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Have you ever wondered why so many people like Randall? Why so many people are fans of this "unlikable, bad guy"? Well, the answer may lie in the many common parallels between Randall and another popular Disney character - Stitch! By comparing their amazingly similar personalities, you might find what's really behind all those scales.
I thought this might open some eyes about Randall's misunderstood character, for those of you who dislike him (gasp) and it might help others understand better why us fans like/love Randall so much. ~_^
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Quoted article courtesy of the Boggs' Board.
"Reading over some of the stories on Fanfiction.net, in both the "Monsters, Inc." section under "Movies" and the "Disney" section under "Cartoons" (which isn't fair, if you ask me), I've noticed that many of the same authors who write "Monsters, Inc." fanfics also write "Lilo and Stitch" fanfics, and many of the reviewers of one also like the other. I myself am a very big fan of both movies, and in particular of the characters of Stitch and Randall Boggs (bet y'all figured that out already), and apparently I'm not the only one who's very fond of both, pretty much equally. So I decided to do a bit of analyzing (been one of THOSE kinda weekends) and dig a bit deeper as to WHY people who love Randall also tend to be very fond of Stitch, and vice versa.
It's interesting, but those two actually have a LOT in common, both on the surface and "down deep", so to speak. Both are monsters, albeit one is a "natural monster" and the other was artificially created by gene splicing and recombinant DNA in an illegal genetics lab. Both have two pairs of arms, although Stitch has the ability to hide two of his arms by retracting them into his body. Both have the ability to "blend" - Randall by actually changing the color of his skin, and Stitch by retracting certain body parts and walking on all-fours to look like a mundane animal, a dog. Both can scamper up sheer walls and hang from ceilings like there's no such thing as gravity. Both have some really impressive teeth, and it was claimed by critics of both their respective movies that little tots would be unduly terrified of those teeth. Both have these HUGE grins, thanks to those lovely carnivore teeth! The three dorsal spines on Stitch's back closely resemble the three fronds on Randall's head (though not to the extent that Stitch's prediscesor, "Experiment 625", does; HE actually has three head fronds himself, identical to Randall's, only smaller). Both have a bit of an attitude (putting it mildly) and a temper, but both also have a mischievous sense of humor and like to play practical jokes, good-naturedly. Both seem to have a natural aptitude for operating machinery and building things, whether it's a Scream Extractor or a model of San Francisco from misc. objects found in a child's bedroom. . .
It just makes me wonder WHERE Stitch's creator, the "Evil Genius" Dr. Jumba Jookiba, found some of the DNA he used in creating his "Experiment 626"...a trip to the dimension in which the Monster World is found, maybe?
The real similarities, though, are deeper than that. I first watched "Monsters, Inc." AFTER seeing "Lilo and Stitch" at least a dozen times, so perhaps MY personal view of Randall was tempered by the movie I saw first. Throughout most of "Lilo and Stitch", Stitch is just plain mean as the Devil, CUTE, but nasty - WAAY nastier than Randall is for most of HIS movie! He was actually genetically designed to be a heartless killing machine, the ultimate fighter, detroying things and taking lives without remorse.
Due to circumstances though, he comes into contact with a five-year-old girl who's just lost both parents in a car wreck, and she figures out that the REAL reason Stitch behaves so badly is because he has no family to care for him or guide him to do better, since she has been no angel herself since losing her mom and dad. Now, haven't we discussed that this is most likely why RANDALL behaves the way HE does? I know that Pixar intended for Randall to just be your typical over-the-top "Disney villian", the one everybody would "bboooooo" in the theaters, and clap when he got his "just deserts", but I never saw him that way, and obviously I'm not alone. Maybe it was due to having seen "Lilo and Stitch" first, but Randall didn't strike me as being the villian; after all, Stitch's writer, Chris Sanders, had already stated that in HIS movie, STITCH was the villian, but that he wanted his film to show that even the nastiest "villians" have good sides and can be redeemed, and that no one is completely good or completely bad. The REAL similarity between this blue, furry little dog-like thing and this big purple scaley lizard monster, in MY opinion, is that for much of Stitch's movie, and for all of Randall's, they are both, in Stitch's words, "Lost" - not evil, not even "bad", just lost.
I just hope that IF there is ever a sequel to "Monsters, Inc.", Randall will have the same chance that Stitch got to find someone to care for him and give him love and respect, even when he might not always deserve it, and give him a reason to redeem himself and find his good side, too."
Info and research credited to "pitbulllady"
Post taken from the "General Discussion" section of Boggs' Board
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