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John Waternoose Junior, also known as Mr. Waternoose, is the overarching antagonist of the Monsters Inc. reboot movies. He is the main antagonist of the 2022 Fantech Pixar based fan movie Monsters Inc., the second installment of the Pixar Fanverse, and the background/mentioned overarching antagonist of it's sequel Monsters Inc. 2.

He is the sociopathic, remorseless and heavily corrupt CEO of Monsters Incorporated, who secretly uses the power of the company for his own agendas so he could escape justice and hide his crimes from the public's eye.

He is portrayed by Michael Caine in his first villainous fanon role.

History[]

Past[]

John Waternoose Junior was the child of the first owner of the company. Being taught that monsters should use kindness and make kids laugh, the child Waternoose grew ambitious and out of sociopathic tendencies and need to prove the world his own monstrosity, he killed his father and covering up by ensuring that his company rises to power and brainwashes all monsters to believe that monsters should scare children to create better power than laughter.

Waternoose eventually hired Boggs about 150 years later and he held a deadly machine which would extract children's scream. He called it the Scream Extractor. At some point, he reluctantly hired Sulley and Mike. After discovering Sulley's potential of making scream power, he used Sulley as a "top scarer" to further his own scheme.

Monsters Inc.[]

Waternoose at first appeared warning Thaddeus Bile that humans could cause damage. He showed how an energy bottle looks like and then he demonstrated a lie of how humans could ruin the electricity and lead to a blackout. He shows that he admires Sulley at this point of the film.

After that, a scaring competition begins and Waternoose watches the monsters at work. Sulley still acts as the lead scarer. Boggs almost overtakes him, but Sulley catches up. Waternoose wisely asks Sulley in advance to show the beginners how a scarer should really scare.

Sulley agrees. However, Sulley eventually discovers a human in the monster world. The human little girl's name was Janice Wilcock, and she was kidnapped by Boggs and his assistant Fungus, so she could be tested in the scream extractor. Sulley and Mike eventually devise a plan to lead her to her home safely, and they disguise her as a monster youngling called Boo.

Waternoose pretends not to know that she's actually a child and not even suspect the truth. He begins to explain to Sulley that he sees monstrosity as totally invincible power and that he wishes to become above all humans and monsters or any other creature in the universe, and show how the company shall rise from a tiny plant to a "monstrous flower". A scared and disgusted Sulley retreats, and tells Waternoose that he's going to work as an excuse so he won't hunt them down. In that moment, Waternoose shows his true colors. He orders Boggs to retrieve Boo, implying that he knows the truth and that the child is still around and with them.

Boggs kidnaps Mike Wazowski and attempts to test the machine on him. However, the protagonists rescue him from Boggs and they head to tell him off to Waternoose. Waternoose however demands Sulley to demonstrate a big loud roar. Sulley by roaring scares Boo, and Waternoose aggressively grabs her, and takes her as his hostage, as Boggs enters the scene and Waternoose reveals the truth; he was behind everything and he banished both his father and The Yeti to the Himalayas, thus directly causing the death of his father and leading the Yeti to live his entire life alone. Waternoose also confirmed that he killed 4 children in the past, which Boggs hinted previously.

Boggs threw Mike and Sulley out of a door and banished them also to The Himalayas. Sulley came back to rescue Boo whilst Mike stayed behind out of anger at Sulley for ruining his life to save Boo.

Back at the lab, Waternoose and Boggs discuss matters with Boo as their captive. Boggs asks him if he ever cared about Sulley. He revealed that he actually never had any feelings for him, since he only used him to further his own scheme and protect himself from the truth. He then betrays Boggs by calling Agent Monus in and manipulating him into arresting Boggs unless he hands Boo over to him. Boggs refuses, and when Sulley comes back and knocks Monus out, Boggs runs away with Boo as his captive.

Mike joins Sulley again, and they both have a door chase to save Boo from Boggs. After Boggs falls to his demise, Mike and Sulley return to the location of Boo's door together with Boo, and they want Boo to enter her own home and never come back so she could be safe.

However, John Waternoose Junior and the CDA agents provoke Boo and surround the trio of protagonists, with intentions of handing Boo to Waternoose, as he convinced the CDA that he will never harm her.

Mike however throws on a CDA agent a sock, which caused the other CDA agents to interrogate him. While this happened, Sulley and Boo ran away, as Waternoose followed them into the scaring simulator's room. Waternoose confessed that he plans to kill thousands of children (more or less) and that he never cared about Sulley, as he only used him to cover his own scheme up. However, everything was overheard by Mike and Agent Monus, whom arrested Waternoose as he was trying to find excuses.

Personality[]

Unlike the original counterpart, this version of Waternoose is purely dark, ruthless, evil, monstrous and remorseless, bent on conquering the universe and scaring too many children for power. He has no good traits, he lacks of any redeeming qualities and he never even cared about James P. Sullivan, whom he wanted to use and then dispose as part of his own agenda.

Waternoose at first seemed fatherly and kind, but as the film progresses this was clearly all a ploy to manipulate Sulley and everyone else. He even betrayed Boggs, and he had no sympathy towards anyone. He was also a big-time liar, since he pretended not to know that Boo was a human child and not a monster, while he wanted to get rid of her by using the Scream Extractor.

Waternoose has a high body count as he "terminated" at least four children as well as killing his own father directly, as he only wanted to prove how much he is proud of himself as a scary monster. He also knew he was doing wrong, but tried to cover it up anyway at all costs.

Trivia[]

• He is the darkest version of Waternoose. In the original movie, Waternoose was a well-meaning-extremist who was bent on saving his company in the way that he sees fit. However, this version knew right and wrong, and made his choice as he covered up his crimes later in life.
• He is the second live-action main antagonist of a Pixar fanfilm, after Claudian Barnaby from Ratatouille.
• Before the film's released, in the early scripts of the fanfilm, Waternoose was going to show remorse and good intentions just like in the original movie. However, the creator decided to make him way more evil than he was in the animated version since in his opinion, Waternoose had lots of potential as a much darker villain.
• Waternoose is the first villain in the Pixar remakes to make the plot twist.
• Unlike the original counterpart, this version of Waternoose was arrested off screen.

Link to the fanfilm[]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17r2_Z0tuF-z8NxKYc8pCZ5d5gsOp_XN5eOx_mIITWkc/edit?usp=sharing (Monsters Inc)

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