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The toys living at the Sunnyside Daycare child care facility.

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Allies

Barbie

Barbie

"Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from threat of force!"

Voiced by: Jodi Benson ^{Other voice actors}Frédérique Bel (European French), Mariloup Wolfe (Canadian French), Danna García (Latin Spanish)

Film Appearances: Toy Story 3 | Toy Story 4

Other Appearances: Toy Story Toons

A "Great Shape Barbie" doll manufactured by Mattel. She was one of Molly's toys, until she was donated to Sunnyside Daycare. Once there, she is swept off her feet by Ken, who hadn't realized Barbies existed.

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• Action Girl: Ken learns the hard way that she is actually competent.
• Ascended Extra: Barbie dolls first appeared in Toy Story 2, and while we saw a lot of them, they were all minor characters and mostly just used for a few gags. Toy Story 3 introduces this particular Barbie as a member of the main gang, and gives her a good deal of character development.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Do not threaten her friends if you know what's good for you.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Subjects Ken to this to force him to tell her what Lotso did to Buzz and how to fix him: she destroys his clothes in front of him until he talks.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: She may seem like a ditz, but she will fight for her friends, and even Ken can't put her down.
• Demoted to Extra: Following a prominent role in the third film, she only appears briefly without dialogue in the fourth film’s prologue, and doesn’t appear in the main narrative.
• Dumb Blonde: Appears as this at first, but says two lines to Lotso that subvert the trope.
• Femme Fatale Spy: She did love Ken before realizing what was really going on at Sunnyside and then rejected him. She played this role well enough to push him into a Heel–Face Turn, and they end the movie Happily Married.
• Genius Ditz: Quite the expert on politics.
• Genki Girl: Usually cheerful and energetic.
• Happily Married: To Ken after they make up.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair and is generally a sweet toy.
• Hidden Depths: When Lotso confronts her and the other toys during their escape, she busts out a surprisingly eloquent argument against authoritarianism. Justified, as the many roles and jobs Barbie has had over the decades include Presidential candidate, German Chancellor, UNICEF diplomat and UN Ambassador for World Peace.
  "Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from threat of force!"
• Jack of All Trades: As to be expected from a character whose model has held down basically every type of job imaginable, she's decent at just about everything she does.
• The Leader: As of the end of Toy Story 3, she and Ken now share this role after Lotso was thrown out from Sunnyside Daycare.
• Love at First Sight: For Ken. Again, justified by their being from the same toy line.
• Nice Girl: Barbie is optimistic, simple, kind, and energetic.
• Official Couple: With Ken.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Ken.
• Smarter Than You Look: Basic political philosophy out of nowhere.
• Team Mom: To the toys of Sunnyside in the epilogue.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Jessie's Tomboy in Toy Story 3.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Both inverted and averted. She has it but she is a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak. See above.
• Took a Level in Badass: In Toy Story 3, when she gets Ken to spill the beans on Lotso's secrets, by ripping his valuable outfits.
• Undying Loyalty: To her friends. When she sees them being imprisoned by Lotso and Ken, she doesn't even hesitate to break up with Ken and join them in the prison boxes. She later plays an instrumental role in fixing Buzz, interrogating Ken about what Lotso's cronies did to him and retrieving the instruction manual while disguised.

Ken

Ken

"I'm not a girl's toy! I'm not!"

Voiced by: Michael Keaton ^{Other voice actors}Benoît Magimel (European French), Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge (Canadian French, Toy Story 3), Maxime Allard (Canadian French, Hawaiian Vacation) Mike Amigorena (Latin Spanish)

Film Appearances: Toy Story 3

Other Appearances: Toy Story Toons

An "Animal Lovin' Ken" doll made by Mattel. He lives in his Dreamhouse at Sunnyside Daycare. When Andy's toys end up at the daycare, he and Barbie fall instantly in love.

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• Adaptational Villainy: In the Barbie toyline, Ken is typically a Nice Guy and an Understanding Boyfriend to Barbie. In Toy Story 3, he's a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who is willing to go along with Lotso's nefarious schemes. He gets better.
• Anything but That!: When Barbie is subjecting him to Cool and Unusual Punishment by destroying his valuable clothes to force him to talk, he stubbornly refuses... until she picks up his nehru jacket. At which point he caves and tells her everything.
  Ken: Barbie! Not the nehru! NO!
• Berserk Button: He is not a girl's toy! He is not! Nor is he a glorified accessory!
• Butt-Monkey: The butt-end of a lot of jokes about being made for girls.
• Camp Straight: From his frilly handwriting, to his many clothes, to his happiness when the army men parachute in the ending. Even dating Barbie doesn't help matters. He really can't help it. He is a girl's toy.
  "I'm not a girl's toy! I'm NOT!"
• Conflicting Loyalty: Towards his duty to Lotso and his love for Barbie. He inevitably makes a Heel–Face Turn and chooses Barbie.
• The Dandy: He is really, really concerned about fashion and clothes, and has a vast walk-in closet full of his favorite fancy outfits. He loves his clothes so much that Barbie manages to extort his cooperation against Lotso by tying him to a paddle ball and forcing him to watch her rip up his outfits one by one.
• The Dragon: To Lotso, before his Heel–Face Turn.
  • Co-Dragons: With Big Baby.
• Goofy Print Underwear: Ken wears boxers with little hearts on them.
• Handwriting as Characterization: Ken writes in pink and dots his "I"s with hearts, which ties into him being In Touch with His Feminine Side.
• Happily Married: To Barbie after they make up.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Played with his denial about being a girl's toy.
• Heel–Face Turn: Chooses to ally with Woody's gang after Lotso threatened to have Barbie disposed of as well.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: Very effeminate, yet clearly one of the toughest henchmen in the movie. Turns out that clothing is his weak spot, though. Very strongly hinted that almost every character in the movie thinks of him that way, given that Bookworm just scoffed dismissively when he saw who he thought was Ken (actually a disguised Barbie) wearing high heels and that Woody mistook his handwriting as that of Barbie.
• The Leader: Share this role with Barbie for every Sunnyside Daycare toy at the end of Toy Story 3, especially after his redemption.
• Love at First Sight: For Barbie. In this case, it is justified because they are from the same toy line.
• Love Redeems: Starts out as one of Lotso's henchmen trying to keep the gang imprisoned, but he changes sides after he falls in love with Barbie.
• Narcissist: Ken is extremely proud of his looks and his clothes, to the point that Barbie manages to "make him talk" by ripping apart his beloved wardrobe piece by piece.
• Official Couple: With Barbie.
• Oh, Crap!: Barbie rips up a pair of Hawaiian surf trunks and a glitter tux, but Ken tries to play off like he is not that worried about them. Then Barbie finds the Nehru jacket...
  "Barbie! Not the Nehru!"
• Older Than They Look: Not explicitly stated, but things such as his dialogue and some of his clothing implies that he is an older model. However, it might be a quirk, as Woody comes from the 1950's and his dialogue isn't nearly as dated.
• Outdated Outfit: Much of Ken's clothing dates from the late 1950s to the early 1980s.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: His full redemption includes lashing out against Lotso for having a very dictatorial rule amongst the toys within Sunnyside Daycare.
• Real Men Wear Pink: The clothing-obsessed Camp Straight Ken is one of the toughest guards. He is played by Batman himself after all.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensitive guy to Sparks, Chunk, and Twitch's manly men in Lotso's gang.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Barbie.
• Team Dad: To the toys of Sunnyside in the epilogue.
• Totally Radical: Frequently says things like "cool" and "groovy".

Chatter Telephone

Chatter Telephone

"I've been here for years."

Voiced by: Teddy Newton ^{Other voice actors}Philippe Dumond (European French), Agustín López Lezama (Latin Spanish)

Appearances: Toy Story 3

A rotary telephone pull toy produced by Fisher-Price. He can only talk through his receiver. He is the oldest toy in the Caterpillar Room, and takes pride that he has never been broken.

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• Chekhov's Gunman: Very early on in the movie, just as Andy's toys have been sent to Sunnyside, The Chatter Telephone is nudging Woody's leg. Woody doesn't take the hint, but it is obvious on the telephone's expressions and his glances towards Lotso that he is trying to warn Woody that Sunnyside is actually rotten to the core and controlled via an authoritarian dictatorship.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Brutally subjected to a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique by Lotso's gang, and they beat him enough to make him squeal on Woody.
• Expy: His gravelly voice, role and the way he meets with Woody in darkness to share pertinent information with him makes him one for Deep Throat.
• Foreshadowing: When Lotso shows Woody and the others the Caterpillar Room, Chatter tugs into Woody to get his attention but stops when he notices Lotso is watching them. Hinting that he tried to warn Woody that neither Lotso or Sunnyside weren't as great as the teddy bear claimed they were.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: In the console version of the tie in video game, Chatter hides himself in an air vent to speak with Woody and is unseen. However, we can tell it is him because of his distinctive voice.
• Hidden Depths: Who knew that a telephone toy with a sticker smile, would hide a really serious nature?
• Knight in Sour Armour: He had been stuck at Sunnyside for years, but used his knowledge of the place to (try to) help the other toys escape.
• Knowledge Broker: Gives Woody the information he needs to break out of Sunnyside.
• Mysterious Informant: Chatter knows the ins and outs of Sunnyside, even knowing that the Cymbal-Banging Monkey is key to Lotso's iron-fisted grip on the daycare center, and proves to be an useful ally by helping the toys escape, even when Lotso's cronies brutally subjected him to a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique to squeal on Woody.
• The Old Convict: He has been at Sunnyside Daycare Center even before Lotso took over. To help Woody and his friends escape the daycare center, he describes the layout of the daycare center and warns Woody that the only way for a toy to escape is to neutralize the Cymbal Monkey minding the surveillance system.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: He is the oldest toy in the daycare and was there when Lotso took over.
• Shout-Out: Chatter's voice and inflection are a dead ringer for Gill in Finding Nemo, who masterminded the escape from the tank.
  • His voice sounds like a close impression of Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat from All the President's Men, another Mysterious Informant who met with the hero in ominous surroundings to warn and advise him.
• Stepford Smiler: That sticker smile is really misleading.
• The Stool Pigeon: Although fits more with the "Lacerated Larry", as he really did help the toys escape and proved to be an extremely useful ally.
• Vocal Dissonance: He is a very cutesy looking toy, but he has a low, gravelly voice not unlike a long-time convict.

Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear's Gang

Lotso (Spoilers Unmarked)

Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear / "Lotso"

"Welcome to Sunnyside, folks."

Voiced by: Ned Beatty ^{Other voice actors}Octavio Rojas (Latin Spanish), Pádua Moreira (Brazilian Portuguese), Igor de Savitch (European French), Bengt Järnblad (Swedish) Guy Nadon (Canadian French), Nobuyuki Katsube (Japanese)

Appearances: Toy Story 3

Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear (shortened as "Lotso") is a big pink teddy bear that smells like strawberries. He is the leader of the Sunnyside Daycare Toys. After his original owner lost him, he came to Sunnyside and quickly took over, and now rules with an iron fist as a cruel despot. When Andy's toys are donated, he has them go in the Caterpillar Room, where they are abused by hyperactive and careless young children, and that's only the start of the ordeal Lotso will put them through.

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• 0% Approval Rating: As the ruler of Sunnyside Daycare, the other toys consider Lotso one of the most reviled and feared toys. Even his own minions serve him out of fear, and eventually turn against him when his abuse and nihilism go too far.
• Abusive Dad: Though he serves as Big Baby's father figure, Lotso frequently abuses him by bringing up Daisy's supposed abandonment of them to make him loyal to him. When Big Baby hears the truth about Daisy from Woody, Lotso resorts to physically beating Big Baby during his Villainous Breakdown (though this backfires on him horribly).
• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: When Lotso returned to Daisy, he discovers that she had replaced him with an identical toy in the meantime. Justified trope, as there was no way that Daisy could have expected Lotso to return home by himself.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the Video Game, he is a genuinely friendly character in Toy Box mode and only appears in one level of Story Mode, with his status as a villain (which is his role in the original movie) only passingly mentioned once at a later point. He is completely absent from the Dump levels. The possibility is high that Toy Box Lotso may be a different character from Story Lotso, as there are lots of Lotsos out there, including the one that inadvertently helped cause Story Lotso's Start of Darkness.
• Ankle Drag: Lotso catches Woody's ankle and pulls him into the garbage container at Sunnyside.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: The Stinger shows that Ken and Barbie have made Sunnyside "cool and groovy", while Lotso's minions were Easily Forgiven after they realized Lotso duped them into his nihilistic mindset.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • Lotso begins his Villainous Breakdown when Woody asks him about Daisy.
  • "Where's your kid now, sheriff?" is probably his stubborn attempt at one to prove his point once and for all about what he believes to be an inevitable fate for all toys; to be thrown away into nothing while their owners move on without them. Too bad for him, he didn't get to see how much he failed.
• Ax-Crazy: A very subtle example. He never is visibly unstable; However, he's rampantly brutal in managing his regime, and has no qualms about using torture or even murder to get his way. It certainly doesn't help the fact that his sole motivation in his life is just to torture and mentally crush any toy into loathing their existence as much as he does, suggesting that he's an extreme Sadist.
• Bad Boss: Towards his other henchmen.
  • He flips out when he realizes Big Baby still cares about their owner upon gazing tearfully at the heart locket Woody received from Chuckles earlier, which he smashes and then even whacking his most submissive and loyal minion with his cane in a fit of rage.
    "WHAT?! You want your "mommy" back?! She never loved you! Don't be such a BABY!"
  • Even the daycare toys that serve Lotso are implied to be terrified of his wrath. They make nervous exchanges when Lotso politely but ominously asks if any of them want to support Ken's rebellion, and flinch when he turns on Big Baby. As Lotso loses his temper and orders Andy's toys shoved in, he roars at his minions to take it as an example what happens when they try to think. But this ultimately shows his true nature, in that he sees them as nothing more than Unwitting Pawns to serve his own goals.
• Bait the Dog:
  • When new toys, such as the main group, arrive at the daycare, he leads them on a sweet tour of the Butterfly Room and how it has everything a toy could ever ask for. Then he places them in the Caterpillar Room, where they essentially become cannon fodder for the destructive toddlers.
  • After Woody and Buzz save his life, he seemingly tries to help them in return by using the emergency stop button to stop the conveyor belt leading to the incinerator... only for Lotso to abandon them once he no longer needs their help to escape.
• Bear Hug: From Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear. This only serves as a veneer for his true self.
• Bears Are Bad News: While he seems like a pretty nice guy at first, on the inside he is evil.
• Beary Friendly: Subverted. He's Bright Is Not Good taken up to eleven.
• Berserk Button: The very word "family" seems to set Lotso off.
  • Buzz's mention of it seems to be the catalyst for the transition from Lotso's focus on his soft side to his focus on his vicious side.
    Buzz: (on his friends) We're a family. We stay together.
    Lotso: Family man, huh? I understand. Put him back in the timeout chair. Bring in the bookworm.
  • When Woody gives his own Armor-Piercing Question regarding Daisy, it causes him to stop dead in his tracks and enter Villainous Breakdown mode. He is very quickly reduced to snarling and exploding in anger at Woody and Big Baby, and ultimately turns verbally and physically abusive, screaming about how toys are meant to be thrown away.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of the third film. He is the chief of Sunnyside, who breaks, brainwashes, and tries to have Woody and his friends thrown away in the course of the movie.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: His large, bushy eyebrows.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: When they were Daisy's toys, he was the Big to Big Baby's Thin and Chuckles' Short.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He is shown to be friendly and somewhat approachable at first, but later turns out to be a sadistic, manipulative, cruel and evil teddy bear. Lampshaded by Buttercup at Bonnie's house when he talks about Lotso:
  Buttercup: The guy may seem plush and huggable on the outside, but inside... he's a monster!
• Blatant Lies: He and Chuckles both get to see Daisy with her new Lotso, but he claims that Daisy also replaced Chuckles and Big Baby too, bitterly preventing either of them from going back to Daisy without him. Chuckles triggers Lotso's Berserk Button by trying to point this out, but Lotso angrily drags Big Baby away to stop him from seeing the truth for himself.
  Lotso: She replaced us. Come on.
  Chuckles: No, she only replaced y...
  Lotso: She replaced all of us! Didn't she?!
• Bright Is Not Good: A bright pink teddy bear that smells of strawberries and looks unassuming; however he is quite easily the most evil of all of the bad guys within the franchise.
• Broken Pedestal: He duped Big Baby into thinking Daisy never loved them, but when Woody exposes his lies, Big Baby simply tosses him down a dumpster, while his minions immediately defect from him after he goes on a Motive Rant about why toys are "trash waiting to be thrown away."
• The Bully: Even Jessie calls him one. He especially is a huge one towards Big Baby.
• Bullying a Dragon: Lotso realizes too late that hitting and yelling at Big Baby, who he relied on as his main muscle, was a bad idea. When Big Baby reaches his Rage Breaking Point, Lotso is helpless to defend himself as the much stronger toy throws him into the dumpster.
• Cavalry Refusal: He cements himself as an irredeemable monster when he refuses to save the heroes from the incinerator despite the effort required to do so adding up to pushing a small button at no personal risk to himself.
• Character Tics: Sometimes clasps both paws on the head of his cane and leans forward when he is trying to appear friendly.
• Chekhov's Gun: Big Baby's heart-shaped pendant with Daisy's name written on it. Chuckles kept it after Lotso threw it away and Woody revealed it to Big Baby during the escape, causing him to pull a Heel–Face Turn.
• Child Hater: Due to his previous owner, Lotso doesn't care about children, and only wants to keep his group of toys with the more mature, less chaotic children for their own convenience. He sees children as uncaring and willing to replace the toys that love them.
• Classy Cane: Lotso uses a wooden mallet as a cane, even though he is shown to walk ably without it.
• Classic Villain: Wrath, pride, and envy all rolled into one Killer Teddy Bear. He used to be Daisy's favorite toy, but when he was accidentally left behind and replaced by another Lotso, it caused him to believe toys are just "trash meant to be thrown away." As a result, he vented his own anger out at the other toys as the cruel and despotic ruler of Sunnyside Daycare, and has grown to hate children for their constant destruction and abandonment of toys.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: He and his goons do this off-screen to the Chatter Telephone, as Woody and the others find out when they are stopped by Lotso at the dumpster during their escape. Even if you put this aside, he subjects the toys in the Caterpillar Room to awful mistreatment from the younger children.
• Consummate Liar: He lies to Big Baby that Daisy never loved him, and to the other Sunnyside Daycare toys that all toys are trash meant to be thrown away. It is interestingly Double Subverted, as Lotso makes it very clear that he actually does believe both these things. He lies to himself just as much as anyone else.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
  • To Stinky Pete:
    • While Pete genuinely thought he knew what was best for Woody, Lotso doesn't care about anybody other than himself.
    • Their backstories and goals also differ. Stinky Pete is more sympathetic because he spent "a lifetime on a dime store shelf watching every other toy be sold" while never being sold himself. He grew bitter out of never being loved at all, and thought the museum would finally give him the recognition he needed, and he figured Woody, Jessie, and Bullseye would need that too. For this, it wouldn't be unexpected for people to view him as a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds because he spent his entire life unloved and does get redeemed (-ish) in the end where a girl adopts him. Lotso on the other hand, did feel love. But when he was forgotten and then replaced, he felt betrayed and ultimately gave up on ever feeling love again, and made sure his fellow toys would feel as miserable as he does, thus making him more of a Hate Sink than Pete and ends up being considered Beyond Redemption both In-Universe and from the audience's perspective as he is forced to be stuck on the front of the garbage truck.
    • While Pete was genuinely affable towards Woody and only showed his more ruthless side when Woody changed his mind about going to Japan with him, Jessie and Bullseye, Lotso turned heel long before Woody and co. even met him, and from their perspective was Evil All Along.
  • All the previous antagonists were redeeming or non-malicious in some way, but Lotso is not, especially when he (literally) threw an opportunity to redeem himself into the trash. Also, while most of the antagonists were more or less antagonistic from the get-go, Lotso fell off the deep end when he was abandoned by his human owner and replaced with an identical toy.
• Cool Old Guy: Is quite friendly to the toys when they first arrive to the Day Care. Eventually subverted, since he is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. His Cool Old Guy persona is just a front for his true personality as a truly vicious monster that's utterly rotten.
• The Corrupter: A big liar and master manipulator to Big Baby, corrupting him into becoming The Dragon.
• Crush the Keepsake: He uses his cane to smash Big Baby's plastic heart locket—the only thing he had left of their previous owner, Daisy—into bits, yelling at him, "She never loved you! Don't be such a baby!" This is what gets Big Baby to finally turn on him and throw him in the dumpster.
• Cuddle Bug: His very first scene has him delivering a powerful bearhug to Buzz, before pointing out "[he's] a hugger". This turns out to be an act: the true Lotso would never hug anyone of his own volition.
• Cute Giant: He is a teddy bear, and is much bigger than the protagonists, but his demeanor contrasts his appearance.
• The Cynic: After his Start of Darkness, he believed that no kid truly loved their toys.
• Cynicism Catalyst: He was accidentally left behind and replaced by another Lotso, causing him to believe toys are just "trash meant to be thrown away."
• Despair Event Horizon: Being accidentally left behind by Daisy's parents, and returning to the house to find that he'd been replaced by a new Lotso. His faith was completely shattered, as was his ability to love. From that moment on, the lovable, huggable toy was gone, and only the cold, evil dictator was left.
  Chuckles: Something changed inside Lotso that day. Something snapped.
• Dirty Coward:
  • He quickly shows himself to be this when Big Baby turns on him. After acting like an Abusive Dad to Big Baby and ranting about how toys are trash, he quickly begs Big Baby not to leave him in the dumpster when Big Baby tosses him in. Big Baby understandably ignores his pleas.
  • He shows his cowardice again during the incinerator scene where he begs Woody and his friends to help him, only to leave them behind to save himself immediately afterwards.
• The Don: While his regime is not a criminal organization per se, the way Lotso runs his regime is identical to the way a criminal organization is run, complete with torture, interrogation, harassment, bullying, kidnapping, and members of the group enjoying themselves and playing poker.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Lotso's treatment of Big Baby is eerily similar to an abusive parent. He casually mentions that he and Big Baby were both "thrown out", which is implied to be something he regularly tells Big Baby to make the latter more dependent on him. When his lies are later exposed by Woody, Lotso's mistreatment becomes more passionate as he destroys Daisy's locket and angrily tells Big Baby that Daisy never loved him, and he even physically beats Big Baby with his cane before Big Baby finally turns on him.
• Domestic Abuse: He abuses his peers and his "son" in the worst ways possible.
• The Dreaded: Bonnie's toys are shown to be frightened by Lotso. And most toys at Sunnyside do not even dare challenge his authority, lest they face his wrath. Those that tried to escape often met a violent end.
• Early-Bird Cameo: In Up, which was released the year before Toy Story 3, a Lotso toy can be seen next to Dee's bed on left-hand-corner of the frame.
• Entitled to Have You: As Daisy's favorite toy, Lotso could not bear the thought of someone else being the center of attention. When he sees that Daisy replaced him, and only him, he jealously drags away Big Baby and Chuckles so that they can't return to her either.
• Et Tu, Brute?: After he mourns Daisy replacing them, Chuckles points out that she only abandoned Lotso and not himself or Big Baby. Whether or not Chuckles was dismissing his situation, the bad wording only further embittered Lotso.
• Evil All Along: He has a warm-looking personality, but is revealed to run the daycare center out of the other toys' fear, and later on, leaves Andy's toys for dead after they save his life at the dump.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Pixar themselves described Lotso as someone who fundamentally believes that love doesn't really exist. He cannot fathom Ken's loyalty to Barbie or Woody and Buzz's loyalty to their friends, and is especially offended when Buzz declines to join the Butterfly Room without them. When he was lost and replaced by his original owner, Daisy, his warped mindset made him believe that he hadn't been special to her and that the love between them was a sham, and it never occurs to him that Daisy bought a new Lotso because he meant so much to her.
  Woody: She loved you, Lotso.
  Lotso: *outraged* SHE NEVER LOVED ME!!!
  Woody: As much as any kid ever loved a toy!
• Evil Former Friend: He was originally pals with Chuckles before he became a villain. Later on, Big Baby ends his "friendship" with him after realizing Lotso was constantly duping him about Daisy.
• Evil Is Petty: Lotso doesn't really have any legit reason for mistreating all the other toys beyond a Dark and Troubled Past which did little to gain him any sympathy from anyone.
• Evil Mentor: He is the one who corrupted Big Baby into becoming The Dragon to his gang.
• Evil Old Folks: He seems a Cool Old Guy at first before revealing his true colors.
• Evil Overlord: Of Sunnyside. Lotso seems like a Cool Old Guy at first, but as the plot progresses, it is revealed that he runs Sunnyside like an absolute dictator with an iron fist, showing a total willingness to brutalize and torture toys. In essence, he is running a toy version of ADX Florence, with him as the prison warden and his henchmen serving as his enforcers.
• Evil Running Good: While Sunnyside may seem like a nice day-care, it is actually run by a Killer Teddy Bear who rules with an iron fist, like any tyrannical dictator.
• Face–Heel Turn: At first, he was a kind-hearted friend of Daisy. Then, when he found out he was replaced, he became a straight-up villain.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Lotso has an adorable appearance and seems plush and huggable, but he is a complete tyrant, and arguably the Knight of Cerebus for the entire Toy Story franchise. Buttercup lampshades it when he talks to Woody.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Buzz and Woody risk their lives to save Lotso from the dump shredder, even though he had previously tried to kill them. Then, at the dump incinerator a few minutes later, it is Lotso's turn to repay the favor. Instead, he leaves Buzz, Woody, and all their friends to burn to death.
• Fat Bastard: Being a plush teddy bear, Lotso has a round, chubby figure by design. He’s also a sadistic absurdist who regularly tortures and tries to kill his fellow toys.
• Fatal Flaw: He has two: his first flaw is his arrogance and his second flaw is an inflated ego. He was proud of being Daisy's favorite toy, but when he was lost and replaced by his original owner, it made him believe toys are destined to be thrown away by their owners. It is his selfishness that brings him down, as when he attempts to go Karma Houdini after callously abandoning Woody and co. to die in the incinerator after they had just saved him, it bites him hard in the ass as a garbageman collects him and bounds him in front of a dump truck, ironically condemning himself to a Fate Worse than Death.
• Fate Worse than Death: Towards the film's ending, he is bound down, bugs and mud flying in his face — for a long, long time. And if he does free himself from the front of the truck, he will still be trapped in the dump. As the junior novelization of the film puts it, his fate was "worse than being a toy in the Caterpillar Room"! Now that is certainly karma at work.
• Faux Affably Evil: Even after Lotso is revealed to be viciously sadistic villain, he still wears nice demeanor. Disagree with him, however, and he smirks as he has you set to Demo Mode or sends said Demo-Mode'd buddy to lock you up, as Buzz found out the hard way.
• Fluffy the Terrible: A cute pink teddy bear whose full name reads as "Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear", and also one of the vilest villains in Pixar history.
• Foil:
  • Lotso is very much the exact opposite of Woody. Like Woody, Lotso serves as the leader of his "family" of toys, and while Woody decides to prioritize what's best for Andy rather than himself, Lotso grows to hate Daisy and children in general when she replaces him. Woody also leads Andy's group with friendship and love, while Lotso lords over Sunnyside using coercion and threat. The Foil even extends to Toy Story 4, as while Woody shows no resentment for Bonnie neglecting him and ultimately leaves confident that she and the others will be okay without him, Lotso is driven to madness when he learns Daisy replaced him, and forces Chuckles and Big Baby to come with him so that they can't be with Daisy either.
    • Their beliefs and viewpoints in particular are exact antitheses and couldn't be more different: while Woody during the last two sequels of the franchise only wants to give his life a purpose as a toy, Lotso is a Straw Nihilist who firmly believes that toys are useless.
  • He is also this to Jessie, as both have experienced abandonment issues from toy ownership (Jessie to Emily; Lotso to Daisy). However, Jessie's personal suffering didn't lead her to become that genuinely bitter (even though she initially gets upset about Woody's attempts in leaving the Roundup Gang at Al's apartment); it just left her feeling deeply depressed at first. Lotso, on the other hand, lets his past get the better of him, to the point where he starts to revile every single human owner and think that all toys are, in his own words, "trash waiting to be thrown away."
  • In some ways, he's pretty contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both had their fair share of warped mindsets that correlate to their existences as toys (Buzz once thought that he's a legitimate space ranger in the first Toy Story movie; Lotso has the belief that toy ownership in general is useless just after Daisy lost him), but Buzz has since acknowledged the reality of his presence as a toy himself (thanks in part to his best friend Woody), while Lotso still couldn't accept the fact that he wasn't always right about his harsh ideology that gives concern to the matter of being a toy.
• For the Evulz: His sole motivation in life is just to torture and mentally crush any toy into loathing their existence as much as he does. And in the end, he has no reason to abandon the heroes to the incinerator other than sheer sadism and spite.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Being left behind and then replaced by his child. However, a sad twist to it is said by Woody to Lotso, though he is way too far gone at this point to listen: humans do not know toys are alive, Lotso's owner didn't know that Lotso was an individual, and replacing him was a sign of how much she loved her toy. In the end, she didn't abandon Lotso so much as Lotso abandoned her, because as Woody puts it, if he couldn't have her, then no one could.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He was once a soft-spoken, gentle, lovable teddy bear who first started out as a Christmas present for Daisy, a young kind-hearted girl who immediately became overjoyed the moment she unwrapped him. Along with her other two toys, Big Baby and Chuckles the Clown, she had so much fun playing with them, as she loved all three of them equally. But, according to Chuckles, Lotso was unique to her most of all. Things suddenly take a dramatic turn when on a family trip, as Daisy happily played with her toys including her very special Lotso, she fell asleep after lunch, accidentally leaving her toys behind. Lotso and his friends decided to go back home afterwards, but by the time they finally got there, it turned out Daisy bought another Lotso to compensate for the original one she lost during the trip. Right when Lotso saw this, something snapped inside him that day...
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Finding out he was replaced turned him into an Ax-Crazy tyrant.
• Hannibal Lecture: He attempts one in the middle of a Villainous Breakdown. It is countered with a Shut Up, Hannibal!.
• Hate Sink: His cold-hearted and tyrannical rule within Sunnyside Daycare completely establishes him as this.
• Help, I'm Stuck!: After Woody and Buzz come to his aid before he could get shredded, Lotso instead leaves them to be incinerated — with malicious intent.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: He is a firm believer in this ideology after being replaced by his former owner. This is ironic, considering how he treats other toys.
• Hypocrite:
  • Despite his Straw Nihilist beliefs that toys are nothing more than trash waiting to be destroyed, he proved to be a sniveling and double-crossing Dirty Coward when his own hide was at risk in the trash heap.
  • He scoffs at Ken's attraction to Barbie, since after all, there's a hundred million Barbies out there. Never mind that his whole Start of Darkness began when Daisy treated him as disposable and replaced him with another Lotso.
• If I Can't Have You…: Implied with Daisy. Lotso was Daisy's favorite toy, and after seeing that her parents replaced him after they were lost, he forces Chuckles and Big Baby to come with him even though they weren't replaced and could still go home. Woody even says this almost word-for-word as a Shut Up, Hannibal!:
  Lotso: She replaced us!
  Woody: She replaced you! And if you couldn't have her then no one could!
• Insane Troll Logic: Following his replacement after Daisy accidentally loses him, he concludes that all toys are worthless and unloved, and would go on to indoctrinate this warped mindset towards the rest of the Sunnyside toys.
• Ironic Echo: In what seems to be a reflection of Judge Claude Frollo's last moments from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lotso's own Villainous Breakdown at the dumpster involves him stating that all toys are "trash" which are waited to be thrown away. Unfortunately for Lotso himself, he got literally thrown in a garbage bin by none other than Big Baby (as a form of retaliation for making the latter fall into the lie of Daisy not loving them anymore).
• Ironic Name: His name is “Lots-O’-Huggin’—Bear,” which makes him seem like an incredibly sweet toy that is perfect for cuddling with, child and toy alike. That couldn’t be further from the truth, since he’s actually a cold-hearted toy who abuses his fellow toys and acts as a dictator amongst them.
• Irony: His life's view is that toys are all just trash in the end, because kids do not truly love them. His ultimate fate? Trapped in the dump forever due to a grown man having some affection for him.
• The Irredeemable Exception: Sid is now a harmless and fairly well-adjusted garbage collector; Zurg forms a good father-son relationship with the Utility Belt Buzz; both Stinky Pete and (more sympathetically) Gabby Gabby found kids who were willing to own them and love them; Ken, Big Baby, and all the other Sunnyside toys all change their ways after Lotso's deposition; the Cleric is last seen silently reconsidering his prior beliefs; Al even gets off lightly for his misdemeanor, staying in business but as a Dollar Store now. Lotso himself, meanwhile, refuses to repent and rejects the chance at redemption and finding a new home with Woody and the other toys when it's offered to him, instead leaving them to burn in the incinerator. Because of this, he's hit hard with karma for his actions in the form of an ironic Fate Worse than Death.
• It's All About Me: Even before his Start of Darkness, it is clear that he values his own relationship with Daisy over her attachment to Big Baby and Chuckles, and he demands that they join him in his suffering rather than return to her. When ruling over Sunnyside, other toys are a means to an end for his goals, and by the film's ending, the main toys are dumped in a landfill and are nearly killed by a trash incinerator because of Lotso's selfishness. Lampshaded by Ken after switching sides:
  Ken: Everyone, Sunnyside can be cool and groovy if we treated each other fair! It's Lotso! He's made us into a pyramid, and he put himself on top!
• Jerk Justifications: He believes all toys are trash meant to be thrown away, and uses this as an excuse to mistreat other toys.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's abusive, cynical, cowardly, arrogant, and just plain nasty. The one time he comes across as sympathetic is when he asks Woody and Buzz to risk their lives to save him and tries to turn off the Conveyor Belt of Doom — only to be undone when he abandons them purely out of spite.
• Killer Rabbit: He's cute, but don't let that fool you. This line from Buttercup nails it: "The guy may seem plush and huggable on the outside, but inside, he's a monster."
• Killer Teddy Bear: Although he doesn't kill any humans, he's more than willing to condemn his fellow toys to be destroyed by an incinerator.
• Knight of Cerebus: Aside from the point of view of sentient toys, Sid was a violent brat, Scud was a dog and therefore amoral, Al was just a greedy businessman, and Stinky Pete was a Tragic Villain. But Lotso is a downright sociopathic and sadistic monster who subverts the White-and-Grey Morality present in the series and puts in an aura of sheer brutality and menace in it's place, and it is the confrontation with him at the dumpster that paves the way for one of the series' darkest scenes when he leaves the heroes to get burnt to death in the incinerator after Woody and Buzz risked their lives to save him. Even Bonnie's toys are aware of his atrocities.
• Kubrick Stare: When Buzz attacks his friends, Lotso steps back and watches. He leans on his cane, tilts his head down, and sports a slight Slasher Smile the whole time.
• Large and in Charge: He's bigger than most of his subordinates, except for Big Baby.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • He leaves the main toys to die in a garbage incinerator after Woody and Buzz had just saved him from the shredder. For a moment, it looks like he is going Karma Houdini as Woody tells the others "he's not worth it" upon escaping. But then, Lotso is found by a Cloudcuckoolander garbageman, who straps him to the front of his truck and drives off with him, ironically condemning himself to a Fate Worse than Death. This is even more karmic considering that before the whole landfill fiasco in the third act, Lotso deems toys as "made to be thrown away". His final fate is getting tied to a dump truck.
  • And indeed he could've avoided that fate if he just worked together with Andy's toys. As the film shows, he has an It's All About Me mentality and only became ruler of the Sunnyside Daycare because he convinced and kowtowed toys to work for him and he stopped plenty of toys from escaping because they worked as a team. Andy's toys even nearly escape because of said teamwork and once his true colors were shown, none of his former henchman, including Baby, were willing to listen to him further. When he got stuck in the incinerator in climax, it took teamwork to free him and it is teamwork that saves Andy's toys when he abandons them. Long story short, his lack of willingness to work with others because of his selfishness eventually catch up to him and cost him his freedom and rule of the daycare.
• The Leader: For Sunnyside Daycare, but is now a former one (especially for good).
• Living Emotional Crutch: Daisy was this to Lotso, seeing how badly he handled being replaced by her.
• Love Makes You Evil: After believing he was spurned by his beloved owner (who loved him more than anything in the world), he becomes a twisted tyrant of the daycare center and a G-rated Straw Nihilist.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: After he snaps, he essentially takes over Sunnyside and turns it into a prison/dictatorship with him in charge. He also deliberately subjects new toys to the Caterpillar Room's violent toddlers in order to make them as cynical as he is.
• Make an Example of Them: When Andy's toys are imprisoned at Sunnyside, Mr. Potato Head is singled out on Lotso's command and put into the Punishment Box, so all could witness what happened if they did not obey and to get them in line.
• Manipulative Bastard: Lotso tricks Woody and his friends into thinking he's kind-hearted. He also manipulated Big Baby into thinking that Daisy, their original owner, lost all of her love for them.
• Mirror Character: Is this to Stinky Pete from Toy Story 2, as both of them became severely bitter just because they were left behind by humans from toy ownership (even though Lotso already has Daisy as his original owner), and had senselessly made others join them in living through their personal agonies. Additionally, their defeats ironically involve being owned by humans, as well (although, for Lotso's case, it's his second time in experencing such matter, albeit more reluctantly in his own end).
• Misanthrope Supreme: Due to his extreme nihilistic viewpoints, he believes toys are "trash waiting to be thrown away".
• Misplaced Retribution: Deconstructed, as this is a big reason why using his Dark and Troubled Past as if it was a Freudian Excuse falls flat. So, Lotso was abandoned (accidentally) by his owner. His response? Torturing and making other toys suffer, even though they had nothing whatsoever to do with his abandonment.
• Moment Killer: Lotso interrupts Barbie and Ken's Love at First Sight moment underscored by a Record Needle Scratch.
• Mood-Swinger: Often falls under this due to being Faux Affably Evil.
• Motive Rant: Gives one about why toys are just "trash waiting to be thrown away," just before he throws them into the dumpster.
• Murder by Cremation: He actually tries killing Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of Andy's toys by literally leaving them all behind to die in a garbage incinerator (which is actually the toy equivalent of a crematorium). The heroes were all saved by the Aliens with the help of a large claw overhead, but still...
• Murder by Inaction: Rather than save the toys from being roasted by the incinerator by pressing the emergency stop button to shut off the conveyer belt, Lotso instead decides to abandon the toys even after they risked their lives to save him.
• Near-Villain Victory: At the dump, Lotso abandons Woody and the gang after pretending to help them so they can face their imminent death in the incinerator, but are rescued by the aliens at the last minute by the loader they found. Had the aliens not wandered away from the gang and discovered the loader that would eventually rescue them, Lotso would have won.
• Never My Fault: Even after Woody tells him the truth about Daisy, he keeps trying to justify forcing Big Baby to leave by making it seem like it wouldn't even matter because humanity views toys as naught but fodder.
  Woody: She loved you, Lotso.
  Lotso: *livid* She NEVER LOVED ME!!
  Woody: *defiant* As much as any kid ever loved a toy!
• Oh, Crap!: A subdued case, as Woody reveals he knows all about what happened with Daisy, Lotso glances nervously between him and Big Baby, who he has kept in the dark for years, culminating in Woody revealing the locket and exposing everything.
  Lotso: *incredulously* Where did you get that?!
• Only Known By His Nickname: Everybody calls him Lotso instead of Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear.
• Parental Substitute: To Big Baby, in a very dark example. He took up the role of Big Baby's foster father after the tragedy involving Daisy, but was horrendously manipulative towards him and gaslit him for years until Woody exposed just how bad Lotso is on front of Big Baby.
• Phrase Catcher: "Smells of strawberries."
• Pragmatic Villainy: Before he reveals his true colors (and before Andy’s toys have caused any problems necessitating their incarceration), he allows Barbie to join Ken in the Butterfly Room. He’s already got a dozen new conscripts for the Caterpillar Room anyway, so no need to raise a fuss over just one toy.
• Psycho Pink: He is a pink teddy bear, yet he runs Sunnyside Day Care with an iron fist and lets his cronies boss around other toys who have to suffer being roughed-up by the rambunctious toddlers in the Caterpillar Room.
• Psychotic Smirk: He makes evil smiles frequently after revealing his true colors.
• Punctuated Pounding: When Lotso hits Big Baby in the gut with his cane after he shows sympathy for their former owner Daisy.
  Lotso: This is what happens when you DUMMIES try to think!
• Redemption Rejection: When Lotso is about to be crushed by landfill machinery, Andy's toys go out of their way to save him. He repays them by trapping them in a certain-death situation, which they are only saved from by the timely intervention of the Little Green Men. Needless to say, this bites him hard in the ass.
• Sadist: If those Psychotic Smirks he sports during most of his Kick the Dog moments say anything.
• Sadistic Choice: Lotso offers Woody and the gang two choices when they try to escape Sunnyside: either come back and join his "family," or be tossed away in the dumpster in the hope that they'll be taken to the dump and be incinerated.
• Satanic Archetype: He's not only the entire franchise's Knight of Cerebus, he is so hateful that it borders on nihilism, a corrupting influence on his minions, abuses others For the Evulz, reddish like a demon, and Sunnyside is even described as a "place of ruin and despair" like Hell itself. Also, the creators state that his famous quote during the incinerator scene was a direct nod to the "where's your god now?" meme.
• Save the Villain: Woody and Buzz save Lotso from a shredder without hesitation, even though it was Lotso's fault in the first place that any of them was in a life-threatening situation. But Lotso doesn't return the favor, and it backfires on him spectacularly.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Instead of helping Woody and his friends from being incinerated at the dump, Lotso instead left them to be annihilated (well, almost).

  "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?!"

• Seven Deadly Sins: Ever since his corruption from being abandoned by his original owner Daisy, and after becoming the (former) head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, Lotso has surely exemplified each sin below:
  • Wrath: He holds a very strong grudge against toy ownership in general, believing that all toys are disposable and that humans don't really love them.
  • Pride: He thinks to himself that he is right about his ideology about toy ownership after Daisy abruptly abandoned him, Big Baby and Chuckles.
  • Envy: He seemed to enjoy all of the attention he gets from Daisy before, but once he saw her owning a brand new Lotso toy after she accidentally lost her original Lotso, he felt devastated about it, which soon lead to his corruption.
  • Lust: He feels with much pleasure (even subtly) whenever other toys besides him, especially those who are in the Caterpillar Room at Sunnyside Daycare, are being suffered through any means.
  • Gluttony: As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps other toys in being damaged by human children while inside that institution, to which he also tries to prevent those same toys from evading that situation with the use of force.
  • Greed: Whenever there are new toys introduced at Sunnyside Daycare, he takes the opportunity to use them for senseless torture.
  • Sloth: While still the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, whenever he threatens other toys, he relies it more on the other members of his gang besides himself when doing so (such as Big Baby and Ken).
• Shadow Archetype: Lotso's basically a dark reflection of what pre-Character Development Woody could've been. Just watch what the original version of the latter was like for proof!
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: A particularly epic example, after Woody exposes Lotso's lies to Big Baby. Lotso proceeds to justify his rule by saying all toys are plastic meant to be forgotten by their owners, only for Big Baby to pick him up and throw him into the dumpster.
• Signature Scent: He may smell like strawberries, but he's anything but sweet.
• Small-Town Tyrant: Has an American Southern accent and runs Sunnyside with an iron fist.
• Smug Snake: After his grandfatherly facade is turned down, Lotso turns out to be this to a fault. He views himself as quite the spirit-crushing Straw Nihilist, but his own cowardice and helplessness before the world's mistreatment of toys shows he doesn't even believe his own motives, making him little more than a weaselly self-absorbed bully within the already threatening world for toys.
• The Sociopath: He used to be a good toy until a tragic incident caused him to snap, and now he no longer believes in the concept of love or the bond between a child and a toy; the creators even describe him as now permanently believing the love his own owner had for him was nothing but an illusion, which he even yells out at one point ("She never loved me!").
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Until his Villainous Breakdown, he commits many evil actions while being Faux Affably Evil.
• So Long, Suckers!: Lotso pulls this on Woody and the others when he refuses to save them after they saved him, and instead leaves them for dead at the incinerator and shouts, "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?!"
• Southern Gentleman: He appears to be a polite guy with a Southern accent, courtesy of Louisville, Kentucky native Ned Beatty. However...
• Speak of the Devil: Lotso invokes the trope verbatim when the garbage truck arrives to pick up Sunnyside's dumpster.
• Start of Darkness: Chuckles the Clown's flashback segment outlines exactly why Lotso turned into the cruel despot of Sunnyside.
• Stepford Smiler: Type C. His friendly smile is only a facade — it hides unstableness.
• Strawberry Shorthand: Lotso smells like strawberries, which makes him appear more likable than he really is.
• Straw Hypocrite: It is implied he doesn't really believe in his Straw Nihilist beliefs, and simply just uses it as an excuse to mistreat others. He is at heart just a Thin-Skinned Bully who wants every toy to be as broken as he is.
• Straw Nihilist: Played with. He comes off as a bit of one when he says toys are "all just plastic and trash meant to be thrown away" in his Motive Rant, but his own cowardice, hypocrisy, and helplessness probably lean him more towards a wide-scale Troubled Abuser.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He's essentially an adaptation of what Woody was originally going to be in the infamous "Black Friday" script of the first Toy Story: a cruel, petty, despotic ruler of the toys without a single redeeming quality.
• Taking You with Me:
  • He forced Chuckles and Big Baby to run away from home, claiming they were all replaced when it was really just him. His entire motive from that point on was to make every toy he came into contact with feel as disallusioned and bitter as he was made to. Woody calls him out on this later on at Sunnyside.
  • He drags Woody with him into the dumpster after the former helps one of the Squeeze Toy Aliens get unstuck from the dumpster lid, forcing the rest of Andy's toys to jump in and save him.
• Tempting Fate: When he tells everyone that "we're all just TRASH, waiting to be THROWN AWAY! THAT'S ALL A TOY IS!" Guess what Big Baby does to him afterwards.
• Thin-Skinned Bully: He's a particularly sadistic and outright murderous bully, but all the same utterly cowardly when faced with his own mortality. When Big Baby finally turns on him after abusing them, he at first snarls at them to back down, only to start begging for mercy when he realises they're deadly serious about paying him with his own coin.
• Token Evil Teammate: He is the only toy in Sunnyside Daycare to be supremely vile when compared to the other toys in that same institution, which includes both of his former henchmen Big Baby and Ken.
• Tom the Dark Lord: An evil teddy bear who rules Sunnyside Daycare with an iron paw, condemning weaker toys to be ripped apart in the Caterpillar Room, jailing them at night and punishing any toy who tries to escape. His name is Lots-o-Huggin' Bear, or Lotso for short.
• Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Once he abandons Andy’s toys to the incinerator, despite that they had just saved him from being shred apart, he officially destroys any kind of sympathy one might have had for him previously. An act that not even his Dark and Troubled Past can excuse.
• Troubled Abuser: His actions towards his minions, particularly Big Baby, all because he was accidentally lost and replaced by another Lotso. It is apparent that from seeing his own human's love for him be dissolved with a simple replacement, he couldn't stand any other toy being loved either. This is especially apparent with Big Baby, who he refuses to allow believe Daisy may have loved more than himself.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Once he took over Sunnyside Daycare after his Face–Heel Turn, with an iron fist (all because he was replaced by a new Lotso when he saw his former owner Daisy hugging it).
• Ungrateful Bastard: When he kiboshes the offer to redeem himself in the end. Indeed, at least Karma kicked him in the rump not long after.
• Vengeful Abandoned Toy: Despite originally being a good teddy bear, Lotso became a vile and misanthropic monster after being lost and replaced. He also thinks kids don't genuinely love their toys and that the latter are just "trash waiting to be thrown away".
• Very False Advertising: He makes an effort to show new toys the benefits of paradise-like Butterfly Room in full detail before placing them in the in-universe Nightmare Fuel that is the Caterpillar Room.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Especially in regards to the other Toy Story villains. He is the truly despicable and sadistic teddy bear overlord of a daycare center who subjects new (and age-inappropriate) toys to being broken by toddlers, tortures, brainwashes, and/or imprisons any defiant toys, abuses Big Baby emotionally and physically, and eventually leaves the heroes to burn in an incinerator after they save his life! Unlike other villains, the suffering is neither out of obliviousness or a desperate means to an end, Lotso just wants every toy around him to be as broken and miserable as he is.
• Viler New Villain: In stark contrast to Sid Philips and Al McWhiggin (both of whom are humans who don't know toys are alive) and Stinky Pete the Prospector (who only wants to be cherished due to spending a lifetime never being loved), Lotso is a spiteful bully who torments other toys under the belief that if he can't be loved, nobody can. This leads him to rule Sunnyside Daycare as a tyrant, manipulate Big Baby into thinking their owner never loved them, brainwash Buzz, have new toys played roughly by the toddlers in the Caterpillar room until they're broken enough to be thrown away, and finally abandon Andy's toys to the incinerator after Woody and Buzz went out of their way to save his life.
• Villain Ball:
  • Maybe abusing Big Baby wasn't such a good idea.
  • If he'd actually saved Andy's toys from the Incinerator instead of leaving them behind, he'd not only have avoided his Fate Worse than Death, but also could have possibly been redeemed for the cruelty he inflicted on the Sunnyside toys and allowed to stay there in peace. And all he had to do was push one button! He was so unable to accept the idea that anyone could care about him that despite his life being saved earlier by Woody and the gang, he still elected to save his own skin.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • Lotso is a backstabbing tyrant who exercises power by choosing which toys can be in the Butterfly Room (where they are played with properly) and in the Caterpillar Room (where the younger kids throw them around and break them). He is generally villainous, but when called out on it he does show that he has a point: there must be some toys in the Caterpillar Room. And as the ending had shown, even under the better leadership of Ken and Barbie, the Sunnyside Daycare toys still must take turns to be in the Caterpillar Room.
  • When Ken (while he's still part of Lotso's gang) suggests saving Barbie from the dumpster, Lotso points out that "there are thousands of Barbies just the same", and Ken replies "not like her". But Ken and Barbie have completely stereotypical personalities, fell in love at first sight with no consideration of them, and that particular Barbie has tied up Ken and interrogated him. These make it pretty plain that Lotso is actually right and Ken is just following his script as a toy (and, um, maybe also has some odd tastes)
  • Be honest, if you were a toy in the Sunnyside Daycare Caterpillar Room you'd probably hate kids too, and it is extremely likely Lotso has spent time in there given how understandably avoidant of it he is.
  • While there is no doubt that Lotso is vile, the fourth film, however, proves correct his belief that toys tend to be abandoned.
• Villainous Breakdown: Towards the end of the film, Lotso freaks out and loses his Faux Affably Evil demeanor once Woody gives him his Armor-Piercing Question and dresses him down for his lies.
• Villains Want Mercy: He screams for the help of Woody and his friends when he's about to be shredded at the dump, prompting them to save him. True to form, he then callously abandons them when the positions get reversed.
• Virtue Is Weakness: Lotso doesn't believe in the concept of love.
• Walking Spoiler: His Big Bad status is a Spoiler itself and there's little that can be said about him without revealing that.
• We Can Rule Together: Offers one to Buzz and, to a lesser extent, Barbie. Granted, the bad guys make an effort to be as nice as possible while doing this.
• Where Is Your X Now?: After abandoning the heroes to die in the incinerator, Lotso asks Woody, "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?!".
• Wise Old Folk Façade: He comes across as a kind old teddy bear who acts as a wise advisor to Andy's toys when they arrive to Sunnyside Daycare, but is actually a ruthless dictator ruling over the other toys. Among other heinous acts, he resets Buzz Lightyear to turn him against his former friends.
• Would Hurt a Child: Subtly implied when Buzz openly points out that he and the rest of Andy's toys are not age-appropriate for the toddlers in the Caterpillar Room to play with. In addition to being painful for the toys themselves, the majority of them - particularly the Potato Heads - have small pieces and accessories that could be a serious choking hazard, and Slinky's metal spring or Buzz's projectile-like wings could easily injure a child. Despite this, Lotso has no qualms whatsoever about imprisoning the toys here to ensure their suffering, and gladly puts the children at just as much risk. And the less said about Lotso's treatment of Big Baby, the better.
• You Monster!: Not in front of him, but Buttercup outright calls Lotso a monster after Woody states that he escaped from Sunnyside.
  Buttercup: The guy may seem plush and huggable on the outside, but inside, he's a monster.

Big Baby

Big Baby

"Mama!"

Voiced by: Woody Smith

Appearances: Toy Story 3

A huge baby doll with a broken eye, and pen tattoos. He was once owned by Daisy, but went with Lotso to Sunnyside after she lost them. He is the strongest member of Lotso's Gang.

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• Anti-Villain: He has the mind of a toddler, and only opposes the heroes or enforces Sunny Side's unfair system because of Lotso's orders.
• Badass Adorable: He is a giant baby who's feared by the others, even getting back at Lotso after his constant abuse.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: When they were Daisy's toys, he was the Thin to Lotso's Big and Chuckles' Short.
• Blowing a Raspberry: After pulling a Heel–Face Turn and throwing Lotso into the dumpster, he blows a raspberry at him.
• Break the Cutie: Suffers this big time. Lotso takes him away from his owner and gets hit really hard when Lotso smashes his Tragic Keepsake and literally hits him hard in the stomach during his rant.
• The Brute: Does Lotso's dirty and heavy work before his Heel–Face Turn.
• Co-Dragons: With Ken to Lotso. Both pull a Heel–Face Turn in the end.
• Creepy Doll: The broken eye just make him look unsettling. Possibly a Shout-Out to the baby in Tin Toy, who was also rather creepy due to the limitations of the technology at the time.
• Cute Giant: He has the appearance and mannerisms of a small child, yet is significantly bigger than the protagonists.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: As soon as he has enough of Lotso's abuse, it becomes clear that Lotso is physically powerless against the much stronger toy as he is lifted and tossed into the dumpster. Even Woody marvels at how easily Lotso was defeated.
• The Dog Bites Back: When he throws Lotso into the dumpster after Lotso breaks the name tag in front of him.
• The Dreaded: Almost as much, if not more, than Lotso. Big Baby's apparent sole role in the daycare is to do Lotso's dirty work by physically wrangling any toy that gets too out of hand for Lotso's taste.
• Dumb Muscle: He is Lotso's chief heavy, but has the mind of a child and only does what he's told until Lotso pushes him too far.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He regards his previous owner Daisy as his mom. You really should not have broken that tag, Lotso...
• Eye Scream: A minor example. During the flashback, it shows that being thrown out the Pizza Planet truck caused Big Baby's left eye to be broken and never fixed.
• Gentle Giant: After being Happily Adopted by Barbie and Ken, Big Baby becomes much nicer and friendlier to the toys he towers above.
• Happily Adopted: Barbie and Ken adopt him by the end of the film, and he seems much, much happier with them than he ever was with Lotso.
• Heel–Face Turn: Does an epic one after having enough of Lotso's lies, abuse and nihilistic ideologies.
• Heel Realization: After finding out that Lotso lied to him about being replaced by their original owner Daisy (where, in reality, he wasn't), he started to change his ways for the better by getting back at his former master.
• Love Redeems: Remembering his love for his previous owner Daisy and after Woody reveals that Lotso has been lying to him the whole time.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Pulls his Heel–Face Turn after having his Daisy tag broken by Lotso and being literally pushed around by him by throwing him in the dumpster.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He is not really a villain at all, just a toddler who has been lied to and manipulated by Lotso to do his dirty work.
• Tragic Keepsake: His old tag with Daisy's name on it. Chuckles kept it after Lotso threw it away and gave it to Woody, who in turn gave it back to Big Baby. This sparks the Heel Realization that Daisy, or "mama", did love the trio before an infuriated Lotso smashes it to bits with his cane. This makes him finally turn on Lotso.
• Tragic Villain: So very, very tragic. Alongside Lotso and Chuckles, he used to belong to a loving little girl named Daisy, but she forgot them far from home. Once the toys returned to see Daisy had replaced Lotso, he got Big Baby to think that she'd abandoned them, so he followed Lotso to the daycare. Despite having a place where he is played with children again, Big Baby still clearly loves and misses Daisy, which also makes him much more sympathetic than Lotso.
• The Voiceless: Mostly. He says stereotypically "baby" things like "Mama."
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He is the scariest villain in Toy Story — until he says this:
  (Looking at tag saying "My heart belongs to Daisy") *sob* Mama?

Sparks

Sparks

Voiced by: Jan Rabson ^{Other voice actors}Mario Filio (Latin Spanish)

Appearances: Toy Story 3

A tin robot that shoots out sparks when he rolls around.

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• The Brute: He and the others hold down Buzz at Lotso's demand, and is the one to unscrew Buzz's back.
• Deadpan Snarker: After Chunk's remark about Buzz and knives (see above), Sparks remarks "Neither are you!"
• Even Evil Has Standards: Like Twitch, he is appalled by Lotso hitting Big Baby and flinches noticeably when it happens.
• Heel–Face Turn: Commits one with the rest of Lotso's henchmen towards the end.
• Punch-Clock Villain
• The Quiet One: Only has one line in the film when insulting Chunk's low intelligence.
  Chunk: He ain't the sharpest knife in the...place...where they keep the knives.
  Sparks: Neither are you, Chunk.

Stretch

Stretch

Voiced by: Whoopi Goldberg ^{Other voice actors}Isabelle Leprince (European French), Carole Chatel (Canadian French), Patricia Martínez (Latin Spanish)

Appearances: Toy Story 3

A purple, glittery rubber octopus. She is a member of Lotso's Gang, and is seen gambling in the vending machine (beating the others, possibly thanks to all her tentacles). She helps reset Buzz, and later capture Andy's toys. At the climax of the film she blocks the other end of the garbage chute, blocking escape for Andy's toys. She looks ready to push them in the dumpster... until Woody reveals Lotso's past, and she and the others have a change of heart. In the closing credits montage, when a happier, Lotso-less Sunnyside is shown, Stretch is seen slipping Ken's note to Andy's toys into Bonnie's backpack.

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• Advertised Extra: She is displayed prominently on the DVD cover, despite having about ten minutes of screen time.
• Combat Tentacles: She is an octopus that can fight with her tentacles.
• Even Evil Has Standards: After seeing Lotso destroy Big Baby's name tag (one of the last mementos he has left of his previous owner Daisy), Stretch seems hesitant to push the toys in the dumpster under Lotso's orders compared to the first time he asked her to do it.
• Funny Octopus: A stretchy, sparkly octopus toy voiced by Whoopi Goldberg. Not evil, seeing as she abandons Lotso with the others when they learn of his past and see him for what he is.
• Heel–Face Turn: Commits one with the rest of Lotso's henchmen towards the end.
• Purple Is Powerful: A purple octopus toy and one of the strongest of Lotso's minions.
• The Smurfette Principle: Stretch is the only female member of Lotso's gang.
• Tentacle Rope: Can use her tentacles to restrain toys.

Chunk

Chunk

Voiced by: Jack Angel ^{Other voice actors}Armando Réndiz (Latin Spanish)

Appearances: Toy Story 3

An orange rock golem action figure. When the spike on his head is pushed, his face switches back and forth between friendly and fierce.

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• Ascended Extra: Gets to be a playable character in Disney Sorcerer's Arena.
• The Brute: Along with Twitch.
• Buffy Speak: "[Buzz] ain't the sharpest knife in the...place where they keep the knives."
• Dumb Muscle: He can't even figure out what a drawer is called.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Shown to disapprove of Lotso's treachery and as shown in the end credits, he volunteers to be violently played with by kids in the Caterpillar Room to make up for working with Lotso.
• Heel–Face Turn: Commits one with the rest of Lotso's henchmen towards the end.
• Golem: His general appearance is that of an orange (plastic) humanoid rock monster.
• Punch-Clock Villain
• Shout-Out: Possibly to the Mayor of The Nightmare Before Christmas, with both characters exhibiting a literal "Happy" and "Sad/Angry" expression.
• Two-Faced: In the picture, he has got his happy face. But when he gets unhappy, he pushes a button on his head, and it flips to an angry face with red eyes.

Twitch

Twitch

Voiced by: John Cygan ^{Other voice actors}Manuel Tadros (Canadian French), César Filio (Latin Spanish)

Appearances: Toy Story 3

An insectaloid warrior action figure who would not have been out of place in the original Masters of the Universe toy line.

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• Big Creepy-Crawlies: He is a big, muscular insect.
• The Brute: Along with Chunk.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Just look at his reaction to Lotso hitting Big Baby with the cane.
• Green and Mean: A bright green insect-like toy and one of Lotso's main henchmen. Averted after he commits his Heel–Face Turn.
• Heel–Face Turn: Commits one with the rest of Lotso's henchmen towards the end.
• Punch-Clock Villain: invokedWord of God is that he and Lotso's other minions are not truly evil, but just joined up with Lotso to get whatever power came with the job. Once Lotso is ousted, he has pulled a Heel–Face Turn.

Bookworm

Bookworm

Voiced by: Richard Kind ^{Other voice actors}Jérémy Prévost (European French), Ricardo Tejedo (Latin Spanish)

Appearances: Toy Story 3

A green worm with glasses and a bow-tie. He carries around a flashlight, and keeps a library of instruction manuals in one of Sunnyside's closets.

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• Evil Genius: He keeps a library of instruction manuals for Lotso to use to torture/brainwash other toys. The name "Bookworm" is kind of a giveaway.
• Hey, Wait!: When Barbie masquerades as Ken (in his face-obscuring "Mission to Mars" spacesuit) to get back Buzz's instruction manual, the Bookworm notices her high heels as she turns away... then rolls his eyes and sighs at Ken's effeminate fashion sense.
• Hidden Depths: Very subtly, but Lotso seems to disapprove of, if not outright dislike him. This can be seen after he tosses the Buzz Lightyear manual at him, Lotso gives him a somewhat disapproving glance. This may also imply that Bookworm did not enjoy being one of Lotso's gang and Lotso was aware of it. If that's the case, it is plausible that he knew it was Barbie in the space suit, he just didn't care enough to report it.
• Literal Bookworm: Bookworm is a booklight in the shape of a bookworm. He is the keeper of a library of instruction manuals within Sunnyside Daycare and the one who gives Lotso and later Barbie the Buzz Lightyear instruction manual.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He has only two appearances throughout the third movie, but he does end up contributing to some major events in the film, like making Buzz delusional again and inadvertently helping Andy’s toys escape the daycare.
• Token Good Teammate: If the aforementioned Hidden Depths are to be believed.

The Monkey

The Monkey

"HISS!!"

Voiced by: Lee Unkrich

Appearances: Toy Story 3

A Jolly Chimp toy that watches over all the monitors of Sunnyside daycare, shrieking into a microphone to warn the Big Bad of any escaping toys. He looks just like this◊. Yeah, he is pretty creepy.

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• Adapted Out: Most kids' books have Woody and Slinky get the key from a hook on a corkboard.
• Big Brother Is Watching: He watches over all the security cameras for any attempted escapees.
• Cool Shades: In the credits montage showing how much nicer and "groovier" Sunnyside is without Lotso, he puts some funky glasses on while playing with his cymbals. This either reduces his scariness level or it doesn't.
• Cymbal-Banging Monkey: When night falls on Sunnyside Daycare, he sits at the front desk, watching all the surveillance screens. If a toy tries to escape, he turns on the center's P.A. system and screeches into it while banging his cymbals. Lotso and crew are on top of the poor toy in moments.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Seen being with by Bonnie when Andy's toys are first brought to Sunnyside with no indication as to his importance until much later in the film.
• Evil Genius: He has the eyes of an eagle, and on top of managing to figure out Woody was behind him despite being quiet, he manages to put up a fight by using the cymbals stuck to his hands as weapons.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: Subverted. Before Andy's toys came along, no one ever got past this guy.
• Heel–Face Turn: Implied in the credits montage, where he is shown donning a set of Cool Shades and happily clanging his cymbals during the Sunnyside party.
• Humiliation Conga: On top of being taken out by the newest toys in the daycare, he goes down when he is too distracted wailing on Woody to notice Slinky coming on him with tape. He is left tied up and struggling in a filing cabinet.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: As the Chatter Phone points out, Lotso's hold on Sunnyside would not be nearly as absolute or difficult to escape if it weren't for this guy. Chatter's most important advice for Woody's jailbreak plan is thusly, "Git ridda dat monkey!"
• Maniac Monkeys: Monitors Sunnyside Daycare to see if any of the prisoners are trying to escape.
• Mission Control: Once he spots a toy trying to escape the daycare, he activates the intercom to warn Lotso and the other toys.
• Slasher Smile: Does these a lot, including one at the end. Possibly averted in the case of the latter, making it a When He Smiles.
• The Voiceless: Never says a word. His only method of communication is screeching like a maniac and banging his cymbals together.

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"So, I guess you could say Sunnyside is sunny once again!! Hope to hear from -u- SOON! We're all SUPER excited about -ur- new home! Hugs & kisses to everyone!!"

— Ken

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