History WesternAnimation / ToyStory3

* TheCaligula: Lotso.

-->'''Mr. Potato Head:''' You know all those bad things I said about the attic? ''I take it all back''.\\

** Also with his own sister. After some light back-and-forth bickering, when Andy sees Molly having trouble with a heavy box he helps her out at once.

*** Bonnie's other toys asked Woody if he was classically trained, in regards to his "performance."

* DenOfIniquity: A humorous example with the 'bad' toys hanging around in a vending machine, betting with Monopoly money and triple A batteries. They use a "Speak-And-Say" toy instead of a roulette table.

* AndIMustScream: The ultimate fate of Lotso. This also sums up the toys' treatment in the Caterpillar Room pretty well. [[note]]Though in the ending, the old Butterfly Room toys decide to do this, but in shifts...[[/note]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lotso, after he hears the concept of family love, shifts into his darker side and becomes one of the most nightmarish villains {{Pixar}} ever made.

* DemotedToExtra: Slinky. His role in this movie is much smaller compared to his part in the first and second films; he is a background character for the majority of the time and his only real standout scene is helping old pal Woody defeat the CymbalBangingMonkey.

** The French dub [[{{Woolsleyism}} skirts around this]] by making Barbie say "Quel petit curieux!" (basically, "Curious, aren't you?") and linger on the first syllable so that it sounds like "Quel petit cul" (complimenting him on his small/firm buttocks).

The film, like the previous entries in the WesternAnimation/ToyStory series, received critical acclaim, and was a box office success. It grossed $110,307,189 on its opening weekend, breaking the record for the highest grossing opening weekend for a Creator/{{Pixar}} film. Overall, it made $1.063 billion worldwide, making it the first animated movie to gross over $1 billion at the box office.

!!The film provides examples of:

* EndOfAnAge: A small-scale case which [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall leans]] ''heavily'' on the fourth wall. In-story, the toys are moving on from their time with Andy; on a meta-level, the children (and parents) who grew up with the original ToyStory are grown up and leaving behind their childhoods (or seeing their children go). Watching this film at any college ever is a sure TearJerker.

* StealthPun: MR. PITA head anyone?

* StepfordSmiler: Lotso bear turns out to be Type C, as he is the film's villain.

*** '''That's''' what was so different about him in that scene! Part of what the toys did to make him talk was ripping off his mouth sticker!

** "The most important thing is that we stick together. No matter what happens, we stick together."

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: If [[spoiler:Buzz's Spanish mode]] really ''was'' supposed to be a comedic twist, it was sure spoiled well ahead of time in ''many'' of the previews.

* ViralMarketing: There was a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6dZtNYGlLM Lotso toy]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ZwkcHCVkE in the 80s]]?

* WeCanRuleTogether: To Buzz and, to a lesser extent, {{Barbie}}.
** To their credit, the bad guys make an effort to be [[BitchInSheepsClothing as nice as possible while doing this]]. You don't even realize that Lotso is a villain until Buzz rejects his offer.
* WhamLine: When Slink reveals that [[spoiler:all the other toys are gone.]]

*** Earlier: [[spoiler:"Ah, a family man, I understand. Put him back in the timeout chair."]]

* BlindSeer: Mrs. Potato Head is missing one of her eyes for most of the movie. However, whenever she covers up her one eye she can see plot-important events from her missing eye's location such as Andy getting upset with his mom for throwing the toys away, since he meant to put them in the attic instead, contrary to what all the toys sans Woody believe.

** GretskyHasTheBall: Not that they actually know how to play roulette.

*** For more viral effectiveness on the marketing's part, take a look at the videos of the English commercial's uploader.

* PunishmentBox: the sandbox at Sunnyside. Modeled after the box in ''CoolHandLuke''.

* SadisticChoice: In the opening with Sheriff Woody and One-Eyed Bart (Mr. Potato Head.) One-Eyed Bart sets off some dynamite. "It's me or the kiddies, sheriff. Take your pick."

* ThePowerOfLove: The scene where as seen above where [[LatinLover Spanish]] [[DashingHispanic Buzz]] was saving Jessie from the garbage, and gets hit with the tv and comes back to being normal Buzz by Jessie pulling him to the side of the truck crying in his [[PleaseDontLeaveMe chest]].

*** Jessie yodels multiple times and calls for animals, which is mildly confusing without knowing those were her character traits on the[[ShowWithinAShow show within the movie]] ''Woody's Roundup''.

* SoLongSuckers: Lotso pulls this on Woody and the others when he leaves them for dead at the incinerator and shouts, [[spoiler:"Where's your kid now, Sheriff?!"]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: is considered much more intense than the first two, as well as unusually dark for a {{Pixar}} movie. This is one of the more {{justified| Trope}} examples, though, since the concepts introduced earlier in the series leave room for FridgeHorror. The third has a more intense feel because it [[AscendedFridgeHorror calls attention to a fair bit of said fridge horror]]. That, and it's a PrisonEpisode rife with disturbing elements like Lotso, an AxCrazy [[KillerRabbit teddy bear]], and {{cymbal banging monkey}}s. Considering the time gap in between each movie's theatrical release, this seems somewhat appropriate. It's almost as if Pixar directed the film at an older audience who grew up on the older films. The way ''Toy Story 3'' ended, it felt like Pixar wanted to give the now Teen/Young Adult audience of the first movie some closure on the series they came to love when they were kids.

* FiveFiveFive: Andy's cell phone number is 555-0112, written on Buzz's wrist for use in "Operation: Playtime".