- “I long to be a hero, but darkness haunts my past.”
- ―Lance Slashblade
Lance Stash Slashblade is a minor character in Disney•Pixar's 2024 animated feature film Inside Out 2. He is a video game character animated by polygonal graphics who Riley secretly had a crush on when she was younger and the love interest of Disgust.[1]
Background[]
Official Description[]
- Lance acts confident, but he's still longing to be a hero, with the kind of melodramatic voice that video game fans will undoubtedly remember but non-gamers will still laugh at. Even though Lance is eager and brave in the face of danger, his ability to roll into a ball for his special attack isn't nearly as intimidating or effective as he thinks.
Role in the film[]
When Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Anger, and Fear find themselves locked in the Vault, they both encounter Lance who welcomes them to their "eternal fate". Disgust reacts in awe to see Lance within, which Sadness replies to her that Lance himself is a video game character. Lance then narrates that he longs to be a hero with the darkness hunting his past, but not before the Deep Dark Secret appears in front of them. After Bloofy introduces the Dark Secret to the Emotions, Fear asks Bloofy of what is the secret, which Lance replies to Fear that he prefers to keep it private. Joy then tells Lance that a rogue emotion named Anxiety took over Riley's Headquarters and offers Lance to open the jar and help them save Riley.
After Bloofy talks to the viewers of how to help the Emotions get out of the jar in order to them to escape the Vault, Lance replies to him that he was banished to the Vault, along with Bloofy himself and the Dark Secret; Disgust fearfully reacts that Lance should never be forgotten just before Joy reminds her of Lance's power move. Later during Lance's flashback of him facing Pugu during a video game that Riley and her friends are playing, Lance attempted to attack Pugu, but the latter knocked Lance out, resulting his opponent to win. Back in the present, Disgust asks Lance to help her friends escape, explaining that no one is worthless. Lance agrees to help break open the jar, but is unable to tumble it with his ability to roll, so Joy asks the Deep Dark Secret to help smash open the jar.
Upon doing so, Bloofy then asks Lance and the other survivors inside the Vault to get Pouchy's help; after Anger grabs a stick of dynamite that Pouchy has, the explosion blasts open the door leading the Emotions to escape the Vault. Lance thanks the Emotions for freeing him as he decides to leave to continue his destiny. Suddenly, a group of security guards rush towards Lance and the Emotions, planning to send them back to the Vault. Lance goes into a conversation with Disgust, narrating that as she once believed in him, the latter decides to believe in himself. Lance then uses his rolling ability to roll past the guards. While he missed them entirely, he incidentally impacted a mop bucket, causing a chain reaction that locked all the guards in another vault, allowing the Emotions to successfully escape. Lance then bids a farewell to the Emotions as he leaves to continue his destiny. He does not appear again throughout the rest of the film aside from appearing as a stone carving in the Mount Crushmore section of Imagination Land.
Trivia[]
- Being a character from a video game, Lance's design emulates the graphics of a sixth generation video game console (Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Xbox). This can be shown with his model having fewer polygons compared to everyone else, lower resolution, pixelated textures, choppy movement, getting stuck on terrain and even his hair clipping through his body.
- His design appears to be inspired by that of the characters of the Final Fantasy series.
- Disgust always suspected Riley had a crush on Lance whereas Joy never saw the appeal.
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