Character from Toy Story by Pixar / Disney
The boy who loved his toys — whose room was their world, whose imagination gave them purpose, and whose growing up was the slow apocalypse the franchise spent three films dreading.
Andy is the god of this universe and he doesn't know it. His toys' entire sense of self derives from his love. When he plays with them, they have purpose. When he puts them away, they wait. When he grows up and stops playing, they face a crisis of existence as profound as any mortal facing death. The genius of the franchise is that Andy is never cruel. He doesn't break toys or throw them away. He simply grows up, and growing up is enough. The scene in Toy Story 3 where he gives his toys to Bonnie — introducing each one by name, describing their qualities, hesitating when he gets to Woody — is the franchise's emotional peak because it reveals that he always knew who they were. He just couldn't play forever.
A brown-haired boy who ages across the franchise from six to seventeen. As a child, he's all energy and imagination — cowboy hat on, toys in hand, narrating elaborate adventures. As a teenager, his room fills with band posters and textbooks, the toys migrating to a chest. By eighteen, he's tall, lean, and heading to college — the toys reduced to a single box in the closet.
Also known as: Andy, Andy Davis