Bing Bong

Bing Bong is a supporting protagonist of the 2015 Pixar film Inside Out. He is Riley Anderson's imaginary friend who lives in her memories and assists Joy and Sadness in getting back to Riley's control center. He is the former mayor of Imagination Land, a location in Riley's mind. He is voiced by Richard Kind.

Appearance
Bing Bong is an imaginary friend who is a hybrid of cotton candy, cat, rabbit, elephant, and dolphin. He wears a leather vest with fingerless gloves with a rainbow flower button on his vest and he wears a bowler hat on his head.

Personality
Bing Bong is a very social guy and loves chatting with people and helping them out. When he gets sad, he cries tears made of unwrapped candy from his eyes.

History
Bing Bong is first encountered by Joy and Sadness as they are trying to get back to the control center with her core memories. Bing Bong decides he'll help them out and stores the core memories in his sash. He then escorts them to Imagination Land and shows them around the place. As he is doing so, he realises that his homeland is slowly getting destroyed and his rocket ship (a wagon with cardboard cutouts) is tossed into the memory dump. He cries as a result of this and Sadness comforts him. On their adventures, he leads them to a variety of shortcuts and try to get on to the train of thought. On their first attempt, they realize that the train is out of power as riley has gone to sleep.

They decide to go to "Imagination Productions" and try to wake up Riley by intercepting a school play. While Joy and Sadness manage to escape, Bong Bong is caught and imprisoned in Riley's subconcious where her nightmares reside. They see Bing Bong imprisoned in a balloon cage and get him out. In order to escape, they wake up one of her fears, Jangles the Clown and he goes on a rampage in the studio. This causes Fear to wake up Riley and activate the train of thought.

"Take her to the moon for me."

- Bing Bong's last words

As they are heading to headquarters, Honesty Island gets destroyed and the tracks break. Luckily, the trio are saved by a few memory citizens. As they see Family Island on the verge of crumbling, Joy decides they should get through the tube. After noticing Sadness touching one of the core memories, Joy changes her mind and decides to go alone. As she is doing so, the tube breaks, causing to Joy to fall into the Memory Dump (a place were dumped memories and beings who stay too long fade from existence) with Bing Bong jumping down after her. Now trapped, Bing Bong and Joy try to find a way to escape. As they are doing so, Bing Bong's left arm begins to disappear. Joy then gets an idea for the duo to find Bing Bong's rocket by singing his theme song. They manage to find the rocket and try desperately to use the ramp to reach the Long Term Memory edge. Bing Bong realizes that his massive weight is preventing the rocket from reaching all the way to the Long Term Memories edge. He then goes with Joy to boost the rocket up and as soon as it reaches the ramp, Bing Bong jumps out of the rocket as it successfuly reaches the edge. Joy thanks Bing Bong, but realises that he sacrificed his life so that Joy and Sadness can get back to headquarters. Joy sadly looks down at the dying Bing Bong. His is last words being "Take her to the moon for me" as he fades from existence.

Trivia

 * He is one of the few supporting Pixar characters that dies in a Pixar movie.


 * He looks similar to KousKous from "Dexter's Laboratory".


 * He is voiced by Richard Kind who also voiced Molt from "A Bug's Life", Van from "Cars", and Bookworm from "Toy Story 3".