This nearly lead to Toy Story being canceled after a Black Friday viewing. This choice in characterization for Woody had been forced upon Pixar by then-Disney's chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg due to the latter of wanting more of an adult, cynical, edginess to the story, resulting into Woody becoming jealous, sarcastic, narcissistic, belligerent, cynical and mean towards Buzz and the other toys. He also proceeded to heavily insult the toys, especially Slinky, during this time, which resulted in all of them turning on him and attempting to throw him out.
One notable example of this from the original script is that Woody actually throws Buzz out of the window on purpose, and doesn't care not one bit about what had happened or what the other toys thought of the incident, even saying in a casual tone that it was a "toy-eat-toy world" when being accused of doing so. In the original story pitch for Toy Story, Woody had a markedly more distasteful personality having the character of one who had let his role as "leader" go to his head and had little compassion toward his peers. As their dependable leader, he ensures that no toy gets left behind". As the toys venture into their unknown future, Woody remains the voice of reason. Even though, his owner is now all grown up, the loyal sheriff Woody maintains a steadfast belief that Andy still cares about his toys. He's always been Andy's favorite toy since kindergarten.
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"Woody is a cowboy sheriff with a pull-string that, when pulled, proclaims Woody's signature catchphrases from the 1950s TV show Woody's Roundup.
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Within the universe of the Toy Story films, Woody is toy based on the character of the same name from a 1950s children's TV series called Woody's Roundup as revealed in Toy Story 2.