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“ | That's the last time I lose to you, Sullivan! | „ |
~ Randall swearing revenge against Sulley for beating him in the Scare Games in Monsters University, resulting in his villany, also his final line in the film. |
“ | I am about to revolutionize the Scaring industry. And when I do, even the great James P. Sullivan is gonna be working for me! | „ |
~ Randall trapping Mike and explaining his plan. |
“ | Look at everybody's favorite scarer now, you STUPID pathetic waste! You've been number one for too long, Sullivan! Now your time is up! And don't worry! I'll take good care of the kid! | „ |
~ Randall preparing to kill Sullivan. |
Randall "Randy" Boggs is the secondary antagonist of Pixar's 4th full-length animated feature film Monsters, Inc. and a major antagonist in its 2013 prequel Monsters University.
He is a gecko/chameleon-like monster from Monstropolis who works as an employee of Monsters, Inc., where he is the arch-rival/nemesis of James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski, the latter of whom is also his former college roommate and friend, whom he met during their youth days at Monsters University.
Wishing to "revolutionize" the scaring industry in his search to gain fame and fortune, along with becoming highly superior to Mike and Sulley in petty revenge over a minor incident in Monsters University, Randall secretly teams up with Henry J. Waternoose III to solve the city's current energy crisis, with Randall coming up with a torturous device to get as much screams as they need. Overall his goals, Randall mainly desperately wants to usurp Sulley & Mike's glorious position as the top no.1 famous employee of Monsters Incorporated.
In the films, he was voiced by Steve Buscemi, who also played Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs, Gordon Pratt in Homicide: Life on the Street, Carl Showalter in Fargo, Tony Blundetto in The Sopranos, Garland Greene in Con Air, Nucky Thompson in Boardwalk Empire, Mr. Wesley in Home on the Range, Dwight Diddlehopper in The Simpsons, Dorsal Dan in SpongeBob SquarePants, and Francis E. Francis in The Boss Baby.
In Disney Speedstorm, he was voiced by Piotr Michael.
Appearance[]
Randall is a reptilian monster who has a three-antennaed long crest with pink tips on top of his head, violet scales, green eyes, four arms and legs, a sky blue tail, and has the ability to completely blend in with his surroundings, making him invisible (as well as being able to cling to walls).
In Monsters University, Randall is seen as a young and bespectacled teenager. His three-antennead crests with pink tips on his head were shorter & he sometimes wears his purple glasses, (which he later got rid of to improve his camouflage powers, but leading him to constantly squint to try to watch better).
Personality[]
In Monsters University, Randall was originally a kind, timid, nerdy, gentle, shy, helpful, friendly, and hospitable teenage monster who would hang out with Mike as they were college roommates. However, after Randall abandons Mike to join RΩR, forcing him to befriend Sulley in order to join Oozma Kappa. He slowly turns on Mike by taking part in Johnny's mean prank to humiliate Oozma Kappa by having stuffed animals and paint fall down on them thus puts an end of their friendship. Then Randall became his villainous personality when Sulley unintentionally embarrassed him at the scare games which also serves him a comeuppance for his betrayal against Mike.
In Monsters, Inc., Randall is very ruthless, short-tempered, manipulative, calculating, heartless, and overall evil in nature. He is also a cold, selfish, truculent, and argumentative jerk who doesn't care absolutely about anyone but only himself. Judging by his intentions to capture children for their screams (and possibly never return them), he is probably willing to severely harm little children (or worse).
Randall was also shown to be murderous towards Sulley, as he once whacked him very hard with a scream canister during their fight in the secret compartment of the company while gloating that he had wanted to do that for a presumed long time beforehand. He then tried to strangle Sulley to death by wrapping himself around his neck, and would have succeeded had Mike not accidentally hit Randall with his remaining snow cone.
While Waternoose is Randall's boss, he is more compassionate and well-mannered than Randall and had more firm reasons for his actions as he was trying to save his company from bankruptcy and stop the energy crisis, while Randall was doing it purely for personal gain and enjoyment, and also for his hatred and grudge against Sullivan and Mike since college, showing he cannot get over from a minor problem. Randall is also quite sour shown when Watnernoose told him "Sulley is twice the scarer you'll ever be". Randall has no concept of forgiveness and compassion, as stated by Sulley. Randall only cares about himself and winning, and doesn't care about anyone else, including Waternoose. In fact, it is indicated, when reminded by Waternoose that there cannot be any witness to their plan, that Randall was planning to betray and kill Waternoose once the plan succeeds.
Other Media[]
Disney Infinity[]
Randall is included as a playable character in Disney Infinity and its subsequent 2.0 and 3.0 editions, playable in the Monsters University playset and the Toy Box Mode of all games.
Kingdom Hearts III[]
Randall Boggs makes an appearance in Kingdom Hearts III. He is voiced by Yutaka Aoyama in the Japanese version and by J. P. Manoux in the English version.
After being banished by Mike and Sulley like in the film, Randall meets Vanitas and the pair form an alliance. Vanitas fixes the door which Randall uses to return to Monsters Inc. with a desire for ambition and revenge on his old enemies. Determined to prove that laughter is unsustainable to power Monstropolis, he uses the Unversed to acquire a means for negative emotional energy and managed to weaponize the machinery in the facility.
He then quietly monitored the heroes and follows them into the Door Vault. There he tricks them before revealing himself as the one that bought the Unversed to Monsters Inc. and throughout their efforts to stop him and the Unversed, he mocks them over the intercom. Things soon start to go bad for him when one of the weaponized machines becomes unresponsive. But with help from Vanitas, he then unleashes the Unversed machine Lump of Horror onto the heroes after Mike's ignorance gets the better of them.
But despite this, the heroes defeat the Lump of Horror much to Randall's annoyance. Sulley eventually captures Randall and subdues him before sending him back through the very same door he was banished in. Sora then uses his Keyblade to lock the door for good and the door then gets destroyed again.
Relationships[]
Friends/Allies[]
- Henry J. Waternoose III - Boss.
- Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts only)
- Unversed (Kingdom Hearts Only) - minions
- Heartless (Kingdom Hearts only) - minions
Enemies[]
- James P. "Sulley" Sullivan - Arch-rival, former co-worker and attempted victim.
- Mike Wazowski - Former best friend & roommate turned archenemy and attempted victim.
- Boo - Attempted kidnap victim.
- Jeff Fungus - Former assistant.
- Celia Mae - Enemy.
- The CDA - Enemies.
- Oozma Kappa - Enemy team
- Roar Omega Roar - Former friends
- Hillbilly mother - Torturer.
- Sora (Kingdom Hearts only)
- Donald Duck (Kingdom Hearts only)
- Goofy (Kingdom Hearts only)
Quotes[]
“ | WASOWSKI!! | „ |
~ Randall Boggs reaction either greeting or startled by Mike |
“ | What do you know? It scares little kids and little monsters | „ |
~ Randall bragging about his skills after successfully scaring Mike |
“ | Uh-huh, sure... | „ |
~ Randall whenever he hears Mike making something up. |
“ | I'm in the zone today, Sullivan! Gonna be doing some serious scaring today. Putting up some big numbers! | „ |
~ Randall Boggs showing off in front of Sulley and Mike by gloating about himself becoming Top Scarer. |
“ | Shh, Shh, Shh, Shh. Do you hear that? It's the winds of change. | „ |
~ Randall's most famous quote. |
“ | If I don't see a new door in my station in five seconds, I will personally put you THROUGH THE SHREDDER!! | „ |
~ Randall violently threatening Fungus and referencing Fargo, when Carl Showalter was shredded in a wood chipper. |
“ | So what do you think about that kid getting out, Sullivan? Pretty crazy, huh? | „ |
~ Randall talking to Sulley. |
“ | When the big hand is pointing up, and the little hand is pointing up, the kid's door will be at my station. But when the big hand points down, the door will be gone. You have till then to put the kid back. Get the picture? | „ |
~ Randall Boggs tortures Mike Wazowski. |
“ | You still think this is about that stupid scare record? | „ |
~ Randall Boggs saying that the scare record is irrelevant to him. |
“ | Say hello to the Scream Extractor. | „ |
~ Randall introducing the Scream Extractor before attempting to use it on Mike. |
“ | Waternoose: Finally! I never should have trusted you with this. Because of you, I had to banish my top scarer! Randall: With this machine, we won't need scarers. Besides, Sullivan got what he deserved. Waternoose: Sullivan was TWICE the scarer you'll ever be! Randall: (growls) |
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~ Randall and Waternoose having an argument about banishing Sulley and Mike. |
“ | Waternoose: GET UP! There can't be any witnesses! Randall: There won't be! |
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~ Randall angry and starts to do his duty of killing Sulley and Mike. |
“ | Wait, please, don't, don't, don't! No! | „ |
~ Randall's last words before Sulley bans him to the human world and Randall is beaten up by a hillbilly family with a shovel. |
“ | Hey, what's- [laughs] Okay, very funny. I look good in a suit. | „ |
~ Randall in an outtake. |
Trivia[]
- Originally, Randall's names were Ned and Switt. He was named Ned in the early treatment and Switt in the original opening.
- The crest on Randall's head may have been inspired by the possible wings of Longisquama, an extinct lizard from the Triassic period.
- Randall is the second Pixar villain to be physically fought, the first being Stinky Pete.
- Randall is also the first Pixar villain to appear in a Kingdom Hearts game albeit not fought as a boss, although the Toy Box world based on Toy Story is featured none of its villains are and are instead replaced with Young Xehanort.
- For some reason, Randall is the only scarer in the first film that is referred by his first name on the Scarers' Leaderboard rather than by his last name "Boggs". At one point, this implies that Randall was actually going to be his last name rather than his first name.
- In the Monsters Inc. comic book "Laugh Factory", Randall has found his way back into the monster world, and both he and Waternoose plotted revenge on Mike and Sulley with the help of Sid Phillips, the main antagonist of Pixar's first film Toy Story.
- Coincidentally, one of the backgrounds Randall disappeared into in Monsters, Inc. is Andy Davis' wallpaper in Toy Story.
- At one point, Randall threatens to put Fungus through the door shredder if he did not get him another door within five seconds. This is a reference to Carl Showalter, Steve Buscemi's character from Fargo, who was killed by being shredded in a woodchipper.
- Randall does not appear in the series Monsters at Work due to the door he was sent through being destroyed.
- Randall can be assumed to be 28 years old in Monsters, Inc., as he was 18 in Monsters University, which may be true considering the events of Monsters, Inc. take place ten years later.
- Randall uses glasses in Monsters University, while in Monsters, Inc. he does not. This is because his glasses do not turn invisible like him, so he discards them. This also explains why Randall squints in Monsters, Inc. since he does not see well without glasses, which could mean he is nearsighted.
- Also, despite appearing in the Monsters University promotional images with his glasses, Randall only wears them once in the movie.
- Randall serves as a dark reflection to Sulley: Both were top scarers at Monsters, Inc., but while Sulley cared about making sure Monstropolis and the monster world for having world energy, while Randall was most concerned about being at the top thus receives his glorious life. Sulley also felt ashamed about the harm that children went through by being scared, while Randall had no problems harming children and was even willing to kidnap them to take their screams by force. Randall serves as an example of what Sulley would have become if he never met Boo and if he was more concerned about fame and never realized the harm children were experiencing. Randall could also represent what Sulley could have become if he had never felt remorse for the psychological effects he saw within Boo when he accidentally scared him and continued to hold onto his pride of being the top scarer subsequently. He could also symbolize what Sulley could have become if he allowed his arrogance from Monsters University to consume him and if he never met Mike and learned about the true value of friendship. Both Sulley and Randall will switch their opposite personalities at the "Monsters. Inc" film will happen in the alternate version if Sulley doesn't reform and if Randall never turns evil. Luckily Sulley redeemed himself by becoming friends with Mike and Randall is fallen as his good nerdy self became a ghost just when Sulley publicly humiliated him at the scare Olympics.
- Randall also serves as a foil to Mike: Both were nerdy roommate monsters who were not physically strong that majored in scaring. Randall had no faith in his abilities while Mike was overconfident. They are both even egotistical jerks; however Mike is a heroic jerk while Randall is a villainous jerk that cares about his absolute self. Randall is an example what Mike would ever became after being a young nerdy monster student from college. Despite Mike getting the high score in the final round of the Scare Games, he was soon expelled but climbed the ranks to become a scare assistant at Monsters, Incorporated instead while Randall got the worst score in the final round, but graduated and became a scarer.
- Duncan P. Anderson is also like Randall: both bitter and ambitious monsters, bully and mocks their enemy peers (Duncan to Tyler and Randall to Sulley and Mike), love their jobs and being top no.1 overall of everyone from Monsters, Incorporated, forceful of their goals and both love the center of attention.
External Links[]
- Randall Boggs on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the Disney Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the Pixar Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the Monsterpedia Wiki
- Randall Boggs on the VS Battles Wiki
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