Character from Toy Story by Pixar / Disney
A mint-in-box prospector doll who was never played with — never opened, never loved, never held — and the decades of watching other toys get chosen turned his patience into poison.
Stinky Pete never left his box. He sat on a shelf. He watched children walk past him in toy stores for decades, reaching for flashier toys, space toys, any toy but him. By the time Al McWhiggin bought him as a collectible, Pete had been sealed in cardboard darkness for so long that the concept of a child's love had curdled into something theoretical and threatening. His plan — to keep Woody, Jessie, and Bullseye sealed in a museum display case in Japan forever — isn't greed. It's terror. If they go to a child, they'll eventually be abandoned (like Jessie was). If they stay in the museum, they'll be preserved and admired forever. He's offering immortality. The fact that it's immortality without love, without warmth, without purpose — he can't see that, because he's never experienced what he'd be giving up. He's the saddest villain in the franchise because his pain is legitimate. He was never played with. That's not a metaphor — it's the worst thing that can happen to a toy in this universe, and it happened to him for his entire existence.
A plump prospector doll with a white beard, red flannel shirt, brown pants, and a pickaxe. His box is pristine — sealed, untouched, collector's grade. His painted expression is grandfatherly and kind, which makes the moment his true nature surfaces genuinely shocking. When he emerges from the box, he moves with a stiffness that suggests he hasn't been out much.
Also known as: Stinky Pete, The Prospector