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Pixar movies and post-credit scenes go hand in hand, and Inside Out 2 is no exception. The movie’s after-credit scene is juicy as it involves the main character Riley’s deep dark secret. Unfortunately, you’ll have to sit through everything, and we mean everything, to get to it. We promise the long wait to see the Inside Out 2 post-credits scene is worth it.
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Inside Out 2 actually has two post-credit scenes: one occurs mid-credits, and the other appears at the very end. While the final scene resolves an earlier subplot with a new character, Deep Dark Secret, the mid-credits scene is just the logical conclusion to the main story, albeit with a twist.
The Set Up for Inside Out 2‘s Post-Credits Scene
The film follows Riley, now a teenager, as she attends a three-day overnight hockey camp. The camp is just the setup the movie needs to introduce Inside Out 2’s new emotions led by Maya Hawke’s Anxiety. At one point, Anxiety locks all of the original Inside Out characters inside a vault in Riley’s subconscious, making them suppressed emotions. However, Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger, and Sadness quickly discover they aren’t the only ones in the vault…
The vault also houses several repressed memories from Riley’s past. One of these is Bloofy, the Dora-esque mascot from Riley’s favorite childhood cartoon. Also hanging around the vault is Lance Slashblade, a Final Fantasy-type video game protagonist Riley once had a crush on. Most important, however, at least when discussing Inside Out 2’s after-credits scene, is Deep Dark Secret.
Deep Dark Secret is a lumbering hulk of a thing wearing a stitched-together monk’s robe. When he speaks, it’s with the exact kind of deep voice you’d expect from a creature his size.
Meanwhile, the character’s shy, timid nature is the opposite of how a character with such an intimidating presence usually acts. That’s because Deep Dark Secret is the living embodiment of the shame Riley feels over a particularly traumatic incident from her past. It’s that incident which answers the question “What is Riley’s deep dark secret?” that is at the heart of Inside Out 2’s post-credits scene.
Eventually, Joy and the other trapped emotions manage to escape from the vault with the help of Bloofy and his living fanny pack, Pouchy. Joy asks Deep Dark Secret to come with them, but the gentle giant still isn’t ready to leave Riley’s subconscious mind. Instead, he waits for the others to go and locks himself back in the vault, never to be heard from again… until after the credits, that is.
Riley’s Deep Dark Secret
The final Inside Out 2 after-credits scene starts with Joy opening the vault in Riley’s subconscious from earlier. Joy gently coaxes Deep Dark Secret out of the darkness, telling him it’s time to leave the vault. Once the lumbering behemoth is out of the vault, Joy asks him to reveal Riley’s deep dark secret. Deep Dark Secret sighs, and his shoulders fall. Finally, he gives in to Joy’s request.
“We burn hole in rug,” he confesses, unable to look Joy in the eye.
“Really, That’s it?” Joy asks, unbelieving. “I thought you were going to say that time we peed in the pool!”
This reveal of an even more embarrassing moment in Riley’s history sends Deep Dark Secret running back into the vault, slamming the door behind him. Joy begs him to stay, but it’s no use.
It’s important to note that no incident where Riley burns a hole in a rug occurs in either Inside Out or Inside Out 2 so Deep Dark Secret is referring to something that happened off-camera in Riley’s youth.
“It was good.”
The movie’s mid-credits scene shows Riley back from hockey camp, sitting down to dinner with her parents. When Riley’s mother asks how camp went, Riley opens her mouth and freezes. The scene shifts to headquarters, where Joy gives the other emotions a pep talk.
“Okay, we talked about this we tell them everything!” Joy instructs the others. Anxiety chimes in, asking if Riley should tell her parents about sneaking into Coach’s office, prompting Anger and the other emotions to start bombarding Joy with questions about some of the other embarrassing things that happened at camp.
While the emotions continue to talk over themselves, Ennui, one of Riley’s new emotions, slowly walks up to the console and pushes a button.
Cut back to the dinner table, where Riley very flatly declares, “It was good.” before taking a bite of her food. We then see the emotions inside Riley’s parents complaining that after three days away from home, all Riley has to say about camp is, “It was good.”
It’s a funny scene that pokes fun at the bored way real-life teenagers often answer their parents when asked about school or practically anything else.
After the dinner scene, we’re treated to a few more minutes of scrolling acknowledgments and, finally, Inside Out 2’s second post-credits scene with Deep Dark Secret.
Overall, the final after-credits scene for Inside Out 2 may seem a bit anticlimactic, but it’s a fun scene nonetheless and one we think you’ll agree it fits the spirit of the film. You might just say, “It was good.”
