Clay sculpture of Nelson Deavor, one of the planned Big Bads of the film before Pixar went with Evelyn.
What Could Have Been for Incredibles 2
- 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 Deleted Scene 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
- Nomanisan Island (and by extension Mirage) were intended to return as a location and as a character respectively with the former getting as far as concept art before being dropped note .
- Winston Deavor was originally going to have a brother named Nelson Deavor who would have evolved into the Big Bad over the course of the story. Also He-Lectric was originally planned to be a female Super named She-Lactrix 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 superpowers! note Also in a follow up draft note , Bird considered making Winston himself the Big Bad 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 , he got decently far along to where he got concept art before being ultimately cut (as Bird described) for being too much of a Story-Breaker Power due to how powerful his distortions would've been for the Parrs to actually take down that not even Mr. resident Story-Breaker Power himself Jack-Jack would have been enough to defeat him.
- Had the story involving Elastigirl as the lead character not worked out (in fact Bird's original plan was to always focus directly on Helen first), Brad Bird briefly toyed with the idea of actually aging up the Parr family in this film note and switching the leads over to adult versions of Violet and Dash, with Jack-Jack being a teenager, with Bob and Helen in far smaller roles. 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 , 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's heavily theorized that the only remnant of this 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 body proportions, facial features, hairstyle and having nearly very similar anxiety problems) before being re-developed and repurposed into being her own character.
- 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 Deleted Scene Frozone's Wife Honey Appears), but it was decided that she was better as an offscreen voice note . Her planned design would ultimately be given to one of the random International Supers in the final film's climax.
- Winston was going to have a scene confronting criminals (which likely would have been either the Deleted Scene Slow Day or the deleted Restaurant Robbery scene), which made it far enough for Bob Odenkirk to have recorded the lines, before being dropped.
- Alexander Galbaki, name-dropped as a rival designer by Edna Mode, was originally going to appear as a character, specifically a Foil to Edna. Galbaki would essentially be an anti-Mode: His costumes would showcase his designs rather than being designed for the needs of the hero wearing them note . In early concept art, his costume for Elastigirl would even have violated Edna's "No Capes" rule.
- 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 My God, What Have I Done? moment while showing her Character Development from the first film carrying over to the second film). This also reveals that Tony Rydinger (Violet's Love Interest) 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 showing Violet in class possibly being nervous and freaking out over Tony's memory wipe after finding out he no longer remembers her, 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 (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 showing Bob inside of his new house.
- 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.
- Brad Bird has said that Pixar suddenly switching the release dates of this film and Toy Story 4 left him without enough time to put in all the ideas he had, but he's keeping quiet about just what he had to leave out for the moment as he still hopes to be able to put them in a third film.
