Riley Andersen

* Canon
* Parody
* reImagined

As she appears in *Inside Out*

Riley in her natural state, which is being happy, all the time.

*This is not an authoritative source on the subject, only intended to highlight details relevant to the Inside Out parody universe. For more detailed information, see Riley Andersen on the Disney Wiki.*
**Riley Andersen** is a central character of *Inside Out*. While she is not a memorable character in her own right, her mind is an extensively developed location and the main setting of the movie, with her emotions, Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, ultimately doing everything to further her and not themselves.

## Biography

When Riley was 11, her family moved from Minnesota to San Francisco. This caused a crisis internally in Riley, and at one point, she even considered running away from her parents and back to Minnesota. However, she had a last-minute change of heart.

## Personality

Riley is usually upbeat and happy-go-lucky. However, she absolutely abhors broccoli, being disgusted by it, and during her first days in San Francisco, she was visibly angry with her parents over their decision.

Riley's primary interest is hockey, and she has played for both the Minnesota team Prairie Dogs and the San Francisco team Foghorns. She has also taken piano lessons, although she was visibly bored by them and has forgotten a lot since she last took them.

## Trivia

* Her inspiration in real life is Elie Docter, daughter of *Inside Out* director and writer Pete Docter. Like Riley, Elie also had a happiness crisis when she was 11. Also like the Andersens, Pete moved from Minnesota to California; though, he did so during his university years, before he had a family.
	+ That being said, when Pete was a child, he also had an experience similar to both Riley and his daughter; when his family moved to Denmark, while his sisters adapted to the environment relatively easily, Pete had more difficulty.
* The neighborhood the Andersens move to is based on the real-life *Russian* Hill in San Francisco. However, it is only a coincidence, related to CreativityTheEmotion's own geography, that *Inside Out* parodies primarily use the Russian dub. Furthermore, the Russian Hill in San Francisco does not have a significant Russian minority.

## Notes

1. ↑ Her chat client nickname, as seen in the "Riley Andersen vs. Meg" scene.
2. ↑ The only indirect evidence based on nicknames places Meg's birthday on August 20, 2000 and Riley's on January 22. This, coupled with the confirmation that Riley and Meg are of the same age, means that she was likely to be born on either 2000 or 2001 in *Inside Out*.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The names of Riley's parents are not mentioned in *Inside Out* (with them only being credited as "Mom" and "Dad") and only exist in supplementary material.

## Appearances

* *Inside Out*:
	+ Riley, Age Zero (physical, mind)
	+ Joy and her Coworkers (dialogue, mind)
	+ Riley's Memories and Islands of Personality (physical, mind)
	+ Riley's Life Montage (dialogue, mind)
	+ The Big Move (physical, mind)
	+ The New House (dialogue, mind)
	+ The Time Outside (dialogue, mind)
	+ Joy vs. Sadness (indirect physical, mind)
	+ Before Riley is informed (dialogue, mind)
	+ Riley is informed (dialogue, mind)
	+ Joy vs. Dream Productions (physical, mind)
	+ Joy Dancing Scene (physical, mind)
	+ Joy plans (physical, mind)
	+ The Walk to School (dialogue, mind)
	+ Breakdown at Class (dialogue, mind)
	+ The Journey to Long-Term Memory (mind)
	+ Assessing the Damage (mention, mind)
	+ Dinner Table Scene (dialogue, mind)
	+ Back to the Quarters (physical, mind)
	+ Hiking through the Maze (mention, mind)
	+ The Forgetters (mention, mind)
	+ Riley Andersen vs. Meg (intro) (mind)
	+ The Forgetters (outro) (mind)
	+ Riley Andersen vs. Meg (dialogue, mind)
	+ Friendship Island Post-Mortem (mention, mind)
	+ Meeting Bing Bong (mention, mind)
	+ Reminiscing Riley and Bing Bong (indirect physical, mind)
	+ The Journey (mention, mind)
	+ Loneliness (physical)
	+ Abstract Thought Activation (mind)
	+ A Mayoral Tour (mention, mind)
	+ Hockey Tryouts (dialogue, mind)
	+ Sometimes, Loss is Important (mention, mind)
	+ Anger plans (part 1) (physical, mind)
	+ A Studio in the Mind (mention, mind)
	+ Riley's Nightmare (indirect dialogue, mind)
	+ A Sudden Interruption (physical, mind)
	+ Following the Guards (mind)
	+ Riley's Darkest Fears (mention, mind)
	+ Freeing Bing Bong and Jangles (mind)
	+ Waking Up in Cold Sweat (physical, mind)
	+ Anger plans (part 2) (physical, mind)
	+ Discussion on the Train (indirect physical, mind)
	+ An Act of Dishonesty (physical)
	+ Joy Gets the News (mention, mind)
	+ Preparing for the Trip (physical, mind)
	+ An Act of Desperation (physical, mind)
	+ All Hope Lost (mind)
	+ Memories Long Lost (indirect physical, mind)
	+ The Purpose of Sadness (indirect physical, mind)
	+ Making it Upwards (mention, mind)
	+ Onset of Depression for Sadness (physical, mind)
	+ Onset of Depression for Riley (physical, mind)
	+ Joy's Absolutely Crazy Retrieval (mention, mind)
	+ Breaking the Window (mention, mind)
	+ Undoing the Damage (dialogue, mind)
	+ Revealing What You've Done (dialogue, mind)
	+ Upgrades (mind)
	+ Parent/Daughter Bonding (dialogue, mind)
	+ Jordan (dialogue)
	+ Playing for the Foghorns (physical, mind)
* Deleted scenes:
	+ Riley Grows Up (mind)
	+ Joy's Decline (dialogue, mind)
	+ Misdirection (mention, mind)
	+ Construction (mention, mind)
* DVD extras:
	+ *Riley's First Date?* (dialogue, mind)
	+ *Mind Candy* (physical, mind)
	+ *Quick Thinking* (dialogue, mind)
	+ *We Should Cry* (physical, mind)
	+ *Shoes of Doom* (physical, mind)
	+ *My Bad* (dialogue, mind)
	+ *Five Second Rule* (physical, mind)
	+ *Meet Joy* (physical, mind)
	+ *Meet Sadness* (physical, mind)
	+ *Meet Fear* (physical, mind)
	+ *Meet Anger* (physical, mind)
	+ *Meet Disgust* (physical, mind)
* Supplementary books:
	+ *The Bing Bong Book* (mention, mind)
	+ *Inside Out: Driven by Emotions* (dialogue, mind)
* Video games:
	+ *Inside Out: Thought Bubbles* (mind)
	+ *Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition* (mind)

## Riley Andersen

As she appears in *Inside Out* parodies

Riley in her natural state, which is being happy, all the time.

### Appearances

* Most parody videos, if only via her mind and not physically

## Character information

### Full name

* Riley Andersen (original)
* See Cast of *Inside Out* for foreign counterparts

### Aliases

* Riley0122
* Inside Out Kid
* heppy rushen kid (by Leopold Slikk)
* Riley Fegelein (by Adolf Hitler)
* Rachel Andersen (in *Rachel Andersen's Mental Companions*)
* Joke language translations:
	+ *Esperanto:* Rajli Andersen
	+ *Newspeak:* 6977 Andersen R
	+ *Cars:* Riley Vandersen
	+ *Yesn't:* Ellie Fredricksen't
	+ *VLKK:* Rugilė Andraitytė

### Died

October 9, 2107 (age 103)The Axiom, Kuiper Belt

### Resides in

* *Modern-day parodies:* Saint Petersburg, Russia
* *Unknown point in the future:* a SpaceX station

### Occupation / Rank

* Schoolkid
* Non-professional hockey player
* Untergangerin
* Possible antic practitioner

### Faction(s)

* Russia
* Soviet Union (assumed by Leopold Slikk, despite being born after the fall of the Soviet Union)
* Romanov dynasty (theorized in parody universe)

### Personality

Mostly defined by whichever emotion is in charge

### Hobbies

* Hockey
* Fun times

### Family

* Jill Andersen (mother)
* Bill Andersen (father)

### Allies

* Her parents
* Everyone in her mind, especially her emotions
* Hermann Fegelein

### Enemies

* Broccoli
* The gays
* Leopold Slikk
* Adolf Hitler
* The European Union
* Drachenlord
* Ajit Pai

## Parody relevance information

### Role(s)

* Main child character
* Her mind is the main location
* Subject to information from her mother
* Most often, a stand-in for CreativityTheEmotion

### Parody counterparts

* Adolf Hitler (*Downfall* parodies) (as the one being informed and the one calling others)
* Hermann Fegelein (*Downfall* parodies) (for having antic powers and being associated with the parody maker)
* Leopold Slikk (AGK parodies)

### Weapon(s)

Laptop of Doom

*“Well, that's it! Our girl has been a wonderful human being, a great friend... and a great experience for us. After all, we've been doing this for eleven years. What could possibly happen?”*
―Joy, Riley's lead emotion, describing what Riley is to her and also totally not being oblivious

*“One thing that piques imagination, though, is how Bill, Jill and little Riley Andersen will react if they're announced as the new royals. One can only imagine the things that will happen in the family, and most importantly, in little Riley Andersen's mind.”*
―Mikhail Dovzhenko, saying basically the same thing as Joy despite being completely unaware of her
In *Inside Out* parodies, **Riley Andersen** figures somewhat extensively, though not as a character; instead, she is a totem and an ideal, whom her emotions, Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, strive to live up to, ultimately doing everything to further her and not themselves.

## Biography

When Riley was 11, her family moved from Siberia to Saint Petersburg. This caused a crisis internally in Riley, and at one point, she even considered running away from her parents and back to Siberia. However, she had a last-minute change of heart.

Events happening shortly after Riley's move, though, would cement her in history. Namely, she is the eventual subject of a Nazi time travel communication experiment, and after informing Adolf Hitler of the developments between 1945 and 2015, seems to be the direct cause of his suicide, earning her a place in history textbooks as of her own time.

Anger plans to go to the Moon, a parody set in the far future, reveals that eventually, Riley got married; though, it is unclear whether or not she had children. It also appears that she moved a couple more times in her life, including to a space station commanded by SpaceX, before spending her last years in the Axiom, the main locality of *WALL-E*; that being said, even in light of her having traveled a significant portion of space, her dream of going to the Moon has been unfulfilled as of her death.

## Personality

Riley herself is very rarely seen in parodies, given that they mostly focus on her mind and not the outside world. Nevertheless, she has two primary characterizations: predominantly upbeat (when all her emotions are present at Headquarters and Joy is in charge) and predominantly mad (when Joy and Sadness are absent from Headquarters and Anger is in charge). She is also depicted as very sympathetic (owing to Sadness), crying over the fact that her mean attitude towards Adolf Hitler was uncalled for and that it may have pushed him to commit suicide. For the most part, parodies are written as though Riley were completely unaware of the world within her mind, with the exception of Jill reacts to being told Riley has emotions guiding her.

Riley usually keeps a good relationship with her parents, with her mother serving as her informer. Her father is generally more absent from her life in *Inside Out*, and therefore only gets rare appearances in parodies; in fact, his first appearance in parodies was in the AGK series parody, eighteen videos in, when all the characters described above were already established and characterized.

In addition to being a hockey player and a piano player as in canon, in parodies Riley is established to be an avid coder, specializing both in web design, as seen in Joy plans to code a language learning website, and creation of spambots, as seen in Riley is informed about the FCC's vote on the Restoring Internet Freedom act.

## Comparisons

### Hitler

 At best, a side character of her parodies on her own, with only her mind as the main location and its characters the only ones willing to serve her.
 Riley exists in the modern world, and therefore has access to modern technology.
 A prepubescent child, and therefore unlikely to be seen as an authority in any context.
 Riley is predominantly happy, and being angry is unnatural to her.
 Parody of a Disney character.

### Fegelein

 Has only recently learned of her proficiency in antics, and does not use them as much.

## Notes

1. ↑ Her chat client nickname, as seen in the various "Riley Andersen's Intercultural Exchange" parodies.
2. ↑ The intro to the non-canon "What AGK fans expected when they clicked on "Riley Andersen vs. the Angry German Kid"" states, among other things, "starring Riley Andersen as the Inside Out Kid". This is a parody of "Angry German Kid" and its snowclones.
3. ↑ "The Emotions react to the results of Eurovision Song Contest 2016" reveals her to be 12 as of May 14, 2016, when the Grand Final of ESC 2016 occurred. This, coupled with Riley's nickname suggesting she was born on January 22 as in canon, places her birthday on January 22, 2004. This date would later be explicitly confirmed by "Anger plans to go to the Moon".
4. ↑ Death event seen in "Anger plans to go to the Moon". The particular date is significant as it is the explicit setting of CreativityTheEmotion's first English-language fanfic, *Portal 2: The Stupidest Sequel of All Time*.
5. ↑ She is the creator of *Hitler Space Program* in-universe, as revealed in "The Emotions play Kerbal Space Program".
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Despite the names being not strictly canonical, they are used in "Andersen's Mind - #1: What do you Mean, We're a Princess?", suggesting that they are the actual names of the characters in the parody universe.
7. ↑ Non-canon name invented by JJ All-star. First features in "Riley Andersen vs. Hermann Fegelein".
8. ↑ Quote from Andersen's Mind - #3: What Makes Riley Riley at 3:04. Original: "And that’s it! We love our girl. She’s got great friends and a great house. Things couldn’t be better. After all, Riley’s 11 now. What could happen?"

## References

1. ↑ riely antudrson sux!!!!! at 1:42
2. ↑ What Untergangers expected when they clicked on "Riley Andersen vs. Adolf Hitler" at 1:20
3. ↑ Andersen's Mind - #1: What do you Mean, We're a Princess? at 2:11

## Riley Andersen

As she appears in *Inside Out reImagined*

## Character information

### Born

Not confirmed, likely to be January 22, 2006Minnesota, USA

### Occupation / Rank

* Schoolkid
* Non-professional hockey player

### Personality

Generally upbeat and chipper, but facing lots of stress

### Hobbies

* Hockey
* Fun times

### Family

* Jill Andersen (mother)
* Bill Andersen (father)

### Allies

* Her parents
* Everyone in her mind, especially her emotions

In *Inside Out reImagined*, **Riley Andersen** is a central character. While she is not a memorable character in her own right, her mind is an extensively developed location and the main setting of the fanfic, with her emotions, Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, ultimately doing everything to further her and not themselves.

## Appearance

*“Unlike her parents, Riley had muted blue eyes and dirty blonde hair; however, in her later life, she didn’t particularly like the combination, and instead, came to China in a very light lavender dye job. This confused the customs officer, but in all other respects, this looked to be the same girl, and the matter passed. The length of the hair was on the shorter side, longer than Sadness’s but shorter than Joy’s, and the only decoration was a dark lavender headband. To complete the outfit, Riley had donned her favorite yellow jacket, brown pants and white and red tennis shoes.

As she grew, eventually, Riley would have to confront her curves and feminine side; the effects hadn’t fully settled yet, but they were on the verge of doing so. However, something inside her mind kept pushing the idea away, and wanted her to go for tomboyish outfits for the time being. In fact, said something was visible outside the windows of Headquarters, but that was a story for another time.”*
―From Chapter 3: "Navigation through Language and Smoke"
## Biography

When Riley was 14, her family moved from Minnesota to Shanghai. In the first few chapters of *reImagined*, she is generally seen as trying her best to adapt, through hardships big and small.

## Personality

Riley is usually upbeat and happy-go-lucky. However, banter of all varieties is not uncommon between her emotions, leading to an unstable personality, often shaped by insecurity and stress.

## Notes

1. ↑ It is known for a fact that *Inside Out reImagined* takes place in 2020 and features Riley having recently turned 14. This, coupled with Riley's nickname suggesting she was born on January 22 as in canon, places her birthday on January 22, 2006.