History WesternAnimation / ToyStory2

* ForWantOfANail:
** Most of the plot would not have happened if Andy hadn't accidentally torn Woody's arm, which itself wouldn't have happened if Andy had not had five minutes to play with Woody in the first place.
** Woody's rescue of Wheezy would've gone off without a hitch... had Wheezy not begun slipping out of Buster's collar on the way back.
** Similarly, had the corn popper not been left out in the middle of the sidewalk, Buster wouldn't have unintentionally thrown Woody off of him.
** Had the little girl not found Woody and brought him to her mom after he fell off Buster, said mom wouldn't have thrown him onto the table and attracted Al's attention, causing him to steal Woody.
** PlayedForLaughs: one of the bloopers shows what would've happened if the vent was screwed shut when the "Use your head!" plan was enacted.

* IronicEcho: In the previous movie, Woddy yells at Buzz that he is a "Child's Plaything", not an actual Space Ranger. Here, Buzz says this what Woody when the latter is concerned that the Roundup Gang will go back into storage forever if he doesn't go to Japan with them. Woody is a "Child's Plaything", not part of a collection.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Whatever happened to the puppets used in "Woody's Roundup"? Despite Al having the entire merchandise related to the tv show, these puppets from the show are nowhere to be seen. There's speculation that, due to being props and not part of the show, they were destroyed after the show was cancelled due to low ratings.

-->'''Pete:''' Your choice, Woody: you can go to Japan together or in pieces. If he fixed you once, he can fix you again.

* WritersCannotDoMath: You cannot fly to Japan at night and return to America the following morning.

'''Woody:''' ''[[DefiantToTheEnd Never!]]''

* MotorMouth: The marionette version of Woody in ''Woody's Roundup'':
-->'''Show Woody:''' What's that? ''[in one breath]'' Jessie and Prospector are trapped in the old abandoned mine and Prospector just lit a stick of dynamite thinkin' it was a candle and now they're about to be blown to ''smithereens?''\\

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent:
** Leading up to the NightmareSequence, the cards that the toys are playing with before Andy returns are all aces of spades, even before Andy drops Woody into the pile. It's very easy to miss on an initial viewing, but it's the viewer's first hint that something isn't quite right at this moment.
** Prospector claims that ''Woody's Round-Up'' was cancelled before the cliffhanger of Woody rescuing Jessie and Stinky Pete could be resolved due to pop culture moving on to space toys.

* LeftHanging: According to Stinky Pete, the InUniverse ShowWithinAShow ''Woody's Roundup'' was cancelled during its final episode, leaving it uncertain if Woody saved Jessie and Stinky Pete. However, one can actually hear the resolution of the cliffhanger playing when Woody initially sends Buzz's group away, suggesting this was another lie Prospector used to manipulate Jessie and Bullseye.

** Prospector claims that ''Woody's Round-Up'' was cancelled before the cliffhanger of Woody rescuing Jessie and Stinky Pete could be resolved due to pop culture moving on to space toys. However, when Woody contemplates things as Buzz's group leaves him, you can hear the actual resolution of the cliffhanger with Jessie thanking Woody for saving them. It's implied this was just another manipulation tactic by Prospector to convince Jessie and Bullseye of their need to go to the museum.

** [[CaptainSpaceDefenderofEarth New Buzz]] after Zurg [[LukeIAmYourFather tells him he's Buzz's father]], and Zurg as he falls down the elevator shaft.

** In the actual movie, Woody doesn't notice any of the cheese puffs covering the floor near where Al is sleeping until the audience hears him stepping on one.

** In the opening scene, when Buzz Lightyear says that "there seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere", the scene pans out to show that he somehow failed to notice being surrounded by massive hordes of aliens who were just barely far enough for the audience not to see them until that point.

** Al steals Woody for the final piece in the Woody's Roundup collection so he can take them all to the Konishi Toy Museum in Tokyo, but it turns out to be this trope in the end as Woody decides to go back to Andy and takes Jessie and Bullseye with him. He ends up going to Japan with a load of empty cases and he's clearly a destroyed man when we see him at the end.

* AlwaysALiveTransmission: At the end of the movie, the toys are watching a commercial with Al where he breaks into tears in the middle of it.

* LeftHanging: According to Stinky Pete, the InUniverse ShowWithinAShow ''Woody's Roundup'' was cancelled during its final episode, leaving it uncertain if Woody saved Jessie and Stinky Pete.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Leading up to the NightmareSequence, the cards that the toys are playing with before Andy returns are all aces of spades, even before Andy drops Woody into the pile. It's very easy to miss on an initial viewing, but it's the viewer's first hint that something isn't quite right at this moment.

* RearEndWriting: As the toys search for Woody and Jesse in the airport's baggage conveyor belt, there's a shot of Buzz running with a label that reads "Butte" stuck to his rear end.

** Traffic cones randomly appearing on the road ''will'' cause an accident.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Did none of the drivers think that moving traffic cones were a little odd?

* RumpRoast: In a ''Woody's Roundup'' episode, Stinky Pete tries to put out a dynamite fuse by sitting on it, resulting in a ShoutOut to ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': "My biscuits are burning!"(which was said by Yosemite Sam).

* RumpRoast: In a ''Woody's Roundup'' episode, Stinky Pete tries to put out a dynamite fuse by sitting on it, resulting in a ShoutOut to ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': "My biscuits are burning!" which was said by Yosemite Sam This Could Also imply that the Prospector is supposed to be an older version of him as well.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent:
** Leading up to the NightmareSequence, the cards that the toys are playing with before Andy returns are all aces of spades, even before Andy drops Woody into the pile. It's very easy to miss on an initial viewing, but it's the viewer's first hint that something isn't quite right at this moment.
** Woody turns on the TV to show Buzz and the others the ''Woody's Roundup'' show that he came from, and it continues playing during the rest of the scene. When Buzz's group are leaving Woody can be heard on the TV saying "is everybody okay?" and Jessie is heard thanking him for saving them from the dynamite, revealing that this episode is "Woody's Finest Hour" and Stinky Pete lied about its cancellation.

* NoEnding: In-universe. Due to a rise in space toy popularity, ''Woody's Round-Up'' was cancelled on a major cliffhanger with Woody and Bullseye leaping over the Grand Canyon while Jessie and Stinky Pete were trapped in a mine with a stick of dynamite about to blow. [[SubvertedTrope Or so Stinky Pete claims.]] [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent It's not directly drawn attention to]], but when Buzz and the others arrive to save Woody, the second part of the episode is playing on the TV, showing that Pete lied about the cancellation, or at least about it happening before Part Two could air.

** Stinky Pete - Choleric (once acted like a grandfather-figure to Jessie and Woody, but is secretly a Manipulative Bastard who had a rough life and even has a grudge against space toys.

* LeftHanging: According to Stinky Pete, the InUniverse ShowWithinAShow ''Woody's Roundup'' was cancelled during its final episode, leaving it uncertain if Woody saved Jessie and Stinky Pete. It turns out not to be true.

** Doubles as a MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: When Woody first sees the "Woody's Finest Hour" tape, it's stopped in the middle of a cliffhanger, with Stinky Pete saying ''Woody's Roundup'' was cancelled before airing the conclusion. This is the very same tape Woody plays for the others when they come to rescue him, except he failed to pause it. In the background after Buzz delivers his ArmorPiercingQuestion and leaves, Woody asks "Everybody okay?" and Jessie responds "Sheriff Woody! I knew you'd make it!" implying that Woody made it across the gorge and saved the others before the show goes into the "You've Got a Friend in Me" number. However, only the viewer would be able to pick that up, and it's implied none of the others ever saw the tape to the end before. Or, in other words, by revealing that he lied, Stinky Pete's villainy was hinted at shortly before it was shown.

** When watching Al's tapes of their old show, Jessie mournfully shuts off the TV before the conclusion of "Woody's Finest Hour" because, as Pete claims, the show was canceled before it could air. However, during the scene when Woody rejects Buzz and co.'s rescue, you can hear the conclusion playing in the background. This means Pete has been [[ManipulativeBastard lying to Jessie and using her abandonment issues for who-knows-how-long]] to secure his own fate.

* FakeStatic: Al uses this while talking to Mr. Kinoshi on his cell phone.

* OldShame: InUniverse. Stinky Pete is visibly embarrassed while watching ''Woody's Roundup'', contrasting Woody and Jessie's excitement.