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Toy Story 4 fans are obsessed with Forky in the new trailer
20 March 2019, 13:03
After the new Toy Story trailer dropped, fans are relating to an anxious spork in the middle of an existential crisis.
The trailer for Toy Story 4 dropped this week and fans revisited their favourite childhood characters in the first full look at the upcoming film. Woody, Buzz, Bo Peep and Jessie are all back for another adventure but it's new character Forky that has fans in their feelings.
Who plays Forky in Toy Story 4?
Tony Hale (Arrested Development, Veep) voices Forky, a spork in the new film who is seemingly in the midst of an identity crisis.
Forky is a DIY toy created by Bonnie at school. Because of this, Forky doesn't feel that he is truly a toy and so he makes a break for it, only to be tailed by Woody.
Fans reacted to Forky and found the toy-in-crisis to be highly relatable.
Forky just became the most relatable movie character to ever exist. #ToyStory4 pic.twitter.com/Jo0D0fgvwV
— Carly Heading (@carlyylalaa) March 19, 2019
Forky/everyone on twitter: "why am I alive?"
— shadie hawkins (@kaylaahawkins) March 19, 2019
If FORKY isn't a perfect and cartoonish expression of when depression and anxiety clash, I don't know what is. pic.twitter.com/l1PI9aLkIg
— Mallory Yu (@mallory_yu) March 19, 2019
Okay but in the trailer for #ToyStory4 when Forky said he was made for the trash, I felt that pic.twitter.com/FiYlZYzvxg
— tiffy ☢ (@radioactiffdcay) March 19, 2019
We are Forky. pic.twitter.com/n4eY5V5bJW
— Ms. Astro 👑💤 @ Royal Alliance Zine (@Astro_Latte) March 19, 2019
Fans are feeling seen after Forky's "why am I alive" and "I was made for soup, salad, maybe chilli, and then the trash" lines in the trailer.
People decided to stan Forky fairly quickly.
Nobody:
— RADATATAT! (Pizza Lawyer to the Stars) (@pabstimus) March 20, 2019
Me: Have met my Lord and Savior, Forky? pic.twitter.com/LkPgDWhEmU
I want to protect Forky from the dangers of the internet at all cost. #ToyStory4 pic.twitter.com/CcIu5S2w2e
— Nick Raffa (@animallover360) March 19, 2019
forky’s existential crisis is extremely relatable, i have decided to stan https://t.co/nl2SxOiewX
— bb eel (@leptocephalus) March 19, 2019
Who among us hasn't experienced this exact kind of existential crisis?
Fans also found themselves surprisingly invested in the Forky drama.
Me, for Toy Story 3, without kids: Meh, they need to let it go
— Brother Love (@MrRon_P) March 19, 2019
Me, for Toy Story 4, with two kids: THEY BETTER GET FORKY HOME FOR THE LOVE OF GOD https://t.co/J2qXKAGnEg
(Back in 1999)
— Ben Schwartz (@rejectedjokes) March 19, 2019
Fortune Teller- "In twenty years you will cry about a spork named Forky."
Me- "Yeah... ok."
Forky has given fans a lot to consider ahead of Toy Story 4's June 21 premiere date. Audiences everywhere feel seen by that nervous little spork and it's a mood. In conclusion, we have decided to stan.
