- “I'm Envy. (Gasp) Look at your hair! Look at her hair! We need hair like THAT!”
- ―Envy, upon meeting the Emotions.
Envy is a character and one of the new four emotions in Inside Out 2. She is Riley Andersen's envy.
History[]
Inside Out 2[]
Envy first appeared shortly after Riley started puberty. Her first action was to express that she loved Disgust's hair and then Val's hair. She decided Riley needed to have hair like Val's and made Riley reach out to touch Val's hair, an action Disgust stopped.
When Riley overheard the older girls talking about how she was immature, Envy noted that they wanted people to talk about Riley, but not like that.
Envy went with Anxiety as she started to implement her plan to grow a new Belief System and Sense of Self for Riley, based on anxious memories. As she watched Anxiety plant some memories in the Belief System, Envy said she wanted to do that. Anxiety promised she could do it the next time.
Envy was happy when Val came to the ice early to practice, as Riley had done. She suggested that Riley ask Val about herself, because people like talking about themselves. When this led to Val inviting Riley to hang out with her and her friends, Envy had her accept eagerly. While they were hanging out, the other girls asked what her favorite band was. Riley said Get Up and Glow and then realized it wasn't a popular choice. Envy and Anxiety struggled to come up with a suitable replacement band, so Ennui stepped in and had Riley pretend she was being sarcastic.
Envy had the idea for Riley to retrieve the notebook Coach Roberts wrote in to find out what the coach really thought of her. When Riley read the notebook and learned that the coach thought she wasn't ready yet, Envy reminded them they still had one day left to change her mind, and they'd be playing in a scrimmage. They decided to have Riley dye her hair red like the FireHawks. They also decided to have Riley score three goals in the scrimmage no matter how.
During the game, Riley played aggressively, stealing the puck from her teammates and managed to score two goals. However, after that, she started to struggle and missed many more attempts. Then she ran into Grace, knocking her over and horrifying her emotions. Riley was sent to the penalty box, where she had a panic attack as Anxiety frantically tried to fix things. Envy worked with the other emotions to try to remove Riley's anxious Sense of Self, but they were unable to until Anxiety gave up control of the console. Joy replaced Riley's Sense of Self with her old one, but then realized it was stifling her new, improved Sense of Self from developing. She removed it and allowed the new, complex Sense of Self to grow and take its place. Then Riley apologized to her friends and made things right.
Later, after camp was over and Riley was back at school, she was sitting with the FireHawks at lunch as she waited to hear if she made the team or not. When Anxiety remembered that Riley needed to study for her Spanish test, Joy let Envy take credit for it.
Personality[]
Envy lets everyone know what she wants and is vocal about expressing admiration. She also looks up to Anxiety, gushing when Anxiety picked her to drive while she's away.
Envy agrees to everything Anxiety says because she looks up to her.
Notes and Trivia[]
- Concept art of the first film almost shows Envy as a slick greedy man, but was scrapped. In the sequel, Envy was redesigned as an excited innocent little girl, shorter than her concept design, and her signature color is aquamarine instead of pale green.[source?]
- The concept book of The Art of Inside Out 2 reveals that among the discarded ideas of Envy's design was that her hair be tied up in two pigtails that evoke the ears of a sad, wet puppy.[source?]
- Another scrapped idea shows that Envy would originally have the ability to replicate the looks and personalities of the core Emotions.[source?]
- According to Keiko Murayama (character art director), the reason Envy has big eyes is because the word "envy" is related to the Latin word invidia, which means "to look within"; which is why they decided to emphasize her eyes.[source?]
Gallery[]
Quotes[]
- "Ugh. I wish I was as tall as all of you."
- "I'm Envy!”
- "Oooh, look at your hair!"
- "Quick question. How do we build a new Riley- which I'm loving, by the way- amazing concept, if it took them thirteen years to build the old one?"
- "Oh! We should ask Val a LOT of questions, people love talking about themselves."
- "Not until now! What if she's made a list of all her favorite players, and we're not on it?!"
- "Or worse, we're not on either list and we've faded to obscurity!"
- "Oh. An exclusive invitation. We're going!"
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