Wild Mass Guessing for The Incredibles.
With animation, The Incredibles is set in the same universe as Monsters Vs. Aliens, Megamind, the Despicable Me series, Transformers Prime and Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
With live action, The Incredibles is set in the same universe as Runaway Train, Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Knight, Lifeforce, the Die Hard Quadrilogy, Ricochet, the Predator Trilogy, the Jurassic Park Trilogy and The Mummy (1999).
Basically they all share the same world along with The Incredibles and on top of that, Incredibles 2 isn't canon in this world and the first film is set in 2004 instead of the 1960s.
- A deleted scene has lamenting her "lanky" appearance, clearly showing that she has body image problems.
- Her FANDOM Wikia states that her weight is only 90 lbs, which is almost 15 lbs underweight for someone who is 5'2''.
- Jossed. Evelyn doesn't wear a cape.
- Considering how Buddy indirectly caused Supers to get banned, it's easy to see how someone could trace the ban all back to him. Hell, if Buddy stuck around with Mr. Incredible, Mr. Incredible while upset, angry and distraught over being made illegal might lose it and start to blame Buddy, which would be an alternate starting point for his Freudian Excuse.
- The Syndrome at the end of the Movie was some kind of duplicate. The real Syndrome is planning something not even the Duplicate was aware of.
- Oddly enough, the real world lends this credence. Lots of people have survived close encounters with jet engines, either by getting snagged on other parts near the intake, or depending on the model, simply surviving the initial impact. After all, a jet engine is not built to operate like a giant blender, it's meant to move air at high speeds, and when objects do get pulled inside, they usually break the engine.
- One of the Disney on Ice shows used just that to bring Syndrome into it, so...
- This likely stems from the Super-Reflexes he taps into while fighting Syndrome's mooks. His mind moves so quickly that he's borderline (and most likely fully, on occasion) precognitive!
- That makes absolutely no sense. Thinking faster, maybe, but how would that make you precognitive?
- It also makes no sense how a bipedal speedster could run on water for limitless distance without sinking an inch. because even in mach-speeds he's still pushing water down to hold his weight which it can't without sinking him each time. But if one tries to explain Dash's extraordinary speed through Relative Theory, it can be traced through the changes in space-time continuum all the way to wormholes and how a person might perceive light from the other side of time and space. If that someone is a prepubescent child with an extreme case of ADHD, he might not be able to understand it fully and his mind would simply merge it with his hyperactive imagination.
- A perhaps more likely scenario is that Bob threw a car at some point in the battle against the Omnidroid that we didn't see.
- He does grab one velocipod and throw it into another at one point. Dash doesn't know they're called "Velocipods" so he's using an approximation.
- On the other hand, his father does have minor precognitive abilities unrelated to his main powers...
- It's also possible that Dash is referring to the monorail pod thingy that he rips off the track and throws at the two guards earlier in the movie. Dash wasn't there at the time, though.
- But Dash was there when he took down one of the spinning heli-thingies just before the first family fight.
- Alternatively, Dash has Spider-Senses. A.K.A., he can sense incoming danger. This is how he was able to dodge all of the incoming armies.
- According to the bonus features on the DVD, Mr. Incredible is able to sense danger before it happens. I think there are a couple of places in the movie where he demonstrates this ability but it's clearly not foolproof (the Omnidroid is able to sneak up on him before their first fight). Dash could have inherited the same ability.
It's not like Disney or Pixar is gonna have her come out and say, "yes, I kill people for a living".
Considering the comic book influence here, she is Silver Sable, Elektra, Tommy Monaghan (The Hitman), Forerunner, Bullseye, Jessica Priest, Deathstroke and maybe a little Deadpool thrown in.
- She's at the very least a spy, now working with the NSA in the comics.
- They may have assisted Syndrome's rise to power.
- If there is a sequel, then this third party will be the Big Bad.
- In the original concept, a shifty millionaire/lawyer/Corrupt Corporate Executive named Xerek was the Big Bad, and the lawsuit angle was a much bigger plot element.
- And thus, the man who masterminded this suicide, in order to kickstart his Evil Plan...is Adrian Veidt (see below).
- This is extremely likely. If he were really suicidal, and if Mr. Incredible stopping him didn't make him realize he wanted to live, then why the hell would he sue anyone instead of just offing himself in private? What would he need the money for if he wants to die? Either he was working for somebody else or this was an incredibly selfish get-rich-quick scheme.
- This could also be the reason about her remark that neither she nor Mr. Incredible technically exist. An android would have no government records or data, right? On another note, Syndrome was also a very smart but very lonely nerd who most likely had no chance of getting a real girlfriend, so he probably just built Mirage instead. Seeing as how he could make a murderous Killer Robot, it's very possible he could create an android.
- A murderous robot that also turned on him due to AI.
- Alternatively, one of her powers is resistance to crushing injuries.
- Mirage's powers were some kind of invisibility/distortion. In the part where Mr.Incredible drops her, Mirage seemed to liquefy as she fell down. It would explain her odd name: "Mirage" means "illusion", and so she chose a code name based on her superpowers.
- She could phase through objects. She DID phase in the background of one scene.
- Which scene?
- She may be able to hide her true thoughts from mind-readers, like Everseer. Someone had to speak to him to lure him into fighting one of the early Omnidroids.
- Not necessary if Everseer was recruited via a voice-activated pad, like Mr. Incredible, but one that gave more-detailed instructions. It's unlikely that his mind-reading ability would work on a computer. Indeed, that may be what gave Syndrome the idea of recruiting others using that method.
- She's an unnamed fugitive from a women's prison in El Salvador (which explains her slight Spanish accent). Her appearance is attributable to the fact that she's an albino who wears green contact lenses. Syndrome used his technology to implant many years worth of English studies into her mind simultaneously, just as Morpheus did with Neo's "kung-fu" program in The Matrix.
- She can't be an albino. Albinos have pale skin.
- She uses tanning cream. Or body paint.
- How does a slight accent make her an illegal immigrant? Or a prison fugitive? And just having white hair does not make you an albino. This whole argument is full of Unfortunate Implications.
- Or perhaps she's an illegal alien. LITERALLY.
- She can't be an albino. Albinos have pale skin.
- Isn't that obvious? Mr Incredible no doubt pulls his punches too when he doesn't want to outright murder someone. Why is this such a wild mass guess?
Elastigirl, having been given free legal use of her powers, develops control over her own body to such an extent that she can control individual tissues unconsciously without resorting to the form she usually sees herself as. She will never die of systemic organ failure; she can only take damage on a cellular level (burning, poison, lack of oxygen//blood). She can not only change her shape, but also finer details such as facial features; and she can keep her skin wrinkle-free. The only thing she can't do is change her hair color, which either fades naturally to white or is dyed when she is sent back from the future to help stop Syndrome.
She falls for Mr. Incredible the way she does, not because she's shallow, but because he was her first love and her husband from decades or even centuries ago.
"Mirage" refers, not to her powers, but to a personal nickname, a code name for the anti-Syndrome project, or her not being who she appears to be but instead who she doesn't.
- What about the scenes where Mirage and Helen are in the shot together? Especially the one where Helen walks in on Bob hugging Mirage?
- She was sent back from the future. Why would Helen recognize her disguised future self? Why would Mirage give it away if Rule 1 was not to admit to the existence of Time Travel? Remember the Back to the Future rules about meeting oneself!
- Alternately, Mirage is Helen from a future controlled by Syndrome. She was sent back as part of a top-secret spy project to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, and, due to Laser-Guided Amnesia, remembers nothing of her life before she traveled back in time. She only knows what to do because of thoughts passing through her mind - secret transmissions from the future. She will never remember, so as not to Logic Bomb herself out of existence.
- Six screens: two facing the Totem room, two facing the computer room, and two facing inwards at each other.
- Seems unlikely, as the lava flow is not completely flat. Look closely and you'll see bumpiness along the "walls"
- Optical illusion. Surely Syndrome could afford 3-D.
- Or hologram technology.
- Optical illusion. Surely Syndrome could afford 3-D.
- Red isn't Helen's natural hair color, or black isn't Violet's.
- The genes of Supers are not like those of Muggles; for them, dark hair is recessive, and light colors are dominant. We have no evidence of Supers and Normals crossbreeding, and so they might be separate species.
- Or it's possible that certain powers have certain hair colors "keyed" to them as the most likely one to stick (since it's common for babies and young children to have hair colors strikingly different from what they have as adults). Super speed and Bob's power set are "keyed" to blond; elastic powers are "keyed" to red/ruddy and invisibility is "keyed" to black.
- Alternately, supers' hair can change over time more drastically than normals'. We only see the younger Elastigirl through a sepia filter world, so her hair color could have been different (darker or lighter) when she was a kid (also kind of works with "Mirage is Helen Parr" above).
- Alternately again, since invisibility involves light-warping, maybe Violet can (consciously or unconsciously) change her hair color. Or, maybe Elastigirl's real power is general shapeshifting, she's just unaware of its full potential and never changes colors because she doesn't know she can.
- Or maybe she dyed her hair. * killed horribly*
- Elastigirl's hair is clearly much redder in the prologue than it is in the main part of the movie. It's pretty safe to say that she dyes it.
- Not necessarily. Red hair usually dulls to a ruddy brown with age.
- Also, the color saturation in the prologue is cranked way up. Helen's hair color probably doesn't change, just the viewer's perception of it.
- The Parrs have been living under assumed names for some time. It's entirely possible that they've all dyed their hair at one time or another.
- If he bleaches it from a dark color, that is dyeing it blonde. There's no reason to add dye to it.
- The above troper likely meant toning his hair as people bleaching their hair seldom have it turn out the desired shade of blonde without some additional dying.
- If he bleaches it from a dark color, that is dyeing it blonde. There's no reason to add dye to it.
- And Violet is the result, an illegitimate offspring of Helen and an unknown, dark haired Gentleman.
- Well, Helen used to date Xerek according to the comics. And the solicits for future issues point towards some dark secret of Violet's being revealed...
- The first hint might have been the nature of her powers. While everyone in her family has some kind of physical super ability (even Jack-Jack, if you consider his flotilla of powers "physical abilities"), Violet can make her self invisible and create force fields. She bends light around herself and manipulates energy to create force fields. Edna even went as far to state that designing her suit was "tricky", because of her invisibility power. Assuming that the type of superpower you have is dependent on the nature of your parents' power...
- Well, Helen used to date Xerek according to the comics. And the solicits for future issues point towards some dark secret of Violet's being revealed...
- Oooo! Helen had an affair with The Thing, because she's able to stretch to "accommodate" his size!
- No!!!! Frozone is Violet's real father.
- Not likely. Half-black people are not in any definition of the word, pale.
- Actually, I have seen plenty of pale, "blue veined" half-black people. If anything I have not seen very many "pink" mullatos. Historically, that were plenty of mixed people who looked so white that they were able to leave their culture and live in white society without being noticed. Violet could just be "passing".
- Um, what the heck? Biracial people can look like their mother's race, father's race, or a mix of the two.
- ...You guys really did just miss the obvious joke.
- Not likely. Half-black people are not in any definition of the word, pale.
- Well, since Incredibles is basically stealth remake of Watchmen, with Helen and Violet taking the same plot roles and character dynamics of Silk Spectre I and II, the obvious choice for Violet's real father is the Comedian analogue, Gazerbeam.
- Helen and Violet even have the same hair colors and hairstyles as Sally and Laurie, that can’t be a coincidence
- Syndrome was some sort of technology-manipulating Super, but (given the age) was born ahead of his time and therefore went unnoticed.
- The Super-Intelligence that both Edna and Syndrome display in their work is a superpower and "technically" makes them supers, just a more subtle kind.
- The point is HE doesn't know it. Remember, it wasn't Mr. Incredible who told him he wasn't a Super, it was Buddy who said that's what he thought Mr. Incredible meant. In his mind, being a super genius doesn't count as a power like superstrength or shooting ice, but in reality, it is.
- Perhaps Syndrome is a second generation super. It's implied that his father is not present. Perhaps he was a super who both married a normie, and died. His mother wouldn't tell Buddy because she didn't want him dying like her husband.
- Several have theorized that Syndromes' parents were actually Psychwave and Universal Man: who originally owned Nomanisan Island and were the first two Supers that Syndrome had killed with the MK. I Omnidroid. They might have first assumed since Buddy didn't manifest direct powers to theirs that he was probably a Muggle Born of Mages and kept their own identities and powers a secret from him.
- Perhaps his super intelligence isn't considered a power in such universe, and he thought it sucked.
- One theory is, after cracking down on heroic Supers (who mostly went quietly), the government (or whoever was behind the lawsuit conspiracy presented in the first theory) did something similar to supervillains, bribing them with amnesty or money. Or possibly, they came down on them with the military. Hard. Of course, the thrill of having superheroes to fight again drew at least one supervillain, the Underminer, out of the woodwork, so it's possible that not having superhero opponents to fight was a factor in the villains' retirement.
- It's in Headscratchers/TheIncredibles.
- In the Watchmen Universe, Supervillains realized how stupid, costly, impractical, and noticeable it is to wear a purple suit while robbing banks. These villains realize low key underground criminal activity is a better choice to profit from than the flashy over the top terrorist acts; this could very happen in the Incredibles universe.
- They may also feel really silly being the only people in costume with the heroes fighting them
- Not all supervillains have been killed. Only the super-powered ones (see below).
- Jossed by the comics, an entire Legion of Doom known as the Confederacy of Crime was active around Jack-Jack's birth and continues to be a threat to the family.
- Plus Bomb Voyage had escaped from the villain crackdown.
- But wasn't Bomb Voyage only featured in the first act, which was the cause of the SRA, and not yet under it? Heroes were still around and so were villains, at least up until the lawsuit.
- Plus Bomb Voyage had escaped from the villain crackdown.
- The Incredibles is Wanted? You, sir or madam, have just blown my mind.
- Syndrome was originally compelled to do good - he originally wanted nothing more than to team up with Mr. Incredible. Had Mr. Incredible allowed this, Syndrome would never have gone crazy and systematically killed all the other Supers, though he would've had his superhero career cut short. (The day he offered to team up was the same day supers got sued into secrecy.)
- Actually, if Mr. Incredible had just let Buddy be his sidekick, the kid wouldn't have tried to fly off for help, thus never giving Bomb Voyage the opportunity to slip an explosive onto his cape. If the train overpass hadn't been exploded, Sansweet's case might not have generated enough public sentiment to trigger the flood of lawsuits. What this implies is that not only is Bob the reason Syndrome came into being, his refusal to make little Syndrome his sidekick indirectly CAUSED the SRA.
- Jossed. In the extras, there are interviews with several Supers. Some appear to only be in the hero game for money or resources; at least one (Gamma Jack) was an out and out sociopath who took pleasure in killing his opponents and thought he was above normal humans.
- The reason we don't see or hear the name "Gamma Jack" is that, by the time the movie happens, he is known by another name...Rorschach (see below).
- But we do see the name "Gamma Jack" — he's in the slideshow of people who (ahem) helped work the bugs out of the Omnidroid.
- The reason we don't see or hear the name "Gamma Jack" is that, by the time the movie happens, he is known by another name...Rorschach (see below).
- We don't know that Underminer doesn't have powers. He looks enough like a mole that he could be some sort of mutant, which usually entails superpowers in comic-book Verses. And Mr. Incredible did use tech (remember his self-driving, transforming car?) when he was hero-ing, just not only tech.
- This doesn't explain Edna. She's clearly got tech powers too, which is how she can make the super suits and all the widgets in her house.
- Yes, but Edna's real role is never defined. She gives to the highest bidder, not to the best cause. Also, remember her rant when Mr. Incredible first turns up at her house about "puny little supermodels" and how she used to "design for gods". She's just as bigoted against normal people as Syndrome and Bomb Voyage, she just doesn't care enough to fight them. It's also possible that she became allied with a Super early on in her career, and she was never compelled to move back to villainy.
- Bomb Voyage seemed to just have ridiculous body proportions. Does anyone here remember what his FACE looked like? Villainy was his only option, because, honestly, would anyone hire someone like that for a normal job?
- Perhaps it's less that the powers come with the propensity as the isolation. Super intelligence on it's own seems to go unrecognized as a superpower and as such supers with that power grow up different but not knowing why. Buddy and Edna, and possibly screenslaver, are all super intelligent but Edna got into contact with other supers who could at least empathize with others not understanding them even if the specifics were different. Buddy didn't and turned into a sociopathic murderer due to the intense social isolation.
- The government called this project..."Project Manhattan" (see below).
Maybe "Rick Dicker" is an alias for Richard Nixon, President of the United States. Note that "Rick" and "Dick" are both alternate forms of the name "Richard".
- Maybe this theory is sexy. Notice how, even in Watchmen, there are a couple of superheroes killed by their capes — Dollar Bill infamously got his caught in a revolving door and was gunned down. The prologue scene took place during the "Under the Hood" era, just not in New York - NONE of it is in New York, which is why there are no smoldering craters, etc.
- One problem: Watchmen has only one super. Everyone else is a Badass Normal wearing their underwear on the outside.
- Theory one: Manhattan is just the only super-power that we saw, not the only one there is.
- Theory two: Being god-like, Manhattan decided that he, and he alone, should be the only "super" around. Thus, after the events of the movie, he killed the whole Incredibles team as well as Frozone and any superhero around.
- That would be out of keeping with his character.
- Theory three: after defeating the Underminer, their next case was the murder of the Comedian. Ozymandias killed them in order to silence them.
- There's one problem with this, as evil as Veidt is, I highly doubt he'd personally murder children (especially since he probably knows how to brainwash people.)
- In the original Watchman comic, there was at least one natural telepath. How many other unseen superhumans were around in the Watchmanverse?
- It was said it was a LATENT telepath. Meaning she/he did not have access to their power.
- Or maybe the supers weren't the result of random mutation— they were the humans that Manhattan said he was going to create.
- Word Of Bird is that the main part off the movie takes place in "the '60s of an alternate universe". But this could still be the '60s of a universe that had the events of Watchmen take place beforehand.
- That has a Real Life explanation: they're both modeled on Brad Bird.
- Although, this would add another layer to the whole "make sure his mom knows what he's been doing" comment...
- I don't think so. Mr Incredible had trouble remembering Buddy's name and called him "that kid from the fan club". P.S. He was twenty-five in the prologue. We know this because he is officially stated to be 40 and there was a fifteen-year Time Skip.
- So? It's all too possible that Mr. Incredible never found out. And there have been fifteen year old guys with children they don't know about yet. Of course, that doesn't mean that Buddy didn't find out about it until after the incident with Bomb Voyage.
- Alternatively, they aren't related at all. However the physical resemblence combined with parental neglect at home and the lack of a father lead Buddy to believe he was. His mom wouldn't talk about his father, who was a terrible person, but showed some interest in Mr. Incredible. Buddy being highly intelligent but socially very immature misconstrued this into him secretly being Mr. Incredibles kid in his own mind. Part of his revenge was for either this fantasy being destroyed or a mistaken belief that it is actually the case.
- Limited? She predicted that Jack-Jack's powers would have to do with fire!
- Edna's just Crazy Is Cool and Crazy-Prepared. She specifically says that she didn't know what Jack Jack's powers were; she just covered all the bases. She even made it machine washable! Also, she probably used something similar to Elastigirl's stretchy outfit to provide a margin of error.
- Maybe Edna knew about Dash and Violet's powers because she read about them in the Parr's annual Christmas letters (or whatever). It's not as if they cut off all contact with their super-peers after going underground (see Frozone). Edna is enough of a friend that both Bob and Helen could call her without any problem.
- Are we all forgetting that she spent the day catching up with Bob when he came to get his suit fixed? How could that conversation have not included at some point, "So, do the children have any powers?"
- Another of Edna's achievements is a kind of fabric with ink that can change shape for a limited amount of time. This fabric would later be improved and perfect by a young seamster called Walter Kovacks (see above).
- Problem with that: Kovacks didn't create the fabric; Dr. Manhattan did. Kovacks just got hold of the dress that Manhattan made when the women he made it for didn't want it anymore.
- Dr. Manhattan didn't make the fabric, some company developed it as a product using ideas from Manhattan's work. Think of all the products that arose indirectly from the space program, yet weren't actually invented at NASA.
When Xerek was cut and Syndrome was promoted to Big Bad, Syndrome's revenge plot was promoted likewise. That's why Pixar randomly left in that one line — which is never set up, never explored, and never mentioned again — is a mystery. So is the ignorance of the second sentence, which reveals that his motives are entirely evil without even a Utopia Justifies the Means personal justification.
- He regretted being a superhero fan in his youth. He still has all the fanatic tendencies that made him a fan, but it's only natural that he would destroy the superhero fandom that frustrated him. Plus, it doesn't require any strong justification; it is one of the few parts of his plan that would actually help people and make the world a better place.
- The 'No-one will be' part could be a Take That! at Mr Incredible for (at least in Syndromes' mind) saying he is not a super. In effect, it would leave Mr Incredible and his family just like everyone else for the rest of their lives, with not even any powers to make themselves unique. Besides, the line is hinted at beforehand (See the page quote on the main page).
- Those time-travelling bastards pre-stole the idea!
- Aside from the aforementioned point that this was made BEFORE Civil War, what the HELL does Superman have to do with Iron Man?!
- Iron Man's enemy during Civil War is the Anti-Reg side, whose leader is Captain America, who is about as idealistic as Supes.
- Also, Mr. Incredible and family (along with the rest of the supers) were genetically-enhanced actives used by the government who somehow got a hold of the technology. They were retired and released to live normal lives after protesting from people who thought it was inhumane to make normal people be super soldiers. They kept their memories of fighting off threats, and their powers, and lived somewhat normal lives as sleeper actives (so that the government could activate them if they ever needed to wipe out threats again). Their handler was, obviously, Rick Dicker. When they successfully defeated Rossum's revenge-imprinted programmer (Syndrome), much to the happiness of general public, they decided they could bring back the genetically enhanced actives to fight off rogue actives (supervillains) and further threats from Rossum and other companies with imprinting technologies.
- As for how Mr. Incredible recognized Buddy... all those events happened in the past, but it did not have such an adverse effect on Buddy Pine, who went on to be a programmer for Rossum until he was imprinted and sent to kill off all the superhuman actives. He started glitching towards the end the movie, even to the point of almost letting his handler die. By that time, Mirage decided it was best to let the Incredibles go so they could stop the glitching Syndrome from ruining things for Rossum completely.
- Mr. Incredible might have the power to enhance the energy of his body's molecular bonds— this would explain not only the invulnerability, but, since muscle cells use those same intermolecular forces to contract, it would cover his super-strength as well. Elastigirl has the power to manipulate those same molecular forces in a different way, to reshape her body. Dash simply channels kinetic energy through his body.
- Some aspects of it may have a 60ish aesthetic, mainly the Incredimobile and one suburban house, but nothing else suggests it takes place in anything but the present day.
- Rewatch the scene where Mr Incredible is viewing Syndrome's computer files on all the supers. The file for Elastigirl states that her last activity (i.e. the opening scene of the movie, or shortly afterwards) was in 1955. Since the present day is 15 years later, the movie is taking place in 1970 or so.
- Some aspects of it may have a 60ish aesthetic, mainly the Incredimobile and one suburban house, but nothing else suggests it takes place in anything but the present day.
- Fridge Brilliance. Syndrome mentions that he sold a lot of his inventions and that's why he's filthy rich. He says he only kept the best inventions, like the Omnidroid and the Zero Point Energy for himself.
- Maybe a few generations later, since that's a lot of supers.
- PS238 might also be in the Incredibles universe.
- This is brilliant
- Either that, or his power is to keep that ridiculous hairdo up even in the heat of battle.
- She started out a goth. It would make sense. She keeps dying it after her Character Development because she likes the way it looks.
- She didn't start out as a goth... if anything, she started out as a non-scene emo. The dark hair itself was likely intended as a part of the character trope she was obviously inspired by.
Jossed: As seen under Deleted Scene and What Could Have Been sections, Violet was born with black hair by default, meaning that it's a recessive trait in the Parr family. She also has black eyebrows which all but confirms that she was born with it.
Interestingly enough, though I don't think it goes that far, Kronos created a whole bunch of things and beings (mainly gods that are nowadays considered subservient to Zeus) when he castrated his father, Ouranus, which could be compared to Syndrome taking Mr. Incredible's kids and possibly both emasculating him and taking his wife away by having Mirage mess with his head and overtly flirt with him. Credence could be given to this if the Underminer and similar villains adapted their technology from Syndrome's marketed inventions, since that (the inventions) was what was cast off in the attempted destruction of Ouranos, but I don't know from whence their tech came and that would be stretching the metaphor a bit.
- Or, the island just was outside the U.S. government's jurisdiction.
- Since when does that stop the United States Government?
- The film takes place in a world that has no "United States".
- This requires a MASSIVE Alternate Character Interpretation of Captain Hammer to the point where it shatters my willing suspension of disbelief. Hammer was never shown to truly care about Penny, and he even stated that the only reason he went after her was that Billy wanted her. Had Dr. Horrible not been so obviously in love with Penny, he probably would've just used her as a one-night stand. The basic concept of Captain Hammer being anything other than a raging egomaniac who plays the hero simply for personal glory is beyond Out of Character for what's shown in the musical.
- True Captain Hammer didn't care about Penny but he might have started believing his own lies. If he's responding to anything its feeling pain. Say he went to therapy to recover from his loss, and while Captain Hammer was telling his story his therapist defied logic and decided to tell the person who has super strength and tried to kill somebody for laughs that maby he was really the villian and Dr. Horrible was the hero. Considering Captain Hammer mental capacity he would have to spell it out. He might have meshed himself and Justice Joe into Mr.Incredible, and possibly Johnny Snow and Dr. Horrible and creating a story where they are essentially switched around. Instead of being upset that his hero stole his lines from a bully he's upset that he couldn't accept that he would only get in the way and blew everything way out of proportion. Instead of him really making everything worse people are doing lame things like complaining of whiplash when they would have dead. Instead of stiffing the natural talents of smart people and being hyper elitist Buddy is stifling the talents of Supers. In the Incredibles the hero couldn't kill while the villain was all to willing to watch. Syndrome was the one willing to endanger people so he could play the hero. It could also be the was Captain Hammer thinks the world works.
- Then he must own Paramount too, because Star Trek TNG had "padds" just like that in 1987.
- And then casually murdered Buddy when he got bored with the game?
- That was an accident.
- Alternatively, Mr. Incredible and Syndrome were LARPing at first, however, Syndrome being Syndrome was sadistic enough to choose to be a villain for real, prompting Mr. Incredible to Become The Boast.
- That was an accident.
- Especially after considering that the mugger didn't take anything. Watch him leave; he throws the wallet back on top of the victim. Also, the most violent part was done on the side of the dumpster away from Mr. Incredible, which means it would be easier to stage it like that. That side of the dumpster was closer to the street, too, where it would be easier for a pedestrian to see. However, keep Disneyfication in mind.
- This becomes especially clear since, even if the mugger didn't recognize the cubicle drone in the office as Mr. Incredible (Clark Kenting is alive and well in the universe after all), he could hardly have missed that said cubicle drone was about three times the size of the midget in the suit.
- This would make sense, although for the not taking anything you could handwave it as the robber taking the cash out of it and throwing the empty wallet back.
- If it was, it becomes Hilarious in Hindsight, now Disney owns Marvel Comics. (For those not in the know, Superman is owned by DC Comics, Marvel's biggest competition).
- Or he's Jimmy Neutron who got stuck in another dimension; or that 'verse's Jimmy.
- Alternatively...
- Dash was probably a fast birth regardless.
- And we now all have the mental image of a vagina you can literally walk in and out of. Thanks, TvTropes!
- That would probably violate the Super Registration Act.
- Telling a woman who can have a painless birth that she has to do it the normal way and suffer would probably go over about as well as telling a non-super woman she can't have painkillers.
- What make you think that she can turn her powers off?
- I can imagine the scene.
Doctor: "I'm sorry, but we can't have you use your powers to give birth."Helen: "What?!"[Bob punches down a wall]Doctor: "It's not me... I have orders..."Bob: "Well, tell the fool we forced you."- Chances are she just gave birth at home. She's essentially immune to all the most dangerous aspects of childbirth because her tissues stretch instead of tear, and her elasticity also means that she can serve as her own obstetrician. Who wants to go through the Hell of going to a hospital if your body basically allows you to pluck your newborn baby out of yourself like you're uprooting a turnip?
- All she had to do was say that she wanted a home birth, maybe a water birth even, hire a midwife (if she didn't have a friend that could help out) and BAM. No problems.
- This is how I always saw it, and it makes a lot of sense. Children's powers solidify as their personality does. That may even be what Helen meant when she said "Jack-Jack doesn't have a power", not that Jack-Jack didn't have one, but that he didn't have a specific one. Alternately, children's powers never manifest within eyeshot of their parents until they're fully formed, and the parents just don't know.
- I always thought that the reason Jack-Jack had so many powers was because his personality wasn't fully formed. Once he was at a certain age where his personality was, most of his powers would disappear.
- Which would explain why Violet and Dash's powers fit their personalities so well. Though this doesn't explain why Violet has two powers and everyone else has one.
- Or Violet's powers were the result of experiments conducted on Randall, which included splicing his DNA into a human embryo. Violet was the only embryo that survived from this process. Helen volunteered to act as surrogate for the embryo, and Violet was born.
- Somebody needs to write this fanfic. Now.
- Incredibles is set in an alternate 60s-70s, while the Monsters, Inc. comic links the movie as being set post-Toy Story 1 with Sid as a villain that has been sneaking through the door system to steal toys and spare kids from what happened to him.
- Anything goes in fanfiction though.
- This makes sense, especially considering the theory that all Pixar movies occur within the same universe.
- Probably some of Syndrome's inventions.
- That, and consider that The Incredibles is supposed to take place in an alternate universe.
- Word Of Bird is that the main part of the movie takes place in "the '60s of an alternate universe".
- A guy that big doesn't need superpowers to accidentally crush his wife rolling over.
- Though it does set up the unfortunate implications that he could you know, accidentally blow his lover up like a balloon which would definitely kill a normal woman who lacks the powers, Elastigirl would definitely be able to handle it.
- Why would she stand by while other Supers she knew and probably designed outfits for were killed? She's eccentric, not evil.
- Given the similarities in Helen and Violet's facial structure, Bob is the more likely step-parent.
- Probably, since she doesn't show up for the final battle with Frozone. But how could that have gotten past the Super Registration Act? She'd have to be let in on it.
- Maybe he already knew her (dating at the time or not) before Supers were forced to go underground.
- Confirmed. The kids don't run the show in the sequel, but they play a major role in the climax, especially with the family adapting to Jack-Jack's powers and the kids saving the parents towards the end, and the ending clearly puts the spotlight on Violet, heavily implying she'll be the main character in the third film.
- Not so much a pun, more of a portmanteau. Regardless, I'd expect her Super name to be UltraViolet (as in not visible to the human eye).
- This is confirmed for Violet's mirrorverse counterpart. Though not yet sure if it'll be her actual canon superhero identity when Incredibles 3 rolls around.
- I on the other hand would expect Shrinking Violet. A pun and an apt description of her powers.
- She doesn't shrink.
- That's too close to their real names, though. Even in the Super's glory days, every super had a secret identity. Maybe all their names would be allusions to their powers while being puns on the word "Incredible" (Although Mr. Incredible has to stay Mr. Incredible).
- Semi-confirmed for Dash, which is his nickname and is short for Dashiel. Violet and Jack-Jack don't have superhero codenames yet.
- Boo's parents were scientists, and discovered some of Randall's skin cells by accident in their daughter's room. They grafted some of the DNA into a human embryo, and then Violet was born. Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl decided to adopt her, since she was a Super (and at that point, they were the only married couple where both members were Supers). Then they had Dash, and the government began work on designing a Super baby, who ended up being Jack-Jack, also adopted by the Parrs (this works best if you believe the Pixar Theory, which involves the Monster's Inc. doors traveling through time). When Elastigirl says "Jack-Jack doesn't have a power," she knew that Jack-Jack had powers, but the government didn't tell the Parrs exactly how many or what they were, which is why everyone was surprised when they saw Jack-Jack in action.
Jossed, new villian is unconnected.
- Bob: [Villain] is your ex-boyfriend?Helen: You're making it worse, Bob!Violet: And exactly how was dating Tony a bad idea?Helen: First of all, it wasn't you dating him; it was you wanting to tell him about your super-life...and secondly, this is not the time!
Jossed: The new villian is unconnected.
- The aforementioned video elaborates on this WMG and combines it with the idea that a computer back-up of Syndrome's intelligence being the Big Bad of Incredibles 2. Said back-up basically gives Dash the outlet he thinks he wants but then it comes out that he's basically being used to murder his father (and possibly the rest of his family), to his utter horror. This prompts Dash's return to heroics and him being a changed man.
Jossed: Dash doesn't go rogue and is shown to be completely heroic, new villian wants to make Supers permanently illegal.
- Confirmed. Although the Screenslaver herself doesn't have any powers, she uses technology to enslave supers who do, and the fight against a whole bunch of supers under her control is a big part of the film's finale.
- Nomanisan is now the family's private retreat.
- Despite being voiced by a Hispanic actress, it's altogether possible than Mirage, herself, is not Hispanic and her ethnicity is one of the many other mysteries about her.
- Confirmed.
- Jossed. The sequel starts within the same day as the first one ends.
- She seems to stretch as she leaps at Dash over the dinner table and it isn't hard to imagine that powers would be in part influenced by genetics. Her version of her mother's elasticity is so subtle it goes unnoticed by everyone, even Violet herself.
- Not unheard of (though this means she'll be susceptible to all of her mom's weaknesses as well, meaning Violet better hope she doesn't go up against an air themed or water themed villian who might use that flexibility to their advantage), she could also inherit some of her dad's durability too.
Jossed: Fironic appears in a flashback scene of Incredibles 2 and he's most definitely not related to Buddy Pine.
- To be fair they already have a known Super Supremacist in this universe, as mentioned in the NSA files for the DVD, Gamma Jack was one and though he was killed at the hands of the Omnidroid, it could be possible somehow he didn't or cut a deal with Syndrome or something...to be honest, the main reason I'd want him to be the villain of Incredibles 2 is due to his personality, which makes his previous alias of Handsome Jack hilariously ironic.
- Also, he might even have Telekinesis to contrast Bob.
Jossed.
- Also, he may even have Super-Strength in order to make him an Evil Counterpart to Bob too.
Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Confirmed: Incredibles 2 reveals many such children, like Voyd, who was born right before Supers went underground (she's implied to be in her early 20's), and with the international Superhero community now revealed in the flesh, there are definitely other kids around the world that have powers.
- Edna did say that some kids are born with one or two powers that they outgrow later on, but she also said that she'd never seen a baby with as many powers as Jack-Jack, so whether he'll outgrow any of his powers, and if so which ones, remains a mystery.
Partially jossed, partially confirmed: Incredibles 2 has a new unrelated villain, though the various new powers Jack-Jack is using are a major obstacle that Mr Incredible needs to face.
- Option A: Her significant other (probably not Tony who would probably have to get Chuck Chunningham Syndrome in the sequel regardless) will turn off Dash, who is totally suspicious of this guy and makes this clear. Violet refuses to take him seriously, both because Dash is her little brother and because Dash is such a cocky little cuss. Eventually said significant other turns out to be a spy who's working for either an anti-super villain or a super supremacist (basically someone who has some reason to want the Incredibles gone). Violet suits up to save her family and realizes that she's missed protecting others, drawing her back into the super business.
- Option B: Violet has a nice normal life (in part because she convinced Edna to give her a power limiter in the form of some kind of jewelry, so she can take it off if she needs/wants to) and everything is going swimmingly at school. However, one day Violet starts having blackouts, some of which she wakes up from in places she doesn't remember going, just as a supervillain starts their rampage of terror. Her family is struggling with the villain and begs her for help which she denies because she's happy with her normal life and wants to keep it long enough to finish college. However Violet's blackouts culminate with her coming to in the presence of the supervillain who explains that his insert-name-for-device-of-control-here was able to interfere with her power limiter, not only giving him access to her powers but access to her mind as well, meaning that all of her blackouts have been the result of this guy forcibly taking control of her and making her hurt people including possibly her own family and now she's trapped in his lair with no way out. Eventually the rest of the family discovers her predicament and rushes to the rescue. The villain is defeated and Violet realizes that wanting to grow and change is fine but denying who you are is unhealthy and sometimes even dangerous.
- Granted, neither of these will probably happen exactly like I display above (though I probably will write fanfics on these two premises plus some others I like at some point) but the basic plots are sound enough.
- Incredibles 2 picks up shortly after the first film ended..
Sequel picks up right where the first film ended, with no Time Skip.
- This "toughness", as you put it, seems like textbook Required Secondary Powers. Think about it; the heavy duty physical exertion superheroes put themselves through on a constant basis usually requires some measure of invulnerability above and beyond that of a normal human being (even high-tuned athletes).
- In which case, confirmed. If having at least low-level super-toughness is a freebie for having a super-power, and they both inherited "having a super-power" from their parents, then they did both inherit super-toughness from their Dad (& also their Mom, but that wasn't the point).
- Supertoughness is a freebie superpower because the ones who didn't have it ended up dying early into their careers.
- This "toughness", as you put it, seems like textbook Required Secondary Powers. Think about it; the heavy duty physical exertion superheroes put themselves through on a constant basis usually requires some measure of invulnerability above and beyond that of a normal human being (even high-tuned athletes).
- Jossed. He's still a kid in the sequel, though we do see the Happy Platter restaurant, where Violet's crush Tony works at, as his parents are the owners, could very well be a decent Summer job for both kids, especially Violet, and the Pizza Planet Truck does make a cameo.
- The other superheroes will be as described in their dossiers on the NSA DVD/Blu-Ray special feature.
- Also, similar to Star Wars: The Clone Wars, many of the unseen or mentioned-only heroes will get their own days in the limelight.
- Perhaps it could air on Disney XD instead of a streaming service. Once Star Wars Rebels ends, they could use another show based on a successful movie franchise to fill the action slot (Yes, they have Marvel based shows, but that doesn't necessarily rule it out).
- More likely, he'll appear in the epilogue to make it a case of Book Ends.
Jossed: Bomb Voyage is completely absent.
Syndrome was able to locate most of the supers that have been placed underground and hidden by the US government, so it should be no surprise that he would eventually locate the very person who gave each superhero their distinctive design.
While there is no doubt that Syndrome has the resources and ingenuity to created a heroic outfit by himself, lets not forget about how far Syndrome goes to try and recreate the superhero experience. Edna has worked with many different kinds of eccentric individuals (she herself one of them), and while she would jump at the chance of creating a super-suit like in the old days, she isn’t an idiot. She would be suspicious of this eccentric rich-boy wanting to play hero and even if he really did want to be a hero, she would probably recognize the inherent risk he would pose on the world.
So what does she do?
She gave Syndrome's outfit a cape.
She is well aware of the dangers of cape (having probably inadvertently killed a few supers by giving them capes), so it is likely that she gave Syndrome’s outfit a cape just to be sure.
- An alternate idea to the above: Edna actually didn't design Syndrome's suit and he, instead, did. Think about it. When we first see him as a kid, what is he seen wearing? A cape. And being a kid, he's the one who put his outfit together. If it hadn't been for the cape, Bomb Voyage wouldn't have thrown his bomb and it wouldn't have gotten attached to it. And if Bob hadn't gotten the bomb off the cape, Syndrome would have been dead then and there. Fast-forward years later, he's a supervillain and wants to come off as a superhero. Not learning about how Supers who died due to wearing capes, he goes back to having a cape in his outfit. So, if he had actually gone to Edna Mode like how Bob did for a new suit, he would have found out about how much of a bad idea having a cape is. So, due to his ignorance, he inadvertently lead to his own demise because of his own suit design, and the fact that Bomb Voyage's bomb being stuck to his cape as a child was a foreshadow of his own death by ignorance.
- Would an evil former love interest be too much cliché?
- Snug from the first movie would be a nice Continuity Nod.
- Semi-confirmed. The villain, Evelyn, is a new acquaintance of the adult Incredibles, at least up until it's revealed Evelyn is the mastermind behind everything, at which point she vehemently denies being Helen's friend, trying to make an argument against the idea that this betrayal is a real betrayal.
- This now seems unlikely considering the foreign heroes in the sequel. However, when you add Nazi's into the mix...
- Jossed in the comics, at least. Xerek is a villain who has lived for 200 years. His power is that he always wins no matter what.
- This is basically already jossed. Her original design reveals that she was ultimately intended to be black, plus the fact that she was voiced by a black woman. However, she could very well be mixed-raced. And just because they gave her model to someone else doesn't mean that she isn't black or mixed-raced. Plus, we got this.
- I wouldn't be surprised if Violet were to pick up on this behavior by sheer accident (she can turn invisible) if she ever decides to be with Tony, and he does work at his family's restaurant...
- Nah. She did it because she is his WIFE. She's the greatest good that he's ever gonna get!!
- Not quite. She did it because HER EVENING WAS IN DANGER!!!
- Nah. She did it because she is his WIFE. She's the greatest good that he's ever gonna get!!
- This villain will be a former superhero who falls to evil due to the mistreatment of heroes since the golden age. They'll be an Evil Counterpart to Bob, specifically his anger in the first film over not being able to help people. It will be a Beware the Superman plot, with the hero being especially powerful and trying to enforce his brand of justice on the world, whether people like it or not. He'll initially be a Villain with Good Publicity, with the Incredibles finding out about his true Knight Templar tendencies over the course of the film. There will be a divide among the heroes similar to Injustice: Gods Among Us about whether he's truly a hero or villain, even among the Parr family, though they come together in the end.
- It would honestly make a lot of sense considering he seems to be close to them on a personal level and was even invited to Bob and Helen's wedding. He met them when they were young and noticed their powers so he invited them to join the superheroes.
- He knows perfectly well that Bob is coaching his customers on how to penetrate the Insuricare bureaucracy, getting their payouts and threatening his precious bottom line. But since everything Bob is doing is technically in line with law and written company protocol, he cannot legally tell Bob to stop what he's doing. And if he simply fired Bob, Bob would be in a position to sue Insuricare for wrongful dismissal, not to mention telling the media that he was fired for helping clients get the payouts to which they were legally entitled and starting a scandal that would hurt the bottom line a hundred times worse than what Bob's already doing. So he calls Bob into his office and starts verbally poking at his buttons, possibly even hiring the conveniently-timed mugger to ratchet up the pressure, all with the goal of getting Bob to do exactly what he did do: lose his temper, lash out, and give Huph an excuse to fire him. Of course, he had no idea that Bob Parr was actually Mister Incredible, so he was not in the least prepared for just how badly Bob could hurt him.