Movie:Garrett Garrison

Garrett Garrison

Details
Gender	Male
Species	Human
Status	Alive
Aliases	The Garbage Man Hot Garbage The Trash Bag (Marlene) Gar Gar (Steve)
Titles	Gamer of the Year, 1989
Occupation	Video game store owner
Affiliations	Game Over World Gang Sizzler (investor) World Video Game Championship (contestant)
Residence	Idaho
Allies	Daryl Steve
First appearance	Uproar in Midport Village
Latest appearance	A Minecraft Movie
Actor	Jason Momoa Moana Williams (Young Garrett)

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Garrett Garrison, also known by his nickname "The Garbage Man", is one of the main protagonists in A Minecraft Movie, played by Jason Momoa. A former video game champion, he found success prematurely and has yet to recapture it over many years, giving him an inflated ego desperate for validation. He is also the third human to enter the Overworld, just before Natalie and Dawn.

Appearance

Garrett has long brown hair and a beard. During his trip to the Overworld, he wears a pink leather jacket featuring noticeable streamers on the arms, over a primarily white shirt with a human/cat face on it, and a pair of fingerless leather gloves. Prior to that, he wore a pink muscle shirt with red accents, featuring characters from the video game Hunk City Rampage. Jason Momoa's real world tattoos are kept unchanged.

In 1989, Garrett was very similar to his current appearance. His hair is noticeably thinner and combed back but still quite long, while his stature is much lankier and not quite "hunk-like" yet, with him also possessing braces. He wears a pink T-shirt with the characters from the game.

Personality

Garrett was best known for being a video game world champion in 1989, but has made no notable accomplishments since then. Thus, he acts stuck-in-the-past and refuses to let go of his former glory. This makes him very competitive, as seen in a scene where he egotistically attempts to craft a better iron sword than Steve, which backfires and results in him inventing buck-chuckets instead.^[1]

Powers and abilities

Garrett is incredibly healthy and muscular, strong enough to effortlessly hold up a cardboard cutout of himself. While in the Overworld, he reflexively slaps a creeper, visibly harming it, if slightly. When the creeper explodes, he is caught directly in the face of the explosion, being sent flying over several meters, but manages to survive and scratch it off. A similar feat occurs in the woodland mansion, where he manages to survive being thrust into the air and nearly impaled on a fighting ring by a chicken jockey.

Later in the film, after escaping the woodland mansion, he is shown to be able to survive the explosive magnitude of at least 128 tons of TNT without even a scratch. During the final battle against the piglins, when he saves Henry from falling to his death, he claims to have been able to survive the explosion and a fall using "Steve's water bucket trick." Along the way, he also became observant, somehow figuring out how to prod a ghast to expel fireballs on command. Prior to this, he was able to pick up on the very scarce scent of Velvet Mischief, showing he has an enhanced sense of smell.

Garrett is shown to attempt bilingualism; he often speaks various phrases in Spanish, which are frequently incorrect if not incomprehensible.

Biography

As a teenager, Garrett was a highly successful participant in the World Video Game Championship of 1989, where he competed against others in the arcade game Hunk City Rampage. His success earned him various trophies and local fame, as well as a lucrative contract with the restaurant chain Sizzler. His effective use of "garbage toss moves" in the game earned him the nickname "The Garbage Man."

Several years later he owns the second-hand video game store Game Over World in Chuglass. However, he is facing financial difficulties and receives an eviction notice. He also offers lessons for $50 per hour that mostly involve watching him playing, which leads his customers not to come back.^[2]

Wanting to make money, he goes to Daryl's storage unit. The latter oversees the auction of a storage unit containing Steve's belongings from his former home on Earth. The items up for sale include a water pan, pickaxes, a large can, mixed nuts, several unisex turquoise blouses, and a 1978 Atari Cosmos. Garrett, planning to resell the console to pay off his debts, asks Daryl to keep the winning bid low. In return, he promises to hang out with Daryl and "make [his] weird fanboy dreams come true", specifically spending time with him while wearing the included unisex turquoise blouses to "cause a commotion" among ladies. The auction begins at $500, and Garrett wins it for $900. However, upon discovering that the Atari Cosmos box is empty, he angrily trashes the entire storage unit. This infuriates Daryl, who accuses Garrett of having no respect for the storage community. However, Garrett finds the Orb of Dominance and the Earth crystal inside the box. Thinking these objects are valuable, he decides to take them.

Garrett meets Henry when the latter visits his shop shortly before going to high school. After Henry accidently destroys Chuggy the Chip, the mascot of Chuglass Potato Chips, he asks Garrett to pretend to be his uncle to avoid expulsion. Garrett initially refuses, but immediately changes his mind when Henry offers him $26. After bringing Henry into his shop, both are interested in the Orb of Dominance and the Earth crystal, and decide to combine them after reading the notice recommending against doing so. The combined orb and crystal leads them to the Earth portal in the mine. They are joined by Dawn and Natalie before they are all sucked into the portal to the Overworld, which Garrett mistakes for Wyoming.

When the group spots a pink sheep, Garrett assumes it is a quest giver. As he unsuccessfully tries talking to the sheep, night falls. Garrett tries to give advice to the others, but runs away screaming when he sees flaming arrows being fired in their direction. He falls into a hole, and digs his way into a cave. He eventually digs up and returns to the surface further into the forest where he reflexively hits a creeper, causing it to explode. On his way to the fortress that Henry built, he finds the Orb of Dominance which Henry had dropped on the ground. As he gazes at the cube instead of running, a skeleton shoots it out of his hands, breaking the Earth crystal. He is cornered by zombies before being pulled into the fortress.

After Steve rescues the group, introduces himself, and explains that they cannot return to Earth without the Earth crystal and that he needs the orb, Garrett introduces himself as the leader of the group, which Steve agrees to despite Dawn expressing otherwise.

After that, the group enters Midport Village, where Steve says that he has a secret stash of weapons that will help them survive in the woodland mansion. Steve introduces the villagers and further discusses how they built most of the village. Steve then tells Henry that he can build anything he can imagine. Immediately, an iron golem walks past them and Steve says it's the local security force.

Steve then introduces his signature dish, the Lava Chicken. A spicy chicken dish cooked in lava. He flicks a lever, and a chicken drops into a glass enclosure. Lava is immediately released, cooking the chicken. He describes the dish to the group in the form of a song. When the dish arrived, Steve took a leg piece and burned his tongue. Garret tried to eat it, but he also struggled.

Steve tells Natalie where to find the Woodland Mansion, which is over the mountains, into the dark forest and right beyond the red shrooms. Natalie then says they'll need an actual map to go there. She further says the place is dangerous and that she needs to get her little brother out of there. Steve says that her little brother has a gift and should explore it. Natalie then says in the real world her brother is always bullied. She further said her brother blew up Chuggy the Chip. Henry makes the assumption that he belongs in this world, and goes into Steve's secret stash of weapons. Steve also goes to the secret stash. Garret hears most of the conversation and tells Natalie that he's more of a sister to Henry than she'll ever be, then goes to the secret stash.

In the secret stash, Steve shows his weapons, which include TNT, firework rockets, boots of swiftness, a full set of diamond armor, and his collection of blades. Garret says the layout is bogus. He walks around the room and opens a chest. The chest contains a totem of undying, a scroll, 6 firework rockets, books, and an ender pearl. Garret picks up the ender pearl and Steve says it will teleport him wherever he throws it. Garret throws it behind him, and before he can react, he's teleported right next to the door. Steve further says that ender pearl was his only one and he almost died fighting an enderman to obtain it.

Steve then introduced the crafting table. Garret looked at him suspiciously as Steve uses 2 iron ingots and a stick to craft an iron sword. Garret tries to craft a better sword by throwing a few iron ingots and nuggets onto the crafting table. But Garret instead crafted 2 buckets connected by a chain which he calls "Buck-Chuckets." Henry tries to craft something by using three iron ingots, two sticks, a paperclip, an eraser, a 9V battery and a tater tot. He creates a blaster which he calls a "Tot Launcher." Garret then asks Henry for permission to play with the Tot Launcher.

Garret then asks Steve if he can talk to him about something. Steve agrees, and they head to another room. Garret tells Steve that he has read the note Steve left with the orb. Garret specifically mentions "the riches" written on it. Steve says that he keeps diamonds in the redstone mines. Garret then shows him the orb and tells him that without diamonds, there will be no orb. Steve agrees to the deal.

Garret, Steve, and Henry hear a commotion outside. Steve brings his shield, Garret brings his buck-chuckets and Henry brings his tot launcher. They see the piglins trashing the village. Steve spots General Chungus, who says that he must unalive Steve and that Steve should give him the orb. Garret then asks Steve if he knows General Chungus. Steve replies, saying they used to get into some dungeon stuff together. Steve wields his sword, but Garret stops him and brings out his Buck-Chuckets. He swings them and accidentally hits Steve in the face, knocking him on a table which breaks in half.

Garret tries to hit Chungus, but Chungus grabs one of the chained buckets and swings Garret around until he falls to the ground. Garret regains his strength and tries again to hit Chungus. but Chungus punched Garret. Henry starts shooting the piglins with his tot launcher. Chungus corners Garret, but a nearby iron golem picks Chungus up and throws him away. Garret then rolls over to Steve, who has regained consciousness. Steve doesn’t know what happened, and Garret convinces him that he saved him.

Steve tells Garret to follow him to the rampart. Garret picks up Henry, and the three of them run up the stairs to the rampart. They approach a cliff where Steve equips Garret and Henry with elytra wingsuits. Steve says that they should head toward the mountains up ahead. Garret pushes Henry off the cliff, and he falls. Eventually, he gains control and flies away. When the piglins catch up, Garret leaps off the cliff and flies away. Steve realizes he forgot to bring a third elytra for himself. So he leaps off the cliff and lands on Garret. Steve sits on Garret’s back and grabs his hair to keep from falling. The piglins use ghasts to fly and catch up with them.

Steve says there is a better chance if they split up. So, Henry separates from Steve and Garret. Some ghasts follow Steve and Garret as the piglins riding them try to shoot an arrow. They miss and accidentally shot another ghast, which explodes. They see a giant wall of rock in front of them. But a fireball from a ghast misses them and burns a hole in the stone. To fit through, Garret and Steve create a "man sandwich" where Garret holds Steve's legs and Steve holds Garret's legs. Steve watches from behind as piglins riding a ghast pour a bucket of lava. They manage to fit through the hole. Steve and Garret catch Henry in midair, and they use a water bucket to cushion their fall.

Relationships

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Henry

Garrett serves as a mentor to Henry and becomes friends with him, but is shown to not be very dedicated; he initially refuses to pretend to be Henry's uncle at Henry's request, only accepting when he offers money. Garrett is also shown to have very little respect for Henry, such as when he throws him off a cliff to test the elytra wingsuits. Later on, however, Henry becomes aggressive towards Garrett for risking their lives and Natalie's safety just to receive Steve's diamonds, calling him selfish. Despite that, Henry still admires Garrett and secretly believes he'll never be as cool as him, as shown in the enderman's vision.

Steve

Garrett is shown to hold a great respect and admiration for Steve, whom he considers a "brother." Upon meeting, he is unimpressed by his introduction of "I... am Steve!", considers himself to be the leader and warns Steve not to double-cross him. While trying to escape from piglins via elytra, he trusts Steve enough to let him ride on his back, and is responsible for the idea to form a "man sandwich" to fit through a hole in a border. However, his ego has also been shown to get the better of their friendship, constantly attempting to one-up Steve; he tries to eat Steve's lava-cooked chicken to prove he is stronger than him, does not believe Steve's description about ender pearls, and fails to craft a better sword than Steve's.^[1] All of these instances have backfired and left Garrett in humiliation.

Quotes

	“	GARRETT "THE GARBAGE MAN" GARRISON - Gamer of the Year 1989. A maestro at vintage arcades, but a total disaster at everything else in life, a painful reality that’s getting harder to avoid the older he gets. But he’s managing…by living in the past forever.	„
		— 2025 Amazon.com description

	“	Listen, kid. The point is, there's no "I" in team. But there are two in winning.	„
		— Garrett imparting his somewhat illegitimate advice to Henry

	“	You wanna see a blade? I'll show you a blade.	„
		— Garrett after Steve crafts an iron sword

	“	You'll never be as cool as me, Hank. Just give up.	„
		— An illusion of Garrett created by an enderman

	“	Tell my story in song. Keep it metal. Keep it heavy. Real instruments.	„
		— Garrett before being caught in an explosion

	“	This pig is mine.	„
		— Garrett confidently telling Steve that he will take down General Chungus

History of appearances

Trivia

• Early reports of Jason Momoa's casting referred to the character's name as Gabriel, which led some reports to assume Momoa was playing Gabriel the Warrior from Minecraft: Story Mode.^[3][4]
• As a promotion for the film, a real version of Garrett's "beast" tank top was released as unfictional merchandise.^[5]
• During his death fake-out at the bridge, if one looks closely they can actually see Garrett falling through the explosion and into the river, completely unharmed.

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Garrett, Steve, and Natalie
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  A character poster of Garrett Garrison.

Screenshots

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  Garrett exiting the Earth portal
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  Garrett attempting to speak sheep
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  Garrett, confident
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  Garrett at night
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  Garrett being shot at by skeletons
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  Garrett digging
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  Side view of Garrett digging
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  Garrett apologizing to a creeper
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  Garrett caught in an explosion
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  Garrett recoiling from an explosion
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  Garrett in the village
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  Garrett using a crafting table
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  Garrett in a cave
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  Garret fighting with buck chucket
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  Garrett preparing to make a risky jump
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  Steve gifting Henry and Garrett elytra
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  Steve and Garrett
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  Garrett using elytra for the first time
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  Garrett being ridden by Steve during flight with elytra
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  Garrett falling with his closest allies
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  Garrett in a fighting stance
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  Garrett, confused
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  Garrett frightened
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  Garrett's durability on display
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  Garrett preparing for action
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  Garrett ready for action
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  Garrett fighting
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  Garrett embracing Steve
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  Ditto

GIFs

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  Garrett digging to escape a group of skeletons
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  Garrett wearing an elytra
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  The four main protagonists, including Garrett
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  Garrett with the gang first meeting steve
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  The four main protagonists' reaction to Steve introducing himself
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  Garrett's reaction to Steve's introduction
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  Garrett trying to craft
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  Garrett being scared of a creeper.
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  Garrett apologising to a creeper after accidentally punching it
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  Steve and Garrett
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  Garrett being scared by the jockey
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  Garrett pushing Henry off the cliff
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  Garrett saying goodbye to Steve
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  Garrett attempting to communicate with a sheep
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  Garrett running and stopping
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  Garrett putting on sunglasses

Production images

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  Garrett flexing
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  Garrett picking up a cardboard cutout of himself
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  Garrett holding a cardboard cutout of himself
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  Young Garrett
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  Behind-the-scenes angle of the championship
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  Jason Momoa out of character, getting dressed for shooting
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  Concept art of Garrett outside the wooden tower.
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  Concept art of a noticeably different Garrett.
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  Concept art of Garrett wielding a battleaxe.
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  Concept art of an early Garrett in the woodland mansion.

In other media

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  The Garrett skin in A Minecraft Movie Hero Pack
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  Garrett in A Minecraft Movie Live Event
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  Garrett as he appears in A Minecraft Movie Happy Meal.
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  A LEGO minifigure of the Garbage Man
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  Action figure of Garrett
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  Winners Never Die, a white t-shirt featuring Garrett
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  Take Out the Trash, a black t-shirt featuring Garrett
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  Steve and Garrett, a blue t-shirt featuring Garrett and Steve
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  Retro Silhouette, a beige shirt featuring Garrett
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  A person wearing Garrett's tank top
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  Another person wearing a feminine version of the tank top
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  Garrett and Henry in the elytra chase promo

Videos

References

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