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“Welcome to Headquarters, Embarrassment. Oh, we're doing a fit... no... oh... going high... You got a really sweaty palm there, buddy.”
Embarrassment is a character featured in Disney•Pixar's upcoming 2024 animated feature film Inside Out 2. He is the one of the five new emotions inside Riley Andersen's mind.
Embarrassment is shy and nervous around the other emotions, hence his name, and doesn't necessarily have much speaking dialogue due to his timid nature. When interacting with someone else, Embarrassment is very awkward and always fails to respond to a greeting properly (like answering a handshake with a fistbump). Whenever his awkwardness reaches a very high level he can't handle, he hides himself by closing his hoodie around his head, leaving only his big nose out.
Embarrassment also takes up the role as the muscle of the new emotions as he apprehends Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust all at once when Anxiety stages a coup d'état to take over Riley while imprisoning the first generation of emotions. Despite it's not known if the other new emotions agreed with Anxiety's pragmatic decision to "bottle up" Riley's old emotions, it would appear that Embarrassment, due to his shyness, is easily influenced by others.
Physical appearance[]
Embarrassment is the one that stands out the most due to his enormous size, and he is the biggest out of all the Emotions. He has bright pink skin, small fuchsia red eyes, and a very huge rounded nose in proportion to the size of his head. He has magenta pink hair and slightly reddened cheeks. His wardrobe consists of a light magenta hooded sweater with a drawstring, purple jeans and red sneakers with white soles. His nose and cheeks usually blush dark red whenever he gets nervous.
Trivia[]
He was only going to be in the first film but due to cutting down from 27 emotions to 5, he was scrapped. However, he was reused for the sequel as one of the new emotions.
This is Paul's third voice acting role following the first in 2022 for Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm as Elmer, and in 2024 for Netfilx/DreamWorks Animation's Orion and the Dark as Dark. It is also the second animated film he stars in 2024.
Like Joy was able to notice when greeting him, Embarrassment has very sweaty hands, which in fact is a very common symptom when a person feels very embarrassed and/or anxious.
Embarrassment's pink coloration is representive of his emotion, since people are known to blush whenever they feel awkward and/or embarrassed.
