Yuwen Wang is a character in the Disney•Pixar animated series Win or Lose. He is a middle-school boy who is a pitcher for his softball team, The Pickles. He appears extremely extroverted as he always looks for attention by making jokes.
Background
Physical appearance
Yuwen is a pre-teen boy of Asian descent. He has black hair that is apparently long enough for the front of it to fit through the belt part of his baseball cap that he wears backwards. He also has black eyebrows and brown eyes.
Personality
Yuwen is the typical 'mean kid', always making fun of others for the sake of levity. His teammates on the Pickles is a textbook demonstration of such since he mostly records their fails on his cell phones and puts them on the internet for everyone to see and laugh at. Though he doesn't seem to have any malicious intent, since when showing Laurie the humiliating video he posted of her failing to hit the ball at their softball game, he was expecting her to laugh along, suggesting he lacks emotional intelligence. Yet, there is more to this obnoxious bully then meets the eye as he has a very self conscious "inner self" who harbors a secret crush on fellow Pickles teammate, Taylor.
After he and Taylor become a couple, Yuwen becomes more good-natured, and starts showing his "true self" to Taylor both metaphorically and literally. In return, Taylor also reveals she also has an imaginary "true self" which likely explains how they grew so quickly as a couple. Unfortunately, Yuwen's insecure side takes over once Taylor starts befriending their teammate Tom, leading to Yuwen to get paranoid in believing that Taylor is seeing Tom behind his back, which soon leads to Taylor dumping him when Yuwen won't give his insecurity a rest.
Yuwen is also somewhat sensitive to criticism as shown when Rochelle touches a nerve when she derides his love of comedy after he shamelessly humiliates Laurie by posting her softball fail on the internet.
Trivia
- Yuwen shares the same surname as his voice actor, Izaac Wang.
- His family seems to own a food-truck business, as seen when his mother uses said truck to take him to the movie theater.
- At one point during the opening game in his episode, he shouts to the audience "Are you not entertained?!", which is a reference to the 2000 film, Gladiator.
- It is unknown if whether he and Taylor even got back together, but it's made clear when Yuwen said or asks if he's been an amazing "ex-boyfriend" when the Pickles were at the pizzeria.
Gallery
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External links
- Yuwen on the Win or Lose Wiki
