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.
 * 2) * He has the goofy personality of Earthworm Jim down to having a similar saying to match the silliness (where Earthworm Jim uses "Groovy" while Wild Woody uses "WIILLLD" in a similarly hammy way), both of them being portrayed as silly protagonists in and out of the cutscenes, having a similar hammy inflection in their manly voices, and bearing a similar pinhead art style with his character design along with having cartoonishly enthusiastic expressions.
 * 3) In the cutscenes, Woody himself is implausibly annoying with his crazed behavior, over-the-top actions, and loud voice. Even when 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.
 * 4) 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 in a nutshell. This makes him clichéd somehow. He's basically a generic "I'm gonna save the world" type of protagonist with nothing else unique about him, hence the explanation.
 * 5) * 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".
 * 6) * 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.
 * 7) ** 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.
 * 8) 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 and mh:besttvshows:ReBoot that existed in the same time period and were better animated than this despite having 90's quality with CGI.
 * 9) Every time Woody gets hurt, he NEVER shuts up as he only says "ow".
 * 10) 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.
 * 11) 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.
 * 12) While his dialogue can come off as hilariously bad, it more often than not feels very out of place for a game that is supposed to be a kids' game like "All I did was bust a gut".
 * 13) * Even his actions do this as well, such as 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.

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 erase enemies sounds interesting, despite it all being poorly executed.
 * 4) He's well animated in 2D. Even if he's bad 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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