Well, in Toy Story 1, buzz and woody are fighting, Buzz slams his helmet on Woody’s hand, and Woody screams in pain…in TS2, his whole arm comes off, nothing. He gives kind of a shriek when the prospector tears him, but still.
Buzz falls nearly 2 stories in Sid’s house, but isn’t really pained, just sad (which means they DO experience emotional pain), but in TS2, when he climbs the elevator, before he decides to use his anti-gravity servos, he’s grunting and pained as he tries to pull the toys up…
So, do they experience pain?
Speaking of fights, since I don’t want to be obnoxious and start a million topics, you’ll love these: youtube.com/watch?v=Iyova2qrsaA
Yes, I believe they experience pain to some kind of extent like we do. It’s obvious that they feel something as small as a hug or as big as a hit to the face. With the toys I believe they also might experience a type of adrenaline rush like we do. So their “toy adrenaline” might numb or stop any pain they might experience for a short while.
Like when Woody’s arm came off, he was still “lifeless” because Al was in the room so perhaps he felt nothing ( I’m not sure). When the Prospector ripped his arm open, Woody did of course shriek in surprise, but I think it was adrenaline that stopped him from feeling any pain.
As for Buzz it’s the same thing. The toys probably felt an adrenaline rush. I could be wrong, but that seems to be the only thing that makes sense to me.
I agree with the other posters, they do seem to feel pain to a certain extent, though perhaps not to the extent that humans do. For example, when Woody is having is arm ripped off or sewn back on again, he demonstrates plenty of shock and a bit of pain, but a human would be in agony in the same situation.
The only other explanation I can think of is perhaps they have a learned reaction to what they think they should feel when something like that happens. Perhaps they don’t actually feel pain, but know that if what’s happening to them happened to a human, the human would feel pain and therefore they should react in the same way.
Just an idea, but I’m guessing the former is probably true.
Um, this is one of those things I could go on and on about with literally nothing, like that “This sentence is a lie” thing. Bye the way, welcome to the forums, YouUnculturedSwine, KarmaWolf, and Chopper_Dave.
This is what I call “taking things too far”. If they even considered this back at Pixar, I think they concluded this fact not to be really important. They just do whatever fits the story the best.
Also, I think Woody screaming and tearing out in horror for a while because he lost his arm would have got this movie… well, quite a higher rating (as in: viewable by insert age here and up). Making it seem not as serious and dramatic as actually losing an arm makes it look a lot more innocent and a lot less horrific.
I agree with the whole rating thing…something I never really thought about before…but I’m not really talking on terms of how the people at Pixar designed it, I’m just imagining what might be true based on the actual movies.
