Mike Wazowski

Articles About Mike Wazowski
Main Series	Monsters, inc.
Games	Scream Arena - Monsters, Inc. Run
Non-canon	Kingdom Hearts - Disney Heroes: Battle Mode - Mirrorverse - Disney Infinity - Disney Sorcerer's Arena

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Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me

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I've been waiting for this my whole life! I'm gonna be a scarer!

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“	Scare team James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski burst onto the scene this year with a record-breaking debut for Monsters inc. The rookies actually worked at MI for years in various capacities before catching the eye of Henry Waternoose himself at the company's open tryouts. Scare watchers expect big things in the future from this team---Vanity Scare predicts the unconventional duo will "revolutionize scaring"	„
	~ Mike's scared card

Background

Mike Wazowski is the deuteragonist of the 2001 Disney•Pixar animated film Monster Inc. and the protagonist of its 2013 prequel. He is an employee of Monsters, Incorporated, where he works as an assistant and coach with his roommate Sulley.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Mike's story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

In Monster University During a field trip to Monsters, Inc., Mike met Frank McCay, and developed a goal to attend Monsters University and become a scarer. Years later, thanks to his hard work and lots of studying, Mike is accepted as a freshman at the prestigious Monsters University, majoring in scaring. On his first day, Mike befriends his roommate, the nerdy and shy Randall Boggs, who desires to be popular and has difficulty controlling his camouflage power. While studying for the scare final one night, Mike encounters a fellow scare student, an arrogant, playful, all-brawn, large cyan monster named James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, who inadvertently sneaks into Mike's room with Archie, the mascot of the rival college, Fear Tech. After greeting each other, Archie steals Mike's hat and escapes. Mike and Sulley follow Archie outside where they have the struggle to capture him. When they do catch Archie, Sulley is invited to join Roar Omega Roar, the top fraternity on campus. Mike tries to join, but an argument with Sulley ignites a rivalry between the two. Eventually, Mike and Sulley's petty competition gets out of hand and causes Dean Hardscrabble to drop both of them from the program and Sulley to be kicked out of his fraternity. Unhappy in his new major of Scream Can Design, Mike decides to prove himself by entering the Scare Games, a college competition to determine a monster's scaring abilities. However, the competitors are teams from MU's fraternities and sororities. But hope arises when he joins Oozma Kappa, a fraternity of misfit monsters. Mike reluctantly lets Sulley join the team so they can enter and makes a deal with Dean Hardscrabble for the entire Oozma Kappa fraternity to be allowed in the Scare Program if they win, but for Mike to leave Monsters University if they lose the games. Sulley is concerned since Oozma Kappa has a high level of ineptitude when it comes to scaring, but Mike decides to train them to be scarier. Despite Mike and Sulley's rivalry, Oozma Kappa unexpectedly lucks out the first rounds of the Games. During a party at ROR house, the ROR pranks Oozma Kappa and humiliates them in front of the whole university. Mike arranges a secret visit to Monsters Inc. lifts their spirits, causing Mike and Sulley to begin to like each other, and with Mike's help and training, Oozma Kappa makes it to the final round against ROR. Mike also gains a new appreciation for the other members and their abilities, since he only joined the team to get back into the program. Even as the final round arrives, Sulley has a hard time believing Mike can be a good scarer. So in the final round, he hacks the equipment so that Mike can register a perfect score and allow Oozma Kappa to win the tournament. When Mike discovers this, he's heartbroken and decides to prove to everyone that he's capable of being a good scarer, once again denying the fact he's a bad scarer. He learns the fact the hard way and realized that Sulley was right from the beginning. Sulley soon enters the door to look for Mike. After finding and reconciling with Mike, the pair attempt to return but Dean Hardscrabble deactivates the door until the Child Detection Agency arrives, trapping them in the human world. Mike realizes that the only way to get back into the monster world is to generate enough scream energy to power the door from their side. Using both Mike's knowledge and Sulley's natural abilities, Sulley and Mike are able to cooperate and scare the investigating rangers to the point that they are able to make back through the door. Their actions prompt their expulsion from the university, but before they leave, Hardscrabble acknowledges that Sulley and Mike have surprised her and she wishes them luck. Mike and Sulley decide to take jobs at Monsters, Inc. in the company mailroom, and over time, work their way up to janitors, then cafeteria workers, then scream can wranglers, until they become part of the scarer team, thus establishing the story for Monsters, Inc. In Monster Inc. Mike is Sulley's scare assistant on the Monsters, Inc. Scare Floor. The two are also best friends, as well as roommates. He has a lot of friends at work, but there are some who dislike him, such as Roz who constantly is pressuring him about handing in his paperwork on time. He is in a relationship with Celia, who calls him "Googley Bear." He is supporting Sulley about being the number one scarer, and both are enemies with Randall. While at Harryhausen's for Celia's birthday, Sulley appeared out of nowhere to tell Mike that he had lead a human girl into the monster world. Putting her into a Monsters, Inc. gym bag, Sulley tried to show him, but the human girl got out of the bag and wreaked havoc all over the restaurant. The two secretly took her out before the CDA found her and disinfected the entire restaurant. At their apartment, Mike tries to create a plan to put her back where she belongs, back in the human world. Largely thanks to Sulley's inadvertent actions involving exposing Boo to the Monster World and being forced forced to leave her to the CDA (and presumably sustaining severe injuries by the CDA's raid), Mike discovers to his horror that his relationship with Celia was soured, and futilely attempts to calm her down due to Randall being nearby (causing Randall to deduce that Wazowski was somehow involved in Boo's exposure upon barely making out Wazowski in the headline picture). After a failed attempt at fleeing Randall and nearly being interrogated, Wazowski is then manipulated by Randall into trying to deliver Boo to him, although after he let slip to Sully and Boo Randall's involvement in placing the door, Mike then went into the door to assure a reluctant Sully and Boo that there was no ill intention, only to end up captured by Randall and brought to a secret compartment. Mike then, after correcting Randall's mispronunciation of "cretin", accuses him of trying to cheat his way to the top, although he then realizes Randall's aims were actually much worse when he laughed at the accusation, and was narrowly made the first test subject of the Scream Extractor before an apparent malfunction prevented it from sucking Mike's scream at the last second. Mike was then rescued by Sulley and escaped, leaving Fungus to be the actual first test subject. Mike then deeply considered going into hiding, although he inadvertently gives Sulley the idea to try and report the situation to Waternoose, with Mike trying to stop him. When Mr. Waternoose reveals himself to be in on Randall's attempt to kidnap Boo, he throws Sulley and Mike into the frozen wasteland, a rift forms between them after Mike gets angry at Sulley for listening to Mr. Waternoose instead of him, with it worsening when Sulley, indirectly referencing how he inadvertently scared Boo and felt guilty over it, admitted that the All-Time Scare Record no longer matters to him now, with Mike even bluntly telling Sulley to go alone, refusing to accompany him. However, shortly after this, Mike realizes he made a mistake sending him off alone and, presumably reaching the village shortly after Sulley did and returning to the monster world, tracked him down to the secret compartment, and offers to apologize for his behavior earlier, oblivious to Sulley being attacked by an invisible Randall despite some obvious clues as to what was happening, such as Sulley bluntly stating he's being attacked while having his arm forcibly pinned behind his back, his aimlessly flailing fists, and also being strangled (which Mike mistook for crying). Eventually, Mike got annoyed at Sulley "ignoring" him and threw a snow cone at him, which managed to hit Randall in the face and expose him long enough for Sulley to knock him out cold, causing Mike to realize that his behavior earlier may have nearly gotten Sulley killed before Sulley drags him along to track down Boo's door. While in-transit, however, Celia attacked him, causing Mike to divulge the truth of what occurred up to that point, including that Randall is about to try and kill him, though she doesn't believe him until Boo repeats Mike's name, with Mike declaring his love for her before disappearing to the scare floor, with Randall unwittingly giving further credence to Mike's claim when she notices him pursuing Mike violently and recklessly. When they learn that Waternoose is in on a scam of draining children of screams with Randall and Fungus' assistance, Sulley tricks Mr. Waternoose into confessing his plan while Mike records the confession and smugly replays it to watching CDA agents. Immediately, the CDA turn on Mr. Waternoose and arrest him. They then return Boo back to her room, with Mike giving the child a farewell hug. Later Sulley becomes the new CEO of Monsters, Inc. after discovering thanks to their experience with Boo that laughter is ten times more powerful than screams, thus eliminating the energy crisis that Monstropolis had been going through. Mike is seen amusing a child on the renamed Laugh Floor with Celia congratulating him. Knowing that Sulley would miss Boo, Mike reassembles her door that the CDA shredded so Sulley will be able to see Boo again, cutting the palms of his hands in the process trying to sort out the pieces until all but one of the pieces (the one that Sulley kept on his clipboard) were put together. Sometime after the film, Mike's low-budget company play Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me that he has starred in, written, directed, and produced comes in front of the audiences

Tier: 9-B

Name: Mike Wazowski

Origin: Monster Inc.

Sex: Male

Age: 18 (Monster University), late 20s to early 30s (Monster Inc. and Monsters at work)

Classification: Monster, Station runner (formely), Jokester and SCPOMICE-VADOCREM

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Good in Monster University (Mike is a person who is always willing to help out his friends such as when he broke into Monster Inc. with his team to inspire them), Neutral Good as of Monster Inc. (Mike tries to follow law such as when he wanted to take Boo to the autorities)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Wall level (while weaker he can still physically harm Sulley who along with him, tanked this door explosion completely unharmed, which should at the very least put it this high))

Durability: Wall level

Striking Strength: Wall Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Can keep up with Sulley who caught up to a bus)

Combat Speed: Superhuman

Reaction Speed: Superhuman

Stamina: Peak Human (Can work 18 Hours straight altough he was exhausted by that point)

Range: Standard melee range

Intelligence: Gifted (Knows many phobia and complains about them being too easy and is shown as a straight A student), Genius in scaring (Was Sulley's scare coach)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Human Achievements and Social Influencing (Is Monster Inc.'s top jokester), Vehicular Mastery, Scaring Knowledge, Stealth Mastery (Managed to stay hidden in the hide and seek event, trained Sulley in the art of stealth), Consumption (Physical Consumption; Monsters can eat mold, rancid raw meat along with foods made with Sulfuric acid and depleted uranium), Pain Tolerance (Glowing urchins are shown to cause pain yet Mike could power through getting hit by lots of them)

Limited Resistance to Fragrance Manipulation (Monsters naturally odorize themselves with smells such as old dumpster and wet dog), Resistance to Disease Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, Acid Manipulation and Radiation Manipulation (Monsters can eat mold, rancid raw meat along with foods made with Sulfuric acid and depleted uranium)

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Equipment

Nothing Notable

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Other

Standard Tactics: Mike goes for physical attacks and would likely use his stealth in combat

Weaknesses: Scared of Human and is unable to scare people | None notable by the end of Monster Inc.

Gallery

General Stuff

Sulley and Mike on the red carpt CG art of Mike Mike's university card Mike with the rest of his team Sulley and Mike at the oscars Sulley and Mike's halloween costumes

Concept art