Questions tagged [the-incredibles]
Use for questions about the animated Pixar film "The Incredibles" released in 2004.
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Why isn't Frozone's wife more concerned about him breaking the law?
In The Incredibles, the supers are banned, and Mr. Incredible only goes out with Frozone at night, in secret, to rescue people from burning buildings and so on. It's in secret so that nobody else will ...
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Why are Invisibility and Force Fields coupled together in certain super heroes?
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Violet from the Incredibles and Sue Storm from The Fantastic Four are both heroins whose power is both to become invisible and to create force fields. Now, maybe Violet is an homage to ...
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Is Elastigirl's body shape her natural shape, or did she choose it?
Helen Parr aka. Elastigirl has the power to bend and change her shape, so is she choosing that shape or is that just the way she is?
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Was Edna Mode's "No Capes!" rule inspired by Dollar Bill?
In The Incredibles, Edna Marie "E" Mode" famously voices her opinion on capes.
These examples are hardly the first cases of what TV Tropes calls a "cape snag". (...
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What was Bob's job when he was originally Mr. Incredible?
After superheroes are forced to retire, Bob has to get a job in insurance, which he clearly hates.
During his original superhero days, something was paying for lifestyle, which included an ...
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Why is everyone surprised that Jack-Jack has powers?
It didn't "hit" me before Incredibles 2, but why is everyone (or at least the Parr family and Edna Mode) surprised that Jack-Jack has powers?
While this answer doesn't really explain where Supers get ...
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Did Mr. Incredible kill these henchmen?
There was a scene after the Parr family escapes imprisonment with Violet's help, near the end of the movie, in which we see a van full of bad guys. They celebrate while Syndrome impersonates a Super ...
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Is Edna Mode a Super?
I read a tumblr post over the weekend that posited that Edna Mode may have had some sort of precognitive powers, since she seemed to know Jack-Jack would have powers before anyone else seemed to. It ...
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Are The Incredibles comics canon?
The film The Incredibles has had two types of sequels: the film Incredibles 2 and a set of comic books (can't find their plot on Wikipedia, just the title "The Incredibles: Family Matters"). I seem to ...
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Were the Supers born or created?
There is a theory surrounding the Supers in the Incredibles universe that the Supers were created by the government as part of a experimental program.
The main ...
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In Incredibles 2, why didn't anybody realize this?
In Incredibles 2, the Supers are:
The Incredible kids pick up on this right away but no one in the general public seems to.
Since this is so incredibly obvious, there's probably a reason why not. ...
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Why are The Incredibles villains technologically-based?
In the Incredibles films, it seems that the villains all rely entirely on technology, while the heroes (while they can use it) have innate powers.
We don't have as many examples as Marvel, but I ...
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How do the hypnotizing glasses in Incredibles 2 work?
How do the hypnotizing glasses in the Incredibles 2 work? Do they work like possesion, Harry Potter-style? (Meaning they allow the glasses' controller to manipulate them like robots) I thought so, ...
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What are Jack Jack's powers?
Jack Jack is shown in the Incredibles to have super powers. We first get hints to this with Kari making frantic calls to Helen about him acting "Reeeaaaalllllyyy weird." Later when Buddy Incredi-boy ...
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Could Frozone be/have been identified?
The question concerns this specific scene:
Is there any indication in the movie or any additional content, as well as comments from anyone involved in the development of the movie, that Lucius Best (...
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