Woody (Toy Story)

Sheriff Woody
Toy Story character
Woody as he appears in Toy Story 3.
First appearance	Toy Story (1995)
Created by	John Lasseter Pete Docter Andrew Stanton Joe Ranft
Voiced by	Tom Hanks (films, Toy Story Toons, Toy Story of Terror!, Toy Story That Time Forgot, Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue, commercials) Jim Hanks (Toy Story Treats, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, video games, merchandise, attractions)
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Gender	Male
Occupation	Cowboy

Sheriff Woody Pride is a fictional character in the Toy Story franchise. He is voiced by Tom Hanks in all of the feature-length and short films and by Jim Hanks in video games and shorts. He is a stuffed cowboy character that leads the other toys in adventures in the movies. His facial features are based on Tone Thyne, an animator for Disney at the time.

In the first film of the franchise, Woody is depicted as being Andy's favorite toy and the leader of Andy's room, including all the other toys in his possession. However, his position is jeopardized by the arrival of Buzz Lightyear, an astronaut action figure given as a birthday present to Andy, who is convinced that he is an actual space ranger. Jealous, Woody uses Buzz's belief that he is a space ranger against him to try to knock him out of sight, in hopes of retaining his status as Andy's favorite toy; Buzz instead falls out the open window and Woody loses the respect of his fellow toys despite his attempt to convince them it was just an accident.

Woody's plan initially proves effective, as Andy brings him on the car ride to the pizza establishment "Pizza Planet"; however, he encounters the antagonized Buzz, who had climbed onto the bumper while the van was pulling out of the driveway and entered through the open sunroof while stopped at a gas station, and the two tussle together. Buzz pushes Woody out of the van in order to get revenge for what Woody had done to him. As a result, they both wind up getting left behind, hitching a ride to Pizza Planet aboard a delivery truck. While Woody tries to reunite himself and Buzz with Andy, Buzz wanders off toward a rocket shaped claw machine much to Woody's dismay. They both wind up as prizes inside the machine and are snatched by Andy's malicious neighbor Sid, who is notorious for abusing, destroying, and generally mistreating toys. With Andy's family about to move to a new house, Woody is frantic to plan an escape and encounters all of the toys monstrously reconstructed by Sid, where he discovers that they actually prove quite friendly and hospitable. As the movie carries on, Woody and Buzz gradually form a bond, Buzz making the realization that he is an action figure and nothing more. When Sid plans to blow Buzz to bits using a firework rocket, Woody devises a rescue mission enlisting assistance from the toys, effectively petrifying Sid by coming to life in front of him. Buzz and Woody manage to return to Andy's car en route to their new house. Buzz and Woody reconcile afterward, and Woody is re-accepted amongst the other toys, sharing the status as Andy's favorite with Buzz.