History WesternAnimation / InsideOut

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In the Dream Productions posters:
-->''I'm Falling for a Very Long Time into a Pit'': starring Riley Andersen, written by Riley Andersen, produced by Riley Andersen, guest starring The Pit.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In the classroom, Fear, with a large stack of papers, has calculated "The worst case scenario is quicksand, spontaneous combustion, and getting called on by the teacher." The last is indeed what happens.

''Inside Out'' is an animated film from [[Creator/{{Pixar}} Pixar Animation Studios]]. It is directed by Creator/PeteDocter (''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'') and co-directed by Ronnie del Carmen.

* BurningWithAnger: When Anger gets too riled up, his head catches fire. [[spoiler:Which is then weaponized by Disgust by the end of the movie.]]

* {{Hammerspace}}: Where Anger presumably keeps getting [[FreezeFrameBonus his newspapers]], and Joy her chalk. It only seems to work as long as it's accessed offscreen, oddly enough, such as [[spoiler:Disgust's welding mask when she weaponizes Anger.]]

* AnAesop: Several, actually.
** It is important to be sad sometimes. It helps you connect to others, it helps others know to cheer you up, and most importantly, going to a sad place lets you sort out your negative emotions and power through them. While it takes happiness to have hope and goodwill, in order to have empathy and understand life, one must know what it means to be sad.
** "Just because you feel bad emotions doesn't mean you can't make a difference." Even more, that there's no such thing as 'bad' emotions. Even the emotions associated with negativity -- Fear, Disgust, Anger and especially Sadness -- exist for a reason in order to help the person become who they are, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.
** Don't bottle up your emotions.
** When someone is upset, trying to make them smile won't always be the best approach--sometimes, it helps to just listen.
** A big one for parents; if your child's emotional state changes suddenly (especially during a very stressful time, such as the move for Riley), let them know that it's OK to talk to you about how they're feeling, listen when they do express emotions and reassure them that it's normal to feel that way. Nobody is a mind reader and it's impossible to tell what somebody is really feeling unless they tell you.
** A big part of growing up and adapting to change is allowing one's emotions to become nuanced and complex, not simplistic and monopolizing.

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* '''Sadness''' (Creator/PhyllisSmith): A gloomy, reserved emotion who prefers to lie on the floor and cry. She would like to be more positive, but it's just so hard for her. The other emotions, herself included, don't know what her role is. Despite that, she always tries to be helpful.

* '''Fear''' (Creator/BillHader): A nervous and anxious emotion, whose main job is to keep Riley safe. He spends the majority of his time thinking of potential dangers.

* TheEeyore: Sadness. She gets better.
* {{Emo}}: When Riley is running away from home, she is bitter and depressed, and wearing a black jacket instead of her usual brightly colored clothes. The Cool Girl in Riley's class seems to willingly follow this fashion style and mindset. [[spoiler:However, at the end, her emotions reveal it's [[NotSoAboveItAll an act so everyone will think she's cool]].]]
* EmpathicEnvironment: Riley's mind world is daytime when she's awake; when she goes to sleep, it becomes nighttime. [[spoiler:When she's apathetic and running away, the mind world becomes dull and darkly colored with a foggy sky.]]
* EpicFail: At one point, Fear tries to dispose of himself through the memory chute, calling it "quitting". Instead of getting sucked up like Joy and Sadness, however, he causes the tube to clog with memory orbs before it eventually gives up and spits him back out.
* EurekaMoment:
** When Sadness talks about long-term memory and that she read about it in the manuals. That piece of information gives Joy the idea to use Sadness' knowledge to their advantage.
** When she's [[spoiler:trapped in the memory dump]], Joy picks up the memory of Riley celebrating with her friends after a hockey game. [[spoiler:While wiping off a tear on the orb, she accidentally rewinds it to a sad part, when Riley was devastated over having lost the game. This helps Joy realize it was Sadness that allowed Riley to get over the pain of losing, leading to a happy memory, and thus figures out how to deal with Riley's issues about moving to a new home.]]
** When Bing Bing tells Joy that they are stuck down in Memory Dump, he equates their situation to being on another planet. That line reminds Joy of Bing Bong's wagon to the stars.
** Sadness has one of her own in [[ShortCutsMakeLongDelays abstract thought]], which ends up saving her, Joy, and Bing Bong; she realizes that [[MediumAwareness falling on your face in a nonfigurative state (and possibly the initial 2D stage) forms a simple line]]. She wastes no time in telling her companions to do the same.
* ExpositionBeam: The emotions replaying memories functions as this, instantly reminding Riley of past events and triggering responses.
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* {{Facepalm}}:
** At dinner, Riley's Mom's Fear puts both hands on her face when [[spoiler:Riley's Dad asks Riley how her first day of school was.]]
** Joy does a double facepalm as [[spoiler:Bing Bong cries on Sadness's shoulder over the loss of his rocket and the possibility of being forgotten, as she thinks Sadness is just exacerbating the issue.]]
* FailedASpotCheck: Riley's mom turns to face Riley when Riley [[spoiler:is stealing from her purse]], but is so into her phone conversation that Riley is able to sneak away before she notices.
* FailureMontage: Showing Joy and Bing Bong trying to escape the Memory Dump. They succeed [[ThirdTimesTheCharm on the third try]].
* FaintInShock: Fear faints when [[MonsterClown Jangles]] shows up while he's on late-night duties.
* TheFashionista: Disgust, who is in charge of Riley's wardrobe.
-->'''Disgust:''' When I'm through, Riley will look so good the other kids will look at their own outfits and barf.
* FatBastard: The MonsterClown captures Bing Bong for his candy-generating ability.
* FauxHorrific:
** Riley's fears in the subconscious are relatively mundane. Aside from [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever appearing much larger than normal]], they don't appear frightening at all, even though the characters react as if they are.
** A promo clip has Riley watching a horror movie titled "[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Shoes of Doom]]".
* FirstDayOfSchoolEpisode: One scene focuses on Riley's first day at her new school, and that's where the sad core memory was made.
* FisherKing: In Riley's mind, it's daytime when she's awake, but when she goes to sleep, it becomes nighttime. Then when Riley becomes apathetic and is running away, it becomes dark and foggy.
* FisherKingdom: When Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong are trapped in the abstract thought chamber, their shapes shift in stages to various abstract forms. First they turn into Picasso-like amalgamations (which fall apart during the second stage), then turn two-dimensional, and finally lose all definition, becoming walking shapes. (The directors' commentary notes that the soundtrack devolves accordingly, from Atmos to 5.1 to 2.0 to mono.) They shift back when they escape.
* FiveFiveFive: On the "For Sale" sign at the beginning.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Riley gets sent to her room and slams the door, Family Island has a small rumble, foreshadowing what is about to happen to the rest of the Personality Islands.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When Riley's parents try to feed her broccoli, they have both broccoli and slices of pizza on their plates, foreshadowing the broccoli-topped pizza seen later.
** Upon arriving in San Francisco, Anger, seeing the city's road rage, gleefully states that those are his kind of people. [[spoiler:The public bus driver's emotions shown at the end are all differently colored versions of Anger.]]
** When the emotions are listing all the bad things about their new home, what does Sadness say? "Our friends are back home." [[spoiler:Empathy and longing for people are what she's responsible for.]]
** When Riley has her nightmare about the new house, Joy says "I know I'm not supposed to do this but..." and switches out the nightmare for a happy memory of the past, so that they can have a happy end to a bad day. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, while Joy has Riley's best interests at heart, there's a good reason the emotions don't normally get to control Riley's dreams. Rather than distracting Riley from the unpleasantness of the new house, Joy's interference forced her to dwell on how much happier she was before the move -- and by extension how ''un''happy she is about her new life in San Francisco.]]
** After Goofball Island collapses, Sadness says that Riley can lose the other islands as well. [[spoiler:Not only does this happen, but they collapse in the exact order Sadness gives.]]
** The presence of Riley's parents' emotions hint what will eventually happen to her own emotions. [[spoiler:Specifically, they're more balanced, less one-note, and have a larger console that allows them all to contribute. More specifically, Sadness is in charge in Riley's mother's head, where she is the first to pick up on Riley's emotional issues at dinner. As the movie makes clear later, one of Sadness' most important roles is ''empathy''.]]
** In the classroom where Riley has a tearful breakdown, the emotions feel humiliated about having botched a first impression. Although Riley gets unwanted stares, the teacher is empathetic to her and the students look at her with concern rather than judgment. [[spoiler:This would later indicate that the effects of Sadness really aren't all that negative.]] The teacher's line explains all:
-->'''Teacher:''' Thank you, Riley. I know it can be tough moving to a new place, but we're happy to have you here.
** Riley's procession of [[ItMakesSenseInContext imaginary boyfriends]] are all shown saying, "I would die for Riley." [[spoiler:Which is exactly what Bing Bong does [[HeroicSacrifice so Joy can escape the memory dump.]] ]]
** When Bing Bong's rocket is tossed into the memory dump, Joy can't console him, but Sadness talking with him about the good times he had with Riley allows him to compose himself and move forward. [[spoiler:Ultimately, Sadness getting Riley to admit she misses Minnesota lets her accept their new home.]]
** Bing Bong sees a recent memory of Riley, lamenting that she's grown too big to fit in the wagon. [[spoiler:Eventually, it leads to a quiet understanding that his time is short, and that he may be weighing her down.]]
** Joy has more or less the same eye and hair color as Sadness, and they were Riley's first emotions. [[spoiler:Because they're both needed for Riley to feel the other in a healthy way. And the way they conflict over the button shows that they're meant to work together.]]
** If you look at [[http://pixarplanet.com/blog/inside-out-character-posters-and-more/ the character posters]], Joy is upside down. [[spoiler:And what does a smile look like when it's upside down? A frown. Much like someone might make when they're Sad.]]
** [[spoiler:Sadness' importance to Riley's mental and emotional health is telegraphed right from the first scene. She's shown making Riley sad, and thus cry -- which alerts her parents that she needs ''food''. If babies didn't cry, you wouldn't know when to feed them, or that something else like a dirty diaper needs attention.]]
** [[spoiler:Sadness' importance is also alerted during the montage of Riley crying over various mishaps -- most notably the parts where she dropped her ice cream and ripped her teddy bear apart. If she hadn't cried at those times, this wouldn't have alerted her parents that she needed more ice cream and her teddy bear had to be mended or replaced.]]
** [[spoiler:The secondary function of sadness, empathy, is also shown in various ways: Sadness' ability to console Bing Bong over the loss of his rocket is what allows him to compose himself and move on from it where Joy's attempt to distract him through short-term optimism failed. This secondary role is also shown through how Mrs. Andersen's mind operates: she is the parent who is the most in tune and aware of her daughter's emotional state, being the first to pick up that something is not quite right with Riley. Guess who leads the emotions in Mrs. Andersen's head?]]
** All of the emotions have a unique color associated with them, which is the color of their hair, skin, and eyes. But Joy and Sadness both have deep blue eyes and hair, and Joy's yellow skin doesn't match. Also, the aura Joy radiates is ''blue''. [[spoiler:You can't feel joy if you never feel sadness.]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The emotions, as it is to be expected: Joy is sanguine for her unrelenting optimism, Anger is choleric for almost always having a bitter and irritable attitude, Sadness is melancholic for always been downhearted at the best of times, Fear is phlegmatic for being submissive and passive, and Disgust is leukine for having the most neutral demeanor.
* TheFreelanceShameSquad: Fear, Anger, and Disgust all expect this at school when Sadness accidentally causes Riley to cry while introducing herself to the class. [[spoiler:It's subverted; Riley's new classmates all seem concerned, but Riley is reflecting on all her newly saddened memories and doesn't notice.]]
* FreezeFrameBonus:
** Anger's newspapers not only have funny headlines ("No Dessert!") but the subheadings are worth catching as well ("Experts Agree Dessert is Good.")
** During Riley and Bing Bong's tag game, you can see an abacus with beads in the same colors as memory orbs. It's also present in the Imagination Land.
** The card house in the Imagination Land has a King card, which looks like Riley's dad, a Queen card that looks like her mom... and a Riley card (R) that looks like Riley herself.
** The boxcar they climb into after waking Riley up has abbreviations for the various personality islands stamped on it (HKI = Hockey Island, etc.)
** As Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong walk into Dream Productions, if you look to your right you can see a grumpy-looking Mind Worker dressed like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse.
** At the website for Transway Bus Lines as [[spoiler:Riley is planning to run away]], a blink-and-you-miss at the arrival city shows her old hometown in Minnesota as Minneapolis.
** During the credits, when the dog is chasing the man, the locksmith's shop they pass has a sign in the window saying "[[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Sure Locks for Homes]]".
* FriendlyTickleTorture: Happens twice. First it's averted when Joy tries to cheer up Bing Bong but fails, [[spoiler:who becomes depressed when Imagination Land and his Singing-powered Wagon are both (supposedly) destroyed]]. Then when Joy and Bing Bong are both in the Memory Dump, Joy looks back on some of Riley's happier memories. One of them features a younger Riley being tickled by her dad.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** Fear running around on fire.
** During the credits, when we see inside the head of a cat, Disgust Cat can be seen throwing up in the back.
** Also during the credits, the memory orbs walls of other characters can be seen briefly. While some are fairly mixed, others are more uniform. The real Jangles the Clown has primarily Sadness orbs (followed by Fear), the bus driver has mostly Anger orbs, a dog has almost entirely Joy orbs, and a cat has mostly Disgust orbs.
* FunPersonified: Joy, the persona of Riley's happiness.
* FutileHandReach: When Riley runs away, Sadness does one of these as Joy and Bing Bong fall into the memory dump.
* GenkiGirl: Joy, unsurprisingly.
* GeodesicCast: Riley and her parents, [[spoiler:as well as every other human (and animal), as shown in the credits,]] all have analogous sets of five emotions governing their minds.
* TheGhost: The movers. Only spoken of by Mr. and Mrs. Andersen (apart from when he is speaking with them on the phone, but it's a NewhartPhoneCall), but the fact that they somehow wound up going to Texas instead of San Francisco means Riley doesn't have her furniture and decorations to help her settle into an unfamiliar house.
* GhostInTheMachine: The five emotions of Riley's mind (and by extension, the emotions of everybody's mind) control all of Riley's emotionally-driven actions, from recalling a memory to responding to the outside world.
* GilliganCut: When Joy assumes making her way through the long-term memory hallways with Sadness literally in tow would be easy (this example is mentioned by name in the directors' commentary).
-->'''Joy:''' We'll be back to Headquarters before morning. We can do it. This will be easy! This is working.\\
''[cut to a frazzled and exhausted Joy slowly dragging Sadness behind her]''\\
'''Joy:''' This is not working.
* GirlfriendInCanada: Riley's "Perfect Imaginary Boyfriend" claims that he lives in Canada.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: When Riley has fallen asleep and they need to get the Train of Thought moving, Sadness suggests waking her up. Joy criticizes the idea, not seeing how they'd do it, then sees Dream Productions and repeats the idea.
-->'''Sadness:''' [[SarcasmMode Great idea, Joy.]]\\
'''Joy:''' [[SarcasmBlind Thanks. Come on!]]
* GlassSmackAndSlide: [[spoiler:When Joy and Sadness are catapulted back to Headquarters, they are tossed against the window, remaining there for two seconds before slowly sliding down]].
* GodzillaThreshold: After three of the five personality islands have collapsed, Anger figures it's time for drastic measures. [[spoiler:If Minnesota is where the core memories were made, then going back there should allow them to make more. He comes to regret this.]]
* GoodParents: Riley's parents might be distracted from the move, but they obviously love her very much.
* GoToYourRoom: Riley's dad's emotions' definition of "putting down the foot" is him telling Riley this.
* TheGroundIsLava: In addition to playing the "floor is lava" game when Riley was a child (by using film projectors in her brain to make her see the floor as lava), at one point, Joy, Bing Bong, and Sadness have to cross ''literal'' lava to reach the Train of Thought. Luckily, they have a bunch of armchairs floating in it as stepping stones.
* GroupHug: A very poignant one between Riley's family [[spoiler:after she's come back from running away and admits her sadness]].
* GrowingUpSucks: Played with. The movie is a message about how people's feelings become more complicated with age. Riley's core memories stemming from childhood until the start of the movie consist only of Joy, and the movie's primary conflict kicks off when a sad core memory is created, breaking Joy's perfect streak. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, Riley's core memories, once dominated by Joy, now consist of a spectrum of various mixed emotions, such as Joy/Sadness, Fear/Disgust, Anger/Joy, etc.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: Not surprisingly, Anger is very easily set off.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Where Anger presumably keeps getting [[FreezeFrameBonus his newspapers]], and Joy her chalk. It only seems to work as long as it's accessed offscreen, oddly enough, such as [[spoiler:Disgust's welding mask when she weaponizes Anger.]]
* HappilyMarried: Played straight most of the time. Despite occasional friction (resulting in Riley's mother fantasizing about a handsome Brazilian helicopter pilot), Riley's parents ultimately have a solid relationship.
* HappyRain: Both Joy and Sadness like rain but they associate different emotional states with it. While Joy likes playing in the puddles and lightning storms, Sadness emphasizes the sogginess, coldness and [[GrayRainOfDepression droopiness]] of the experience.
* HardTruthAesop: There's two messages in the film that, while not cynical, are rather ''brutal'' for a kid's film;
** It's impossible (and frankly unhealthy) to be happy ''all'' of the time, sadness is a part of life, and GrowingUpSucks. Nothing can change that, so all you can do is admit to yourself when you're miserable and don't drive yourself into deeper depression from [[StepfordSmiler constantly faking happiness]].
** Always trying to live up to your family's expectations of you will eventually drive you crazy from stress, and you should admit when you can't do it.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Riley, when her core memories get sucked up the recall chute.
** Bing Bong, when his wagon is tossed in the memory dump.
** Joy when [[spoiler:she's trapped in the memory dump]].
** Riley again, when [[spoiler:the idea to run away becomes so strong that the remaining emotions can't even influence her behavior]].
* HeroicSacrifice:
** [[spoiler:Bing Bong, Riley's imaginary friend, [[SomeoneHasToDie allows himself to be erased]] in the memory dump when his wagon is incapable of carrying both himself and Joy back to the surface.]]
** To a lesser degree, the many imaginary boyfriends helping launch Joy across the Memory Dump, falling in themselves. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Since they're mass-produced]] and lack even the experience and substance of an established imaginary friend, they're expendable. Joy even bothers to first ask them about their opinion of Riley and them saying "I would die for Riley!" motivates her to go ahead with her plan.
* HiveMind: An interesting variant: though the emotions have their own thoughts and personalities, they all share Riley's likes and fears and act on those accordingly. They also seem to share her memories (as they're able to recall them at will), which may explain why [[spoiler:Bing Bong is never mentioned after his passing in the Memory Dump: since Riley can now no longer remember him, they can't either, though Joy did seem to remember him right after he faded away.]]
* TheHomewardJourney: The majority of the film tackles Joy and Sadness' attempts to return to headquarters.
* HonestyAesop: One of the major themes of the film is honesty and openness about your emotions; not only with others, but with yourself as well. In fact, one of Riley's personality islands is based on honesty.
* HopeSpot: When Riley is about to tryout for hockey while Hockey Island is still inactive, Fear attempts to use a regular hockey-related memory in the core memory's stead to keep the island from collapsing. It initially seems to work, with the island beginning to power up again. Then the receptacle comes back up and spits the memory out.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Not present in the movie — Riley is a pre-teen — but implicitly {{invoked|Trope}} a couple of times near the end.
** When Riley bumps into Jordan, his own emotion control room explodes into chaos as an alarm screams "GIRL!" Evidently, his hormones are just starting to kick in.
** After the happy ending, with Riley's emotions working well together, a new expanded control console is installed in their room. One of them asks what the new big red warning light is for. It's marked "PUBERTY". Joy says [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong she's sure there'll be no problem]]. Every adult in the audience winces.
* HumanLadder: Joy uses numerous clones of the imaginary boyfriend to launch herself to one of the islands.
* HumanPopsicle: While they are not REALLY human, the five Emotions get frozen when Riley suffers a BrainFreeze. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Even with his]] [[PlayingWithFire igneous powers]], Anger himself gets frozen, too, but he and the others recover.
* HyperventilationBag: Fear uses one both times [[spoiler:Riley's mom calls as Riley's running away. It pops when he and the others see Family Island crumbling after the second call is rejected.]]
* IconicItem: [[spoiler:The CreativeClosingCredits show us that emotions of non-humans (dogs and cats, at least) keep an item from their human counterpart; Fears keep their bow ties, Disgusts keep their scarves, Sadnesses keep their glasses, and Angers keep their ties. Only Joys avert this.]]
* IdeaBulb: The emotions insert lightbulbs into the Console to give Riley ideas.
* IdiotHair: Fear's single hair curl/axon.
* IFellForHours: In Dream Productions, one of Riley's nightmares is titled "I'm Falling for a Long Time".
* ImaginaryFriend: Riley has/had one named Bing Bong. Doubles as NotSoImaginaryFriend in a sense, as he does exist as an individual within her mind, just as all her daydreams do.
* InexplicableCorneredEscape: When Riley sneaks downstairs to steal her mom's credit card while she is on the phone, Mom turns around just as Riley takes the card out. When Mom looks up, Riley's vanished.
* InkSuitActor: Sadness is pretty much a dead ringer for Phyllis Smith, right down to the glasses that Smith always wore when she was a regular on ''The Office''.
* InnerMonologue: Played with. Near the beginning and at the end of the film, we get to hear the emotions talking back and forth about what Riley's doing in real time. Being her emotions, they're clearly mirroring her own thoughts.
* InsistentTerminology: Anger is not giving Riley an idea to [[spoiler:run away from home]]. He is initiating the "Happy Core Memory Development Program".
* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Riley arrives at the new place in San Francisco, Joy wants to calm everybody down but her soothing tactics are immediately torpedoed by reality.
-->'''Joy:''' Guys, you are overreacting. Nobody is dying.\\
'''Disgust:''' A dead mouse!
* IronicEcho:
** When Joy and Sadness make their way through Long-Term Memory, Sadness says they will get lost in there.
--->'''Joy:''' Come on, think positive!\\
'''Sadness:''' Okay. I'm positive you'll get lost in there.
** Later, when climbing on top of [[ItMakesSenseInContext a stack of Riley's dream boyfriends]] to rescue Sadness:
--->'''Joy:''' This is crazy. No, think positive. [[SuddenlyShouting I'M POSITIVE THIS IS CRAZY!]]
* IronicEchoCut:
** The family dinner argument has this exchange:
--->''[inside Mom's mind]''\\
'''Mom's Sadness:''' We'd better find out what's happening, but do it subtly. We don't want to seem like we're probing.\\
''[outside]''\\
'''Mom:''' So, Riley, how was school?\\
''[inside Riley's mind]''\\
'''Anger:''' She's ''probing us!''
** Then, after Riley's dad puts the foot down.
--->'''Dad's Anger:''' Good job, gentlemen, that could have been a disaster.\\
'''Mom's Sadness:''' Well, that was a disaster.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: All the emotions are puzzled by the new "PUBERTY" addition to the control console. Joy dismisses it as "probably nothing important".
* IWillShowYouX: At dinner, Anger says "I'll show you attitude!" in response to Riley's dad telling her "Riley, I do not like this new attitude."
* JerkassRealization: Joy has one [[spoiler:in the memory dump when she realizes that Sadness is a very important emotion and that her own actions have left Riley feeling emotionally lopsided and unable to cope with such a big change. This realization gives her the resolve to escape the dump and make it right for both Sadness and Riley]].
* JustInTime: Right when Fear, Disgust and Anger are at their wits' end [[spoiler:due to the locked console]], and [[spoiler:the bus that Riley is in was about to reach the highway where there would be no turning back, Joy and Sadness bump right into the control room window to save the day.]]
* JustSoStory: Ever wonder why the more you try not to be sad, the worse you feel? Why things that made you happy now make you sad when you remember them? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Why you can't get that song out of your head?]]
* KidsHateVegetables: Riley hates broccoli, as established in the scene that introduces Disgust, who thinks she's saving Riley from being poisoned by them. Later, a trip to a pizzeria is ruined when the pizza has broccoli as a topping.
--> '''Anger:''' Congratulations, San Francisco! YOU'VE RUINED PIZZA! First the Hawaiians, and now you!
* TheKillJoy:
** Disgust's role is to alert Riley of disgusting and potentially dangerous things, so by definition, killing the joy is her role. And, of course, her DeadpanSnarker, pedantic attitude doesn't help.
** When Anger enters the scene, it means the fun has been ruined for Riley, so he's kind of the emotional response to this trope -- unlike Disgust, he's often all for fun ideas. However, Anger's personality is quite grumpy and insufferable at times as well.
** When Disgust and Anger act together, they turn Riley into a very spiny girl -- she's either throwing a temper tantrum, being unreasonable, or acting entitled.
* KirbyDots: The emotions have an animated version of them, which has actually been described as one of the hardest pieces of animation Pixar has ever done. Joy is actually trailing sparks when walking.
* KitchenSinkIncluded: While Bing Bong is emptying his BagOfHolding, one of the items clogging the bottom is a kitchen sink.
* KnightOfCerebus: When [[MonsterClown Jangles the Clown]] shows up in Subconscious and is woken up, he becomes a truly scary part of the movie. In an unusual way of playing the trope straight, the plot starts taking a much darker turn after his scene, even though he himself has nothing to do with the dark events that follow.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Joy is hit by this when she comes across Rainbow Unicorn in Dream Productions. It's visibly all she can do not to erupt in fangirl mode. And even then...
-->'''Joy:''' I loved you in ''Fairy Dream Adventure Part 7''. Okay, bye. I love you.
* KudzuPlot: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in-universe by Fear, who is watching a dream in which far too many different things are happening to follow.
-->'''Fear:''' Boooooo! Pick a plot line!
* LanguageFluencyDenial: Discussed when Riley is called on by her teacher to introduce herself. In a panic, Fear tries to suggest that she pretends to not understand English.
* LaserGuidedKarma: When presented with a memory retrieval chute that can instantly return her to Headquarters, Joy abandons Sadness rather than risk her corrupting the core memories by proximity, and because "Riley needs to be happy". [[spoiler:This act of betrayal directly leads to Joy being plunged into the memory pit when the memory chute is smashed.]]
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In the Dream Productions posters:
-->''I'm Falling for a Very Long Time into a Pit'': starring Riley Andersen, written by Riley Andersen, produced by Riley Andersen, guest starring The Pit.
* LatinLover: During the dinner scene, Jill's emotions attempt to signal Riley's dad to help figure out what's wrong with their daughter, with disastrous results. In frustration, her emotions play a memory orb of a Brazilian that Jill had dated.
-->'''Jill's Anger:''' For ''this'', we gave up that Brazilian helicopter pilot?
* LavaAddsAwesome: At the beginning of the movie, young Riley plays the "floor is lava" game, with Joy using the console to make her imagine actual lava on the floor. Later, the heroes go through Imagination Land and have to cross that very same lava. With couches floating in it.
* LeftHanging: Riley occasionally overhears her parents discussing her father's problems at work, and that he might have to lay off some of his employees. Since Riley is too young to understand any of this, she doesn't pursue it further and we don't get any closure on it.
* LetsGetOutOfHere: Bing Bong when getting away from Jangles.
-->'''Bing Bong:''' We're outta here. Let's get to that train.
* LiteralCliffhanger: Near the end, [[spoiler:Joy and Sadness are hanging from a window at the exterior of Headquarters while the others are trying to find a way to break through the glass and pull them inside]].
* LiteralMinded: In the opening, the emotions are disappointed to learn that the Golden Gate Bridge is not actually made of gold.
* TheLoad: This is how Joy views Sadness. Joy understands the purpose of the other emotions, but just thinks Sadness is nothing but a burden. Their journey through long-term memory enforces these feelings... until she eventually realizes the importance of Sadness.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Inverted. Joy has been with Riley since birth, and supplies Riley's optimism. When Joy gets lost in the brain dimension, Riley becomes detached and somber.
* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast:
** Played with when we see the emotions of Riley's mom and dad as Riley starts acting up at dinner. See GilliganCut above.
** At the end of the movie, when Riley bumps into a boy her age, he blanks out. Inside his Headquarters, his emotions are running around in a blind panic with a RedAlert siren blaring "Girl! Girl! Girl!"
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent:
** In the beginning of the film, the memory orbs are mostly the gold color of Joy, as she points out. But there are no blue orbs. [[spoiler:As we find out later, the other emotions have not been letting Sadness do her job, meaning Riley has little experience with being sad or learning how to deal with it.]]
** A ''lack'' of an event is important in the scenes of Riley's parents' minds, as we don't see their memory walls. [[spoiler:This is likely because their emotions have already learned how to work their consoles together and thus create memories of multiple colors; seeing them would spoil that twist.]]
* MedalOfDishonor: Sadness gets a participation award in Imagination Land which she is predictably not happy about.
* MediumAwareness: When Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong are being abstracted in the abstract thought chamber, they are unable to reach the door when the third stage of abstraction makes them two-dimensional. Joy realizes that now that they're 2D, the line marking the distant wall is now a ledge directly above her. During phase four's abstract shape state, Sadness figures out that they can get out of the tiny door by turning themselves horizontal and scooching out as a line, like an inchworm.
* MeetCute: At the end of the film, Riley bumps into a boy at her hockey game. The boy can't even manage to talk, while his emotions are freaking out and a "Girl!" alarm blares inside his head.
* MemoryPalace: The seat of Riley's personality is a large building in her mind called "Headquarters," and each of her "core memories" takes the form of a floating island in her mind. As Riley's mental state worsens, the islands begin to crumble.
* MentalWorld: The mind is its own world, each part governing some part of the brain. Everyone has a similar setup.
** Headquarters is where the emotions live. From there, they can sense everything Riley does and guide her reactions through the center console. The control centers inside various people's heads depend on the person. Riley's mom's center has light, rounded furniture, while her dad's is a high-tech man cave.
** Memories take the form of color-coded marbles, created whenever the emotions influence Riley's behavior. Short-term memories are stored in the walls in Headquarters. At night, they are cleared out and sent to the seemingly endless field of shelves for long-term storage. Most important are the core memories, which are stored in Headquarters and power Personality Islands which are the foundation for what the mind in question values most. For example, a Joyous memory of playing hockey from her childhood gave Riley a passion for the sport well into her pre-teen years. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, after her old core memories from their previous home are turned sad, the emotions create new ones that share traits of different emotions, starting with a combined Joy/Sadness memory born from Riley's parents comforting her which forms a new Family Island.]]
** There are various locations on the perimeter of Riley's mind, including the Imagination Land theme park comprising her daydreams, a movie studio called Dream Productions where dreams are created, as well as mentioned but unseen areas of language, different kinds of thought, and so on.
** Old or unwanted memories are emptied into the "Memory Dump", a wide chasm between Headquarters and the rest of Riley's mind, where they grow dim and eventually disintegrate.
** It seems that [[spoiler:beings created from Riley's memories, like Bing-Bong, will also disintegrate if they go down there, though an emotion like Joy will be unaffected. It seems the emotions themselves were unaware of this, judging by Sadness and Joy's fear of going down there. Or perhaps it just takes longer for such integral parts of the mind]].
* AMinorKidroduction: The film begins with a look at Riley's early years and how her emotions developed.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: At first, while there's ''some'' semblance of agreement between Riley's emotions, each one largely works under their own interests with a limited console, resulting in memories exhibiting one pure emotion. [[spoiler:Once Joy brings Sadness to take control upon returning home from running away, Sadness takes Joy's hand so they can guide her through the moment together, resulting in Riley's first blended-emotion core memory. The console is upgraded soon afterwards, fully allowing all five emotions to feed their input into Riley's life.]]
* MisspellingOutLoud: D-A-N-G-E-R: Shortcut!
* MonsterClown: Jangles the Clown, one of Riley's darkest fears that lives in her subconscious. "WHO'S THE BIRTHDAY GIRL?!" [[spoiler:He's actually based on a real, almost-as-creepy clown who hates his job.]]
* MoodWhiplash: The Triple Dent Gum commercial has a tendency to interject itself during some fairly weighty moments in the movie.
* MovingAngst: The story centers around Riley's family moving from Minnesota to San Francisco, and the conflict stems from her being uncomfortable with the changes. [[spoiler:She even considers taking a bus back to Minnesota, which Fear, Disgust, and Anger realize is a mistake. Fortunately, Joy and Sadness fix everything and make Riley tell her parents how much she misses Minnesota, and her parents comfort her.]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The film takes everyday emotional interaction and makes it into a complex system run by a group of emotion characters living inside your head.
* MundaneUtility:
** Aside from making a good flame-thrower, Anger's top-of-the-head fire is also good for cooking marshmallows.
** An imaginary example: Bing Bong recalls that he and Riley once played that they could travel back in time... and used it to go back to earlier that morning, so they could have breakfast twice in one day.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Anger has this reaction when [[spoiler:he realizes that running away was a terrible idea, and the console shuts down as a result.]]
-->'''Fear:''' Guys, [[spoiler:we can't make Riley feel ''anything'']].\\
'''Anger:''' ''([[OhCrap beat]])'' What have we done?
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[[folder:Tropes N to Z]]
* NakedPeopleAreFunny:
** Riley's "goofball" core memory is her running out of the bath as a toddler while her father playfully chases her with a towel.
** The NotWearingPantsDream, on the other hand, is only funny for Fear's reaction to it.
* TheNapoleon: Anger, who is the shortest and angriest of the five.
* NecessarilyEvil: How Joy views Anger, Fear and Disgust. While she considers herself the most important emotion and feels that things are going well when she makes up the majority of Riley's day, she understands and respects that Anger, Fear and Disgust, while "negative" emotions, exist to protect Riley from the various dangers in her life. The driving source of conflict in the movie is that nobody has any idea what Sadness is for other than making Riley miserable, causing Joy to do everything she can to marginalize her and limit her involvement in Riley's life, with disastrous results.
* NervousWreck: Fear. He's described as constantly paranoid about losing his job... except he ''is'' his job.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Bing Bong leads Joy and Sadness through the Abstract Thought room because he can't read the sign saying "Danger: Do Not Enter."
* NeverTrustATrailer:
** Riley's parents are more level-headed and supportive in the movie proper than they were in the "argument over dinner" trailer. For example, while Riley's mother does fantasize about a Brazilian helicopter pilot during that scene, throughout the movie it's clear she does love her husband and daughter (and she asks her daughter to smile in part because she thinks that would make life easier on her husband since he is stressed out by his job). Also, while the dinner scene ends with Riley's father sending Riley to her room, ''after'' that scene he immediately goes up to check on Riley and try to patch things up, and then gives Riley the alone time she needs when Riley refuses to talk.
** The "dinner argument" trailer can give the impression that the mother and father's emotions share the spotlight along with Riley's emotions; in truth, the dinner scene is the ''only'' scene where they appear (apart from one minor gag at the end). Conversely, Joy and Sadness -- the most prominent emotions, by a long shot -- aren't in the trailer at all, since the dinner scene occurs when they're both stranded in the long-term memory hallways. Watching the trailer, you wouldn't get the impression that most of the movie is about Joy and Sadness' [[TeethClenchedTeamwork efforts to find common ground]].
* NewscasterCameo: The announcer of the hockey game Riley's dad's emotions are watching is none other than [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Hahn Randy Hahn]], the TV play-by-play voice of the San Jose Sharks.
* NewsTravelsFast: PlayedForLaughs: most of the newspapers that Anger reads depict events that happened just seconds ago, since newspapers in Riley's head all chronicle recent memories.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** A shared one between Joy and Sadness. Sadness keeps tainting memories that she touches, and does this during Riley's first day at her new school when she's telling the class about Minnesota. While the others try to disconnect that particular memory, Sadness goes to the console, creating a new core memory that's sad instead of happy like the others. In her rush to prevent this, Joy accidentally scatters the other core memories and they, along with Joy and Sadness, are sucked out through the long-term memory tube. [[spoiler:As it turns out, in the end, Sadness was actually trying to ''fix'' things by allowing Riley to feel sad rather than bottling it up, making this one almost entirely Joy's fault.]]
** Riley's mother isn't helping when she tells Riley to put up a happy front for her father.
** Late in the film, Anger decides they need to make new core memories, [[spoiler:so he gives Riley the idea to run away to Minnesota. This ends up derailing the train of thought that Joy and Sadness were using to get back to the control center, and the idea becomes so all-encompassing that it can only be removed by Sadness]].
** Prior to this scene, Joy and Sadness elect to wake Jangles The Clown to scare Riley into waking up. [[spoiler:While this is successful in stopping the Dream Productions' show and does wake Riley, it also wakes Disgust and Anger, and this was the tipping point that convinced Anger to give the runaway idea a try in the first place, since he had been convinced to sleep on it and now they can't get a good night's sleep.]]
** Right from the very start: [[spoiler:Joy's continuous marginalization of Sadness and dominating personality has largely crippled Riley's ability to deal with sad experiences and learn from them.]]
* NoAntagonist: A first for Pixar. There's no main villain or even ''[[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo unintentional]]'' [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 bad guy]] (apart from a MonsterClown who appears in only one scene and whom the heroes use to their advantage when they need to give Riley a nightmare). The conflict arises from Sadness creating a sad core memory, which ends up causing Joy and Sadness to be stranded away from Headquarters when Joy tries to prevent it, leaving the other three emotions at a loss as to how to stabilize Riley's mind. Though some characters briefly act antagonistic, there is no outright antagonistic character in this film. The antagonistic ''force'' is the concept of depression, but it's not given an AnthropomorphicPersonification like the other emotions. Some of the early concept art included a character named Gloom, a shadow who just grew and grew. It is likely that this character was intended to play that role before being cut.
* NoEndorHolocaust: There is no mention of the lasting effects of parts of Long Term Memory crumbling and of Sadness "corrupting" some of the memories stored there that were once a different emotion. Especially notable because the movie does show that the Islands of Personality were eventually repaired/replaced/expanded after initially collapsing earlier in the film.
* NoHeroToHisValet: It seems that no one outside Headquarters recognizes or cares about the emotions and their critical role in Riley's well-being. Not even Bing Bong recognizes Joy until she identifies herself.
* NoNameGiven: Riley's parents are never named in the film itself (although her mother's name is briefly visible on her debit card). [[AllThereInTheManual According to the Essential Guide]], however, their names are Jill and Bill Andersen.
* NonAnswer: In a bonus scene, Joy tries to get Riley out of being called on by the teacher by having her mumble an incomprehensible answer. When that fails, she tries the "answer a question with a question" trick, which stalls the teacher long enough for the bell to ring. Then, Joy uses the same trick on the other emotions.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign:
** Joy is the only emotion whose hair and eyes are a different color from her skin.
** All the emotions have hair except Anger, who doesn't have a nose either.
** Each emotion's lighting is different. Joy glows brightly, while Sadness is much fainter. Disgust is fainter still, while Fear has no obvious glow. Anger, of course, has a spectacularly hot head when he gets riled up.
** In a broader sense, Riley's emotions are the only set that don't share any particular theme, whereas all the others tend to mimic their person in some form (usually sharing hairstyle).
* NoodleIncident:
** Riley's mother was attracted to a Brazilian helicopter pilot, but ended up marrying the man who would become Riley's father instead.
** What exactly is going on with the missing moving van?
--->'''Mom:''' ''[on the phone]'' Why did our moving van even go to Texas?
* NoPowerNoColor:
** The faded memories in the memory dump are all dull grey as well while living memories are colored.
** When Anger, Fear and Disgust's ideas drive Riley to depression resulting in her running away, the control console in her brain becomes unresponsive, preventing the emotions from removing the running away idea. Then a dark sheen creeps across the console, blotting out the brightly-colored buttons and leaving the emotions totally helpless as Riley's Greyhound bus heads for the freeway. Only the return of Joy and Sadness, and Sadness's finally being allowed near the console, restores life and colour to the buttons and gets Riley off the bus.
--->'''Fear:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Guys... we can't make Riley feel anything.]]
* TheNoseless: The various Angers, most notably (although also the Mind Workers). There is that one case when we see inside the mind of the pizza girl, and all of the emotions have a piercing in the nose, like the girl herself -- except for Anger, who's forced to wear hers in an eyebrow.
* NotWearingPantsDream: One is shown from Riley's POV. Extra funny since the director initially claims the story to be original.
-->'''Fear:''' ''[[[SeenItAll deadpan]]]'' Let me guess, [[DeadpanSnarker we have no pants on.]]
* {{Novelization}}: Actually has two of these. One is a traditional, simple prose "junior" novelization. The other is the much longer and more ambitious ''Driven by Emotions''. It retells the events of the film via five short stories told from the first-person POV of each emotion, focusing only on his/her part of, and perspective on, the events from beginning to end. Joy's story comes first, followed by the three emotions left behind at Headquarters, and Sadness's story finishes the book. None of the accounts significantly [[RashomonStyle contradict any other]], but their differing priorities add a variety of unique details to each telling. The exploits of Disgust, Fear, and Anger are significantly expanded upon, with details of how Riley handles school while Joy and Sadness are missing, and a sequence in which Fear directs her to a library to prepare her for what she might be facing [[spoiler:as she runs away to Minnesota]]. Sadness's story hints at why she is compelled to touch happy memories (the core memories in particular) and sadden them, and explains Jangles the Clown's presence in Riley's subconscious (he performed at her cousin's birthday party).
* ObliviouslyEvil: Jangles the Clown doesn't seem to realize he's wreaking havoc on the Dream Studio -- he just believes there's a birthday party going on and wants in on it!
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The support staff of Riley's mind, which handle all the maintenance, are thoroughly unhelpful. They stick to their jobs even as the islands crumble, and serve as impediments to Joy and Sadness on several occasions.
* OhCrap:
** The other emotions have this reaction after Joy and Sadness get sucked up the memory tube. Anger expresses it best:
--->'''Anger:''' ... Can I say that curse word now?
** Anger, Fear and Disgust have this reaction when [[spoiler:the console shuts down while the idea to run away is still controlling Riley, preventing them from stopping her]].
** Knowing what abstract thought is, Sadness has this reaction when she realizes that mind workers have activated it [[ShortCutsMakeLongDelays with her, Joy, and Bing Bong inside]], and then several more times as the three go through each stage of abstraction.
* OhNoNotAgain:
** Basically Sadness's reaction when she accidentally turns a happy memory sad.
** The reaction of Mrs. Andersen's emotions to her husband's obliviousness.
-->'''Mom's Disgust:''' He's making that stupid face again.
* OnAScaleFromOneToTen: Quoth Disgust: "On a scale of one to ten, I give this day an F."
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: [[spoiler:The end credits reveal that Riley's teacher knows the same Brazilian helicopter pilot that Mrs. Andersen sometimes fantasizes about.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** [[spoiler:When Joy, the character that always tries to see the bright side of everything and never gives up and is basically the personification of happiness, [[BreakTheCutie starts crying]], [[DespairEventHorizon you know all hope is lost.]]]]
** Riley's parents become very concerned when Riley becomes surlier and distant, a stark contrast from her [[CheerfulChild usual chipper self.]]
* OpeningMonologue: Joy delivers one, as well as a closing monologue.
%%* ParentalBonus: This movie is ''quite'' adult in many of its concepts and jokes.
* PercussiveShutdown: The emotions Anger, Disgust and Fear have realized that giving Riley the idea to run away was a mistake, and are trying desperately to correct the mistake by removing the idea bulb. But it proves to be unmovable. So they try smashing it. [[SubvertedTrope But is also proves unbreakable]].
* ThePerfectionist:
** Disgust is described as having high expectations and low patience.
** Anger, too, as the constant imperfections of San Francisco infuriate him.
** Joy also has shades of this, since she does her very best to ensure that Riley has to spend as little time unhappy as possible.
* PerpetualFrowner: Sadness plays it straight, Anger subverts it.
* PerpetualSmiler: Joy. She lives up to her name. Even during her [[BreakTheCutie breakdown]], she smiles half the time while sobbing.
* PersonalRaincloud: In a variation, Sadness at one point rides on one, as opposed to it hovering over her.
* PineappleRuinsPizza: This is referenced when Riley and her mother try to get pizza and they end up at a pizza shop that uses broccoli as a pizza topping. Since Riley hates broccoli, Anger proclaims that San Francisco "ruined pizza".
-->'''Anger:''' First the Hawaiians, and now you!
* PlanetOfHats: Whenever emotions besides Riley's are shown, they fit this trope. All of them physically resemble their humans to a certain extent (Riley's dad's emotions have his mustache, her mom's emotions have her glasses and hair, etc.), and all share their human's gender.
* PlatonicDeclarationOfLove:
** Joy says twice that she and the other emotions love Riley. They're not in love with her, but they care about her and want the best for her.
** Riley's mom and dad also tell her that they love her as she's leaving for school.
* PlotDevice: The core memories getting lost and being returned to Headquarters is what drives the plot for the emotions.
* PlotHole: Fans were quick to ask why Joy didn't simply send up the core memories using the same tubes the memory cleaners use to send the gum commercial to HQ. WordOfGod was that they missed the hole due to the endless rewrites, but {{handwave}}d it by saying Joy would've been too protective of the memories to send them up without her.
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure:
** Anger causes Riley to end her friendship with Meg, subsequently causing Friendship Island to collapse and once again cutting off Joy and Sadness' return path to Headquarters.
** [[spoiler:In the final stretch back to Headquarters, Joy abandons Sadness to keep her from tainting Riley's core memories, believing that keeping them happy is the only way to save Riley from depression. After realizing that Sadness is the only one who can help Riley, Joy goes to great lengths to ensure she and Sadness return together]].
* PlotSensitiveButton: The emotion console appears to do whatever it needs to do in the context of the emotion operating it. This is most blatant when Riley is born: the console is literally a single button that changes color and thus action when Joy and Sadness use it (giggling and crying, respectively). [[spoiler:This is to show that Riley's emotions haven't matured. It's only after Joy realizes that Sadness is important that they're able to create a memory embodying more than one emotional aspect, after which a new console is installed that has room for all of them at once.]]
* PowerGlows: Core Memories, which power Riley's Islands of Personality, glow much brighter than normal memory orbs.
* ThePowerOfFamily: The Family Island is the last to suffer damage, and it never collapses completely, even after all the others do, and is instrumental to the resolution of the crisis.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Two dinosaurs from ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'' appear as statues.
* ProperlyParanoid: Fear's job, such as stopping toddler Riley from tripping over a power cord while playing.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The music in Riley's nightmare is a resample of "Grim Grinning Ghosts" (within the Disney library), "Mars, the Bringer of War", and "Night on Bald Mountain".
* PunBasedCreature: The Train of Thought is a literal train.
* RageQuit:
** During a tryout for the local hockey team, Riley is off her game (due to the lost hockey core memory) and proceeds to fumble her puck handling, then fan on a slap shot, falling on her face in the process. Furious, she storms off the ice and demands to go home.
** The man building a house of cards in Riley's mind decides to fold after it gets knocked down twice.
* RainbowsAndUnicorns: Rainbow Unicorn is a unicorn actress with a rainbow-colored mane and tail who apparently features in Riley's dreams, alluding to the mystical characteristics of rainbows and unicorns.
* RapidFireNo: Joy does this when she sees Bing Bong with her bag of core memories being locked away in Subconscience.
* ReadTheFreakingManual: Joy has Sadness read the mind manuals to keep her busy, preventing her from making Riley sad. [[ChekhovsSkill This comes in handy later]], as Sadness is the only one who knows the layout of Riley's mindscape.
* ReusedCharacterDesign:
** The emotions in other peoples' heads have the same designs, but features like hair, clothing and even their genders differ.
** A few minor characters appear to be modified models from other Pixar films. The dead mouse in Riley's dream is [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} Remy]] with brown fur, the bear in the same dream is [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Bear Elinore]], and one of the cool girls appears to be an aged-down [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} Colette]]. Some of the cars are based on [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cars from]] ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'', such as Mater.
* RewatchBonus: Riley playing with Bing Bong in the opening montage is far more meaningful after the first watch.
* RightHandVersusLeftHand: The vast majority of conflict in the film is due to this trope. After being displaced from Headquarters, Joy and Sadness resolve to return via the Personality Islands, but the other emotions' actions wind up causing them to break down and collapse, forcing them to take longer and longer routes to get back. At Bing Bong's suggestion, they eventually catch and board the Train of Thought, only for it to stop when Anger, Fear, and Disgust decide to sleep on [[spoiler:Anger's idea to run away]]. Joy and Sadness go to Dream Productions to scare Riley back awake, which succeeds and gets their ride home running again. However, Anger's frustration at not even being able to get a good night's sleep anymore spurs him to plant his idea in Riley's head. This in turn causes another Personality Island to collapse, taking the Train of Thought with it and leaving Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong back at square one.
* RoadTripPlot: At its core, the ''emotional'' journey among Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong is centered around this and getting back to Headquarters.
* RuleOfThree:
** The emotions (save Joy) scream three times when Riley's family moves, once for each change of scene.
** When Bing Bong's rocket is pushed into the Memory Dump, Joy tries three things to cheer him up: acting like a tickle monster, making a silly face, and getting him to play the "point to the train station" game. (Then Sadness empathizes with him and comforts him.)
* RunningGag:
** The gum commercial. After the mind workers send it up as a joke, it pops up every time Anger tries to recall a memory. [[spoiler:This includes the bus driver's Anger.]]
** Riley's disgust for broccoli is an ongoing topic.
* SadisticChoice: When Joy chooses between [[spoiler:leaving Sadness behind and risking the contamination of the core memories]]. Her expression isn't of one making the choice lightly.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: After Riley's terrible first day in San Francisco, Dream Productions sends up a nightmare. Not wanting to end the day on a low note, Joy goes against protocol and disconnects the dream, replacing it with a happy memory of Riley skating. Deconstructed in that what Joy perceives to be the "right" thing is "whatever keeps Riley happy," but what Riley needs ''least'' of all right then and there is a reminder of how much happier she was back in Minnesota.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** As the situation deteriorates, Fear tries to take the coward's way out and quit. [[SubvertedTrope The memory tube prevents him from leaving]], and Disgust reminds him that emotions don't have that option.
** Disgust also pulls this when she sees the broccoli-covered pizza.
* SequelHook: Towards the end the emotions gain access to a new, expanded console with additional features, along with a large red alarm marked "PUBERTY".
* SeriousBusiness: The emotions treat everything this way. For example, when Riley's a toddler, Anger hears "no dessert" and loses it, prompting Riley to do the same.
* ShortCutsMakeLongDelays: Needing to reach the train of thought, Bing Bong takes Joy and Sadness to a shortcut passing through the abstract thought chamber, ignoring the "DANGER" sign and warnings by Sadness of what lies within. As the chamber seems to extend infinitely, Joy goes with Bing Bong's plan, only for the mind workers to trigger the chamber. Though they make it through, the delay is sufficient for the train to leave before they can reach it. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that the chamber is shown to be so long they probably wouldn't have made it around in any reasonable length of time regardless.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/InsideOut Has its own page]].
* ShownTheirWork:
** Instead of creating a generic SF landscape with the [[EiffelTowerEffect recognizable landmarks]], the movie depicts multiple shots of actual San Francisco streets, such as Embarcadero, facing the direction of the Ferry Building. Not that they had to go far for visual research, as Pixar's headquarters are just across the bay in Emeryville.
** At least two accredited psychologists are listed as consultants in the credits. One of them is Paul Ekman, who's renowned for his identification of the six universal basic emotions (the five appearing in the movie, plus surprise, whose character was scrapped due to being too close to Fear's).
** The movie makes a clear distinction between Sadness, who's a character and natural emotion, and [[spoiler:depression, which, rather than the colloquial (and incorrect) idea of "constantly being sad," is a state of ''lack'' of emotion and inability to feel anything, which is represented by Riley's control panel slowly going gray as she gradually loses her capacity for feeling. To further the point, it's Sadness who ''ends'' this state.]]
* ShyBlueHairedGirl: Sadness, who has blue hair and is generally the most reserved of Riley's emotions.
* SighOfLove: Riley's mum Jill's emotions sigh happily when recalling a memory of a Brazilian helicopter pilot, due to [[BumblingDad Riley's dad]] Bill inadvertently making Riley upset. This is done [[BrickJoke again]] at the end of the film, when Jill's emotions sigh happily when looking at Bill, who had them both wear face paint for Riley's hockey match.
* SilenceIsGolden:
** During the climax of the film, [[spoiler:as Riley returns home and reunites with her family,]] not a word is exchanged inside Headquarters: everything Joy and Sadness have to tell each other is [[MeaningfulLook conveyed through their expressions]] and gestures, with Riley and her parents doing all the talking.
** When Riley is [[spoiler:given the idea to run away]], she doesn't say a word until [[spoiler:the idea is removed by Sadness, making her come to her senses]].
* SillySimian: While no actual monkeys show up in the film, Riley and her parents sometimes jokingly imitate monkeys as a source of humor among the family. [[spoiler:Goofball Island collapses when Dad's monkey act doesn't cheer up Riley.]]
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Despite being a significant character (billed third in the credits after Joy and Sadness), Bing Bong is absent from the English trailers. This was a deliberate decision by the director to avoid TrailersAlwaysSpoil, and because his inclusion would be confusing in the context of explaining the film's premise; e.g., "What emotion is he?"
* SmallSecludedWorld: Riley's mind, though containing several locations, only covers a small portion of her overall brain. After the emotions' "control room" and the Islands of Personality, it's miles and miles of memories.
* SoLongSuckers: Bing Bong announces this to Joy before he bumps into a wagon loaded with memory spheres.
* SoundEffectBleep: Towards the end, Anger's reaction is bleeped out when seeing his extended console with new curse words.
-->'''Anger:''' This new console is the sh... [bleep].
* SpiritAdvisor: The role of the emotions. They don't control Riley's actions so much as influence them as appropriate.
* SpitTake: When Fear sees the dog break apart in Riley's dream, which was actually Joy and Sadness in a costume.
* SprayingDrinkFromNose: This is used to demonstrate how differently Joy and Sadness see things. Joy remembers Riley laughing and squirting milk out of her nose positively; Sadness remembers how much the sensation hurt.
* StealthHiBye: As Joy is enjoying her first moments of life inside Riley's head, Sadness appears and triggers the console without Joy even noticing someone else is in the room.
* StealthPun:
** Anger's head erupts when he loses his cool. In other words, he ''blows his top''. Which also means that he's a ''hothead''.
** He is also depicted as the shortest of the five emotions; Riley has a ''short temper''.
** Furthermore, he wears the stereotypical "manager" costume. Might be "anger management".
** Each of the other emotions is shaped like a humanoid representation of something that evokes that emotion. Joy is a star, Sadness is a teardrop, Disgust a stalk of broccoli, and the purple, spindly Fear? He's a raw nerve.
** Riley's Train of Thought is derailed at one point and falls into the memory dump, to be forgotten. She's ''lost her train of thought'', meaning she's not ''thinking straight'' of her subsequent actions and, since there only seems to be one single Train of Thought in Riley's head, she has a ''one-track mind''.
** Joy [[spoiler:breaking down in tears after falling into the Memory Dump amongst old forgotten memories of Riley]]. At this point, she's literally and figuratively [[spoiler:down in the dumps]]. It could also be said that she's [[spoiler:crying "tears of Joy"[[note]]Which is incidentally the title given on the soundtrack album to the music playing during this scene[[/note]]]].
** The moment when [[spoiler:Riley boards the bus to run away back to Minnesota and mission control is rendered grey and inactive]]. She's [[spoiler:emotionally shut down]].
** Bing Bong [[spoiler:leapt out of the wagon so that Joy could get out of the Memory Dump. He ''jumped for Joy'']].
** Memories are represented by glass orbs, and when more than one emotion drives a memory at the same time, it produces a swirl texture, making them resemble marbles. Riley loses her Core Memories, and some are routinely cleaned out so she "forgets" some of them... ergo, Riley ''loses her marbles!''
** All of the emotions have fuzzy-looking skin... presumably because they are ''felt''.
** Joy has to drag Sadness for a considerable amount of time. Sadness is literally ''a drag''.
* StepfordSmiler: By preventing Sadness from ever getting control, Joy misguidedly attempts to turn Riley into this in the belief that she needs to be happy for her parents.
%%* SteppingOutToReact: Deleted scenes are not part of the work and hence should not be listed in the examples. This entry is now listed under DeletedScenes on the Trivia page.
* TheStinger: Not in the movie itself but on Michael Giacchino's soundtrack album in the form of a HiddenTrack. [[spoiler:[[EarWorm "Triple-dent]] gum!"]]
* StockYuck: Broccoli is this for Riley. Humorously enough, not only has Pete Docter said that he likes broccoli, but Disgust, who's the only one who pushes Riley away from broccoli, is designed to look like it. In the Japanese version, [[http://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-inside-out-has-different-scenes-in-other-countries-2015-7 the broccoli was changed to green bell peppers]] since bell peppers are more of a StockYuck in Japan than broccoli is.
* SugarApocalypse: Riley's bright, colorful mindscape begins to gray and collapse when the core memories are lost.
* SwitchingPOV: The official novelization, ''Driven by Emotions'', is this. It tells the events of the film from the perspective of all five of the emotions, starting with Joy, then Disgust, next Fear, then Anger and finally Sadness. This means that for certain events in the film, as many as five different takes are presented.
* TakeMyHand: A variant: following their GlassSmackAndSlide against the windows of Headquarters, Sadness catches herself on the window's ledge with one hand and Joy by the drawstrings of her bag with the other. Aside from a brief ScareChord, it's not notably PlayedForDrama, as Sadness doesn't seem to have trouble hoisting Joy up to the ledge afterwards so she can also get a grip, but her [[FreezeFrameBonus brief look of panic]] when she reaches to break Joy's fall makes it abundantly clear that if it wasn't for her quick reflexes, Joy would've found herself at the bottom of the Memory Dump [[spoiler:for the second time. ''And this time with [[FridgeHorror no way left to escape]]'']].
* TakeThat: Aside from the obvious pizza-centric one at UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, the city gets a couple other little jabs taken at it courtesy of Riley's mom. Especially funny considering Pixar is stationed in nearby Emeryville.
* TemptingFate:
** Fear has compiled a list of terrible things that could happen on the first day, specifically mentioning being called on by the teacher. Naturally, that happens.
--->'''Fear:''' ''[freaking out]'' Right out of the ''gate?''
** Joy gets into it too.
--->'''Joy:''' We love our girl. I mean, she's got great friends and a great house. Things couldn't be better. After all, Riley's eleven now. What could happen?
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Riley's emotions are a mix of male and female, while the emotions of her parents appear to have uniform gender. This is demonstrated by the mom's emotions all sharing her glasses and hairstyle, while the dad's emotions all have mustaches and wear suits. This is especially weird in the case of Dad's Joy and Disgust, as Joy has noticeable breasts along with the mustache and Disgust wears a long skirt.
* ThirdTimesTheCharm: Joy is able to [[spoiler:escape the Memory Dump on Bing Bong's wagon]] on the third try [[spoiler:after Bing Bong [[HeroicSacrifice jumps from the wagon to lighten the load]]]].
* TimePassesMontage: The first few minutes of the film are about Riley growing up and how her emotions came to be.
* TitleDrop:
** Here's a song-based one. [[spoiler:When Riley starts running away]], Sadness says,[[spoiler:"Joy, if we hurry, we can still stop her."]] The song that plays during the scene is titled [[spoiler:"We Can Still Stop Her".]]
* ToiletHumor:
** In the scene where Riley's family is eating dinner, one of the excuses that Riley's dad's version of Anger gives for Riley's mom trying to get his attention is leaving the toilet seat up.
** The Dream Productions portion has Bing Bong make a honking sound when a guard steps on the area where his privates would be, which could be his equivalent of farting.
** In the storybook "Sadly Ever After?", Disgust points out yellow snow when Riley's ice skating.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Most of Riley's troubles in Joy's absence are caused by Anger, first by his tendency to RageQuit and then his impulsive idea to run away. {{Downplayed|Trope}} as [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's only trying to do what he thinks is best for Riley]], and despite his best efforts, he simply can't act like Joy.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Joy perceives herself as this. Though she recognizes that Fear, Disgust, and Anger have their uses, she is ''not'' happy when they create memories. Realizing that she's ''not'' the only good one is part of her arc. It's a justified perception, since happiness is, if only for lack of words in the English language, the only positive emotion.
* {{Tomboy}}: Riley, in both appearance and hobbies (playing hockey). Contrary to popular belief, the genders of the emotions aren't related to this at all, as explained by Pete Docter.
* TormentedTeacher: During the CreativeClosingCredits, we find out that the schoolteacher's emotions are counting down the days to summer vacation.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
** Some trailers use scenes of Riley's control console turning black as well as Joy and Sadness making their return -- which spoil the climax.
** One commercial has the scene of the teacher's emotions, which happen only during the end credits ({{downplayed|Trope}} because it's not crucial to the plot, but still counts).
* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: Joy and Sadness find Bing Bong in Subconscience by following a trail of candy he left behind.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: {{Inverted|Trope}}; two of five of Riley's emotions (Fear and Anger) are male, whereas Joy, Sadness, and Disgust are female.
* TwoKeyedLock: Riley's dad has "[[GoToYourRoom putting down the foot]]", which is activated by his emotions in this fashion.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The story is about Riley's emotions as the girl adjusts to moving to San Francisco.
* UndyingLoyalty: The Emotions and Bing Bong have this towards Riley. Parodied with Riley's imaginary boyfriend, whose catchphrase is "I would ''die'' for Riley!"
* UnintentionallyKarmic: Sadness trying to touch the core memories and accidentally corrupting the happy memories of Riley's results in Joy and Sadness getting lost.
* TheUnreveal: We never learn what Island of Personality the sad core memory creates.
* VocalDissonance: The mind worker/actor who does Riley's voice in the Dream Productions studio is stocky and bearded, yet speaks his lines in a perfect little girl's voice.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Played straight with the cat's emotions during credits. You can see its Disgust coughing up a hairball in the background.
* WalkingSpoiler: Bing Bong, so much that most reviews try hard to not bring him up or describe who he is.
* WearingItAllWrong: Riley's "Goofball Island" was established when she was running around after a bath as a toddler wearing only a pair of underwear, which was on her head.
* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** When Anger suggests [[spoiler:that Riley run away]], it's out of concern for Riley.
** Joy. She only wants Riley to be happy, even if it means [[spoiler:deserting Sadness and trying to stop the arrival of a sad core memory]].
* WhamLine:
** Joy discovers Sadness's true purpose: [[spoiler:"Sadness...Mom and Dad...the team...they came to help...because of Sadness."]]
** An in-universe example for Riley's parents: [[spoiler:"I know you don't want me to but... I miss home. I miss Minnesota. You need me to be happy, but...I want my old friends, and my hockey team...I want to go home. Please don't be mad." (This is one of the first times they've seen her cry this much in her life, as Riley is usually such a CheerfulChild.)]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:The gold memory of Riley and her former team at the twisty tree changing blue as it rewinds to the beginning, revealing it was a sad memory made happy which makes Joy realize what Sadness's job at Headquarters is.]]
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong:
** As the prologue ends, Joy notes how perfect everything is for Riley and asks "What could happen?" This is followed by Riley's world being shaken up by her move to San Francisco.
** Joy [[BookEnds repeats this]] at the end of the film, right after [[spoiler:their new console has been installed with a "PUBERTY" alarm light]].
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Twice.
** Joy and Sadness take off as soon as Jangles has served his purpose, leaving him to wreak [[NoEndorHolocaust God knows what kind of havoc]] on the studio and its inhabitants. But they're just mind workers, after all.
** Joy sacrifices dozens of imaginary boyfriends in her plan to catch Sadness. Almost all of them certainly fall, unseen, into the memory dump.
* WhatWouldXDo:
** When Joy has lost track of Sadness near the end of the film, she decides to think like her. She then mimics Sadness refusing to walk, forcing Joy to drag her by the foot. [[spoiler:Joy then realizes she can follow the trail of tainted memories on the shelves, which Sadness had been doing when Joy was dragging her.]]
** Anger, Fear, and Disgust try substitute Joy when she and Sadness are gone. HilarityEnsues.
* WhenSheSmiles: Sadness, and she looks fairly cute when she smiles upon watching a happy memory of Riley's. As does Disgust.
* WhiteVoidRoom: Abstract Thought is this when switched on.
* WhosOnFirst: The two guards at Riley's subconscious (voiced by Muppet legends Dave Goelz and Frank Oz) have a brief back-and-forth over who has "My Hat".
* WistfulSmile: Joy when she realizes [[spoiler:Bing Bong sacrificed himself so she could reach Headquarters and save Riley.]]
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Anger regularly reads a newspaper called The Mind Reader which reports on Riley's thoughts, leading to such front page headlines as "NO DESSERT!"
* WritingAroundTrademarks: During the ending of the movie, Sadness refers to one of the newborn islands as a [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Tragic Vampire Romance Island]].
* YouAreNotAlone: [[spoiler:Joy, now realizing the vital importance of Sadness to Riley's emotional health, allows Sadness in control of the panel after they return to Headquarters. Sadness allows Riley to break down into tears and finally admit to her parents how much she misses Minnesota. They tell her they miss their old home, too, and pull her into a three-way group hug. After this, Riley makes peace with the move.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Ultimately Riley comes to terms with the fact that returning to Minnesota is not an option.
* YouGetMeCoffee: On Riley's first day at school, Joy's task for Sadness is to stay put inside a "circle of sadness", so she won't make Riley sad.
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The film focuses on an 11-year-old girl named Riley Andersen, and her emotions, who are [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personified as colorful creatures]] who live in her head and control her outlook on life. They are:

* '''Sadness''' (Creator/PhyllisSmith): A droopy, slow-moving emotion who prefers to lie on the floor and cry. She would like to be more positive, but it's just so hard for her. The other emotions, herself included, don't know what her role is. Despite that, she always tries to be helpful.

* BrokenAesop: Do not stuff your feelings... only, it's heavily implied that the emotion creatures are what makes Riley feel the feelings (e.g. Fear pushes a button, and that makes Riley afraid). So Sadness not doing her job should logically not be equivalent to Riley not letting herself be sad, but rather Riley not being able to be sad.

** Similarly, for the dinner scene, most international versions (with the exceptions of the Russian and French Canadian ones) have the emotions of Riley's father watching soccer instead of hockey.

The problems begin when Riley's family moves from their Minnesota home to UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, and her emotions have to help her deal with her new environment and friends. Joy, who has primarily been in charge of the emotions throughout Riley's life, is determined to keep Riley happy throughout the experience, but Sadness, who has frequently been marginalized by Joy, is trying to find a sense of purpose like the other emotions have. When Sadness accidentally turns several of Riley's previously happy memories of Minnesota into sad ones, the conflict between Joy and Sadness leads to the two accidentally becoming lost within Riley's long term memories, and, with the help of Bing Bong (Creator/RichardKind), Riley's old imaginary friend, they must make their way back to Headquarters while Fear, Disgust, and Anger try to keep Riley functioning efficiently in their absence.

The problems begin when Riley's family moves from their Minnesota home to San Francisco, and her emotions have to help her deal with her new environment and friends. Joy, who has primarily been in charge of the emotions throughout Riley's life, is determined to keep Riley happy throughout the experience, but Sadness, who has frequently been marginalized by Joy, is trying to find a sense of purpose like the other emotions have. When Sadness accidentally turns several of Riley's previously happy memories of Minnesota into sad ones, the conflict between Joy and Sadness leads to the two accidentally becoming lost within Riley's long term memories, and, with the help of Bing Bong (Creator/RichardKind), Riley's old imaginary friend, they must make their way back to Headquarters while Fear, Disgust, and Anger try to keep Riley functioning efficiently in their absence.

The film focuses on an 11-year-old girl named Riley Andersen, and her emotions, who are [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personified as people]] in her head who control her outlook on life. They are:

* AllCGICartoon.
%% The above trope's page says it allows zero-context examples since the title is self-explanatory. So, please, don't comment it out.

See ''Manga/PoisonBerryInMyBrain'' and ''Webcomic/YumisCells'' for stories with a similar theme in manga and webtoon form.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Riley's emotions are a mix of male and female, while the emotions of her parents appear to have uniform gender. This is demonstrated by the mom's emotions all sharing her glasses and hairstyle, while the dad's emotions all have mustaches and wear suits. This is especially weird in the case of Dad's Joy and Disgust, as Joy has [[ViewerGenderConfusion noticeable breasts]] along with the mustache and Disgust wears a long skirt.

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** A kiddie version of ''Series/HermansHead'' and ''Manga/PoisonBerryInMyBrain'', as well as Disney's own "WesternAnimation/ReasonAndEmotion". Similarities have also been noted [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic by some]] to ''Film/OsmosisJones'', and (in Britain) to ''ComicBook/TheBeano'''s "The Numskulls".
** The movie seems to have taken inspiration from the animated short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuyB7NO0EYY "Brain Divided"]].
** ''Ride/CraniumCommand'' (1989-2007) was a theatrical show at Epcot in [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World]] showcasing a young cadet working with various body parts to pilot a 12-year old boy through a typical day at school. Believe it or not, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q94JFf0K5kM among the animators of the attraction was director Pete Docter]].

* PlanetOfHats: Whenever emotions besides Riley's are shown, they fit this trope. All of them physically resemble their humans to a certain extent (Riley's dad's emotions have his mustache, her mom's emotions have her glasses and hair, etc.), and all share their human's gender. The fact that Riley has both male and female emotions that don't particularly resemble her has sparked much [[EpilepticTrees speculation from fans.]]

* EverythingsCuterWithKittens:
** One of Riley's dream-movie posters shown as promotional material is for a movie called "Basket of Kittens". If the Twitter comments are any indication, some fans already [[{{Defictionalization}} want it to be real]]. In ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity'', during the opening of the ''Inside Out'' playset, it's shown that one of Riley's favorite channels is nothing BUT kittens being cute, and Joy suggests they have Riley ask about a kitten as a pet.
** A cat's mind is seen during the credits. Its emotions are just acting like cats -- Joy is scampering around as if trying to get petted, Sadness is not interested, Anger hisses at them, while Disgust hocks up a furball. Where's Fear? Walking on the keyboard, causing the cat to freak out for no apparent reason.

-->'''Mom:''' ''(on the phone)'' Why did our moving van even go to Texas?

* AxCrazy: Jangles the Clown (or at least Riley's memory of him) is a giant green-eyed clown that sports a huge mallet and chases Joy and Sadness throughout Riley's subconscious. He kidnaps Bing Bong because the latter can produce sweets and traps him in a balloon cage. Furthermore, Jangles thinks anyone he meets is the "birthday girl" he's supposed to entertain -- the way he utters [[CharacterCatchphrase "who's the birthday girl?"]] is very disturbing.

* NoodleIncident: Riley's mother was attracted to a Brazilian helicopter pilot, but ended up marrying the man who would become Riley's father instead.

* AxCrazy: Jangles the Clown (or at least Riley's memory of him) is a giant green-eyed clown that sports a huge mallet and chases Joy and Sadness throughout Riley's subconscious. He kidnaps Bing Bong because the latter can produce sweets and traps him in a balloon cage. Furthermore, Jangles thinks anyone he meets is the "birthday girl" he's supposed to entertain -- the way he utters [[{{Catchphrase}} "who's the birthday girl?"]] is very disturbing.