Breonna "Bree" Young is a supporting character in the 2024 Disney•Pixar animated feature film Inside Out 2. She is the best friend of Riley Andersen and Grace Hsieh.
Background
Physical appearance
Bree is a teenage African-American girl with black hair in braids, dark skin, and brown eyes. She wears black glasses and a dark green bandana with a purple circle pattern on her head when playing hockey. Her hockey outfit consists of a Foghorns jersey complete with ice skates, hockey pads, and helmet covered in stickers.
Appearances
Inside Out 2
Bree first appears helping Riley Andersen and Grace Hsieh clean up a mess Grace made during a school presentation. This causes all three of the girls to form a friendship with one another.
The three girls become star players in their middle school's hockey team, the Foghorns. When they helped their team win the state championship, they impressed Coach Roberts, who invited them to come to a hockey skills camp. Riley, Grace, and Bree were excited as Coach Roberts often chose players for her team, the FireHawks, from that camp.
Riley's parents drove all three girls to the camp. On the way, Bree and Grace confessed that they wouldn't be on the FireHawks because they were going to a different high school. Riley was disappointed, but they decided to take advantage of being able to play on the same team one last time.
At the camp, Grace and Bree got separated from Riley when Riley ran into Val Ortiz, the captain of the FireHawks. They were reunited in the locker room, but got into trouble for goofing off together when the coach called for them to settle down. This led to the whole team being sent to skate lines.
After the drills, the coach divided them into two teams. Grace and Bree wanted all three of them to be on the same team, but Riley went to the other team with Val instead.
When they overheard Riley tell Val and her friends that she didn't like Get Up and Glow, Grace and Bree reminded her they'd just gone to one of their concerts and had a good time much to Bree feeling rude to Riley’s weird attitude as she and Grace go out. They spent the rest of the camp apart. On the third and final day, Grace and Bree saw Riley with her red hair changed as they ignore her. Later, they played in a scrimmage with Bree and Grace on one team and Riley on the other. Grace and Riley came together for the face-off and Grace told Riley to have a good game. Riley said the same back. During the game, Riley played very aggressively and eventually accidentally ran into Grace, sending her flying on the ice. Riley was sent to the penalty box while Bree and Coach Roberts checked on Grace.
Grace was able to return to the game and as play continued, Grace noticed Riley struggling to breathe in the penalty box. She and Bree checked on Riley, who was having a panic attack. Riley admitted to not being okay and apologized to Grace and Bree for her behavior. They forgave her and they hugged. Then they returned to the game together.
Later, after they'd returned to school, Grace and Bree took a silly selfie that they sent to Riley on the day she was supposed to hear if she made the FireHawks or not.
Dream Productions
Bree makes an appearance in the show, along with Grace in Riley's dreams.
Trivia
- Bree is the first of Riley's friends to have her emotions shown.
- Among Bree's emotions, her Joy seems to be her dominant emotion.
- Her full name "Breonna" is of British origin, meaning "high, noble, exalted".
- Bree and Grace moving to another high school is similar to Riley's friendship with Meg in the first movie, which involves something that changes in Riley's life that she is struggling to cope.
- Riley does keep in touch with Bree and Grace after they transfer; it is unknown if Riley still keeps in contact with Meg or has moved on from her.
- Bree additionally said that they'll "still get to hang out" which implies that the different high school they got transferred to is not too far gone from Riley's new high school.
- In Dream Productions Part 4: A Night to Remember, when Bree tells Riley that if she doesn’t come the school group dance, her friend Whitney could, whereas Riley makes a lie saying her mother is calling her by cutting the call is similar to Riley with Meg in the first movie, when Riley gets jealous or disappointed seeing one of her friends invite or replace someone else, she immediately no longer talks to them.
- Unlike Meg, Riley finally comes to the school group dance hanging out with Bree and Grace dancing happily together.
- Her first name was used as Margo Gru's undercover name in the 2024 Universal/Illumination film Despicable Me 4, since this and Inside Out 2 were both released nearly 1 month apart at the same year.
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Dream Productions
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