How to Write an Antagonist - Inside Out 2

After Puss in Boots The Last Wish it proved that animation is a perfect excuse to make an antagonist that truly impacts the audience as much as the protagonist does.
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[@chasehedges6775]

Everyone loves a good villain but sometimes, you need a good antagonist.

[@nicknameeeaaaaa]

Exactly

[@KindKnurv]

Fr

[@Totallynotanxious]

Fr

[@Breadestboi]

Agreed

[@fishdub_]

Couldn't have said it better myself

[@Keeganator42]

The most simple yet most reliable way to create an antagonist is to have them have good intentions but unethical methods.

[@cheese__cake]

So its like, making an anti-villain? :o

[@ZidaneKiano]

​@@cheese__cakeIt's Anti-hero,Anti-villain is a character Who is a villain but can do good stuff like Dr Doofenshmirtz

[@Elec.Balloon]

Illumi Zoldyck Anxiety Miles Edgeworth? I would name more but im drawing a blank xD

[@kemziclestudios6489]

*insert Thanos*

[@abbiebuit]

Hitler?

[@ultima1594]

Another little detail is that when Riley crashes into her friend, she says she didn’t even see her. At the start of the movie Anxiety says Fear protects Riley from what she can see, while Anxiety from what she can’t see. Fear wasn’t there to stop Riley, and Anxiety couldn’t fill that role.

[@Otoriwhy]

ooooooooo that's a good observation.

[@Nortarachanges]

Whoa! Good point!

[@Naito9874]

I think you said from what she can't see twice, is that a mistake?

[@Dora-xi5ob]

I wish Embarrassment, Envy, and Ennui were fleshed out more and shown how harmful they could be if they go overboard, like Anxiety. Riley could be scared of embarrassing herself by messing up during practice, thus no longer wanting to do anything that would put her in an uncomfortable situation and losing motivation. Riley could have felt envious that her friends were going to the same school without her and envious of how good Val is (rather than only admiring her), thus making her want to be better at hockey and make new friends. Ennui could be Riley giving up- she no longer has interest in hockey after all the stress she is going through

[@raptorboss6688]

you bring up some great points! although i think at the pace the movie was going it would have been hard to find time to add these scenes

[@nicoleelias6925]

Very well said

[@Dora-xi5ob]

@@raptorboss6688remove all the scenes with Joy and the others navigating the mind. It worked in the first movie, but it feels repetitive in the second- good world building, but the locations they visit don’t contribute to the overarching story nor themes like the first movie’s journey did

[@justafellow2765]

@@Dora-xi5ob Remove every scene with them navigating the mind? Then how would we even know what Joy and the rest of the core 5 would be doing?? You want these characters to so desperately have more screentime that your overlooking a crucial part of the story. If anything they would have to make the movie longer to squeeze in these scenes to "flesh them out" more and it would make it quite bloated and would mess with the pacing. I think they work fine for what they did and what they added, even if it's minor, played an important role to several scenes in the film. Sometimes less is more

[@namsinh5492]

While I would love to see the other emotions do more things, i don't think its necessary for each emotions to become a big problem for Riley to overcome, people don't feel all emotions equally, and as a result have different problems, for example Riley isnt too embarrassed for it to be a problem for her, but she does feel a lot of anxiety so it becomes an overwhelming emotion and causes problem

[@user-gw4oz1rk3i]

Most villans are antagonists, but not all antagonists are villans! This is how to write a good, non-villan antagonist!

[@Jmaniac9204]

YES!!! Thank you!!

[@TheDeathmail]

That's literally just called a rival....

[@grawlix-man463]

​@@TheDeathmailDude, can you stop? You're entirely arguing semantics, a character can be a rival without being an antagonist just as one can be an antagonist without being a rival, nor an outright villain.

[@Cosmictuft]

I think Anxiety was very well written as far as her role, character arc, and parallel to Joy in the first movie. I would consider her my favorite Inside Out character, not just because of that, but honestly I don’t think I’ve ever resonated so much with a movie character, let alone an antagonist. It’s a little creepy how similar I am to what’s supposed to be the literal spawn of anxiety lol

[@pico6471]

I feel the exact same way, it’s shocking to see someone so similar to you on screen. I think that’s a huge reason why I liked this movie so much, I’ve never related to a character so much like anxiety

[@sentientmustache8360]

Her obsession with trying to foresee every possible outcome and analyzing and overthinking every minor detail reminded me a bit too much of myself at times…

[@tobyzilla]

​@@sentientmustache8360I'm the same way

[@estebanco6937]

that's me with embarrasment 😭

[@Allets-cz1mg]

I love anxiety more than Joy in this situation

[@Ist0lethec00kie12]

Something I love about anxiety is that she is very accurate, in my opinion, about how anxiety can act. I have GAD (generalized anxiety disorder) which causes me to just worry excessively about really anything my brain decides that day. While anxiety isn't a tiny anthropomorphic character inside my head, the rationality and the things anxiety does as a character and to Riley are very very accurate to what it feels like to live with GAD to an extent. I had never felt so seen in a movie before, I actually cried in the theater. I'm glad that this movie brought open and displays anxiety in such a true-to-life way because most of the time in other movies it isn't shown super great.

[@indigo_neo]

i have social anxiety (and was a pretty anxious kid growing up), so Anxiety's character in the movie was relateable to me too.

[@jamiegdubois]

Yeah, I have GAD too as well as panic disorder (basically I get panic and anxiety attacks a lot), so I found this movie incredibly relatable, even more so than the first. It made me cry too-especially Riley’s anxiety attack scene when she’s end the penalty box-fortunately my dad was with me at the cinema because we went to see it for Father’s Day or else that little bit of crying might have turned into sobbing 😅

[@gunslinger-oq1pu]

Cap

[@fireemblemaddict128]

I wish Fear was kept in the command center. Fear is very much an adjacent emotion to Anxiety and I wish he had been kept as the insider member of the original cast. Perhaps initially agreeing with Anxiety on things and slowly realizing she’s going to crash the ship.

[@MoiMademoiselleWorked]

He kind of did admire her in the movie and put her on a pedestal and compared Joy to her initially, but slowly understands that she was going to be Riley's ruin if she wasn't stopped. Though, it would have been a good idea if he stayed with the new emotions, more obviously idolizing Anxiety only left to help Joy and the other main emotions after things started to go south.

[@equanimity1635]

Yes exactly! Fear seeing what anxiety sees would've been so cool. There is also that one scene that bothered me a bit, it was when Riley snuck into the coach's office. And anxiety controlled Riley to hide below the door, I know that it still makes sense but idk; To me it felt like she replaced fear for a second there lol 😅

[@gdplayer19]

@@equanimity1635 Well, Anxiety is partially derived from fear, if I recall correctly, so it wouldn't be that out-of-character.

[@wesleywallace4426]

@@MoiMademoiselleWorked That was Embarrassment's story arc, of slowly manning up and taking initiative to do the right thing of stopping Anxiety.

[@Baddexample16]

My favorite way to talk about Anxiety- She's an antagonist, not a villain

[@Myth_Investagator]

WAIT ANXIETY IS A GIRL??? I THOUGHT SHE WAS A BOY

[@Anthony-dy2cv]

Why is this one of the only videos about Inside Out 2 that DOESNT spend half the video talking about Pixar corporate drama (THANK YOU BTW) no one seems to be appreciating the movie for the story that it told. Instead, the major narrative is about how it's a bad omen for Pixar's future.

[@SleepyBaseball-fg5op]

*cough cough* Saberspark *cough cough*

[@brittanydavisghiblieaglesfan]

Also, AniMat’s review doesn’t mention the corporate drama of Pixar either.

[@Nortarachanges]

Victim of timing. Wasn’t there an interview of a Disney/Pixar higher up about how sequels were the way of the future that came out about the same time as the release of Inside Out 2?

[@kaylenvee8150]

I think the most fascinating part of Anxiety's character and why she serves as a good antagonist is that she basically acts like how Joy did in the first movie. Too overbearing and too controlling; they never let the other emotions have control over the console and pushed everyone away. They behaved the exact same way and experienced the same consequences - An unheathy mental state for Riley. And I firmly believe that ALL the emotions are capable of becoming like Joy or Anxiety if they have too much control. NONE of them are explicitly bad, they're only bad in excess. Some of the new emotions in Inside Out 2 get some hate for being primarily negative emotions and not really demonstrating their purpose, but I don't believe that. First of all, the first movie already made the point of how there is no 'bad' emotion. All of them have a purpose, and secondly, I think the fact that we know so little of the new emotions and what they can do served as reinforcement to Anxiety's controlling behaviour. She hogged the console so much that the other emotions no longer got to shine and SHOW why Riley needs them. And I have a couple of theories to what their purpose in Riley's life is. Embarrassment: I think he's supposed to serve a similar role as sadness, and I may be reading too much into it, but I think that's why they got along in the movie. The display of sadness encourages other people around to act. To empathize, to grieve, to be there for Riley and comfort her. Embarrassment is the opposite. He's there as a signal so people know to give Riley SPACE without being aggressive like say, the dinner table scene in the first movie with Anger. If Riley instead looked embarrassed, then it would've been more clear that they shouldn't push this topic too hard and they would've given her some space and revisit the conversation another time. He serves as a support for Riley's need for personal space and privacy. Envy: Although it was framed more as admiration, I think the point of Envy is to serve as a form of motivation for Riley. She gives Riley a goal or objective to strive towards by having someone else serve as this model to follow. She's one way for Riley to be pushed towards her ambitions and goals; because she admires this person. Ennui: She's definitely the oddest one, but I think the point of Ennui is to serve as this baseline emotion that ensures that Riley can continue her day, even with the bare minimum. Think about when she was introduced. She's the last of the new emotions to be introduced and throughout that time, the other emotions were very overwhelmed by the newcomers and none of them knew what to do. That's when Ennui shows up and takes control of the console, making sure Riley responds and is able to function and interact with others. She's there so Riley can still function normally while getting her inner bearings together. She's the steady bar that Riley can hold onto while regaining her balance.

[@TheOfficialIDKChannel]

So, the other new emotions are meant to be a sort of support to Anxiety. Each takes care of tasks that she doesn't have controlled. Interesting

[@wanderingaceminecraftandmo8034]

I did have the thought that while the new emotions have lots of negatives due to connotations, I thought about how they also could be beneficial. Anxiety plans for the future, embarrassment subtly shows someone your boundaries, envy can push you to improve to be like those you admire, and ennui helps you to take a chill pill.

[@wesleywallace4426]

Somebody else said other than Joy, Ennui might be the underappreciated MVP of taking care of Riley.

[@blackqweenmars]

Anxiety was way more pushy, though and way more crazy

[@kaylenvee8150]

@@blackqweenmars that was kind of the point, and it makes sense from a psychological perspective. Anxiety is one of the easiest emotions to spiral out of control, because it preys on our fear of the unknown. Think about it like horror movies, where the monster is always scarier when it's not shown to you, because it means your imagination runs wild and whatever you can come up in your head is always going to be scarier because it's tailor made to your fears. Imagine THAT, but applied to your everyday life.

[@laraprisma6381]

The scene of Rilley having the anxiety attack hit very close to home for me. I already had an anxiety attack one night, it prevented me from sleeping and no one took me seriously, I was looking at the ceiling of my room trying to sleep, my chest hurting and I was crying uncontrollably. Aging can be difficult to deal with, especially when you have no one to comfort you. this scene almost made me cry, but I held it together, I really loved that scene, it conveys anxiety perfectly!

[@grammy_hnng]

hey, i hope you havent had any other attacks lately, but just in case, heres some unsolicited advice: -if you start feeling funky when youre in your bed, get out and walk around (itll help make it easier to sleep after the attack passes) -have something sugary like a caramel afterwards, the ickiness goes away faster -DONT fight it when it happens, you cannot stop it, only ride it out. if you fight it, you risk making it last longer. -tell someone you know will help you when the funky begins, have them either walk you around or just sit with you. they dont even have to say anything, but having someone there helps even if minimally ofc, everyone is different but somethings might work for you, and thats better than nothing

[@laraprisma6381]

@@grammy_hnng Thanks for the advice, that was last year (or the year before, I don't remember) and since then I haven't had any other attacks. Thank you for your concern, that's very kind of you!^-^

[@icepl831]

its funny because technically... joy was both the protagonist and the antagonist of the first movie. her goal was to keep riley happy but she opposed her own goals by going about it the wrong way. ...kinda like anxiety does in this movie... actually when yoy think about it their arcs are almost the same, they both learn that supressing other emotions to do things their way is bad for riley. thats also why joy in this movie always works with the other emotions and not just alone

[@blackqweenmars]

Honestly, honestly, Joy wasn’t bad in the first movie she just didn’t really understand sadness or her role so instead of trying to understand sadness, she just tried to push sadness away. We all argue. The anxiety was way worse than joy. Joy Just wanted to cover everything up with optimism anxiety wanted to change everything

[@icepl831]

@@blackqweenmars thats what im saying! both joy and anxiety basically had the same arc. they had the best intentions, wanting the best for riley, but they pushed the other emotions aside thinking they knew better whats good for her, but only hurting her in the end.

[@jjstarrprod]

Exactly ! Joy was definitely at the same time the protagonist but also the actual antagonist (not villain) of the first movie coz under all the smiles, she was a control freak and was in "my way or the high way" mode. Which made her character arc about discovering the value of sadness after losing Bing Bong, and finally be a team player instead of a dictator. Which kinda bummed me out at the beginning of the movie since we see her first happily give the reign to her teammates (great, she learned from her mistakes from the first movie)... and sent all the "unnecessary" memories to fly to the back of Riley's mind so that her personality tree could be exactly as she sees fit (Aaargh ! She hasn't learnt anything at all !). That's the kind of stuff I don't like about sequels, where all the lessons from the previous movie are basically rubbed under the carpet, and here we go for another round. So now, Joy has to, once again, relearn to let go, and at the end, impart that lesson to Anxiety, who's basically having the exact same character arc than Joy in the first movie. So I'm a bit frustrated by this movie. On the one hand there are so many magnificent moments, and overall, it's certainly a near flawless movie that I really enjoyed, but the more I think about it, the more just this one detail of Joy having forgotten her lesson from the first movie so that she has to relearn it, and the entire premice of the movie is hinging on it is kinda bumming me out.

[@purevessel4506]

Anxiety is now one of my favorite antagonists. It’s hard to follow up Goldie and Death from Last Wish and Miguel from Across the Spider Verse but the writers for Inside Out 2 managed to make such a perfect antagonist for the movie. Funny mentioning Miguel because Anxiety reminded me a bit of Miguel besides not being a bit of a jerk. Both wanted complete control(Miguel over the lives of spider people and Anxiety over Riley) and thought it was for the greater good and the protagonist Miles and Joy(well at least at the end) know you can’t control the life of someone and people should be able to live their own lives and make their own decisions

[@Totallynotanxious]

Inside out 2 is my favorite movie,and i think anxiety is a perfect antagonist. She’s written perfectly

[@Demonetization_Symbol]

I can tell with your name and pfp. I like it.

[@blackqweenmars]

@@Demonetization_Symbol this is the second time I’ve seen you in a comment section

[@user-rc8hr1yw6d]

I can clearly see it from the pfp and name

[@YoshikageKira33]

i’m not gonna lie Your favourite movie? that’s crazy also your favourite pixar movie as well? you have incredibles, ratatouille, and monsters inc and you choose this? okay i guess

[@codenamelarry6518]

The theater I saw this in applauded at the end credits, which was very refreshing to hear.

[@nogai2296]

Antagonists and Villains are not mutually exclusive. An example being Death, from puss in boots

[@MarioFRC32]

Yeah, that's one of the main points of the video

[@victorvirgili4447]

Well Death is on kind of a middle point where he opposes Puss not because he’s evil or disagrees with him but because he really hates him

[@lolAvalanche]

Well by my understanding, most all villains are Antagonists, as the antagonist is defined by opposition to the protagonist, and thereby most villains are antagonists. The distinction is when an antagonist is not also a villain.

[@RyugaruSenbi]

Death isn't a villain imo but yeah. Jack Horner is both for example

[@geekgirl616]

Every square is a rectangle but not every rectangle is a square

[@yamechitiyo8410]

I would be lying if I didn’t say I was rooting for anxiety at the start of the movie😭

[@Allets-cz1mg]

Oh my that’s too bad

[@anastasia_852]

Me too lmao I agreed that Riley's friends were too unserious, especially for the camp. Then she went full dictator mode and I was on nobody's side lol

[@vex3091]

Im not sure if this was intended, or if people already know, but the cool thing i noticed in anxiety hair is it sorta represents multiple paths future can take, they all spring from her head. Which symbolizes how she constantly contemplates different outcomes.

[@MovieMadness23]

There’s a quote from Turning Red that I feel sums up this movie perfectly: people have all kinds of sides to them and some sides are messy but the point isn’t to push the bad stuff away it’s to make room for it and live with it

[@cawareyoudoin7379]

I did shed a tear when Anxiety cried. It was such a good portrayal of an anxiety attack, it really got to me.

[@echidnaralsei1473]

everyone thinks they themselves are the good guys

[@Its_me_Stolas]

We are the heroes on a good side. But what about the villains on the other?

[@rawcookiedough7518]

@@Its_me_Stolas Stella Jang?

[@blackqweenmars]

Tell that to depressed and insecure people😂

[@nox._.meigui]

i love Anxiety sm for this exact reason. She just wants the best for Riley and i felt so bad for her as she had her own panic attack

[@OmarO_721]

The antagonists are not always “villains” they are just doing what they think is right, but it sometimes backfires. Anxiety is a core emotion for practically everyone, especially during everyone’s teen years. I know because I have experienced it myself. There are times where I feel like my anxiety went off the rails, I would always think about things that could go wrong, whether it be me screwing up a choir audition/performance, or failing a test. I tend to overthink the bad scenarios, and how to fix them, but when it approaches, anxiety ultimately causes me to fall apart in the end. There was a time where I had a literal panic attack when I was singing in front of the classroom, I was so nervous I would screw up, and all my worries came true.

[@blackqweenmars]

Yeah, but an anxiety is important. If I did not have anxiety, I probably would not have cared about anything and I would not be as good as I am

[@nightowlowo149]

​@@blackqweenmars I like how the movie has established these emotions are still significant in other ways Anxiety to not fail her Spanish exam for example, which motivates her to study.

[@KekerikiGreen]

Thank you for outlining why I think it’s stupid that people have been diagnosing the “problem with Pixar lately” as having no real villain. That’s not an issue in storytelling, and never has been.

[@sharkrancher282]

Great video! I think a spoiler warning would be helpful in the future, though; especially since the movie has only very recently come out. I enjoyed this analysis very much, but do admit I was happy that I'd already seen the movie, as I didn't expect the video to go right into all of the details of the film's conclusion without any warning. Thank you for posting this!

[@devoof]

Infinite loop. The emotions have emotions

[@aroramccracken2429]

I’ve wondered about that. Do the emotions have little headquarters

[@blackqweenmars]

That’s just the personification

[@devoof]

@blackqweenmars yeah, but like if you think of them as people

[@nathansos8480]

@@devoofbc sadness is sometimes kinda happy, joy is kinda insane, and uhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@pawnhearts8785]

Anxiety is an absolutely phenomenal antagonist and you put into words exactly why.

[@ThePiachu]

You know you have a good antagonist when they can be described as a protagonist in their own story.

[@CutWat]

I keep finding these channels with videos that you'd expect to have like 100k subs, honestly dude keep up the good work, you deserve 100k

[@weevilbun6914]

I think what makes the movie even better is that anxiety does exactly what Joy did in the first movie

[@slin2678]

So from this angle of analysis, Sadness is the protagonist in the first Inside Out and Joy is the antagonist?

[@Enchanted___]

Yeah you could say that because you realize over time Sadness is really important and Joy is not always right about what Riley needs

[@cowboylikedinos]

they were both wrong in different ways

[@harpthesilly]

I feel like I’m the first movie there wasn’t really an antagonist as both characters were in the wrong without one being more wrong than the other, and I feel like joy could be described as an antagonistical protagonist

[@emmet042]

The roles of protagonist and antagonist are not necessarily linked with good guys and bad/less good guys. The protagonist typically is whoever the main character is regardless of moral code.

[@slin2678]

@@emmet042 so Joy is the protagonist and only held back by her own biases and misconceptions

[@emeraldkillr803]

I cried because I felt like I understood, I felt like this was relatable, I felt like I once too cpulsnt control myself because I told myself I was never enough and I will never be. It felt amazing when I watched this, knowing I also once had this feeling and now can understand if someone else has it too. Empathy, sympathy, and even just a moral compass fills me with hope and relief.

[@marcuscarana9240]

That's why Anxiety wasn't a villain. Just an antagonist. Not all antagonists are villains.

[@godlyhax4172]

I loved anxietys' reaction to the new perception of self she made for riley

[@itskaylaiguess]

My hopes for this movie were embarrassingly low but I loved it so much. Anxiety is literally the most relatable character I've ever seen on screen which reminded me to take my meds

[@gungrave6923]

1:28 THANK YOU. I've seen so many people mislabel death as another villain and it's been driving me crazy.

[@Jmaniac9204]

Well, a villain at its core is an antagonist or at least it's a type of antagonist. A character can be a villain and an antagonist. for example Death in PIBTLW is a villain. He goes out of his way to try and kill Puss who didn't lose his last life. He's actively tormenting him throughout the movie. He isn't just "doing his job" he's going out of his way to try and kill Puss. But at the same time he's also a direct antagonist to Puss as he represents Puss' fears and insecurities and is directly in opposition to Puss. An antagonist is a character who's goals and motives conflict with the protagonists which leads to conflict. So someone like Darth Vader is an antagonist, Davy Jones is an antagonist, Jafar is an antagonist, etc.

[@pepsi9145]

an antigonist is a character or FORCE that acts against the protagonist

[@redram6080]

Yes and she definitely was that.

[@cablefeed3738]

​@@redram6080I think their comment is about how badly they defined villain antagonist and protagonist They acted like you can't be a villain and an antagonist. Villains, unless in a very weird story where villains are the protagonist are antagonists

[@phineasfacingforward3460]

Awesome video, subbed!

[@Travelerfrom2024]

Nice video ! I just discovered your channel it's awesome ! I don't agree with your video about The Last Jedi but except this it's cool !

[@wilh3rdwheel356]

Rarely cry in cinemas but god I just couldn't keep it, it broke me, Anxiety is so well done

[@AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH53]

something I had thought about is how the emotions can (maybe, but as seen in the movie) die! Which means that if they are ended, the person probably wont experience that emotion at all.

[@sidragoncutie4843]

I think some of my favorite characters are antagonist heroes! So rare and fun.

[@viniciusdeoliveira5869]

She's doing the only thing she can and it's up to the stablished characters to find out how to properly respond to it for Riley's sake. No villain, perfect antagonist. She's even a great foil for the protagonist because she's not gloomy and introspective like sadness was in 1, personality wise you almost get a sense she would be bffs with Joy if only they weren't supposed to share Riley's mind's cockpit.

[@Quario]

So when you have a panic attack os when your anxiety gets anxiety

[@nathansos8480]

uhhhh yeah!

[@Bukem453]

Great video

[@Drm3221]

I like the archetype of antagonist they used here. She’s like that new person at a long-standing company who arbitrarily thinks they know best 😂

[@k0kok9]

to be fair, death IS a villain, not just an antagonist, he isn´t just "doing his job" he is chasing Puss because he sees him as unworthy of his own life

[@Umbramiming]

i realized joy is double jointed

[@MegaChickenfish]

I'm surprised in bringing up Puss in Boots there wasn't the comparison of the anxiety attacks. I like how both handle it accurately but from the different "perspectives." I honestly think this movie has helped me view emotions in a more healthy manner as much as the first one did, seeing my anxiety less like a "disorder" I need to "fix" as something that is genuinely important (planning for the future) that sometimes gets out of control. It's not inherently bad any more than being sad or angry is. Sometimes you're sad because you need to emotionally process a difficult loss. Sometimes you're angry because the situation you're in is genuinely unfair and you need to do something about it. And sometimes you're anxious because the future is uncertain and you need to consider how your choices will impact it. It's scary, absolutely. But that's life. I take deep breaths, counting to 4. Learned that one from the Owl House. When I lock up, I try to focus on the next thing I want to do right now. I learned that from Steven Universe. When I spin up a thousand worst case scenarios in my head and can't sleep, I try to think about ways in which things could actually go great instead since that's easier than stopping the energy that anxiety filled me with, just redirecting it. I learned that one from my therapist at 26. I'm glad kids will watch this movie. Because sorry kids, _Anxiety isn't going anywhere._ The future will not be easy.

[@Howaboutyes11]

ANXIETY IS SO Amazing Like I luv her but she’s the antagonist, but she’s not trying to be a bad person but at the same time she doesn’t know she’s hurting Riley❤❤

[@BobbyMaler-fy6wh]

In simplicity I honestly think the best kind of antagonist is an antagonist that embodies something not necessarily evil but is still a problem for the protagonist. I think this video touched on that very well at least by my understanding.

[@Ag3nt-MC]

Bro I can’t wait for inside out 2 to get on Disney + so I can watching this movie again

[@avcables_]

I genuinely loved this film and I related to Anxiety a lot actually.

[@sunflowii9420]

This movie honestly was a good one, I definitely teared up watching it and yeah, i say they did a good job especially displaying, well, anxiety

[@6pades]

amazing amazing video

[@dariushcreates]

When I think of an antagonist in a show or movie who's not a villain, I think of Benson from Regular Show. Inside Out 2 was awesome btw

[@ChinnyMan]

Anxiety looks like Fregley and I don’t think thats a coincidence

[@JackTrahanOfficial]

This is a good video

[@Allets-cz1mg]

Anxiety iis the masterpiece of Inside Out 2

[@hasanenessonmez2679]

So there is something that really confuses me about this movie. I really loved everything about the movie, but I think the whole point of new sense of self was wrong. I mean, we were making a new sense of self with anxiety's moments. But "if I do this they will love me" and stuff doesn't sound like anxiety to me. I personally have anxiety too and sometimes even anxiety attacks, but for me its " What if Im not capable" and stuff. "If I do this they will love me" sounds so much more enviness to me. Even the "I'm not good enough" sense of self sounds much more enviness than anxiety to me. Im frequently using "to me" because I'm not sure if I'm right, but isn't whole point of too much enviness equals not loving yourself enough. Anxiety is usually much more doubting than judging. "What if I'm not good enough" "What if they don't like me" and stuff sounds more like anxiety. And I'm not saying envy is a bad emotion, but envy taking control of you would mean you actually don't like much about yourself and doesn't feel good enough, which is a result of wanting everything that others have and not being happy with yourselves. And doing things that could be not good for you just to fit in or win something, "If I do this they will love me", also sounds much more enviness to me. If Im wrong can someone explain it to me? Because nobody seems bothered by this. (I'm sorry if I did any mistakes I'm not native.)

[@wesleywallace4426]

They probably didn't want to make the movie too complicated, so they had Anxiety as the Antagonist and the main cast as the Protagonists and gave a few lines to the other new emotions. One of the creators of the story said "It's a just a movie" they're not trying to create The Bible of Emotions.

[@hasanenessonmez2679]

@@wesleywallace4426 I mean I wouldn't also mind it if it wasn't like the whole point. And also I feel like it would be solved if they add just a few words to the current one and it would be anxiety lines anyway.

[@broimjustakid1819]

The situations anxiety were truly villainous nonetheless

[@marcuscarana9240]

Inside Out 1 and 2 brought back Pixar to its golden standards.

[@blackqweenmars]

I don’t know if I’m weird for this, but I think the not good enough enough mindset is actually pretty good mindset. If you think you’re good enough, you’re not going to strive to get better and it’s always better to underrate yourself than overrate yourself. A person who thinks they’re good enough isn’t going to try hard or strive to improve. A person who constantly thinks they’re inadequate is going to. The greatest people are insecure and don’t think they’re enough. The truth is, Riley was not good enough or else her coach would’ve said that she was ready. I never let myself believe that I’m good enough and always strive to get better and I’m always competitive.

[@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477]

As a person who suffered literature for 3 years cause we already did all the grammatica and vocabulary of my mother language Antagonist was defined as : a person that influences the protagonist, consciously or unconsciously and positively or negatively

[@gzandre08yt]

I swear this movie managed to give me a lot of anxiety, and if they managed to do that, they did a really fitting work🤣

[@mr.mister791]

Actually Death is kind of a villain since he “cheats” by trying to take Puss’ last life instead of letting Puss just ride his last one out. The movie points out how that’s wrong and unfair towards Puss. He definitely still has sort of an Antagonist role considering his actions are directed towards Puss specifically and no one else.

[@user-jg5gz8ys3f]

Anxiety achieved heaven

[@Breadestboi]

I thought the antagonist meaning was: A person who on the protagonists side is bad (not evil) but to another face could be a different role

[@kristofszeplaki6031]

i was physically unabble to cry cus of anxiety's look with that goofy large mouth and few hairs that grew out behind her eyes

[@kristofszeplaki6031]

also embarrassment looks like gru

[@clubberlang8050]

One thing I'd like to point out is that antagonists and villains aren't mutually exclusive at all.

[@TCOFFICIAL01]

I think that if a villain goes against a hero, they can be considered an antagonist, it’s just that not all antagonists are ‘villains’, per say.

[@feetfungus19]

a villain can be an antagonist (and most of the time IS one) but not all antagonists are necessarily villains

[@patricktorrens3641]

gonna argue on an intro point; death is not an antagonist, he is a villain. he went out of his way to kill him before his time because puss's arrogance got on his nerves. in the film it's said that it's cheating fro him to be breaking the rules and going after him like this. he does evil things for evil reasons.

[@MajinGlob7428]

Anxiety is my antagonist fr

[@johnsolaas185]

Villains are antagonists But not all antagonists are villains

[@blackqweenmars]

I love how my KZbin is just pushing out a bunch of small creators to me instead of a bunch of big craters. My whole KZbin feed is almost exclusively people with only a few thousand or a few hundred subscribers.

[@TheRealH2OBlue]

BRO I GOT AN INSIDE OUT 2 AD BEFORE THIS VIDEO LOL

[@ollllj]

Star Trek TNG season 1 had huge issues in having any antagonist/drama, in favor of depicting an utopia. Friendship-is-magic soon adapted the same main antagonist as TNG. Bluey excells in its mild drama, because anything is closer cosmic-horror, if you are young enough. Disneys Wish is completely confused, the male antagonist is suddenly declared a villain out of envy, while he is actually a background-protagonist, and their wannabe-protagonist is clearly the villain all along.

[@Beabuzz123]

Villain: them vs the world. Antagonist: them vs the protagonist.

[@ImPerroni]

i watched the movie yesterday, and, to be honest, its kinda good. now, by "kinda good", i mean "its a mid movie, but more to the 'good mid' rather than 'bad mid'", pretty much because the plot was quite predictable, that being (not to spoil it too much) the little tree thing that makes Riley (well, Riley) ending up being neither the original thingy nor the one anxiety created. with that aside it reminds me alot about myself (im a teenager, btw), which i think is the point of the movie. how would i rate it? probably 8.4/10

[@blackqweenmars]

I kin anxiety lol except if I was in anybody’s head, I’d be kind of reluctant to touch the controls. I’d probably be asking all the other emotions questions before I just go ahead and touch it. The stimming, the energy, the nervousness reminds me of myself especially also because of the fact that anxiety wants to be a leader, but she’s horrible at it goes too far. I’ve also been trying to be a leader for a very long time and failed after taking things too far.

[@Breadestboi]

Anxiety is the best antagonist because all antagonists prob have anxiety.

[@Phoenix-kn8uk]

6:18 so basically anxiety’s anxiety is giving anxiety to Riley… 😂

[@filmscoper]

Yo what mic do you use. You sound amazing man

[@Enchanted___]

The microphone is "MAONO PD200XS USB/XLR Dynamic Microphone Set with Boom Arm" and I very much appreciate it!

[@SneezeCake]

8:38 is that doc scratch

[@Faunadoodlez]

Homestuck mentioned

[@OP10thNakama]

All vilians are antagonists but not all antagonists are villains. As for the call back to Puss in Boots 2. IMO that movie did something that most movies have never done. It had both a great antagonist with Death and a great villain like Jack Horner.

[@SmallOneEyedKing]

Is Dean Hardscrabble from Monster University also part of this Ethical Antagonist.

[@_Erinn_667]

i feel like this movie is very good sequel but at the start it felt like it was very fast paced then slowly unpacked other than that i love this movie

[@jacksonsdumbstuff]

What if anxiety has anxiety and that anxiety has anxiety and that anxiety has anxiety. Feel bad tbh

[@travelsizedarchie]

honestly, inside out 2 is *not* a perfect movie, it goes back on a lot of the themes from the first movie to manufacture conflict, however it has an absolutely incredible antagonist, and wonderful values and morals.

[@OmniMon94]

There is a difference to a villain and an antagonist

[@DarkRaikon]

let's face it if rillie could talk to her brain emotions...she would've told them to put anxiety into the jar...., a reminder she started as embarrassment

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

The road to hell...

[@Catzster]

🧌 radical

[@AndreiSebastian-lg9pk]

Does anyone know the budget for this?

[@Tlod3074]

do you think antagonists are significantly easier if your main charaters an anti-hero/villian?

[@ultimazilla9]

peacock from kfp 2:

[@leavemealone802]

I mean, antagonist never stopped being a thing, even in movies. Also, am I the only one that doesn't think writing antagonists are that hard? Anyone that is in opposition to the protagonist and fight with it, is the antagonist of the story. Imagine if the antagonist was the protagonist and see if the protagonist would be his antagonist

[@tomascl82]

In my opinion, Riley is the hero of the story with joy and anxiety as the antagonist. Both of them want to do the good to Riley but both of them are going against her.