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"I could have been dead! I COULD HAVE DIED!!!"
—Claws Ward, after failing to scare a child

Pete "Claws" Ward is a minor character in Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc.[]

Claws is a blue crocodile-like monster with razor-sharp claws and horrifying breath. He is very good friends with Lanky Schmidt and George Sanderson.

Claws first appears in the Monsters Inc. ad, the one where Mike's face is hidden, when the ad notes that each child's scarer is matched to the child's fears, and it shows Claws being matched to a young boy.

Claws appears on the Scare Floor in Monsters, Inc. and the sushi restaurant. On the Scare Floor, he runs out of a door screaming and crying in fear because the child he was trying to scare was not afraid of him and almost touched him. He then proceeds to cry while his assistant calms him down and calls in a door shredder, making that door the 58th lost in the week.

While watching Mike's company play "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me," he gets emotional during Mike's singing and starts crying, to which his assistant slaps him to snap him out of it and says, "Keep it together, man!" (like how he did earlier in the film when Claws was crying because the kid got close to him).

Monsters University[]

Although Claws does not physically appear in Monsters University, his picture can be seen on a Scare Card during the credits. It is also revealed in Monsters University that he graduated from Fear Tech and formerly worked at Fear Co.

Additional Appearances[]

  • Claws has also appeared in Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena for Nintendo GameCube as one of five available playable characters.
  • He also appeared in the On Ice version of Monsters, Inc..

Personality[]

While often seen in the background, Claws appears to act like everyone else who works at Monsters, Incorporated, where he works with various other co-workers at the company. In spite of this, he can occasionally get emotional in certain situations, such as when a human child almost harmed him, causing him to fail his lesson in scaring.

Trivia[]

  • During the part where Claws runs out of the door in fear, the "Killin' Paul Bunyan" poster from Sid's room in Toy Story can be seen before he slams the door shut.
    • If one listens closely when Claws opens the door containing the girl he failed to scare, they can hear rock music. It is implied that the girl has some extreme behavior.
  • It is possible that Claws' surname is a reference to Jay Ward, an art department coordinator who works at Pixar.
  • According to his Scare Card:
    • He idolizes Carla "Killer Claws" Benitez.
    • He is 6'4" (193 cm), weighs 680 pounds (308 kg), and was born on May 5th in Shockholm.
  • He is the second bottom scarer.

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