Anxiety

Anxiety is the main antagonist of Pixar's 28th full-length feature film Inside Out 2, the second installment of the Inside Out franchise. 
She is Riley's sixth overall emotion and the first new emotion Riley experiences as a result of hitting puberty, with the other new emotions being Embarrassment, Ennui and Envy. 
While she bottles up Riley's old emotions and kicks them out of headquarters, the other emotions and her actions make her see the error of her ways and they all come to a mutual understanding of each other. 
She was voiced by , who also portrays Robin Buckley from the Netflix original series Stranger Things.
==Appearance==
She has orange spiky hair and jaded green eyes. She also wears a long-sleeved shirt with orange and white stripes, brown pants held up by a black belt with a gold buckle, and brown shoes.
==Personality==
Like its namesake, Anxiety is shown to be a nervous emotion. She's extremely anxious about meeting preexisting emotions like Joy, especially because she wants to make a good first impression. Because her role is to protect Riley from things she "can't see", she is also an intense planner, predicting everything that can go wrong so that she can find a way to avoid them. Everything must go exactly as it must happen as she had planned, with every mistake being seen as something that may "haunt" her later.
During her first appearance she is described to be highly energetic, zealous, and a typical geek filled with excitement towards working with the original five emotions. Similar to Fear, Anxiety is prone to overthinking things, though to a larger extent. While Fear's overthinking is a reaction to a perceived threat that soon disappears once that threat is out of sight, Anxiety projects those fears, leading her to try to think of any scenario that can go wrong, even if they are not a reality. This is showed on her overplanning regarding Riley's future on high school, leading her to pressure the girl to do everything she could to get a spot on the hockey team of her future high school and blend in with the older girls. However, none of this is out of malice as her intent was to protect Riley from being alone in high school.
Despite being self-aware and extremely analytical, Anxiety is not without her limits. Her extreme overthinking and insecurities can blind her judgment causing her to put past her limits and forget what was truly important. Her hardworking and ambitious nature is overshadowed by her restlessness and self-destructive mindset, shown through Riley's feelings of inadequacy through Anxiety's driving. The more Anxiety kept adding to Riley's Sense of Self about trying to become good enough to make the team, the more Riley felt that she really was not good enough, until it became a reality to her, leading to both Riley and Anxiety to have an anxiety attack.
Similar to Joy in the first movie, Anxiety is also a control-freak, wanting nothing but to be in control of everything in Riley's life, hating when she is placed on the backseat of the controls, especially if that strays away from her plans. However, she is willing to get rid of everything she sees as unnecessary and/or dangerous to what she perceives as being the right thing for Riley, being extremely pragmatic about it, even if she has to "bottle up" the old emotions or reinvent Riley's entire sense of self. The more Anxiety tried to change things into what she believed to be Riley's best self, she would take even more control over everything, even if was too much for her to handle, until the point she got stuck into her own feelings of anxiety.
Anxiety's actions seemed to have initial benefit, but eventually accumulates into a complete backfire. Other than the character, it is a fairly accurate summation of how anxiety is meant to protect someone, and first reactions seem beneficial, but ultimately it collapses due to insecurity and inability to see beyond stress and the worst case scenarios. It also provides a decent irony of how in spite of Anxiety looking ahead, plans built by desperation and insecurity fall apart before ever reaching the long-term goal.
After Joy was able to convince her to let go of her control over Riley, Anxiety was able to see how her desire to shape Riley into what she perceived to be the best version of by any means necessary was really just hurting her. Not only that, but, with a little help from Joy's positivity, she also learned to let go of the worries Riley didn't have control on, focusing only on the ones she did.
By the end of the movie, she still worries about what could happen, but with Joy and the other emotions help, she learned to be less controlling, and more helpful.
==Biography==
===Inside Out 2===
Anxiety first shows up after the base is being renovated following Riley going through puberty. From there, Anxiety and the other new emotions introduce themselves to Joy and the other emotions. Anxiety, concerned with Riley's well-being decides to remove her sense of self and create a new one for Riley's future, she has Embarrassment bottle up Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear,after they tried to stop her, as well as saying that Riley doesn't need them anymore, having them locked up in the back of her mind, incriminated as secrets. Throughout the film, Anxiety changes up Riley's sense of self by spurring the belief that being a Firehawk will prevent Riley from being alone.
Anxiety then goes into Riley's imagination in order to create scenarios that would validate this belief, causing her to overthink, as she wanted to prevent Riley from making any potential mistakes, going as far as making Riley wake up early in the morning to make her practice for the game more. 
By the final day of training, Anxiety excitedly had completed Riley's new Sense of Self, but which causes her to think that she isn't good enough, much to Anxiety and all the other emotions horror, that her plan make Riley feel better about herself didn't work. At this point, Anxiety desperately tries to make Riley compete the final game anyway despite how she's feeling. Sadness attempts to bring the others back but Anxiety recklessly and desperately stops them by collapsing the pipes.
Anxiety pressured Riley to score three goals to the point that Riley ignores her teammates, and even gets Grace hurt at the ice rink, accidentally bumping into her. Because of this, Riley was sent to the penalty box, causing her distress. When Anxiety realizes her mistake (along with Envy calling her out for it), she tries to fix it, only to give Riley a panic attack, the emotions try to pull her bad sense of self out, only to be very stuck despite the whole group pulling due to Anxiety typing to much on the console, Joy and the others return to help and Joy intervenes, but Anxiety was going way to fast to stop her, as Joy calmly tells Anxiety she to let go of Riley, that she can't control her life. Which she does so as Joy pulls Anxiety out.
They put Riley's original sense of self back in it's place, but Riley was still panicking as the negative emotions Joy, Anger, Fear and Disgust used as an avalanche makes her still panic. As Anxiety feels completely remorseful, apologizing to Joy for her foolish actions. Knowing now how wrong she was for trying to control Riley. Making Joy see that they were practically controlling her too, as she removes the old self of sense and creates a new one, as she hugs it to calm Riley down, as all the other emotions even Anxiety do so, which calms Riley down and atones with her friends.
By the end of the movie, Anxiety is still in headquarters, overthinking whether or not Riley was going to get accepted into the team, and Joy calming her down, telling her to focus on things that cannot be controlled, such as exams and other important tasks. Anxiety now coexists peacefully with the other emotions.
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
Anxietyposter.jpg|Anxiety's poster
Anxiety screaming.png|Anxiety screaming
==Trivia==
*She is the third main antagonist in a Pixar film to be female, with the first two being Evelyn Deavor from Incredibles 2 and Gabby Gabby from Toy Story 4.
*She is Maya Hawkes' first animated role.
*Anxiety serves as a foil to Joy, displaying what she could've been if she only allowed certain emotions to be incorporated in Riley's mind (something that nearly happened in the first film).
**Both were control freaks that have good intentions, but fail to register criticism due to strong self-assurance.
**Both are fast-talking and tend to be hyperactive.
**They are typically friendly, but can end up smothering any conversations by talking over others.
**Both exiled Emotions that were deemed to be unhelpful to Riley.
**Joy focused on the short-term at the expense of the long, whereas Anxiety disregarded the short-term to dwell on the long; yet their inherent natures work against their goals.
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