Fridge / Mr. Incredible and Pals

Fridge Brilliance

• The moral of the short is basically the opposite of the original movie. While the moral of The Incredibles was that Mr. Incredible was wrong to work alone and should accept the help of his friends and family, in Mr. Incredible and Pals, Mr. Incredible, despite ostensibly being part of a team, essentially works alone (Frozone is restrained early in the fight and Mr. Skipperdoo is useless), and it works out well for him as he easily defeats Lady Lightbug. It's an interesting layer to the parody that isn't immediately apparent upon viewing.

• Having to make up the villains probably served two purposes in universe. It would have discouraged the actual villains from attacking the show if they disliked their portrayals, and avoided the issue of whether adapting the criminals who likely had body counts to their name to animation was in good taste or not.
  • Not to mention sidestepping possible legal issues that portrayals of the villains would have brought up (e.g. Would they have to be paid licensing fees, effectively rewarding them for their crimes?)
  • Another part could be seen as a reinforcement of a secondary theme throughout the movie: Real life rarely gives you clear cut answers. In the movie Bob tackles To Be Lawful or Good at the beginning after the ban, Buddy's tunnel vission nearly causing a disaster and ending in the ban, Syndrome's evil coming from what was proven to be a justified refusal to indulge him, and his desire to avoid hurting others being at odds with others wanting to help him. Fake villains give those clear cut answers , doing evil for reasons that are justified by them being a convenient social target. One most likely couldn't get that from actual villains.

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