Wild Woody

Wild Woody is the main titular character of the Sega CD game mh:crappygames:Wild Woody. He is a pencil who is brought to life by Low Man of the Totem Pole to round up his Totem brothers who had escaped his control and created parallel universes and in order to gather the scattered segments of the totem pole. He tends to think highly of himself and likes to crack jokes. He is voiced by Joe Kerska.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) To write down, the first problem about him is that he's a complete rip-off of Earthworm Jim. He has the goofy personality of Earthworm Jim with a similar saying to match the silliness (where Earthworm Jim uses "Groovy" while Wild Woody uses "WIILLLD"), having a similar hammy inflection in his manly voice, and bearing a similar pinhead art style with his character design along with his cartoony, enthusiastic expressions.
 * 2) In the cutscenes, Woody himself is implausibly annoying with his crazed appearance and his loud voice. Even the "WIIILLLD Woody" line gets old really fast. While it may be funny the first time, every time it is reused, it's rather irritating than funny.
 * 3) Woody comes out short by personality and character development. He's basically the combination of the stationary of the Pencil cases from the intro of Art Attack and the personality traits of the Pepperami mascot. This makes him clichéd somehow. He's basically a generic "I'm gonna save the world" protagonist, hence the explanation.
 * 4) * This is especially shown when Woody's character design and concept is lazily and horrendously crafted, to quote Blameitonjorge: "It was probably the only thing lying around".
 * 5) * Despite being called Wild Woody, he isn't even that wild in the game. Only in the cover art, game over sequences, and the concept itself.
 * 6) With that said, he looks very uncanny and creepy in the CGI cutscenes. Even though this is early 90's CGI, it's no excuse that Woody himself still looks poorly animated. Especially when there were characters from mh:greatestmovies:Toy Story, VeggieTales, mh:besttvshows:ReBoot, mh:greatestmovies:A Bug's Life, mh:besttvshows:Rolie Polie Olie, and Antz that were better animated than this despite having 90's quality with CGI.
 * 7) Every time Woody gets hurt, he NEVER shuts up as he only says "ow".
 * 8) This may be innovative at the time, but the voice acting for Woody isn't bad, but it comes off as weird and mediocre nowadays.
 * 9) While Woody himself can erase things, not only is it inappropriate by the way he does it since it's essentially his behind considering that he is a pencil, it's hard for the player to erase enemies which leads to cheap side effects.
 * 10) While it can come off as hilariously bad, he has some dialogue that often feels very out of place for a game that is supposed to be a kids' game like "All I did was bust a gut".
 * 11) * Even his actions do this as well, such as the cutscene where he goes into the For the Hell of It! poster, his 2d animation when growing back to normal which feels more like "erecting", and wishing for a pink female paintbrush whose appearance is also unsettling.
 * 12) * Also, despite saying that his very name is the only thing he knows, he somehow spouts out one-liners based on pop culture as an example of flawed writing.

Good Qualities

 * 1) His introduction of him saying "Call Me Woody, WIIILLLD WOODY!" and his cheesy but enthusiastic performances and actions can be quite funny & somewhat enjoyable to watch for some (like the game-over screen).
 * 2) Sometimes, his dialog is so bad that it's unintentionally funny. (EX: "My! Oh my!!", "Hope you got insurance Remi", "No need to get personal." or "Alright! My creative juices are FLOWIN'  now" as seen in four of those cutscenes.)
 * 3) To be fair, the idea of having a pencil as the main character being able to draw up items and erasing enemies sounds interesting, despite it all being poorly executed.
 * 4) He's well animated in 2D. Even if he's not good-looking in CGI, his CGI animations are also quite laughable in a sense (especially when this was done via Motion Capture).
 * 5) When Woody first comes to life, he's shown to draw some pretty impressive pictures in the first cutscene, in a fast-paced if far-fetched and exaggerated way no-less.
 * 6) At times he can be tolerable to listen to when he speaks in a normal regular tone of voice rather than yelling like a 'crazy maniac' in the aforementioned cutscenes.

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