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Tylor Tuskmon
Trading in screams for comedy dreams.
Voiced by: Ben Feldman Other voice actors
The series' main protagonist, who graduates from Monsters University to work for Monsters, Inc. as a scarer, only to end up working in MIFT when he joins the company the day they transition from scream to laugh power.- The Ace: As a scarer, Tylor was very talented at his craft, having graduated College at the top of his class, and even breaking Sulley's old record at the scaring simulation room. Unfortunately for him, the events of the film rendered the position moot the same day he joined, so now he has to try learning an entirely new line of work at Monsters Inc, without the aid of a natural talent for being a funny monster like Mike, or having had time to train properly for the role like Sulley did for being a scarer.
- Alliterative Name: His first and last initials start with the letter "T".
- Ascended Fanboy: Tylor grew up idolizing Scarers and was thrilled to be in a position to work at Monsters, Inc. when he thought the company was about scaring.
- Basement-Dweller: Tylor still lives with his parents and his dad still makes him lunch. Justified in that he just graduated from college and is yet to make enough money from his first job to move out.
- Character Development: At the start of the series, Tylor is shocked and upset to be placed with MIFT until he can prove himself capable as a Jokester, and takes any opportunity he can to try and get out of MIFT and on to the Laugh Floor. As the series progresses, however, he comes to appreciate his fellow MIFTers, and even hesitates to accept a position of Jokester at the end, telling his friends that he would rather stay with them.
- Chekhov's Skill: Played With. The Running Gag of Tylor’s klutziness and things ending up on his horns isn’t portrayed as a skill or something he does intentionally, but it turns out to be the key in his ability to make others laugh.
- Connected All Along: Sulley was the one who recommended him for the job at M.I., in no small part thanks to breaking his old record in the M.U. scare simulator.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To Mike and Sulley. All three monsters are highly skilled scarers (Sulley and Mike being the top team at the company for years, Tylor having graduated at the top of his class), but the paths they took to get to M.I. were very different. Tylor gets there through a college education and an immediate hiring right after graduation, while Mike and Sulley, who were expelled from M.U., work their way up from the bottom to get to their dream position over the course of several years. Where they differ is when the pivotal transition from scream to laugh occurs; Mike and Sulley's actions in the film and their discovery of laugh power land them the position of CEO, with Mike getting to live his dream as a top jokester thanks to his natural comedic talent, while both have to deal with the struggle getting the company into this new era. Tylor, however ends up proving to be unfunny right out of the gate, gets stuffed into a very low-ranking position in MIFT, and struggles to keep up given he was trained in a very different field, whereas Mike and Sulley excelled in their lower-ranking positions. Luckily for him, things get better over time.
- A Degree in Useless: He studied in scaring his whole life, which earned him the opportunity to work at Monsters, Inc. the day he graduated. All that ends up going to waste when they switch to laugh power.
- Determinator: When attempting to become a jokester and get a spot on the Laugh Floor after finding out about the changes done at Monsters Inc., he is described as "persistent".
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After ten episodes of dealing with the antics and misadventures of the maintenance team he was put in and struggling to be funny, he finally fulfils his new aspiration of being a Jokester in Monsters, Inc. and gets to work alongside Val, his new laugh assistant.
- Everyone Has Standards: Him and Duncan may not exactly be on good terms with each other, but even he doesn’t want him (or anyone else) to get banished as shown in “The Cover Up”.
- First Day from Hell: He gets hired on to be a scarer at Monsters, Inc., but the day he walks in the door is the day the company changes from scream to laugh power. Due to the chaotic transition, he doesn't find out until he's already cycled through two high-ranking employees beforehand, and ends up being stuffed in MIFT because his family owns a hardware store. He finds his entire group of coworkers are a bunch of Cloud Cuckoolanders and tries to get onto the laugh floor so he can prove himself, only to end up turning the entire area into a disaster zone. Lucky for him, Mike and Sulley give him a break.
- I Choose to Stay: Subverted. He was initially planning to stay with MIFT and only works as a jokester for one day to help save Monsters, Inc., but the rest of MIFT convince him to accept the promotion.
- Inconsistent Spelling: It's Tylor Tuskmon, not Tyler Tuskman.
- Informed Ability: Tylor graduates Monsters University at the top of his scaring class, and is frequently praised by the other characters for being the ideal Scarer. While he is shown performing exceptionally well on MU's scare simulator, it's never shown how well Tylor would have performed when scaring a real child. Even his attacking of Vendy 2 in the sixth episode, during which Cutter remarks what a fearsome Scarer he would have been, is not shown onscreen.
- In-Series Nickname: Duncan has yet to actually use Tylor's name, only derisively referring to him as "college boy".
- Less maliciously, Fritz is fond of calling him "Ty-Ty", while Val prefers the casual "Double T".
- Ironic Name: His name is Old English for "tiler", otherwise someone who lays out tiles—a common repair position. Tylor, who's parents owned a hardware store, absolutely stinks at making any sort of repairs.
- Irony: Throughout the show, he keeps stating that his stay at MIFT is temporary and that he plans on becoming a jokester. In the last episode, he finally becomes a jokester-in-training, except now he keeps saying that it's only for one day and that he'll return to MIFT afterwards.
- The Klutz: When it comes to scaring, nobody's better. Everything else, however, he's constantly tripping over his feet or causing a mess. This moves Ms. Flint to promote him to jokester for his "physical comedy", having noted of it from her daughter. Ironically, He contributes more to the company in ways many could never have imagined. He is responsible for giving the company their new slogan "It's Laughter We're After". He is also the one who brought up the idea of making bigger canister, which not only saves the company from shut down, but also answered the energy crisis. This and his clumsiness help promote Tylor into becoming an official Jokester.
- LEGO Genetics: His parents are seen in separate episodes, as well as a deleted scene
. His mother has three eyes and his father has one eye. Tylor has two eyes. - Like Father, Unlike Son: He mentions in the first episode that his parents own a hardware store, implying that they're skilled and experienced in physical engineering and repairs. Tylor himself is incredibly clumsy and far better at breaking things than fixing them.
- Only Sane Man: Compared to the overly-enthusiastic Val and Fritz, the Token Evil Teammate Duncan, and the Deadpan Snarker Cutter, Tylor is the only member of MIFT who has his head on straight. Banana Bread could also have been sane, but he leaves MIFT for a position as a Jokester at the end of the second episode, leaving Tylor to have this position up until Tylor himself also gets promoted to Jokester.
- Poor Communication Kills: It seems no one but Mike and Sulley are willing to listen to him the moment he walks into Monsters, Inc for his first day. Needs to report for the job? Celia is busy moving to her new position and tells her to see Miss Flint. Tries to get Miss Flint's attention? She's busy training new jokesters and sends him to H.R.. Learns that the company's switching to laugh power and says his parents own a hardware store? He's immediately assigned to MIFT without being checked for mechanical competency. Makes it abundantly clear to his new teammates he's not going to be there for very long? They just over-enthusiastically welcome him like a permanent member (sans Duncan, who just wants to kill him thinking he's gunning for Fritz's job). It's no wonder he's having trouble on his first day.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Savvy Guy to Val's Energetic Girl. Tylor is more calm, level-headed, focused on his determination to become a jokester and is the Only Sane Man of MIFT while Val is more excitable, talkative, and fun-loving.
- Smarter Than You Look: Tylor has shown to have a level of brilliance despite being a klutzy maintenance worker who studied scaring. In the First Season finale, Tylor advocated for MIFT to manufacture larger canisters to be able to collect more powerful laugh energy. Being a scarer he at least understands how screams are converted into energy, and thus understands that laugh power operates on the same principle.
- Super-Strength: He has this to some degree, befitting somebody of his stature, as he's able to dislodge old scream canisters wedged into the ceiling without too much effort, sans one that becomes important later on when it does wedge loose.
- Top-Heavy Guy: Tylor's chest is almost as wide as his horns and his arms are noticeably longer and thicker than his legs, which serves him well in the handyman job of MIFT preforming heavy lifting tasks, but also causes him some problems with jobs that require a more delicate and graceful touch.
- Wrong Line of Work: He was specifically educated to be a scarer, not a jokester. That being said, he's trying to learn to be funny while working at MIFT, but even he has trouble at that job given he's a klutz.
- You Are Too Late: He gets a letter signed by Waternoose declaring his position in M.I. in response to his outstanding performance as a scarer. By the point of his first day on the job, however, Waternoose has been arrested and the company is in a transitional stage of using laugh energy instead of scare energy, rendering his scaring skills useless.
Val Little
Makes sure the fun gets done.
Voiced by: Mindy Kaling Other voice actors
Tylor's one-time classmate from Monsters University, she's the overly excitable MIFT member he first encounters.- Because You Were Nice to Me: Turns out the reason Val is so obsessed with her "BFF" Tylor is because when she was at M.U., no one really noticed her at all until one day in class when Tylor asked her "Is this seat taken?". Telling Tylor this actually gets him to remember her and her response “You picked the best seat in the house” a bit because she shared his favorite candy with him.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Though she is usually goofy and energetic, she can put her foot down when she needs to and be assertive, like when she growls at Duncan to say something nice to Tylor when MIFT is celebrating his promotion to becoming a Jokester.
- Big Fun: She's a thicker member of Art's species and she's always joyous, friendly and sweet.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: The first of several on MIFT Tylor meets.
- Disproportionate Reward: She is a loyal and devoted friend to Tylor, only because Tylor was the only student who didn't bother to ignore her, even several years after they took that class together. So it can be considered a case of "I want to reward him just because he demonstrated basic decency".
- Genki Girl: Is full energy which often causes her to tire Tylor out with her over excitement.
- Meaningful Name: One of the many means of Val in Latin is "worth". Part of Val's offscreen adventures was finding her own sense of worth, which she achieved when she joined MIFT.
- Motor Mouth: She is very chatty and bubbly, and most of her dialogue consists of her going on long tirades that Tylor struggles to keep up with.
- Nice Girl: Is cheerful and friendly towards everyone she meets and is always willing to help them out as mentioned below.
- Pet the Dog: She willingly gives up being a temporary supervisor so Duncan could have it. This does cause a few problems when a cover up Duncan instigates nearly gets the factory shut down.
- Platonic Life-Partners: She and Tylor describe their relationship as self-proclaimed “work buddies”, to the point where she had such a blast working with Tylor in his Jokester in training day as a temporary assistant that when he is promoted to full-time Jokester, Val asked to be his permanent assistant. Whether there’s anything romantic involved is quite uncertain.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Val is too cute and huggable to be a scary monster. If anything, she’s more the kind of monster you’d see on Sesame Street or Moshi Monsters.
- Reused Character Design: Somewhat. They're not an exact 1:1 match, but her body shape and proportions bring to mind Art from Monsters University. The fact that they're both Cloudcuckoolanders makes the similarities even more obvious.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Energetic Girl to Tylor's Savvy Guy. Tylor is more level-headed, focused on his determination to become a jokester and is the Only Sane Man of MIFT while Val is more excitable, talkative, and fun-loving.
- School Is for Losers: Val dropped out of Monsters University due to seeing it as being too much of a commitment.
Fritz
#1 boss because he says so.
Voiced by: Henry Winkler Other voice actors
The enthusiastic leader of the Monsters, Inc. Facilities Team (or MIFT).- Affectionate Nickname: He likes to call Tylor "Ty-Ty".
- Benevolent Boss: While his eccentricities are well known, he's ultimately a nice guy.
- Big Fun: He's rather big and fat and loaded with fun for a fluffy, eccentric monster who's leading the MIFT team.
- Break the Cutie: A monster of adorable design and a big heart, he's crushed when Mr. Banana Bread accepts a promotion to jokester, thinking that he left because MIFT isn't special. Tylor gives him a can of Drooler Cooler—the same can Fritz himself gave him as a gift—to cheer him up.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Overly eccentric he may be, when it comes down to repairs, Fritz can get his team going without skipping a beat.
- Companion Cube: Fritz is deeply attached to MIFT's vending machine, nicknamed "Vendy", because it was installed on his first day at Monsters, Inc. years ago. When Vendy breaks down in the sixth episode, Fritz fears it may be a sign that he's also past his prime and should retire.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Oh lords, yes. It's only Ty's second day on the job and immediately he sees Fritz giving out bird calls to his teammates.
- Cool Old Guy: Fritz has worked at Monsters, Inc. much longer than any of the other MIFTers, and is a kind fatherly figure to all of them.
- Cyclops: Has a single eye at the top of his head.
- A Father to His Men: He values each member of MIFT as if they were family, and is deeply devastated whenever one of them is promoted to a higher position. In the sixth episode, when budget cuts threaten the job of one employee, Fritz volunteers to retire himself, rather than fire one of his fellow MIFTers.
- Malaproper: He often gets some of his words wrong whenever he's overexcited, which is a lot of the time.
- Meaningful Name: Fritz is German for "Peace Ruler", and this big cuddly monster is definitely both peaceful and a ruler (as the foreman of MIFT).
- Mood-Swinger: Generally a jolly guy by nature, but he can just as easily become sad when receiving bad news. Thankfully he seems to bounce back just as fast. He can also drop his sillier side instantly when a serious situation arises (as seen in episodes 2 and 8).
- Nice Guy: For all his faults, Fritz is this trope to a tee. He welcomes Tylor with open arms in spite of the monster not wanting to be there (not that he notices), and treats his teamsters like he's a father to them.
- Nonstandard Character Design: One of the few MIFTers—and onscreen monsters in general—to have a nose of some kind.
- Noodle Incident: Fritz apparently assisted someone, implied to be a former MIFT employee, in doing something illegal that made him an accomplice in the eyes of the law, something he's lived with for a good while. This incident is only mentioned once, and is not elaborated on.
- Not So Above It All: In spite of speaking of the sanctity of MIFT and its role in keeping M.I. running, he's not above bending the rules a little. Episode five shows him using a door that was supposed to be shredded for a quick vacation, in spite of the fact it's against company policy and could likely get the company shut down.
- Parental Substitute: Invoked and Played for Laughs. When they first meet, Fritz suggests that he could be a father figure to Tylor, or even a grandfather figure. Tylor points out that his actual father and grandfather are still alive, so Fritz settles for being a distant uncle figure instead.
- That Makes Me Feel Angry: When depressed, he will actually say "Sad sigh."
Duncan P. Anderson
Works overtime to undermine.
Voiced by: Lucas Neff Other voice actors
The assistant supervisor to MIFT, who seeks Fritz's position when he retires (or dies).- Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: He at first makes himself out to be a nice and reasonable person who understands how uncomfortable Tylor feels in his new situation. But shortly after, he reveals his true demeanor about wanting to take Fritz’s job, and wanting Tylor out of the way.
- Bitchin Sheeps Clothing: Duncan seemingly comes off as being kind-hearted, regretful, and emotional in some moments, but in reality, he merely acts that way as a false pretext to constantly get his way of being promoted as “temporary supervisor,” with the eventual intent of replacing Fritz outright.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His eccentricities can give Randall a run for his money, but he's far from incapable of doing his job.
- A Day in the Limelight: He's the focus of "The Cover Up".
- Empathy Pet: Roto seems to dislike Tylor just as much as their owner does.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He still cares for his mother, as evidenced by his exuberant letter and emotional phone calls to her. It's also implied he wants to be supervisor so he can support her.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He may be a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for Randall and MIFT's resident Token Evil Teammate, but he clearly adores Roto.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The entire incident in "The Cover Up" was something he was more than willing to instigate, but when time passed and he was on the verge of getting fired, he actually regretted his choices.
- Eye on a Stalk: Has four eyestalks, two of which are longer than the other pair.
- Freudian Excuse: It's implied that he's desperate to become supervisor so he can pay his mother's bills.
- The Friend No One Likes: Val barely tolerates Duncan, Cutter is very quick to make fun of him and always enjoys seeing Duncan suffer, and Tylor can’t hide his contempt and exasperation for Duncan. Fritz is the only one in MIFT who treats Duncan genially.
- Fuzz Therapy: He has an emotional support animal named Roto, who he keeps with him due to an as-of-yet undisclosed medical condition.
- Green and Mean: He is a greenish color and the "Mean" part is particularly reserved for Tylor.
- Improperly Paranoid: One of the reasons he hates Tylor is that he sees Tylor as competition in his climb up MIFT's ladder even as the younger monster makes clear repeatedly that he does not wants anything to do with MIFT or do any power plays. Even after Tylor moves to Monsters Inc.'s jokester division, Duncan's last line in the episode is him telling Tylor that he's got his eye on him in case this is a power play.
- Jerkass: The series' most unpleasant monster.
- Kick the Dog: He spends much of "The Cover Up" making Tylor his slave, constantly calling him "College Boy", and mocking him for having gone through all the trouble of a higher education, only for his dream industry to switch gears.
- Meaningful Name: One of the meanings of the word Duncan in Scottish is "chieftain", otherwise a powerful leader. Duncan seeks to become the leader of MIFT by any means necessary.
- Mysterious Middle Initial: Duncan's middle initial is "P" but is not elaborated on.
- In "Little Monsters", Val implies his middle name is Pepperidge, though Duncan himself doesn't confirm or deny this.
- Opportunistic Bastard: He's scheming to take Fritz's job, and when the opportunity comes up to try and discredit Tylor (wrongfully thinking he wants the job), he goes for it without a second thought.
- Pet the Dog: He has a fuzzy pink emotional support animal he caresses and behaves very affectionate towards. He's also willing to take the fall for the entire incident in "The Cover Up", in spite of the fact it could cost him his dream job, because he actually feels horrible about it.
- Sabotage to Discredit: He breaks an old scream canister and forces Tylor to fix it before it explodes, thinking that he can prove that the new recruit is ill fit to take over Fritz's job as head of the department. He succeeds in making Tylor fail, but due to Poor Communication Kills, he thinks that the monster is his rival for the position when he clearly doesn't want to be a part of MIFT. He also rats out Tylor to the rest of MIFT when he lies about the bowling tournament being cancelled, with a big smirk on his face confirming it all. And this came after he swapped out the bowling teams in exchange for Tylor signing a contract promising he will never go for Fritz's job.
- The Starscream: Subverted. Unlike the backstabbing Trope Namer, Duncan is not willing to off Fritz to take his job, wanting to wait until he retires (or dies on his own… possibly). Others he sees as a threat to this possible ascension, however, he has no problem dealing with. Case in point? In episode 4, he swaps out the bowling teams for Tylor so he has a shot at winning the bowling tournament and impressing Mike, then almost immediately rats out what he did to MIFT so he can throw him under the bus. Episode 5 also shows that, like Starscream himself, he takes to running the place with a full, egotistical attitude.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: It seems Monsters, Inc. has at least one shifty-eyed, scheming employee willing to murder his own coworkers so he can climb through the ranks, as Duncan's actions and personality aren't that far off from Randall's. Though unlike Randall, Duncan at least has some standards as he puts his full effort into his job, doesn't try to off his boss (as it was implied Randall was planning to do to Waternoose), doesn't try to kidnap children and forcibly extract screams from them and actually gets along with his coworkers… at least the ones he doesn't think are trying to take his future job. Ironically enough, he does pull a very Randall-esque cover up in the fifth episode to try and keep his job, but he actually feels awful about it when he gets caught, as opposed to Randall being Randall about his little incident.
- Token Evil Teammate: He makes it clear he wants Tylor out of the way so he can ensure that he gets Fritz's job when the old man retires (or dies). That being said, he's still very competent at his job, and isn't being The Starscream in spite of his desires—well, at least the "stabbing his boss in the back" part; the fifth episode has him act like a king when he's given a temporary promotion, in a way that would make the Trope Namer proud.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Is seen eating several platters of "Snotchos", (Basically tortilla chips covered in mucus instead of cheese), in "The Big Wazowskis".
- Tuckerization: Is the 4th Pixar character to be named after Darla K. Anderson, the others being Finding Nemo 's Darla, Bonnie Anderson from the Toy Story series and Riley Anderson from Inside Out.
Katherine "Cutter" Sterns
Lean. Mean. Full of caffeine.
Voiced by: Alanna Ubach Other voice actors
A snarky, crab-like creature who works in MIFT.- Building Is Welding: Her signature tool is a powerful welder.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Her ridged adherence to her work ethic and blasé attitude to the many deaths of her fellow coworkers make her a very strange individual.
- Deadpan Snarker: She is hardly ever seen smiling, and is possibly the only member of the team who takes her job seriously.
- Extra Eyes: She has three eyes, which probably helps her job when it comes to spotting problems.
- Flat Character: She gets the least amount of focus out of all the MIFTers, and gets no character development.
- Gadgeteer Genius: It was her who built the prototype of the big canister that could hold ten times the power, all within the same day it was needed. She was pretty confident that she could too.
- Happiness in Minimum Wage: She is pretty happy with her position on the MIFT Team, she does her job to the best of her abilities, doesn't complain about her job and is overall always in a good mood.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is Cutter, referencing both her large claws and her welding tool, which can be used to make cuttings in metal.
- Mundane Utility: She uses her welder to toast her sandwich.
- Not So Above It All: In Episode 5, after seeing how Duncan is abusing his power over Tylor, she implicitly suggests launching a scream canister at the former with a smile on her face.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Nobody ever calls her anything but Cutter.
- Remember the Dead: Played for Laughs, but she can recount all the deceased MIFTers who passed away on the job. She reveals she even has remnants of each one in jars, some who are still moving.
- Running Gag: Her collection of remnants from each of her coworkers who died in on-the-job accidents, as well as her love life (namely her having three ex-husbands).
- Seen It All: She's not very emotional about discussing the deaths of former MIFTers, indicating she's witnessed it enough times to not care about it.
Winchester "Banana Bread"
Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
A monster who speaks in raspberries who worked in MIFT.- Back for the Finale: He reappears in the last episode, which mainly takes place on the Laugh Floor where he currently works.
- Hidden Depths: In spite of being The Unintelligible, he shows a surprising amount of insight on comedy theory, leading him to getting promoted to a Jokester.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The rest of the MIFT team called him "Banana Bread" because most of them can't understand him, his major defining trait is that he brings banana bread to work, and that MIFT never bothered to learn what his actual name was. Ms. Flint reveals in the second episode that it's actually Winchester.
- The Unintelligible: He speaks in raspberries. Ms. Flint and Duncan seem to understand him fine.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Non-death example; he only appears in the first two episodes, not being given much characterization, before his promotion has him leaving MIFT. He never appears in the show again after that outside of his portrait on the leaderboards until the finale.
Roze
Voiced by: Bob Peterson Other voice actors
Roz's twin sister, who takes over the job of Laugh Floor F's administrator.- Always Identical Twins: She's a dead ringer for Roz, to the point Mike mistakes her for the CDA leader. However, Roze wears a green shirt, has no glasses or mole on her chin, has a deeper voice, and her hair is dyed pink.
- Ambiguous Situation: She may or may not be Roz in disguise all along, as she's absent in the finale when Roz reappears, and Mike explicitly accuses Roz of this in the finale. All Roz does is laugh in a deadpan way as she slithers away.
- Deadpan Snarker: It seems Roz isn't the only one the family who can master dry wit. However, Roz insists that she is less "bubbly" than her.
- Hypocritical Humor: It's implied she invokes this to mess with Mike, whom she hands a huge stack of paperwork for him to sign, while letting Gary off the hook for failing to file his paperwork the night before.
- Nepotism: Roz uses her authority as the head of the CDA to get the M.I. Board of Directors to give her old job to Roze, though it's heavily implied she did it to mess with Mike. Also, unlike a lot of other examples, Roze is far from incompetent.
- Series Goal: Is described as seeking to succeed where her sister failed and get Mike to file his paperwork.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To her twin sister Roz, as both are Deadpan Snarker slug creatures working as the administrative official of Laugh Floor F that Mike is frightened by. Unlike Roz, however, Roze goes out of her way to actively bother Mike. Still, Mike Lampshades this in "The Big Wazowskis".Mike: You sure you're not Roz?Roze: We're completely different.
- Troll: If the second episode's ending is anything to go by, she enjoys making Mike squirm by interrupting his class with a "Knock Knock" Joke to tell him to knock off the music.Roze: Knock knock.
Mike: Who's there?
Roze: Police.
Mike: Police who?
Roze: Police end this song!
Gary Gibbs
Voiced by: Gabriel Iglesias Other voice actors
Mike's new archnemesis/rival.- The Ace: He gets strikes on four bowling lanes at once.
- Alliterative Name: Gary Gibbs.
- Cephalothorax: Just like Mike, he's basically a head with limbs.
- Cyclops: Again, due to being a lookalike of Mike.
- Deadpan Snarker: He loves mocking Mike in a dry way, such as when he heckles Mike in his comedy class without skipping a beat.
- Foil: To Mike, whom he is a Palette Swap of. While Mike is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who runs Monsters, Inc. and serves as a top Jokester on top of teaching a comedy class, Gary is a Smug Snake who gets his kicks mocking Mike and likes to flaunt his ego just as much as Mike did during his college days. For extra comparison, Roze doesn't like Mike, but she gets along swell with Gary, and is fine with him failing to submit his paperwork while, like her sister before her, constantly asking Mike to file in his.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Inverted. He's the only monster that Roze actually gets along with (though again, it's implied that she's doing it to mess with Mike).
- The Heckler: Assumes this role to troll Mike during his comedy class... precisely when Mike was trying to explain the concept of heckler to his students.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He smugly reminds Mike he can't participate in the bowling tournament since the grand prize is a free dinner at Harryhausens—and Mike and Sulley just got banned from there. Mike doesn't disagree with him, but reveals he used his position to get the ban lifted.
- Palette Swap: He looks identical to Mike, except he has blue skin and a brown eye, and is slightly smaller.
- Phrase Catcher: "Gary…", always said by Mike.
- Tuckerization: He's named after Mary Gibbs, the voice of Boo (and also signed her name on one of Boo's drawings, making it likely that Boo shares her name).
Argus Blinks
Voiced by: John Michael Higgins
An extremely uptight Investigator from M.E.R.C., the Monstropolis Energy Regulatory Commission.- Determinator: In his twenty years of working with M.E.R.C., he has never taken a single break.
- Lean and Mean: Downplayed. He's extremely thin, but isn't evil or cruel. Just very strict and overly-devoted to his job. More like Lean and Uptight.
- Meaningful Name: He is named after Argus Panoptes from Greek mythology, a monster covered in powerful eyes that allowed him to see all around. This Argus has only one eye, but thanks to his little eye helpers he can see all around him and beyond.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Taking a two-week vacation does wonders for his mood and personality. He still writes up MIFT, but only with a warning.
- Workaholic: To the extent of not taking a single day off in 20 years. After MIFT sends him on a two-week vacation, he lightens up considerably.
Snore
Voiced by: Michaela Dietz
A human baby whom the monsters have to take from her room in order to fix her room without her parents noticing.- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Snore is very much like Boo. She is a human baby who ends up in the monster world while having to be looked after by Mike and Sulley. To top it all off, she is given a Paper-Thin Disguise much like Boo. The difference is that Mike is the one who looks after her with Sulley assisting. It's heavily implied that this is very obvious to Mike In-Universe too, which is part of the reason he volunteers to be the one to look after her, rather than Sulley, so his friend doesn't bond with and suffer more heartbreak over parting with another human child so soon after his experience with Boo, whom, as the first film's epilogue showed, Sulley is still heartbroken over parting with.
Thalia Flint
Voiced by: Hadley Gannaway
The daughter of Ms. Flint, she is a rather intelligent child who loves her mother but seems to be disinterested in her line of work.- Adorably Precocious Child: She is quite smart for someone her age, knowing and being very bothered by the fact that Tylor is not the first monster to attempt to use her to get close to her mom to earn a Scarer or Jokester position.
- At Least I Admit It: Inverted; she says that many monsters have tried to use her to get in good with her mother before, but Tylor was the first one to admit it to her face and apologize for it, which earns him her respect.
- Little Miss Snarker: DEFINITELY inherited her mother's dry wit.
- When She Smiles: When she finally laughs because of Tylor it is adorable. Ms. Flint sees footage of this moment and is amazed that Tylor managed to get her daughter to smile.
