Randall Boggs

Randall "Randy" Boggs is the main antagonist of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. franchise, serving as the secondary antagonist of Monsters, Inc. and the second season of Monsters at Work and a major antagonist in Monsters University.

He is a reptilian employee of Monsters, Inc. He is one of the two arch-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 and became their ruthless arch-rival and swore to go to great lengths for revenge for beating him.

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 that minor incident in Monsters University, Randall secretly teams up with Waternoose to solve the city's current energy crisis, with Randall coming up with a torturous device to get as many screams as they need. Overall, Randall's overall goal is to usurp Sulley and Mike's glorious positions as the no. 1 famous employees of Monsters, Incorporated. This goal failed as Henry was arrested in the end, Monsters, Inc. transitioned into using Laugh Power, and he was sent into exile in the Human World.

However, he escaped and started a similar conspiracy with Johnny Worthington III to get Scream Power back as the primary power source of Monstropolis, this time manufacturing an energy crisis to be caused by Monsters, Inc. This would give him another chance at being the number one scarer, and also grant him revenge on Mike and Sulley for ruining his chance as number one scarer of children before. This also failed, as Johnny revealed his plan to Tylor Tuskmon who would reveal this to Monsters, Inc., this causing them to reveal his plot to Monstropolis and taking steps to stop it from occurring, getting Johnny arrested as well and Randall to have to escape again to look for further opportunities for revenge.

Roles

main antagonist - franchise
secondary antagonist - Monsters, Inc. and the second season of Monsters at Work
major antagonist - Monsters University.

Portrayals

In both films, most video games, and Monsters at Work, he is voiced by Steve Buscemi, who also played Mr. Wesley in Home on the Range, Dwight Diddlehopper in The Simpsons, Dorsal Dan in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise, and Francis E. Francis in The Boss Baby.
In Disney Speedstorm, he is voiced by Piotr Michael, who also voices Jumba in the same game.
In Kingdom Hearts III, he is voiced by Jean-Paul Manoux, who also voices Kuzco from The Emperor's New Groove franchise and Scrappy-Rex from the first live-action Scooby-Doo film.

Personality

Formerly and originally in Monsters University, Randall was formerly and originally a benevolent, shy, timid, nerdy, gentle, helpful, friendly, and hospitable teenage monster who would hang out with Mike as they were college roommates. However, Randall abandons Mike to join RΩR (Roar Omega Roar), thus making Mike befriend Sulley in order to join Oozma Kappa. He slowly corrupts as he 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 putting an end of their friendship. Randall then purely corrupts when Sulley unintentionally embarrassed him at the Scare Games which serves as his biggest worst weakness that he is a shy nerd and serves him a comeuppance for his betrayal against Mike.

Currently and purely in Monsters, Inc., Randall is ruthless, cunning, manipulative, petty, hostile, calculating, sadistic, scary, heartless, vile, and overall evil in nature. He is also a cold-hearted, selfish, truculent, and argumentative jerk who absolutely doesn't care about everybody but only himself. Judging by his intentions to capture children for their screams (and possibly never return them back), he is probably willing to severely harm little children (or worse). He seriously have resentment both on Mike and Sulley even since their youth at college since the three of them were adolescents.

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 long time in petty revenge on Sulley beforehand; referencing about his embarrassment that became the origination of his villainy and this was back at the Scare Games since he, Sulley, and Mike were younger at college. 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 a minor problem. Waternoose has a personal goal of making life perfect upon being the factory's chairman and also has environmental care for the monster realm gaining electricity power in exchange for his company to avoid bankruptcy while Randall has egotistical/selfish goals of being no.1 of the company to make himself worshipped upon both being the CEO himself and the no. 1 employee. He is also quite sour, shown when Waternoose told him "Sullivan was 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 witnesses to their plan, Randall coldly states that there won't be while coldly glaring at Waternoose, thus hinting that he plans to betray and kill Waternoose once their plot is accomplished.

In Monsters at Work, Randall hasn't changed in the slightest, retaining his cruelty and ignominy, but he now renews his former friendship with Johnny Worthington III after the latter saved him from the swamp family, subsequently aiding him in a plot to bring Fear Co. up to power. He also has abandoned whatever thoughts he had of being famous and being the top scarer as his conspiracy with Waternoose has been exposed in failure. However he still retains his grudge against both Sulley and Mike ever since college when they were younger adolescents, banishing him, always beating him since Monsters, Inc. and at the Scare Games as public humiliation that became the origination of his corruptible villainy. Randall then shows his full treacherous nature, shamelessly sabotaging and incriminating while hurting anyone who gets in his way, even the son of his former boss. He also retains his pleasure in terrifying children, as much as he has no qualms about making fun of his former comrade, Chet, though this drove an angry Chet to defeat him in return.

History

Monsters University

In the prequel, Randall (nicknamed "Randy") is first seen when Mike arrives in his new room as Randall is his roommate. The two greet each other and Randall seems nice, offering Mike first choice of the beds. Randall shows he has the power to turn invisible, doing so when surprised, leaving only his glasses hovering in mid-air. Mike suggests that he should use that power when scaring, to Randall's surprise. He soon follows Mike's advice of getting rid of his glasses because they don't disappear whenever he turns invisible. Even though the two become great friends, Randall is worried about school and wonders if he'll manage to impress the cool kids, but Mike reassures him. He follows Mike and sits next to him on their first day of class.

Later, while Mike is studying scaring, Randall decided to bake cupcakes for a party organized by the cool kids, decorating them to spell "Be My Pal" (the letters on Randall's cupcakes are replaced by smiley faces in the international versions of the film to which the smiley faces are likely to represent Randall being a grateful colleague to Mike). At the party, Randall tries to offer cupcakes to some girls, but Mike runs into him while riding Archie the Scare Pig, splattering all the cupcakes on Randall, which spell "lame," with the letters on them, much to his dismay (the international versions of the film, the cupcakes spelling "lame" have been altered with smiley faces).

He is later seen helping Mike study by asking him questions on phobias (such as arachnophobia, fear of spiders). However, Randall ends up slowly decreasing his friendship with Mike when he replaces Sulley as a member of Roar Omega Roar and thus was unable to help Mike and join Oozma Kappa as their sixth member since he is finally in with the "cool kids". His friendship with Mike decreased further when Randall took part in his group's prank on Mike's team, Oozma Kappa.

After this, he is frequently seen in group shots of the Roar Omega Roar until the final event of the Scare Games, where he faces off against Sulley. Randall is poised to scare, when the vibrations from Sulley's roar, cause him to fall on a carpet and involuntarily blend in with its pink and heart pattern, causing his scare score to be minimal, resulting in his former "friends" berating him and kicking him out. After this, he looks over bitterly at Sulley and mumbles his last line in the film, "That's the last time I lose to you, Sullivan!".

Because of this, Randall supposedly begins his gradual descent into villainy as his jealousy for Sulley grows over the years. Because of his hatred for Sulley, he also comes to no longer accept Mike as well, but not for the same reason. Randall seems to hate Mike by the time Monsters, Inc. happens, not because of anything that he personally did to him, like Sulley, but simply because of Mike's close association with him.

During the credits, Randall appears on one of the Scare Cards, eventually becoming a Scarer at Monsters, Inc.

Monsters Inc

In Monsters, Inc., Randall is Sulley and Mike's arch-nemesis and direct rival. He is able to harness his invisibility at will as seen when he used it to scare Mike in the locker room. He is shown to be in competition with Sulley and Mike for the glorious post of Top Scarer. He also managed to beat Sulley and become the Top Scarer, though the victory was short-lived when Sulley managed to scare an entire slumber party and regain his spot seconds later. He then furiously threatens to put Fungus into the shredder if he does not bring him a new door in 5 seconds. However, Randall has also constructed a "Scream Extractor" and tries to kidnap a human child in cooperation with the company's leader (and his own henchman) Henry J. Waternoose, with the hope of eventually rising to the leadership of the company.

However, this plot failed when Sulley was sent by Mike after closing hours to recover paperwork (which Mike forgot to turn in) and stumbled upon the kid, whom Sulley nicknamed Boo. He eventually deduced Mikey as being involved in Boo's release into the Monster World and tried to talk him into bringing the child to him, only for this to backfire when Mike accidentally got himself captured trying to convince Sulley that Randall was not up to something. Largely because Sulley witnessed Randall going in, they initially thought he was trying to "cheat" at the scare record. However, after his accidental capture of Mike, he makes clear that his plans did not even involve winning the scare record, let alone cheating at it. After Sulley and Mike are exiled, Randall and Waternoose go through with testing the Scream Extractor on Boo. However, Waternoose expresses distaste and guilt for having to exile Sulley and Mike due to Randall's negligence, as well as pointing out that Sulley was "twice the scarer Randall could ever be." After Sulley manages to escape and wreck the Scream Extractor, Waternoose orders an enraged Randall to stop him as Randall then attacks Sulley and tries to strangle him. He proves to be quite an adversary due to his chameleon-like abilities. However, when Mike gets annoyed with the fact that Sulley is not listening to his apology, he throws a snowball at him, hitting Randall instead, allowing Mike to realize that Randall has been attacking Sulley.

Randall gave pursuit and had them cornered at the Scare Floor. After learning the truth from Mike, Celia aided them by "awarding" Randall with the all-time Scare Record (though Randall was too determined to stop Sulley and Mike to care about his "victory"). He goes after the trio in a chase through the factory until he manages to grab Boo and escape into an activated door. When Sulley comes to rescue her, Randall surprises him and tries to send him falling from the door, lamenting of how Sulley was always the best Scarer and with him gone, Randall will finally come on top. Suddenly, Boo overcomes her fear of Randall as she begins to pull on his fronds and hits him with a baseball bat, making him turn different colors, then Sulley restrains him with a chokehold, followed by a snake wrestling maneuver. Sulley remarks to Randall that it looks like he is out of a job.

Afterward, he gets thrown through an active door while desperately begging them not to do it, that banishes him to a trailer home in the middle of a swamp in the south, where a Cajun family beats Randall senseless with a shovel, thinking he is an alligator. Sulley then shatters the glass light to the door and is then tipped over the railing it was leaning against and shatters on the floor far below, thus ensuring Randall cannot return through the door.

Randall's plan is further foiled when Sulley and Mike later expose Waternoose of his and Randall's actions as the CDA arrest Waternoose.

Monsters At Work

Kingdom Hearts

Randall made his debut in the third installment of the Kingdom Hearts series, as an antagonist in his homeworld "Monstropolis". Having been freed from his banishment by Vanitas who plots to use his ambition and desire for revenge, he reconstructed the trailer door and gives command over the Unversed to collect negative emotions. Randall plans on using his new friends to take over Monsters Inc. and get revenge on Mike and Sulley.

Randall is first seen invisibly watching Sora, Donald, Goofy, Mike, Sulley, and Boo head into the Door Vault and decides to follow them. Later he disguises himself as Boo's Door luring them into the booby-trapped basement of the factory, where he tells them how a "really nice man" saved him from "becoming someone's handbag", only to receive a rude rebuke from Mike. From here, he gloats to the heroes on his return and impending success, then vanishes as he waves away Sora's defiance.

After the heroes traversed through the factory, Randall accosts the group as they are leaving the factory floor and attempts to sic one of his machines on them. However, he storms off when it is unresponsive to his commands, only to spot Vanitas animating it as the Lump of Horror just after the heroes leave.

Pleased, he takes the Unversed to the Door Vault to confront the heroes. Delighted by Mike's ignorant dismissal of the threat, Randall gloats as the group is attacked by the massive Unversed. However, after the heroes defeat the Unversed, Randall is sent back through his banishment door, where he gets beaten up by the Cajun family again. Before Sulley can destroy the door, Sora decides to use his Keyblade to lock the door, causing it to disappear and preventing Randall from coming back to Monstropolis, thus yet again, ensuring Randall cannot return through the door once more.

Trivia

Randall Boggs will become one of the villains in Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa's Adventures of Monsters Inc.
Randall Boggs will become the secondary villain in Pooh's Adventures of Monsters, Inc.
Randall Boggs will become one of the villains in Ronald McDonald Goes to Monsters, Inc.
Randall Boggs will become one of the villains in Ash's Adventures of Monsters, Inc.
Randall Boggs will become one of the villains, and eventually the main villain, in Frankie Stein and Draculaura Go to Monsters, Inc.
Randall Boggs will become one of the villains in The FT Squad Goes to Monsters Inc.
Randall Boggs will become one of the villains in Tino's Adventures of Monsters, Inc.
Randall Boggs will become one of the villains in Bloom's Adventures of Monsters Inc.
Randall Boggs will become one of the villains in Charlie Brown and Snoopy's Adventures of Monsters Inc.
Randall Boggs will become one of the villains in Roary and Theodore's Adventures of Monsters, Inc.
Randall Boggs will become the secondary villain in The Irelanders' Adventures of Monsters Inc.
In the Irelanders' Adventures Series, Randall is Violet Parr's personal arch-rival since they can both turn invisible.
Randall will face Ryan, Meg and friends in Ryan's Adventures of Monsters University.
He becomes a member of the Chaos Crew in Thomas' Adventures of Thunderbirds Are Go. (2015 TV Series)
- As a member of the Chaos Crew, he bonds with Havoc.
Randall is Rango's grown-up mutant in Bubble Guppies: Gil: Cyborg Apocalypse.
In Ryan's Adventures Series, he is one of the villains Ryan would never reform.
Originally, his 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.
He is 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 it's villains are featured and instead replaced with Young Xehanort.
He is ranked #27 in the Top 30 Disney Villains.
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 shredder. This is a reference to Carl Showalter, Steve Buscemi's character from Fargo, who was killed by being shredded in a wood chipper.
It is occasionally rumored that Randy is his middle name. However, it is actually his nickname in Monsters University.
Randall is the only antagonist from a Pixar film seen in the Kingdom Hearts series.

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