History WesternAnimation / ToyStory3

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

* LoveRedeems: Played with for Buzz: Buzz rejoins the team because of being physically reset by Rex. However, Kens love for Barbie was key to getting the instruction manual. Buzz did eventually get back to his regular self through his love for Jessie: the television hit Buzz, giving him reverse amnesia, because he was more worried about Jessie's safety than his own.

* HumansAreCthulhu: The kids on Caterpillar Room. Or did everyone miss one of them trying to swallow Buzz, while the others treated the rest just like the {{EldritchAbomination}}s in Lovecraft's stories treat humanity?! The only thing needed to turn ''Toy Story 3'' into Lovecraft-Kids Version was them [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad from the revelation]]. Cue to [[spoiler:Lotso resetting Buzz to his first film persona and making him his puppet.]]

-->'''Trixie:'''We're either in a café in Paris or a coffee shop in New Jersey. I'm pretty sure I just came back from the doctor with life-changing news.

*** "We're either in a café in Paris or a coffee shop in New Jersey. I'm pretty sure I just came back from the doctor with life-changing news."

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[spoiler:Lotso]].

*** Lotso's backstory. Him getting lost on a trip out and having to make his way back home to the owner he is intensely loyal to: That's the plot of the first movie right there. Him being replaced and his IfICantHaveYou: Hey, Woody, remember when you pushed Buzz out the window? His philosophy that all toys are destined to be treated as garbage: Remember when Woody was more willing to go to a museum than to Andy because he was afraid he'd be thrown out eventually? Lotso is [[FutureMeScaresMe Woody from a bad future.]]

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Blue is safe (Andy's room, the Butterfly Room, the conveyor belt off switch), red is unsafe (Caterpillar Room, Lotso, incinerator), and sickly green-yellow is corrupted (the vending machine "gambling parlor", the daycare dumpster). Bonnie's color is bright "happy" green.

* CrapSaccharineWorld: Sunnyside Daycare seems like a bright, colorful heaven where there are always children to lovingly play with the toys, but actually it's a brutal dictatorship ruled by Lotso the bear. Most of the daycare's toys get subjected to rough playtimes with the toddlers rather than the loving playtimes with the older children, and any defiant toys get imprisoned in cubbies, forced to stay the night in the sandbox, interrogated, brainwashed, or thrown into the daycare's dumpster to go to the landfill.
** Also possibly a case of VileVillainSaccharineShow; Lotso is revealed to be a genuinely monstrous villain, but once he's gone the daycare centre becomes a genuinely sweet place [[spoiler:under Ken and Barbie.]]

* CymbalBangingMonkey: When night falls on Sunnyside Daycare, he sits at the front desk, watching all the surveillance screens. If a toy tries to escape, he turns on the center's P.A. system and screeches into it while banging his cymbals. Lotso and crew are on top of the poor toy in moments.

* 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.

* 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, as well as briefly jumping across the trash chute to the dumpster before being thwarted by Lotso.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Lotso cannot fathom Ken's loyalty to Barbie or Woody and Buzz's loyalty to their friends [[spoiler:after the latter declined Lotso's offer to join the Butterfly Room without his friends.]]

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: For a moment, it looked like saving Lotso would pay off. [[MoralEventHorizon No such luck]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: Lotso ends up crucified to the front of a dumpster truck working the landfill, implying he will be stuck that way for the rest of his existence. Even if he frees himself, he's still in that landfill with no way of getting back to 'his' daycare.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Lotso. He may act [[SouthernGentleman affable]] at first, but it's really just a front to get you to trust him. He's agreeable enough when you're on his good side. Disagree with him, however, and he smirks as he ''has you set to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Demo Mode]]'' or sends said Demo-Mode'd buddy to lock you up.
-->'''Lotso:''' You lost, little doggie?\\
'''Slinky:''' [[OhCrap Ah!]]

** BigBad: Lotso.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When we first see Lotso, he's riding in the back of a toy dump truck -- and he's seen doing this several more times in the film. Lotso later causes the toys to get trapped inside a dump truck during the climax. His ultimate fate is to be tied to the ''front'' of a dump truck for the rest of his days.

* FreudianExcuse: Lotso was lost and replaced by his original owner. When Lotso discovered this, it made him believe that he hadn't been special to her and that the love between him and her hadn't been real. Thus (in his mind), ''all'' the love between kids and their toys isn't real. To him love is for suckers because for toys it eventually leads to abandonment and being thrown away.

* GrumpyBear: Taken to the '''extreme''' with Lotso, although he hides it behind a pleasant facade.

* HannibalLecture: Lotso gives one in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown. It comes with a ShutUpHannibal.
* HappilyMarried: Barbie and Ken after they make up to each other and Lotso is gone from the Daycare. They become the new rulers of a much happier Sunnyside Daycare since Barbie [[GeniusDitz objects to dictatorships and prefers democracy]] and Ken believes [[TotallyRadical "everyone is groovy."]] They even adopt Big Baby as their "child"!

** Lotso subverts it; while he pleads for help and plays nice while the heat is on, at the decisive moment [[DirtyCoward he abandons his saviors and escapes]].

* IfICantHaveYou: Woody says this almost word-for-word as a ShutUpHannibal to Lotso:
-->'''Lotso:''' She replaced us!\\

* {{Jerkass}}: Lotso is a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk and takes this trope UpToEleven.

* KickTheDog: [[EvenEvilHasStandards Lotso's henchmen are shocked when he shoves Big Baby in the stomach during his]] MotiveRant.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Daisy might have been this to [[BigBad Lotso]], seeing how [[IfICantHaveYou badly]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil he]] [[DisproportionateRetribution handled]] being replaced by her.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Lotso's backstory.

* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Lotso.

** This scene really takes the cake for [[MoodWhiplash this trope]]: Any time where a scene from Bonnie's playtime is interspersed from scenes with the daycare. Examples: The Toys being utterly destroyed while Woody is having a nice tea time with Bonnie; Bonnie asleep and Woody looks up Andy's address while Buzz is being brutally [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Demo-moded]] by Lotso. Jeez, are we supposed to be heartfelt or seriously freaked out?

* MotiveRant: [[BigBad Lotso]] gets one just before he throws the toys into the dumpster.

* NietzscheWannabe: Lotso comes off as a bit of one when saying how toys "are all just trash" in his MotiveRant.

* NonIronicClown: Chuckles the clown doll, who shared the same former owner as Lotso Bear and Big Baby, turns out to be the only one of the three toys not to turn villainous from the incident of being accidentally abandoned by their former owner. In a flashback he even tries to console Lotso Bear, but Lotso bear ignores him and [[StartOfDarkness turns]] [[FaceHeelTurn evil]]. In the present, Chuckles is a StoicWoobie despite being one of Bonnie's beloved toys. But by the end credits, he [[DefrostingIceQueen begins to smile again.]]

* AxCrazy: Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear.

* BearsAreBadNews: Lotso Bear [[SealedEvilInATeddyBear plays this straight]].

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

* BigBrotherInstinct: At the end of the movie Andy gives all of his toys to Bonnie, with the prompting of Woody writing her address on a sticky note which he put on top the box of toys initially meant for the attic. When Bonnie is initially scared of the strange older boy approaching her, Andy kneels down at her eye level to introduce himself and describe all of his toys to Bonnie. The scene ends with Andy and Bonnie playing with all of their toys in Bonnie's front yard before Andy drives off to college.

* BigNo: Woody gets one when falling into the incinerator.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Buzz, after Lotso forcibly switches him to "Demo" mode.

*** The last toy Woody holds hands with during the Incinerator Scene is not Buzz, but Slinky, Woody's friend before Buzz showed up.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: A poster for [=TS3=] as well as the ''Toy Story'' website (character profiles) shows this.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The last three Army Men (including Sarge) leave Andy's room in a hurry, knowing their fate will inevitably be the garbage.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Lotso]] ends up crucified on the front grille of a garbage truck. This also sums up the toys' treatment in the Caterpillar Room pretty well.

* StartOfDarkness: Chuckles the Clown's flashback segment outlines exactly why Lotso turns out to be the cruel despot of Sunnyside.

* LoveRedeems: Played with for Buzz, Buzz rejoins the team because of being physically reset by Rex. However, Kens love for Barbie was key to getting the instruction manual. Buzz did eventually get back to his regular self through his love for Jessie, the television hit Buzz, giving him reverse amnesia, because he was more worried about Jessie's safety than his own.

* ActorAllusion: A meta-example: After [[spoiler:Lotso caught the toys in their escape attempt]], Barbie briefly quotes the Declaration of Independence when refusing to [[spoiler:return to Lotso]] (which also shocks Mr. Potato Head at her knowledge of that). Jodi Benson, the voice actress for Barbie, considered pursuing a law degree before deciding to settle for acting.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Lotso]] ends up crucified on the front grille of a garbage truck. 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]]

* NonIronicClown: Chuckles the clown doll, who shared the same former owner as Lotso Bear and Big Baby, turns out to be the only one of the three toys not to turn villainous from the incident of being accidentally abandoned by their former owner. In a flashback he even tries to console Lotso Bear, but Lotso bear ignores him and turns [[FaceHeelTurn evil]]. In the present, Chuckles is a StoicWoobie despite being one of Bonnie's beloved toys. But by the end credits, he [[DefrostingIceQueen begins to smile again.]]

** When Big Baby threw Lotso into the dumpster was anyone ''not'' reminded of [[ReturnOfTheJedi Darth Vader killing Palpatine]]?

** '''Mr. Potato Head:''' [[ScoobyDoo "And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for]] [[YouMeddlingKids you meddling toys!"]]

** Barbie and Ken's outfits during the dance sequence at the end is a reference to SaturdayNightFever.

*** In the "Art Of Toy Story 3" book he's ''clearly'' a Care Bear, baby face and eyelashes and all, which makes his grim, rain-soaked Start Of Darkness look more disturbing.

!!''Toy Story 3'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* NonIronicClown: Chuckles the clown doll, who shared the same former owner as Lotso Bear and Big Baby, turns out to be the only one of the three toys not to turn villainous from the incident of being accidentally abandoned by their former owner. In a flashback he even tries to console Lotso Bear, but Lotso bear ignores him and [[StartofDarkness turns]] [[FaceHeelTurn evil]]. In the present, Chuckles is a StoicWoobie despite being one of Bonnie's beloved toys. But by the end credits, he [[DefrostingIceQueen begins to smile again.]]

*** And remember to believe in magic... [[MST3K or he'll kill you]]...

*** In the "Art Of Toy Story 3" book he's ''clearly'' a Care Bear, baby face and eyelashes and all, which makes his grim, rain-soaked StartOfDarkness look more disturbing.

*** Possibly a TakeThat, given how the daycare is portrayed as a prison of sorts for most of the movie.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch Daisy might have been this to [[BigBad Lotso]], seeing how [[IfICantHaveYou badly]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil he]] [[DisproportionateRetribution handled]] being replaced by her.

* ToiletHumor: We see at least two bathrooms during the film. First, when Lotso is introducing Big Baby to the others, they are in a bathroom meant for the students. Second, Woody tries to escape Sunnyside from a different bathroom.
** And let's not forget this line when [[spoiler: Buzz got set back to his English mode]]: (Buzz sniffs) "That wasn't me, was it?"

** Lotso appeared way in the lower-left-hand corner in a short scene in ''{{Up}}''.