>rewatch Toy Story as an adult
>realize Sid is like 10 years old
>his hobbies are blowing up toys, doing weird kitbashes, and laughing like a goblin
>so basically every unsupervised boy with access to fireworks and a garage
>movie frames him like he’s Josef Mengele because he put doll legs on a fishing rod
>“he tortures toys”
>my brother in Christ he does not know they are sentient
>to him this is literally arts and crafts for kids who found Dad’s toolbox
>meanwhile his household looks like it has a CPS file
>dead-eyed sister
>dog is feral
>mom is checked out
>dad is passed out drunk in a recliner
>this kid is clearly growing up in a house where he has to figure out dinner on his own most days of the week
>but no, obviously the real problem is that Sid made an infant-spider homunculus out of a baby doll and an erector set
>toys convene like a tiny plastic Nuremberg tribunal
>“this child must be stopped”
>what do they do
>tell him gently that toys have feelings?
>reveal themselves in a wholesome way?
>maybe create a teachable moment?
>nope
>they rise from the mud like the cursed dead of Passchendaele
>mutilated toy homunculi crawling toward him in the rain
>Woody rotates his head 180 degrees and speaks in the voice of divine judgment
>“we toys can see everything”
>“so play nice”
>Sid: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>congratulations Woody
>you have just introduced a child from an unstable home to lifelong paranoid schizophrenia
>next scene Sid sees his sister’s doll and has a full-body trauma response
>the toys celebrate like they didn’t just create the first human victim of the Pixar Cinematic Universe
>Andy gets a cowboy
>Buzz gets a family
>Sid gets 14 years of therapy and a recurring nightmare where Combat Carl whispers his social security number from inside the walls
>then Toy Story 3 reveals he becomes a garbage man
>honestly king behavior
>survived supernatural plastic terrorism and entered municipal employment
>probably has the best union benefits of anyone in that movie
>still refuses to enter antique stores
>hears “you’ve got a friend in me” once at a wedding and has to go sit in his truck
>10/10 children’s film
>villain is a neglected creative kid
>heroes are immortal consumer products who enforce behavior through psychological warfare
>Pixar really said “what if your toys loved you, unless you’re poor and weird, in which case they will manifest as biblical demons”