Foreshadowing / The Incredibles

• While initially appearing to be just an overzealous fan-boy, Buddy's behavior in the prologue raises several red flags of an emerging sociopath:
  • When Mr. Incredible refuses to acknowledge him as "Incredi-boy" but instead recalls his real name, Buddy snaps that his name is "Incredi-boy" with considerable anger and vehemence.
  • He walks right into Mr. Incredible's confrontation with Bomb Voyage with no regard for his safety or acknowledgement of how dangerous the situation is. He then wants Mr. Incredible's full attention on him, and doesn't seem to care that Bomb Voyage escaped as a result.
  • He's more fixated on the aspects of being a superhero that draw attention to himself (like style and catchphrases) rather than the empathetic character qualities that make a hero (like a desire for justice or wanting to save the innocent). He also assumes that Mr. Incredible rejects him solely for not having superpowers, showing he doesn't even realize how recklessly he's acting.
  • And finally, an elevated metro train line is destroyed because of Buddy's actions, causing many injuries and excessive property damage. But Buddy is still insisting on being Mr. Incredible's sidekick, with zero regard for all the damage he caused; never batting-an-eye even when it is right next to him. On top of that, Buddy is visibly angry in this scene... not at all because Bomb Voyage got away, but because of Mr. Incredible rejecting him.
• Dash comments that saying "everyone is special" is just another way to say that no-one is, which ends up echoed in Syndrome's Motive Rant.
• The reason given for the rampage of the Omnidroid is that it got smart enough to question why it should take orders from its masters. At the time, this is a lie; but at the very end, the final version of the Omnidroid does, in fact, develop sufficient intelligence to question its orders and turns on Syndrome as a result.
• Syndrome's death by Cape Snag is foreshadowed a couple times:
  • Bomb Voyage manages to get a bomb stuck on Buddy's cape, which would have resulted in the boy's death had Mr. Incredible not forced it off before it exploded. Sure enough, Syndrome apparently hasn't learned from this since his supervillain outfit also has a cape, which leads to his death when it gets caught in a jet turbine.
  • Edna rants on how a good number of superheroes died due to Cape Snag on various objects; in particular, Stratogale died due to her cape being sucked into a jet turbine, hinting at Syndrome's demise.
• Lucius' story about how he was able to take advantage of Baron von Ruthless' monologuing also hints at how Mr. Incredible finally takes Syndrome out. For bonus points, he even tries the exact same trick during their initial confrontation, but Syndrome is wise to it on that occasion.
• Syndrome, the first time he's Caught Monologuing, refers to the Omnidroid as "a weapon only I can defeat". As it turns out, defeating the Omnidroid (or at least, pretending to) is the climax of his entire plan.
• Helen finding building debris on Bob's jacket sets up how she will come to think later that he is cheating on her when she finds Mirage's hair on his jacket.
• Helen's supersuit being shown to be "virtually indestructible" even against missiles fired upon it.
• The newspaper article in the dinner scene about Simon J. Paladino (a.k.a. Gazerbeam) having gone missing.
• When Bob fights his first Omnidroid he tricks it into skewering itself. This leads to Bob's "Eureka!" Moment when fighting the Omnidroid attacking the city: "The only thing hard enough to penetrate it is... itself" as he holds one of the Omnidroid's arms in his hand.
• In Mirage's first appearance the audience sees that she is specifically tracking Frozone, a minor detail that becomes much more meaningful later on when Bob finds out about the many other superheroes Syndrome went through before him.

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