The Incredibles is considered by many to be the greatest superhero movie of all time, but the movie's main protagonist, Mr. Incredible, might not be the squeaky clean superhero some might think he is. He's still a good guy for sure, but there are some dark facts lying underneath the surface of the former superhero.
Incredible was one of many heroes who were forced to retire after public opinion on superheroes began to shift. The Supers all went into hiding and the world went without costumed, superpowered heroes for 15 years. But, when Mr. Incredible was called into action, a series of events led to a possible new superhero uprising.
These events bring to light quite a few dark facts about Bob Parr, showing that Mr. Incredible is a deep and complex character, not just a boy scout superhero.
With that, we decided to dig up 15 of the darkest facts about Mr. Incredible, check them out below! Incredible was easily one of the greatest superheroes of the heyday of Supers, garnering countless honors, awards and adoring fans.
But, after the superhero relocation program was instated, he was forced into retirement. Fifteen years later, Bob was working at an insurance company, spending his evenings looking at the trophies of his past life and heroic exploits.
This is part of what makes Mr. Incredible such an interesting and dark character -- he is stuck living in the past.
While he still loves and cares for his family, there were times early in the film where he wished he could go back to before he had a family, when he was the world's greatest superhero. Because of this, Mr. Incredible was clearly depressed with his civilian life. After the superhero relocation program, supers were pardoned for any allegations made against them as long as they never acted as heroes ever again. Because of this, superheroes faded from the public image completely, but that didn't stop Mr.
Incredible and Frozone from helping out those in need. On Wednesday nights, Bob and Lucius tell their wives that they "go bowling. One night they enter a burning building and manage to save the people inside, and while this was indeed a heroic act, it was also incredibly illegal. And this was most likely not the only time the two acted as heroes, making them repeat offenders of vigilante laws. As the Supers were forced to live normal lives, Bob took up a job as an insurance employee, but his superhero instinct, the need to do good and never turn a blind eye to those in need, was still living within him.
This came out while he was meeting with his boss, who was chiding him for helping their clients more than the company would like. During this meeting, Bob witnessed a man getting mugged in the alley below the window of his boss' office. When he was driven to do something, his boss threatened to fire him if he left, and the mugger got away, to which his boss said "good.
After Bob lost his job due to his outburst, he found a new job of sorts, returning to superheroics by going on missions for a mysterious organization. Though this turns out badly, one of the worst things about Mr. Incredible's new "job" is that he lied to his family about it. Instead, the two men work together to help evacuate the building and save all of those people inside.
This is why it's important for Frozone to drink lots of water: it isn't just for his health. It's also for his powers. And he needs to keep those powers turned up to max at all times in Metroville, where villains roam free.
Because what's a superhero without his powers - and his super suit, but that's on Frozone's wife, isn't it? Welcome to Metroville, the home of the Parr family, otherwise known as The Incredibles. This fictional city presumably resides somewhere in the U.
It then became a quiet little city, free of villains and superheroes battling it out on the city streets and destroying public property and endangering lives. Of course, the superheroes still live there, but they adapted to quieter lives, sort of like the Parrs.
As any fan of The Incredibles knows, though, things didn't stay quiet in Metroville forever because villains never like to live by the rules. The city's name comes from two famous cities known to comic book fans - especially Superman fans.
The first city is Metropolis, the city that is known for one of the most popular superheroes of all time: Superman. But before Superman was a superhero, he was Clark Kent and he lived in Smallville. This is where the "ville" part of Metroville comes into play. It's likely that Bird wanted to honor a favorite superhero, Superman, in some way with his own superhero film. Mission accomplished. And although not everyone realizes it, her voice is actually that of Brad Bird, the film's creator and director.
But before Bird took over the role, there were other actresses interested in it. Pixar reached out to several, including comedian Lily Tomlin. She created some of the most iconic sketch comedy characters of all time on Laugh-In, including the condescending telephone operator Ernestine, the five-year-old Edith Anne, and the prudish Mrs.
One might think this would make Tomlin the perfect voice for Edna Mode, which is why Pixar approached her about it. After Brad Bird recorded early "temp" tracks for the character, Tomlin heard them and insisted that he was the only person who was right for the role.
She was right. Bird turned Edna Mode into one of the most quoted characters in animation history. It's no secret that many animators model their characters from real people.
Sometimes, they actually bring in models or study voice actors' features to get characters to look just a certain way. This guarantees that those characters will come across well onscreen. Sometimes, it is pretty obvious when animators do this, although sometimes, the person who a character gets based on is completely clueless until later.
This was the case with Brad Bird. The schedule and deadlines for getting The Incredibles to theaters on time meant that animators had to work some long hours under Bird. The animators decided to take it out on him in the only way they knew how. Let's look at Syndrome: the villain has very distinctive physical features. He also looks nothing like his voice actor Jason Lee.
If you look at a photo of Bird and then look at Syndrome, you start to see the similarities: Syndrome is almost a caricature of Bird. This was intentional, although Bird had no idea that his animators planned it.
In an NPR segment called Not My Job , Bird answered a question about it: "Yeah, but of course, with me being an idiot, I didn't notice this until it was well into production," he said. Dash is always on the go, but that's probably because he has powers that are similar to the Flash: he can run at incredible speeds.
He can run so fast that he can even run on top of water, as seen in The Incredibles. In the first movie, Dash's voice actor was a year-old boy named Spencer Fox. Considering that Dash is always running around, he's often out of breath.
Brad Bird wanted it to sound authentic, so the story is that he made Fox run laps around the studio to capture that particular quality. Fans can't deny that it sounds good in the film.
Unfortunately, Dash had to get a new voice actor with The Incredibles 2 , because Fox went through puberty and his voice got a lot lower. That's what happens when a studio waits 14 years to make a sequel that features child actors. However, the new Dash actor, Huckleberry "Huck" Milner sounds a lot like Fox, so fans will have to wonder if he, too, had to run laps around the studio to get that classic Dash out of breath quality.
When it comes to sequels, the general rule of thumb is that you want to get the sequel out as soon as possible, because moviegoers are fickle and have a tendency to forget about franchises if you make them wait a long time for them. That being the case, though, it has been 14 years since the first movie hit the screens. And it's just now that we're getting a sequel in The Incredibles 2.
That is an incredibly long wait, and it actually set a record for Pixar films. It's the longest time between an original film and its sequel in Pixar's history. It doesn't seem like The Incredibles have lost any fans in that amount of time. The good news is that it seems that the sequel, in spite of the gap, is true to the original movie, which is something fans might concern themselves with.
It also seems like a good idea that the sequel actually picks up right where the first movie left off, in spite of the gap in real world time. Most fans will agree that this is a sequel that was worth waiting for. Humans are one of the hardest things to animate. That means that it costs a lot more to make digitally animated movies about humans than making animated movies about animals.
He is the main protagonist of The Incredibles and its first short video Mr. Incredible and Pals , the deuteragonist of Incredibles 2 , and a minor character in its second short video Auntie Edna.
Bob's personality is that of a classical hero. He is nice, friendly, brave, heroic and pleasant. But as shown in newsreels, Bob is physically invulnerable but all too human in his flaws. His NSA file described him as easily distracted and unable to prioritize.
He grows weary of a world that cannot stay saved for more than five minutes; and later, shows a streak of hubris and arrogant pride, seeking to relive his glory days at the expense of his family life. Bob also has a tendency to try to solve the world's problems on his own, refusing and actively dismissing help from anyone, even from his loving wife and the sage counsel of his best friend Frozone.
These flaws combined nearly cost him his life and the lives of his family. He loves his wife, even though he doesn't spend much time with his family and frequently goes off with Lucius for some crime fighting. He also treats other women with respect, which was picked up by Syndrome , who instructs Mirage to be appreciative, but not seductive, towards Mr.
Bob's commitment to doing what is right is so strong that he displays it even when not involved in heroics. This is shown when while working for Insuricare, where he constantly found legal loopholes to help his customers, which often earned him the ire of his greedy and selfish boss, Gilbert Huph. These disagreements eventually came to a head, when Huph stopped Bob from helping a man being mugged, and was glad he didn't help the man. Fed up, Bob angrily grabbed Mr. Huph by the neck and threw him through five walls, leaving him in a full body cast, which caused Bob to lose his job.
Bob is also calm, collected, and polite, but occasionally he exhibits an intimidating and ferocious rage, and if sufficiently angered, he can be quite fearsome, such as when he threw Mr. Huph through five walls, appearing to break several of his bones. He always tries to reason with his opponents and appeal to their better nature to avoid unnecessary violence, but if a villain cannot be reasoned with and posed a threat to innocent lives, he tries to terminate them if their capture wasn't an option because he knows how many innocent lives could be lost if he allows them to live.
However, he always spares an opponent if they appeared to have underlying goodness, such as Mirage. In the sequel, Bob has learned to keep his pride and ego somewhat in check. While initially jealous that Helen was chosen to be the face of the superhero legalization campaign over him, he swallowed his pride and was ultimately the one who convinced her to do it, even admitting that it was for his sake after claiming it was for their children.
Also, despite his jealousies, Bob continued to deeply love Helen, immediately attempting to rescue her when he believed she was in danger. With Helen doing superhero work, Bob decided to try his best at being a good dad for his children.
However, his aggressive methods of doing so ironically only caused him to push them away. Meanwhile, his wife's success caused him to hide his failings from her. All of this ultimately caused him to be exhausted, during which he acted selfishly and short-tempered. It is only when he vents his frustrations and apologizes that he and his children finally start to develop a genuine connection. Bob is an exceptionally tall and muscular man with a broad chest, shoulders, arms and legs as it befits his superhuman strength.
According to official sources, currently Bob Parr is 6'7" cm in height and is pounds kg in weight. At the beginning of the first film, Bob was 25 years old and slim-waisted.
In the present day, a now 40 year-old Bob had become somewhat obese by the time his daughter Violet was in middle school, gaining a large gut.
He goes on an intense training regime, and eventually succeeds in losing a lot of the weight so as to resume his super-heroics before leaving to go to Nomanisan Island. He has short, blond hair which has receded in his middle-age , fair skin and blue eyes. While not much is known about his early life, Bob has shared he was trained in his days as a rookie hero by veteran wartime hero Jack B.
Not as naturally agile as his teacher, Bob and Jack worked together to adapt Bob's powerhouse fighting style so he could more easily dodge and move around enemy blows and weaponry. In the prologue, Mr. Incredible is being interviewed.
He talked about the subject of what being a superhero means to them, the importance of a secret identity, the burden of always being vigilant to protect the world from one threat after another, and the importance of superhero individuality.
Incredible experiences an otherwise routine day of fighting crime, from stopping criminals to rescuing a cat from a tree. A police report from his car sends him on his way to hunt down a tour bus robbery, and in the Incredibile 's shotgun seat waiting for him is Buddy Pine, a boy who wants to join Mr.
Incredible in his crime-fighting efforts, to which he uses the seat's booster function to get Buddy out of the car, and drives off. Upon confronting a robber on a rooftop, Elastigirl shows up and knocks him out before he can.
After romantic, playful banter, Elastigirl leaves to prepare for a previous engagement. Incredible proceeds to handle the robber, when Frozone, his closest friend, reminds him to get ready for his wedding with Elastigirl, a. Helen Truax. Incredible then saves a man from committing suicide by jumping off a skyscraper, with both crashing through a window. A wall explodes, and Bomb Voyage emerges, a French supervillain who specializes in explosives, walking out with two duffel bags of money. Buddy shows up in the shattered window where Mr.
Incredible entered the building. Incredible rejects his help, but then has to save him by removing a bomb from his cape that Voyage stuck onto. Incredible has no choice but to release Bomb Voyage and go after Buddy. He removes the bomb from Buddy's cape, which detonates and blows up a portion of the Metroville Monorail. Incredible succeeds in stopping the train just in time before it crashes and hands Buddy to the police for compromising his mission and ensuring Bomb Voyage's escape.
He arrives late for his wedding with Helen, and they formally get married. It was revealed that Mr. Incredible was sued by both by the victims of the train accident and by the man that attempted suicide, despite Mr.
Incredible saving their lives in both instances. This led the way for a raft of lawsuits against supers, which then led to the government banning supers altogether. Fifteen years later, Bob has settled down with his wife Helen and they have three children: Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. Due to the events of that night, the public turns against Mr. Incredible and all the supers in response to the injuries; and they are forced to give up their capes.
Incredible and Elastigirl goes into hiding as they try to lead a normal life. He and his wife Helen have three children: Violet , who is able to generate force fields and turn invisible, Dash , who can run super-fast, and Jack-Jack , who initially is thought to be powerless though it is later revealed that he has several very impressive powers. Bob is immensely unhappy in his civilian life and is having a mid-life crisis, because he and his family are forced to hide their powers and are miserable, and because his civilian job is soul-crushing tedium which goes against all he stands for.
This leads him to sneak out with his friend Frozone and fight crime covertly, althrough Helen discovers him and they have an argument. When he furiously assaults his boss after being prevented from saving a man who was getting mugged outside their window, he is fired from his job at the insurance company and the government is called into again cover his actions as a super and relocate him, a task for his much put-upon case handler Rick Dicker.
As this would mean uprooting the family again after having just settled into their current lives, Bob declines help for his employment situation.
However, before he can tell his family that he's lost his job, he finds a tablet inside his suitcase in which a mysterious woman named Mirage offers him a large sum of money to stop a robot in a covert job "for the government".
He accepts and joins a jet where he is briefed with the mission. However, it becomes apparent that he has been retired for 15 years, as his girth proves to be too wide for the launch pod. As the guard presses continously to move him inside, his hefty gut prevents crashes with the diamater of the pod. Finally, the guard pushes with maximal force and after some initial struggle Mr. Incredible gets inside. Mirage then goes to warn him to not postpone the fight too long as the robot me comes increasingly intelligent the longer its opponent battles with it.
When the launching pod lands Mr. Incredible is unable to get out of it. Therefore he has to break it open in order to move freely. Immediatley, Bob starts to stretch out, cracking several joints as he twists his torso and breathing exhaustingly after only bending, and the suit fits less somehat to his larger stomach, bouncing like a balloon filled with water.
Before scowering the island, he takes one last stretch backwards makes a faint, gurgling sound. He frequently takes breakes after jogging, as he notices how bad shape he had gotten in. Once he had slowly run through the southern part of the island, an out-of-breath Bob leans into a tree and discovers clawmarks on the bark an a footmark on the leaves. Suddenly, a big robot pushes two trees aside and surprises the unsepsected superhero.
Though he manages two dodge the first strikes, the robot cuts his right arm. Bob then leapes in front of it and punches it across the forest. This left no impact however and when Mr. Incredible tries to do the same maneuver the Omnidroid 08's processors calculate the degree of his leap and intercepts. The hit knocks Bob into a tree which then collapses, that the robot dogdes by rolling. Quickly it realizes that the roll could be used for combat and pursues a fleeing Mr. Eventually, they reach a canyon and Mr.
Incredible slides down the mountainside, only for the robot to land in front of him. He then tries to hurl boulders at it, however, the metal is too hard. The robot retaliates by hurling them back at him and misses him with its claw by mere inches.
As Bob again tries to flee, the robot jumps and the impact from its decsent pushes the hero down to a lava lake. The robot falls down right after and a worried Mr. Incredible tries to wrestle the robot in a strength contest. Not having trained for over a decade, the robot slowly overpowers him and presses Bob closer to the lava. Just as the robot drives Mr. Incredible at the bank of the lava lake and is about to send him into the scoldering substance, Bob roars as he uses all his strength to heave the robot into the boiling lake instead.
He then breaks his back after doing a short victory dance after presumably "defeating" the Omnidroid Unfortunetley, it climbs out of the pool and begins to spin its hot claws and makes the backached Mr. Incredible jump onto a close rock drifting in the lava lake. The Omnidroid grabs him and tries to pull his limbs appart, yet due to his immense durability ironically snaps his back back into place.
Laughing, Mr. With a final lure, the robot ripped out its own core and Bob is able to complete the task successfully but tears his old suit in the process. He receives a new suit from his old friend Edna Mode , who is a famous fashion icon and former super-suit designer. Bob spends the next two months getting back into shape while pretending to still be employed at his former job for the sake of his family not having to move.
However, his next assignment turns out to be a trap. Bob is send to a conference room, however, as the wall opens a larger and stronger Omnidroid 09 grabs Mr. Incredible which tried to escape, and heeves him into a rock.
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