What is it about
Randall that you guys like so much? The guy creaps me out. 
Yeah, Boo was definitely a little
âhot-headedâ when she got a hold of that baseball bat, but heyâŠI donât blame her. Heck, I was
clapping in the theater when she starting giving Randall what he deserved. Although, I must admit that I feel
rather bad for the guy now⊠
I think Randall is a cool character. His lizard build,
his color, and his super ability as a monster is what I like.
Randall is a definate underdog, if ever there was
one, and many people naturally gravitate towards those that society seems to have deemed worthless. Heâs a
minority, and apparently an unpopular one, in his own world. He is being used by someone, and has no control
over the situation, so he tries to justify it by making himself believe that something good will eventually come
of it, for himself and for others in his city. He is basically an ordinary person who got caught up in something
way over his head, with no way out. I can relate to Randallâs situation and what he must have been feeling at
that time because I have been in a very similar one myself. I know exactly that a âgoodâ person can be
led to do âbadâ things, or to have âbadâ thoughts. It is one of those situations where it is
impossible to say what YOU would do, or how YOU would act, or feel, unless youâve been there yourself, and I
have.
I also happen, unlike most people(and apparently, most monsters)to find the reptilian form beautiful
and graceful. Randall takes that evolution several steps further, though. His movements are those of a big cat,
like a panther or cougar, sleek and graceful. I can guarantee that if heâd been covered in fur, and had
whiskers, instead of scales, he would not âcreepâ people out as much as he does, even if nothing else
changed. Randall also has the most beautiful and realistic eyes Iâve ever seen on any animated character.
There is so much emotion in those emerald depths, much of it contradicting what heâs doing or saying at the
moment. Itâs like all this emotion has been bottled up inside for so long, and now itâs just boiling over from
the pressure heâs under.
I personally disliked the scene in which Boo starts hitting Randall with the
baseball bat, NOT just because itâs Randall, but because I see toddlers react with this sort of violence on an
everday basis, in stores and in public, biting and screaming and hitting their PARENTS, and they get by with it.
They can be, and are, some truely nasty little buggers, no matter cute they are. That scene also sends a message
that I find objectionable, with regards to conquering fears: if something scares you, kill it/hurt it. I have
seen this very attitude cost the lives of innocent and harmless animals like Ratsnakes and skinks, because
someone believed they were dangerous, and out of their stupidity(I wonât even bother to call it
âignoranceâ anymore)and needless fear, killed the poor thing brutally and with such savagery that
theyâd never direct upon a furry animal. Violence just begats MORE fear, and does nothing to conquer it at
all.
pitbulllady
Yeah, you shouldnât have asked that.
So, Iâm going to
very basically outline the reasons-
reasons.
2. He was in a bad situation which he could not get out of, and probably felt very trapped and
unhappy most of the time (hence his bad reputation). Nobody would ever ask what was causing this unhappiness,
though.
3. His kind is discriminated against in the movie. If you want me to actually outline examples, I
shall.
4. He looks good. Very good.
5. He sounds good.
6. And what he needs more than anything, is to
be given another chance.
(Oh, and he hates Wazowski, so thatâs one thing we really share in commion.
) In pitbullladyâs case, sheâs been through similar events to what Randall went through, but this isnât
like a necessary thing for someone to be a fan of Randall. I havenât experienced anything that Randall has, yet
I still love him to bits. 
Man, look what I got myself into. Perhaps youâre right, lizardgirl: I
shouldnât have asked that.
WellâŠhere we go:
[b]The
Star Swordsman[/b] - MmmâŠI see. Well, I have to agree with you on that particular level: he
is rather intruiging, I must admit.
pitbulllady
Randall being an almost âinnocent bystanderâ of nature, if you please.
Yes, I agree that the
guy definitely should have been given a second chance in life. What he did and why he did it are known to him and
him only, with a few details of his past sticking out for us to more intimately investigate. The fact that he
never hesistate to stop at nothing to reach his goal suggested he was in a tight situation that he couldnât get
out of, as you so elloquently put it.
Concerning the fact that the guy creeps me out is contrary to what
you might think, at leastâŠin my case it is. Randallâs overall profile and species do not give me the
butterflies; it is his mysterious personality that sends me diving under the covers. I call it
âmysteriousâ because I am one who does not know much about him.
Not to mention, I am also 100%
on your side when it comes to defending innocent victims of harm and cruelty. Boo beat up Randall because, in a
sense, it was the last and only thing she could do to defend the only friends she knew of in the monster world:
Sulley and Mike. She saw that Sullivan was in trouble and leapt to his aid. And what is the first thing you do to
an enemy that is tormenting your friend? You jump on him and give him a taste of his own medicine! Of course, she
could have settled it the other way and talked it out with Randall, but I donât think that would have worked, to
tell you the truth. Trust me, the very last thing I would do is hurt/harm an
animalâŠespecially if I didnât have any reason to do it. I love critters of all kinds, whether they be mammals
or amphibians, reptiles or crustaceans. I respect these creatures in every form â and yes, I do love snakes and
lizards. Heck, Iâve wanted one for years â heheh.
So yeah, you have some very informative and
interesting point there, Maâam. I enjoyed reading your two cents worth.
lizardgirl - If I didnât know any better, Iâd say that Randall is like
your boyfriend or something. (snigger) Iâm kidding, Iâm kidding!
Yeah, you also have some very good
points there. Perhaps I should be a little more lenient towards the guy? 
Boo did NOT beat up on Randall to defend Sulley. At two years of age, she is unable to
comprehend defending someone else, a concept which requires more abstract thought processes than a two-year-old,
even a bright one, is capable of. Children at that age are still pretty much emotion-driven, and the center of
their universe is stillâŠthemselves. Randall scared her, and she just reached a point where fear turned into
anger and violence. Like I said before, itâs pretty commonplace for kids of this age to explode into some
really violent behavior at seemingly nothing at all-why do you think people call it "The Terrible
Twoâs"? If sheâd stayed with them long enough, chances are it would not have been long before Mike or
Sulley found themselves on the receiving end of such an attack, too, probably over something they, as adults,
would consider trivial. IF Boo was indeed defending Sulley, it was not so much out of a sense of friendship, but
out of a sense of PROPERTY. He was, in her way of reasoning, HERS, like a Teddy Bear or other toy, and Randall
was messing with her belongings. Just as she probably would have reacted to another kid refusing to give back
her toy, or breaking it, she got mad.
As for Randallâs âmysterious personalityâ, THAT is
EXACTLY what attracts so many female fans in the first place! You see, many women are attracted to guys who have
a sense of mystery surrounding them. We really do not know anything of Randallâs background, though it is not
unreasonable or stupid to assume that it was not a good one, in terms of how life had treated him. He appeared
to have no family, and was the only reptilian monster in the entire movie, if you donât count Celia Maeâs
âhairâ, that is. I guess some guys are equally attracted to mysterious women; Mirage in
The Incredibles certainly seems to have her share of male admirers, yet we know
nothing of her background, either. To ME, Randall is like a male version of her-mysterious, a bit odd, at times
threatening, and at others, vulnerable, with that same inhuman gracefullness and those same emerald
eyes.
pitbulllady
For the bat thingâŠ
Pitbullladyâs
right. And a side comment for that would be Randall would probably be having a permanent headache at that point
(bashing your head into a door frame and having your fronds pined by a door is not helped by being bashed on the
head heh)
His mysterious personalityâŠyet again right.
For you Mitch, I see your point. Knowing next
to nothing about a person gives the impression that you have NO idea who they are and what they are capable
of.
In terms of RandallâŠ
His minority with no family or friends, who is CONSTANTLY ridiculed by
Wazowski. Not to mention losing his position as Top Scarer to his rival, which didnât help him at all.
I
suppose one thing is is that we do not see the true Randall. A bit which we see in the other material on the DVD
(Outtakes and that Coffee thing). So all weâre basically seeing is Randall in this tight situation fighting with
his âother selfâ (the one who is blinded by the fact that everything that is going on is
wrong)
Recently figured out why his âexhileâ REALLY got to me. Randall was ordered to take
out Sullivan and Wazowski. But he was blinded by rage, which is common, at least to me, amoung those with a kill
agenda.
But when Sullivan and Wazowski exhiled him they ENJOYED it. With smiles and everything. Not to mention
topping it off by destroying the door even when it didnât work.
JustâŠseemingly KILLING and just laughing
about it is just plain sick.
I donât think that Randall initially had a âkill agendaâ, since
that would certainly imply that he had been planning all along to kill someone, and I donât believe that to be
the case. If that were so, WHY did he tell Mike that "soon, even the âGreat James P. Sullivanâ will be
working for ME"? Dead people make lousy employees, you know. I donât even think that given Randallâs
strong Type Three personality, that the real objects of his hatred and anger were even Sullivan and Wazowski, as
easy as I can understand disliking the latter myself. They were just physical symbols, more or less, for what
Randall saw as his own shortcomings-they had families, they had popularity with co-workers AND the boss, they
seemed to have everything he didnât, and had taken away the one thing he HAD-the Top Scarer position. Being
ordered by Waternoose to kill them simply did two things-one, it was the final degree of heat applied to an
already-overheated emotional pressure cooker, and two, it really pushed Randall into a desparate, instinctive
kill-or-be-killed mode. It was not really Sullivan and Wawowski that posed that threat to him, but Waternoose,
but he could not turn on his boss, who was clearly calling all the shots, so he had to have a target, and was
more or less handed one at that point. Of course, as weâve often discussed, BOO was NOT in his sights as a
target, even though heâd been ordered to kill HER as well. I have little doubts that he intened to spare her,
since his anger and frustration had not involved her at all.
Still, itâs a great point that when Sulley
and Mike throw Randall into the trailer, they make a game of it. They had had to have taken time to discuss what
to do with him, and to them, this was great fun, throwing someone else to their possible death. That did nothing
but to bring them down to an even lower level, in my opinion, than Randall had ever sunk to. No one ordered them
to do that, no one held any threat over their heads if they failed to do that, unlike in Randallâs case. They
CHOSE to do that, they ENJOYED doing that to him, even though there WERE other choices available to them, and
they showed no remorse whatsoever. How does that make someone a âheroâ, I must
ask?
pitbulllady
No, that would be me, actually. :3 **end impulsive fangirl-ish statement
here**
But, I agree with lizardgirlâs list of wonderful attributes; particularly 4 and
Mmyeah. With 2-year-olds, âadorableâ
typically ends after about a day and a half.
pitbulllady - Alright, I will quite arguing with you here, Maâam. I have hit dead
ends at every corner and absolutely cannot find a way to further find fault in your
(or my) case. Which is good, because it shows that you know how to settle a discussion and explain particular
information (such as the one weâve been having), whilst I still have much to learn.
Letâs just say that
I will always despise Randall, but shall view him in a different lightâŠfrom now on.
DoubleLatte - How about I just christen you, lizardgirl, and pitbulllady as
the official fan-girls of Randall? That should settle everything â heheh.
I
guess why I can see Randall differently is because all he wanted was to be the top scarer. My football teamâs
motto was âWhat ever it takes.â I guess he really wanted to win. I donât blame him.
But
thatâs exactly it, TSS- remember that part in the film, when Randall is chasing Mike, Sulley and Boo, and they
run onto the Scare Floor. As a diversion, Celia says on the speakerphone that Randall has broken the Scare
Record, and whatâs the first thing that Randall says?
âWhat? No, I DID NOT!â
If he was
SO evil, without any scruples whatsoever, he wouldâve been like, "Thanks, yeah, I did, but Iâve got other
stuff to attend to. Now shoo." But he wasnât, because he wanted to get that Scare Record fair and square.
Take a look at the expression on his face when Wazowski accuses him of cheating. He almost explodes, because that
accusation is probably, in Randallâs view, as bad as calling Randall a freak outright.
There is a good
heart in there, itâs just that other stuff has changed him.
And yes, Iâm his girlfriend. Heâs mine,
I say!
Excellent points
there, Lizardgirl. Whatever Randallâs faults may be(and I DARE anyone on this board to claim that THEY are
without faults, themselves)dishonesty was NOT one of them! Randall was NOT a cheater, and obviously held
cheating in a very low opinion. The Scream Extractor was NOT built, as so many reviewers have claimed, to help
Randall beat Sulley. It was not even connected to the official scare Board which tallied the Scarersâ totals,
so any screams collected by it would not have counted towards Randallâs totals at all. Randall even tells Mike
that the Scream Extractor has nothing to do with the Scare record. Randall also refused to accept credit for
something he didnât do, even though it WAS something that meant a whole lot to him. If he could not beat Sulley
and Mike honestly, by his own merits, then he would have been willing to accept defeat. I think that Randall
probably suspected, just as many of us on the Boggsâ Board have, that the REAL reason why heâd been stuck in
second place for so long had nothing so much to do with Sulleyâs talents, or Randallâs lack thereof, but of
something dishonest going on behind the scenes, that Sulley himself was not remotely aware of, but since he was
in no position to say anything about it due to the fact that the one behind it held the other end of the
proverbial noose around Randallâs neck, he had to lash out at SOMEONE, so Sulley and Mike(especially with Mike
constantly taunting him about it)provided convenient targets. Itâs like Earl Hickey said, "REAL men bottle
up their emotions inside until they canât hold 'em in any longer, then they just explode in a fit of anger and
take it all out by punchinâ the crap outa somebody or something that doesnât really have anything to do with
whatever it was that they were mad about in the first place"!
pitbulllady
lizardgirl - Interesting. I
also agree in that those are some very good points.
Let me see if I can word this correctly, in a
stage-by-stage format:
on what went on in Randallâs work life, so to speak.
somebody, so he chose to do it on Sulley and Mike, two guys who not only worked on
the same floor as Randall, but who also were the top dogs concerning the [i]Scare
Leader[/i] rank. Randall couldnât let his feelings known at his own boss, so he "let it all
out" on Mike and Sulley.
for going a little âover the edgeâ to attain his goal. The last thing he wanted to do was to be caught
red handed and in an embarassing and critical situationâŠespecially if it involved breaking the rules â of
course, who does want to be in the middle of a situation such as that?
Correct me if Iâm wrong on these pointsâŠ
As a side-note, Iâd like to know more of Randallâs
back-story. I can understand why he hooked up with Waternoose in the first place: to gain more popularity,
perhaps, or to achieve a higher position on the Scare Floor. But what else was going on in the back of his brain?
I would love to see more of his good side â and we saw a little bit of it in the film and in the outtakes â
that is hidden behind his unveiled intentionsâŠ
The answers to the first questions
are âYESâ. That is the situation, and again, I have the unique position of having been in that
situation myself. As for getting caught having something to do with the Scream Extractor, there was far more at
stake there than simply being caught in an embarrassing situation. Waternoose demonstrated that he had no qualms
about âbanishingâ an old family friend(Sulley)whoâd crossed him, so you have to ask youself, what
would he do someone he didnât LIKE if that person got on his bad side? Sulley probably wasnât the only person,
over the years, even before Randall came to work at M.I., who had met some nasty fate for having gotten on
Waternooseâs you-know-what list, and chances are, Randall had witnessed worst things from his boss while working
on that machine. Being âembarrassedâ was therefore the LEAST of Randallâs concerns.
Given my
own experiences with Waternoose types(and Iâve worked for a few), I also do not believe it was so much as matter
of Randall âhooking upâ with Waternoose, as it was Waternoose choosing HIM. People like Waternoose
like to always believe that they are calling the shots, and making all the plans. That means that for a regular
employee(and one who isnât that well-liked)to just come up to the Head Honcho and suggest some radical plan AND
have the boss accept it, is comparable to Al Quaida denouncing violence-AINâT gonna happen! Waternoose would
have come up with the plan, but lacking in engineering and mechanical skills himself, would have needed someone
to actually carry out the developement, building and testing of a prototype machine. Now, when large companies
hire people, you are often given an aptitude test that tells your employer where youâd best fit in, skill-wise
and personality-wise. Your resumeâ will also show what your educational and previous work background is, and
your employer, of course, will have access to all these records. Waternoose would have needed someone from
within the company, preferably, someone already on the payroll, to avoid any extra paper trail that might have
alerted some nosy person in the Payroll or Accounting Depts. that something was amiss, and all he would have to
have done was to formulate an idea of what KIND of employee he needed, and ran his ideas through the employee
data bank. He would have needed someone with obvious engineering and mechanical skills, for sure, and most
likely Randall either had a degree in one or both, or had demonstrated considerable aptitude for such on his
test. Waternoose also needed someone who was reliable, who would come to work on
time and do what he was told-no questions asked. He would have to be someone who did not have issues with
blabbing to everyone else about what he was doing, so an individual who was unpopular and generally avoided by
the other employees was just about perfect. Randallâs aptitude test probably also showed that he had a strong
Type Three personality, even if they didnât call it that; it still would have indicated that he was driven by
competition and a need to succede. Heâd also need a motive-a reason for doing something that he
knew was unethical at the least, and this is where a bit of behind-the-scenes
tweaking of the Scare Boards could come in very handy by keeping Randallâs comfort zone at a minimum, and his
stress level at not being able to succede, no matter what, high enough to motivate him to get the machine built
in time to make Scaring a thing of the past, and the Scream Record a moot point. It was not so much a matter of
RANDALL breaking the Scream Record, but just making sure it did not get broken, in other words, so at least he
could rest assured that he didnât actually get beaten at it by someone else. Better to forfeit the game that to
play it out and lose.
Most of all, though, Waternoose needed someone who would be
expendable-someone who, if something were to happen to them, would hardly be
missed-someone with no family, no close friends, no âSignificant Otherâ who would go running to the
authorities and bring about all sorts of inconvenient investigations and charges and insurance claims and
what-nots against the company. He needed someone he could USE, and then discard
like last nightâs dinner napkin, once they had fulfilled their use to him(for the good of the company, of
course), and no one would care, and that someone, that name that would have just kept popping up on the employee
records like a greasy spot on a shirt that just wonât wash away, would have been Randall Boggs. From that scene
near the end, when Waternoose and the CDA agents are waiting on the Scare Floor for the âperpetratorsâ
to arrive via Booâs door, I have little doubt that he expected RANDALL, NOT Sulley and Mike, to be on that door,
and that heâd had a âPlan Bâ all along for Randall to take the fall IF the Scream Extractor was
discovered, and that can leave little doubt that he also had planned all along for Randall to just quietly
disappear once his role in developing and building and testing the machine was done, and I donât mean
âdisappearâ as in Randallâs usual form of âdisappearingâ, either. Iâm talking permanently
disappeared, gone bye-bye, feedinâ- the- fishies-at-the-bottom-of-some-mountain-lake, or
dying-of-hypothermia-in-some-remote-corner-of-the-Human-World disappear. In spite of Randallâs apparent
self-assurance, as expressed to Mike, that he was going to be rewarded handsomely with some cushy executive
position within the company and all the respect and power he assumed would come with it, I think that in the back
of his mind, Randall KNEW he was being used, and probably at the least would not get
paid jack-you-know-what for doing all this work, but there was not a thing he could do about it. He clearly had
no love lost for his boss, nor vice versa, and most likely had real reason to fear him, so he was powerless to
act on that intuition. Randall had reached that point, emotionally, where he was little more than an animal
caught in a trap with no way out, and even a gentle pet will bite and hurt you if you get too close in those
circumstances. Mike and Sulley just happened to be the ones who got too close.
pitbulllady
You kow, I wonder what would happen if Randall was the most respected monster in the company.
I think it would be cool to see a story from his view point.
I just wonder how the situation would have differed if
someone else entirely had been given the position of Top Scarer instead of Sully. I think there was a little more
than just some work-related (and rather one-sided) animosity that Randall held towards Sullivan. Anybody hates
the Bossâ favorite brown-noser/family friend employee, but what probably got more to Randall and not everyone
else, was Sullivanâs likeable personality: He was modest, but also an extrovert. He was certainly more outgoing,
which is something that requires a sense of self-worth that comes with having social support to reinforce it.
That means having family and friends that love you and always be there for you to cheer you on when the times get
rough, or talk some sense into you when they know youâre on the wrong track. Like PBL mentioned, I really donât
think Randall had any of that given his personality and obvious insecurities in general. Unless he had had a
rocky relationship with his family and had kept all communication lines closed while he went off to college and
live in another city, thereâs no reason to assume Randall had any kind of proper social support or was brought
up in a nurturing environment as a child. I think this factor also makes it safe to assume that he had never been
given anything in life as easily as Sullivan, which is actually kind of obvious in the movie itself. That,
coupled with being ranked as Top Scarer, would give Randall ample reason to hate the guyâs guts; Sullivan had
everything that he didnât have, and was probably much less deserving from
Randallâs point of view, considering how little Sullivan had to work for it.
Everything PBL said, I
would love to read in a fanfic. Itâll definitely open quite a few eyes.
Unless heâs been cheating, I very much doubt
that. 
Monstropolisâ most eligible bachelor.
Sulley is not as modest as he makes people think. Remember the scene where itâs the
end of a day of scaring, and he and Mike are just finishing some paperwork and are walking off of the Scarefloor.
Sulley says something along the lines of, âThat scare recordâs in the BAG!â Add to that Mikeâs
obvious cockiness, and Randall has plenty of reasons to hate the pair.
Youâre right, DL; they DO have
everything Randall ever had, and the sad thing is that Randall was denied it all for some unknown reason. It
might even have been simply the way Randall looked.
If anyone here has ever seen that episode of The
Simpsons with Frank Grimes, who has become jealous of Homer, then itâs pretty much exactly the same
situation.
-Homer is Sulley, and Frank is Randall.
-Homer has many friends and is respected by most,
whilst Frank is alone and unhappy.
-Homer does no work and generally lazes about whilst Frank does more than
just work his socks off- he works his socks off without any rewards!
-Homer has an amazing house and family,
and Frank lives in an apartment situated between two bowling alleys.
-Frank gets so angry about the situation
that he goes around saying, 'oh, Iâm Homer, so I donât need to do this and that for everyone to like me, oh, I
donât need to wear gloves whilst touching these exposed wiresâ.
-He then gets killed.
Frankâs
reasoning for why he has nothing and Homer has everything despite Homerâs laziness is something like, 'this is
the problem with Americaâ. I donât really know what he means by this, and Iâm not sure if itâs actually true,
but whilst my friends laughed at Frankâs predicament, I was upset because he had actually done nothing wrong,
yet had had so much misfortune.
I believe that Randallâs situation is similar. He was forced into
building the SE, but worked hard to complete it to the highest standards possible not only to please Waternoose,
but to gain what he thought would be his prizes from doing so- a higher position in the company, respect from his
peers, and maybe some real friends.
Randall was young and naive. He didnât understand that building the
SE wouldnât gain him respect, but he didnât know how else to do it. His naivity is proven further because he
actually believes that Waternoose would reward him! He believed him! Yet, when the audience find out how evil
Waternoose is, it becomes obvious that if the whole thing had actually worked, and the SE had been released, then
what would have happened to Randall?
He would have been either banished or killed. So, great choice for
Randall here- get banished by Sulley doing what actually happened in the film, or get banished by Waternoose if
everything had worked.
And yet, Sulley and Mike donât even have the brains to understand this! They
canât get their minds around the fact that not everyone has had perfect lives, and that sometimes, people have
to do things they donât want to do! But theyâre so WRAPPED UP in their own perfect, stupid little lives to
actually realise whatâs going on in the bigger picture. They never gave a about Randall, so why should he return
the sentiment?
Randall may have been naive, but Sullivan and Wazowski were just downright stupid at
points. 'Oh, letâs just banish someone without actually understanding WHY he did something. I mean, itâs not
as though evil people actually have REASONS for doing what they do. They just do it because theyâre born evil!
Of course!â
Take away their home and their comforts, the family and friends around them, take away their
perfect little jobs and the luxuries they can obviously afford, and make them a member of a group that is
discriminated against, and believe you me, Sullivan and Wazowski would probably end up as harsh, sarcastic, and
âevilâ as Randall, or worse.
Great post, LG! You guys are
getting even better than ME at these long replies, but hey, if it takes that to explain things, let 'em
rip!
On the topic of âGoodâ Sulley and Mike vs. âEvilâ Randall, itâs interesting that
you should bring up the fact that Mike and Sulley acted out of pure and simply revenge without even considering
Randallâs motives. Iâm sure many are thinking, "but Randall wanted to hurt Boo, and Sulley was only being
protective of her!" So, HOW is throwing Randall into the SAME WORLD into which he later plans to place Boo
being protective? Unless he was almost totally certain that Randall would be killed immediately, it would seem
counterproductive to any plans of âprotectingâ Boo. Again, that shows that Sulley and Mike PLANNED for
Randallâs death by throwing him into that trailer, and this would of course, make both of them guilty of
premeditated murder, so I have to still ask myself, WHY are they still considered to be such wonderful
guys?
As I, and others, have brought up before, if Randall really, truely intended to harm Boo, why
didnât he just drop her, or bite off her head, or throw her against a wall, or any of many other horrible things
he could have done when he had her in his arms in the Door Vault? You simply cannot argue that he needed her to
be alive for the Scream Extractor, since by this point, Sulley had already destroyed it, or at least damaged it
so heavily that repair would have taken weeks, if not months. With the CDA literally crawling around like
roaches all over the factory, it would be stupid to assume that Randall planned on keeping this kid hidden
somewhere in the building, alive, until he could fix that machine, especially since he HAD been ordered by
Waternoose to kill her, too. I fully believe that Randall intended to place her back in her door, in her world,
and then try to lie to Waternoose and convince him that âthe kidâ had been disposed of, and I also
believe that Waternoose had had reason to suspect all along that Randall might get âcold feetâ about
carrying out at least that part of his orders, and try to return the child to her own world. Waternoose had sent
Randall to kill Mike and Sulley, and KNEW that he had sufficient emotional motivation to do THAT, and would
surely have assumed, while waiting with the CDA down on the Scare Floor, that Randall had, in fact, taken
âcareâ of them. So, WHO was he expecting to be on Booâs door, then, or WHY would he have had reason
to call down THAT particular door in the first place? It shows that Randall was in a no-win situation, and had
already been set up by his boss, even before Mike and Sulley stumbled onto the plot. You cannot justify hating
someone in that situation, anymore than you can justify a hurt, trapped animal biting out in what it perceives to
be a last-ditch effort to save its hide.
One thing many people also do not take into account is what
RANDALL had been thinking that Sulley and Mike wanted with âthe kidâ. He had no reason whatsoever to
assume, or any way to know, that Sulley had become attached to her and was actually trying to protect her, not
given the general Monster World perception of human children! Randall probably assumed that they intended to
somehow use her to libel HIM, by turning her over to the CDA as evidence, perhaps. The fact that when he finally
saw her with them, she was dressed in a PURPLE, SCALY costume seems to escape most people, but apparently it did
not escape Randallâs notice! Having no reason to know the REAL reason behind that costume, or the fact that
Sulley had sacrificed his old easy chair to make it, Randall would naturally have assumed that the costume was
made in mockery of HIM, since he was the only purple, scaly individual in the factory, and that this costume
would of course, tip off the CDA to look in HIS direction. If the rest of the mess heâd been dealing with over
the months hadnât tripped him right over the edge, that surely was the straw that finally collapsed the
overloaded spinal column of that proverbial desert beast of burden!
pitbulllady
Oh boyâŠthis
is gonna take me a bitâŠgotta compose myself for this oneâŠ