Deep Dark Secret is a minor character in Disney•Pixar's 2024 animated feature film Inside Out 2. He is a dark, beefy, gorilla-like figure who represents Riley's deep, dark secret.
Personality[]
In front of others, Deep Dark Secret appears scary, but in truth, he is very timid. Presumably, the secret he is keeping makes him feel ashamed, a possible nod that Riley feels ashamed of the secret.
Role in the film[]
After Lance Slashblade began his introduction, Deep Dark Secret appears behind him, which Bloofy introduces him to the Emotions - Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust, by name. Lance advises the Emotions to not know, while Joy replies that Riley's secrets about a rogue emotion took over Headquarters, leading Joy to ask the heroes to help them escape the jar. Later when Lance began to help the Emotions escape the jar, his rolling power is not strong enough to tumble it down, so Joy asks the Dark Secret to help free them from the jar, which he manages to smash it with his fist, followed by the Emotions and Lance escaping the Vault when Anger used a dynamite that Pouchy provided them. The survivors trapped inside the safe manage to escape, except for Dark Secret who decides to remain inside, but not before a group of security guards approach the heroes who are inside the Vault.
During the post-credits scene, Joy returns to the Vault and asks Dark Secret that it is time for him to get out, which he nervously escapes the safe where he was trapped within. He then reveals to Joy the secret about "burning a hole in the rug", which she was expecting another secret related to the pool, just before Dark Secret embarrassedly retreats back to the safe and later closing it.
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- His design is very similar to Wreck-It Ralph, as well as Dark from the children's book Orion and the Dark and its homonymous animated adaptation made by DreamWorks Animation. Coincidentally, Paul Walter Hauser (who voiced Embarrassment in Inside Out 2) voiced Dark in the film.
- At the end of the credits, Joy finds out the secret. The secret is that Riley burnt a hole in the rug.
