Mike

Mike is on a mission to be photographed in front of interesting places (or with interesting people) from around the world!

Michael "Mike" Wazowski is the deuteragonist in Monsters, Inc. and the protagonist in its prequel Monsters University. His voice is performed by the comedian Billy Crystal. Mike is a light green spherical monster with one large green eye, two small horns on his head, and thin arms and legs attached to either side of his torso.

• Mike was listed #23 in Empire Magazine's The 50 Best Animated Movie Characters.
• In an early animation test, Mike was considered to have no arms and would have picked things up with his feet.
• In Monsters University, it is shown that Mike had braces as a child. As a teenager, he had a retainer.
• As revealed in an early cut-scene, Mike was originally Randall's assistant instead of Fungus.
• Mike is renamed "Bob Razowski" in the French dub.
• Mike has a brief cameo, swimming past in scuba gear during the credits of Finding Nemo, returning the favor, so to speak, after there is a Nemo cameo near the end of Monsters, Inc. The "gear" he is wearing was what he wore to "protect" himself from Boo in Monsters, Inc.
• Mike appears in the end credits of Cars as a small car. This car version of him also appears briefly in Tokyo Mater with Sulley when Mater drives through a building.
• He also starred in Tomorrowland's attraction, Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor, with Roz.
• A topper of Mike can be seen in WALL•E.
• In the original pitch of Monsters, Inc., Mike did not appear in the movie.
• Mike also wears a contact lens, which is said to be the size of a pizza.
• Mike has his own spell card in the Disney World attraction, Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom called, "Mike's Grand Entrance."
• Mike is the second deuteragonist from a Pixar film to become the protagonist in his prequel. The first was Mater from Cars, where he was the deuteragonist in the first film and the protagonist in the second film.
• Whenever Mike Wazowski is shown on public media, such as a Monsters, Inc. commercial or a magazine cover, his face is actually always covered up by the text on said media (such as the Monsters, Inc. "M eyeball" logo in the commercial and a barcode on the magazine cover). Also, the DVD (and possibly the upcoming Blu-ray disc) for the film appears to take this even further by having the DVD artwork and the hole in the middle of the DVD used to secure it into place once inside the DVD player both positioned in a way so that the hole is actually placed over Mike's face!
• The gag of his face being blocked out occurs through the two movies, and a running joke is that he is completely oblivious to his face being obscured.
  • A similar thing occurred during Monsters University in which Mike's ID card has his head out of view.
• In Monsters University, Mike is 17, meaning that in Monsters, Inc. he is about 27.
• As pointed out by Dean Hardscrabble, Mike Wazowski can never become a scarer, so in the original film he ultimately becomes a comedian instead.
• The character's last name "Wazowski" resembles the name "Lebowski" from the movie The Big Lebowski, which is a film where two actors from Monsters, Inc., Steve Buscemi and John Goodman, had appeared.