Anger

Hero Overview

Gallery

Do-Gooder

Full Name

Anger

Alias

Hot-Head

Punty (by Joy)
Ira (in an early draft)

Origin

Inside Out

Occupation

Riley's anger emotion

Powers/Skills

Pyrokinesis (via shooting fire from his head when he gets angry)

Hand-to-hand combat
Strength
Fireball creation (Thought Bubbles)
Anger inducement
Anger Embodiment
Intelligence
Roars

Hobby

Reading newspapers and helping Riley with her anger.

Goals

Keep Riley in control (ongoing).

Stop Anxiety from hurting Riley before it's too late (succeeded).

Family

Riley Andersen (host)

Friends/Allies

Joy

Sadness
Fear
Disgust
Anxiety
Envy
Ennui
Embarrassment
Nostalgia
Pouchy
Bloofy
Lance Slashblade
Deep Dark Secret

Enemies

Bill Andersen (sometimes)

Anxiety
Envy
Ennui
Embarrassment (all formerly)

Type of Hero

Wrathful Control Freak

“	So that’s how you want to play it, old man? No dessert?! Oh sure, we’ll eat our dinner! Right after you eat this!	„
	~ Anger to Riley's dad after he heard Riley can't have desert.

“	Oh, I'll show you attitude, old man!	„
	~ Anger to Riley's dad before starting an argument.

“	Joy, you've made a lot of mistakes. A lot. And you'll make a whole lot more in the future. But if you let that stop you, we might as well lie down and give up now.	„
	~ Anger comforting Joy after they insult Joy for being delusional.

Anger is one of the three tritagonists (alongside Fear and Disgust) of Pixar's Inside Out franchise.

He is the red emotion of angry and the second shortest, but most aggresive and hot-headed of Riley Andersen's five emotions.

He is voiced by comedian Lewis Black.

Appearance[]

Anger is brick-shaped and is the shortest of the male emotions. He has red skin that matches with his eye color. He wears a white-collar shirt with rolled up sleeves and a red-and-gray necktie with a zig-zagged pattern, dark burgundy slacks with a brown belt, and black dress shoes. His head goes into flames when provoked. He is the only emotion to not have any hair. In the sequel, he is shown in his white boxer shorts with red hearts.

Personality[]

“	That's Anger. He cares very deeply about things being fair.	„
	~ Joy introducing and describing Anger.

Anger, hence his name, is the literal embodiment of feelings of rage, irritation, frustration and fiery feelings in general. He is shown to be short-tempered, cantankerous and impatient, and has a tendency to be rude, aggressive, defensive and resentful. His main job is to keep things fair for Riley, as such, he's very protective and passionate about the things Riley should have, and how things ought to be for Riley.

He has a very no nonsense attitude towards things and has zero patience when things are out of line, due to this, he's easily enraged even of the most minute of things. If things aren't fair for Riley or go according to the status quo, he has a tendency to literally explode, with flames erupting from his head in a fit of rage. His explosive episodes more often than not cause more problems than solutions, such as getting Riley to tell her father to shut up before being sent to her room, and hanging up on her former friend, Meg after discovering she made a new friend after she moved. He can be very rash, stubborn and tenacious about what he feels is right for Riley, such as when he came up with the idea to run away to Minnesota to make more happy core memories for her, thinking this is what she deserves more than anything.

His favorite hobby is reading newspapers about what happens to Riley and her days in life. He also seems to take pleasure at other people's anger and arguments, such as when in the midst of San Francisco traffic, when Joy and Disgust fight over a grape and when Friendship Island adds an expanded "friendly argument section". He always wants to use profanity even though the film does not say it contains mature language.

However, Anger's personality doesn't always represent rage as he has a hidden heart of gold. He suggests offering flowers to the losing team as a positive scenario for Riley, and helps Joy when she loses hope. This shows that Anger also represents integrity, self-esteem, and determination.

Biography[]

Inside Out[]

Anger is one of the five emotions controlling Riley Andersen's mind and the fifth and last one to be introduced. He lives in her brain and works with other emotions. When Joy and Sadness literally get lost in Riley's mind, he and the others have to keep Riley's head on straight before they get home. Next to Joy, he may be the most abrasive to Sadness.

Anger is introduced when Mr. Andersen tells a young Riley that she can't have dessert if she doesn't eat her broccoli. He is enraged but calms down when Riley's father says that the broccoli is an airplane.

When Riley and her family move to San Francisco, Anger, along with the other emotions, is disappointed when he sees their new home and creates some negative memories. He lightens up when Joy starts coming up with ideas on how to decorate the place but is infuriated when they find out that the moving van with all of their belongings hasn't arrived yet.

When Riley's father leaves for work, Joy suggests that they get pizza. Upon realizing that there's broccoli on the pizza, Anger has a little outburst and claims that San Francisco has "ruined pizza", much like the Hawaiians. When Sadness starts touching the memories, Anger is worried.

On Riley's first day at her new school, Anger is mistrustful (as always). Things seem to be going well before Sadness touches a memory once again, much to Anger's annoyance. The emotions start to panic and Anger attempts to help Joy get rid of the sad memory, but to no avail. Unfortunately, Sadness and Joy get sucked away along with the core memories and a stunned Anger asks if he's allowed to say "that curse word" now.

While Sadness and Joy are on their way back to Headquarters, Anger, Fear, and Disgust try to fix everything. They try replicating Joy, but they find themselves unable to make her happy. To make things worse, they can't seem to avoid the infamously catchy TripleDent Gum jingle. When Riley discovers that her friend Meg has replaced her on the hockey team, Anger causes her to feel betrayed and hang up on the video call, this leads to the destruction of Friendship Island.

Eventually, Anger gets a self-proclaimed brilliant idea - since Riley's happy core memories were made in Minnesota, she should return to her old home to recreate the core memories there. While Fear sees this as running away, Anger prefers to call it the "Happy Core Memory Program." Disgust and Fear do not approve of this plan, but Anger does not bend. Fear suggests that Riley should go to sleep, but when she wakes up because of a nightmare, Anger takes matters into his own hands and goes through with his plan. Fear asks if he's serious about this and he coldly implies that it's the only way to make Riley happy.

They soon realize that Riley can't simply afford to go back to Minnesota, so the scheming Anger makes Riley steal her mother's credit card, leading to the destruction of Honesty Island. On Riley's way to the bus, her mom tries to call her. Fear and Disgust get concerned over this, but Anger insists that they keep going and has Riley decline her mom's call, which starts to affect Family Island. When she called again, even Anger starts to get worried, but Riley personally declined the call again before he or any of the other emotions could respond. As Family Island continues to deteriorate further, Anger realizes what he's doing to Riley and finally snaps out of his determination and exclaims that this is madness. He tries to stop Riley, but the console becomes unusable.

The three emotions panic, but Joy and Sadness return to save them. However, a thick window separates them from each other and Anger severely tries to break it by throwing a chair ar it. When this fails, Disgust has an idea and starts insulting his intelligence. Anger gets aggravated and his head goes up in a huge flame which Disgust uses him as a blowtorch to melt a hole in the window to help Joy and Sadness get back in.

Anger anxiously explains everything to Joy, but to everyone's surprise, she simply tells Sadness to take control of Riley. Sadness successfully removes the idea from the console and makes Riley return to her parents. Anger is impressed by this and presumably learns to accept Sadness as an important emotion.

As Riley grows up, new core memories and Personality Islands are created (including a section of Friendship Island called "The Friendly Argument Section", which Anger is very happy about) and, with the updated console, Anger now has access to the entire curse word library. Anger joyfully yells: "This console is the -" before being interrupted by a loud beeping noise as a result of Fear playing with the new buttons.

During a hockey match, Anger admits that her parents are very cool.

Anger, along with the other emotions, continues to help Riley as she grows up.

Riley's First Date?[]

Anger returns in the short along with the other emotions. He is first seen giving an embarrassed (and generally, annoyed) look with his friends when Mrs. Andersen is using modern-day slang to try to relate to Riley. Later, he demands that she stops talking like that, which becomes his only line in the short.

Inside Out 2[]

Anger now has a larger role in Riley's mind. When Anxiety, Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment, the new emotions, decide to change Riley after learning that her friends Bree and Grace are assigned to a different school, Anger is the first to stand up to Anxiety after she disposes of Riley's Sense of Self to create a new one.

Anger, Joy, Sadness, Disgust, and Fear get locked up in the Vault. There, they meet Bloofy (who Anger hates due to his education annoyances), Lance Slashblade, and the Deep Dark Secret, who help them escape with Bloofy's sidekick, Pouchy, with dynamite. After Sadness enters a recall tube to get back to Headquarters in order to stop Anxiety (despite her lack of might), they try to go to the other side to retrieve the old Sense of Self. After they insult Joy for being delusional, she breaks down and gets desperate. Anger feels sorry for Joy and reveals his compassion for her and makes things right by using a hose to scale their way up to get to the Back of the Mind.

After going through Imagination Land, where he supports Joy in encouraging the mentalers to rebel against Anxiety, and surviving a brainstorm, they reach the Back of the Mind. Despite getting the old Sense of Self, Joy loses hope again after Anxiety destroys her mechanism (Which she used to launch bad memories to the Back of the Mind) and their only way back. Anger is forced to summon Pouchy, who uses dynamite to start an avalanche to get back to Headquarters.

After Joy reasons with Anxiety that she doesn't need to change Riley, Anger, along with the original and new Emotions, removes the Sense of Self created by Anxiety and restores the old one, but the panic attack persists. After Joy realizes that she had also been "choosing who Riley is" by launching bad memories to the Back of the Mind, she removes the old Sense of Self and allows a new one to form, which she, along with Anger and the old and new emotions, embraces to calm Riley down. Sometime later, Anger, along with the first Emotions, has learned to live with the new Emotions and now has Pouchy as a new partner.

Other Media[]

Disney Parks[]

Anger appears as an animatronic in the Inside Out pre-parade at Disney's California Adventure. The Hot Dog Hut in Paradise Pier (now Pixar Pier) was retooled as Angry Dogs, featuring Anger.

Anger also appears with the other emotions on Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind.

He made his first live appearance in the new Disney on Ice show Follow Your Heart. which introduced on September 2, 2016.

Following Inside Out 2's release on June 14, 2024, Anger shows up for meet and greets at Pixar Pier in Disney's California Adventure.

Disney Infinity 3.0[]

Anger appears in Disney Infinity's third installment as a playable character. In the Inside Out playset, he is immune to lava, enabling him to walk across fiery surfaces.

Disney Heroes: Battle Mode[]

Anger is a playable character in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode. Anger is a Mid-Line Damage role hero. Anger attacks enemies by blowing his top in fire causing to burn enemies, he also throws chairs at enemies. Anger is immune to disables and can increase attack speed and basic damage on his allies. Anger has exclusive buff 'Rage' which allows him to deal more damage in his White Skill.

Anger has friendship campaigns with Emperor Zurg and Hades. He also has friendship campaigns with Joy, Donald Duck, Fear, and Vincenzo Santorini.

Quotes[]

Inside Out[]

“	Wait. Did he just say we couldn’t have dessert?	„
	~ Anger’s first words in the first film when he heard Mr. Andersen tells a young Riley that she can't have dessert if she doesn't eat her broccoli.

“	CONGRATULATIONS, SAN FRANCISCO, YOU’VE RUINED PIZZA! FIRST THE HAWAIIANS, AND NOW YOU!	„
	~ Anger after seeing broccoli on pizza.

“	Can I say that curse word now?	„
	~ Anger after Sadness and Joy get sucked away along with the core memories.

“	Disgust: Riley is acting so weird. Why is she acting so weird? Anger: What do you expect? All the Islands are down. Disgust: Joy would know what to do. Fear: That's it. Until she gets back, we just do what Joy would do! Disgust: Great idea. Anger, Disgust, Fear, how are we supposed to be happy!?	„
	~ Anger, Fear, and Disgust try to figured how to fix everything as Joy.

Inside Out 2[]

“	Over my dead flaming body!	„
	~ Anger to Anxiety.

“	Ever since that puberty alarm went off, nothing around here works.	„
	~ Anger.

“	And if Joy can't see that, well that she's delusional!	„
	~ Anger.

Trivia[]

According to Pete Docter, his appearance is based on a fire brick.
When Anger gets infuriated enough, flames come out of his head.
Anger always slams the console with his fist whenever he interacts with it.
In attempts to serve his purpose Anger caused several issues:
- Riley almost ran away because of his idea to get new core memories.
- With the exception of Goofball, almost all the other Islands of Personality were destroyed because of his actions on the console. This also indirectly led to Bing Bong's demise.
- He was most prominent in causing the rift between Riley and her parents.
- When he destroyed Honesty Island, he indirectly impeded Joy and Sadness returning to Headquarters.
Before Anxiety and Envy were introduced, Anger was notably the only Emotion that never has a visible nose, though this case still applies to him from the franchise's five original emotions.
Anger claimed that before this pizzeria in San Francisco served broccoli pizza, the Hawaiians ruined pizza by inventing the Hawaiian pizza, despite it being invented in Canada.
During a stage where the Emotions all had human names, Anger was originally named Ira, short for "Irate", as well as the Latin and Italian word for "wrath" (which is simply another word for anger).
- Interestingly, in the European Spanish dub of the films, Anger is named "Ira".
A lot of Anger's mannerisms are derived from Lewis Black's stand-up persona, including the way he is dressed and his use of the pointer finger to emphasize his point, and his rants.
Throughout Inside Out 2, Anger almost gets into a fight with the Mind Worker police officers in every encounter, but Joy stops him every time.
Before the introduction of Envy, Anger used to be the shortest among the emotions, and even then, he's still this to the five original emotions.
- His height might be allusive to the term "short-tempered", where it refers to an instance when someone cannot hold their anger for much longer.
Anger is left-handed.
In the second film, Anger had a swear jar, and it had a lot of coins in it. In real life, people put coins in a jar to discourage others from using profanity every time they start to swear.