She is surrounded by a blue halo and emits a bright, golden light, which is brighter than any of the other emotions. Joy has a habit of talking to herself. Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, Bing Bong Joy then has the revelation, that Sadness, is a key to Riley's happiness. She does not want Riley to be sad at all, even when she needs to be. Joy meets many new people inside the outer world of Riley's mind, and together, they assist Joy and Sadness get back to the headquarters and fix Riley's decision of running back to Minnesota. Character information This is because during the development of the film, the Emotions were going to have human names. She then sees her flying on a cloud, and chases after her. When Riley was first born, Joy was the first ever emotion to be born. Take a closer look at the emotions and their voices below. Joy lands, and ricochets, off of the trampoline, grabbing Sadness from atop her cloud, telling her to "Hang on!". Dislikes Bing Bong falls into deep despair, so Joy tries to cheer him up by doing many childish things, but they do not help at all. But after Riley's mother thanks Riley for being happy, Joy appears as being the right emotion after all. She is one of five emotions, belonging to Riley – the others being Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. "Joy would know what to do." However, starting just 33 seconds after her is Sadness, and from then on, other Emotions materialize. Because of this, she often distracts Sadness to get her away from the controls. Since on the contrary, Sadness is compelled to see the negative aspect of things, the two have completely different outlooks on the events of Riley's life. Now riding the running train, Joy acknowledges that Sadness can have good ideas, and gives her encouraging words. This can be seen in Abstract Thought, as during the fourth stage, Joy and Sadness were reduced to a single shape and color Joy was a yellow star and Sadness was a blue teardrop. With Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling. She keeps everyone moving and happy. Joy then ends this whole adventure at a hockey game. Joy tries to keep things positive, but Riley's new situation appears less than thrilling. In this unfamiliar situation, Joy sees Riley's other Emotions suddenly become more prominent. This is because, during the development of the film, the Emotions were going to have human names. Instead of using it, however, Sadness brings Joy to the console, and they create a new, mixed, core memory, of which is both joyful and sad, which remakes Family Island into a stronger form. Sadness is the deuteragonist of Inside Out. Both Joy and Sadness go into the Subconscious to rescue Bing Bong, and meet Riley's worst fear, Jangles the Clown, who follows them back to Dream Productions, and he successfully wakes up Riley. Her determination reinvigorated, Joy has the idea to use Bing Bong's wagon to rocket themselves out of the dump. As long as Riley is happy, so is Joy.[1]. Joy collects the core memories, and heads to Goofball Island, in hopes of reaching Headquarters through it. And when pushed to the edge, she was ready to leave Sadness behind. Broccoli, keeping Riley discontent Deciding to sacrifice himself for Joy and Riley, he cheers Joy on, while stating his last words while he fades into oblivion "Take her to the moon for me, okay?". Joy is the seventh protagonist of Pixar who has blue eyes, the previous ones are Flik from. Joy is one of Riley's five emotions that reside in her head. Joy is born out of pure light — no parents, no upbringing, she just appears, as all the other Emotions do, although they were unseen when doing so. She is the yellow Emotion and the main Emotion out of the five that live inside the mind of Riley Andersen with the others being Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. She ends up falling into the Memory Dump when the escape tube falls apart. ", "But the really important ones are here. Nevertheless, Joy decides to see Riley's new room, and to her dismay, it's extremely small. Enemies She then walked towards the control panel, which at the time consisted of only one button. Joy briefly returns in the short along with the other emotions. She is preceded by Woody with Buzz in. She realizes that she is meant to work not against Sadness, but in pair with her. Interestingly, these colors are used as "good colors" worn by some characters in the Disney Classics. Amy Poehler describes her as follows: "Joy is the engine. Not too long afterwards, Riley's father has to leave to go to the investment, leaving Riley and her mother behind. On the way, the train gets destroyed, and Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong find out that Riley is running away. She is the only emotion whose hair and eye color is not the same as her theme color. Performer: Amy Poehler When Riley turns 11 and her life begins to change, Joy is terrified that the other emotions become more prominent, as she sees all the work she has done being destroyed; and when Riley ends up forming a sad core memory, it appears to her as a sign of utter failure. Inside Out: Though BubblesDisney Infinity Joy is the most humanoid in appearance out of all the Emotions. Joy sees challenges in Riley’s life as opportunities, and the less happy moments as hiccups on the way back to something great. Joy is the protagonist of Inside Out.