History WhatCouldHaveBeen / Incredibles2

* Kari the babysitter and her parents were supposed to get a cameo appearance in the film's alternate opening, but Brad Bird dropped it because he thought it didn't fit the film, and that he felt Kari's arc was fully resolved in the ''Jack-Jack Attack'' short.
* Some of the deleted footage which was used to interview some of the cast members (the footage has since been made available to watch on [=YouTube=]) reveals some changes that were made mid-development:

** More scenes set at the motel, which shows far more screentime was planned for Violet (implying she was meant to play a far bigger role in the film's overall B-plot), include her wearing a grey one-piece swimsuit sulking over the Tony incident (which was likely removed for similar reasons to the extended Restaurant scene, likely due to the FanService nature of Violet wearing a swimsuit), the scene also implies that Violet forgot about her mom's lesson of wearing her mask from the first film (which would have given Violet a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment while showing her CharacterDevelopment from the first film carrying over to the second film). This also reveals that Tony Rydinger (Violet's {{Love Interest|s}}) was planned to have more screentime (such as by giving Violet a teddy bear and a box of chocolate) and implying his decision to get his memory of the Unmasked Violet incident was meant to have a build-up with him likely having a brief conversation with Bob (who was the one who made the appointment for Tony's memory erasure) before getting his memory erased, implying he was likely going to try to apologize to Violet in-person and inform her of his decision but was unable to do so out of fear of angering her (and her breaking up with him) which explains why Bob didn't reveal Tony's memory erasure to Violet, until Violet meets Tony at school and finds out what happened to him.

** A scene with Dash locking Violet out of the Incredibile as a prank which was dropped for being too mean spirited (it's also implied the scene was at their house, which was under attack by the hypnotized Supers). Another scene also reveals that Jack-Jack's giant form was to have more screentime where he would have cried in the middle of the street with Dash attempting to console him while Violet looks on as she gives an interview to the media, implying he was to do this after Evelyn was taken down.

** A scene of Elastigirl being interrogated by police while handcuffed, showing that she was to give one more interview alone before the family is let go.

** More scenes set at the motel, which shows far more screentime was planned for Violet (implying she was meant to play a far bigger role in the film's overall B-plot), include her wearing a grey one-piece swimsuit sulking over the Tony incident (which was likely removed for similar reasons to the extended Restaurant scene, likely due to the FanService nature of Violet wearing a swimsuit), the scene also implies that Violet forgot about her mom's lesson of wearing her mask from the first film (which would have given Violet a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment while showing her CharacterDevelopment from the first film carrying over to the second film). This also reveals that Tony Rydinger (Violet's LoveInterest) was planned to have more screentime (such as by giving Violet a teddy bear and a box of chocolate) and implying his decision to get his memory of the Unmasked Violet incident was meant to have a build-up with him likely having a brief conversation with Bob (who was the one who made the appointment for Tony's memory erasure) before getting his memory erased, implying he was likely going to try to apologize to Violet in-person and inform her of his decision but was unable to do so out of fear of angering her (and her breaking up with him) which explains why Bob didn't reveal Tony's memory erasure to Violet, until Violet meets Tony at school and finds out what happened to him.

* Honey Best was going to show up in person and got as far as having concept art (and even was set to appear in the beginning moments of the Underminer's Attack where she would have not only hidden Frozone's supersuit, but actively try to prevent him from going out supering in the DeletedScene Frozone's Wife Honey Appears), but it was decided that she was better as an offscreen voice [[note]]which Bird was massively disappointed by having to cut her scene out, especially since her planned scene would have made her highly unlikable in comparison to her iconic role in the first film (her reasoning to prevent her husband from joining the Parrs during the Omnidroid battle in the first film was {{Justified}} since they had a dinner planned for months, where as she didn't have anything planned in the cut scene for the sequel)[[/note]]. Her planned design would ultimately be given to one of the random International Supers in the final film's climax.

* Similar to how the first film's villain Xerek was cut. The original villain for ''Incredibles 2'' was going to be a rogue AI system who would have corrupted all forms of technology and at one point would have attacked Edna's mansion (it's only remains is the DeletedScene Security Breakdown). The villain was dropped due to being too similar to the Omnidroid plot from the first film and being harder to connect as a character.[[note]]Which is ironic, considering that Pixar has a similar villian in the form of the AUTO in ''WesternAnimation/WallE''[[/note]]

* Winston Deavor was originally going to have a brother named Nelson Deavor who would have evolved into the BigBad over the course of the story. Also He-Lectric was originally planned to be a female Super named She-Lactrix [[note]]both Nelson's and She-Lactrix's respective designs would eventually evolve into He-Lectric and Evelyn Deavor in the final film[[/note]]. In addition She-Lactrix was planned to be a villain right from the get go which would have made her the first ''Super-Villain with actual powers!'' [[note]]In which she would have faked her hypnotizing, in order to trick the Parr family.[[/note]] Also in a follow up draft [[note]]in which Nelson and She-Lactrix were fully dropped and swapped with their respective final designs at this point[[/note]], Bird considered making '''Winston''' himself the BigBad [[note]]who would have copied Comic Xerek's ability series to win every scenario due to his name[[/note]] before downgrading him to being more untrustworthy and the idea was scrapped completely at the behest of Bob Odenkirk (who didn't want to play an animated version of his iconic Saul character) and the role of the main villain went to Evelyn Deavor.
* One of the planned new Supers was a Wanna-Be named Cosmosis [[note]]who as judging by his name would have had the ability to manipulate spacial distortions on a grander scale[[/note]], he got decently far along to where he got concept art before ultimately cut (as Bird described) for being too much of a StoryBreakerPower due to how powerful his distortions would've been for the Parrs to actually take down that not even Mr. resident StoryBreakerPower himself ''Jack-Jack'' would have been enough to defeat him.
* Had the story involving Elastigirl as the lead character not worked out, Brad Bird briefly toyed with the idea of actually ''aging'' up the Parr family in this film [[note]]either similar in real time to how ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' aged Andy and Molly up or a far smaller time-skip as seen in ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''[[/note]] and switching the leads over to Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack. Disney/Pixar and Brad Bird quickly scrapped this idea as not only making up brand new models for adult versions of Violet and Dash would have been difficult [[note]]seeing as the Family's models from the first film were already being updated with the revamped tech that was introduced in ''Dory'' and would have been seen as a huge waste had the aging up scenario actually happened as it would have required even more work for the animators[[/note]], but that Bird had felt it would have destroyed the Family Dynamic that was established in the first film had the Parrs been aged up.[[note]]It also doesn't help that Brad Bird himself is highly against aging up established animated characters in general, no doubt stemming from his time as a producer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of which had a similar scenario of the main family and their kids being forced to NotAllowedToGrowUp outside of the occasional WhatIf episodes.[[/note]] It's heavily theorized that the only remnant of the concept is that Voyd's final design in the film was likely originally planned to be Violet's look as an adult (due to their similar proportions and having similar anxiety problems) before being re-developed and repurposed into being her own character.

* Similar to how the first film's villain Xerek was cut. The original villain for ''Incredibles 2'' was going to be a rogue AI system who would have corrupted all forms of technology and at one point would have attacked Edna's mansion (it's only remains is the DeletedScene Security Breakdown). The villain was dropped due to being too similar to the Omnidroid plot from the first film and being harder to connect as a character.[[note]]Which is ironic, considering that Creator/Pixar has a similar villian in the form of the Axiom AI in ''WesternAnimation/WallE''[[/note]]

* One of the planned new Supers was a Wanna-Be named Cosmosis [[note]]who as judging by his name would have had the ability to manipulate spacial distortions on a grander scale[[/note]], he was ultimately cut (as Bird described) for being far too powerful for the Parrs to actually take down that not even Mr. resident StoryBreakerPower himself ''Jack-Jack'' would have been enough to defeat him.
* Had the story involving Elastigirl as the lead character not worked out, Brad Bird briefly toyed with the idea of actually ''aging'' up the Parr family in this film [[note]]either similar in real time to how ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' aged Andy and Molly up or a far smaller time-skip as seen in ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''[[/note]] and switching the leads over to Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack. Disney/Pixar and Brad Bird quickly scrapped this idea as not only making up brand new models for adult versions of Violet and Dash would have been difficult [[note]]seeing as the Family's models from the first film were already being updated with the revamped tech that was introduced in ''Dory'' and would have been seen as a huge waste had the aging up scenario actually happened as it would have required even more work for the animators[[/note]], but that Bird had felt it would have destroyed the Family Dynamic that was established in the first film had the Parrs been aged up.[[note]]It also doesn't help that Brad Bird himself is highly against aging up established animated characters in general, no doubt stemming from his time as a producer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of which had a similar scenario of the main family and their kids being forced to NotAllowedToGrowUp outside of the occasional WhatIf episodes.[[/note]] It's heavily theorized that the only remnant of the concept is that Voyd's final design in the film was likely originally planned to be Violet's look as an adult (due to their similar proportions and having similar anxiety problems) before being repurposed into being her own character.

* Some of the deleted footage which was used to interview some of the cast members (the footage has since been made available on [=YouTube=]) reveals some changes that were made mid-development:
** More scenes set at the motel, which shows far more screentime was planned for Violet (implying she was meant to play a far bigger role in the film's B-plot), include her wearing a grey one-piece swimsuit sulking over the Tony incident (which was likely removed for similar reasons to the extended Restaurant scene, likely due to the FanService nature of Violet wearing a swimsuit), the scene also implies that Violet forgot about her mom's lesson of wearing her mask from the first film (which would have given Violet a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment). This also reveals that Tony Rydinger (Violet's LoveInterest) was planned to have more screentime (such as by giving Violet a teddy bear (which was the only appearance of it, implying she was to destroy it with her powers out of grief and anger upon finding out about Tony's missing her date and the memory wipe) and a box of chocolate) and implying his decision to get his memory of the Unmasked Violet incident was meant to have a build-up with him likely having a brief conversation with Bob (who was the one who made the appointment for Tony's memory erasure) before getting his memory erased, implying he was likely going to try to apologize to Violet in-person and inform her of his decision but was unable to do so out of fear of angering her (and her breaking up with him) which explains why Bob didn't reveal Tony's memory erasure to Violet, until Violet meets Tony at school and finds out what happened to him.
** A scene showing Violet in class possibly being nervous over Tony's memory wipe, implying at least one more scene showing off Westview Jr. High right before her infamous meltdown with her dad.
** A scene with Dash locking Violet out of the Incredibile as a prank which was dropped for being too mean spirited. The same scene also reveals that Jack-Jack's giant form was to have more screentime where he would have cried in the middle of the street with Dash attempting to console him while Violet looks on as she gives an interview to the media, implying he was to do this after Evelyn was taken down.

* Had the story involving Elastigirl as the lead character not worked out, Brad Bird briefly toyed with the idea of actually ''aging'' up the Parr family in this film [[note]]either similar in real time to how ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' aged Andy and Molly up or a far smaller time-skip as seen in ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''[[/note]] and switching the leads over to Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack. Disney/Pixar and Brad Bird quickly scrapped this idea as not only making up brand new models for adult versions of Violet and Dash would have been difficult [[note]]seeing as the Family's models from the first film were already being updated with the revamped tech that was introduced in ''Dory'' and would have been seen as a huge waste had the aging up scenario actually happened as it would have required even more work for the animators[[/note]], but that Bird had felt it would have destroyed the Family Dynamic that was established in the first film had the Parrs been aged up.[[note]]It also doesn't help that Brad Bird himself is highly against aging up established animated characters in general, no doubt stemming from his time as a producer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of which had a similar scenario of the main family and their kids being forced to NotAllowedToGrowUp outside of the occasional WhatIf episodes.[[/note]] It's heavily theorized that Voyd's final design in the film was likely originally planned to be Violet's look as an adult (due to their similar proportions) before being repurposed into being her own character.

* Similar to how the first film's villain Xerek was cut. The original villain for ''Incredibles 2'' was going to be a rogue AI system who would have corrupted all forms of technology and at one point would have attacked Edna's mansion (it's only remains is the DeletedScene Security Breakdown). The villain was dropped due to being too similar to the Omnidroid plot from the first film and being harder to connect as a character.

* Had the story involving Elastigirl as the lead not worked out, Brad Bird briefly toyed with the idea of actually ''aging'' up the Parr family in this film [[note]]either similar in real time to how ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' aged Andy and Molly up or a far smaller time-skip as seen in ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''[[/note]] and switching the leads over to Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack. Disney/Pixar and Brad Bird quickly scrapped this idea as not only making up brand new models for adult versions of Violet and Dash would have been difficult [[note]]seeing as the Family's models from the first film were already being updated with the revamped tech that was introduced in ''Dory'' and would have been seen as a huge waste had the aging up scenario actually happened as it would have required even more work for the animators[[/note]], but that Bird had felt it would have destroyed the Family Dynamic that was established in the first film had the Parrs been aged up.[[note]]It also doesn't help that Brad Bird himself is highly against aging up established animated characters in general, no doubt stemming from his time as a producer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of which had a similar scenario of the main family and their kids being forced to NotAllowedToGrowUp outside of the occasional WhatIf episodes.[[/note]]

** More scenes set at the motel, which shows far more screentime was planned for Violet (implying she was meant to play a far bigger role in the film's B-plot), include her wearing a grey one-piece swimsuit sulking over the Tony incident (which was likely removed for similar reasons to the extended Restaurant scene, likely due to the FanService nature of Violet wearing a swimsuit). This also reveals that Tony Rydinger (Violet's LoveInterest) was planned to have more screentime (such as by giving Violet a teddy bear (which was the only appearance of it, implying she was to destroy it with her powers out of grief and anger upon finding out about Tony's missing her date and the memory wipe) and a box of chocolate) and implying his decision to get his memory of the Unmasked Violet incident was meant to have a build-up with him likely having a brief conversation with Bob (who was the one who made the appointment for Tony's memory erasure) before getting his memory erased, implying he was likely going to try to apologize to Violet in-person and inform her of his decision but was unable to do so out of fear of angering her, this also reveals why Bob didn't reveal Tony's memory erasure to Violet, until Violet meets Tony at school and finds out what happened to him.

** More scenes set at the motel, which shows far more screentime was planned for Violet (implying she was meant to play a far bigger role in the film's B-plot), include her wearing a grey one-piece swimsuit sulking over the Tony incident (which was likely removed for similar reasons to the extended Restaurant scene, likely due to the FanService nature of Violet wearing a swimsuit). This also reveals that Tony Rydinger (Violet's LoveInterest) was planned to have more screentime (such as by giving Violet a giant teddy bear and a box of chocolate) and implying his decision to get his memory of the Unmasked Violet incident was meant to have a build-up with him likely having a brief conversation with Bob (who was the one who made the appointment for Tony's memory erasure) before getting his memory erased, implying he was likely going to try to apologize to Violet in-person and inform her of his decision but was unable to do so out of fear of angering her, this also reveals why Bob didn't reveal Tony's memory erasure to her until her meltdown scene.

** More scenes set at the motel, which shows far more screentime was planned for Violet (implying she was meant to play a far bigger role in the film's B-plot), include her wearing a grey one-piece swimsuit (which was likely removed for similar reasons to the extended Restaurant scene, likely due to the FanService nature of Violet wearing a swimsuit). This also reveals that Tony Rydinger (Violet's LoveInterest) was planned to keep his memory of Violet far longer and was meant to play a slightly bigger role in her storyline (such as by giving Violet a giant teddy bear and a box of chocolate). This implies that the decision to remove his memory of the incident with unmasked Violet was originally going to have a build-up to it, with him likely having a brief conversation with Bob (who was the one who made the appointment for Tony's memory erasure) before getting his memory erased, implying he was likely going to apologize to Violet but was unable to do so out of fear of angering her.
** A scene showing Violet in class possibly being nervous over Tony's memory wipe, implying at least one more scene showing off Westview Jr. High before her infamous meltdown with her dad.
** A scene with Dash locking Violet out of the Incredibile as a prank which was dropped for being too mean spirited. The same scene also reveals that Jack-Jack's giant form was to have more screentime where he would have cried in the middle of the street with Dash attempting to console him while Violet looks on, implying he was to do this after Evelyn was taken down.

* Some of the deleted footage which was used to interview some of the cast members reveals some changes that were made mid-development:
** More scenes set at the motel, which shows far more screentime was planned for Violet (implying she was going to play a far bigger role in the film's B-plot), include her wearing a grey one-piece swimsuit (which was likely removed for similar reasons to the extended Restaurant scene). This also reveals that Tony Rydinger (Violet's LoveInterest) was planned to keep his memory of Violet far longer and was meant to play a slightly bigger role in her storyline (such as by giving Violet a giant teddy bear and a box of chocolate), implying that the decision to remove his memory of the incident with unmasked Violet was originally going to have a build-up to it.
** A scene showing Violet in class, implying more scenes showing off Westview Jr. High.
** A scene with Dash locking Violet out of the Incredibile as a prank. Which was dropped for being too mean spirited, the same scene also reveals that Jack-Jack's giant form was to have more screentime where he would have cried in the middle of the street with Dash attempting to console him.

* Kari the babysitter and her parents were supposed to get a cameo appearance in the film's opening, but Brad Bird dropped it because he thought it didn't fit the film, and that he felt Kari's arc was fully resolved in the ''Jack-Jack Attack'' short.

* Winston Deavor was originally going to have a brother named Nelson Deavor who would have evolved into the BigBad over the course of the story. Also He-Lectric was originally planned to be a female Super named She-lactrix [[note]]both Nelson's and She-lactrix's respective designs would eventually evolve into He-Lectric and Evelyn Deavor in the final film[[/note]]. In addition She-lactrix was planned to be a villain from the get go which would have made her the first ''Super-Villain with actual powers!''[[note]]In which she would have faked her hypnotizing.[[/note]]Also in one draft, Bird considered making '''Winston''' himself the BigBad [[note]]who would have copied Comic Xerek's ability series to win every scenario due to his name[[/note]] before downgrading him to being more untrustworthy and the idea was scrapped completely at the behest of Bob Odenkirk (who didn't want to play an animated version of his iconic Saul character).

* Had the story involving Elastigirl as the lead not worked out, Brad Bird toyed with the idea of actually ''aging'' up the Parr family [[note]]either similar in real time to how ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' aged Andy and Molly up or a far smaller time-skip as seen in ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''[[/note]] and switching the leads over to Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack. Disney/Pixar and Brad Bird quickly scrapped this idea as not only making up brand new models for adult versions of Violet and Dash would have been difficult [[note]]seeing as the Family's models from the first film were already being updated with the revamped tech that was introduced in ''Dory'' and would have been seen as a huge waste had the aging up scenario actually happened as it would have required even more work for the animators[[/note]], but that Bird had felt it would have destroyed the Family Dynamic that was established in the first film had the Parrs been aged up.[[note]]It also doesn't help that Brad Bird himself is highly against aging up established animated characters in general, no doubt stemming from his time as a producer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of which had a similar scenario of the main family and their kids being forced NotAllowedToGrowUp outside of What-if's.[[/note]]

* Winston Deavor was originally going to have a brother named Nelson Deavor who would have evolved into the BigBad over the course of the story. Also He-Letric was originally planned to be a female Super named She-lactrix [[note]]both Harold and She-lactrix's respective designs would eventually evolve into He-Letric and Evelyn Deavor in the final film[[/note]]. In addition She-lactrix was planned to be a villain from the get go which would have made her the first ''Super-Villain with actual powers!'' Also in one draft, Bird considered making '''Winston''' himself the BigBad [[note]]who would have copied Comic Xerek's ability series to win every scenario due to his name[[/note]] before downgrading him to being more untrustworthy and the idea was scrapped completely at the behest of Bob Odenkirk (who didn't want to play an animated version of his iconic Saul character).
* One of the planned new Supers was a Wanna-Be named Cosmosis [[note]]who as judging by his name would have had the ability to manipulate spacial distortions on a grand scale[[/note]], he was cut (as Bird described) for being far too powerful for the Parrs to actually beat that not even Mr. resident StoryBreakerPower himself ''Jack-Jack'' would have been enough to defeat him.
* Had the story involving Elastigirl as the lead not worked out, Brad Bird toyed with the idea of actually ''aging'' up the Parr family [[note]]either similar in real time to how ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' aged Andy and Molly up or a far smaller time-skip as seen in ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''[[/note]] and switching the leads over to Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack. Disney/Pixar and Brad Bird quickly scrapped this idea as not only making up brand new models for adult versions of Violet and Dash would have been difficult [[note]]seeing as the Family's models from the first film were already being updated with the revamped tech that was introduced in ''Dory'' and would have been seen as a huge waste had the aging up scenario actually happened as it would have required even more work for the animators[[/note]], but that Bird had felt it would have destroyed the Family Dynamic that was established in the first film had the Parrs been aged up.[[note]]It also doesn't help that Brad Bird himself is highly against aging up established characters in general, no doubt stemming from his time as a producer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' of which had a similar scenario of the main family and their kids being forced NotAllowedToGrowUp outside of What-if's.[[/note]]