I’m still VERY strongly of the opinion that Mike and Sulley threw Randall into that trailer KNOWING that it was occupied, and that he’d very likely be brutally attacked by the humans inside(which he was). They knew that THEY had managed to make it back to the Monster World, and wanted to make sure that Randall would have no chance of doing so at all, nor of surviving in the Human World for any length of time. That door was not a “banishment” door, just an ordinary door, and since Mike would have been familiar with various doors to kids’ rooms as part of his job, he likely would have recognized that particular door as leading to Louisiana. On that same topic, Randall is NOT at ALL adapted to living in a swampy environment; he lacks any physical adaptations to such a place, such as webbed hands and feet, a flattened lateral body shape for swimming, an armor-plated hide for protection against predators, etc. He is actually well-designed for an ARBOREAL lifestyle, in the trees or on the sides of steep mountains, where his prehensile tail and gripping toe/finger pads come into play. Even if he survived the human attack, he would be very physically inept at surviving in the swamps of Louisiana, with the alligators and venomous snakes and leeches, without help.
The “banishment” door that Waternoose uses is probably the only one in the factory, and IT would have been illegal. Banishment, as I understand it, is a punishment to be carried out by a court of law, or a judge, following a trial for some crime or another. Obviously, just as is the case here in OUR world, there would be monsters who gain illegal access to such doors to use against their enemies, to intimidate others, etc. We have crime bosses and other unsavory characters here, who use means normally restricted to law enforcement or military in order to enforce their own “rules”. It would make NO SENSE at all if any monster who had a gripe with another monster could simply acquire a banishment door to some remote part of the Human World and chuck anyone they didn’t like through it, and I’m sure that from a legal standpoint, this was NOT the case at all. Waternoose, like many of his human counterparts, though, obviously believed that he was above the law and that his money and name made him impervious to punishment, and he used that illegal door to maintain control over others, including in most all likelihood, Randall. As for whether or not Waternoose was the one who “banished” the Yeti, or if he got banished through the judiciary system, we don’t know. He didn’t know Mike or Sulley, nor they him, so apparently he had never worked at the factory. It still does not answer the question as to WHAT he could have done to merit banishment, but then, it’s possible that as(again)is the case here in the Human World, there were/are monsters who are unjustly convicted of crimes and punished for things they didn’t do. It is also very possible that while WE tend to think in terms of violent crimes getting a monster banished, things like assault, robbery, etc., banishable crimes could have also including “white collar” crimes, like imbezzling money, or betting on professional sports in places(like South Carolina, for instance)where that is illegal, so a monster would not have necessarily had to have done something awful to get banished.
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