Randall will return.
He will somehow manage to find a door back to Monstropolis and seek revenge against Mike and Sulley.- It's no guess. It's already known he'll return.
- Unless they retcon it…
If Randall does return...
He'll immediately encounter Duncan, who will annoy the heck out of him because of how much he seems like a parody of him. This will cause him not to get anything done or carry out any revenge plans.- Or he'll fall under the sway of Johnny and Fear Co., and serve as an inside man for them at Monsters Inc.
If Randall & Duncan team up...
Duncan will do a Heel–Face Turn, representing what Randall could be had he let go of his resentment and jerkassery.- Or after the two are defeated, Tylor will finally have enough of Duncan's attitude and ask Sulley and Mike if they can banish him too along with Randall, which they will be okay with. After that, we will see them step into some sort of house where he'll be mistaken for an animal and have each eye bashed at with some sort of weapon.
One of the subplots will involve Mike trying to fix Boo's door.
We know he does fix it, but it's yet to be seen how he dug through all that wood. One of the episodes might involve Mike being seen digging through the wood chippings to get the necessary parts to get the door fixed.- Perhaps he'll enlist MIFT in helping him dig through the chips.
- Jossed. Season 1 ends with the epilogue from the first movie, so the door has already been fixed.
Someone will figure out that some humans enjoy being scared and find a way to utilize their screams of delight alongside laughter.
While it's probable that even screams of delight won't be as powerful as laughter itself, they still would serve as a secondary source of energy and it would be a way to utilize monsters who have a talent for scaring but none in the comedy/the position of Jokester in the new era.- Maybe it'll be Fear Co. that figures this out.
Characters from Monsters University will appear.
We could see how the former members of Oozma Kappa are dealing with the transition at Monsters, Inc. and possibly give Tylor some advice.- Partially confirmed. Sulley and Mike’s Oozma Kappa friends haven’t appeared yet, but at least the first two episodes have cameos by several characters from MU, including Rosie Levin of HSS and veteran scarer Killer Claws Benitez.
- Professor Knight makes an appearance in the first episode and is the second character to be seen after Tylor Tuskmon.
- Then we have Carla as a recurring character, and the slug who took a whole year to get to class appears in The Big Wazowskis.
- Tylor's mom Millie looks similar to Claire Wheeler. Maybe, just maybe, the two of them are sisters, making Claire Tylor's aunt.
- Confirmed, Professor Knight, Johnny Worthington III, and Chet Alexander will be returning in Season 2.
Randall and Waternoose's return in the comics will be subjected to Broad Strokes here.
The Monstropolis story in Kingdom Hearts III will still be canon.
When Sora and company are helping Sulley and Mike get Boo back to her door, Sulley takes the group through a shortcut in the cooling tank straight to the door vault, knowing that something occurred there that required maintenance to patch it up. Since MIFT does all the repairs at M.I., it's possible this could be the series to show what sort of damage occurred to necessitate their involvement. Tylor has other reasons for wanting to work at Monsters Inc than just being a scarer
As pointed out on the Plot Hole segment on the main page, there are other companies aside from Monsters Inc., such as Fear Co. and Scream Industries, that will still use Scream Energy whilst Monsters Inc. is in the process of switching to Laugh Energy, yet Tylor never once considers applying elsewhere to put his learned skills to use in an environment that can still support scaring as a viable job, even if it is going to be eventually drummed out by laugh energy once the idea catches on. That, and the fact that Tylor was scouted by Monsters Inc straight out of graduation, implies that Tylor had planned to join Monsters inc as his preferred job whilst still in university, perhaps for reasons beyond it being the top job to have in the current energy crisis whilst he was still in training. Tylor's family might have worked there or something similar, and he wants to join the company to live up to the legacy in whatever capacity he can, which is why he's willing to join MIFT and train to be a Jokester, rather than looking elsewhere to apply his skills in scaring. If there are more seasons beyond the first one, it'll involve Tylor rising the ranks of Monsters Inc. until he becomes a Jokester
For example, Season 1 has Tylor involved with MIFT. By the end of the season, he could be promoted, and Season 2 would have him work in another new place in the factory, and so on.- Jossed. He becomes a full-fledged Jokester in the season 1 finale.
Fritz, like Val, has a more tragic reason behind his clinginess and overenthusiasm, earning Tylor’s more sincere sympathy
In one episode, Tylor will learn more about Fritz's personal life, discovering that he’s a lonely old guy who lives by himself and doesn’t have any friends or immediate family outside the factory. His MIFT colleagues are the closest thing he has to loved ones, so he becomes attached to all of them and is deeply saddened when they’re promoted and move on (he particularly bonds with fellow lonely monsters, like Val). Fritz’s work with MIFT is the only time he gets to properly interact with others, and he spends most of his nights sitting alone at home and waiting to see them again in the morning. The monsters are not aware yet how much more powerful laugh is
This is why they are still using Scare Canisters that are much smaller than the ones seen at the end of the movie.- Confirmed. The finale shows the creation and use of the larger laugh canisters.
Roze is Roz
Because Roz was revealed to be spying on the company for the Child Detection Agency, she created a new identity so she could keep spying. Once the power outages are over, she'll leave again.- Well, Mike certainly seems convinced of it.
Adorable's banishment involved trickery on Mr. Waternoose's part
If he was banished for learning about the Scream Extractor plans, It doesn't make sense why he didn't tell Mike & Sulley about that in the movie. Unless he didn't know what was happening. Perhaps Waternoose made it look like he was giving him a new home. (and given the fact that he likes his hideout, it isn't hard to see why he hasn't questioned it) By the time he would know the truth about what happened, Monsters Inc went under new management after Waternoose's arrest. Season 2 possibilities
With a second season now confirmed, here are some ideas for episode plots.- Tylor meets a new scarer who is unable to adapt to the changes in Monsters Inc. Having been through the same experience, Tylor will offer help to that monster.
- Tylor is forced to come up with a new comedy act when the kids grow tired of his donut act.
- For that matter, one of the themes will be that the monsters, in general, have to come to terms with the fact that humor grows old if you keep using the same gags. Working on ways of coming up with new material will be the subject of at least one episode.
- This will be what leads to Tylor forming solid relationships with his fellow jokesters, as they now all have to work together to continue to thrive.
- Somewhat confirmed in the Season 2 trailer; children are getting tired of Tylor's usual donut act, with less laugh power being generated as a result.
- Randall returns to exact vengeance on Mike and Sully and brings back scare power. He gets to Duncan with his similar envious behavior and also tries to convince Tylor that he could be the greatest scarer of all time. But Tylor refuses and Duncan ultimately stops him. Then, in a scene mirroring his first defeat, Duncan and Tylor will end up throwing Randall into another door.
- OR Duncan will team up with Randall to help him get rid of Sulley and Mike AND Tylor. After that Tylor will finally have enough of Duncan and decide to banish him along with Randall.
- The MIFT team helps Mike rebuild a certain door.
- Jossed. Season 1 ends with the epilogue from the first movie, so the door has already been fixed.
- One or more characters (most likely Tylor) get trapped in the human world. As they try to find a way back, Tylor realizes he has become something of an urban legend known as the Donut Monster.
- Gary Gibbs introduces his best friend, a Palette Swap of Sully, who becomes Sully's rival.
- His name will be a reference to another animator who worked at Pixar, like how Gary is named after the late Rob Gibbs.
- George Sanderson's fur grows back (he was seen with it at the end of the movie).
- It'll come back in awkward patches, and he'll start wearing furred clothing to make it look better.
- Dean Hardscrabble pays a visit to Monsters Inc and meets Mike and Sully again, revealing she’s retired from being dean of the School of Scaring.
- Dean Hardscrabble will try to hire Mike to teach comedy at Monsters University.
- Mike will find he doesn't have the spare time to teach the class without cutting back on his duties at the company. To make up for it, he'll instead start an internship program at the company that college students can enroll in to train to be jokesters alongside the professionals.
- Fear Co and/or Scream Industries will send industrial spies to learn how to collect laugh power.
- After the spies prove to be a nuisance, Sully will simply offer to legally sell the information to the rival companies. Since he believes that laugh power is more principled than scare power, he may view this as a net positive, even if it may help the competition.
- Spending money on new donuts for every performance will force Tylor to either come up with another act or lose his jokester position.
- He'll invest some money in a set of plastic toy donuts, before adding other ring-shaped objects to his act.
- Whoever designed the scream extractor for Randall and Waternoose will try to pitch the idea to other companies.
- The Scare Games will be changed to Comedy Games.
- We will see more divisions of Monsters Inc, such as the science division that MIFT will team up with, and they’ll explain how laughs get converted into energy.
- As a gag, one of the departments will be staffed by lookalikes of the MIFT crew, albeit still more distinct than an outright Palette Swap like Gary.
- Tylor will go back to working with MIFT on at least a part-time basis. After all, it turned out that there were some things that he did well with it and it's not like there's any law saying he can't do both. If he can meet or even exceed his quota when it comes to the laughter, then why not?
- Sully will sporadically run offscreen and come back later, with the implication being that he's either visiting Boo or making sure her door remains secret so Roz can't have it shredded again.
- MIFT will gain a new member or two, to fill the void left by Tylor and Val. One of them will be convinced that Fritz is his actual long lost father, but Fritz will fail to even consider it or even pick up on the guy acting like he's his parent.
- An Oozma Kappa reunion episode.
- Addendum: Mike and Sully will hire them all to help Mike teach comedy classes.
- As a brief joke, a character will run into an Identical Stranger to Mike, mistaking him for Mike until he turns around to reveal he has a face similar to Sully.
- There will be a rise of angry protests throughout Monstropolis, not just the rival companies, but in the universities as well. They'll be complaining about how this new idea of laughter goes against everything they've known and taught for years, and be mad at the fact that "two college dropouts" suddenly started changing things.
- Hopefully, for the sake of every fan of the franchise, we see the return of one very important character. Who is this character, you may ask? I’ll give you one guess: What was said by said character that made all the monsters in the restaurant scream in run in terror?
Duncan created the scream extractor
The reveal of this would add another layer to his mysterious, shifty nature.