Well, what can I say? Overall, I'm very satisfied with how the rules have been tightened up around here to encourage high-quality and thoughtful PG proposals, considering that the situation was... not good when I first joined the wiki. That said, there is still clearly much to be done in terms of properly sorting characters in their proper place with regards to the highly contested Pure Good category; there are still many characters listed in it that really don't meet the criteria at all, and likewise, there's still a number of ones I think do meet the requirements, but have yet to be officially approved. So to keep doing my part to contribute to this ongoing effort, here I am with what should be a very straightforward removal.
On a side note, due to changing my username since posting this, for some weird reason, you can't see the votes anymore. If you want to see them, and by extension, the proof that this was approved, follow the redirect here.
What's the work?[]
Toy Story 3 is the critically acclaimed third entry from the equally highly regarded Toy Story series. Being released in the summer of 2010, over a decade after the second film, this one follows Woody and the rest of the core group of Andy Davis' toys at a critical point in their lives; Andy is now grown up and leaving for college, and surely enough, he has not played with any of them in years. In fact, most of the other toys he used to own have since been donated or sold to other people who could get more use out of them. Desiring to be played with and loved once again, they try to donate themselves to a nearby daycare full of kids called Sunnyside Daycare. However, they soon discover the hard way that the seemingly innocent facility is, in fact, run by a brutal tyrant who forces most other toys to only be played with roughly by the youngest children who don't know how to properly handle them, which causes them to be break and/or tear apart before long, while only he and a privileged few get to be handled properly by the more mature children. Therefore, they soon try to find a way to escape. There's a lot more to the movie than that, but that's the gist of the plot.
Who is he and what does he do?[]
Chuckles the Clown is a toy clown who happened to be good friends a while back with Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, the toy that is running Sunnyside as the horrible prison that it is in the present. Along with Big Baby, they all belonged to a young girl named Daisy and were very happy together for a while, but one fateful day, she accidentally left them at the playground, which led to her parents replacing Lotso with another one, since he was her favorite toy and they never found him. When he discovered this, he was outraged, and it ended up twisting him into a selfish and nihilistic monster; first, he lied to Big Baby that he had been replaced as well, and despite Chuckles trying to convince him to tell the truth, Lotso bullied him into keeping his mouth shut about only him being replaced, since he decided in his anger that if he couldn't he happy, none of them would be. Then, not long after forcing them to be owner-less alongside him, they found Sunnyside Daycare, which is when Lotso truly started unfairly lashing out at the world by establishing his tyrannical rule over it. Thankfully, Chuckles was able to escape at some unspecified point when he got damaged (most likely by Lotso) and was found by a young girl named Bonnie, who took him home with her.
Because of this experience, Chuckles became very somber and depressed, but when Woody manages to temporarily escape from the place and coincidentally finds himself at Bonnie's house, due to her tendency to bring home any lost toy she finds, it's from Chuckles that he learns about Lotso and why Sunnyside is the way that it is. He also gives Woody Big Baby's pendant, which is what Woody later uses to get through to Big Baby when he goes back for his friends and reveals Lotso's deception to him. Ultimately, Woody and his friends not only manage to escape, but liberate the daycare from Lotso's tyranny, and through a string of events, they manage to get Andy to donate them all to Bonnie before he leaves for college. At the end of the film, Chuckles is seen smiling, possibly for the first time in years, when Woody shows him a happy drawing that Bonnie made of him. He also makes a minor appearance in the short Hawaiian Vacation where he mostly just interacts a little with the other toys, performs a song for Barbie and Ken while they're having dinner, then performs a faster one with the aliens and monkeys when Buzz starts performing a fire dance while in Spanish Mode.
Why he doesn't qaulify[]
That's pretty simple; he may not have any real negative qualities, but even considering he's only a minor character, he completely flunks the admirable standard. His main purpose in the film is to simply explain Lotso's backstory and why he turned Sunnyside into a prison to Woody, and by extension, us, the audience, since he's the toy that knew him before he became corrupt. However, that's pretty much it, and it's debatable if even that counts as heroism since Woody decided on his own accord to go back and rescue them, as well as to reveal Lotso's deception to Big Baby after being told this, not because Chuckles urged or pleaded with him to. So while he not have been corrupted by his experience, he still didn't do anything to try and stop Lotso's tyranny either; he merely sunk into depression over it, and happened to give Woody some helpful information about him before he went back to save his friends, which he would have been set on doing even without knowing the specific details. Plus, even other secondary and minor characters in the franchise have done more to help out their fellow toys than he has.
Final Verdict[]
By all means, this should be an easy cut; I honestly don't know why on Earth someone put him in the category in the first place. If you're looking at it strictly from the point of view that he has no corrupting factors, he checks out, but he does absolutely nothing to stand out in terms of heroism, or even personality-wise; he's merely a source of exposition for Woody and the audience. However, if anyone happens to think he does stand out, please share why. Thanks for reading!