Why Joy Did NOT Get A Matching Emotion For Inside Out 2

I don't think anyone is transforming, but I do think that Love, as a different emotion unto themself, could come out towards the end of the movie. You have to remember that joy and love are separate things. You could be madly in love with someone, and angry or sad that you can't be with them, for example, or you could be more afraid for someone's safety and such BECAUSE you love them.

I actually like the theory that people with depression or chronic anxiety literally get their own emotions to deal with. It’s kind of like how the adults have a certain core emotion who runs the console, similar to how joy took over 90% of the time when Riley was growing up, but like Riley, learned to deal with it and be balanced. But what if they have more complicated issues? That’s where extra emotions and chaos come in, like anxiety. So I like the theory that Riley either had temporary anxiety issues that come with teenagerhood, or that she’s actually developed an anxiety disorder that she needs to learn to deal with. Especially considering that Riley is known to be happy and cheery even in the worst situations, she could have the personality where she’s trying to bottle everything up (as seen in the trailer) just to keep that persona together. Clearly she’s good with major changes, as seen in the first film.

She finally got a matching emotion nostalgia

Ennui and sadness, yes; anxiety and fear, yes. But I think you might have gotten the other two backwards: embarrassment strikes me as being more closely related to disgust, and envy to rage.

Joy and Love go hand-in-hand like fear and anxiety do, so a new emotion called Love could very well appear in time to assist Joy in saving Reiley.

Probably because "Joy" is currently the only positive emotion

Ok … that’s a cool theory but one problem we actually see anxiety and fear was behind joy

Love isn’t a form of happiness or joy, it is a form of attachment (and if we’re getting technical it’s actually a chemical response in the brain). Love can be connected to joy, sure, because love can make you happy…but it is totally separate in that love can make you feel just about anything, including the other four core emotions. As for a transformation, we see fear and anxiety in the same room together so clearly fear did not transform into anxiety. If we’re going to bring the first movie up, as well, we should also remember that the plot has to advance and send a message and the emotions had to develop emotions for that to happen, so it could very well just have been a plot device to move the story forward.

I thought of her dividing herself into two: love and ego, hope and pleasure or ID and Super Ego but it probably won't happen in the second movie.

I think it's not love but compassion. Also a complex emotion but is just as significant as the rest of the new emotions. Joy's equal. also a great balance to envy, embarrassment, ennui and anxiety.

I think Riley being adopted should be addressed in this movie. Children who were adopted as infants have trauma from that transition from birth mother to adoptive family and often spend their entire lives wondering why they always feel anxious. Clearly Riley first saw her parents when she was clean, dry and swaddled in a bassinet, not in the delivery room. She also has blonde hair and blue eyes and her parents both have brown hair and brown eyes. Slim chance that she wouldn't resemble either of her parents.

Hi! Great vid! Just as you noticed, the new emotions could stem from the core 5. Embarrassment is pink because it stems from red Anger. Envy is teal because it stems from blue Sadness and green Disgust. Their hair is also similar. Ennui is deep purple(?) because it stems from purple Fear (maybe darkened by black Depression?) That would make orange Anxiety stem from yellow Joy (and maybe red Anger). If you remember, Joy is very hyper, apprehensive and controlling during the first film. That would make her a good candidate to be Anxiety's match. And Anxiety's hair is an exaggerated version of Joy's hair. Please don't hate me, it is just a thought.

In the first movie disgust saids I'm starting to (envy) the dead mouse

The VERY adult version of this would be joy splitting off into a 2nd&3rd character and it being pleasure & love but they stick together a lot so later in life she’d confuse the 3 different emotions.

I hope they have an emotion called intrusive thoughts 🤣🤣

As someone who has adhd and anxiety i can promise you anxiety being it’s own emotion and as it looks like in the trailers is taking over! Is a representation of fear and disgust trying to control your life. As seen in the trailer’s anxiety pushes Riley to act differently embarrassment is fear and sadness, envy is disgust and anger and boredom is disgust and sadness. Your hormones get all complicated and confusing at this time and especially at the beginning you don’t feel like you. I have a feeling that it will start with Riley experiencing something that has everyone going crazy and joy is unable to calm them down then BAM everyone shows up. Mixes that exemplify more complex emotions And like anyone acting on anxiety and not fear acting on envie and not simply anger or boredom and not sadness or simple disgust. You lose that joy. Your entire life is filled with a buzz of panic. Nothing hits right I think boredom is what happens when you are devoid of joy… anxiety leads when you can’t feel comfortable. There is a place for anxiety… for embarrassment… for boredom… for envy. But there isn’t a place for them without fear driving that anxiety, joy to push yourself when you are bored, disgust to recognize those icky feelings and redirect them into something more productive. And sadness to feel those feelings with that embarrassment. Anger is the one left out. But i think there is more to this story… if we are seeing a girl growing up… and two boys are part of our cast… I think we might see a very interesting transformation.

I'm glad I wasn't the only who noticed this. I wonder what this movie will do and I am very excited to see it through.

I wrote a comment on an Inside Out 2 short a while back saying something similar to this theory but I feel the new emotions are combinations of the current emotions; Sadness + Fear = Anxiety Fear + Disgust = Embarrassment Disgust + Anger = Boredom Anger + Joy = Envy Then the 5th emotion will be l; Joy + Sadness = Love It shows that your emotions become complex as your grow older and go through new experiences but they all originate from your core emotions.

I feel like she might be starting puberty so she's already more anxious than normal but her parents might tell her they're getting divorced so her anxiety and other emotions are lingering longer than they should be

Joy did get a matching emotion. Nostalgia