History ShoutOut / TheIncredibles

* Bob is held in room [[Creator/{{Pixar}} A113]]. This is also the room number for the conference room where Bob meets the v9.0 Omnidroid.

* Towards the end of the film, Bob throws Helen into the air; this evokes the 'fastball special', performed by Colossus and Wolverine in some''ComicBook/XMen'' stories.

* Gazerbeam's powers, costume, visor, and personality profile are based on ''ComicBook/Xmen'' leader Cyclops.

* Frozone's real name, Lucius Best, is a possible reference to Lucius Fox, who's [[ComicBook/{{Batman}}]]'s black friend and confidant in a similar manner to Frozone.

** Syndrome goes the same way as Gustav Graves from ''Film/DieAnotherDay'': [[spoiler:pulled into a jet intake because of something dangling from his back pulling him in. In Graves' case, though, it was a parachute, not a cape.]]

* [[MoleMen The Underminer]], the villain that appears at the very end of the movie, is extremely similar to the first villain another certain [[Franchise/{{Fantastic Four}} superhero family]] fight on their very first published comic.

** The Parr family is itself a homage to the Fantastic Four: Bob has the Thing's strength minus his stone-like appearance; Helen has Mr. Fantastic's stretching ability; Violet can turn invisible and generate force fields like the Invisible Woman; and Dash, like the Human Torch, has an arrogantly cocky personality and a movement-based superpower (super speed for Dash and flight for the Human Torch). [[spoiler: And baby Jack-Jack can set himself on fire like the Torch.]] [[spoiler: Jack-Jack]] also seems to be based off Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Susan Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, whose powers basically extend to whatever he likes. Also, Mrs. Incredible? Elastic? It's an obvious shout-out to the name and powers of Mister Fantastic. And the shout-out is reciprocated in [[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame LEGO Marvel Super Heroes]], in which Richards turns himself into a parachute to catch his partners and says, "I saw this in a movie once."

* Dash vs. the speeders calls back the StarWars Endor speeder bike chase. He also uses some "swing on a vine" tricks similar to what the Ewoks pulled off against the Empire. Speaking of Star Wars, the scene where Mr. Incredible chokes Mirage [[spoiler:for betraying him and having him locked up by Syndrome]] can be seen as a reference to Chewbacca choking Lando [[spoiler:for betraying the Rebels to Darth Vader]].

* Syndrome entitled his project "Kronos", which is the name of a 1957 film featuring a giant killer robot. In Greek Myth, it's titled the 'all devouring' and eats his children, the Olympians (except for Zeus, of course), and in other words, killing. What do those Omnidroids (the all devouring,) do to the superheroes (the Olympians)? So, Kronos=Omnidroid, Olympians=Supers, and (in a way,) Zeus=Bob.

* The Omnidroid's vizor and rotating blade-hands makes it bare a striking resemblance to Maximillian from ''Film/TheBlackHole''.

* Jack-Jack Parr — get it? [[Series/TheTonightShow Jack Parr]].
* The rolling giant robot-ball and the closing flame curtains both recall ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.

* Syndrome's submarine resembles [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} Black Manta]].
* Elastigirl finds out her husband has been keeping secrets from her, doing hero-work behind her back, and follows him into enemy territory, determined to find him no matter what the obstacles or dangers involved, requiring her to stealthily sneak among troops of {{Mooks}} like a {{ninja}} — exactly what Marguerite Blakeney does in the SuperHero TropeCodifier ''Literature/TheScarletPimpernel''. Marguerite and Elastigirl also both have a daughter named Violet.

* The ship that Syndrome's robot flies into the city in (and, to an extent, the robot itself) is modeled on Dr. Zin's "The Robot Spy" on ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''.
* Also, Dash channels [[VideoGame/PunchOut Little Mac]] in a fistfight with one of the goons on their speeder.
* "You are my greatest adventure…" ''My Greatest Adventure'' was the DC comic that introduced the Comicbook/DoomPatrol.
** Speaking of Doom Patrol, Helen Parr's last name is similar to Rita Farr, also known as Elasti-Girl (with a hyphen).
* Someone on [=YouTube=] commented to Mr. Incredible that "WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} wants his costume design back". [[note]] So he can give it back to ''Comicbook/{{Madman}}''. [[/note]]

* The end [[spoiler: when Jack-Jack manifests powers for the first time in the movie]] pays homage to the [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Human Torch]] (someone becoming a human fireball), [[Comicbook/XMen Colossus]] (someone turning his skin to super-dense metal at will) and Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk (someone turning into a monstrous alter-ego when angry).

* The entire "No capes!" policy seems to be a nod to a minor occurrence in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', where BigGood superhero Dollar Bill was shot and killed when his huge red cape got stuck in a revolving door during a bank robbery.
* Really, the movie is a WholePlotReference to ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', made a ''bit'' more kid-friendly. There's the Silver Age references at the beginning, a version of the Keene Act, superheroes saving people from a burning building on the down-low, the cape reference (above), [[spoiler:murdered]] superheroes, Syndrome's [[spoiler:fake monster attack]] being similar to Ozymandias' plot, and so on.

* Dash vs. the speeders calls back the StarWars Endor speeder bike chase. He also uses some "swing on a vine" tricks similar to what the Ewoks pulled off against the Empire. Speaking of Star Wars, the scene where Mr. Incredible chokes Mirage [[spoiler:for betraying him and having him locked up by Syndrome]] can be seen as a reference to Chewbaca choking Lando [[spoiler:for betraying the Rebels to Darth Vader]].

* Jack-Jack Parr — get it? [[TheTonightShow Jack Parr]].

* Bob and Lucius' would-be arrest after they accidentally crash into a jewelshop, is a shout-out to ''Film/DieHardwithaVengeance''. In both movies, a character played/dubbed by Samuel L. Jackson is held at gunpoint by a nervous rookie Police officer, and tries to convince him to let him do a very mundane task.

* The TV/VCR in the principal's office of Dash's school strongly resembles a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicta Philco Predicta]]. JohnLasseter has one in his office.

* Jack-Jack Parr -- get it? [[TheTonightShow Jack Parr]].

* The mascot of the middle school that Violet attends -- a Spartan -- is the same as Brad Bird's high school, Corvallis High School. The design of the high school is also what CHS used to look like (it was bulldozed and rebuilt in 2005)

* Elastigirl finds out her husband has been keeping secrets from her, doing hero-work behind her back, and follows him into enemy territory, determined to find him no matter what the obstacles or dangers involved, requiring her to stealthily sneak among troops of {{Mooks}} like a {{ninja}} -- exactly what Marguerite Blakeney does in the SuperHero TropeCodifier ''Literature/TheScarletPimpernel''. Marguerite and Elastigirl also both have a daughter named Violet.

* Someone on Youtube commented to Mr. Incredible that "WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} wants his costume design back". [[note]] So he can give it back to ''Comicbook/{{Madman}}''. [[/note]]

** The Parr family is itself a homage to the Fantastic Four: Bob has the Thing's strength minus his stone-like appearance, Helen has Mr. Fantastic's stretching ability, Violet can turn invisible and generate force fields like the Invisible Woman, and Dash, like the Human Torch, has an arrogantly cocky personality and a movement-based superpower (super speed for Dash and flight for the Human Torch). [[spoiler: And baby Jack-Jack can set himself on fire like the Torch.]] [[spoiler: Jack-Jack]] also seems to be based off Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Susan Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, whose powers basically extend to whatever he likes. Also, Mrs. Incredible? Elastic? It's an obvious shout-out to the name and powers of Mister Fantastic. And the shout-out is reciprocated in [[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame LEGO Marvel Super Heroes]], in which Richards turns himself into a parachute to catch his partners and says, "I saw this in a movie once."

** The Parr family is itself a homage to the Fantastic Four: Bob has the Thing's strength minus his stone-like appearance, Helen has Mr. Fantastic's stretching ability, Violet can turn invisible and generate force fields like the Invisible Woman, and Dash has both the Human Torch's arrogantly cocky personality and a movement-based superpower (super speed for Dash and flight for the Human Torch). [[spoiler: And baby Jack-Jack can set himself on fire like the Torch.]] [[spoiler: Jack-Jack]] also seems to be based off Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Susan Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, whose powers basically extend to whatever he likes. Also, Mrs. Incredible? Elastic? It's an obvious shout-out to the name and powers of Mister Fantastic. And the shout-out is reciprocated in [[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame LEGO Marvel Super Heroes]], in which Richards turns himself into a parachute to catch his partners and says, "I saw this in a movie once."

* "You are my greatest adventure..." ''My Greatest Adventure'' was the DC comic that introduced the Comicbook/DoomPatrol.

** The Parr family is itself a homage to the Fantastic Four: Bob has the Thing's strength minus his stone-like appearance, Helen has Mr. Fantastic's stretching ability, Violet can turn invisible and generate forcefields like the Invisible Woman, and Dash has the Human Torch's arrogantly cocky personality. [[spoiler: And baby Jack-Jack can set himself on fire like the Torch.]] [[spoiler: Jack-Jack]] also seems to be based off Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Susan Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, whose powers basically extend to whatever he likes. Also, Mrs. Incredible? Elastic? It's an obvious shout-out to the name and powers of Mister Fantastic. And the shout-out is reciprocated in [[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame LEGO Marvel Super Heroes]], in which Richards turns himself into a parachute to catch his partners and says, "I saw this in a movie once."

* Bob is held in room [[Creator/{{Pixar}} A113]].

* The entire "No capes!" policy seems to be a nod to a minor occurrence in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', where a character got shot after his cape got stuck in a revolving door during a bank robbery.

* Really, the movie is a WholePlotReference to ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', made a ''bit'' more kid-friendly. There's the Silver Age references at the beginning, a version of the Keene Act, superheroes saving people from a burning building on the down-low, the cape reference (above), Syndrome's [[spoiler:fake monster attack]] being similar to Ozymandias' plot, and so on.

* The ship that Syndrome's robot flies into the city in (and, to an extent, the robot itself) is modeled on Dr. Zin's "The Robot Spy" on ''JonnyQuest''.

* Also, Dash channels [[PunchOut Little Mac]] in a fistfight with one of the goons on their speeder.

* [[{{Mole Men}} The Underminer]], the villain that appears at the very end of the movie, is extremely similar to the first villain another certain [[Franchise/{{Fantastic Four}} superhero family]] fight on their very first published comic.

* The entire "No capes!" policy seems to be a nod to a minor occurrence in ''Comicbook/Watchmen'', where a character got shot after his cape got stuck in a revolving door during a bank robbery.