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* ShoutOut: Chatter's voice and inflection are a [[IncrediblyLamePun dead ringer]] for Gill in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', who masterminded the escape from the tank.
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* ShoutOut: Chatter's voice and inflection are a [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} dead ringer]] for Gill in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', who masterminded the escape from the tank.
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* ShadowArchetype: Lotso's basically a dark reflection of what pre-CharacterDevelopment Woody could've been. Just watch what the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxJpGI8SWc&ab_channel=SlashMan.EXE original version of the latter]] was like for proof!
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* ShadowArchetype: ShadowArchetype:
** Lotso's basically a dark reflection of what pre-CharacterDevelopment Woody could've been. Just watch what the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxJpGI8SWc&ab_channel=SlashMan.EXE original version of the latter]] was like forproof!proof!
** His backstory is also quite similar to Jessie's in ''Toy Story 2'', both toys being abandoned by their owners. The difference is that Jessie's owner gradually moved on and left her in a box, while Daisy abandoned Lotso accidentally and replaced him as a sign that she still loved him. Yet Jessie also managed to move on and opened her heart, while Lotso underwent a StartOfDarkness.
** Lotso's basically a dark reflection of what pre-CharacterDevelopment Woody could've been. Just watch what the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxJpGI8SWc&ab_channel=SlashMan.EXE original version of the latter]] was like for
** His backstory is also quite similar to Jessie's in ''Toy Story 2'', both toys being abandoned by their owners. The difference is that Jessie's owner gradually moved on and left her in a box, while Daisy abandoned Lotso accidentally and replaced him as a sign that she still loved him. Yet Jessie also managed to move on and opened her heart, while Lotso underwent a StartOfDarkness.
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* SmallParentHugeChild: With [[AbusiveDad Lotso]] gone, [[TeamDad Ken]] and [[TeamMom Barbie]] are now his closest parental figures; a particular moment being when Barbie gives him his bottle and hugs him at the end credits. And yes, Big Baby is larger than all of them, especially Ken and Barbie.
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Lotso's case w/ the Deadly Sin of Lust apparently sounds like Sadomasochism, hence the added Does This Remind You Of Anything label.
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** '''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.
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** '''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 [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything being suffered through any means.means]].
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* MisplacedRetribution: This is a big reason why using his DarkAndTroubledPast as if it was a FreudianExcuse falls flat. So, Lotso was abandoned (accidentally) by his owner. His response? Torturing and making other toys suffer, although they had nothing whatsoever to do with his abandonment.
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* MisplacedRetribution: This {{Deconstructed|Trope}}, as this is a big reason why using his DarkAndTroubledPast as if it was a FreudianExcuse falls flat. So, Lotso was abandoned (accidentally) by his owner. His response? Torturing and making other toys suffer, although even though they had nothing whatsoever to do with his abandonment.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Even before his StartOfDarkness, 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.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Even before his StartOfDarkness, 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!
-->'''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!
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** '''Lust:''' He feels with much pleasure (even subtly) whenever other toys besides him are being suffered by human children, especially those in the Caterpillar room at Sunnyside Daycare.
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** '''Lust:''' He feels with much pleasure (even subtly) whenever other toys besides him him, especially those who are in the Caterpillar Room at Sunnyside Daycare, are being suffered by human children, especially those in the Caterpillar room at Sunnyside Daycare.through any means.
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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'''
->''"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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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the VideoGame, 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 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 StartOfDarkness.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the VideoGame, 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 StartOfDarkness.
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* BerserkButton: The very word "family" seems to be this for Lotso.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Lotso manipulated Big Baby into thinking that Daisy, their original owner, lost all of her love for them.
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* ManipulativeBastard: 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.
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** 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 being a toy.
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** 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.
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** '''Gluttony:''' As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps the other toys in that same institution in being damaged by children. He also tries to keep his status as their brutal leader through the use of force.
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** '''Gluttony:''' As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps the other toys in that same institution in being damaged by children. He human children while inside that institution, to which he also tries to keep his status as their brutal leader through prevent those same toys from evading that situation with the use of force.
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** In some ways, he's pretty contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets that correlate to their existences as "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything child's play things]]" (Buzz thought at first that he's a legitimate space ranger in the first ''Toy Story'' movie, up until a commercial gave him a reality check; 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 being a toy.
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** In some ways, he's pretty contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets that correlate to their existences as "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything child's play things]]" toys (Buzz once thought at first that he's a legitimate space ranger in the first ''Toy Story'' movie, up until a commercial gave him a reality check; 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 being a toy.
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* TheDon: 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.
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* TheDon: 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 [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking playing poker.poker]].
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** 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, "[[IronicEcho trash waiting to be thrown away]]."
** In some ways, he's pretty contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets that correlate to their existences as toys (Buzz thought at first 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 in regards to being a toy.
** In some ways, he's pretty contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets that correlate to their existences as toys (Buzz thought at first 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 in regards to being a toy.
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** 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 [[SourOutsideSadInside she initially gets upset 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, "[[IronicEcho trash waiting to be thrown away]]."
** In some ways, he's pretty contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets that correlate to their existences astoys "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything child's play things]]" (Buzz thought at first that he's a legitimate space ranger in the first ''Toy Story'' movie; movie, up until a commercial gave him a reality check; 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 in regards that gives concern to being a toy.
** In some ways, he's pretty contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets that correlate to their existences as
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-->'''Buttercup:''' The guy may seem plush and huggable on the outside, but inside, he's ''he's a monster.monster''.
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** In some ways, he's pretty contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets (Buzz thought at first 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 himself has since acknowledged the reality of his overall existence 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 about being a toy.
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** In some ways, he's pretty contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets that correlate to their existences as toys (Buzz thought at first 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, but Buzz himself has since acknowledged the reality of his overall existence 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 about in regards to being a toy.
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** '''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.
** '''Sloth:''' While still the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, whenever he threatens other toys, he relies it more on his crew besides himself when doing so (such as Big Baby and Ken).
** '''Lust:''' He feels with much pleasure whenever the other toys are being suffered by human children, especially those in the Caterpillar room.
** '''Greed:''' Whenever there are new toys introduced at the Sunnyside Daycare, he takes the opportunity to use them for senseless torture.
** '''Gluttony:''' As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps other toys in being damaged by children. He also tries to keep his status as their brutal leader through the use of force.
** '''Sloth:''' While still the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, whenever he threatens other toys, he relies it more on his crew besides himself when doing so (such as Big Baby and Ken).
** '''Lust:''' He feels with much pleasure whenever the other toys are being suffered by human children, especially those in the Caterpillar room.
** '''Greed:''' Whenever there are new toys introduced at the Sunnyside Daycare, he takes the opportunity to use them for senseless torture.
** '''Gluttony:''' As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps other toys in being damaged by children. He also tries to keep his status as their brutal leader through the use of force.
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** '''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 [[StartOfDarkness lead to his corruption.
corruption]].
** '''Lust:''' He feels with much pleasure (even subtly) whenever other toys besides him are being suffered by human children, especially those in the Caterpillar room at Sunnyside Daycare.
** '''Gluttony:''' As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps the other toys in that same institution in being damaged by children. He also tries to keep his status as their brutal leader through 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 hiscrew gang besides himself when doing so (such as Big Baby and Ken).
** '''Lust:''' He feels with much pleasure whenever the other toys are being suffered by human children, especially those in the Caterpillar room.
** '''Greed:''' Whenever there are new toys introduced at the Sunnyside Daycare, he takes the opportunity to use them for senseless torture.
** '''Gluttony:''' As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps other toys in being damaged by children. He also tries to keep his status as their brutal leader through the use of force.Ken).
** '''Lust:''' He feels with much pleasure (even subtly) whenever other toys besides him are being suffered by human children, especially those in the Caterpillar room at Sunnyside Daycare.
** '''Gluttony:''' As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps the other toys in that same institution in being damaged by children. He also tries to keep his status as their brutal leader through 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
** '''Lust:''' He feels with much pleasure whenever the other toys are being suffered by human children, especially those in the Caterpillar room.
** '''Greed:''' Whenever there are new toys introduced at the Sunnyside Daycare, he takes the opportunity to use them for senseless torture.
** '''Gluttony:''' As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps other toys in being damaged by children. He also tries to keep his status as their brutal leader through the use of force.
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** In some ways, he's contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets (Buzz thought at first that he's a 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 himself knew when to outgrow from his own previous mindset (thanks in part to his best friend Woody), while Lotso still couldn't resist his own mindset and tries to maintain it as his own ideology, [[{{Hypocrite}} albeit rather hypocritically]].
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!!Big Baby
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: 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.
* AbusiveDad: 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 VillainousBreakdown (though [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal this backfires on him horribly]]).
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: When Lotso returned to Daisy, he discovers that she had replaced him with an [[ReplacementGoldfish identical toy]] in the meantime. Justified trope, as there was no way that Daisy could have expected Lotso to return home by himself.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the VideoGame, 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 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 StartOfDarkness.
* AnkleDrag: Lotso catches Woody's ankle and pulls him into the garbage container at Sunnyside.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: TheStinger shows that Ken and Barbie have made Sunnyside "cool and groovy", while Lotso's minions were EasilyForgiven after they realized Lotso duped them into his nihilistic mindset.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
** Lotso begins his VillainousBreakdown 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.
* AxCrazy: 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}}.
* BadBoss: Towards his other henchmen.
** [[VillainousBreakdown 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 [[KickTheDog 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 [[TranquilFury 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 Pawn}}s to serve his own goals.
* BaitTheDog:
** When new toys, such as the main group, arrive at the daycare, he leads them on a sweet tour of the Butterfly Room and [[VeryFalseAdvertising 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.
* BearHug: From Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear. This only serves as a veneer for his true self.
* BearsAreBadNews: While he seems like a pretty nice guy at first, on the inside he is evil.
* BearyFriendly: Subverted. He's BrightIsNotGood taken up to eleven.
* BerserkButton: The very word "family" seems to be this for Lotso.
** 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? [[FalseReassurance I understand]]. [[WhamLine Put him back in the timeout chair.]] Bring in [[ScaryLibrarian the bookworm]].
** When Woody gives his own ArmorPiercingQuestion regarding Daisy, it causes him to stop dead in his tracks and enter VillainousBreakdown mode. He is very quickly reduced to snarling and exploding in anger at Woody and Big Baby, and ultimately turns verbally and physically abusive, [[StrawNihilist screaming about how toys are meant to be thrown away]].
* BigBad: 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.
* BigOlEyebrows: His large, bushy eyebrows.
* BigThinShortTrio: When they were Daisy's toys, he was the Big to Big Baby's Thin and Chuckles' Short.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: 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'''!
* BlatantLies: He and Chuckles both get to see Daisy with her new Lotso, but he claims that Daisy also replaced Chuckles and Big Baby too, [[IfICantHaveYou bitterly preventing either of them from going back to Daisy without him]]. Chuckles triggers Lotso's BerserkButton 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?!'''''
* BrightIsNotGood: 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.
* BrokenPedestal: He duped Big Baby into thinking Daisy never loved them, but when Woody exposes his lies, Big Baby [[ShutUpHannibal simply tosses him down a dumpster]], while his minions immediately defect from him after he goes on a MotiveRant about why toys are [[StrawNihilist "trash waiting to be thrown away."]]
* TheBully: Even Jessie calls him one. He especially is a '''huge''' one towards Big Baby.
* BullyingADragon: 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 RageBreakingPoint, Lotso is helpless to defend himself as the much stronger toy throws him into the dumpster.
* CavalryRefusal: 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.
* CharacterTics: Sometimes clasps both paws on the head of his cane and leans forward when he is trying to appear friendly.
* ChekhovsGun: 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 HeelFaceTurn.
* ChildHater: 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.
* ClassyCane: Lotso uses a wooden mallet as a cane, even though he is shown to walk ably without it.
* ClassicVillain: Wrath, pride, and envy all rolled into one KillerTeddyBear. 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 [[StrawNihilist "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 [[MisanthropeSupreme has grown to hate children for their constant destruction and abandonment of toys]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: 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.
* ConsummateLiar: 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 DoubleSubverted, as Lotso makes it ''very'' clear that he actually ''does'' believe both these things. [[BelievingTheirOwnLies He lies to himself just as much as anyone else.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** To Stinky Pete:
*** While Pete genuinely thought he knew what was best for Woody, Lotso doesn't care about anybody other than himself.
*** Their [[StartOfDarkness 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 WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds because he spent his entire life unloved and does get redeemed ([[AmbiguousSituation -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 [[DespairEventHorizon 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 HateSink than Pete and ends up being considered BeyondRedemption both InUniverse and from the audience's perspective as he is forced to be stuck on the front of the garbage truck.
*** While Pete was [[AffablyEvil genuinely affable]] towards Woody and only [[FaceHeelTurn 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 EvilAllAlong.
** 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.
* CoolOldGuy: Is quite friendly to the toys when they first arrive to the Day Care. Eventually subverted, since he is a BitchInSheepsClothing. His Cool Old Guy persona is just a front for his true personality as a truly vicious monster that's utterly rotten.
* TheCorrupter: A big liar and master manipulator to Big Baby, corrupting him into becoming TheDragon.
* CrushTheKeepsake: 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.
* CuddleBug: His [[EstablishingCharacterMoment very first scene]] has him delivering a powerful bearhug to Buzz, before pointing out "[he's] a hugger". [[SubvertedTrope This turns out to be an act]]: the true Lotso would never hug anyone of his own volition.
* CuteGiant: He is a teddy bear, and is much bigger than the protagonists, but his demeanor contrasts his appearance.
* TheCynic: After his StartOfDarkness, he believed that no kid truly loved their toys.
* CynicismCatalyst: He was accidentally left behind and replaced by another Lotso, causing him [[StrawNihilist to believe toys are just "trash meant to be thrown away."]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Being accidentally left behind by Daisy's parents, and returning to the house to find that [[YouAreTooLate 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.''
* DirtyCoward:
** He quickly shows himself to be this when Big Baby turns on him. After acting like an AbusiveDad to Big Baby and [[MotiveRant ranting about how toys are trash]], [[VillainsWantMercy 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.
* TheDon: 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.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: 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 [[BullyingADragon finally turns on him]].
* DomesticAbuse: He abuses his peers and his "son" in the worst ways possible.
* TheDreaded: 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.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In ''{{WesternAnimation/Up}}'', [[ProductionForeshadowing which was released the year before]] ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', a Lotso toy can be seen next to Dee's bed on left-hand-corner of the frame.
* EntitledToHaveYou: 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.
* EtTuBrute: After he mourns Daisy replacing them, Chuckles points out that she only abandoned Lotso and not himself or Big Baby. [[InnocentlyInsensitive Whether or not Chuckles was dismissing his situation]], the bad wording only further embittered Lotso.
* EvilAllAlong: He [[BitchInSheepsClothing 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.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: 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, [[StrawNihilist 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!
* EvilFormerFriend: 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.
* EvilIsPetty: Lotso doesn't really have any legit reason for mistreating all the other toys beyond a DarkAndTroubledPast which did little to gain him any sympathy from anyone.
* EvilMentor: He is the one who corrupted Big Baby into becoming TheDragon to his gang.
* EvilOldFolks: He seems a CoolOldGuy at first before revealing his true colors.
* EvilOverlord: Of Sunnyside. Lotso seems like a CoolOldGuy 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 [[TheAlcatraz ADX Florence]], with him as the prison warden and his henchmen serving as his enforcers.
* EvilRunningGood: While Sunnyside may seem like a nice day-care, it is actually run by a KillerTeddyBear who rules with an iron fist, like any tyrannical dictator.
* FaceHeelTurn: At first, he was a kind-hearted friend of Daisy. Then, when he found out he was replaced, he became a straight-up villain.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Lotso has an adorable appearance and seems plush and huggable, but he is a complete tyrant, and arguably ''the'' KnightOfCerebus for the entire ''Toy Story'' franchise. Buttercup lampshades it when he talks to Woody.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: 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. [[UngratefulBastard Instead, he leaves Buzz, Woody, and all their friends to burn to death]].
* FatBastard: 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.
* FatalFlaw: He has two: his first flaw is his arrogance and his second flaw is [[ItsAllAboutMe an inflated ego]]. He was proud of being Daisy's favorite toy, but when he was lost and replaced by his original owner, [[StrawNihilist 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 KarmaHoudini after [[UngratefulBastard callously abandoning]] Woody and co. to die in the incinerator after they had just saved him, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard 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 FateWorseThanDeath.
* FateWorseThanDeath: 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.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Even after Lotso is revealed to be viciously sadistic villain, he still wears nice demeanor. Disagree with him, however, and he [[PsychoticSmirk smirks]] as he ''has you set to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Demo Mode]]'' or sends said Demo-Mode'd buddy to lock you up, as Buzz found out the hard way.
* FluffyTheTerrible: A cute pink teddy bear whose full name reads as "Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear", and also one of the [[KnightOfCerebus 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 ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'', 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 [[IfICantHaveYou 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 StrawNihilist 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, "[[IronicEcho trash waiting to be thrown away]]."
** In some ways, he's contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets (Buzz thought at first that he's a 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 himself knew when to outgrow from his own previous mindset (thanks in part to his best friend Woody), while Lotso still couldn't resist his own mindset and tries to maintain it as his own ideology, [[{{Hypocrite}} albeit rather hypocritically]].
* ForTheEvulz: 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.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: 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.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: 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, ''[[BerserkButton something snapped inside him that day...]]''
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Finding out he was replaced turned him into an AxCrazy tyrant.
* HannibalLecture: He attempts one in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown. It is countered with a ShutUpHannibal.
* HateSink: His cold-hearted and tyrannical rule within Sunnyside Daycare completely establishes him as this.
* HelpImStuck: After Woody and Buzz [[SaveTheVillain come to his aid before he could get shredded]], Lotso instead leaves them to be incinerated -- with malicious intent.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: 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 StrawNihilist beliefs that toys are nothing more than trash waiting to be destroyed, he proved to be a sniveling and double-crossing DirtyCoward 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 StartOfDarkness began when Daisy treated ''him'' as disposable and replaced him with another Lotso.
* IfICantHaveYou: 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 ShutUpHannibal:
-->'''Lotso:''' She replaced ''us''!\\
'''Woody:''' She replaced ''you''! And if you couldn't have her then ''no one'' could!
* InsaneTrollLogic: 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.
* IronicEcho: In what seems to be a reflection of Judge Claude Frollo's last moments from Disney's ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', Lotso's own VillainousBreakdown 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).
* IronicName: 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}}: [[StrawNihilist 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.
* TheIrredeemableException: 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 ([[FemalesAreMoreInnocent 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 FateWorseThanDeath.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Even before his StartOfDarkness, 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.
* JerkJustifications: He believes all toys are trash meant to be thrown away, and uses this as an excuse to mistreat other toys.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: 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 ConveyorBeltOfDoom -- only to be undone when he [[ForTheEvulz abandons them purely out of spite]].
* KillerRabbit: 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'''."
* KillerTeddyBear: Although he doesn't kill any humans, he's more than willing to condemn his fellow toys to be destroyed by an incinerator.
* KnightOfCerebus: Aside from the point of view of sentient toys, [[KidsAreCruel Sid]] was a violent brat, [[BewareOfViciousDog Scud]] was a dog and therefore amoral, [[FatBastard Al]] was just a greedy businessman, and [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Stinky Pete]] was a TragicVillain. But Lotso is a downright sociopathic and {{sadist}}ic monster who subverts the WhiteAndGreyMorality 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.
* KubrickStare: When Buzz attacks his friends, Lotso steps back and watches. He leans on his cane, tilts his head down, and sports a slight SlasherSmile the whole time.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's bigger than most of his subordinates, except for Big Baby.
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** He leaves the main toys to die in a garbage incinerator after Woody and Buzz had just [[SaveTheVillain saved him from the shredder]]. For a moment, it looks like he is going KarmaHoudini 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 FateWorseThanDeath. 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 ItsAllAboutMe 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.
* TheLeader: For Sunnyside Daycare, but is now a former one (especially for good).
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Daisy was this to Lotso, seeing how badly he handled being replaced by her.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: 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 StrawNihilist.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: 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.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: When Andy's toys are imprisoned at Sunnyside, Mr. Potato Head is singled out on Lotso's command and put into the PunishmentBox, so all could witness what happened if they did not obey and to get them in line.
* ManipulativeBastard: Lotso manipulated Big Baby into thinking that Daisy, their original owner, lost all of her love for them.
* MirrorCharacter: 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).
* MisanthropeSupreme: Due to his extreme nihilistic viewpoints, he believes toys are "trash waiting to be thrown away".
* MisplacedRetribution: This is a big reason why using his DarkAndTroubledPast as if it was a FreudianExcuse falls flat. So, Lotso was abandoned (accidentally) by his owner. His response? Torturing and making other toys suffer, although they had nothing whatsoever to do with his abandonment.
* MomentKiller: Lotso interrupts Barbie and Ken's LoveAtFirstSight moment underscored by a RecordNeedleScratch.
* MoodSwinger: Often falls under this due to being FauxAffablyEvil.
* MotiveRant: Gives one about why toys are just "trash waiting to be thrown away," just before he throws them into the dumpster.
* MurderByCremation: 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). [[BigDamnHeroes The heroes were all saved by the Aliens with the help of a large claw overhead, but still...]]
* MurderByInaction: Rather than save the toys from being roasted by the incinerator by pressing the emergency stop button to shut off the conveyer belt, [[UngratefulBastard Lotso instead decides to abandon the toys]] even after they risked their lives to save him.
* NearVillainVictory: 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.
* NeverMyFault: 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!
* OhCrap: 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?!
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Everybody calls him Lotso instead of Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear.
* ParentalSubstitute: 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.
* PhraseCatcher: "Smells of strawberries."
* PragmaticVillainy: 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.
* PsychoPink: 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.
* PsychoticSmirk: He makes evil smiles frequently after revealing his true colors.
* PunctuatedPounding: 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!
* RedemptionRejection: 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, [[LaserGuidedKarma this bites him hard in the ass]].
* {{Sadist}}: If those {{Psychotic Smirk}}s he sports during most of his KickTheDog moments say anything.
* SadisticChoice: 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.
* SatanicArchetype: He's not only the entire franchise's KnightOfCerebus, he is so hateful that it borders on nihilism, a corrupting influence on his minions, abuses others ForTheEvulz, 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.
* SaveTheVillain: 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 [[UngratefulBastard doesn't return the favor]], and it backfires on him spectacularly.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Instead of helping Woody and his friends from being incinerated at the dump, Lotso instead left them to be annihilated ([[NearVillainVictory well, almost]]).
---> "Where's your kid ''now,'' Sheriff?!"
* SevenDeadlySins: 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.
** '''Sloth:''' While still the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, whenever he threatens other toys, he relies it more on his crew besides himself when doing so (such as Big Baby and Ken).
** '''Lust:''' He feels with much pleasure whenever the other toys are being suffered by human children, especially those in the Caterpillar room.
** '''Greed:''' Whenever there are new toys introduced at the Sunnyside Daycare, he takes the opportunity to use them for senseless torture.
** '''Gluttony:''' As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps other toys in being damaged by children. He also tries to keep his status as their brutal leader through the use of force.
* ShadowArchetype: Lotso's basically a dark reflection of what pre-CharacterDevelopment Woody could've been. Just watch what the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxJpGI8SWc&ab_channel=SlashMan.EXE original version of the latter]] was like for proof!
* ShutUpHannibal: A particularly epic example, after Woody exposes Lotso's lies to Big Baby. Lotso proceeds to justify his rule by [[StrawNihilist 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.
* SignatureScent: He may smell like strawberries, but he's anything but sweet.
* SmallTownTyrant: Has an American Southern accent and runs [[CrapsaccharineWorld Sunnyside]] with an iron fist.
* SmugSnake: After his grandfatherly facade is turned down, Lotso turns out to be this to a fault. He views himself as quite the spirit-crushing StrawNihilist, 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.
* TheSociopath: 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!").
* SoftSpokenSadist: Until his VillainousBreakdown, he commits many evil actions while being FauxAffablyEvil.
* SoLongSuckers: Lotso pulls this on Woody and the others when he refuses to save them after ''they'' saved ''[[DirtyCoward him]]'', and instead leaves them for dead at the incinerator and shouts, "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?!"
* SouthernGentleman: He appears to be a polite guy with a Southern accent, courtesy of Louisville, Kentucky native Creator/NedBeatty. [[BitchInSheepsClothing However...]]
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Lotso invokes the trope verbatim when the garbage truck arrives to pick up Sunnyside's dumpster.
* StartOfDarkness: Chuckles the Clown's flashback segment outlines exactly why Lotso turned into the cruel despot of Sunnyside.
* StepfordSmiler: Type C. His friendly smile is only a facade -- it hides unstableness.
* StrawberryShorthand: Lotso smells like strawberries, which makes him appear [[BitchInSheepsClothing more likable than he really is]].
* StrawHypocrite: It is implied he doesn't really believe in his StrawNihilist beliefs, and simply just uses it as an excuse to mistreat others. He is at heart just a ThinSkinnedBully who wants every toy to be as broken as he is.
* StrawNihilist: 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 MotiveRant, but his own cowardice, hypocrisy, and helplessness probably lean him more towards a wide-scale TroubledAbuser.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: 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 [[LackOfEmpathy cruel]], [[EvilIsPetty petty]], despotic ruler of the toys without a single redeeming quality.
* TakingYouWithMe:
** 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.
* TemptingFate: 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.
* ThinSkinnedBully: 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.
* TokenEvilTeammate: 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.
* TomTheDarkLord: 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.
* TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: 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 DarkAndTroubledPast can excuse.
* TroubledAbuser: 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.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Once he took over Sunnyside Daycare after his FaceHeelTurn, '''with an iron fist''' (all because he was replaced by a new Lotso when he saw his former owner Daisy hugging it).
* UngratefulBastard: When he kiboshes the offer to redeem himself in the end. Indeed, at least Karma kicked him in the rump not long after.
* VengefulAbandonedToy: 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 [[StrawNihilist "trash waiting to be thrown away"]].
* VeryFalseAdvertising: 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 NightmareFuel that is the Caterpillar Room.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: 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.
* VilerNewVillain: 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.
* VillainBall:
** 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 FateWorseThanDeath, 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.
* VillainHasAPoint:
** 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 [[TheMasochismTango 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, [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory4 the fourth film]], however, proves correct his belief that toys tend to be abandoned.
* VillainousBreakdown: Towards the end of the film, Lotso freaks out and loses his FauxAffablyEvil demeanor once Woody gives him his ArmorPiercingQuestion and dresses him down for his lies.
* VillainsWantMercy: 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.
* VirtueIsWeakness: Lotso doesn't believe in the concept of love.
* WalkingSpoiler: His BigBad status is a {{spoiler}} itself and there's little that can be said about him without revealing that.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Offers one to Buzz and, to a lesser extent, Franchise/{{Barbie}}. Granted, the bad guys make an effort to be [[BitchInSheepsClothing as nice as possible while doing this]].
* WhereIsYourXNow: After abandoning the heroes to die in the incinerator, Lotso asks Woody, "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?!".
* WiseOldFolkFacade: He comes across as a [[BearyFriendly 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.
* WouldHurtAChild: 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.
* YouMonster: 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.
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!!Big Baby
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Mama!"'']]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Woody Smith
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''
A [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 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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* AbusiveDad: 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 VillainousBreakdown (though [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal this backfires on him horribly]]).
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: When Lotso returned to Daisy, he discovers that she had replaced him with an [[ReplacementGoldfish identical toy]] in the meantime. Justified trope, as there was no way that Daisy could have expected Lotso to return home by himself.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the VideoGame, 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 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 StartOfDarkness.
* AnkleDrag: Lotso catches Woody's ankle and pulls him into the garbage container at Sunnyside.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: TheStinger shows that Ken and Barbie have made Sunnyside "cool and groovy", while Lotso's minions were EasilyForgiven after they realized Lotso duped them into his nihilistic mindset.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
** Lotso begins his VillainousBreakdown 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.
* AxCrazy: 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}}.
* BadBoss: Towards his other henchmen.
** [[VillainousBreakdown 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 [[KickTheDog 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 [[TranquilFury 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 Pawn}}s to serve his own goals.
* BaitTheDog:
** When new toys, such as the main group, arrive at the daycare, he leads them on a sweet tour of the Butterfly Room and [[VeryFalseAdvertising 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.
* BearHug: From Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear. This only serves as a veneer for his true self.
* BearsAreBadNews: While he seems like a pretty nice guy at first, on the inside he is evil.
* BearyFriendly: Subverted. He's BrightIsNotGood taken up to eleven.
* BerserkButton: The very word "family" seems to be this for Lotso.
** 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? [[FalseReassurance I understand]]. [[WhamLine Put him back in the timeout chair.]] Bring in [[ScaryLibrarian the bookworm]].
** When Woody gives his own ArmorPiercingQuestion regarding Daisy, it causes him to stop dead in his tracks and enter VillainousBreakdown mode. He is very quickly reduced to snarling and exploding in anger at Woody and Big Baby, and ultimately turns verbally and physically abusive, [[StrawNihilist screaming about how toys are meant to be thrown away]].
* BigBad: 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.
* BigOlEyebrows: His large, bushy eyebrows.
* BigThinShortTrio: When they were Daisy's toys, he was the Big to Big Baby's Thin and Chuckles' Short.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: 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'''!
* BlatantLies: He and Chuckles both get to see Daisy with her new Lotso, but he claims that Daisy also replaced Chuckles and Big Baby too, [[IfICantHaveYou bitterly preventing either of them from going back to Daisy without him]]. Chuckles triggers Lotso's BerserkButton 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?!'''''
* BrightIsNotGood: 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.
* BrokenPedestal: He duped Big Baby into thinking Daisy never loved them, but when Woody exposes his lies, Big Baby [[ShutUpHannibal simply tosses him down a dumpster]], while his minions immediately defect from him after he goes on a MotiveRant about why toys are [[StrawNihilist "trash waiting to be thrown away."]]
* TheBully: Even Jessie calls him one. He especially is a '''huge''' one towards Big Baby.
* BullyingADragon: 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 RageBreakingPoint, Lotso is helpless to defend himself as the much stronger toy throws him into the dumpster.
* CavalryRefusal: 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.
* CharacterTics: Sometimes clasps both paws on the head of his cane and leans forward when he is trying to appear friendly.
* ChekhovsGun: 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 HeelFaceTurn.
* ChildHater: 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.
* ClassyCane: Lotso uses a wooden mallet as a cane, even though he is shown to walk ably without it.
* ClassicVillain: Wrath, pride, and envy all rolled into one KillerTeddyBear. 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 [[StrawNihilist "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 [[MisanthropeSupreme has grown to hate children for their constant destruction and abandonment of toys]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: 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.
* ConsummateLiar: 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 DoubleSubverted, as Lotso makes it ''very'' clear that he actually ''does'' believe both these things. [[BelievingTheirOwnLies He lies to himself just as much as anyone else.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** To Stinky Pete:
*** While Pete genuinely thought he knew what was best for Woody, Lotso doesn't care about anybody other than himself.
*** Their [[StartOfDarkness 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 WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds because he spent his entire life unloved and does get redeemed ([[AmbiguousSituation -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 [[DespairEventHorizon 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 HateSink than Pete and ends up being considered BeyondRedemption both InUniverse and from the audience's perspective as he is forced to be stuck on the front of the garbage truck.
*** While Pete was [[AffablyEvil genuinely affable]] towards Woody and only [[FaceHeelTurn 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 EvilAllAlong.
** 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.
* CoolOldGuy: Is quite friendly to the toys when they first arrive to the Day Care. Eventually subverted, since he is a BitchInSheepsClothing. His Cool Old Guy persona is just a front for his true personality as a truly vicious monster that's utterly rotten.
* TheCorrupter: A big liar and master manipulator to Big Baby, corrupting him into becoming TheDragon.
* CrushTheKeepsake: 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.
* CuddleBug: His [[EstablishingCharacterMoment very first scene]] has him delivering a powerful bearhug to Buzz, before pointing out "[he's] a hugger". [[SubvertedTrope This turns out to be an act]]: the true Lotso would never hug anyone of his own volition.
* CuteGiant: He is a teddy bear, and is much bigger than the protagonists, but his demeanor contrasts his appearance.
* TheCynic: After his StartOfDarkness, he believed that no kid truly loved their toys.
* CynicismCatalyst: He was accidentally left behind and replaced by another Lotso, causing him [[StrawNihilist to believe toys are just "trash meant to be thrown away."]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Being accidentally left behind by Daisy's parents, and returning to the house to find that [[YouAreTooLate 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.''
* DirtyCoward:
** He quickly shows himself to be this when Big Baby turns on him. After acting like an AbusiveDad to Big Baby and [[MotiveRant ranting about how toys are trash]], [[VillainsWantMercy 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.
* TheDon: 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.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: 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 [[BullyingADragon finally turns on him]].
* DomesticAbuse: He abuses his peers and his "son" in the worst ways possible.
* TheDreaded: 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.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In ''{{WesternAnimation/Up}}'', [[ProductionForeshadowing which was released the year before]] ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', a Lotso toy can be seen next to Dee's bed on left-hand-corner of the frame.
* EntitledToHaveYou: 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.
* EtTuBrute: After he mourns Daisy replacing them, Chuckles points out that she only abandoned Lotso and not himself or Big Baby. [[InnocentlyInsensitive Whether or not Chuckles was dismissing his situation]], the bad wording only further embittered Lotso.
* EvilAllAlong: He [[BitchInSheepsClothing 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.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: 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, [[StrawNihilist 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!
* EvilFormerFriend: 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.
* EvilIsPetty: Lotso doesn't really have any legit reason for mistreating all the other toys beyond a DarkAndTroubledPast which did little to gain him any sympathy from anyone.
* EvilMentor: He is the one who corrupted Big Baby into becoming TheDragon to his gang.
* EvilOldFolks: He seems a CoolOldGuy at first before revealing his true colors.
* EvilOverlord: Of Sunnyside. Lotso seems like a CoolOldGuy 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 [[TheAlcatraz ADX Florence]], with him as the prison warden and his henchmen serving as his enforcers.
* EvilRunningGood: While Sunnyside may seem like a nice day-care, it is actually run by a KillerTeddyBear who rules with an iron fist, like any tyrannical dictator.
* FaceHeelTurn: At first, he was a kind-hearted friend of Daisy. Then, when he found out he was replaced, he became a straight-up villain.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Lotso has an adorable appearance and seems plush and huggable, but he is a complete tyrant, and arguably ''the'' KnightOfCerebus for the entire ''Toy Story'' franchise. Buttercup lampshades it when he talks to Woody.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: 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. [[UngratefulBastard Instead, he leaves Buzz, Woody, and all their friends to burn to death]].
* FatBastard: 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.
* FatalFlaw: He has two: his first flaw is his arrogance and his second flaw is [[ItsAllAboutMe an inflated ego]]. He was proud of being Daisy's favorite toy, but when he was lost and replaced by his original owner, [[StrawNihilist 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 KarmaHoudini after [[UngratefulBastard callously abandoning]] Woody and co. to die in the incinerator after they had just saved him, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard 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 FateWorseThanDeath.
* FateWorseThanDeath: 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.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Even after Lotso is revealed to be viciously sadistic villain, he still wears nice demeanor. Disagree with him, however, and he [[PsychoticSmirk smirks]] as he ''has you set to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Demo Mode]]'' or sends said Demo-Mode'd buddy to lock you up, as Buzz found out the hard way.
* FluffyTheTerrible: A cute pink teddy bear whose full name reads as "Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear", and also one of the [[KnightOfCerebus 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 ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'', 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 [[IfICantHaveYou 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 StrawNihilist 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, "[[IronicEcho trash waiting to be thrown away]]."
** In some ways, he's contradictory to Buzz, as well, as both toys had their fair share of warped mindsets (Buzz thought at first that he's a 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 himself knew when to outgrow from his own previous mindset (thanks in part to his best friend Woody), while Lotso still couldn't resist his own mindset and tries to maintain it as his own ideology, [[{{Hypocrite}} albeit rather hypocritically]].
* ForTheEvulz: 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.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: 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.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: 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, ''[[BerserkButton something snapped inside him that day...]]''
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Finding out he was replaced turned him into an AxCrazy tyrant.
* HannibalLecture: He attempts one in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown. It is countered with a ShutUpHannibal.
* HateSink: His cold-hearted and tyrannical rule within Sunnyside Daycare completely establishes him as this.
* HelpImStuck: After Woody and Buzz [[SaveTheVillain come to his aid before he could get shredded]], Lotso instead leaves them to be incinerated -- with malicious intent.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: 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 StrawNihilist beliefs that toys are nothing more than trash waiting to be destroyed, he proved to be a sniveling and double-crossing DirtyCoward 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 StartOfDarkness began when Daisy treated ''him'' as disposable and replaced him with another Lotso.
* IfICantHaveYou: 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 ShutUpHannibal:
-->'''Lotso:''' She replaced ''us''!\\
'''Woody:''' She replaced ''you''! And if you couldn't have her then ''no one'' could!
* InsaneTrollLogic: 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.
* IronicEcho: In what seems to be a reflection of Judge Claude Frollo's last moments from Disney's ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', Lotso's own VillainousBreakdown 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).
* IronicName: 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}}: [[StrawNihilist 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.
* TheIrredeemableException: 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 ([[FemalesAreMoreInnocent 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 FateWorseThanDeath.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Even before his StartOfDarkness, 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.
* JerkJustifications: He believes all toys are trash meant to be thrown away, and uses this as an excuse to mistreat other toys.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: 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 ConveyorBeltOfDoom -- only to be undone when he [[ForTheEvulz abandons them purely out of spite]].
* KillerRabbit: 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'''."
* KillerTeddyBear: Although he doesn't kill any humans, he's more than willing to condemn his fellow toys to be destroyed by an incinerator.
* KnightOfCerebus: Aside from the point of view of sentient toys, [[KidsAreCruel Sid]] was a violent brat, [[BewareOfViciousDog Scud]] was a dog and therefore amoral, [[FatBastard Al]] was just a greedy businessman, and [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Stinky Pete]] was a TragicVillain. But Lotso is a downright sociopathic and {{sadist}}ic monster who subverts the WhiteAndGreyMorality 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.
* KubrickStare: When Buzz attacks his friends, Lotso steps back and watches. He leans on his cane, tilts his head down, and sports a slight SlasherSmile the whole time.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's bigger than most of his subordinates, except for Big Baby.
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** He leaves the main toys to die in a garbage incinerator after Woody and Buzz had just [[SaveTheVillain saved him from the shredder]]. For a moment, it looks like he is going KarmaHoudini 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 FateWorseThanDeath. 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 ItsAllAboutMe 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.
* TheLeader: For Sunnyside Daycare, but is now a former one (especially for good).
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Daisy was this to Lotso, seeing how badly he handled being replaced by her.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: 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 StrawNihilist.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: 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.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: When Andy's toys are imprisoned at Sunnyside, Mr. Potato Head is singled out on Lotso's command and put into the PunishmentBox, so all could witness what happened if they did not obey and to get them in line.
* ManipulativeBastard: Lotso manipulated Big Baby into thinking that Daisy, their original owner, lost all of her love for them.
* MirrorCharacter: 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).
* MisanthropeSupreme: Due to his extreme nihilistic viewpoints, he believes toys are "trash waiting to be thrown away".
* MisplacedRetribution: This is a big reason why using his DarkAndTroubledPast as if it was a FreudianExcuse falls flat. So, Lotso was abandoned (accidentally) by his owner. His response? Torturing and making other toys suffer, although they had nothing whatsoever to do with his abandonment.
* MomentKiller: Lotso interrupts Barbie and Ken's LoveAtFirstSight moment underscored by a RecordNeedleScratch.
* MoodSwinger: Often falls under this due to being FauxAffablyEvil.
* MotiveRant: Gives one about why toys are just "trash waiting to be thrown away," just before he throws them into the dumpster.
* MurderByCremation: 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). [[BigDamnHeroes The heroes were all saved by the Aliens with the help of a large claw overhead, but still...]]
* MurderByInaction: Rather than save the toys from being roasted by the incinerator by pressing the emergency stop button to shut off the conveyer belt, [[UngratefulBastard Lotso instead decides to abandon the toys]] even after they risked their lives to save him.
* NearVillainVictory: 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.
* NeverMyFault: 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!
* OhCrap: 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?!
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Everybody calls him Lotso instead of Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear.
* ParentalSubstitute: 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.
* PhraseCatcher: "Smells of strawberries."
* PragmaticVillainy: 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.
* PsychoPink: 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.
* PsychoticSmirk: He makes evil smiles frequently after revealing his true colors.
* PunctuatedPounding: 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!
* RedemptionRejection: 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, [[LaserGuidedKarma this bites him hard in the ass]].
* {{Sadist}}: If those {{Psychotic Smirk}}s he sports during most of his KickTheDog moments say anything.
* SadisticChoice: 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.
* SatanicArchetype: He's not only the entire franchise's KnightOfCerebus, he is so hateful that it borders on nihilism, a corrupting influence on his minions, abuses others ForTheEvulz, 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.
* SaveTheVillain: 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 [[UngratefulBastard doesn't return the favor]], and it backfires on him spectacularly.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Instead of helping Woody and his friends from being incinerated at the dump, Lotso instead left them to be annihilated ([[NearVillainVictory well, almost]]).
---> "Where's your kid ''now,'' Sheriff?!"
* SevenDeadlySins: 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.
** '''Sloth:''' While still the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, whenever he threatens other toys, he relies it more on his crew besides himself when doing so (such as Big Baby and Ken).
** '''Lust:''' He feels with much pleasure whenever the other toys are being suffered by human children, especially those in the Caterpillar room.
** '''Greed:''' Whenever there are new toys introduced at the Sunnyside Daycare, he takes the opportunity to use them for senseless torture.
** '''Gluttony:''' As the head toy of Sunnyside Daycare, he constantly keeps other toys in being damaged by children. He also tries to keep his status as their brutal leader through the use of force.
* ShadowArchetype: Lotso's basically a dark reflection of what pre-CharacterDevelopment Woody could've been. Just watch what the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxJpGI8SWc&ab_channel=SlashMan.EXE original version of the latter]] was like for proof!
* ShutUpHannibal: A particularly epic example, after Woody exposes Lotso's lies to Big Baby. Lotso proceeds to justify his rule by [[StrawNihilist 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.
* SignatureScent: He may smell like strawberries, but he's anything but sweet.
* SmallTownTyrant: Has an American Southern accent and runs [[CrapsaccharineWorld Sunnyside]] with an iron fist.
* SmugSnake: After his grandfatherly facade is turned down, Lotso turns out to be this to a fault. He views himself as quite the spirit-crushing StrawNihilist, 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.
* TheSociopath: 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!").
* SoftSpokenSadist: Until his VillainousBreakdown, he commits many evil actions while being FauxAffablyEvil.
* SoLongSuckers: Lotso pulls this on Woody and the others when he refuses to save them after ''they'' saved ''[[DirtyCoward him]]'', and instead leaves them for dead at the incinerator and shouts, "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?!"
* SouthernGentleman: He appears to be a polite guy with a Southern accent, courtesy of Louisville, Kentucky native Creator/NedBeatty. [[BitchInSheepsClothing However...]]
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Lotso invokes the trope verbatim when the garbage truck arrives to pick up Sunnyside's dumpster.
* StartOfDarkness: Chuckles the Clown's flashback segment outlines exactly why Lotso turned into the cruel despot of Sunnyside.
* StepfordSmiler: Type C. His friendly smile is only a facade -- it hides unstableness.
* StrawberryShorthand: Lotso smells like strawberries, which makes him appear [[BitchInSheepsClothing more likable than he really is]].
* StrawHypocrite: It is implied he doesn't really believe in his StrawNihilist beliefs, and simply just uses it as an excuse to mistreat others. He is at heart just a ThinSkinnedBully who wants every toy to be as broken as he is.
* StrawNihilist: 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 MotiveRant, but his own cowardice, hypocrisy, and helplessness probably lean him more towards a wide-scale TroubledAbuser.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: 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 [[LackOfEmpathy cruel]], [[EvilIsPetty petty]], despotic ruler of the toys without a single redeeming quality.
* TakingYouWithMe:
** 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.
* TemptingFate: 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.
* ThinSkinnedBully: 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.
* TokenEvilTeammate: 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.
* TomTheDarkLord: 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.
* TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: 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 DarkAndTroubledPast can excuse.
* TroubledAbuser: 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.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Once he took over Sunnyside Daycare after his FaceHeelTurn, '''with an iron fist''' (all because he was replaced by a new Lotso when he saw his former owner Daisy hugging it).
* UngratefulBastard: When he kiboshes the offer to redeem himself in the end. Indeed, at least Karma kicked him in the rump not long after.
* VengefulAbandonedToy: 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 [[StrawNihilist "trash waiting to be thrown away"]].
* VeryFalseAdvertising: 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 NightmareFuel that is the Caterpillar Room.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: 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.
* VilerNewVillain: 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.
* VillainBall:
** 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 FateWorseThanDeath, 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.
* VillainHasAPoint:
** 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 [[TheMasochismTango 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, [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory4 the fourth film]], however, proves correct his belief that toys tend to be abandoned.
* VillainousBreakdown: Towards the end of the film, Lotso freaks out and loses his FauxAffablyEvil demeanor once Woody gives him his ArmorPiercingQuestion and dresses him down for his lies.
* VillainsWantMercy: 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.
* VirtueIsWeakness: Lotso doesn't believe in the concept of love.
* WalkingSpoiler: His BigBad status is a {{spoiler}} itself and there's little that can be said about him without revealing that.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Offers one to Buzz and, to a lesser extent, Franchise/{{Barbie}}. Granted, the bad guys make an effort to be [[BitchInSheepsClothing as nice as possible while doing this]].
* WhereIsYourXNow: After abandoning the heroes to die in the incinerator, Lotso asks Woody, "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?!".
* WiseOldFolkFacade: He comes across as a [[BearyFriendly 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.
* WouldHurtAChild: 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.
* YouMonster: 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.
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!!Big Baby
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Mama!"'']]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Woody Smith
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''
A [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 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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* HeelRealization: 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 [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal getting back at his former master]].
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* TragicVillain: 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.
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* TragicVillain: So ''very'', ''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.Daisy, which also makes him much more sympathetic than Lotso.
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A cymbal monkey that watches over all the monitors of Sunnyside daycare, shrieking into a microphone to warn the BigBad of any escaping toys. [[http://images.mylot.com/userImages/images/postphotos/2084313.jpg He looks just like this]]. Yeah, he is pretty creepy.
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A cymbal monkey Jolly Chimp toy that watches over all the monitors of Sunnyside daycare, shrieking into a microphone to warn the BigBad of any escaping toys. [[http://images.mylot.com/userImages/images/postphotos/2084313.jpg He looks just like this]]. Yeah, he is pretty creepy.
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* TheLeader: As of the end of ''Toy Story 3'', she and Ken now share this role after Lotso was [[{{Pun}} thrown out]] from Sunnyside Daycare.
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* TheLeader: Share this role with Barbie for every Sunnyside Daycare toy at the end of ''Toy Story 3'', especially after his redemption.
