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“Oh, my gosh! I'm Anxiety. Where can I put my stuff? ”
Like its namesake, Anxiety is shown to be a nervous emotion with some luggage to get off (and that’s no figure-of-speech, because she was carrying some suitcases when she meets the emotions). She's extremely anxious about meeting preexisting emotions like Joy, especially because she wants to make a good first impression. She is also an extreme planner. Everything must go exactly as it must happen as she had planned, with every mistake being seen as something that may "haunt" her later.
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. However, she is willing to get rid of everything she sees as unnessessary 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 personality.
Physical appearance[]
Anxiety appeared as an orange emotion with her weird-anxiety hairstyle of the same color and jade green eyes, orange and white-striped long-sleeved shirt, brown pants attached by a black belt with a gold buckle, and brown shoes.
Trivia[]
Anxiety is the very first emotion to be formed in Riley's mind ever since her toddler years, being also the very first emotion to be introduced at the beginning of Riley's adolescence.
She is also the fourth female emotion to inhabit Riley's mind.
Her sudden appearance on HQ and before the other new emotions may be a reference to her eagerness to start her new job and meet her new colleagues, which is a characteristic of the emotion she embodies.
She is the only one of the new emotions, and first emotion since Joy, who's eye color doesn't match the color of her theme.
Her eyebrows are black instead of orange, just like Fear. Which could be symbolistic that Anxiety is a more complex or different form of fear.
The way the other emotions met Anxiety is similar to how Joy met Sadness, since they only noticed her when the console turned orange, Anxiety's color. The same thing happened when Joy met Sadness, where the former only noticed the latter when she made Riley cry when she turned the console blue.
Anxiety is showed to be a heavy packer, since she possess a lot of baggage to unpack now that she had settled on HQ. This can be seen as a reference to her own emotion, since people who possess a lot of negative experiences and disappointments that affect their own behavior and/or interactions with other people are said to "have a lot of baggage".
This can also represent Anxiety's very need to be always prepared for anything and try to control any problem that may arise before they are even a reality, which contrasts with the core emotions who normally react to the problems and deal with them as they come.
She’s sort of the odd-name-out with the new emotion characters because she’s the only one of them who’s name doesn’t start with an ‘E’.
Based on how she said ‘we’ (referring to the other new emotions that appear in the sequel) after meeting with the old emotions, it’s likely that she (and by extension the other new emotions) already existed within Riley’s mind since the first movie.
Anxiety taking control of the HQ and "bottle up" the old emotions is similar to what Joy did in the first movie when she supprassed Sadness.
