Woody is a wooden boy made of balsa wood, which is a very soft and fragile type of wood used in crafts and woodworking, as stated by Tennis Ball. He is known for having panophobia, which is the fear of everything, as is the case in the original BFDI cartoon on YouTube, in which the movie adaptation is based on, as he was paranoid and always appeared to be nervous. He also gets picked on and pushed around by some contestants like Pin, Blocky, and Flower.