History Characters / MonstersInc

A pinkish-orange snakelike monster with fins attached to back of her eyes (which are on stalks), who works as a supervisor of the Scare Simulator, where potential Scarers try out their skills.

* VocalEvolution: [[spoiler:Buscemi's voice for Randall is a lot older and more nasal and gruff in ''Monsters at Work''. Could be from the all the beatings he got from the Cajuns.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Aside from the fact that he was rescued from the Cajuns by Johnny, the ending of season 2 of ''Monsters at Work'' reveals that he managed to escape imprisonment and is now a fugitive at large]].

%%* CuteMonsterGirl: From [[GentleGiant Sulley]]'s perspective.

* HumansAreCthulhu: She's just a two year old human girl, but the monsters consider her an AdorableAbomination KillerRabbit ''because'' she's a two year old human girl.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: It is revealed in ''Monsters At Work'' that Randall survived his apparent death thanks to Johnny rescuing him from the Cajuns]].

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Randall on his own right is a great scarer and perhaps the best in ''Monsters Inc''... At least he would be were [[TheAce Sulley]] not around to overshadow him at it every single time. For Randall, however, second place is not good enough which leads to him resorting to nastier means to get one over Sulley through the Scream Extractor.

* ShapeshifterSwanSong: [[spoiler:Parodied. When he is being beaten up by Boo, he keeps changing colors cartoonishly, including, at one point, [[CirclingBirdies white with red stars]].]]

* BigGood: Number 1 agent of CDA who was trying to capture the guy who they suspected committed crimes at MI, aka Waternoose.

* RunningGag: Him coming into contact with human items and his assistant Charlie panicking about it.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He doesn't appear in the prequel, nor is he mentioned. Given he's a trainee scarer in ''Inc.'', it's likely that he was simply a child during the events of ''University.''

Short for "Child Detection Agency", this group of yellow Hazmat suit-wearing monsters has the responsibility of eliminating all traces of human objects present in the monster world. Their methods of decontamination are often painful, and they will take extreme measures to prevent the spreading of human toxicity.

* FailedASpotCheck: Despite their entire purpose being to prevent humans and their objects from contaminating the monster world and being paranoid enough to attack anyone even remotely suspcious, they repeatedly fail to realise Sulley and Mike are the ones harbouring the human child.

* NumberTwo: One of the CDA agents is numbered as 00002, which implies heavily that this agent is the 2nd in charge. 00002 is usually the one seen leading and giving the orders to the rest of the CDA.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the prequel, he is introduced by happily shaking Mike's hand while saying that they'll be best friends, and then disappearing out of nowhere and apologising in embarrassment, showing his hopeful, but awkward personality. In Monsters, Inc., his first appearance consists of him confusing Mike by shutting his locker's door while being invisible, and then appearing out of nowhere to [[JumpScare jump scare]] him. He then chuckles at Mike's fright and mockingly remarks that his tactic works on "little kids and little monsters".

* TheAce: Not as a scarer, as the prequel made it clear he wasn't cut out for that line of work, but as a jokester. He's not only the first, second, and fourth-placed guy on the leaderboard, but he's also teaching comedy classes to the other monsters ''and'' is running the company as SCPOMICE-VDADOCREM. It's clearly wearing him out doing so, as he needs 36 and a half hour energy to keep going (and he burns all of it out in two hours), but he's clearly the best at it.

* CareerNotTaken: ''Monsters University'' establishes that Mike Wazowski, an assistant to a scarer (someone who scares children at night for a living), initially wanted to be a scarer himself, but was just too nonthreatening. In a way he actually gets to live out his dreams when Sully takes Monsters, Inc. in a new direction (getting power from laughter instead of screams) and Mike becomes a comedian.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He makes a big deal about how dangerous human children are for public relations, but he's actually working with Randall in a plot to kidnap children and extract screams.