History Fridge / MonstersUniversity

* Although Sulley scaring the living daylights out of the adults in the human world serves as a wonderful climax and SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, you can't help but wonder what became of those horribly traumatized people. Remember, these aren't kids that we're talking about. These are fully grown adults who have experienced a scare taken up to eleven and have come face-to-face with a living, breathing monster. In [[RealLife]], there are actual reports of similar incidents involving unidentified creatures that have occurred in remote areas such as that one. The people who experience these often end up being scarred for life and go through years of therapy to get rid of the paranoia and constant nightmares. They usually have to quit their jobs because they just can't go on with their lives until they're cured from that permanent nightmare. It wouldn't be surprising if they're even DrivenToSuicide. Who's to say those poor adults didn't suffer a similar fate?

* Why didn't we see a bunch of familiar faces(besides Mike, Sulley, Randall, George Sanderson, and a cameo of Roz)in ''Monsters University''? They might have gone to different universities, such as Fear Tech.

* A lot of Mike's behavior in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' makes a lot more sense when taken with the added context from the prequel.

** His general attitude towards Randall, and their open antagonism towards each other. They used to be roommates in university--not just that, but friends and study buddies--until Randall dumped Mike to get in with the "cool kids" in ROR. It makes sense that he would only want to rub Randall's face in his and Sulley's overwhelming success, and revel in trouncing Randall's score on a daily basis. It also puts an interesting twist on how Sully always had a tolerable (if slightly exasperated) reaction to Randall early on in the first film: it's not just that he's more easygoing than Mike (though that's almost certainly a factor), it's that Randall was never anything more to him than some easily ignored annoyance he met in college. To Mike, Randall was an old friend who betrayed him, which is ''much'' harder to forgive and forget. Sulley, in turn, seems to be almost protective of Mike towards Randall in spite of his overall friendliness towards the guy (especially in Randall's introduction scene in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''), which makes sense as he witnessed the moment Randall abandoned Mike.

*** A lot of Randall's behavior also makes sense after the prequel. Part of the reason Randall is so angry about Sully beating him in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' is not just because Sulley inadvertently humiliated him during the Scare Games, but because he's being bested by someone who's a ''college dropout''--one that he knows was a one-trick pony back at college and relied on Mike to not flunk his first few semesters. Plus, Randall only ever directly attacks Mike, but never Sulley. Before Sulley gets in the way, that is--he tries to openly kill both Mike ''and'' Sulley once they interfere with his plans.

* When Dean Hardscrabble drums Sulley out of the scare program, she does so on the basis that Sulley's roar technique would make a kid with a fear of snakes cry instead of scream[[note]]Which, apart from producing no scream energy, would also alert the kid's parents and risk exposing the monster world[[/note]]. Fast forward to ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', where Sulley inadvertently scares Boo. She doesn't scream - she cries. Dean Hardscrabble's test was a CallForward to the scene where Sulley scares Boo.

*** A lot of Randall's behavior also makes sense after the prequel. Part of the reason Randall is so angry about Sully beating him in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' is not just because Sulley inadvertently humiliated him during the Scare Games, but because he's being bested by someone who's a ''college dropout''--one that he knows was a one-trick pony back at college and relied on Mike to not flunk his first few semesters. Plus, Randall only ever directly attacks Mike, but never Sulley. [[spoiler:Before Sulley gets in the way, that is--he tries to openly kill both Mike ''and'' Sulley once they interfere with his plans.

** There ''is'' an extra personal touch however in that Randall got the spot in [=ROR=] that Sulley was rejected from. However Sulley's arc is maturing and realising that [=ROR=] are no good. Sulley, now OlderAndWiser, may empathise with what a ToxicFriendInfluence the group were to Randall, especially after they seemingly booted him out after one failure.