How to Write an Accomplice - Inside Out 2

What are your thoughts on Envy?

I think Envy should've been renamed to Admiration, or Desire. Those traits would've been much more fitting with her personality in my mind, since whenever she's driving, Riley never comes off as envious. Moreso it was Riley admiring Val's hair, desiring knowledge in the coach's journal, desiring to be popular, etc. Then with Admiration mixed with Anger would you get a true envious memory

Additionally, Envy is the one who encourages Riley to sneak into Coach Roberts' Red Notebook. When Anxiety even questions if they were "pushing her too far", Envy was the one to redirect Anxiety's attention onto the notebook in drive of trying to make Riley "better" than who she was originally. So Envy may have had a bigger purpose than we were letting her off the hook earlier.

I love the way Envy is portrayed in the film, and I think her character deserves more credit for her role in events. Not only is it nice to have such an atypical (and adorable) portrayal of this vice, but she really does hold a lot of responsibility in Anxiety spiraling as badly and quickly as she does by never challenging her in anything. In the rare moments where Anxiety shows some doubt, Envy pushes her on ahead with her bad ideas.

The jar is called “bottling up your emotions” and it’s what most kids do.

Could you do Riley after you finish covering the new emotions? I'd love to hear your thoughts on her since she's more fleshed out on the external side of things.

I saw a lot of people claiming that the movie would have been the same without Envy, but multiple times in it she steers Anxiety in the wrong way and reinforces her point of view. She was quite important in the end with the way events unfolded.

I wish they fleshed her out more. Envy had the potential to instigate Anxiety’s plan. Riley could have felt envious of how good Val is, rather than only admiring her. And she could have been envious toward her friends who are going to the same school without her, thus motivating her to make new friends and get better at hockey

Although I like all the emotions (it’s hard for me to choose which one is my favorite) I really really like Envy and how she was portrayed in the movie. And she’s so small compared to the others too, it’s adorable and I love her design!

I went and rewatched Inside Out 2 in the theatre just a day ago, and I really have noticed a lot of things that I didn’t notice or pay attention to last time. I really recommend rewatching it in theatres. And I can't wait for it to go on Disney+.

You know what I love about Anxiety and Envy’s dynamic? The first day they’re at the console and Anxiety lets Envy take over and not hog the controls all to herself, even asking/listening to Envy’s suggestions on how they could help Riley. Which is a CONTRAST to how Joy and Sadness began their first day and so forth in the first movie. Which is why I like IO2 way more than the first one. And also because I enjoyed Joy getting dragged, especially when Ennui calls her “old-fashioned”.

Shoutout to this guy for genuinely teaching me more about character types and thematic storytelling than the majority of my previous english teachers; bro, you are doing god's work right now

Also Envy pushed Riley to get the notebook, as when she got up Anxiety tried but couldn’t push her to get up and sneak into the coaches office and even asked “are we pushing her to hard?”, BUT it was Envy who managed to get her up and sneak into that office

Looks like we’re getting an ennui video on Wednesday Edit: also Riley’s friends look exactly like May’s friends from turning red

Envy is my personal favorite!!! She is small, charismatic and the baby of all the emotions. I am the baby of four brothers. My oldest brother Andre is 6 foot 5, my second oldest is Laurence was 6 foot 3 and my third oldest brother was 6 foot 1. I came out at 5 foot 8, so you can understand why I was so "envious" of my brothers growing up. Although she is small, Envy is an emotion that knows exactly what she wants and how to get it. In Riley's case, Envy protects Riley from social suicide and pushes herself through the crowd, even though she is the smallest she has bigger ideas!!! Her constant thirst for acceptance and group inclusion makes her a perfect ally for Anxiety. I connected with her the most!!!! And sidenote, Envy is the only character with 8 fingers, because she is always envious everyone else has more fingers than her. 💙

Envy, a lot of people complained that she didn't feel "envious" enough, but that's because whenever they think of envy they imagine specifically NEGATIVE/MALICIOUS envy, which is when you resent others and try to bring them down to your level, POSITIVE/BENIGN envy drives us to self-improvement, to emulate others, chase after what we don't have, to elevate ourselves to the level of those we envy, but that's still envy because it is still born out of an upward social comparison and a desire for what others have, I would even argue that envy (not just generic desire) is the basis of ambition, after all, what does "being successful" means if not making ourselves as ENVIABLE as possible? people have suggested that Envy should have been renamed Desire but unlike Envy, there is no justification as to why Desire would only show up now with puberty, Anxiety is only showing up now because children are generally bad at thinking long-term, now that Riley can better project forward towards the future Anxiety can show up, as for the other 3, they all have roles tied to the regulation of social status, which would be significantly more relevant now that Riley is entering high school, Ennui conceals other emotions when doing so would be inappropriate, Embarrassment makes us aware when our own status has been diminished, and as I explained above, Envy makes us aware of those with higher social status, and depending on how is channeled it can motivate us to either tear others down (negative) or lift ourselves up (positive)

Really enjoyed the videos on Anxiety, Embarrassment and Envy! Great breakdowns and analysis; Envy worked as an accomplice alongside Anxiety and that really shows how both can kinda go hand in hand influencing one another in real life too

I haven't gone to see this movie a second time but from my initial viewing I understood Envy as an active but ignorant enabler because of her envy, I never thought her motives would've been wanting full control but it does kinda make sense when she's got angst over Anxiety telling her "next time" when building Riley's new sense of self.

You’re criminally underrated, your videos are such high quality, i was surprised that you only had 4K subscribers!

I personally LOVE envy as anxiety’s little second hand😂