Teen Riley (also as Paper Teen Riley or Paper Riley in short) is a character featured in the Inside Out franchise, first introduced in the 2024 Pixar animated series Dream Productions.
Background[]
Physical appearance[]
In her imaginative state, Teen Riley is a simplistic, anime-inspired drawing, of Riley Andersen as a teenager, on notepad paper. She has cyan colored hair, and her outfit consists of a black button shirt, a pink band, a black skirt, pink leggings, and black boots. Interestingly, when put through the dream filter, her hair turns green.
Personality[]
Teen Riley is Riley's projected idea of who she will be in the future. She is very perky and upbeat and considers herself a humanist who works for the UN and takes care of puppies "for the UN". While she was willing to go along with repeating Riley's insecurities in a nightmare, she was honest enough to acknowledge that Riley was wearing a nice dress.
Role in the series[]
Teen Riley appears in the series "Part 3: Romance!", where she works as a barista at the club "Café Maturity" together with a French puppy.
And in the episode "Part 4: A Night to Remember", she becomes Riley's dream actress at Jean's request.
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Trivia[]
- Teen Riley's model were reused Riley as 13 years old from Inside Out 2.
- In the Paper Teen Riley version, her dyed hair is a similar to the new emotion Envy's color scheme. And in the dream filter version, her colored hair resembled to the original emotion Disgust's color scheme.
- Her colored outfits are black and pink which is very closely reference to the popular K-pop group named BLACKPINK.