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That is not brightly colored or shaped like a dinosaur. Hold on, guys. IT'S BROCCOLI!
―Disgust

Disgust is a character in the Inside Out franchise. She is one of the original five emotions inside the mind of Riley Andersen.

History[]

Inside Out[]

Disgust smile

Disgust was formed when Riley was very young. Her job is to keep Riley safe from disgusting things, like broccoli, which Riley refused to eat as a toddler until Dad made it into an airplane.

When Riley was eleven, her father got a new job in San Francisco, the family relocated there. Disgust was immediately disgusted by the new house, which had a dead mouse in the corner.

On Riley's first day at her new school, Disgust's job was to make sure Riley simultaneously stood out and blended in. Joy tried to get Riley to talk to some cool girls, but Disgust stopped her, saying that wasn't how things were done. When Riley, on the teacher's request, talked to her new class about her life in Minnesota and began crying, Disgusted noted the cool girls in the class whispering to each other. This formed a new Core Memory, the first sad one.

When Joy and Sadness were sucked out of Headquarters, the remaining emotions decided to do their best to replace Joy and make Riley happy. Unfortunately, without Joy and with all of Riley's Islands of Personality deactivated due to the loss of her Core Memories, Riley struggled. Disgust tried to replace Joy, but ended up making Riley sound sarcastic while talking to Mom.

When Anger had the idea to make Riley go back to Minnesota to make new happy Core Memories, Disgust admitted that Riley was happier in Minnesota, but Fear got Anger to sleep on it. When they woke up to find Fear curled up under the console, Anger decided to plant the idea in Riley's head.

As Riley got to the bus station, they started to realize what a bad idea it was, but were unable to get the idea out of Riley's head. They realized they were unable to make Riley feel anything. When Sadness and Joy returned to Headquarters, Disgust goaded Anger to make him Angry enough for flames to come out of his head, which she used to cut a hole in the glass, allowing them to come back inside. Then they were surprised when Joy had Sadness take control of the console, which she used to get Riley to get off the bus and go back home, then tell her parents how she was feeling about San Francisco.

Over the next year, the emotions worked together to form mixed emotion Core Memories for Riley, forming new Islands of Personality. Disgust was entranced by Fashion Island. The Mind Workers also installed a new, improved console, which included a button labelled, "Puberty," which Joy said was probably not important.

Riley's First Date?[]

When Mom tried to probe to see if Jordan and Riley were going on a date or just going out as friends, Disgust was embarrassed by Mom's use of slang.

Mind Candy[]

Disgust looked at herself in the mirror and ran away gagging when she saw broccoli in her teeth. When she found a spot on the wall, she showed it to Fear, who tried to clean it, but only made it worse. While jumping on a trampoline, Disgust was at first bored, but then started to gag. Disgust watched as Anger, Fear, and Joy piled on top of each over so Joy could reach an upper shelf and put a memory there. Once that was done, Sadness pulled a rope to reveal the shape of a Christmas Tree.

Inside Out 2[]

The emotions continued to exist peacefully, each respecting the others' roles in Riley's life. They kept up this peace until one day, they woke to the puberty light flashing. Joy sent it to the back of Riley's mind, but then mind workers came in and did some work updating the console. After this, they discovered that the console was much more sensitive, with only a light touch causing Riley to have an extreme emotional response.

When Riley got invited to Coach Roberts' hockey camp, the emotions remembered that Val Ortiz, whom Riley idolized, had gotten onto Roberts' team, the FireHawks, as a freshman. On their way to camp, Riley learned that her best friends, Grace Hsieh and Bree Young, weren't going to be going to the same high school with her. When they got dropped off and Grace and Bree walked away, Sadness finally had Riley cry. Once she was done crying, she started walking toward the building and ran into Val. Riley started rambling about Val and it was during this exchange that the emotions noticed the console was orange. They wondered who did that and met Anxiety, who introduced herself and Riley's other new emotions: Envy, Embarrassment, and Ennui. Joy happily welcomed them, saying she'd learned that all emotions were important for Riley.

Anxiety quickly took control of Riley, saying Riley needed to focus on making new friends who would come to her new school to secure her future. The emotions initially respected Anxiety's plan and actions, but eventually started to question her actions. When they tried to fight back, Anxiety had Embarrassment put all five original emotions in a jar and take them to the Vault of Secrets. There, they found Lance Slashblade, Bloofy, and the Deep Dark Secret. They asked for help. Bloofy would only agree to help them if they gave him something in return, Lance said that it was their own journey. However, once Disgust flattered Lance, he agreed to help them. Unfortunately, he was unable to get them out of the jar, but the Deep Dark Secret was able to break the glass and release them. Once they were out, Bloofy summoned Pouchy, who gave them the dynamite they needed to get out of the vault. While Bloofy and Lance left with them, the Deep Dark Secret decided to stay in the vault.

Joy led the group, saying they needed to get Riley's Sense of Self before they could return to Headquarters. She decided they could follow the Stream of Consciousness to the back of the mind. Joy thought she knew how to get there, but since Riley's mind had changed, she no longer did. Sadness started to cry over everything changing. When they finally go to the stream, Sadness reminded them that there would be no one in Headquarters to call them back. Joy decided that Sadness would climb a Recall tube back to Headquarters while the rest of them went to find Riley's Sense of Self.

They rode down the stream of consciousness until Ennui making Riley sarcastic caused a Sar-chasm to open, breaking the stream into two pieces. This left the emotions to have to go the long way around. This led them through Imagination Land, which had changed a lot since the last time Joy was there. Among the changes was Fort Pillowton, which had grown and was orange. They went inside and found mind workers, on order from Anxiety, drawing potential negative scenarios that could happen at Riley's camp so she could prepare for all of them. Joy took an empty station and wrote out a positive scenario, then led the others to do the same. This led to the mind workers revolting and drawing positive scenarios as well, then starting a pillow fight. They left when some mind cops arrived and used a balloon from the Parade of Future Careers to get away. They held onto it until they got trapped in a Brainstorm that forced them to let go.

Finally, they got to the back of the mind and retrieved Riley's sense of self, but when Sadness tried to bring them back, Anxiety broke the Riley Protection System, stopping her and stranding them in the back of the mind. Anger had the idea to call Pouchy and see if he had anything that could help them. Anger pulled dynamite out of Pouchy, which gave Joy the idea to use it to cause an avalanche of memories they could ride back to Headquarters. This worked and they ended up back in the belief system, along with all the memories. As new beliefs formed from them, they went back to Headquarters, where they tried with the other emotions to remove the new, anxious sense of self. They were unable to as Anxiety had taken over and was flying across the console, trying to fix the problems she'd created. Joy stepped in and got Anxiety to relinquish control. This allowed them to remove the anxious sense of self and replace it with the old one. Then Joy realized it was keeping a new, more complex sense of self from developing, so she removed it and let the new sense of self replace it. This resolved Riley's problems and the emotions celebrated.

Later, when Riley had returned to school, the emotions had learned to co-exist peacefully, with each respecting the others' roles. On the day that Riley was supposed to receive an email to learn whether or not she'd made the FireHawks, Anxiety started to panic until Joy got her to focus on things Riley could control. They agreed that they loved Riley and would celebrate for her either way. When Riley finally got the email, she smiled.

Personality[]

Disgust is squeamish, sarcastic, sassy, and loves fashion.

Notes and Trivia[]

  • According to Pete Docter, her appearance is based on that of broccoli, which, ironically, is what she, Riley, and the other emotions hate and Pete Docter himself loves.[source?]
  • In the first clips shown at the 2013 DisneyD23 Expo, Disgust wore a purple dress, had longer hair, and did not have long eyelashes. This version is referred to as Purple Disgust in this wiki.[source?]
  • In one of the first concept drawings, Disgust was, in the planning stages, portrayed as a male character during production, but was later switched to a female character.[source?]
  • Disgust, unlike Joy and Sadness, has visible eyelashes.
  • The buckle on her waist belt is shaped like a "D" to represent the first letter in her name.
  • According to Chris Sarsaki, the character artist designated for Inside Out, the reason that Disgust has a scarf around her neck is to hide her retches.[1]
  • Disgust's favorite island is Fashion Island.[source?]
  • In Disney Infinity 3.0, she hints that Riley's dad makes omelettes with broccoli on Sundays, to her distaste.
  • Official Description: Disgust is highly opinionated, extremely honest and prevents Riley from getting poisoned — both physically and socially. She keeps a careful eye on the people, places and things that Riley comes into contact with — whether that's broccoli or last year's fashion trend. Disgust always has the best of intentions and refuses to lower her standards.
  • Apparently Disgust, like Riley, has a crush on Lance Slashblade, as revealed in the second film.

Gallery[]

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Quotes[]

"Well, I just saved our lives. Yeah. You're welcome."

"We have a major problem."

"Duh, tell me something I don't know."

"I'm starting to envy the dead mouse."

"That's it. I'm done."

"On a scale of 1 to 10, I give this day an F."

"Riley is acting so weird. Why is she acting so weird?"

"Joy would know what to do."

"Great idea. Anger, Fear, Disgust, how are we supposed to be happy?"

(To Fear) "Uh, because I'm not Joy."

"I'm done. You pretend to be Joy."

(upon a young Riley being fed broccoli) "OK, caution. There is a dangerous smell here, people. Hold on. What is that?"

"The grape touched the ground. It's poison."

"You know what else barely touches the ground? Stray dogs, toenail clippings, road kill, hippies, dung beetles..."

(while bantering with Joy about whether or not to eat a grape that fell) "Ugh, Don't even go there... You're evil... Shut your mouth!"

"Emotions can't quit, genius!"

(sarcastic) "Yeah, Joy. We could be lying on the dirty floor in a bag."

"When I'm through, Riley will look so good, the other kids will look at their own outfits and barf."

"Find your happy place, guys!"

"Whoa! No way! We are not eating that!"

"Okay, we've got a group of cool girls at two o'clock."

(discussing with Joy, upon Riley noticing cool girls) "Yeah, we want to be friends with them. Are you kidding? We're not talking to them. We want them to like us."

(upon spotting cool girls whispering) "Cool kids whispering at three o'clock!"

(while in Cloudy Daze stage of Disney Infinity 3.0) "Riley's old enough for me to know there's something not right about this place."

"Okay, this is getting beyond ridiculous."

"Let the professional handle this."

"Oh yeah, this is totally broken."

"I never miss a look."

"She's hiding something, but what?"

References[]


v - e - d
Inside Out Poster Logo
Emotions
Inside Out: JoySadnessAngerDisgustFearMrs. Andersen's EmotionsMr. Andersen's Emotions

Inside Out 2: AnxietyEmbarrassmentEnnuiEnvyNostalgia
Deleted characters: GloomHopePrideShame

People
Inside Out: Riley AndersenMrs. AndersenMr. AndersenMegJordan

Inside Out 2: Bree YoungCoach RobertsGrace HsiehVal Ortiz

Mind Workers
Inside Out: Forgetter BobbyForgetter PaulaFrank and DaveFritzJake

Inside Out 2: Margie

Other Characters
Inside Out: Bing BongRainbow UnicornJangles the Clown

Inside Out 2: BloofyDeep Dark SecretLance SlashbladePouchy

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