The REAL Villain in Inside Out 2!

Now that I think about it, we all believed Envy was just being Anxiety's yes girl, but actually she was being more of an enabler. She was the only one who agreed with Anxiety's many bad decisions and even threw in her own ideas like looking at the coach's thoughts on everyone.

I think we need to drop the whole “one of the emotion is a villain“ idea. No, there are no villains. Every emotion has a purpose and it’s natural to feel them. Envy though dangerous as a emotion, but if we look at her character… Envy’s character is not initially negative, hostile or resentful. She’s more like: “Oh that’s thing is cool! We should get it for Riley!” Envy is not dangerous, it’s what it can BECOME that’s dangerous, just like every other emotion, sadness can develop into depression no? Anger can lead to wrath (another deadly sin) no? She wants the best for Riley no less than any other emotion. It’s the message of both movies after all. Besides, she’s cute.

You are right that envy is the villain of inside out 2.

Envy could have actually been a misunderstood villain like Anxiety. They could have leaned into Riley being envious of how good Val is, rather than just her admiration of her. Also, having Riley being jealous that her friends are going to the same school without her could have served as even more motivation for Riley to act the way she does

Another thing, you make good points but these aren’t just emotions, remember these are tiny people each with their own conscience inside Riley’s mind. Envy cannot make Riley anxious through her being envious because she cannot affect Anxiety who has her own conscience and makes her own choices like that. She can only go along with Anxiety’s plans which she does. Besides it’s also Anxiety who rebuilt Riley’s sense of self purely out of anxiety. Riley was anxious purely because her entire self is now made of anxiety.

Remember color palette is a huge part of Inside Out emotions design, like, everyone have part of their clothing color matched to another related emotion? Anxiety‘s clothes color design doesn't have another color coded into it, but she has turquoise pupils perhaps act as a small hint that envy may easily manipulate her. Fun fact, Joy is the only other emotion character to have a different pupil color, that is sadness’s blue. Joy was the first movie’s antagonist and Anxiety is the second!

You have a point but envy is the one who tells anxiety she's stressed out rilley to much and try to pull out that anxiety atom thing

Thanks for proving that Disney still hasn’t gotten over their obsession with twist villains. I just love how everyone takes these emotions so literally, especially Anxiety. This movie is so hilarious in so many unintentional ways.

have watched the movie 3 times already and no matter what ppl say envy is my fav character. loved the vid though :)

You clearly have a point but if Envy was the true villain (lets say antagonistic) of the movie that means that Anxiety was completely manipulated by Envy and having no initiatives of her own. Sure Envy was encouraging Anxiety and had her role as well, but it was Anxiety's plan after all, she came with a plan and she was the one who created Riley from the beginning and was big obstacle to old emotions. She was the one who finally decide to press the button and make Riley sees the notebook and she was the one who prevented old emotions to come back while Envy had a feeling that they pressured Riley a little too much. I believe Envy wasn't jealousy exactly, it was mostly insecurity and the desire to fit in. It was not that evil feeling of hating others and wanting what they have. It's difficult to say for sure if it was Anxiety who caused Envy or if it was Envy who caused Anxiety, maybe both at the same time but Anxiety showed first in the movie. I believe they worked together equally, they both encouraging each other because they can't live apart and they were both antagonistics where Anxiety was the obvious one and Envy the least obvious one. At the end Envy realised faster that they both hurt Riley but Anxiety was so anxious that tried to fix it but she hurt Riley more causing her panic attack.

Thank you for pointing out. I had a feeling just couldn’t put it into words. Great video btw

I thought it was anxiety was the villain but I realized envy actually is

Now that you mention it, you're right! Envy is the foundation of all anxiety in this story. We miss it because Ayo's voice acting and Pixar's character design make Envy seem innocent, cute and harmless. But don't be fooled! Comparing yourself to others leads straight to anxiety, depression and a sense of worthlessness, even if it comes from a natural desire to emulate others you admire. Thanks for your over-analysis.

I never rreally thought of it like that. When I was watching the movie I though Envy was just like a sidekick but now that you brought it up she is manipulative.

Well to be fear envy is the REAL villain because Envy kept pressuring anxiety to do stuff too Riley

Funny enough, before watching the movie my favorite was Envy, so i paid close attention whenever she was on screen. I definitely saw her encouraging Anxietys behavior. At least in my opinion, I saw Envy near the ending and in certain scenes almsot feeling guilt when she saw what Anxiety was doing, like she knew it was her fault for pushing her and why it was Envy who tried to stop Anxiety at the end during the Panic Attack Build up, as in trying to stop what had created but it was to late.

No Anxiety gave Riley the panic attack envy said Anxiety stop your hurting Riley

I agree, she's jealous of her friends moving on so she tries to befriend the older girls.

Envy is not even a villian I saw Envy has nothing to do with villians. I saw Envy once helped Sadness. 5:15

There is only one true villain Nostalgia!