Duncan Pepperidge Anderson is the assistant supervisor of MIFT in the Disney•Pixar animated series Monsters at Work.
Background[]
Personality[]
Duncan is an ambitious monster who desires to be the head of MIFT. Much like Randall Boggs, he is not above using underhanded or conniving tactics to achieve his goal. Unlike Randall, Duncan has redeeming traits and morals and actually gets along with his co-workers most of the time.
Physical appearance[]
Duncan is an olive green monster with four orange eyes on stalks. Strangely, Duncan's eyestalks are all different sizes in height. Duncan has multiple characteristics of a dragon, such as webbed wings, long, skinny fingers which resemble claws, and dragon-like feet, but has a different body shape than a dragon.
He used to have a pencil mustache, as seen in "The Vending Machine". He likely shaved it sometime after his employment photo.
Role in the series[]
In "Welcome to Monsters, Incorporated", Tylor encounters Duncan reading a magazine, with his pet Roto, a purple furball monster, being slid into his glass cage to which as the two enter, Duncan and Banana Bread stare at Tylor while Val tells a group of ground control employees to meet Tylor who tells the coworkers whether that this would be a temporary assignment; Fritz enters and introduces himself to Tylor, explaining to him that Monsters, Inc. was sending over a new employee at MIFT. Duncan approaches Tylor asking Tylor a couple of things he wants to ask - albeit privately. During a private conversation, Duncan discusses with Tylor that down in the MIFT facility ground, no daylight can be seen and the repetitive dim of machinery is proving Tylor a challenge, although the MIFT team means well. During a conversation between Tylor and Duncan, the latter introduces himself to Tylor, explaining to him that people refer to him as the deputy supervisor and the reason is if Fritz is no longer working for MIFT, Duncan will take over his job which Tylor leaves the area with Duncan telling him that he is onto him. Duncan approach Tylor whom they think that he was supposed to get appreciation donuts for them while Roze formally welcomes Tylor to Monsters, Incorporated.
In "Meet Mift, Duncan is questioning Cutter to know if the slogan should be "It's laughter we're after" to which as Duncan discusses with her with another slogan the company should come up with while Millie Tuskmon drives her son Tylor to Monsters, Inc. Later when Fritz shows Tylor everyone's table as Fritz tells him that he and his friends will double his desk with his very own nameplate as Val feels excited of Tylor having his own desk, Duncan and Cutter listen to him presenting Tylor his own desk which Tylor explains that he won't be at MIFT that long which Duncan and his pet Roto listen which the two don't trust what Tylor is saying just as Fritz, Val, and Cutter plan to give Tylor another surprise while Duncan plans to surprise Tylor with some canister refurbishments while being given a manual of how to disable the canister before it causes havoc only for the canister to ricochet across MIFT while Banana Bread and Cutter react to it as Cutter says, "Time for lunch". Tylor then tells Duncan that he and the other employees at MIFT are the ones who are messed up just as Duncan plans to go to comedy class. Later when Fritz and Val arrive at the desk where Tylor is supposed to be only for the two to feel worried which Banana Bread tells Duncan, Val, and Fritz about Tylor attending comedy class, much to their worry.
Meanwhile, when Tylor attends Mike's comedy class as Tylor plans to get to the Laugh Floor to work like Mike and Sulley only for Duncan, Fritz, and Val enter the comedy class just as three seat themselves during comedy class; Banana Bread answers Mrs. Flint's topic of comedy class to which as he responds to her, Celia alerts Duncan, Val, Tylor, Fritz, and Banana Bread about Mike Wazowski who is trapped in a door during a power outage; Fritz tells Duncan to get Cutter followed by Val and Tylor being next while Banana Bread stays during class with Mrs. Flint. Arriving at the door where Mike is trapped, Fritz orders Duncan, Val, and Cutter to power the door which Mike escapes while Fritz tells Duncan to rescue Mike and as the door starts spinning, Fritz tells Duncan to set the door to manual override only for the door to act defectively while Fritz tells Duncan to reverse the door, which Duncan is unable to help, and neither can Val; Tylor is then tasked to wrench the nut to fix the faulty door. To Tylor's determination, he was able to wrench the nut to set the arrow to reverse while Duncan manages to put the door back in place with Mike safe and sound, albeit feeling exhausted. Afterwards, back at MIFT, Fritz offers Drooler Cooler soda cans as a celebration for the MIFT team while Banana Bread enters the MIFT facility which Flint tells the team that Winchester is needed on the Laugh Floor, which Flint discusses that she was intrigued by Banana Bread's nuanced insight on comic theory as she found out that he was acting hilariously. Soon as Winchester leaves, Duncan, Val, Cutter, and Fritz continue their celebration with a piñata party while Tylor adjusts to getting used to working for MIFT.
In "The Damaged Room", Fritz receives a letter from Celia which he shows to Duncan, Tylor, and Val about the alert from Celia which Val feels excited that Tylor is being the first one to repair a damaged room while Cutter tells Tylor to wear his helmet while dealing with a damaged room which Fritz offers him a helmet to wear while dealing with the room while Duncan asks Fritz to know if he should send Tylor to deal with the problem which Fritz tells him that Tylor will do fine. Later at Snore's room, during a discussion between Val and Tylor, Duncan suddenly enters the room explaining that he will be taking notes on Val and Tylor's performance. Back at Snore's room, Val tells Cutter and Tylor to repair a chair rail with nail guns to which Duncan tells the three that they are running out of time just as Cutter plans to have a lunch break as she leaves the room. Duncan explains to Tylor that after nine more years of being his junior assistant apprentice intern, he will graduate in being his assistant apprentice intern which Tylor trips over one paint can, only for Snore's parents to hear the commotion outside. Snore's parents enter her room to make sure their daughter is okay only to find Duncan on her crib, distracting the parents. All of a sudden, Cutter was able to reactivate the door to allow Duncan and the remaining monsters inside Snore's room to escape. Later after Tylor and Val finally escape pack up discuss with each other, Tylor remembers the moment he and Val had when they were at Monsters University as partners as Val remembers where Duncan hides his Hot Snots candy: under Roto's cage just as Tylor and Val return to MIFT.
In "Powerless", After Powerless compelety blackout Roger, Fritz and the rest of MIFT began to panic they have to evacuate. But, Tylor arrives and warn them that Randall Boggs has returns. Duncan shocks and he realized it was Randall all along not Tylor and he told them Randall and Johnny has stealing the canisters of laugh power and used Tylor all along. Roger have an idea they can use the old Waternoose's Scream Extractor to save Monsters Inc. and Monstropolis and Johnny and the rest of MIFT disguise them and get into the Fear Co. and Tylor disguise Duncan as Declan as the supervisor and he earn it and he give Joy and Skyler to free to go. And they fixed Scream Extractor and save the day. Suddenly, the plug been unplugged. Randall came to fight and Declan join him againist him and after Randall defeat and the power been restore and thanks to Chet who undercover and calling Monstropolis Energy Regulatory Commission and arrested Johnny and Randall. At the end of the episode he decided on the case of Randall and put him back to jail or banishment again. Tylor and Val are officially jokesters and he watch and smile at them to visiting Ben in his door and he decided to take a break from tormenting Tylor as he realized he was wrong and misjudged him.
Trivia[]
- His name has a similar structure to that of former Pixar employee Darla K. Anderson, who produced many Pixar films (including Monsters, Inc.) before her departure in 2018.
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