Sheriff Woody (Black Friday Reel)

Sheriff Woodrow "Woody" Pride is the main protagonist in the Toy Story franchise. This page will talk about his awful self in the Black Friday Reel, an early storyboard for the movie.

Why He Sucked
This accounts for the Black Friday/Prototype Woody, not the final version as the final version is more likable.
 * 1) Instead of being the honest, loyal, and selfless cowboy we all know and love, Woody was originally a cynical, spiteful and vile bully. In fact, this early Black Friday Reel version of Woody is so despicable that he might as well be the main antagonist of the original Toy Story.
 * 2) He treats the other toys like dirt.
 * 3) In the Black Friday Reel, Woody, instead of throwing out Buzz out the window by accident, threw him out the window on purpose!
 * 4) In the 1992 animated test video, while nowhere 'NEAR' as vile as his Black Friday counterpart, he came off as the malicious, passive-aggressive, and manipulative jerk who treats Buzz's earnest heroism like a joke and comes off as both selfish and lazy.
 * 5) He snaps at Slinky just for disagreeing with him and calls him a 'spring wiener'.
 * 6) "Hey, it's a toy eat toy world."
 * 7) He shows absolutely NO remorse for what he does.
 * 8) He doesn't even apologize even when he threw Buzz out the window.
 * 9) This horrible version of Woody nearly shut down production on the original Toy Story, and yet, Pixar's legacy!
 * 10) Even his original creator John Lasseter was unhappy and utterly ashamed with how needlessly mean Woody turned out to be in this Black Friday version.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) When the film changed direction, he became the sweet cowboy we know him as, who, while still coming off as quite of a jerk at first, improves over the course of the film.
 * 2) He actually got his comeuppance where Bo Peep, Rex, Hamm, and Slinky threw him not only off the bed, but, and we quote, "out the window, like he did to Buzz!".
 * 3) To be fair, he wouldn't have been like this if Jeffrey Katzenberg didn't want Toy Story to be edgier.
 * 4) At least his voice actor, Tom Hanks, still did a great job voicing him.

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