History WesternAnimation / ToyStory2

''[[caption-width-right:300:[[TagLine The toys are back in town!.]]]]''

* AnAesop:
** However sincere, relationships just aren't meant to last forever. Or at least, not last in the same way forever. But that's no reason to avoid them or walk away from them. You should enjoy these bonds while you can, knowing that when they do end, they were well worth it.
** The toys watch Al half-crying during an Al's Toy Barn commercial on TV after losing his Woody's Roundup dolls.
--->'''Hamm:''' I guess crime doesn't pay.

** The real Buzz quietly says "Tell me I wasn't this deluded" to himself before the second Buzz slams his face into the glass wall of the display case they're in.

** The real Buzz quietly says "Oh, no" to himself before the second Buzz slams his face into the glass wall of the display case they're in.

* ArtisticLicense: Rex is clearly playing on an [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] in the beginning, but it can somehow play games with graphical capabilities beyond any 3D console available at the time.

** The scene where Barbie is driving through the Buzz Lightyear section of the store, She talks about how in 1995 short sited retailers didn't order enough inventory to meet demand. This is in reference to when the first film came out retailers such as Toys "R" Us and KB Toys didn't order enough inventory to meet demand thinking the film would be a flop... They were wrong and kids and parents complained about it.

* WeMeetAgain: Emperor Zurg says this to Buzz Lightyear.
-->'''Zurg:''' So, we meet again, Buzz Lightyear... for the last time!

* 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.

* 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.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: On the 2019 4K, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital releases, the blooper reel skips over Stinky Pete [[CastingCouch flirting with the Barbies in his box and promising them a part on the next movie]].

* AccidentalDownerEnding: A InUniverse example with Woody's Round-Up. The western puppet show ends with Woody running to save Jessie and Pete from exploding in a mineshaft. He rides on Bullseye and jumps a massive gorge, but the episode ends on a "ToBeContinued". The cliffhanger never got resolved because the rise of "Space Toys" made Woody irrelevant. [[spoiler:Or so we were told — a later scene shows that this claim was false, and the cliffhanger was resolved after all]].

* AccidentalDownerEnding: A InUniverse example with Woody's Round-Up. The western puppet show ends with Woody running to save Jessie and Pete from exploding in a mineshaft. He rides on Bullseye and jumps a massive gorge, but the episode ends on a To Be Continued. The cliffhanger never got resolved because the rise of "Space Toys" made Woody irrelevant. [[spoiler:Or so we were told — a later scene shows that this claim was false, and the cliffhanger was resolved after all]].

* AccidentalDownerEnding: A InUniverse example with Woody's Round-Up. The western puppet show ends with Woody running to save Jessie and Pete from exploding in a mineshaft. He rides on Bullseye and jumps a massive gorge, but the episode ends on a To Be Continued. The cliffhanger never got resolved because the rise of "Space Toys" made Woody irrelevant.

* VanityLicensePlate: Al's license plate gives Buzz a clue to Woody's location.

** Some relationships just aren't meant to last forever (or at least not in the same way), but that's no reason to walk away from them. You should enjoy them while you can and know that when they do end, they were well worth it.

* CentralTheme: Confronting your mortality and deciding how you will live your life because of it; is it better to take risks if it means you'll get damaged or even killed, or to live the safe life -- and is the safe life really living at all? The film also has themes of choosing between long-lasting, superficial admiration or a genuine, fleeting relationship.

-> ''"Somewhere in that pad of stuffing is a toy who taught me that life's only worth living if you're being loved by a kid."''

* AccidentalDownerEnding: A InUniverse example with Woody's Round-Up. The western puppet show ends with Woody running to save Jessie and Pete from exploding in a mineshaft. He rides on Bullseye and jumps a massive gorge, but the episode ends on a To Be Continued. The cliffhanger never got resolved because the rise of "Space Toys" made Woody irrelevant.

* AccidentalDownerEnding: A InUniverse example with Woody's Round-Up. The western puppet show ends with Woody running to save Jessie and Pete from exploding in a mineshaft. He rides on Bullseye and jumps a massive gorge, but the episode ends on a To Be Continued. The cliffhanger never got resolved because the rise of "Space Toys" made Woody irrelevant. [[spoiler:Or so we were told- a later scene shows that this claim was false, and the cliffhanger was resolved after all]].

* CloserThanTheyAppear: A direct shout-out to the famous ''Film/JurassicPark'' example when Rex falls out of Tour Guide Barbie's Corvette. "Dinosaur overboard!"

* WritersCannotDoMath: You cannot fly to Tokyo at night and return to America the following morning. It's an 11 to 14 hour flight at minimum to get there from the mainland United States, and a 10 to 13 hour flight to get back.