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7	''Franchise/TheIncredibles'' features superheroes in bright-colored suits fighting to save the day, but every now and then, these fights get boggled down by the mundane.
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16	* Books:
17	** ''Literature/ATwistedTale'' a series of DarkerAndEdgier AlternateUniverse books, showing what would happen if a important plot point that took place in Disney's beloved films went completely off the rails into darker territory, ''The Incredibles'' version of this is ''Suddenly Super'' (released in August 2023 for UK and Australian readers, and set for a 2024 US release for the first film's 20th anniversary). With the scenario showing ''What if Violet was an agent of Syndrome?'' And its even more downright heartbreaking than the film:
18	*** What starts the plot off? We see poor EmoTeen Violet at a teenage party she wanted to go initially (mainly to woo Tony Rydinger who's also there), but wanted no part in due to her severe social anxiety because it's a teen party (which likely includes alcohol beverages), the added peer pressure from the teens egging her to ask Tony out on a date causes Violet to have a mental breakdown and accidentally turns invisible in front of the entire partygoers, scaring everyone (including Tony) off and being labeled as a freak by everyone (all but forcing Dicker to wipe all of the teens' memories of the incident). Helen at first comforts Violet over getting over her anxiety at asking Tony out, but when Violet reveals to her mom that she used her powers in front of everyone at the party, Helen immediately and angrily grounds Violet indefinitely that ultimately leads to a nasty argument between the two where Violet outright hates her mom and wished she never had powers and wants nothing to do with her anymore. Her mom then grounds her more for talking back and threatens to hire the one babysitter Violet can't stand in Mrs. Caruso (in Violet's own words Mrs. Licorice), if she doesn't apologize. Violet tearfully relents and Helen orders her to watch Dash and Jack-Jack while she leaves for Bob's conference, stating that Violet babysitting her unruly brothers is more than fitting enough for punishment. Unbeknownst to Violet, it's her last proper conversation with her mom before the events go off the rail.
19	*** Then days pass with no word back from her mom, then Mirage (Syndrome's lackey) suddenly arrives to give the Parr siblings the worst news: ''Your parents are dead!'' Dash and Jack-Jack break down crying upon hearing the news, with Violet absolutely shocked as the last conversation she had with her mom was being told to watch the kids, which ended poorly and vowing never to speak to her again. It's when Mirage tells them that their parents were secretly superheroing behind their backs and offers Violet a job as a superhero. Violet realizing she has no other choice accepts the job instantly with Dash beaming with excitement at finally getting the opportunity to be a Super, knowing that the money is more important to keep them afloat. Shortly before they're attacked by hired goons sent to capture the kids (secretly on Syndrome's orders, in case they resisted).
20	*** Violet being manipulated by her new boss Syndrome who tells her, ''I'm your father's biggest fan!'' in order to convince her to work for him...and Violet falls for it as she decides to honor her deceased father.
21	*** Then Violet starts going through her anxiety issues that affects her performance against Syndrome's Omnidroids during her first true battle and is immediately beaten and bloodied horribly that she starts crying and giving up, it's not until Syndrome secretly threatens to order the Omnidroid to kill Dash and Jack-Jack that Violet realizes the danger she and her siblings are in that she starts getting over them and performing her job, with her Force Fields growing stronger to resist the blows untill she discovers it's main weakness in itself.
22	*** Violet tearfully considers killing herself after her first mission against the Omnidroids goes horribly, desperately wanting her life taken away and was about to go through with it by putting a Force Field inside her head and inflating it until it popped (a {{Foreshadowing}} of Syndrome's fate). Dash talks her down like the optimistic little brother he is and decides to try his hand at the Omnidroids to cheer her up and redeem her for her efforts.
23	*** Dash getting the opportunity to fight the Omnidroids immediately blows up in his face and he's left badly bloodied, and crying from the onslaught, a horrified Violet immediately breaks down into big sister mode and subs in for him and defeats the Omnidroid.
24	*** Violet begins to bond with Syndrome's minion Mirage where she gets to know her not as a fellow employee but as a human being, Mirage explains and opens up that she wanted to be an actress and breaks down crying when she was rejected by Brad Bird's company, that lead to her taking a job with Syndrome. Violet is understandably moved by this to the point she calls Mirage ''mom'' by accident, causing Mirage to get embarrassed and Violet emotional realizing that if her mom was alive she'd apologize to her for doing what she did. It also slowly tips to Violet that Syndrome isn't who he say he is.
25	*** Syndrome offers Violet a job to steal the Nullifier from the Mastermind (who is revealed to be the real killer of Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl) while revealing that it can take powers away, Violet immediately accepts this offer and vows to bring the Mastermind to justice. While secretly planning to use the Nullifier on herself so she can live a normal life.
26	*** Violet and her battle with the Mastermind upon sneaking in and stealing the Nullifier while invisible on her first try, ultimately it's where the villian reveals everything to Violet that she's being used by her boss and her boss is secretly using her as his evil sidekick. Violet is able to escape while the villian proudly congratulates her and sees her much like her parents who she fought during the Glory Days. However because she's a villain Violet doesn't buy her words that Syndrome's evil.
27	*** Upon returning, Syndrome is understandably angry that Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl escaped his Nigel Lair and have gone into hiding and is forced to keep his voice down when Violet and Dash walks in. He's absolutely shocked and saddened to hear when Violet requests to have her be the first one to use the Nullifier on herself as she wants to retire from heroics permanently as she doesn't share the same love of Supers he does. Syndrome decides to let her use it for a while in case she changes her mind.
28	*** Helen upon hiding out with Frozone's family, has a horrible HeelRealization on how awful she treated Violet and wants to go and find her as does Bob so she can apologize, but Frozone orders them not to leave the house as Syndrome is after them, leaving them disheartened.
29	*** Violet is finally happy after losing her powers and upon seeing Dash, she starts going mad with power over having ''normalcy'' and wants her family to be ''normal'' forever and immediately attacks Dash on trying to remove his powers by force with the Nullifier. Dash in response tearfully '''disowns’'' Violet after kicking her off over this with her disowning him back, effectively breaking up the Parr family siblings with poor Jack-Jack crying over his siblings fighting.
30	*** Mirage is understandably angry and horrified with Violet's actions that got her relationship with Dash completely destroyed by giving her one hell of a WhatTheHellHero and YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech, with Violet (now depowered) stating she has no family, outright hates superheroes and that her powers made her a freak that all but destroyed her one shot with Tony Rydinger. Mirage tells her that's just exactly what a supervillain would say at their StartOfDarkness and that she finally spills the beans on her parents, revealing that they're alive and well in Nigel's Lair, and what Violet did to herself would be dishonouring her parents by trying to live a normal life. Upon arriving, they find the lair empty, which tips off Mirage and Violet that someone close to them freed them (revealing it to be Frozone's doing). Violet confronts Mirage on what Syndrome is really like as a person and Mirage tells her that Syndrome is irredeemably evil and is using Violet and her siblings to have his own pair of sidekicks to spite her father in order to hurt his legacy, Mirage also tells her that she stood up for her own brother Dash, fought and survived her boss's Omnidroids against all odds and most notably outsmarted and stole the Nullifier on her first try from her parents' old enemy the Mastermind, horrified by what she did to herself, Violet restores her powers and Dash (who overheard the two talking as he trailed them) tearfully arrives to apologize to Violet, realizing that she was scared and was only looking out for their well being.
31	*** Unfortunately Syndrome arrives and immediately attacks Violet, Mirage and the kids and steals the Nullifier from Violet with the help of his Omnidroids, finally dropping the ruse, he then decides the time has come for Violet to fulfill her mission of killing her parents and having him as his sidekick by subjugated her to a device that turns people evil against their will. With ''Violet'' herself being the first victim.
32	*** Violet begins to undergo a FaceHeelTurn against her will with Syndrome spilling lies, deceit and hatred into her mind as she struggles to resist the machine's power, Mirage reveals to Dash that it's the machine that robbed her of her acting dreams. By the time the procedure is complete, ''Violet'' steps out with a devilish evil grin complete with an EvilLaugh that's just bone chilling. Showing that even the daughter of Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl is not immune to corruption.
33	*** Syndrome ordering Violet to ''kill'' Mirage. It's the stepping stone that turns Mirage against him as Syndrome saw the machine wasn't as full proof on Mirage when she mentions how her acting dreams were shattered and saw her as expendable. Leading to Dash and Violet fighting briefly with Dash crying for the real Violet to remember the good times.
34	*** Violet and Dash's fight ultimately ends with Dash knocking his sister out as he breaks down sobbing as does Jack-Jack, with Mirage hugging the boys tightly. Violet then has a battle within her own ''mindscape'' with her good self fighting against her now evil counterpart with her evil self gloating and bullying her good self, who is shy, terrified and utterly defenseless. It's not until all of her good memories of the past (hiding behind the school wall waiting for Tony for him to look at her (while she turned invisible), her parents, her protecting Dash and bonding with Mirage) is what ultimately redeems Violet as her good self regains her confidence and banishes her evil self from her mindscape.
35	*** Violet wakes up and immediately breaks down crying for what she nearly did to Mirage. Mirage and her immediately reconciles with Dash and Jack-Jack hugging the terrified, but now confident Violet and Mirage telling her of a plan to defeat Syndrome for good by having them pretending to be his loyal minions. They then use a plane to get to Metroville to stop Syndrome.
36	*** Syndrome attacks the Parr's and Frozone at Lucius' apartment and has Frozone's niece Lucy held hostage, revealing she was faking her voice as the Mastermind while she was fighting Violet. Then he depowers Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl and Frozone, he then orders his Omnidroids to rough them up a bit, leaving them bloodied and injured.
37	*** The kids and Mirage arrive at their neighborhood and finds their small neighborhood overrun with weaker Omnidroids, Violet drops Jack-Jack off at Kari's house and asks Kari [=McKeen=] to watch over Jack-Jack for her while she goes out to fight crime (unaware that the real Violet is a Super). Unfortunately while babysitting the tyke Kari accidentally triggers Jack-Jack's powers by playing Mozart music leaving her terrified, crying and broken.
38	*** Syndrome begins to gloat menacingly over the badly injured Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl and Frozone with him revealing that he succeeded in turning their kids evil and into their most hated enemies that will be the ones to kill them. This immediately causes great pings of pain to Bob and Helen (with them threatening to kill him), Helen breaks down crying and with unrestrained fury in her eyes. Then the kids arrive and their fears are realized. Violet and Dash are evil and there's no turning back.
39	*** Violet and Dash (who is faking his FaceHeelTurn) looking at their defeated parents and Uncle Frozone pretending to be loyal to Syndrome, Dash is doing his hardest to not cry where as Violet is unresponsive before giving off an evil smirk (a clear sign she wasn't fully cured of her evilness) that breaks her parents down and it appears Violet's going to outright murder her parents until she hesitates. Syndrome upon seeing Violet's love for her parents as a weakness orders his Omnidroid (V9) to impale Mr. Incredible that suddenly causes Violet to snap and attack her boss with Dash stripping Syndrome of the Nullifier behind his back while Violet is busy fighting him and restores Bob his powers just in time before the Omnidroid kills him.
40	*** Upon realizing his own sidekicks betrayed him and his own loyal minion Mirage are in cahoots with the Parrs, Syndrome immediately flees to go and kidnap Jack-Jack, unaware his entire powers have been activated thanks to Kari. The Parrs arrive to watch the carnage of seeing Jack-Jack go to town on the madman with all 17 powers, and the parents quickly snatch the rampaging baby before he could murder Syndrome.
41	*** Unfortunately for the parents, it's at that point Violet finally hits her breaking point when Syndrome starts manipulating her into attacking him and she immediately goes right for Syndrome's throat over his abuse, delivering one of the most savaging NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ever by punching and beating his face repeatedly that leaves the mad fanboy turned supervillain unrecognizable and bloodied to the limit. It's very telling when Violet's own parents, little brother Dash, Mirage, Frozone and Lucy are all sickened by what they're playing witness to and tearfully begging Violet to stop what she's doing and that she's doing what Syndrome wanted her to do: ''becoming him''. Violet stops and sees how much damage she did to Syndrome's face in her unstoppable fury, but Syndrome in his usual gloating self (despite his horrible condition) threatens to come back to kidnap Jack-Jack and will always haunt Violet wherever she goes as long he lives. Then in one of the most darkest and violent scenes in the Twisted Tales books, Violet lifts Syndrome's body up with her Force Field and then she starts inflating the mad fanboy's head from the inside out with a Force Field until it violently explodes in a shower of blood that fills up the Force Field. That's right ''Violet Parr outright committed murder in cold blood''. And her family, Mirage and Frozone are deeply disturbed by what just happened and Lucy who's one of Violet's closest friends is outright traumatized and fearful of her. Upon recovering, Violet immediately breaks down crying over what she just did to Syndrome, even though he deserved every single minute of it. With Helen and Mirage comforting her over the irreversible life changing act. Rick Dicker is aghast over seeing what Violet just did to Syndrome, but agrees to cover up Violet's killing of the evil villain to protect Violet's legacy.
42	*** Mirage tearfully saying goodbye to Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack and revealing that she's still evil and will oppose them going forward, Violet in repayment for everything Mirage did for her and her family asks Lucy to put in a call for the Mastermind to set Mirage up for another job. Even though Lucy can't forgive Violet for murder.
43	*** The Mastermind happily accepts the Nullifier back from Violet and her family, and is shocked and saddened to hear that Violet killed Syndrome with her own bare hands, even though he was planning genocide against Violet's kind something the Mastermind opposes. She still disapproves of seeing Violet, a heroic Super outright stoop to murdering a human being, even if he deserved it.
44	*** The ending of ''Suddenly Super'' is downright heartbreaking despite it being bittersweet: Syndrome is finally dead (though considering that he was murdered in cold blood by Violet, her life is irreversibly damaged despite finally getting a chance to be happy with Tony, who's unaware of Violet's crime since he doesn't remember her), because the FinalBattle didn't take place in the city means that the Parrs don't meet Winston Deavor as it was the publicity of Syndrome's invasion on Metroville that got the government to take notice. Without meeting Winston, the Parrs are on the verge of facing ''homelessness'', his sister Evelyn Deavor outright [[TheBadGuyWins wins in this timeline]], and the Parrs now have to watch out for the Mastermind (whom Mirage is now working for) who now has plans for them, especially for Violet who's now the black sheep of the Parr family after murdering Syndrome.

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