History YMMV / MonstersInc

* MoralEventHorizon: Randall [[spoiler:and Waternoose]]'s plan, which involves [[spoiler:kidnapping children and using the Scream Extractor to suck the screams from them]], which if the effects on [[spoiler:Fungus]] are considered standard, would kill them through suffocation by sucking the very air from their lungs along with the screams. At least [[spoiler:Waternoose]] has an excuse: he wishes to keep the company going to provide monsters with their power, making him more of a WellIntentionedExtremist than Randall could ever hope to be.
** Hardly an "excuse" to kidnap and potentially kill/suffocate innocent children. A reason, perhaps. Not an excuse.

** Long time fans of the series will be very interested in [[http://pitbulllady.tumblr.com/post/47576256476/a-psychologists-professional-insight-into-the this psychologist's assessment]] of the main characters and their relationships with each other. Interesting highlights include attributing Randall's {{Jerkass}} behavior to Compensatory Narcissistic Personality Disorder and intentional emotional manipulation by [[spoiler: Waternoose]], as well as pegging Mike as being an legitimate ''psychopath''. Seems like EpilepticTrees at first, but reading the full article has the potential to blow minds.

* MindScrew: The appearance of [[spoiler:a gigantic [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory toy Rex]], eagerly asking if he got a part in the movie,]] in the bloopers. No, it's never explained, and yes, Mike and Sully are just as confused as the audience.
** If you recall, there's a giant lizard also "walking to work" in the first bit of the movie (we only see his leg and he clucks like a chicken). It's implied that Rex was trying out to be the giant lizard, whether he got the job or not.

* MindScrew: The appearance of [[spoiler:a gigantic [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory toy Rex]], eagerly asking if he got a part in the movie,]] in the bloopers. No, it's never explained, and yes, Mike and Sully are just as confused as the audience.

* TheWoobie: Boo.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Waternoose, a horrible person who is more than willing to harm children, a WellIntentionedExtremist that is just trying to save monster's lives (under his perspective), or a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds?]]

** The smile Sully makes at the end, at least when he first watched this movie. The way he looks at the screen, it's just... ''[[UncannyValley unnatural]]''...
** On the DVD, there was an Easter egg that showed the giraffe used to measure height on Boo's wall moving, then ''peaking around her door to look straight at the camera.'' It still scares the living daylights out of me.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Waternoose, a horrible person who is more than willing to harm children, a WellIntentionedExtremist that is just trying to save monster's lives (under his perspective), or a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds?

* NightmareFuel: When the monsters harvest screams from little kids, a monitor displays how much screams they have collected with a robotic voice. Strangely similar to [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour the telescreen.]] Creepy.

* MindScrew: The appearance of [[spoiler:a gigantic [[ToyStory toy Rex]], eagerly asking if he got a part in the movie,]] in the bloopers. No, it's never explained, and yes, Mike and Sully are just as confused as the audience.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Waternoose, a CompleteMonster who is more than willing to harm children, a WellIntentionedExtremist that is just trying to save monster's lives (under his perspective), or a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds?

** It's worth noting that this movie takes "Nightmare Fuel" to its most literal point. The screams of terrified children are what the monsters use for power.
** This troper was terrified by the smile Sully makes at the end, at least when he first watched this movie. The way he looks at the screen, it's just... ''[[UncannyValley unnatural]]''...

** It's worth noting that this movie takes "Nightmare Fuel" to its most literal point. The screams of terrified children are what the monsters use for power.

* NightmareFuel: When the monsters harvest screams from little kids, a monitor displays how much screams they have collected with a robotic voice. Strangely similar to [[NineteenEightyFour the telescreen.]] Creepy.

* NightmareFuel: When the monsters harvest screams from little kids, a monitor displays how much screams they have collected with a robotic voice. Strangely similar to [[NineteenEightyFour the telescreen.]] Creepy.

* NightmareFuel: When the monsters harvest screams from little kids, a monitor displays how much screams they have collected with a robotic voice. Strangely similar to [[NineteenEightyFour the telescreen.]] Creepy.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Waternoose.]]
** How is he a Woobie?
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* AccidentalNightmareFuel: When the monsters harvest screams from little kids, a monitor displays how much screams they have collected with a robotic voice. Strangely similar to [[NineteenEightyFour the telescreen.]] Creepy.

* MindScrew: The appearance of a gigantic[[spoiler: [[ToyStory toy Rex]] in the bloopers, eagerly asking if he got a part in the movie! No, it's never explained, and yes, Mike and Sully are just as confused as the audience.]]

* CompleteMonster: All puns aside, [[TheRival Randall]]. [[BigBad Waternoose]] had the excuse of trying to save his company, no matter the cost. [[TheRival Randall]], on the other hand, has no motivation besides [[ForTheEvulz perverse pleasure from terrifying the living daylights out of children]].
** To elaborate: [[spoiler:He participates in [[BigBad Waternoose]]'s plot to kidnap massive numbers of children and suck their screams out with a machine that is implied to kill its victims if they're subjected to it long enough, and unlike [[BigBad Waternoose]], he not only doesn't seem to regret it in the least, but seems to be glad that it gives him a chance to one-up [[TheHero Sulley]] as best collector of screams from children and eventually [[TakeOverTheWorld take over the company]].]]
*** It ''may'' be justified, because monsters tend to view human children as EldritchAbominations and probably wouldn't be as disturbed by watching ''them'' suffer rather than watching other monsters suffer.