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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Roz and Randalls enjoy good-natured jokes as the bloopers indicates.
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* InkSuitActor: Despite the fact that the cast is full of adorably inhuman monsters they still manage to resemble their voice actors, especially Mike who could not be ''more'' Billy Crystal. And [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Randall]] '''is''' SteveBuscemi.
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* InkSuitActor: Despite the fact that the cast is full of adorably inhuman monsters they still manage to resemble their voice actors, especially Mike who could not be ''more'' Billy Crystal. And [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Randall]] Randall '''is''' SteveBuscemi.
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Randall is reptilian, or as close as a monster can come.
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* LargeHam: The Yeti / Abominable Snowman, [[RunningGag played by John Ratzenberger]].
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* LargeHam: [[LargeHam Large Ham(m)]]: The Yeti / Abominable Snowman, [[RunningGag played by John Ratzenberger]].
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** The restaurant Harryhausen's is named for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen Ray Harryhausen]], a stop-motion animator and innovator who specialized in monsters.
** The sequence where Sulley thinks Boo has been crushed is a deliberate {{homage}} to ChuckJones' ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcTniTyFcEA Feed the Kitty]]''.
** The sequence where Sulley thinks Boo has been crushed is a deliberate {{homage}} to ChuckJones' ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcTniTyFcEA Feed the Kitty]]''.
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** The restaurant Harryhausen's is named for after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen Ray Harryhausen]], a stop-motion animator and innovator who specialized in monsters.
** Thesequence scene where Sulley thinks Boo has been crushed is a deliberate {{homage}} to ChuckJones' ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcTniTyFcEA com/watch?v=OlV6z60I0Pk Feed the Kitty]]''.
** The
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* {{Sidekick}}: Mike views Sulley as his {{sidekick}}, but everyone else can see that Mike is Sulley's sidekick.
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* {{Sidekick}}: Mike views Sulley as his {{sidekick}}, but everyone else can see that Mike is Sulley's sidekick.Sulley's.
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** A minor one comes during the climax: [[spoiler: Waternoose has Sulley beat and he's about to grab Boo, when the child he's holding says this:]] "Good night, Mom."
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** A minor one comes during the climax: [[spoiler: Waternoose has Sulley beat beaten and he's about to grab Boo, when the child he's holding says this:]] "Good night, Mom."Mom".
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* KickTheDog: Unintentionally performed by Sulley toward Boo, leading to a HeelRealization; very much intentionally performed by Randall on ''way'' too many occasions to count.
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* KickTheDog: KickTheDog:
** Unintentionally performed by Sulley toward Boo, leading to a HeelRealization; very much intentionally performed by Randall on ''way'' too many occasions tocount.count.
** [[spoiler: Waternoose]] wasn't kidding about what he said with the promise to keep his company afloat, due to [[spoiler: his kidnapping of Boo.]]
** Unintentionally performed by Sulley toward Boo, leading to a HeelRealization; very much intentionally performed by Randall on ''way'' too many occasions to
** [[spoiler: Waternoose]] wasn't kidding about what he said with the promise to keep his company afloat, due to [[spoiler: his kidnapping of Boo.]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: Boo's ability to say "Mike Wazowsky". [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Seriously.]]
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* ComicBookAdaptation: Boom! Studios did a {{sequel}} of sorts, featuring Randall's return, [[spoiler:Waternoose's]] escape from prison, [[spoiler:[[ToyStory Sid]] using the closet doors to his advantage, and the subsequent team-up of the three.]]
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* ComicBookAdaptation: Boom! Studios did a {{sequel}} of sorts, featuring Randall's return, [[spoiler:Waternoose's]] [[spoiler:Waternoose]]'s escape from prison, [[spoiler:[[ToyStory [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Sid]] using the closet doors to his advantage, and the subsequent team-up of the three.]]
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* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Waternoose's]] near the end of the film.
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* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Waternoose's]] [[spoiler:Waternoose]]'s near the end of the film.
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* MultipleHeadCase: ''Very'' briefly seen, after [[spoiler:Mike and Sulley expose [[BigBad Waternoose's]] plan to [[TheMenInBlack the CDA]]]]. A two-headed monster can be seen, the two heads exchanging glances with each other.
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* MultipleHeadCase: ''Very'' briefly seen, after [[spoiler:Mike and Sulley expose [[BigBad Waternoose's]] Waternoose]]'s plan to [[TheMenInBlack the CDA]]]]. A two-headed monster can be seen, the two heads exchanging glances with each other.
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Waternoose's]] plan to solve the power shortage.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Waternoose's]] Waternoose]]'s plan to solve the power shortage.]]
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* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Top scarer James P. Sullivan has {{super strength}} and a mighty roar, but is really a sweet guy under it all.
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* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Top scarer James P. Sullivan has {{super strength}} SuperStrength and a mighty roar, but is really a sweet guy under it all.
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* ConeOfShame: Monsters who undergo decontamination by the CDA end up wearing one.
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* ConeOfShame: Monsters who undergo decontamination by the CDA end up wearing one.
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* DoubleJump: In the {{video game}} ''Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team''.
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* DoubleJump: In the {{video game}} VideoGame ''Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team''.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: [[FindingNemo Nemo]].
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* EarlyBirdCameo: [[FindingNemo [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]].
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* EurekaMoment:
-->'''Mike''': "At least we had some laughs, right?"
-->'''Mike''': "At least we had some laughs, right?"
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* EurekaMoment:
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-->'''Mike''': "At least we had some laughs,right?" right?"
-->'''Mike''': "At least we had some laughs,
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** "James, this company has been in my family for three generations. I would do anything to keep it from going under."
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** "James, this company has been in my family for three generations. I would do anything to keep it from going under." "
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* IsThatCuteKidYours: Waternoose asks Sulley this when he first sees Boo, though Sulley and Mike cover this [[BlatantLies by saying that she's Sulley's "cousin's sister's daughter" and that it's "Bring an Obscure Relative to Work" Day.]]
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* IsThatCuteKidYours: Waternoose asks Sulley this when he first sees Boo, though Sulley and Mike cover this [[BlatantLies by saying that she's Sulley's "cousin's sister's daughter" and that it's "Bring an Obscure Relative to Work" Day.]] ]]
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* MultipleHeadCase: ''Very'' briefly seen, after [[spoiler:Mike and Sulley expose [[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plan to [[TheMenInBlack the CDA]]]]. A two-headed monster can be seen, the two heads exchanging glances with each other.
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* MultipleHeadCase: ''Very'' briefly seen, after [[spoiler:Mike and Sulley expose [[BigBad Waternoose]]'s Waternoose's]] plan to [[TheMenInBlack the CDA]]]]. A two-headed monster can be seen, the two heads exchanging glances with each other.
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* NestedMouths: In the restaurant scene, one of the monsters has a second monster for a tongue, which eats the food.
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* NestedMouths: In the restaurant scene, one of the monsters has a second monster for a tongue, which eats the food.
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plan to solve the power shortage.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Waternoose]]'s Waternoose's]] plan to solve the power shortage.]]
* PsychoForHire: Randall Boggs.
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* PsychoForHire: Randall Boggs.
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* {{Sidekick}}: Mike views Sulley as his {{sidekick}}, but everyone else can see that Mike is Sulley's sidekick.
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* AllInTheManual: Boo's full name. [[spoiler:It's [[TheDanza Mary Gibbs]]]]. Her first name is revealed in the film, since she signs all her sketches, but it's hard to spot.
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* AllInTheManual: Boo's full name. [[spoiler:It's It's [[TheDanza Mary Gibbs]]]].Gibbs]]. Her first name is revealed in the film, since she signs all her sketches, but it's hard to spot.
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* MultipleHeadCase: ''Very'' briefly seen, after [[spoiler:Mike and Sulley expose [[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plan to [[TheMenInBlack the CDA]]]]. A two-headed monster can be seen, the two heads exchanging glances with each other.
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* OrganAutonomy: ''Very'' briefly seen, after [[spoiler:Mike and Sulley expose [[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plan to [[TheMenInBlack the CDA]]]]. A two-headed monster can be seen, the two heads exchanging glances with each other.
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** A minor one comes during the climax: [[spoiler: Waternoose has Sulley beat and he's about to grab Boo, when the child he's holding says this:]] "Good night, Mom."
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* ConeOfShame: Monsters who undergo decontamination by the CDA end up wearing one.
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* ConeOfShame: Monsters who undergo decontamination by the CDA end up wearing one.
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* InferredHolocaust: Just barely subverted: See NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* InferredHolocaust: Just barely subverted: See NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* InkSuitActor: Despite the fact that the cast is full of adorably inhuman monsters they still manage to resemble their voice actors, especially Mike who could not be ''more'' Billy Crystal. And [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Randall]] '''is''' SteveBuscemi.
* InkSuitActor: Despite the fact that the cast is full of adorably inhuman monsters they still manage to resemble their voice actors, especially Mike who could not be ''more'' Billy Crystal. And [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Randall]] '''is''' SteveBuscemi.
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* InkSuitActor: Despite the fact that the cast is full of adorably inhuman monsters they still manage to resemble their voice actors, especially Mike who could not be ''more'' Billy Crystal. And [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Randall]] '''is''' SteveBuscemi.
* TheOtherDarrin: For ''Monsters University'', KelseyGrammer will take over the role of Waternoose from the late James Coburn.
* SmugSnake: Randall.
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* SmugSnake: Randall.
* TakeAThirdOption: Sulley, upon gaining control of the company, had only two options of what do to with it. He could have made the workers continue scaring kids for energy, or left the company to fall, causing Monstropolis to lose all electricity. [[spoiler:He takes a third option that he discovered upon first finding Boo: He opts to make children laugh instead, which produces more electricity than screams of terror did.]]
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* TakeAThirdOption: Sulley, upon gaining control of the company, had only two options of what do to with it. He could have made the workers continue scaring kids for energy, or left the company to fall, causing Monstropolis to lose all electricity. [[spoiler:He takes a third option that he discovered upon first finding Boo: He opts to make children laugh instead, which produces more electricity than screams of terror did.]]
* TheOtherDarrin: For ''Monsters University'', KelseyGrammer will take over the role of Waternoose from the late James Coburn.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Sulley, upon gaining control of the company, had only two options of ThatCameOutWrong: At Harryhausen's, Mike's telling Cilia what do to he told someone else when asked who he thought he would spend with it. He could have made for the workers continue scaring kids for energy, or left rest of his life. It's heavily implied that he was intending to say it was her, but Sully appeared at the company to fall, window, causing Monstropolis Mike to lose all electricity. [[spoiler:He takes a third option that he discovered upon first finding Boo: He opts to make children laugh instead, which produces more electricity than screams of terror did.]]
* TheOtherDarrin: For ''Monsters University'', KelseyGrammer will take over the role of Waternoose from the late James Coburn.say his name in shock, thus unintentionally making it seem as though he's in love with Sully.
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* ThatCameOutWrong: At Harryhausen's, he's telling Cilia what he told someone else when asked who he thought he would spend with for the rest of his life. It's heavily implied that he was intending to say it was her, but Sully appeared at the window, causing Mike to say his name in shock, thus unintentionally making it seem as though he's in love with Sully.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At one point, Sully protests Boo being in the restroom, not because she's human, but because she's a girl in the men's room.
-->'''Mike''': That is the weirdest thing you have ever said.
-->'''Mike''': That is the weirdest thing you have ever said.
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* VillainousBreakdown: It's probably safe to assume that [[spoiler:Waternoose]] went through this, going from [[spoiler:a fatherly, sympathetic-sounding person to a borderline, terrifying CompleteMonster.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: It's probably safe to assume that [[spoiler:Waternoose]] went through this, going from [[spoiler:a fatherly, sympathetic-sounding person to a borderline, terrifying terrifying, borderline CompleteMonster.]]
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* ComicBookAdaptation: Boom! Studios did a {{sequel}} of sorts, featuring Randall's return, Waternoose's escape from prison, [[spoiler:[[ToyStory Sid]] using the closet doors to his advantage, and the subsequent team-up of the three.]]
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* ComicBookAdaptation: Boom! Studios did a {{sequel}} of sorts, featuring Randall's return, Waternoose's [[spoiler:Waternoose's]] escape from prison, [[spoiler:[[ToyStory Sid]] using the closet doors to his advantage, and the subsequent team-up of the three.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Despite being directly involved in all the nefarious goings-on, including attempted child-torture, [[spoiler:Fungus]] keeps on working at Monsters, Inc. as if nothing happened.
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* KarmaHoudini: Despite being directly involved in all the nefarious goings-on, including attempted child-torture, [[spoiler:Fungus]] keeps on working at Monsters, Inc. as if nothing happened. Granted, it's strongly implied he didn't like it at all and only did these things out of fear - he's shown to be much happier with his new lot in life afterwards
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**[[FridgeBrilliance It was probably made in a hurry by the CDA to back Mike and Sulley's alibis as part of their coverup]].
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** Boo gets one herself when she beats the snot out of Randall to stop him from making Sulley [[DisneyVillainDeath fall to his death]].
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* PunchClockVillain: It turns out that monsters scare children because scream is their source of electricity.
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* PunchClockVillain: It turns out that monsters scare children because scream is screams are their source of electricity.
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Actually, Waternoose is the Man Behind The Man
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** Maybe it's not a coincidence that he's a reptile.
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* BigBad: Randall Boggs [[spoiler:is TheDragon to [[BiggerBad Waternoose]].]]
** Maybe it's not a coincidence that he's a reptile.[[spoiler: Waternoose.]]
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* FastRoping: How [[{{MIB}} [[TheMenInBlack the CDA, or Child Detection Agency]], first shows up.
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* OrganAutonomy: ''Very'' briefly seen, after [[spoiler:Mike and Sulley expose [[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plan to [[{{MIB}} the CDA]]]]. A two-headed monster can be seen, the two heads exchanging glances with each other.
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* OrganAutonomy: ''Very'' briefly seen, after [[spoiler:Mike and Sulley expose [[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plan to [[{{MIB}} [[TheMenInBlack the CDA]]]]. A two-headed monster can be seen, the two heads exchanging glances with each other.
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* {{MIB}}: The CDA. Extra points for being a complete inversion of the TropeNamer, protecting unsuspecting monsters from hideous humans.
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--> '''Roz:''' And I ''don't'' want to see any paperwork on this.
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* JumpedAtTheCall: In real-life. Billy Crystal, who did the voice of Mike, was initially given the role of [[ToyStory Buzz Lightyear]]. He refused the role, a move he later regretted doing. So, when he was asked by Pixar again to fill in the role of another one of their characters, he immediately accepted.
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* ScoobyStack: In this [[http://pixar.wikia.com/File:Monsters_inc_ver4.jpg Japanese poster]].
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->''"We're MI -- [[TitleDrop Monsters Inc.]] [[TagLine We scare, because we care.]]"''
--> -- '''Henry J. Waternoose'''
Welcome to Monstropolis, a world where the monsters are just regular folks like you and me. When they hide in your bed/closet/hamper and scare you, it isn't [[ForTheEvulz because it gives them any sort of thrill]] but simply because [[PunchClockVillain it's their job]]. Their world, [[PortalNetwork linked to ours through closet doors]], derives all its electrical power [[EmotionEater from our fear]].
Now meet our heroes, [[TheHero James P. "Sulley" Sullivan]] (John Goodman) and [[PluckyComicRelief Mike Wazowski]] (Billy Crystal). [[GentleGiant Sulley, the big blue one]], is one of the best "scarers" in the city. Mike is his partner, [[VitriolicBestBuds best friend]], and roommate, who spends his after hours courting the receptionist [[{{Tsundere}} Celia]].
Life is great -- until one of the ''extremely'' poisonous fuel sources enters their world and threatens everything. Yes, '''''a human child'''''! Doom-doom-'''doom'''! (Actually, she's [[CheerfulChild rather adorable]].) Sulley and Mike's friendship becomes increasingly strained as they try to get the little terror back to her world without getting contaminated or arrested. Along the way, they stumble upon a conspiracy that threatens to undermine their life's work -- and possibly their lives.
A prequel has been announced for 2013. Titled ''Monsters University'', the new film will star Mike and Sulley in their college days. Dan Scanlon is set to direct.
For information on the follow-up [=DVD=] short, ''Mike's New Car'', see the PixarShorts page.
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!!Tropes:
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Waternoose]]
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Sulley tries to get Boo's attention by getting her to fetch a toy "bear".
** Later he makes a bed for her out of newspaper in the corner. [[CharacterDevelopment He learns to treat her better.]]
* AllCGICartoon
* AllInTheManual: Boo's full name. [[spoiler:It's [[TheDanza Mary Gibbs]]]]. Her first name is revealed in the film, since she signs all her sketches, but it's hard to spot.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Legendary creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot are actually ex-citizens of Monstropolis who have been banished to the human world.
* AllStarCast: Par for the course with {{Pixar}}.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Mike has a RunningGag where he sees some bit of publicity with his face obscured and says things like, "I don't believe it... I'm on TV!"
* BigBad: Randall Boggs [[spoiler:is TheDragon to [[BiggerBad Waternoose]].]]
** Maybe it's not a coincidence that he's a reptile.
* BigDamnHeroes: Sulley, to save Boo from Randall's machine.
** Boo gets one herself when she beats the snot out of Randall to stop him from making Sulley [[DisneyVillainDeath fall to his death]].
* BlowingARaspberry: Boo.
* BowelBreakingBricks: After nearly being discovered by Randall in the bathroom, we see a huge splash in the stall Mike, Sully, and Boo are hiding in. Boo sums it up best.
-->'''Boo:''' Ew.
** [[SubvertedTrope And then in the next scene, we see an up-close shot of Mike's legs completely soaked.]] [[DontExplainTheJoke It's more implied he slipped and fell in, with Boo still understanding how gross that was.]]
* BrickJoke:
** Mike and Sulley are arguing about Boo on Scare Floor F, when Mike realizes mid-sentence that everyone is watching. He tries to spin his line "Put that thing back where it came from or so help me...!" as practice for the company play. During the credits, the cast performs "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me: TheMusical."
** Sulley puts the stuff from Boo's room in a locker. Guess who opens that same locker a few scenes later?
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Top scarer James P. Sullivan has {{super strength}} and a mighty roar, but is really a sweet guy under it all.
* ButtMonkey: Mike, which cracks up Boo to no end.
* CallASmeerpARabbit: "Little Mikey", the stuffed animal that Mike doesn't want Boo touching, is described as a bear (despite having one eye, several legs/tentacles, fangs and horns)
* CannotTellAJoke: Towards the end, when the company [[spoiler: has been converted to a laugh factory]], the "Joke of the Day" on the scoreboard reads: ''The doctor says to the patient, 'What seems to be the problem?' Raising his arm, the patient says, 'It hurts when I do this.''' [[ChirpingCrickets Cheep, cheep, cheep...]]
** A few seconds later, the board reads "The doctor says, 'Stop doing that.'" Cheep, cheep, indeed.
* TheCatCameBack: Boo, when she first meets Sulley.
* CheatedAngle: The closet doors. When they're closed, they're always seen directly from the front. But when they're open, they're always seen from a 45 degree angle. And for some reason, they're ''never'' seen from behind!
** They actually are seen from behind, mostly after Mike is [[spoiler: sent away to the Himalayas, but there are a couple of other exceptionally brief glances.]]
* CheerfulChild: Boo.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Pretty much everything in the opening sequence with the monster-in-training and his practice run.
** Boo's [[spoiler:laughter.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Roz.]]
* TheChewToy: George Sanderson, as a RunningGag. Sometimes Mike, although it's usually his own fault.
* ComicBookAdaptation: Boom! Studios did a {{sequel}} of sorts, featuring Randall's return, Waternoose's escape from prison, [[spoiler:[[ToyStory Sid]] using the closet doors to his advantage, and the subsequent team-up of the three.]]
* CompanionCube: Sully thinks, for a minute, that Boo's been made into a ''[[IncrediblyLamePun real]]'' [[IncrediblyLamePun one]].
* ConfusedBystanderInterview: After Boo's presence is discovered, "witnesses" claim to have seen her use laser vision and mind powers.
* ConeOfShame: Monsters who undergo decontamination by the CDA end up wearing one.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Waternoose.]]
* CuteMonsterGirl: Celia. Boo, from Sulley's perspective.
* TheDanza: As signed on one of Boo's pictures, her real name is [[spoiler:Mary]] after her voice actress [[spoiler:(Mary Gibbs).]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Mike. Also Roz, whose incredibly deadpan voice often gives Mike the creeps.
--> Roz: "I hope you filed your paperwork correctly for once... your stunned silence is very reassuring."
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The opening credits.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: Mike and Randall.
-->'''Randall:''' ''(evil chuckle)'' "You still think this is about that stupid scare record?"\\
'''Mike:''' Well, I did... right up until you ''[[LampshadeHanging chuckled]]'' like that...
* DishDash: Of the spinning dishes on sticks variety.
* DoubleJump: In the {{video game}} ''Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team''.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Randall. He's even suitably reptilian.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[FindingNemo Nemo]].
* EmotionEater: The entire world is powered by children's screams of fear. [[spoiler:As they discover later, though, they get ''more'' power from laughter.]]
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Waternoose's]] near the end of the film.
* EurekaMoment:
-->'''Mike''': "At least we had some laughs, right?"
-->'''Sulley''': "Laughs..."
* FastRoping: How [[{{MIB}} the CDA, or Child Detection Agency]], first shows up.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Oh, so much.
** "James, this company has been in my family for three generations. I would do anything to keep it from going under."
** "Just think about a few names, will ya? Loch Ness, Bigfoot, ''The Abominable Snowman''. They all got one thing on common: banishment! We could be next!"
** The scene where Boo's screaming causes the light to flicker while her laughter causes a power overload failure in Mike & Sully's apartment.
** An extremely subtle one, but when Mike is running away from Randall only for Randall to to be shown lying in wait for Mike, Randall is camouflaged right near a portrait of Waternoose. [[spoiler:Randall and Waternoose were later revealed to be working together.]]
** "One of these days...I'm going to let you teach that guy a lesson."
* FunWithFlushing: Sulley gets some of Boo's toys tangled up on him when he reenters the monster world. He tries to get rid of them by flushing them down the toilet, but it gets clogged up and overflows. He then has to dump them in someone's locker, where they reappear later as a BrickJoke.
* GenreBusting: It's a monster movie/kid flick/invasion movie/sci-fi/family drama/comedy.
* GentleGiant: Sulley.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The snowcone:
-->'''Yeti:''' Snow cone?\\
'''Mike:''' Yuck.\\
'''Yeti:''' No no no, don't worry, it's lemon.
** This is also invoked in the scene where Sulley and Mike are trying to get Boo to laugh again to reactivate all the closet doors. Mike tries a trick where he [[GroinAttack lands on a metal bar right between his legs and is in notable pain.]] Even though you can't ''see'' anything, '''ouch'''.
* GilliganCut
-->'''Mike:''' What do you wanna do, walk out in public with that ''thing?'' And then I suppose we'll just waltz right up to the factory!
-->(''Sulley looks thoughtful; scene cuts'')\\
'''Mike:''' [[YouJustHadToSayIt I cannot believe we are waltzing right up to the factory!]]''
* GorgeousGorgon: Celia.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Unlike most examples, it seems genuinely innocuous until TheReveal.
* HeelRealization: After inadvertedly scaring Boo, Sulley realizes how wrong scaring children is.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: "She's seen too much!"
* TheHero: How Mike views himself. Actually, it's Sulley. See also TheLancer and {{Sidekick}}, both below.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: They even have a song about it!
* HilariousOuttakes: Several weeks into the film's original release, fake (but genuinely hilarious) HilariousOuttakes were added to the closing credits. They're included on the DVD.
** On the BluRay they're relegated to Disc 2.
* HollywoodChameleon: Randall.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Sulley becomes one at the end of the movie.
* InferredHolocaust: Just barely subverted: See NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* IHaveJustOneThingToSay:
-->'''Mike:''' (''pulls a sock out of his mouth and throws it'') "Catch!"
* INeedToGoIronMyDog:
-->'''Yeti:''' Oh, would you look at that? We're out of snow cones.
* {{Invisibility}}: Randall.
* InkSuitActor: Despite the fact that the cast is full of adorably inhuman monsters they still manage to resemble their voice actors, especially Mike who could not be ''more'' Billy Crystal. And [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Randall]] '''is''' SteveBuscemi.
* IsThatCuteKidYours: Waternoose asks Sulley this when he first sees Boo, though Sulley and Mike cover this [[BlatantLies by saying that she's Sulley's "cousin's sister's daughter" and that it's "Bring an Obscure Relative to Work" Day.]]
* JumpedAtTheCall: In real-life. Billy Crystal, who did the voice of Mike, was initially given the role of [[ToyStory Buzz Lightyear]]. He refused the role, a move he later regretted doing. So, when he was asked by Pixar again to fill in the role of another one of their characters, he immediately accepted.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Waternoose did this quite a while ago when he decided that ''nothing'' would stop him from saving his company.]]
* KickTheDog: Unintentionally performed by Sulley toward Boo, leading to a HeelRealization; very much intentionally performed by Randall on ''way'' too many occasions to count.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Waternoose wants to save his family business and Monstropolis from collapse due to a power shortage. His "solution" drives him well over the MoralEventHorizon into would-be child slaughterer.]]
* TheLancer: How Mike views Sulley. Actually, Mike is TheLancer for Sulley. See also TheHero, above, and {{Sidekick}}, below.
* LargeHam: The Yeti / Abominable Snowman, [[RunningGag played by John Ratzenberger]].
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: [[ChekhovsGunman CDA Agent #1]] gives this order at the end of the movie, regarding the whole mess that resulted from Boo's kidnapping.
-->'''Number One:''' None of this ever happened, gentlemen, and [[spoiler:I don't wanna see any paperwork on this.]]
* LovecraftLite: The proliferation of scales and tentacles and the interdimensional aspects. In addition, the {{trope}} is played with, in that the monsters regard the human world as a dangerous place and treat Boo like a pint-sized EldritchAbomination.
** This also counts as FridgeBrilliance; the monsters, many of which count as kiddie EldritchAbominations, in turn consider ''us'' the real monsters.
* TheManBehindTheMan [[spoiler:Waternoose.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Randall.
* {{MIB}}: The CDA. Extra points for being a complete inversion of the TropeNamer, protecting unsuspecting monsters from hideous humans.
* MistakenForGay: Mike and Sulley several times, but it's kept rather subtle.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Waternoose.]]
* MoralityPet: Boo, for Sulley.
* MotiveMisidentification
* MultiArmedMultitasking: The sushi chef.
* NestedMouths: In the restaurant scene, one of the monsters has a second monster for a tongue, which eats the food.
* NeverSayDie: Averted before the first scene ever ends, and directly said many, many times as an example of how dangerous children are to the monster world. But one of these qualifies as a moment of funny:
-->'''Sulley:''' This might sound crazy, but I don't think the kid's dangerous.\\
'''Mike:''' (''[[SarcasmMode dripping with sickly-sweet sarcasm]]'') ''Really?!'' Well, in that case, let's keep it. I always wanted a pet... '''that could kill me!'''
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Sulley attempts to tell Waternoose of what Randall tried to do, but it turns out they've been conspiring together and sends him and Mike to the Himalayas. [[WhatTheHellHero Mike calls him out on that]].]]
** Just barely subverted in the ending: [[spoiler:Although Sully and Mike ultimately manage to get Boo back into her bedroom, and expose his boss, their actions also caused the company to nearly be shut down, and almost cause Monstropolis to be in a permanent blackout as a consequence. Literally the only reason it didn't turn out that way was because it was discovered that the children's laughter had 10x the power input of scream.]]
* NonMammalianHair: Roz is a large garden snail-like monster with a tuft of white hair on her head.
** Also, some of the monsters, whether resembling either toads, slugs, or octopi, will inevitably have some form of hair on their heads.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: [[spoiler:Boo to Randall, right after beating the crud out of him to save Sulley.]]
* TheOddCouple: Sulley and Mike. See also OppositesAttract, below.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Boo does it several times.
* OhCrap: "And I'm ''sure'' you filed your paperwork correctly. ''For once.''"
-->"Your stunned silence is ''[[SarcasmMode very]]'' reassuring."
** Also Randall, after [[spoiler: Sulley and Boo turn the tables on him and Sulley makes it very clear he's about to get his comeuppance.]]
* OppositesAttract: Mike and Sulley.
* OrganAutonomy: ''Very'' briefly seen, after [[spoiler:Mike and Sulley expose [[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plan to [[{{MIB}} the CDA]]]]. A two-headed monster can be seen, the two heads exchanging glances with each other.
* PackedHero: Parodied. Boo loses one of the "eyestalks" of her monster costume in a trash can. Sulley sees it and thinks she's in a pile of garbage, then watches that pile of garbage get swept into a cart, dropped down a chute, and put through an exceedingly brutal compactor. The audience saw her walk away from the garbage can, Sulley faints at every step of the compactor.
* PeekABogeyman
* PigLatin: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the HilariousOuttakes:
-->'''Sulley:''' Look-lay in the bag-bay.\\
'''Mike:''' I think you mean, "Ook-lay in the ag-bay."\\
'''Sulley:''' What? Didn't I...?\\
'''Mike:''' Well, you know, maybe you should just take a minute and ead-ray your ipt-scray!
* PluckyComicRelief: Mike, and Boo to a lesser extent.
* PortalDoor: The closet doors.
* PortalNetwork: The closet doors.
* PottyDance
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plan to solve the power shortage.]]
* PowerWalk: The scarers entering the power company floor. A ShoutOut to ''TheRightStuff''.
** Played with in the "outtakes" where Sulley (in front) trips, and the monsters behind him trip, [[DisasterDominoes and the monsters behind them...]]
* ProsceniumReveal: The instructor critiquing a monster's performance in the opening training simulation.
* PunchClockVillain: It turns out that monsters scare children because scream is their source of electricity.
-->'''Sulley:''' (''to Boo'') I'm not going to scare you. I'm off duty!
* PsychoForHire: Randall Boggs.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Waternoose. [[spoiler:Which makes the revelation that he's [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped off the slippery slope]] beforehand even more surprising.]]
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Randall.
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:[[ChekhovsGunman Roz]].]]
* RunningGag:
** Mike is always cut somehow from images and videos he appears in -- and ''doesn't care''.
** It's more implied that he got slipped the [[IdiotBall idiot pill]] and didn't notice.
-->"I can't believe it! I'm... ''on the cover of a magazine!''"
** The original DVD has a picture of Mike and Sulley -- with Mike largely obscured by the hole.
** "23-19! We have a 23-19 in progress!" Poor [[TheChewToy George]].
*** He finally wises up enough to pass off the sock to his buddy before [[{{MIB}} the CDA]] shows up again.
** [[HilariousOuttakes Roz is quite the practical joker.]]
--> Roz: "Guess who?"
* SceneryPorn: The closet door storage chamber is this in a "Holy SH**, this is awesome!!" way.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: The final Randall chase is a stunning example. Contrary to most uses of the trope though, this is entirely justified in-universe because of the nature of the doors.
* SearchingTheStalls: Boo and Sulley hide from Randall in a toilet stall. He punches the stalls open one by one, and Sulley flinches as every door opens. [[spoiler:Randall actually slams open the stall Sulley is hiding in, but isn't looking at the time. Momentum closes the door before Randall sees them.]]
* ShoutOut: A few examples (out of dozens):
** The restaurant Harryhausen's is named for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen Ray Harryhausen]], a stop-motion animator and innovator who specialized in monsters.
** The sequence where Sulley thinks Boo has been crushed is a deliberate {{homage}} to ChuckJones' ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcTniTyFcEA Feed the Kitty]]''.
*** With the same [[TearJerker unintended reaction]] for some audience members.
** At the end, George is seen going into a door with a mallet and a watermelon, like Gallagher's comedy bits.
** When asked if there are any kids in the village, the Snowman replies "Oh, sure. Tough kids, sissy kids, kids who climb on rocks..." These are the words to the Armour Hot Dogs jingle.
** When Sulley is first running from Boo, she puts a hat over her head and says something that sounds suspicously like "I [[WinnieThePooh Tigger]]".
** Doesn't Randall remind you of ''another'' [[{{Recess}} Randall]] from Disney? And it's not just because they have the same name; they both have a similar posture and personality.
*** It's not just Randall, but Roz looks and acts like Miss Finster.
* ShutUpAndSaveMe: Sulley is being wailed on by Randall, who is invisible at the time. Mike shows up, can't see him, and doesn't even notice that Sulley is in danger while he tries to apologize for [[spoiler:refusing to help him save Boo]]. [[AccidentalHero Sulley is saved when Mike unintentionally unveils Randall's position while getting upset at Sulley for "ignoring" him.]]
-->'''Mike:''' Hey look, it's Randall, it's... ''ohhhhh''.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Mike and Celia.
-->'''Mike:''' Schmoopsy-poo!\\
'''Celia:''' Googly-bear!
* {{Sidekick}}: Mike views Sulley as his {{sidekick}}, but everyone else can see that Mike is Sulley's sidekick.
* StealthPun: When Celia's Medusa-like hair keeps kissing Mike, she says, "Michael, you're such a charmer." A snake charmer.
** Near the beginning,we see a gigantic scaly monster crossing the road. He makes the sounds of a chicken.
* SmugSnake: Randall.
* StylisticSuck: Yes, Mike actually ''did'' make "Put that Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me" into [[HilariousOuttakes a musical]], complete with mediocre acting/chorerography, clumsily-set up backgrounds, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the CDA as ushers]]. The audience loved it; the critics (of the Monster World) did not.
* SuperStrength: Sulley.
* TakeMyHand: Sulley to Mike.
* TakeAThirdOption: Sulley, upon gaining control of the company, had only two options of what do to with it. He could have made the workers continue scaring kids for energy, or left the company to fall, causing Monstropolis to lose all electricity. [[spoiler:He takes a third option that he discovered upon first finding Boo: He opts to make children laugh instead, which produces more electricity than screams of terror did.]]
* ThrowItIn: All of Boo's lines, as the producers just followed a two-year-old around with a mic to capture her performance.
* ThatCameOutWrong: At Harryhausen's, he's telling Cilia what he told someone else when asked who he thought he would spend with for the rest of his life. It's heavily implied that he was intending to say it was her, but Sully appeared at the window, causing Mike to say his name in shock, thus unintentionally making it seem as though he's in love with Sully.
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Waternoose is revealed to have been behind the conspiracy all along.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Celia is Type B.
* VillainousBreakdown: It's probably safe to assume that [[spoiler:Waternoose]] went through this, going from [[spoiler:a fatherly, sympathetic-sounding person to a borderline, terrifying CompleteMonster.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Waternoose: "I'll kidnap a ''thousand'' children before I let this company die!"]]
* WhamLine:
-->'''Mike:''' That's not her door...\\
'''[[spoiler:Waternoose]]:''' I know, I know. (''Cue [[spoiler:Randall.]]'') It's ''yours''.
* XDaysSince: The scare factory has a sign counting the days since the last accident.
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->''"We're MI -- [[TitleDrop Monsters Inc.]] [[TagLine We scare, because we care.]]"''
--> -- '''Henry J. Waternoose'''
Welcome to Monstropolis, a world where the monsters are just regular folks like you and me. When they hide in your bed/closet/hamper and scare you, it isn't [[ForTheEvulz because it gives them any sort of thrill]] but simply because [[PunchClockVillain it's their job]]. Their world, [[PortalNetwork linked to ours through closet doors]], derives all its electrical power [[EmotionEater from our fear]].
Now meet our heroes, [[TheHero James P. "Sulley" Sullivan]] (John Goodman) and [[PluckyComicRelief Mike Wazowski]] (Billy Crystal). [[GentleGiant Sulley, the big blue one]], is one of the best "scarers" in the city. Mike is his partner, [[VitriolicBestBuds best friend]], and roommate, who spends his after hours courting the receptionist [[{{Tsundere}} Celia]].
Life is great -- until one of the ''extremely'' poisonous fuel sources enters their world and threatens everything. Yes, '''''a human child'''''! Doom-doom-'''doom'''! (Actually, she's [[CheerfulChild rather adorable]].) Sulley and Mike's friendship becomes increasingly strained as they try to get the little terror back to her world without getting contaminated or arrested. Along the way, they stumble upon a conspiracy that threatens to undermine their life's work -- and possibly their lives.
A prequel has been announced for 2013. Titled ''Monsters University'', the new film will star Mike and Sulley in their college days. Dan Scanlon is set to direct.
For information on the follow-up [=DVD=] short, ''Mike's New Car'', see the PixarShorts page.
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!!Tropes:
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Waternoose]]
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Sulley tries to get Boo's attention by getting her to fetch a toy "bear".
** Later he makes a bed for her out of newspaper in the corner. [[CharacterDevelopment He learns to treat her better.]]
* AllCGICartoon
* AllInTheManual: Boo's full name. [[spoiler:It's [[TheDanza Mary Gibbs]]]]. Her first name is revealed in the film, since she signs all her sketches, but it's hard to spot.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Legendary creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot are actually ex-citizens of Monstropolis who have been banished to the human world.
* AllStarCast: Par for the course with {{Pixar}}.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Mike has a RunningGag where he sees some bit of publicity with his face obscured and says things like, "I don't believe it... I'm on TV!"
* BigBad: Randall Boggs [[spoiler:is TheDragon to [[BiggerBad Waternoose]].]]
** Maybe it's not a coincidence that he's a reptile.
* BigDamnHeroes: Sulley, to save Boo from Randall's machine.
** Boo gets one herself when she beats the snot out of Randall to stop him from making Sulley [[DisneyVillainDeath fall to his death]].
* BlowingARaspberry: Boo.
* BowelBreakingBricks: After nearly being discovered by Randall in the bathroom, we see a huge splash in the stall Mike, Sully, and Boo are hiding in. Boo sums it up best.
-->'''Boo:''' Ew.
** [[SubvertedTrope And then in the next scene, we see an up-close shot of Mike's legs completely soaked.]] [[DontExplainTheJoke It's more implied he slipped and fell in, with Boo still understanding how gross that was.]]
* BrickJoke:
** Mike and Sulley are arguing about Boo on Scare Floor F, when Mike realizes mid-sentence that everyone is watching. He tries to spin his line "Put that thing back where it came from or so help me...!" as practice for the company play. During the credits, the cast performs "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me: TheMusical."
** Sulley puts the stuff from Boo's room in a locker. Guess who opens that same locker a few scenes later?
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Top scarer James P. Sullivan has {{super strength}} and a mighty roar, but is really a sweet guy under it all.
* ButtMonkey: Mike, which cracks up Boo to no end.
* CallASmeerpARabbit: "Little Mikey", the stuffed animal that Mike doesn't want Boo touching, is described as a bear (despite having one eye, several legs/tentacles, fangs and horns)
* CannotTellAJoke: Towards the end, when the company [[spoiler: has been converted to a laugh factory]], the "Joke of the Day" on the scoreboard reads: ''The doctor says to the patient, 'What seems to be the problem?' Raising his arm, the patient says, 'It hurts when I do this.''' [[ChirpingCrickets Cheep, cheep, cheep...]]
** A few seconds later, the board reads "The doctor says, 'Stop doing that.'" Cheep, cheep, indeed.
* TheCatCameBack: Boo, when she first meets Sulley.
* CheatedAngle: The closet doors. When they're closed, they're always seen directly from the front. But when they're open, they're always seen from a 45 degree angle. And for some reason, they're ''never'' seen from behind!
** They actually are seen from behind, mostly after Mike is [[spoiler: sent away to the Himalayas, but there are a couple of other exceptionally brief glances.]]
* CheerfulChild: Boo.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Pretty much everything in the opening sequence with the monster-in-training and his practice run.
** Boo's [[spoiler:laughter.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Roz.]]
* TheChewToy: George Sanderson, as a RunningGag. Sometimes Mike, although it's usually his own fault.
* ComicBookAdaptation: Boom! Studios did a {{sequel}} of sorts, featuring Randall's return, Waternoose's escape from prison, [[spoiler:[[ToyStory Sid]] using the closet doors to his advantage, and the subsequent team-up of the three.]]
* CompanionCube: Sully thinks, for a minute, that Boo's been made into a ''[[IncrediblyLamePun real]]'' [[IncrediblyLamePun one]].
* ConfusedBystanderInterview: After Boo's presence is discovered, "witnesses" claim to have seen her use laser vision and mind powers.
* ConeOfShame: Monsters who undergo decontamination by the CDA end up wearing one.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Waternoose.]]
* CuteMonsterGirl: Celia. Boo, from Sulley's perspective.
* TheDanza: As signed on one of Boo's pictures, her real name is [[spoiler:Mary]] after her voice actress [[spoiler:(Mary Gibbs).]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Mike. Also Roz, whose incredibly deadpan voice often gives Mike the creeps.
--> Roz: "I hope you filed your paperwork correctly for once... your stunned silence is very reassuring."
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The opening credits.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: Mike and Randall.
-->'''Randall:''' ''(evil chuckle)'' "You still think this is about that stupid scare record?"\\
'''Mike:''' Well, I did... right up until you ''[[LampshadeHanging chuckled]]'' like that...
* DishDash: Of the spinning dishes on sticks variety.
* DoubleJump: In the {{video game}} ''Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team''.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Randall. He's even suitably reptilian.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[FindingNemo Nemo]].
* EmotionEater: The entire world is powered by children's screams of fear. [[spoiler:As they discover later, though, they get ''more'' power from laughter.]]
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Waternoose's]] near the end of the film.
* EurekaMoment:
-->'''Mike''': "At least we had some laughs, right?"
-->'''Sulley''': "Laughs..."
* FastRoping: How [[{{MIB}} the CDA, or Child Detection Agency]], first shows up.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Oh, so much.
** "James, this company has been in my family for three generations. I would do anything to keep it from going under."
** "Just think about a few names, will ya? Loch Ness, Bigfoot, ''The Abominable Snowman''. They all got one thing on common: banishment! We could be next!"
** The scene where Boo's screaming causes the light to flicker while her laughter causes a power overload failure in Mike & Sully's apartment.
** An extremely subtle one, but when Mike is running away from Randall only for Randall to to be shown lying in wait for Mike, Randall is camouflaged right near a portrait of Waternoose. [[spoiler:Randall and Waternoose were later revealed to be working together.]]
** "One of these days...I'm going to let you teach that guy a lesson."
* FunWithFlushing: Sulley gets some of Boo's toys tangled up on him when he reenters the monster world. He tries to get rid of them by flushing them down the toilet, but it gets clogged up and overflows. He then has to dump them in someone's locker, where they reappear later as a BrickJoke.
* GenreBusting: It's a monster movie/kid flick/invasion movie/sci-fi/family drama/comedy.
* GentleGiant: Sulley.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The snowcone:
-->'''Yeti:''' Snow cone?\\
'''Mike:''' Yuck.\\
'''Yeti:''' No no no, don't worry, it's lemon.
** This is also invoked in the scene where Sulley and Mike are trying to get Boo to laugh again to reactivate all the closet doors. Mike tries a trick where he [[GroinAttack lands on a metal bar right between his legs and is in notable pain.]] Even though you can't ''see'' anything, '''ouch'''.
* GilliganCut
-->'''Mike:''' What do you wanna do, walk out in public with that ''thing?'' And then I suppose we'll just waltz right up to the factory!
-->(''Sulley looks thoughtful; scene cuts'')\\
'''Mike:''' [[YouJustHadToSayIt I cannot believe we are waltzing right up to the factory!]]''
* GorgeousGorgon: Celia.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Unlike most examples, it seems genuinely innocuous until TheReveal.
* HeelRealization: After inadvertedly scaring Boo, Sulley realizes how wrong scaring children is.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: "She's seen too much!"
* TheHero: How Mike views himself. Actually, it's Sulley. See also TheLancer and {{Sidekick}}, both below.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: They even have a song about it!
* HilariousOuttakes: Several weeks into the film's original release, fake (but genuinely hilarious) HilariousOuttakes were added to the closing credits. They're included on the DVD.
** On the BluRay they're relegated to Disc 2.
* HollywoodChameleon: Randall.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Sulley becomes one at the end of the movie.
* InferredHolocaust: Just barely subverted: See NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* IHaveJustOneThingToSay:
-->'''Mike:''' (''pulls a sock out of his mouth and throws it'') "Catch!"
* INeedToGoIronMyDog:
-->'''Yeti:''' Oh, would you look at that? We're out of snow cones.
* {{Invisibility}}: Randall.
* InkSuitActor: Despite the fact that the cast is full of adorably inhuman monsters they still manage to resemble their voice actors, especially Mike who could not be ''more'' Billy Crystal. And [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Randall]] '''is''' SteveBuscemi.
* IsThatCuteKidYours: Waternoose asks Sulley this when he first sees Boo, though Sulley and Mike cover this [[BlatantLies by saying that she's Sulley's "cousin's sister's daughter" and that it's "Bring an Obscure Relative to Work" Day.]]
* JumpedAtTheCall: In real-life. Billy Crystal, who did the voice of Mike, was initially given the role of [[ToyStory Buzz Lightyear]]. He refused the role, a move he later regretted doing. So, when he was asked by Pixar again to fill in the role of another one of their characters, he immediately accepted.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Waternoose did this quite a while ago when he decided that ''nothing'' would stop him from saving his company.]]
* KickTheDog: Unintentionally performed by Sulley toward Boo, leading to a HeelRealization; very much intentionally performed by Randall on ''way'' too many occasions to count.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Waternoose wants to save his family business and Monstropolis from collapse due to a power shortage. His "solution" drives him well over the MoralEventHorizon into would-be child slaughterer.]]
* TheLancer: How Mike views Sulley. Actually, Mike is TheLancer for Sulley. See also TheHero, above, and {{Sidekick}}, below.
* LargeHam: The Yeti / Abominable Snowman, [[RunningGag played by John Ratzenberger]].
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: [[ChekhovsGunman CDA Agent #1]] gives this order at the end of the movie, regarding the whole mess that resulted from Boo's kidnapping.
-->'''Number One:''' None of this ever happened, gentlemen, and [[spoiler:I don't wanna see any paperwork on this.]]
* LovecraftLite: The proliferation of scales and tentacles and the interdimensional aspects. In addition, the {{trope}} is played with, in that the monsters regard the human world as a dangerous place and treat Boo like a pint-sized EldritchAbomination.
** This also counts as FridgeBrilliance; the monsters, many of which count as kiddie EldritchAbominations, in turn consider ''us'' the real monsters.
* TheManBehindTheMan [[spoiler:Waternoose.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Randall.
* {{MIB}}: The CDA. Extra points for being a complete inversion of the TropeNamer, protecting unsuspecting monsters from hideous humans.
* MistakenForGay: Mike and Sulley several times, but it's kept rather subtle.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Waternoose.]]
* MoralityPet: Boo, for Sulley.
* MotiveMisidentification
* MultiArmedMultitasking: The sushi chef.
* NestedMouths: In the restaurant scene, one of the monsters has a second monster for a tongue, which eats the food.
* NeverSayDie: Averted before the first scene ever ends, and directly said many, many times as an example of how dangerous children are to the monster world. But one of these qualifies as a moment of funny:
-->'''Sulley:''' This might sound crazy, but I don't think the kid's dangerous.\\
'''Mike:''' (''[[SarcasmMode dripping with sickly-sweet sarcasm]]'') ''Really?!'' Well, in that case, let's keep it. I always wanted a pet... '''that could kill me!'''
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Sulley attempts to tell Waternoose of what Randall tried to do, but it turns out they've been conspiring together and sends him and Mike to the Himalayas. [[WhatTheHellHero Mike calls him out on that]].]]
** Just barely subverted in the ending: [[spoiler:Although Sully and Mike ultimately manage to get Boo back into her bedroom, and expose his boss, their actions also caused the company to nearly be shut down, and almost cause Monstropolis to be in a permanent blackout as a consequence. Literally the only reason it didn't turn out that way was because it was discovered that the children's laughter had 10x the power input of scream.]]
* NonMammalianHair: Roz is a large garden snail-like monster with a tuft of white hair on her head.
** Also, some of the monsters, whether resembling either toads, slugs, or octopi, will inevitably have some form of hair on their heads.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: [[spoiler:Boo to Randall, right after beating the crud out of him to save Sulley.]]
* TheOddCouple: Sulley and Mike. See also OppositesAttract, below.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Boo does it several times.
* OhCrap: "And I'm ''sure'' you filed your paperwork correctly. ''For once.''"
-->"Your stunned silence is ''[[SarcasmMode very]]'' reassuring."
** Also Randall, after [[spoiler: Sulley and Boo turn the tables on him and Sulley makes it very clear he's about to get his comeuppance.]]
* OppositesAttract: Mike and Sulley.
* OrganAutonomy: ''Very'' briefly seen, after [[spoiler:Mike and Sulley expose [[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plan to [[{{MIB}} the CDA]]]]. A two-headed monster can be seen, the two heads exchanging glances with each other.
* PackedHero: Parodied. Boo loses one of the "eyestalks" of her monster costume in a trash can. Sulley sees it and thinks she's in a pile of garbage, then watches that pile of garbage get swept into a cart, dropped down a chute, and put through an exceedingly brutal compactor. The audience saw her walk away from the garbage can, Sulley faints at every step of the compactor.
* PeekABogeyman
* PigLatin: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the HilariousOuttakes:
-->'''Sulley:''' Look-lay in the bag-bay.\\
'''Mike:''' I think you mean, "Ook-lay in the ag-bay."\\
'''Sulley:''' What? Didn't I...?\\
'''Mike:''' Well, you know, maybe you should just take a minute and ead-ray your ipt-scray!
* PluckyComicRelief: Mike, and Boo to a lesser extent.
* PortalDoor: The closet doors.
* PortalNetwork: The closet doors.
* PottyDance
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plan to solve the power shortage.]]
* PowerWalk: The scarers entering the power company floor. A ShoutOut to ''TheRightStuff''.
** Played with in the "outtakes" where Sulley (in front) trips, and the monsters behind him trip, [[DisasterDominoes and the monsters behind them...]]
* ProsceniumReveal: The instructor critiquing a monster's performance in the opening training simulation.
* PunchClockVillain: It turns out that monsters scare children because scream is their source of electricity.
-->'''Sulley:''' (''to Boo'') I'm not going to scare you. I'm off duty!
* PsychoForHire: Randall Boggs.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Waternoose. [[spoiler:Which makes the revelation that he's [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped off the slippery slope]] beforehand even more surprising.]]
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Randall.
* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:[[ChekhovsGunman Roz]].]]
* RunningGag:
** Mike is always cut somehow from images and videos he appears in -- and ''doesn't care''.
** It's more implied that he got slipped the [[IdiotBall idiot pill]] and didn't notice.
-->"I can't believe it! I'm... ''on the cover of a magazine!''"
** The original DVD has a picture of Mike and Sulley -- with Mike largely obscured by the hole.
** "23-19! We have a 23-19 in progress!" Poor [[TheChewToy George]].
*** He finally wises up enough to pass off the sock to his buddy before [[{{MIB}} the CDA]] shows up again.
** [[HilariousOuttakes Roz is quite the practical joker.]]
--> Roz: "Guess who?"
* SceneryPorn: The closet door storage chamber is this in a "Holy SH**, this is awesome!!" way.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: The final Randall chase is a stunning example. Contrary to most uses of the trope though, this is entirely justified in-universe because of the nature of the doors.
* SearchingTheStalls: Boo and Sulley hide from Randall in a toilet stall. He punches the stalls open one by one, and Sulley flinches as every door opens. [[spoiler:Randall actually slams open the stall Sulley is hiding in, but isn't looking at the time. Momentum closes the door before Randall sees them.]]
* ShoutOut: A few examples (out of dozens):
** The restaurant Harryhausen's is named for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen Ray Harryhausen]], a stop-motion animator and innovator who specialized in monsters.
** The sequence where Sulley thinks Boo has been crushed is a deliberate {{homage}} to ChuckJones' ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcTniTyFcEA Feed the Kitty]]''.
*** With the same [[TearJerker unintended reaction]] for some audience members.
** At the end, George is seen going into a door with a mallet and a watermelon, like Gallagher's comedy bits.
** When asked if there are any kids in the village, the Snowman replies "Oh, sure. Tough kids, sissy kids, kids who climb on rocks..." These are the words to the Armour Hot Dogs jingle.
** When Sulley is first running from Boo, she puts a hat over her head and says something that sounds suspicously like "I [[WinnieThePooh Tigger]]".
** Doesn't Randall remind you of ''another'' [[{{Recess}} Randall]] from Disney? And it's not just because they have the same name; they both have a similar posture and personality.
*** It's not just Randall, but Roz looks and acts like Miss Finster.
* ShutUpAndSaveMe: Sulley is being wailed on by Randall, who is invisible at the time. Mike shows up, can't see him, and doesn't even notice that Sulley is in danger while he tries to apologize for [[spoiler:refusing to help him save Boo]]. [[AccidentalHero Sulley is saved when Mike unintentionally unveils Randall's position while getting upset at Sulley for "ignoring" him.]]
-->'''Mike:''' Hey look, it's Randall, it's... ''ohhhhh''.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Mike and Celia.
-->'''Mike:''' Schmoopsy-poo!\\
'''Celia:''' Googly-bear!
* {{Sidekick}}: Mike views Sulley as his {{sidekick}}, but everyone else can see that Mike is Sulley's sidekick.
* StealthPun: When Celia's Medusa-like hair keeps kissing Mike, she says, "Michael, you're such a charmer." A snake charmer.
** Near the beginning,we see a gigantic scaly monster crossing the road. He makes the sounds of a chicken.
* SmugSnake: Randall.
* StylisticSuck: Yes, Mike actually ''did'' make "Put that Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me" into [[HilariousOuttakes a musical]], complete with mediocre acting/chorerography, clumsily-set up backgrounds, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the CDA as ushers]]. The audience loved it; the critics (of the Monster World) did not.
* SuperStrength: Sulley.
* TakeMyHand: Sulley to Mike.
* TakeAThirdOption: Sulley, upon gaining control of the company, had only two options of what do to with it. He could have made the workers continue scaring kids for energy, or left the company to fall, causing Monstropolis to lose all electricity. [[spoiler:He takes a third option that he discovered upon first finding Boo: He opts to make children laugh instead, which produces more electricity than screams of terror did.]]
* ThrowItIn: All of Boo's lines, as the producers just followed a two-year-old around with a mic to capture her performance.
* ThatCameOutWrong: At Harryhausen's, he's telling Cilia what he told someone else when asked who he thought he would spend with for the rest of his life. It's heavily implied that he was intending to say it was her, but Sully appeared at the window, causing Mike to say his name in shock, thus unintentionally making it seem as though he's in love with Sully.
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Waternoose is revealed to have been behind the conspiracy all along.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Celia is Type B.
* VillainousBreakdown: It's probably safe to assume that [[spoiler:Waternoose]] went through this, going from [[spoiler:a fatherly, sympathetic-sounding person to a borderline, terrifying CompleteMonster.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Waternoose: "I'll kidnap a ''thousand'' children before I let this company die!"]]
* WhamLine:
-->'''Mike:''' That's not her door...\\
'''[[spoiler:Waternoose]]:''' I know, I know. (''Cue [[spoiler:Randall.]]'') It's ''yours''.
* XDaysSince: The scare factory has a sign counting the days since the last accident.
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