Sheriff Woody
Toy story character profile
Woody
Woody is an old-fashioned cowboy doll that has a string attached to its body. Woody is the favorite toy of Andy and also leads the whole group of toys. Almost all of the toys in the room look up to him as the leader. The coming of Buzz Light-year is as sense of jealousy and competition between them. Woody's trademark outfit features a cow skin vest, yellow checkered shirt, blue jeans, cowboy hat and boots, red bandanna around his neck and an empty pistol holster on his right hand side and a sheriff's badge. Woody often represents maturity and has to suffer for his intelligence because everyone around him are more childish than he is.
Woody's Character Traits
Resentful
Woody is looked up to and well appreciated by the other toys and he is Andy’s favorite toy. Until Buzz, his arch enemy shows up. Andy knocks Woody out of his special spot and replaces him with the birthday gift he got; Buzz Light-year, space ranger action figure. “There seems to be a mix up. See, this is my spot.” Woody says. The toys sight Buzz and directly point out his stunning features and compare them to woody. “How come you don’t have a laser, Woody?” says Mr. Potato Head. "It’s not a laser. It’s a little light bulb that blinks!” Woody shouts. Woody knows that Buzz can’t actually fly, so he advises Buzz to fly and the other toys could see that he’s just a toy, nothing more than that. Buzz extends his wings and tells everyone to take a step back. “To infinity and beyond!”Buzz falls to the ground but then bounces on a rubber ball, lands on a racecar, circles a few laps on the ceiling plane and then lands back on Andy’s bed. “That wasn’t flying, that was falling in style.” Woody felt offended because Buzz was going to replace him as “Andy’s favorite toy”. “They’ll see, I’m still Andy’s favorite toy.” “Andy’s mine and nobody is taking him away from me.” Woody utters. In an attempt to prove Buzz wrong, Woody tries to push Buzz underneath the bed but instead he accidentally knocks him out the window.
Intelligent
Woody makes blueprints to show how he is going to make sure no toy gets left behind during the move. Woody creates an extreme plan to get him and Buzz out of Sid's house. His plans consists of him delivering his pull-string lines which scares the life out of Sid and saves Buzz. Woody uses intelligence to trick Buzz into thinking that “Pizza Planet” is the ship yard in which he can escape from this planet and into space where came from. At the ending of the movie, when him and Buzz are trying to race to Andy's car but RC's battery runs out he uses his pass knowledge from when he was tortured by Sid with the magnifying glass and uses Buzz's glass helmet to blast the rocket on Buzz's back to get them to Andy's car.
Leader
Woody plays a very important role of taking charge of all the toys; he is looked up to- he’s the sheriff. In the starting of the movie, Woody, as the “leader” puts in order a meeting about the move that is coming up and directs the toys to stumble on a moving buddy. On Andy’s birthday, the toys are extremely anxious to find out what Andy had gotten. “What if it’s a dinosaur?” Rex yells out. “Quiet everyone! Quiet!” Woody whispers. Woody calms them down by saying, “Andy won’t forget about us”, “This happens every year, calm down!” As the “chief” of all the toys, Woody sends toy soldiers down to the living room to spy on Andy opening his presents while Woody is talking to the soldiers through a walky-talky and guiding their mission. At any time that Woody hears a human approaching Andy’s room, Woody sends the toys back to their previous locations.