- “Ugh, Enn-UI. It’s what you would call the ‘boredom.’ ”
- ―Ennui describing what her name means
Ennui ("Boredom" in French) is a major character in Disney•Pixar's 2024 animated feature film Inside Out 2. She is one of the new emotions and the ninth inside Riley Andersen's mind.
Background[]
Official Description[]
- Bored and lethargic with a well-practiced eyeroll, Ennui adds the perfect amount of teenage apathy of Riley's personality, when she feels like it. The best part? She doesn't even have to get up off the couch - Ennui can work the console remotely using her mobile app. She's rarely interested enough to lift her own head. Ennui also serves an important function by building a little distance between Riley and her parents, which that's not fun if you're the parent.
Personality[]
Ennui, like her namesake, is the literal embodiment of any and all feelings of listlessness, lethargy and indifference. She is perpetually bored, apathetic, introverted, lazy, and deadpan. She speaks in a very unamused and uninterested monotone manner when conversing with the other emotions. She is commonly seen being on her phone and laying on the couch, but is shown to be capable of movement when she feels like it. The way she inserts her commands on the console is also a reflection of her lack of motivation, with her having an app on her phone to do so. Ennui also finds annoyance in the quirks of other emotions, like Joy's funny nicknames, Nostalgia reminiscing on recent events or Envy's enthusiasm on wanting something. She even shows indifference to Anxiety's plan to change Riley despite the fact she supports it, and gets annoyed by some of her decisions and squabbles, like waking Riley early to practice hockey and her freaking out about how to walk and what to say. She also is more level headed and more observant, such as telling Anxiety and Envy that the cool kids are leaving Riley behind due to their overthinking, and offering an obvious solution to keep Riley from walking awkwardly, like putting her hands in her pockets. This displays that she's more intelligent than she lets on and tends to display an "above it all" attitude towards the other Emotions with how she can be condescending at times.
Despite her apathetic and introverted demeanor, she still cares very deeply about Riley, with her main job being to provide a protective mechanism to keep Riley away from or not focus on things that are not worth her time and energy, such as drama and to an extent, her parents. She also helps Riley in showing an apathetic look and, in this way, "keeping it cool" when conversing with Val and the cool kids, while also using sarcasm to hide what she really feels.
There are exceptions to Ennui's perpetual disinterest and lethargy that prove them not to be her sole personality; when the other emotions are unsure of what to do, Ennui can show initiative. This can be seen when Anxiety, Envy, and Embarrassment panicked since they weren't sure of how to avoid Riley from feeling humiliated by the older popular girls, and Ennui moved all the way to the console to make Riley use sarcasm as a defense mechanism. Another example can be seen when Riley's parents asked her about camp and the other emotions started arguing whether or not they should or not tell them what transpired, with Ennui ending this debate by advancing and prompting Riley "keep it cool" through giving a vague answer that was both true and hid the events. Her dependency on her phone can cause her to get quite alarmed and upset whenever she loses it, as shown when Sadness steals it to prevent Riley from peeking into the coach's journal to see what she thought about her. Additionally, Ennui does have her moments where she does smile or show concern and/or compassion for not only Riley, but to the other emotions.
Physical appearance[]
Ennui bears a strong resemblance to Fear, with the main difference being a longer, triangle-shaped nose and multiple strands of hair. She has muted periwinkle skin, dull lavender eyes, and very long straight indigo hair with straight bangs hiding her eyebrows. Her wardrobe consists of an indigo sweatshirt and sweatpants and gray socks with blueish-gray heels and toes.
In the book, Go to Sleep, Anxiety!, she's seen wearing her sleepwear which consists of a dark gray sweatshirt and sweatpants, along with a white sleep mask.
Appearances[]
Inside Out 2[]
Ennui appears once Anxiety enters Headquarters after Riley Andersen turns 13 years. She operates the console with her phone so that Riley responds indifferently to Val Ortiz's invitation. Anger asks what emotion she is operating on now, and Anxiety proceeds to introduce Ennui, who appears lying on the couch. Joy welcomes Ennui, despite not pronouncing her name correctly, so she decides to nickname her "Wee-Wee", something that Ennui did not like. Anger tried to stop Ennui from using her phone, but Joy reminded him that she remembered that she had learned the lesson that all emotions are valid, something Anger reluctantly accepts. Her job is to help Riley preserve her energy from things that aren't worth her time.
Ennui is next seen showing very little enthusiasm in where she usually stares at phone not paying any attention. She tells the emotions that Joy is so old school after hearing the latter's plan of making the next three days of Riley's life about Bree and Grace, and just stares at her phone not showing full attention to Anxiety discussing bad scenarios from her team and her telling Nostalgia that they came to headquarters about thirty seconds ago after the latter reminisces this. She is also displeased of how Joy made Riley "fit in" by having her goof around with Bree and Grace, which causes all of the hockey players to have to give Coach Roberts their phones in a bucket for their focus and have practice skating lines.
Ennui later follows Anxiety alongside Embarrassment and Envy into the Back of the Mind, with the latter curious of Anxiety's concept of building the way she wanted to see Riley alone. After Riley wakes up, Ennui, Envy, and Embarrassment, return to Headquarters exhausted while Anxiety is devising ahead for Riley's plans and Envy suggesting to Anxiety to ask Val lots of questions.
When Sadness finds herself back at Headquarters via tube, Envy, Anxiety, and Embarrassment scatter across the pile of memory orbs to distract them while Ennui causes Riley to talk sarcastically saying that she likes the band "Get Up and Glow". As an anxious Sense of Self forms, Anxiety asks Ennui if she is paying attention, which she denies but not before Anxiety instructs a scenario to some Mind Workers in Imagination Land, only for Joy and the other emotions to stop her plans from making Riley's life miserable.
Later when Riley is about to enter Coach Roberts' office, Sadness sees Ennui holding her phone so she snatches it from, much to her shock of what she did, just as Anxiety finds Sadness who grabs Ennui's phone and attempts to make Riley's life miserable, much to Sadness' worry. Furthermore, when Anxiety causes too much pressure and stress to Riley to make her life miserable, Ennui notices Anxiety's actions in worry. She, Envy, Sadness, and Embarrassment notice what Anxiety is doing, causing the four emotions to be blown by the pressure and attempt to pull the anxious Sense of Self out of the slot but not before Joy scolds Anxiety for ruining Riley's life and then places the positive Sense of Self on the slot, saving Riley. Ennui and the rest of the emotions reunite with Joy altogether but not before Riley reconciles with her friends and then scores a goal in hockey, impressing Joy and the other emotions.
In the aftermath when Riley is hanging out with her friends, Ennui and the rest of the emotions work together to protect Riley, as they look at Riley's positive life once again.
Video games[]
Disney Heroes: Battle Mode[]
- “A master of boredom, proficient in the art of sighs and of eye rolls, Ennui is always glued to her phone and unimpressed by everything.”
- ―Ennui's in-game Hero description.
Ennui in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode
Ennui is a playable character in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode. Introduced in Update 7.5., Ennui is a Back-Line Control role hero on the Yellow Team. Ennui's skills are: "Board Control", "Casual Click", "Lazy Shove", "Yawn Stance" and "Socks Don't Care". These skills allow Ennui to (in the order):
- "Board Control":
- Passive: Ennui starts combat with some stacks of “Dull". Every time Ennui is hit with an attack while she has stacks of “Dull”, she negates the damage of that attack and transfers stacks of “Dull” to the enemy that attacked her.
- Active: Ennui casually reveals to everyone she can access the control panel through her phone, then presses a button removing all stacks of “Dull” that are on other heroes and gaining that same amount. Afterwards she deals True Damage to all enemies per stack of “Dull” that Ennui has. Ennui cannot receive stacks of “Dull” from sources other than herself. Stacks of “Dull” cannot be Blocked, Copied, Stolen, or Removed by other sources than Ennui, reset between waves and their total amount cannot exceed a certain amount.
- "Casual Click": Ennui turns around and takes a selfie with the damaging enemies with stacks of “Dull” for some Fantastic Damage. Enemy heroes with stacks of “Dull” suffer the following effects depending on the number of stacks of “Dull” that they have:
- Threshold 1: Enemy is Blinded while they have a stack of “Dull”.
- Threshold 2: Enemy is Silenced while they have stacks of “Dull”.
- Threshold 3: Enemy is Stunned while they have stacks of “Dull”.
These Disables cannot be Blocked, Dodged, Cleansed or Prevented by Hardy Stacks.
- "Lazy Shove": Ennui shoos the enemies away with her hands, damaging enemies with stacks of “Dull” for some Normal Damage. Every hero besides Ennui gains more stacks of “Dull”. Enemy heroes lose some Basic Damage and some Skill Power while they have at least one stack of “Dull”.
- "Yawn Stance": Ennui or Allies that hit enemies with stacks of “Dull” now steal some stacks of “Dull”. Stacks of “Dull” have the same effect on an ally that they would have on Ennui. This skill has a chance to fail if Allies are above a certain Level.
- "Socks Don't Care": Enemies with at least one stack of “Dull” lose a percent of Attack and Movement Speed per second while they have a stack of “Dull” up to a cap of Attack and Movement Speed and are prevented from gaining any increase to Attack and Movement Speed while they have at least one stack of “Dull”. The decreases persist even if the enemy heroes lose the stacks of “Dull”. If Ennui gains more than a cap of stacks of “Dull” when she casts “Bored Control”, enemy heroes lose a percent of Max HP for the rest of the wave. Afterwards she resets her stacks of “Dull” back to a certain amount. While Ennui has at least one stack of “Dull” she gains a percent chance to Dodge debuffs.
Ennui has friendship campaigns with Eeyore and the Genie.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- According to the character herself in the first trailer, her name is the French word for "boredom", which is pronounced "on-wee". This could possibly be on the emphasis that her voice actress is French.
- Originally, Ennui was one of the 27 emotions considered to appear in the first film and intended to be a male emotion, as shown by storyboards in early versions of the film, but she was discarded to make the story less complex.[citation needed] However, when they brought Ennui, Envy, and Embarrassment back in the sequel, she was reinvented as a female emotion.
- As concept art shows, Ennui was originally going to be pink in the sequel. However, it was changed to indigo, a dull and inconspicuous color, which fits the emotion she embodies.
- Ennui using her phone to control the console without touching it is a reference to the emotion she embodies, where she doesn't even have the motivation to go to the console.
- Ennui's voice actress, Adèle Exarchopoulos, also voiced Ember Lumen in the European French dub of Pixar's previous film, Elemental and reprised her role in the Canadian and European French dubs of Inside Out 2.
- Ennui and Disgust are the only emotions whose shape designs are inspired by a food of some sorts; Disgust being based on broccoli, and Ennui being a limp noodle.
- Ennui is responsible for the creation of the Sar-chasm after she used sarcasm as a defense mechanism to protect Riley from feeling humiliated. According to her, she has been waiting her whole life to do it.
- Ennui freaking out when her phone got stolen is quite common for people who are comfortable using electronic devices and will panic if those devices are lost or stolen.
- In dubs from Western Europe and Hispanic America, Ennui's name is kept in French to retain her foreignness. However, the Brazilian Portuguese dub, as well as most Eastern European and Asian dubs, translate her name, likely to make it easier for locals to pronounce.
- In the Malay dub of Inside Out 2, Ennui speaks Kedah Malay, and her localized name, 'Cemuih', is Kedahan for 'Jemu', meaning 'bored', 'uninterested' or 'had enough of (non)'.[1]
- As revealed, Ennui can control the Console panels via a built-in app on her phone. In fact, this fact would explain why in the first film and in Riley's First Date?, memory orbs of different colors appeared than those of the Core Emotions: she and the other Emotions were using her phone to operate the Console even before they were officially introduced in the sequel.
References[]
- ↑ Aziz, Izzat (September 24, 2024). "‘Inside Out 2’ Di Disney+ Hotstar Menyertakan Alih Suara Bahasa Melayu". Aksiz. Retrieved on September 27, 2024.
External links[]
Ennui on Pixar Wiki
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