History WesternAnimation / ToyStory2

* TreacherousAdvisor: Stinky Pete tries to convince Woody to let Andy go, since Woody can't stop Andy from growing up, and Woody will inevitably be thrown away at some point. [[JerkassHasAPoint This line of thinking even temporarily causes Woody to agree]], until Buzz counters that [[LivingIsMoreThanSurviving watching kids from behind glass isn't really living]]. Upon seeing Woody change his mind again, Stinky Pete pulls a FaceHeelTurn and tries to actively sabotage Woody's attempts to leave.
* {{Tsundere}}: Jessie behaved as a Type B towards Woody after the latter decided leave the Roundup Gang and return home with Andy. She got out of this phase after revealing her past to him.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Bullseye is basically a giant puppy dog. He's very excitable and jumps/licks on everyone he likes.

* AnArmAndALeg: The event that kicks off the film is Woody's arm getting ripped, causing him to lose the use of it. It later completely comes off when the stitch gets caught.

* CompanyCrossReferences: There are several ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' toys in Al's Toy Barn.

* IChooseToStay: Woody is torn between going back to Andy and likely eventually being thrown out, or going to the museum and lasting forever. Woody decides to remain with the Roundup Gang because he doesn't want to break them up, and knowing that if he abandons them, they could go back to storage indefinitely. Understandably, Andy's toys are shocked when they catch up to Woody, especially Buzz, who thinks Woody is throwing his life away. After some insight, Woody changes his mind and decides to go back to Andy after all, but take the Roundup Gang with him.

--> '''Hamm:''' Well, ''(chuckles)'' I guess crime doesn't pay.

* ShowWithinAShow: ''Woody's Roundup'' is a plot point.

%%* TreacherousAdvisor: Stinky Pete.

* ArtEvolution: Computer animation had evolved in the four years between the releases of the first and second films, especially with hair. Andy's mom's hair was previously in a ponytail, and she now has long blonde hair. Andy's hair does not appear until the final scene, since it is covered by his cowboy hat, but he now has more hair on his head than the embarrassing buzzcut in the first film. This is at least two years before they created the very hairy Sully for ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''.

** Buster is initially setup as [[BewareOfViciousDog being a threat to the toys]] like Scud was in the previous movie. When the toys hear him coming they try to block the door and everyone runs to hide. Buster runs around the room and pulls Woody out of his hiding spot growling at him... before licking his face happily and it being revealed this was just a game of hide-and-seek. Unlike Scud from the first film, Buster is incredibly friendly with the toys, especially Woody.

* BaitAndSwitch: Buster is initially setup as [[BewareOfViciousDog being a threat to the toys]] like Scud was in the previous movie. When the toys hear him coming they try to block the door and everyone runs to hide. Buster runs around the room and pulls Woody out of his hiding spot growling at him... before licking his face happily and it being revealed this was just a game of hide-and-seek. Unlike Scud from the first film, Buster is incredibly friendly with the toys, especially Woody.

* MassOhCrap: When Utility Belt Buzz announces he's going to let go of the wall, thinking his Utility Belt will turn on Anti-Gravity, a stunned Mr. Potato Head states "He wouldn't". When Utility Belt Buzz starts the countdown and proves that he's serious, Hamm states "He would" before all of Andy's toys beg him not to go through with it. Fortunately, the elevator ascends just in time and saves everyone from falling, all the while Utility Belt Buzz thinks that they're all rising through air thanks to anti-gravity.

-->'''Buzz:''' Come on, fellas! Did Woody give up when Sid had me strapped to the back of a rocket?\\

'''Buzz:''' No. And did Woody give up when you threw him out of the back of that moving van?\\

'''Buzz:''' No, he did not! We've got a friend in need! We will not rest until we're safe in Andy's room ! NOW LET'S MOVE OUT!

* AnArmAndALeg: The event that kicks off the film is Woody's arm getting ripped, causing him to lose the use of it. It later completely comes off when the stitch gets caught.

* BottomlessMagazines: Zurg fires a LOT of little Nerf balls at Buzz 2.0 in the elevator shaft.

* At the airport, the toys find a suitcase with a camera flash. A couple minutes later they show up with the flash to [[BlindingCameraFlash blind]] Stinky Pete and [[BigDamnHeroes save the day]].

* AFriendInNeed: Buzz name-drops the trope during his RousingSpeech to the others, calling Woody this and saying they shouldn't give up on him as there have been times he could have given up and didn't (citing two examples from the previous film, when Sid had Buzz strapped to the rocket, and then when they threw Woody out of the moving van).

* HesAFriend: Woody to Andy's other toys when they arrive to rescue him.
* HesBack: While Woody was still dealing with the fact that his arm was torn and was put on a shelf instead of going with Andy to camp, the literal second Wheezy points him towards the direction of the "Yard Sale" sign being put up, he immediately jumps back into the leadership role, further demonstrated when he promptly hitches a ride on Buster once Andy's mom takes Wheezy.

* InUniverseCatharsis: Hamm certainly takes a lot of satisfaction in seeing Al [=McWhiggin=] miserable after the latter weeps on television due to having lost the ''Woody's Roundup Gang'' toys he intended to sell to the toy museum in Japan.

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/JohnRatzenberger and Creator/KelseyGrammer were both castmembers on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', so naturally Hamm and Stinky Pete have a scene together.

* {{Jerkass}}:
** Al and Stinky Pete, the former for mistreating other people for the sake of prioritizing his ambitions, and the latter for being a condescending character towards others (including Jessie when she no longer supports him).
** Jessie, after hearing Woody plans to leave them and go back to Andy, is pretty rude and snappy to him for a portion of the film. [[FreudianExcuse We later learn that she had understandable reasons to be upset.]]

* NonDubbedGrunts: A few foreign dubs (e.g. European French, Japanese, Korean and Latin American Spanish) don't dub Zurg's scream as he falls down the elevator shaft after Rex hits him with his tail.

* OnOneCondition: A variant of this is what sparks the conflict of the film. The museum is only willing to buy the collection of ''Woody's Roundup'' dolls if Woody, the main character of the series and most valuable part of the collection, is in it. Otherwise, it's back into storage for the Roundup Gang. Woody is stuck for a large portion of the movie deciding whether he should return to Andy who will eventually outgrow him and let the roundup gang go back into storage possibly forever, or stay with Roundup Gang and be sold to the museum with them...but never see Andy as a kid again while he still can or his friends back home.

** When Stinky Pete has Woody on the ground in the airport, threatening to dismember him, he's suddenly blinded by the flash as Andy's toys arrive with the camera equipment from the identical case.

* FriendlyTickleTorture: Jessie (and Bullseye) does this to Woody. Unfortunately, his friends walk in and believe her to be torturing him.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Parodied with Zurg and Buzz (the one they meet in the Toy Store) in the second one. They later play catch with Zurg's ball-shooter.

** Buzz's wings after he sees Jessie opening the door with a full acrobatic routine.

* LordErrorProne: The second Buzz Lightyear doll, who (like Buzz in the last film) is convinced he's a real space ranger. His zany ideas get more and more troublesome, until he decides to drop him and the others down the elevator so he can "fly" instead. Even after the elevator saves them, the toys have no patience left for him.

* DramaticTVShutOff: Woody and Jessie watch several of Al's taped episodes of the {{Western}} {{puppet show|s}} they were made as merch for, ''[[ShowWithinAShow Woody's Roundup]]'', only for Stinky Pete to suddenly turn the TV off right at the {{cliffhanger}} ending of one of the episodes. He angrily explains to Woody that the show was cancelled after that episode because the onset of UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace caused Westerns to go out of style.

* 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 [[LeftHanging 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]].

* 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. [[spoiler:A later scene shows that this claim was false, and the cliffhanger was resolved after all]].