulley placed him in the Scream Extractor, only freeing him to learn where Sulley and Mike are, and then leaving him there while pale and weakened instead of helping him or showing concern.
- He had Sulley and Mike banished to the Himalayas as well, hiding from them until Waternoose informs them about their fates and letting him push his rivals into the door, all while sadistically smiling at them.
- When Waternoose rightfully calls him out for making him banish Sulley and Mike to the human world, Randall sadistically says that with his Scream Extractor, they won't need anymore Scarers and even says that Sulley got what he deserved.
- He had Boo placed in the Scream Extractor to collect her screams as his first test subject, cruelly enjoying at how frightened and scared Boo gets as the Scream Extractor approaches her mouth.
- Immediately after Sulley freed and saved Boo, he fought him off using his invisibility without giving a fair fight as he sadistically hit him with fists and/or random objects, and he tried to choke him to death using his own body; he would have succeeded with finishing him off had Mike not arrived in time to (inadvertently) save him by throwing a snowball at his face.
- He attempted to kill Mike and Sulley when they tried to get away with Boo by dropping them to their doom. Sooner, he mocked Sulley about his plans to torture Boo while trying to make him fall to his death.
Monsters at Work[]
- He helped Johnny "The Jaw" Worthington III sabotage Monsters Inc.'s laugh power system by draining their laugh canisters to steal the energy, and messing with the emptied canisters' gauges to make it look like they’re full, resulting in the corporation suffering from a crisis due to the lack of power temporarily causing a blackout.
- He targeted Tylor Tuskmon under Johnny's best interest to have him join them by messing with Mike and Sulley's office and placing certain items like Mike's glove in his locker, setting him up to make it look like he is "the traitor".
- Due to this, Tylor lost his friends and bosses' trust in him and led to him quitting his job as a Jokester temporarily.
- He helped Johnny build an energy machine that carries both laugh and scream power in a blind attempt to power up Monstropolis, despite the fact both laugh and scream power mixing together results in catastrophic explosions, and when MIFT tried to extract the energy from the machine, Randall sadistically sabotaged them before trying to kill them by leading them to a fallen rock.
- It is explicitly explained by Tylor that should the machine activate, the mixed energy would have the potential of causing a massive explosion that could wipe out Monstropolis rather than just cause a "permanent blackout". While Randall does this out of negligence, he nevertheless goes out of his way to try to enable it out of spite even after being told about this, compares to Johnny Worthington who seems to believe everything will end up fine.
- While this may be because he is still mad at Mike and Sulley for banishing him and nearly getting him killed, that doesn't excuse him attempting to destroy Monstropolis. Plus, he ultimately brings it onto himself due to the fact he tried to kill both of them and built the Scream Extractor to painfully suck out screams from human children.
- When he shows himself to MIFT, he brutally hits Roger Rogers in the face with the plug, even gloating about how ironic it is that he's the son of his former boss.
- He then assaults the other MIFTers while preventing them from getting back the plug needed for the Scream Extractor to remove the screams mixed with laughter.
- Despite renewing his former friendship with Johnny Worthington III and owning him for saving his life from the mother and son in the trailer, their partnership is more superficial and conditional, as Randall complained about never getting a thanks to his credit for assisting Worthington in their scheme and manages to escape custody while abandoning Johnny, implying that he will abandon anyone who is not useful to him anymore.
- In addition, Randall mostly admits that he teamed up with Johnny simply to torment Mike and Sulley once more, showing that their friendship is purely pragmatic and Randall mostly sees Johnny as useful to his plans.
- Even though he doesn’t hold a grudge against Johnny for kicking him out of their team since college, it is also implied that he plans on betraying Johnny by blowing up Fear Co. by mixing screams and laugh powers together just to fulfill his lifelong revenge for the hearts incident at the scare games since college.
- Although Chet and Fritz defeated him and handed him over to MERC to arrest him, It is later revealed that he escaped, making him a Karma Houdini for the time being.
Trivia[]
- In the unproduced and cancelled sequel Monsters, Inc. 2: Lost in Scaredise by Circle Seven Animation, it was originally planned for Randall to return and redeem himself by helping Sulley and Mike find their way back to Monstropolis after the latter two accidentally strand themselves in the human world while searching for Boo. However, Circle 7's Monsters, Inc. sequel went unproduced after Disney acquired Pixar and the studio shut down. Had this film been made, Randall would have qualified as either Inconsistently Heinous or a Villainous Benchmark.
- One of the unused content for the film's scenes when Sulley goes to save Boo would have him witness thousands of cages which would be used for the thousands of children he and Waternoose intended to kidnap. This scene was cut because the filmmakers thought it would slow the pacing and the audience would understand their plan with little information. If kept, however, this would have made Randall even worse.
- Randall was the original icon of the Near Pure Evil wiki before being approved as Pure Evil and, ironically, the replacement icon (Aku) was also approved as Pure Evil as well.
- While he is currently Pure Evil, there is a chance if there is more Monsters at Work seasons, it could affect any of his backstories or relationships since he has escaped from prison and it's unknown where he will be off to again. However, this is unlikely given how he's far too evil to be affected.
- Ironically, Randall's voice actor Steve Buscemi also voiced Horace Nebbercracker from the 2006 film Monster House, who is instead Pure Good.
- He is the Pure Evil counterpart of James P. Sullivan. One of them was a jerk who grew into a protective pacifist, and the other was an innocent guy who grew into a sadistically vengeful maniac.
External Links[]
- Randall Boggs on the Antagonists Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the Villains Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the Disney Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the Pixar Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the Monsterpedia Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the Main Light Horse Wiki
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