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Bomb Voyage , real name Remy Bon Mot , is a minor antagonist in The Incredibles . He is an explosives expert who loots banks and wears traditional mime make-up.

• 1 Personality
• 2 Physical appearance
• 3.1 The Incredibles
• 4.1 The Incredibles (video game)
• 4.2 The Incredibles: Comic Series
• 5 Powers & Abilities

Personality [ ]

Apart from his obviously evil and insane persona, Bomb Voyage is very sarcastic, mocking 'Incrediboy' for trying to intervene on his crimes.

Physical appearance [ ]

Bomb Voyage has a tall and slim build with minimal musculature. He has a long face, with a particularly long chin, that is covered by face painting resembling that of a mime. He wears a beret that covers his black hair and wears a pair of bandoliers that crisscrosses his chest, with both of them being covered by bombs.

Biography [ ]

The incredibles [ ].

Just after Mr. Incredible saves Oliver Sansweet from committing suicide, he hears faint beeping on the other side of a wall in the building. The bomb detonates, blowing a hole in a brick wall, out of which Bomb Voyage emerges after stealing money from an unnamed business. Before Mr. Incredible can apprehend him, Buddy Pine arrives using rocket boots, calling himself 'IncrediBoy' and attempting to convince Mr. Incredible to accept him as his sidekick. He insults Buddy in French so he couldn't understand, mocking his outfit and calling him a 'little oaf'.

Then, he clips an explosive device on Buddy's cape as he flew off to get the police, which was used as a distraction to get away with the money. Mr. Incredible is forced to release Voyage in order to save Buddy, Voyage knowing of Mr. Incredible's natural instinct to save people. Therefore, he is indirectly responsible for the Super Relocation Program being passed as the bomb he placed on Buddy was later removed from his cape by Mr. Incredible and landed on a railroad bridge. The bomb detonates, destroying part of the bridge, forcing Mr. Incredible to stand in the path of the train to prevent it from going off the tracks. This results in the passengers suing Mr. Incredible, acting as the jury in his lawsuit trial, that eventually leads to the Super Relocation Act being passed, outlawing Supers .

Other media [ ]

The incredibles (video game) [ ].

In the video game based on the film, Voyage is the main villain for the first three levels of the game, and he speaks English. In the last level he is involved in, he recreates the scene in the movie, placing a bomb on Buddy Pine's cape, forcing Mr. Incredible to save him. After this, he attempts to escape in a helicopter, and Mr. Incredible defeats him by throwing six bombs at the chopper, causing it to fly out of control and presumably crash, killing Voyage.

The Incredibles: Comic Series [ ]

In the comics titled "Secrets and Lies", Bomb Voyage is recruited by Xerek to destroy the Eiffel Tower with one of his bombs, and later meets Elastigirl and Mirage in person when they arrive to investigate. When he attempts to escape, Elastigirl follows him throughout Paris and eventually shakes Xerek's location out of him. Since it has been 15 years since his appearance in the movie, Bomb Voyage has aged significantly, with a potbelly and balding hair.

Powers & Abilities [ ]

Bomb Voyage does not have any known superpowers. Instead, he uses an arsenal of small-time bombs that he carries on a pair of bandoliers that crisscross his chest.

• Bomb Voyage's name is a pun on the French valediction, " bon voyage ", which is usually translated as “have a nice trip.”
• Bomb Voyage made a minor cameo appearance in the 2007 Disney/Pixar movie, Ratatouille , as a street mime. This occurred during the 2nd act when Linguini and Colette are rollerskating by Notre Dame Cathedral . His name also appears on a newspaper that Colette is reading.
• The Boom! Studios comic reveals Bomb Voyage was one of the few villains to elude the NSA completely around the time of the superhero ban, only to re-emerge in Paris years later and destroying the Eiffel Tower in the process. Working for Xerek, he destroys the rendezvous point that Mrs. Incredible and Mirage were to meet their contact at. When Bomb Voyage tries to escape, Helen takes a jetpack in pursuit and Xerek reveals himself through Bomb Voyage's communicator, which threatens to explode and take both of them down. The comic's events were later retconned by the events of Incredibles 2 film.
• Director Brad Bird originally pitched the idea of Bomb Voyage's name. His original idea was that Bomb Voyage would be named " Bomb Pérignon ", in reference to the similarly named champagne, Dom Pérignon, but the Moët et Chandon company would not allow that kind of parody.

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It's time to dig out those super suits and hit the theater. This summer, the Parr family returns in The Incredibles 2 , 14 years after the original film premiered in theaters and took the world by storm. Although the new movie seems as if it were a long time in the making, it will pick up where the first movie left off, although the Parrs have to deal with a few new changes. Elastigirl has gone back to work as a superhero, leaving Mr. Incredible home to raise the children and become Mr. Mom. Hilarity and villainy are sure to ensue.

The first movie received a lot of praise from fans and critics alike. It won two Academy Awards and became the first animated film to ever win the Hugo Award for Dramatic Presentation. The sequel has some big shoes to fill, but the Parr family have entertained fans before, and they are certain to entertain fans again as The Incredibles 2 tears into theaters.

For those who haven't seen the new movie - or those who want to relive the original - there are still a lot of facts that fans might not know about The Incredibles and the making of the first movie.

Here are 20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Incredibles.

20. The Incredibles is based on a true story

It might not seem like it, but the story behind The Incredibles took inspiration from real life. That doesn't mean that the movie's creator, Brad Bird, has a family of superheroes, but if you look beyond the super powers and fighting villains, the Parr family feels like a real family unit: they are more than just animated characters. This is because Bird took inspiration from his real life when he created the story of The Incredibles .

"Consciously, this was just a funny movie about superheroes," Bird said in the book To Infinity and Beoynd!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios. "But I think that what was going on in my life definitely filtered into the movie."

That makes sense because most film writers probably unconsciously filter themselves into their movies, even if they don't realize it. It works, because that's what makes the Parrs feel so real.

Take the father, for example: he is a superhero at heart, but he must work a job in insurance to pay the bills. He can't be what he really wants to be. When Bird originally conceived the film, he was in a similar state: all he really wanted to do was animation. Fortunately, in the end, things worked out.

19. The original title was The Invincibles

During the course of making a movie, many things about that movie changes. Sometimes it's the story that gets tweaked. Sometimes it's the setting. Sometimes it's something as huge as the plot. At other times, it's just little things.

One of the hardest things about a movie isn't the making of the movie itself, though. Sometimes the hardest thing is just deciding on a title. And in the case of The Incredibles , the title had to serve as the name of the Parr family's superhero name as a group. Interestingly enough, though, they were not always The Incredibles .

In the book 1000 Facts About Animated Films, there are a few interesting facts about The Incredibles . One of those facts is that The Incredibles were almost called The Invincibles .

What's even more interesting, though, is that the codename for the movie (the names that studios call movies when they don't want anyone to know what they're working on) was simply Tights.

The Incredibles certainly seems to work better than The Invincibles or Tights , so it's a good thing that the studio decided to change the name early on. But the early title does beg a question: is the Parr family actually invincible?

18. Frozone can’t use his powers when he’s dehydrated

Here is a fact that some fans will get - at least those who watched The Incredibles movie very carefully and paid attention to little details - Frozone can't turn his powers on and off at will. He's not like Iceman in that regard.

Frozone needs one thing when using his incredible freezing powers: water.

That means if his body lacks water, his powers don't work. So if Frozone gets dehydrated, he is basically powerless. This is actually in the film, when there is a building burning down in Metroville, and Frozone and Bob show up on the scene to save people. Although most would expect Frozone to use his powers, he tells Bob that he can't because he's dehydrated. 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?

17. Metroville is a combination of Metropolis and Smallville

Welcome to Metroville, the home of the Parr family, otherwise known as The Incredibles. This fictional city presumably resides somewhere in the U.S. and was once the home to many superheroes before the city forced them into retirement. 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.

Think about the name of the city, though: Metroville. If it seems somehow familiar, it is.

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.

16. Lily Tomlin was the first choice for Edna Mode, but the director took the role

"No capes!" Every fan of The Incredibles will always hear those two words in the infamous voice of Edna Mode, the fashion designer of Metroville who is responsible for designing almost all the superhero wear of that city. 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 .

Tomlin gained her claim to fame on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In , but also has a score of theatre roles under her belt, as well as movies. 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. Earborne.

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.

15. The villain was based on the director

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. "I don't think I look like that, but everybody was sort of snickering behind my back."

14. The voice of Dash had to run laps while recording

Meet Dash Parr, the younger brother of Violet and the older brother of Jack-Jack. 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 10-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.

Fox is now a guitarist in an indie banned called Charly Bliss.

13. The 14-year gap between the first movie and its sequel is the longest in Disney/Pixar history

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.

In fact, it seems like fans are even more excited about the sequel than ever.

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.

12. It was the first Pixar movie with humans main characters

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. This would explain why The Incredibles is the first Pixar movie to focus almost entirely on human beings.

Bird acknowledged the difficulty of making such a movie: "We had a story that was bigger and more complicated than anything. It was longer [121 minutes], it had four times the number of locations and all of the characters were humans, and that’s considered the hardest thing to do," he said in an interview with Awn . "And they change their costumes and they age and their bodies change. And they have hair and hair under water and hair blowing through the wind… It’s just insanity."

But he and his team managed despite the difficulty.

"We got it done within the same kinds of parameters of all the other Pixar films, with 10 times the resources," Bird said in the interview with Awn . "We kept it within the ballpark budget of the others by building stuff specifically to camera. You adhere to a plan so you can stretch every little cent to its furthest."

11. The character powers are based on their personalities

This probably isn't a huge secret to anyone who has watched The Incredibles more than once, but for those who might not realize it, each character in the world of the movie has powers related to their personality.

Think about it: Helen, aka Elastigirl, is one of the most flexible people in the film, and that's not referring to her superpower of being super bendy and stretchy. She's a mother who juggles handling all of her household duties while taking care of children and keeping them safe and protected. Then there's Mr. Incredible, aka Bob, who is the breadwinner of the family (although that changes in The Incredibles 2 ), the strong and brave head of the family, who has super strength.

As far as the children go, Violet is the teenager, which makes sense, because all she really wants is for everyone to leave her alone: she has powers of invisibility. Dash is her younger brother, who talks really fast and has the attention span of a gnat. Iit only makes sense that his power is super speed.

Finally, there is Jack-Jack, the youngest Parr, whose powers are not quite known yet, because he is still a toddler: a world of possibilities is still open to him.

10. The first Pixar movie rated above G

When one thinks of Disney and Pixar, one usually thinks of G-rated movies, solely intended for young children. But then Pixar broke the mold with The Incredibles , which became the first Pixar movie to receive a PG rating.

With many Disney and Pixar movies, there are some jokes and lines that go completely over kids' heads, but that are meant for the adults watching the movies with them.

In The Incredibles , there are a few things that seemed more mature than a typical G-rated movie. For example, Helen worries about Bob having an affair. Syndrome mentions something about getting busy in a line about Helen and Bob. Helen and Bob constantly indulge in PDA.

There are also some scenes of fighting in the film, although nothing gets too bloody. There is even a scene where Mr. Incredible saves a man from taking his own life. It is a superhero movie, after all, so some violence is necessary.

Finally, to top everything off, Edna Mode is a chain smoker. She always has a cigarette dangling from her fingertips. There are even a few alcohol references in the movie.

All of these things might seem innocuous by themselves, but when combined, they are why The Incredibles got a PG rating.

9. There is a Die Hard reference in the first movie

Pixar movies have a lot of little references that will probably go over kids' heads but that adults will love. This includes Easter eggs to other and even more mature movies that parents are all too familiar with. The Incredibles does this in one scene by referencing one of the Die Hard movies, Die Hard with a Vengeance .

Why does this reference even exist? It's because Samuel L. Jackson is in both movies.

In Die Hard with a Vengeance , Jackson played Zeus Carver, a shop owner who saves John McClane (Bruce Willis) from one of the bombs planted by the evil Simon (Jeremy Irons). There is a scene in The Incredibles where the police ask Frozone to freeze that is nearly identical to a similar scene in Die Hard with a Vengeance .

In The Incredibles , Frozone has a gun pointed at him, but explains that he just needs to get a drink of water and moves slowly towards the water fountain (he needs water for his powers). In Die Hard with a Vengeance , the scene is almost the same, except that Zeus is slowly explaining that he needs to answer a pay phone that rings. The similarities between these scenes is intentional.

8. It forced Fantastic Four to change to compete

The making of an animated movie like The Incredibles should not impact the making of any other movie, specifically a live-action film. But The Incredibles actually affected the making of the 2005 Fantastic Four movie that starred Chris Evans, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis and Julian McMahon.

According to Rotten Tomatoes , Cinescope reported that the CGI of The Incredibles was so good, particularly with the way that Elastigirl bent, stretched and moved, that it put pressure on the Fantastic Four filmmaking team to make their CGI equally as good. Fantastic Four especially needed its final battle scene to look better because it was ridiculous that an animated movie would outdo it.

That change ended up costing Fox an additional $20 million just on extra special effects.

They probably should have just asked Bird to help them do it better on a budget.

Reports also suggest that there were changes made to the Fantastic Four script, too, to separate it from The Incredibles . In the end, though, moviegoing audiences embraced The Incredibles far more than they embraced the Fantastic Four . The Incredibles fans waited 14 years for a sequel, while Fantastic Four limped to a finish with Rise of the Silver Surfer .

7. The Ratatouille connection

Metroville is full of villains. You've got the big name villains, such as Syndrome, but there are also a lot of more small-time villains, such as Bomb Voyage, who is a recurring villain throughout Mr. Incredible's time as a superhero.

Bomb Voyage was a mime-faced Frenchman who taunted Mr. Incredible every chance he could get. He eventually escaped the clutches of Mr. Incredible, though, and disappeared into oblivion.

Or did he? Because Bomb Voyage also appears in a later Pixar movie, Ratatouille .

It seems that his days of villainy are over and he decided on a career as a street mime in Paris.

As Ratatouille takes place 15 years after his last meeting with Mr. Incredible, Bomb Voyage looks older and a lot worse for the wear: he appears in Ratatouille as a balding pot-bellied man.

Although Bomb Voyage's name comes from a funny take on the French phrase, Bon Voyage, he originally had the moniker of Bomb Perignon , as a take on the famous champagne. However, the real Dom Perignon's owner, Moet and Chandon, would not agree to let Pixar use the Perignon name in the movie. So Bomb Perignon became Bomb Voyage. Either way, it's still funny.

6. The inspiration behind Edna Mode

One of the most iconic characters in The Incredibles that isn't a member of the Parr family is Edna Mode, the fashion designer most known for her abhorrence of superheroes who wear capes. Her certain type of style, voice, and attitude has everyone trying to guess exactly who her inspiration was, and there are a lot of theories about that.

Some believe that Edna is based on a real life fashion designer named Edith Head, who went on to work on some of the biggest movies during Hollywood's golden age, including The Emperor Waltz (which earned her an Academy Award nomination). Edna look a lot like Head, after all. There's also actress Linda Hunt, though, who also resembles Edna. Some speculate that the character is based on Vogue editor Anna Wintour, which is entirely believable. Others think that Edna is actually actress Lotte Lenya. There is even talk that she is based on fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi.

The Incredibles 2 will probably increase the speculation behind Edna's signature style and behavior.

So who is it? The team behind The Incredibles won't say. All that they offer is that they love the attitude that comes with the big glasses and flamboyant personality.

5. Two stars went on to live-action superhero movies

One of the best parts of The Incredibles for adults is the voice acting of Samuel L. Jackson behind Frozone. Not just anyone could portray a character like that, after all. A lot of that had to do with Bird insisting that Jackson was just so cool that the film had to have him.

Samuel L. Jackson is more than just the Snakes on a Plane guy. He went on to star in the Marvel universe as director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury. That makes Jackson an official part of the Marvel cinematic universe. He will next appear in a Marvel movie with Captain Marvel , where he will reprise a younger version of Fury.

Jackson isn't the only one who went on to become part of a superhero universe. The voice of Helen Parr, aka Elastigirl, Holly Hunter also became part of comic book-inspired world. She went on to portray Senator Finch in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice . Sure, she already had a lot of acting credits under her belt before taking on Elastigirl, but it's her role in the superhero movies that fans will remember her for most.

These two Incredibles actors went on to become part of their own superhero dynasties.

4. The movie is not inspired by Ayn Rand

For some bizarre reason, there are a lot of folks who believe that The Incredibles takes inspiration of Ayn Rand, and there are those who have even gone so far as to call it Ayn Rand propaganda.

Yes, there are people who think an animated movie is propaganda for a specific political agenda outlined in a series of fictional novels. One movie critic even called it "a barely disguised libertarian parable about the natural superiority of some individuals over others."

There is just one problem with these accusations: they simply are not true . Brad Bird isn't a libertarian.

Whenever asked about the similarities of his work to Rand, Bird refers to them as "ridiculous."

Not only that, but anyone who follows his Twitter feed can see that he has more centrist political ideas. Although some people like to see political ideas where they don't actually exist, there are still those who believe that Bird is a huge Rand fan and that every one of his movies includes her libertarian ideas.

The truth is that they don't. Yes, Bird's movies are creative, and yes, The Incredibles is one of his most creative works. But in no way does it have anything to do with Rand.

3. DC already had a character called Elasti-Girl

Helen Parr is one of the main characters of The Incredibles . She is not just a super mom, though. She is also a superhero known as Elasti-girl, and she takes on an even bigger role in The Incredibles 2 . In fact, part of the new movie's plot revolves around her going back to work as a superhero and Bob staying home to raise the kids.

Believe it or not, there is another Elasti-Girl - notice the hyphen in the name. That Elasti-Girl actually belongs to DC comics (which some might call Disney/Pixar's rival as the Disney also owns Marvel). That Elasti-Girl has an alterego named Rita Farr. Yes, it's very close to Disney's Elastigirl's last name.

Like the Pixar version, DC's Elasti-Girl can expand and stretch her body.

Considering how similar the characters are, it's kind of surprising that no one seems bothered by it, especially when DC's character dates back to 1963, long before Bird ever had the idea for The Incredibles.

So what gives? Why isn't DC Comics throwing a fit? DC gave Pixar the rights to use that name, but only for the movie. That's why merchandising for Helen always has her listed as Mrs. Incredible.

2. It's the only Pixar movie without the Pizza Planet truck

In Toy Story , there is a restaurant known as Pizza Planet. It features predominantly throughout the movie. That restaurant also delivers and has a signature yellow truck that gets seen a lot in the Toy Story movies.

That truck appears in a lot of other Pixar movies, too. In fact, it's one of those Easter eggs that most fans can count on in a new Pixar movie. Up until The Incredibles came out in theaters, the truck appeared in every single movie Pixar made after Toy Story . Yet, for some reason, it's missing from The Incredibles , making that movie the first one without the delivery truck.

The omission of the vehicle wasn't completely deliberate, however.

"Oh, is that right?” Bird said to The Huffington Post when asked about it. “I don’t know. I was busy making the movie. I didn’t think about the Pizza Planet, so I would not be surprised if it was not in there and I would not be surprised if somebody got it in there when they were building the sets."

Turns out that someone did not build it into the set, and so the Pizza Planet truck does not appear anywhere in The Incredibles .

1. Brad Bird was originally told the first movie was too expensive to make

It was a long road bringing the first movie to the big screen. Bird first thought up the idea for The Incredibles 12 years before it ever came to fruition. It didn't even come up at Pixar until the year 2000. Even then, there were some big obstacles to get across to make the movie feasible.

In an interview, Bird talked about the long and arduous process of bringing the movie to life. For example, bringing humans to life in animation is way more difficult than animating animals.

"We were told at the beginning of it by some people here that it was an unmakable movie," he told IGN . "Just way too complicated, too many characters, too many costume changes, too many effects, too many locations, too many sets. If we had done the humans the way Pixar had done them prior to this, it would have taken four years just to build the characters."

Fortunately, Bird and his team started to think outside the box to make the movie happen: "So we had to invent a whole new way to build them. We were told it would take ten years and cost a gazillion dollars by people here who are very smart."

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Bomb Voyage (The Incredibles)

Last Updated on: June 25th, 2024

Who is Bomb Voyage?

Bomb Voyage is a fictional character from the 2004 Disney-Pixar animated film “ The Incredibles .” He is the main antagonist of the film, a French supervillain and master criminal who is known for his penchant for explosive devices, hence his name “Bomb Voyage.” He is voiced by Brad Bird, the director of the film. He is a recurring enemy of the film’s protagonist, Mr. Incredible, and is determined to carry out his nefarious plans despite the efforts of Mr. Incredible and his superhero family. Bomb Voyage is a small, rotund character with a thick French accent, a black and white striped shirt and beret. He is seen as a comical villain in the movie, but is still dangerous.

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Bomb Voyage

Bomb Voyage (real name: Remy Bon Mot ) is a minor antagonist from the Disney/Pixar film The Incredibles .

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• 2.3 The Incredibles: The Comic Book

Development [ ]

Brad Bird originally pitched the idea of Bomb Voyage's name. His original idea was that Bomb Voyage would be named " Bomb Pérignon " in reference to the similarly named champagne, Dom Pérignon, but the Moët et Chandon company would not allow that kind of parody.

Appearances [ ]

The incredibles [ ].

Bomb Voyage is a recurring enemy of Mr. Incredible as he is introduced. He is a mime-like criminal who speaks French, although it was hinted that he knew English as well, as he said "IncrediBoy" in its English wording rather than a French translation of the name.

When he is first introduced, Bomb Voyage crashes through a brick wall after stealing money. Just before Mr. Incredible could fight Bomb Voyage, a young Buddy (as "IncrediBoy", Mr. Incredible's sidekick) arrived and tried to appeal to Mr. Incredible that he would be a worthy sidekick for Mr. Incredible (and that he invented new rocket boots, which make him get around so fast). Mr. Incredible then told Buddy, "Fly home, Buddy. I work alone." Bomb Voyage took advantage of the distraction to aid his escape. As Buddy flew off to get the police, Bomb Voyage put a bomb on Buddy's cape (unbeknownst to Buddy), forcing Mr. Incredible to release Bomb Voyage in order to save Buddy. Bomb Voyage was presumably aware of Mr. Incredible's persona in that in a tight situation, he would choose saving people over apprehending criminals.

Bomb Voyage successfully made a getaway, and it is presumed that he remained at large for the remainder of the film. He was also partially responsible for the Anti-Super Legislation Act being enacted, as the bomb he placed on Buddy Pine was later dislodged from his cape due to Mr. Incredible and managed to land and detonate on a railroad track, which forced Mr. Incredible to stand in the path of the train to prevent it from going through the newly made hole in the tracks, which resulted in the passengers suing Mr. Incredible, and acting as the jury in his lawsuit trial, that eventually led to it being passed.

The Incredibles (video game) [ ]

In the video game version, Voyage is the main villain for the first three levels of the game and he speaks English. In the last level he is involved in, he recreates the scene in the movie, throwing a bomb in Buddy Pine's cape, forcing Mr. Incredible to save him. After this, he attempts to escape in a helicopter, and Mr. Incredible defeats him by throwing six bombs at him, causing it to fly out of control and presumably crash, killing Voyage.

The Incredibles: The Comic Book [ ]

In the comic series, Bomb Voyage is recruited by Xerek to make the Eiffel Tower vanish with one of his bombs, and later meets Elastigirl and Mirage in person when they arrive to investigate, when he attempts to escape, Elastigirl follows him throughout Paris and eventually shakes Xerek's location out of him. Since it has been 15 years since his appearance in the movie, Bomb Voyage has aged significantly, with a potbelly and balding hair.

Gallery [ ]

• Bomb Voyage had a minor cameo as a street mime, during the 2nd act when Linguini and Colette are rollerskating by Chef Skinner in Ratatouille . His name also appears on a newspaper that Colette is reading.
• Bomb Voyage's name is a pun on the French phrase, " Bon Voyage ".
• The Boom! Studios comic reveals Bomb Voyage was one of the few villains to elude the NSA completely around the time of the superhero ban, only to re-emerge in Paris years later and destroying the Eiffel Tower in the process. Working for Xerek, he destroys the rendezvous point that Mrs. Incredible and Mirage were to meet their contact at. When Bomb Voyage tries to escape, Helen takes a jetpack in pursuit and Xerek reveals himself through Bomb Voyage's communicator, which threatens to explode and take both of them down.
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Bomb Voyage

Bomb Voyage is a minor antagonist from the Disney/Pixar film The Incredibles. He was a

longtime enemy of Mr. Incredible .

Background [ ]

The Incredibles

Bomb Voyage is a recurring enemy of Mr. Incredible as he is introduced. He is a mime-like criminal who speaks French, although it was hinted that he knew English as well.

When he is first introduced, Bomb Voyage crashes through a brick wall after stealing money. Just before Mr. Incredible could fight Bomb Voyage, a young Buddy (as "IncrediBoy", Mr. Incredible's so-called sidekick) arrived and tried to appeal to Mr. Incredible that he would be a worthy sidekick for Mr. Incredible (and that he invented new rocket boots, which make him get around so fast). Mr. Incredible then told Buddy, "Fly home, Buddy. I work alone." Bomb Voyage took advantage of the distraction to aid his escape. As Buddy flew off to get the police, Bomb Voyage put a bomb on Buddy's cape (unbeknownst to Buddy), forcing Mr. Incredible to release Bomb Voyage in order to save Buddy. Bomb Voyage was presumably aware of Mr. Incredible's persona in that in a tight situation, he would choose saving people over apprehending criminals.

Bomb Voyage successfully made a getaway, and it is presumed that he remained at large for the remainder of the film. He was also partially responsible for the Anti-Super Legislation Act being enacted, as the bomb he placed on Buddy Pine was later dislodged from his cape due to Mr. Incredible and managed to land and detonate on a railroad track, which forced Mr. Incredible to stand in the path of the train to prevent it from going through the newly made hole in the tracks, which resulted in the passengers suing Mr. Incredible, and acting as the jury in his lawsuit trial, that eventually led to it being passed.

It is unknown what became of him afterwards, and he is presumably at large.

The Incredibles (video game)

In the video game version, Voyage is the main villain for the first three levels of the game and he speaks English. In the last level he is involved in, he recreates the scene in the movie, throwing a bomb in Buddy Pine's cape, forcing Mr. Incredible to save him. After this, he attempts to escape in a helicopter, and Mr. Incredible defeats him by throwing six bombs at him, causing it to fly out of control and presumably crash, killing Voyage.

The Incredibles: The Comic Book

In the comic series, Bomb Voyage is recruited by Xerek to make the Eiffel Tower vanish with one of his bombs, and later meets Elastigirl and Mirage in person when they arrive to investigate, when he attempts to escape, Elastigirl follows him throughout Paris and eventually shakes Xerek's location out of him. Since it has been 15 years since his appearance in the movie, Bomb Voyage has aged significantly, with a potbelly and balding hair.

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Appearances [ ]

The incredibles [ ].

Bomb Voyage is a recurring enemy of Mr. Incredible as he is introduced. He is a mime-like criminal who speaks French, although it was hinted that he knew English as well.

When he is first introduced, Bomb Voyage crashes through a brick wall after stealing money. Just before Mr. Incredible could fight Bomb Voyage, a young Buddy (as "IncrediBoy", Mr. Incredible's so-called sidekick) arrived and tried to appeal to Mr. Incredible that he would be a worthy sidekick for Mr. Incredible (and that he invented new rocket boots, which make him get around so fast). Mr. Incredible then told Buddy, "Fly home, Buddy. I work alone." Bomb Voyage took advantage of the distraction to aid his escape. As Buddy flew off to get the police, Bomb Voyage put a bomb on Buddy's cape (unbeknownst to Buddy), forcing Mr. Incredible to release Bomb Voyage in order to save Buddy. Bomb Voyage was presumably aware of Mr. Incredible's persona in that in a tight situation, he would choose saving people over apprehending criminals.

Bomb Voyage successfully made a getaway, and it is presumed that he remained at large for the remainder of the film. He was also partially responsible for the Anti-Super Legislation Act being enacted, as the bomb he placed on Buddy Pine was later dislodged from his cape due to Mr. Incredible and managed to land and detonate on a railroad track, which forced Mr. Incredible to stand in the path of the train to prevent it from going through the newly made hole in the tracks, which resulted in the passengers suing Mr. Incredible, and acting as the jury in his lawsuit trial, that eventually led to it being passed.

It is unknown what became of him afterwards, and he is presumably at large.

The Incredibles (video game) [ ]

In the video game version, Voyage is the main villain for the first three levels of the game and he speaks English. In the last level he is involved in, he recreates the scene in the movie, throwing a bomb in Buddy Pine's cape, forcing Mr. Incredible to save him. After this, he attempts to escape in a helicopter, and Mr. Incredible defeats him by throwing six bombs at him, causing it to fly out of control and presumably crash, killing Voyage.

The Incredibles: The Comic Book [ ]

In the comic series, Bomb Voyage is recruited by Xerek to make the Eiffel Tower vanish with one of his bombs, and later meets Elastigirl and Mirage in person when they arrive to investigate, when he attempts to escape, Elastigirl follows him throughout Paris and eventually shakes Xerek's location out of him. Since it has been 15 years since his appearance in the movie, Bomb Voyage has aged significantly, with a potbelly and balding hair.

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24 details you probably missed in 'Ratatouille'

• Even fans who've seen "Ratatouille" dozens of times may have missed these sneaky details .
• Like many Pixar films , a lot of detail went into animating characters' reflections and features.
• Disney fans can spot hidden Mickeys and classic Pixar Easter eggs in "Ratatouille." 

Chef Gusteau is featured in real magazines with realistic cover details.

The intro of the movie tells viewers about Chef Gusteau's fame and motto, "Anyone can cook."

It also shows several magazines with Gusteau on the cover.

The animated magazines feature real-world titles, like Cuisine at Home and Bon Appétit, and have an incredible amount of detail, including headlines and barcodes with prices.

Anton Ego's nickname and office reference death in several ways.

Food critic Anton Ego is first shown on the TV screen during the opening scenes of the film. 

He's introduced alongside his nickname, "The Grim Eater," a play on the grim reaper because a bad review from him can "kill" a restaurant.

This death theme is reinforced by his coffin-shaped office and skull-adorned typewriter. 

Furniture in the movie is detailed to show age, wear, and claw marks.

The furniture and home interiors shown throughout the movie are animated with great attention to detail.

When Remy and Emile are in the old woman's kitchen, both the spice rack that Remy looks through and the counter that Emile stands on have plenty of rat-claw scratches and fade marks .

All of the furniture in the woman's house is older and more worn than the brighter, unmarked pieces shown later on — such as the furniture in Skinner's office.

The rats make tables and boats out of small, everyday objects.

The rats are very resourceful. They make the tools and furniture they need throughout the film out of kitchen supplies and objects they find in the trash.

When the rats flee in boats at the beginning of the movie, each one is made from different pieces of trash, such as broken barrels. 

Later on, when the rats are dining together, their furniture is made out of other repurposed objects. The rats sit on upside-down teacups at tables made from upside-down ramekins, eat off of buttons, and use pins as utensils. 

Remy reads about the different kitchen-staff roles a few scenes before describing them to viewers.

When Remy finds Gusteau's restaurant, he looks down at the kitchen through a window and explains each chef's title and responsibilities.

Some viewers may wonder how Remy knows all this information, but we actually saw him learn it.

Just a few scenes earlier, Remy was shown studying the pages of Gusteau's book that explain the different roles of the kitchen staff.

While running through a building, Remy passes two interesting scenes.

When Remy runs through a building, he sees glimpses of rooms through vents and floorboards.

At one point, he passes a man painting a still life of a nude woman — even though there's only a bowl of fruit in front of him.

Moments later, he races by a couple having a heated argument, during which a woman is pointing a gun at a man moments before they start kissing. 

He also encounters a then-unknown Pixar dog as he runs through the building.

In the same sequence where Remy is running through the apartment building, the rat gets spooked by the shadow and bark of a dog before darting through a hole in the wall.

The dog's shape is remarkably similar to Doug from Pixar's "Up" (2009), even though the film didn't come out until two years after "Ratatouille." 

The studio famously works on its animated films for years, so it's possible that the creators stuck the Easter egg in before fans even knew to look for it. 

Characters have accurate reflections and shadows throughout the movie.

Throughout the movie, the characters' reflections are accurately animated  in windows, metal pots, water, and other surfaces. 

For example, Remy's reflection is visible in the window of Gusteau's restaurant and Linguini's can be seen in one of the pots in the kitchen. 

Linguini passes a stained-glass window that seems to have hidden Mickeys in it.

When Linguini first takes Remy out of the restaurant, he jumps onto his bike and rides it along the streets of Paris past a cathedral with a huge, circular stained-glass window.

The edge of the window appears to be made up of small Mickey heads, following Disney's tradition of including "hidden Mickeys" in its movies.

After Remy bites Linguini's hand, the mark can be seen healing over the next few days.

Before Remy and Linguini figure out how to communicate with each other, the rat bites the chef to get his attention. 

The bite mark on Linguini's right hand is visible and shown slowly healing in later scenes over the next few days. 

There are slit marks on the cutting board after Colette pulls knives out of it.

Before training Linguini, Colette makes it clear that she takes her job seriously and wants to be respected.

She gets his attention during her speech by stabbing knives through his apron sleeves onto a cutting board .

After she pulls them out, there are visible slit marks left on the board. 

Gusteau's book appears many times throughout the movie, including in a framed photo in the chef's old office.

Gusteau's book , "Anyone Can Cook," is shown and referenced frequently throughout the film. 

Remy watches the book being promoted on the TV at the beginning before stealing the copy from the old woman's house while he's escaping. 

It can also be seen in the restaurant kitchen, in a storefront that Colette passes, and in a framed promotional photo in Gusteau's old office.

Colette has a visible burn on her wrist while she's cautioning Linguini about proper kitchen safety.

Colette gives Linguini plenty of useful advice while training him in the kitchen.

For example, she tells him to keep his arms close to his body to minimize the number of cuts and burns he gets while cooking .

As she's doling out this advice, Colette's right sleeve moves and shows that she's speaking from experience — she has a small, red burn mark on her wrist.

Bomb Voyage from "The Incredibles" makes a cameo in the film.

Three years before "Ratatouille," Brad Bird directed Pixar's "The Incredibles," and one of that film's villains, a bank-robbing mime named Bomb Voyage, makes two brief cameos in the 2007 movie.

He's first seen on the front page of a newspaper Colette is reading. The robber's photograph can be seen next to a headline that features his name. 

Later in the film, Linguini and Colette roller-skate past Bomb Voyage as he's performing on a bridge. 

The menus at Gusteau's don't show prices.

Fancy, Michelin-star restaurants don't usually have prices on menus in real life, and Gusteau's seems to follow this tradition.

When the menus are shown throughout the movie, there are never any visible prices written next to the dishes.

Skinner makes a joke about Linguini's hat when he pulls it off his head.

When Chef Skinner pulls Linguini's hat off his head in an attempt to catch Remy, Linguini looks at him in questioning shock. 

Skinner tries to pass the moment off as a joke by saying, "Got your toque."

The comment seems to be a clever play on the phrase, "got your tongue" seeing as "toque" is the official name for a chef's hat.

The health inspector can be seen much earlier in the movie.

Next to the light switches in the kitchen, there's a piece of paper taped to the bricks that details information about the restaurant's district and health inspector. 

When the health inspector shows up at Gusteau's later on in the film, fans who were paying close attention will recognize him from his photograph on the sheet. 

The chefs' uniforms actually get dirtier as their shifts transpire.

The night that Skinner gets Linguini drunk, he asks the chef to clean up afterward. Linguini ends up falling asleep in the kitchen and doesn't wake up until Colette arrives the next day.

When the two go to talk outside, Linguini's chef whites are rumpled and stained from his shift the night before, while Colette's uniform is perfectly white and clean. 

Throughout the movie, chefs arrive at work with clean aprons but small stains and wrinkles appear by the end of each shift.

Ego's refusal to swallow bad food is mentioned in one of his reviews before it's said out loud.

When Anton Ego visits Gusteau's, he tells Linguini, "If I don't love it, I don't swallow."

However, eagle-eyed viewers will have already known that if they paid attention to the old reviews hanging around the portrait in the food critic's office. 

One of the headlines read, "mouth stayed shut," which explains that the critic doesn't eat bad food.

There are a lot of realistic details in Gusteau's will.

Skinner and his lawyer mention that Gusteau's will includes a two-year time limit for the famous chef's heir to claim the restaurant before it is to be given to his sous-chef, Skinner.

When Remy finds and reads the will, the sentences about the two-year deadline and sous-chef clause are legible. And the document even has official markings on it, such as a witness signature and notary stamp.

The couple that Remy saw fighting earlier appears to make up over the course of the movie.

When Skinner is chasing Remy, they run past what appears to be the same pair Remy saw fighting toward the beginning of the movie .

The couple is dining outside and seems to be getting along far better than they were when the woman was holding the man at gunpoint. 

The famous Pixar Pizza Planet truck makes a very brief cameo.

During the big chase scene, eagle-eyed fans may be able to spot a famous Pixar Easter egg: the Pizza Planet truck .

The yellow and white vehicle races across a bridge in the very back of a shot. 

One chef finally gets to use the culinary torch he's seen holding in earlier scenes.

When Skinner first sees Remy, everyone in the kitchen tries to catch the rat. 

One chef grabs a culinary torch and actually looks disappointed when Remy is trapped before he can use it.

At the end of the movie, however, he finally gets to use the torch to burn boxes of Gusteau's frozen food .

When Ego is served the ratatouille, there is steam rising off of it.

When Ego comes to review Gusteau's, Remy makes him a plate of colorful ratatouille. 

In the kitchen, the dish is shown being plated immediately after being pulled from the oven, and when Linguini places in front of Ego, there is still visible steam rising off of the hot meal.

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Buddy Pine , commonly known as Syndrome (and formerly Incrediboy ), is a main character in The Incredibles and a minor character in Jack-Jack Attack . He is Mr. Incredible 's former fan.

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Syndrome is a genius with buckteeth, a long chin, and long hair that sticks upwards like fire.

As a young boy, Buddy proclaimed himself to be a huge fan of Mr. Incredible and wanted to be his sidekick "Incrediboy". However, Mr. Incredible kept sternly telling Buddy he doesn't need his help.

Eventually, Buddy went as far as to interrupt Mr. Incredible and Bomb Voyage 's showdown and introduced his new rocket boots to Mr. Incredible. However, Mr. Incredible still orders Buddy to leave, by telling him that he works alone. Still determined to impress his hero, Buddy left to get the police to arrest Bomb Voyage, but then Bomb Voyage placed a bomb on Buddy's cape, forcing Mr. Incredible to release Bomb Voyage to save the ignorant boy. Mr. Incredible managed to remove the bomb from Buddy's cape; however, he and the bomb fell and landed on a set of train tracks. The bomb immediately detonated afterward and destroyed a large portion of the tracks as an oncoming train was approaching. Thankfully, Mr. Incredible was able to stop the train before it reached the destroyed track, although the force of the impact of the train and Mr. Incredible injured several of the passengers. Fed up with Buddy's carelessness, Mr. Incredible angrily hands him over to the police and tells them to bring him home and to inform his mom about what he was doing. Buddy's feelings of being rejected and betrayed by Mr. Incredible caused him to snap out of his morality, turn on his former idol, and eventually get his revenge.

For the next 15 years, Buddy used his skill with inventions to become a highly successful and wealthy weapons designer and arms dealer, becoming a super-villain and abandoning his conscience in the process. Though not stated in the film, it was implied that he made much money and became rich selling his weaponry to terrorist groups, foreign dictators, and organized crime families. However, no matter how rich and powerful Buddy became, he never forgot about Mr. Incredible and formulated his plans for revenge. Using his best inventions to simulate superpowers, he took on the costumed identity of "Syndrome" and set up Operation Kronos , aimed at eliminating other supers, and then portraying himself as their successor.

Operating through his agent Mirage , Syndrome contacted various retired superheroes, tasking them with the destruction of various prototypes of the enormous Omnidroid battle robots, leading to the demise of dozens of old supers, and he originally intended to lure superhero Frozone to fight his robot, however he was convinced by Mirage to change targets as she discovered that he was with Mr. Incredible and he was the one they were looking for. Syndrome had Mirage recruit Mr. Incredible, who was able to defeat the Omnidroid.

After repairing and improving the machine, Syndrome was sent to fight Mr. Incredible. When Mr. Incredible was outmatched, the super-villain revealed himself and declared himself to be Mr. Incredible's nemesis. Using his zero-point technology, he immobilized Mr. Incredible and threw him around. Syndrome inadvertently threw Mr. Incredible too far, causing the latter to fall over a waterfall. Syndrome then tried to kill Mr. Incredible with an explosive device, then sent his Bio-Probe to verify that he has been terminated. The Bio-Probe eventually made it into the cavern (where Mr. Incredible has ended up after being blasted by a force of water from the aforementioned explosive device), scanned its surrounding for signs of life, and returned to Syndrome, telling him that Mr. Incredible had been terminated (unaware that Mr. Incredible hid behind the remains of Gazerbeam , who learned about Syndrome's plan before losing his life). Despite that, Syndrome was able to capture Mr. Incredible when he tried to infiltrate his base and discovered the long list of supers he murdered and that while Syndrome didn't know Elastigirl 's location, he knew Frozone's and also planned to attack the city with his robot.

When the rest of the Incredible family followed, Syndrome assumed his prisoner had sent for reinforcements and ordered the plane to be shot down with surface-to-air missiles, taking cruel pleasure in the knowledge that he had killed his enemy's family, taunting, "You'll get over it. I seem to recall you prefer to 'work alone'?". Enraged by Syndrome's witty remark and evildoing, Mr. Incredible attempted to grab him, but instead grabbed Mirage (after she intervened) and angrily demanded that he be released or else he would kill her by snapping her back. Syndrome was unimpressed and called his bluff, knowing that even with nothing to lose, Mr. Incredible would not kill an enemy. This callous disregard for life eventually turns Mirage against Syndrome, leading her to free Mr. Incredible from captivity, inform him of his family's survival, and help him to escape and reunite with them.

Syndrome captures the Incredibles

The Incredibles quickly defeat the guards. However, Syndrome comes along and captures the whole family with his zero-point energy rays—during which he is surprised to find that Mr. Incredible had married Elastigirl and had children and imprisons them, taking the opportunity to elaborate on his plan. He intends to set the Omnidroid v.10 on Metroville and then stop it himself, taking the credit and setting himself up as the city's new hero. Syndrome also revealed that after he becomes old, he intends to sell his inventions so that everyone can enjoy powers similar to his, and gradually become superheroes. Syndrome echoes a similar earlier comment of Dash 's that "when everyone is super, no one will be", hinting that by doing so, the concept of being a superhero would no longer be special.

Arriving at Metroville, where the Omnidroid was on a rampage, Syndrome introduced himself as a new superhero to the public, then utilized his remote to "teach this hunk of metal a few manners." However, Syndrome underestimated the Omnidroid's ability to learn, which allowed the robot to identify Syndrome as a threat and blasted his remote-control wristband from his wrist before sending him flying uncontrollably into a building. Knocked out from the impact, he remained unconscious during the battle in which the Incredibles, with help from Frozone , finally destroyed the Omnidroid, robbing Syndrome of his victory. Rick Dicker , a government agent of National Supers Agency , then froze all of Syndrome's assets, adding that he and his colleagues would stop him if he were to be spotted anywhere.

Syndrome bragging about his plan to the Incredibles in the containment unit after he captured them

After his plans to fraudulently become a superhero and replace the supers that he had killed off were foiled by the combined efforts of the Incredibles and Frozone, Syndrome went over to the Parr family residence, where he planned to abduct Jack-Jack (the baby and youngest child of Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl) and raise him as a sidekick. Carrying the baby in his arms, Syndrome made his way back up to his jet, but Jack-Jack used his powers against him and disabled one of Syndrome's rocket boots, making him fly uncontrollably and crash into his jet. The impact made him drop Jack-Jack, who is rescued by Elastigirl. Realizing that he had lost, but refusing to admit defeat, Syndrome leaned from the side door of his jet, furiously yelling at Mr. Incredible and vow his revenge to take Jack-Jack away someday. However, Mr. Incredible threw his car at the jet, knocking Syndrome off balance. Ending up on the jet's left wing in front of its turbine, Syndrome, as he was wearing a cape, frantically tried to climb away from the turbine that was pulling him by his cape, desperate to save himself, but his cape then got caught in the turbine that sucked him in (echoing an earlier scene regarding the dangers of wearing a cape told by Edna ), killing the supervillain (similar to what happened to Stratogale ) and destroying his jet in a resulting explosion.

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Early life [ ].

Young Buddy as "IncrediBoy"

As a 10-year-old boy, Buddy was Mr. Incredible's #1 fan, and he considered himself to be Mr. Incredible's self-appointed sidekick, "IncrediBoy". Mr. Incredible initially humored Buddy with autographs and similar considerations but did not approve of a child showing up uninvited to announce that they're partners to begin with, much less repeatedly. Even though Mr. Incredible eventually resorted to bluntly telling Buddy that he wouldn't tolerate such harassment, Buddy wasn't deterred. Buddy even went as far as to interrupt Mr. Incredible's impending showdown with Bomb Voyage (who stole some money from the bank), placing himself in danger. When Bomb Voyage placed a bomb on Buddy's cape (unbeknownst to Buddy), Mr. Incredible was forced to release Bomb Voyage to save Buddy. However, the rescue ended up causing one of the two lawsuits that Mr. Incredible faced and lost, thus opening a floodgate of other lawsuits against supers and thus, abolishing supers altogether. Fed up with Buddy's carelessness, Mr. Incredible angrily handed him over to the police. However, the cops do not press criminal charges against Buddy, but act upon Mr. Incredible's recommendation that they let Buddy's mother know what her son has been doing, and it will be up to the Pine family to determine the appropriate punishment for Buddy for interfering in Mr. Incredible's duties. Buddy's punishment at the hands of his family was not revealed, but a flashback of him angrily looking up at a Mr. Incredible poster and then tearing it down suggests that he was punishment and sent to his room.

"IncrediBoy" showed advanced mechanical skill by creating his rocket boots, but they weren't nearly enough to convince Mr. Incredible, whose callous dismissals left Buddy's fantasies crushed. This blow and his skewed interpretation of the event, shown in a later distorted flashback where Bomb Voyage wasn't even present, drove Buddy to a anger and hatred, and then to revenge.

Following life [ ]

Buddy as Syndrome

Buddy had grown to be twenty-five years of age and has turned into a supervillain. He wears his hair in a tall wavy Jimmy Neutron -esque do. Despite being a villain, he is still a child at heart and is prone to geek-out moments and monologuing.

After his assets are frozen by the United States Secret Service, Syndrome made one final attempt at revenge by breaking into the Incredibles' house and acting as a replacement for Kari McKeen , then abducting Jack-Jack. Syndrome then flew up into the sky and headed for his jet plane to retreat back to Nomanisan Island. However, Syndrome failed once again due to Jack-Jack's emerged superpowers and Elastigirl saving Jack-Jack (and then using her body as a parachute). Syndrome then leaned from the side door of his plane, beginning to vow vengeance next time. However, Mr. Incredible threw his car at Syndrome's plane, knocking Syndrome off balance. Syndrome's cape then gets caught in the jet engine (calling back to Edna Mode 's rule against capes). He was killed by a combination of the engine's blades, the intense heat of the engine, and the explosion of the plane.

Jack-Jack Attack [ ]

Taking place on the same day Syndrome tries to establish himself as a "Superhero" and his plans fail, right after he regains consciousness, he rushes over to the Parr's residence to abduct Jack-Jack. At the same time, Kari was babysitting Jack-Jack, but due to her encounters with Jack-Jack's superpowers, she was looking insane, as well as mistaking Syndrome for a replacement. The very next thing she noticed is Syndrome's "S" on the front of his costume, Syndrome tries to cover it up by saying it stands for "Sitter", then trying to further that disguise by telling Kari that his original idea was that he had initials for "BabySitter", but then he would be flying around with a big "B.S." and claiming it would have been embarrassing (as it is a shorthand of a swear word).

Physical appearance [ ]

Syndrome is barrel-chested. His red hair extends straight up with a widow's peak in a manner reminiscent of flames. Syndrome is "not a super", but he demonstrates exceptional ingenuity, technical knowledge and planning skill far beyond the science of his time. The animators had intended Syndrome to be a caricaturization of director Brad Bird , but it had been debated as to whether they should spoof Bird in their drawing of Mr. Incredible. Ultimately, both Mr. Incredible and Syndrome are pastiches of Brad Bird.

Powers and abilities [ ]

• Genius level intelligence : Even though he has no superpowers, he is a genius with significantly above-average intelligence, largely compensating for his lack of special powers and making him an extremely dangerous opponent.
• Technological genius : Syndrome is an incredible technician, being able to create a wide variety of weapons and high-performance vehicles. He was able to create flying boots at a young age, which he later modified as an adult, indicating he was a child prodigy. As an adult, he made himself rich by selling his weapons and was able to earn a vast wealth and many henchmen. He was able to create restraint systems for Supers, flying vehicles for combat and transport, a very powerful explosive battery, a lie detector or a large number of highly sophisticated combat robots.
• Highly qualified tactician : Syndrome was also an excellent tactician, he was able to put in place a complex plan to get rid of Bob involving the mass murder of superheroes, lure Bob to his island easily by exploiting his desire to return to his superhero life, set up a bluff against Bob when he takes Mirage hostage, put in place a plan to pass himself off as a hero through his Omnidroids, though this plan finally failed, and easily gain the trust of Jack-Jack's babysitters, although this is due to her inability to handle the baby and her stupidity.

Weaponry and gadgets [ ]

• Utility Gauntlets - Using zero-point energy, Syndrome can create a field of quantum energy that inhibits the majority of a victim's body movement. If the victim's skin is exposed, the range of motion of the victim's face is also taken to the minimum (only their eyes can move), and the ability to speak is also inhibited. The field is moved by his fingers and can be fired in the forms of energy blasts and concentrated beams. Like the trigger for Spider-Man's web-shooters, the trigger for these weapons is located high on the palm of each hand to prevent most unwanted firings. The left-hand gauntlet also holds the remote control for the Omnidroid. A communicator is likely built into the right-hand gauntlet.
• Aero Boots - In his short days as IncrediBoy, Buddy used makeshift rockets. As Syndrome, his rocket boots were modified to project flames of blue fire.
• Bio-Probe - Used to locate temperature, atmosphere and life signals in various locations. Worn in the left-hand gauntlet.
• Miniature "I"-bomb - Small, but exceedingly powerful bomb. Worn in the right-hand gauntlet. Based on its detonation its explosive may be triggered by impact as it doesn't explode until touching a rock. Unknown if it is exclusively a water bomb.
• Omnidroid - To date, there have been ten known versions of this battle robot. The first nine were prototypes designed to fight and kill supers. The tenth was used in the foiled Operation Kronos. All of them were artificially intelligent, enabling it to solve any problem that it encounters; Omnidroid v.10 figured out that Syndrome used a remote device to control it and knocked him unconscious. Another feature of the Omnidroids is that they have colored eyes (e.g., 08 has a blue/green eye, v.10 has a red eye). The Omnidroid's only weakness is itself: in the film, Mr. Incredible scrambles into Omnidroid 08 's inner workings, making the machine pierce its hull in a vain attempt to pry the hero free from inside, and later on, Mr. Incredible launches Omnidroid v.10's claw at it and tears right through it, ripping out its power core.
• Viper - Helicopter-like, VTOL vehicles with ducted fans attached that twist and turn to control the vehicle's altitude and movement. The ducted fans tend to decrease lift when changing the independent blade pitch.
• Velocipod - Round open cars with four surrounding blades that spin at exceedingly high speeds to keep them airborne.
• Manta Jets - Specially designed transporters resembling manta rays that have a translucent holographic monitor inside and can travel underwater.
• Energy Prisons - Prisons in which the victim is obtained inside a powerful electric field and unable to escape due to hard metal mine balls.

Personality [ ]

Syndrome's personality (namely his callous disregard of others and lack of conscience or morality) all stem back to psychopathy. He is a mad scientist determined to make himself a hero even if it meant creating a killer robot to murder various retired ones. Due to Mr. Incredible making him believe that he could count on nobody except for himself, he has no value of human life which was shown when he let loose the Omnidroid on a populated area to pretend to be a superhero, allowed missiles to fire on Helen, Dash and Violet's plane even after discovering there were children onboard and was willing to risk Mirage's safety to call Mr. Incredible's bluff, although he decided not to murder Jack-Jack, nor Jack-Jack's babysitter, and instead deceive her into giving her custody of Jack-Jack to him, (though this may have been because she was easily persuaded due to her being incapable of handling Jack-Jack's powers).

Syndrome was a scientific, technological, technical and mechanical genius, and possessed the intelligence and resourcefulness sufficient to create an incredible variety of weaponry and equipment. He was also capable of creating a sentient, self-aware, incredibly powerful and intelligent being that ultimately defeated him.

Aside from his derangement Syndrome is skeptical, he thinks that the only way to get respect was to become a threat. He is inhuman as well, as shown when after realizing that Bob knew Helen from the transmission, he instantly set missiles on their plane and then mocked them on their apparent deaths after recalling how Bob told him that he worked alone.

Like many sociopaths, Syndrome holds a firm belief that mercy is a weakness and disregarding life is a strength that was pointed out by Mirage. Syndrome himself is a very serene, reasonable, and even-tempered young man, rarely if ever expressing his temper. When Mr. Incredible just destroyed his ninth Omnidroid instead of initial anger, he simply compliments the feat by saying it was "impressive." This also shows when Bob took Mirage hostage and Syndrome shows no concern when he threatens to crush her after he realizes that Bob was too noble to do such a thing with that being part of the reason why he showed no concern, though he was displeased when Mirage decided to leave him.

While he wished to become a superhero, Buddy had a very skewed and egotistical definition of what a superhero truly was as he assumed that Mr. Incredible rejected him because he had no powers, completely ignoring the fact that he was untrained and was causing more interference than help, and said that he was a real hero for beating Mr. Incredible after the latter called him out for wanting to pretend to be a hero, missing the point that as an egotist and a murderer he couldn't be a true hero.

Syndrome is an extremely spiteful and vindictive individual; after being rejected by his former idol it turned him into a megalomaniacal supervillain. However, he was still rational enough not to make his hatred allow him to be cocky and realized that the Omnidroid would have to be worthy before fighting Bob.

He also never acknowledges his faults, completely ignoring that it was his pestering, lack of training and interference putting him and others in danger that made Mr. Incredible lose his patience and reject him. This goes so far that in his recollection of Mr. Incredible rejecting him Bomb Voyage is no longer present.

Despite his sinister personality, Syndrome is also shown to have a hilarious side, remarking that he and Mrs. Incredible "had gotten busy" after being married, and accidentally tossing Mr. Incredible off a cliff while trying to explain his plan to him. He also told Kari that wearing a "BS" on the shirt was below him while explaining why he had an S on his shirt.

However, it is needless to say that Syndrome was not always like this; Buddy Pine was cheerful, inventive, positive and smart if not a little irritating and obnoxious. He was somewhat obsessed with Mister Incredible as he was a member of the fan club, knows his favorite catchphrases and fighting styles and his self-proclaimed number one fan. He is a child prodigy, creating rocket boots that allow him to fly; unfortunately, however, his intrusions caused his idol to lose Bomb Voyage. After being rejected by Mister Incredible twice this led Buddy down a dark path until it became a desire for vengeance. However, even as a kid, Buddy seemed to believe being a superhero was about wearing cool outfits and getting to beat people up, showing no real desire to help others. This suggests that he could have potentially become an anti-hero even if Bob hadn't turned him down. To be fair, he was a kid at the time, so he might not have comprehended what being a superhero meant.

Behind the Scenes [ ]

Conception and creation [ ].

Syndrome was originally meant to be a throwaway character. In a deleted scene (the alternate opening), Syndrome, after learning from an agent of his that Mr. Incredible had recently moved into a new neighborhood (after an incident where Mr. Incredible accidentally cleaved his hand with a butcher knife and, due to his superhuman durability, dented it in the process without injury to himself, and was forced to fake injury and hide the incriminating knife.), broke into the Incredible Family's home (the Incredibles used the last name " Smith " instead of " Parr "), disguising himself as a burglar and making enough noise to lure Bob to him, and then used Bob as a battering ram to wreck the home. He also tried to capture Violet while she was still in her infancy, but she, in her invisible state, regurgitated saliva onto his eyes (apparently, the baby Violet had a problem with this, as earlier in the scene, she regurgitated saliva onto her mother's shirt, much to the disgust of one of their neighbors), making him drop the parents. In response, Syndrome immobilized both Helen and Violet but became immobilized himself when Bob rolled a mirror between them and lodged him into the ceiling of Violet's room. Syndrome was ultimately killed when the family's home was totaled in a gas main explosion sparked by a flame in the fireplace (the Incredibles, however, managed to escape in time). In the same scene, Syndrome, upon discovering Violet, also hinted that Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl essentially broke the law by marrying and having children, although this concept was cut in the final version, as when a similarly scripted revelation occurred, he does not mention the legality of whether Supers should breed or not.

• According to official sources, Syndrome is in his mid 20's, is 5'7" (170 cm) and weighs 185 lbs (83 kg). [1]
• In another bit of foreshadowing, as Incrediboy, Bomb Voyage placed a bomb on his cape before Mr. Incredible got it off, leading to the string of events that brought down costumed superheroes in the first place.
• In Jack-Jack Attack , his mask is not on, and he still has his cape.
• Syndrome is one of the few characters whose voice actor also voiced his juvenile counterpart.
• When Buddy sneaks into Mr. Incredible's car, Mr. Incredible goes through several names trying to remember Buddy's name. One of the names he says is "Brodie", possibly a reference to Syndrome's voice actor Jason Lee 's breakout character from the movie Mallrats .
• Syndrome is a direct homage to the DC comics character Ozymandias from the novel "Watchmen". Like Ozymandias, Syndrome has no inherent superhuman powers but possesses an incredible intellect and technical aptitude. They brought themselves up from nothing to become exceptionally wealthy. They both as villains enacted a plan to fabricate an invasion to unite humanity (albeit their motive differed, Syndrome did to masquerade as a hero, Ozymandias did so to end war and violence worldwide). Both worked a scheme to eliminate costume heroes that could potentially offset their plans.
• Before Jason Lee was cast to voice Syndrome, Joaquin Phoenix was originally considered. In addition to Phoenix, actors such as Topher Grace, Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, David Cross, Paul Giamatti, and Robin Williams were also considered for the voice of Syndrome.
• Syndrome briefly appears in a storyboard deleted scene for Incredibles 2 , where Bob hosts a memorial dedicated to Gazerbeam as well as other supers who were killed by the Omnidroids.

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Mirage is the secondary antagonist of the 2004 Disney / Pixar animated film The Incredibles . She was Syndrome 's sultry assistant during his attempt to eradicate Supers , but she had a change of heart after Syndrome appeared to pass off her life.

• 1.1 Personality
• 1.2 Physical appearance
• 2 Role in the film
• 3 Printed media
• 4.1 Disney Infinity
• 5.1 Screenshots
• 5.2 Miscellaneous
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Background [ ]

Personality [ ].

Mirage is a calm and decisive femme fatale who thrives on wealth and power. Unlike Syndrome, however, she has standards for how far she is willing to go for it.

At first, Mirage respected Syndrome as her leader and her presumed lover, sharing in his taste for calculation and betrayal and willingly drawing supers to their deaths to near the point where they could release the Omnidroid for its rampage. However, she does have some honor, as she was clearly ill at ease with Syndrome opening fire on Elastigirl's plane when they learned children were aboard, and all of her loyalty for him completely faded away when Syndrome expressed no concern for her life once Mr. Incredible threatened to kill her and then mocked the man whose family he thought he had killed by calling him weak, thus making her change her ways completely by siding with the Incredibles.

Physical appearance [ ]

Mirage is a tall tan-skinned young woman with mid-back length platinum-blonde hair that has bangs swept to the left side, green eyes, and a very slim body.

She has a penchant for expensive clothes, and sometimes wears earrings and also wears high-heeled black shoes.

Role in the film [ ]

"Mirage" is a pseudonym, her real name is currently unknown. She is Syndrome 's seductive right-hand woman, who aided him in the murder of Gazerbeam and many other superheroes during Operation Kronos. She had been conducting surveillance on Frozone for some time in an attempt to make him Syndrome's next murder victim, however, when she spots Frozone with his good friend Mr. Incredible , Mirage recommends to Syndrome that they put Frozone on hold and instead target Mr. Incredible, given Syndrome's hatred of the latter. She later slips a video message to Bob Parr on his last day at Insuricare , spinning a story of needing superhero help with a government project gone wrong and promising to pay him to triple his annual salary at Insuricare, which he opens that night after he is fired by Gilbert Huph . Mr. Incredible, both eager to resume his superhero glory days and in need of money to support his family now that he is unemployed, accepts Mirage's offer. Mirage meets Mr. Incredible aboard the Manta Ship and requests him to deactivate the allegedly defective Omnidroid 9,000 on Nomanisan Island without destroying it, warning him that the robot will learn the longer that the battle goes on. She watches from a surveillance bird with Syndrome as Mr. Incredible succeeds in the task, surprising the vengeful villain who instructs Mirage to invite him to dinner. She later joins Mr. Incredible at dinner that night, explaining away her superior's absence as him liking anonymity, and explaining that she's drawn to him due to a mutual attraction to power. After receiving his pay, Bob returns home.

Two months later, Mirage contacts Mr. Incredible again after the super has turned his home life around with both the increased income and losing a significant amount of weight. She greets him complimenting his new suit, courtesy of Edna Mode , and escorts him to a suite, informing him that he will receive his briefing later that day in a certain room, in actuality a trap where Syndrome and the completed Omnidroid 10,000 waits to intercept him. Later that night, after Mr. Incredible tricked Syndrome's probe into thinking he was dead, Mirage inadvertently lets Mr. Incredible into Nomanisan's control room, allowing him to discover Syndrome's plans, but finds him when the tracking device on his suit triggers the security system.

She is present later when Syndrome tries to interrogate Mr. Incredible about the plane heading to the island, looking on with an increasingly uncomfortable expression as Syndrome sends missiles at the jet when it becomes clear that Mr. Incredible's wife is the pilot, and even more so when they learn that their children are on the plane. She reluctantly informs Syndrome that the missiles destroyed the plane and notices Mr. Incredible fighting through his binds after Syndrome taunts him. She pushes him out of the way, winding up in Mr. Incredible's grasp herself as the super threatens to crush her unless Syndrome releases him. Syndrome comments it is uncharacteristically dark for him and passes it off, much to Mirage's concern, and goads Mr. Incredible. The broken super releases her a few seconds later, and Mirage's expression shows even more uncertainty as she leaves the room. Syndrome continues to taunt him over being weak and beneath him now while Mr. Incredible sobs for his presumed deceased family. Later, as they prepare the rocket to launch the Omnidroid, Mirage calls Syndrome out on his attitude, to which Syndrome tells her he simply called Mr. Incredible's bluff and that he knew he would not have it in him to hurt her. Not buying his excuse, Mirage furiously tells him to bet his own life when he gambles again and storms off in disgust, leaving Syndrome confused.

The next morning, Mirage has decided to defect from Syndrome, and shortly after learning that Mr. Incredibles' family had survived and made it to the island, she goes to free him. The super nearly chokes her before she manages to say that they're alive, upon which the super releases and then warmly embraces her. She then notices Helen in the doorway, who punches her in the face, under the impression that her husband had an affair with her. Mr. Incredible quickly disabuses her of that notion, and Mirage warns them that their children may have triggered the alarm and tells them to hurry to find them.

Later, after Syndrome has left the island, leaving the Incredibles bound in the containment room, Mirage sees the Omnidroid attacking the city on the news with a worried expression and then sees the escaped family running through the halls, to her surprise. Reaching the hangar, the Incredibles decide to use the extra rocket to return to the mainland, but Mr. Incredible surmises that Syndrome has changed the password. As he ponders on how they could access the computer, Mirage speaks over the intercom: "Say please." Thanks to Mirage, the Incredibles are able to return to Metroville to stop the Omnidroid and thus foil Syndrome's plan of Operation Kronos for good.

Printed media [ ]

Mirage has since joined the NSA as an agent. When Xerek becomes active again in Europe, she and Helen are assigned to work together against the diminutive supervillain's schemes. When discovering Helen's past with Xerek and how she is keeping this from the rest of the family, Mirage points out that she is doing exactly the same thing Bob was doing, to Helen's chagrin. Arriving in Paris , they face Bomb Voyage and a group of mercenaries, though they are outnumbered. Helen pursues Bomb Voyage to Xerek's lair, with Mirage meeting her there. After Xerek's small goal of wanting to lure Helen out under the assumption, she missed the thrill of the old days and him, both heroes just laugh and Xerek is arrested as Mirage manages to offer his mercenaries better pay.

Video games [ ]

Disney infinity [ ].

Mirage also makes a non-playable appearance in the game Disney Infinity , where she helps the Incredibles and Edna Mode to defeat Syndrome before he can destroy the city.

Gallery [ ]

Screenshots [ ].

Miscellaneous [ ]

• Her name means an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions or something that appears real or possible but is not in fact so, as it alludes at her deceptive nature and her comparing herself to the Supers that, according to the government, they do not exist.
• Mirage is similar to several James Bond villainesses, especially ones such as Pussy Galore and Andrea Anders who, like her, eventually defect from their truly evil employers.
• Mirage's voice strongly suggests a Central American or European accent.
• Despite her original voice actress Elizabeth Peña having a Spanish last name, and the ability to speak Spanish, she has not dubbed her own voices for Spanish-language releases.
• Mirage's skill in locating superheroes seems to show that she has extensive computing skills and is adept at human intelligence (HUMINT).
• Director Brad Bird has said that Mirage does not have superpowers.
• It is implied Mirage has a crush on Mr Incredible as she was flirting with him.
• One of her other infamous outfits is a long black dress, which she wore when she had dinner with Mr. Incredible.
• The phone number on Mirage's business card reads (866) 787-7476. On a typical telephone keypad, this translates into "SUPRHRO."
• Mirage is the only character to call Helen with her alternate name "Mrs. Incredible"; this is because at that point her identity was still unknown.
• Mirage is the third Pixar villain to reform at the end of the film, after Molt and Fungus .
• Espionage (gaining access to federal data, the only conceivable way she could find the supers and enlist them).
• Tax evasion and wire fraud (paying supers under the table money).
• Impersonating a government agent (Claiming to be a government representative/employee).
• Murder/Manslaughter (willful aiding in the murder of several superheroes).
• Terrorism (launching an attack on US soil).
• Ironically, almost everything she says to Mr. Incredible during their meeting on the plane turns out to be or become the truth: the Omnidroid's powers she lists are real and they actually lose control of the Omnidroid v.10.
• It should be noted that all of Mirage's printed media appearances after the events of The Incredibles have been rendered non-canon since the creation and release of Incredibles 2 . As a result, her actual canonical fate after the first film is still unknown.

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Four Chelsea stars left out of latest squad in fresh transfer message

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Raheem Sterling is among the Chelsea stars left out of the squad for the club’s Europa Conference League play-off against Servette this week.

The Blues take on Swiss opposition on Thursday night with the return leg to follow in Switzerland on August 29 with the winners progressing to the group stages of the competition.

Sterling is left out of the squad for the second game in a row having been omitted from the group for the opening game of the Premier League season against Manchester City on Sunday – a decision that prompted a statement from his representatives asking for ‘clarity’ over his future.

‘Raheem Sterling is contracted to Chelsea Football Club for the next three years,’ Sterling’s camp said.

‘He returned to England two weeks early to conduct individual training, and has had a positive pre-season under the new coach, who he has developed a good working relationship with.

‘He is committed, as ever, to delivering at the highest level for Chelsea FC and the fans, who he holds in high regard, and given his inclusion in official club pre-match material this week, our expectation was that Raheem would be involved in this weekend’s fixture in some capacity.

‘As a camp, we have always had positive dialogue with, and assurance from, Chelsea FC in relation to Raheem’s future at the club, so we look forward to gaining clarity on the situation.’

Ben Chilwell, Wesley Fofana and Tosin Adarabioyo were also not included in the squad.

Adarabioyo, who joined the club on a free transfer from Fulham this summer, was an unused substitute on Sunday against City with Fofana playing the full 90.

Like Sterling, Chilwell did not make the squad that day with Enzo Maresca last week urging the left-back to find a new club.

The Chelsea boss said: ‘The reason he did not play [in a pre-season friendly] versus Inter was because, with Chilly it is quite clear, even though I love the way he is, the problem is, he is struggling a bit to find the right position.

‘This morning we had 22 players training and if you ask all of them they will say they want to play against City on Sunday. But that is impossible. When you train every day and do not get any minutes it is not good for them or for me.

‘I need to make a decision and probably it is better to leave and go and get minutes. The transfer window is open so we’ll see what happens.’

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What to Know About Ukraine’s Cross-Border Assault Into Russia

The incursion caught Russia by surprise and signified a shift in tactics for Kyiv after more than two years of war with Russia.

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Ukraine pressed ahead with its offensive inside Russian territory on Sunday , pushing toward more villages and towns nearly two weeks into the first significant foreign incursion in Russia since World War II.

But even as the Ukrainian army was advancing in Russia’s western Kursk region, its troops were steadily losing ground on their own territory. The Russian military is now about eight miles from the town of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, according to open-source battlefield maps . The capture of Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian stronghold, would bring Moscow one step closer to its long-held goal of capturing the entire Donetsk region.

That underscored the gamble Ukraine’s army took when it crossed into Russia: throwing its forces into a daring offensive that risked weakening its own positions on the eastern front.

Whether that strategy will prove advantageous remains to be seen, analysts say.

On the political front, the offensive has already had some success: Ukraine’s rapid advance has embarrassed the Kremlin and has altered the narrative of a war in which Kyiv’s forces had been on the back foot for months.

Here’s what to know about Ukraine’s cross-border operation, which President Biden said last week was creating a “real dilemma” for the Russian government.

What happened?

Ukrainian troops and armored vehicles stormed into the Kursk region of western Russia on Aug. 6 , swiftly pushing through Russian defenses and capturing several villages.

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Source: Institute for the Study of War with American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project

By Veronica Penney

The assault, prepared in the utmost secrecy , opened a new front in the 30-month war and caught not only Russia off guard: Some Ukrainian soldiers and U.S. officials also said they lacked advance notice.

Analysts and Western officials estimate that Ukraine deployed about 1,000 troops at the start of the incursion. But military analysts say that it has since poured more troops into the operation to try to hold and expand its positions.

How far into Russia have Ukrainian troops advanced?

Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s top commander, said last week that his army now controlled more than 80 Russian settlements in the Kursk region, including Sudzha , a town of 6,000 residents. His claims could not be independently verified, although analysts say that Sudzha is highly likely to be under full Ukrainian control.

Ukraine’s advance in the Kursk region has slowed in recent days, according to open-source maps of the battlefield based on combat footage and satellite images, as Russia sends in more reinforcements. The Ukrainian army appears to be trying to dig in along the border area rather than pushing deeper into Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine acknowledged that on Saturday, saying : “Now we are reinforcing our positions. The foothold of our presence is getting stronger.”

Why is this significant?

Kyiv has regularly bombarded Russian oil refineries and airfields with drones since Moscow’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022. It has also helped stage two other ground attacks in Russia. Those, however, were smaller forays by Russian exile groups backed by the Ukrainian army, and they ended in quick retreats.

Until two weeks ago, Ukrainian forces had not counterattacked in Russia. The gains in Kursk are the quickest for Ukrainian forces since they reclaimed the Kherson region of their own country in November 2022.

How has the Kremlin responded?

As Ukrainian forces pushed deeper into Russia, Moscow scrambled to shore up its defenses, and President Vladimir V. Putin convened his security services to coordinate a response. The Russian military said it was sending more troops and armored vehicles to try to repel the attack, with Russian television broadcasting images of columns of military trucks.

Military analysts and U.S. officials have said the Russian command had so far brought in reinforcements mainly from within Russia so as to not deplete its units on the Ukrainian battlefield, in what they described as a disorganized effort.

“Russia is still pulling together its reaction,” Gen. Christopher G. Cavoli, NATO’s top military commander, said last week during a talk at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He described the Russian response as having been “fairly slow and scattered” as the authorities sorted out which military and security forces should take the lead.

And what about Putin?

The incursion has embarrassed Mr. Putin and his military establishment, prompting questions about Russia’s level of preparedness .

Underscoring how the attack rattled the Kremlin, Mr. Putin lashed out last week at the West in a tense televised meeting with his top officials. “The West is fighting us with the hands of the Ukrainians,” he said, repeating his frequent depiction of the war, which he started, as a proxy campaign against Russia by the West.

Ukraine’s incursion has brought the war into Russia like it never has before, and tens of thousands of civilians have evacuated the border area.

What is the goal of Ukraine’s incursion?

Analysts say that Ukraine’s offensive has two main aims : to draw Russian forces from the front lines in eastern Ukraine and to seize territory that could serve as a bargaining chip in future peace talks.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a top Ukrainian presidential adviser, said last week that Russia would be forced to the negotiating table only through suffering “significant tactical defeats.”

“In the Kursk region, we can clearly see how the military tool is being used objectively to persuade” Russia to enter “a fair negotiation process,” he wrote on social media .

The operation has offered a much-needed morale boost for Ukrainians, whose forces have been losing ground to Russian troops for months.

But military analysts have questioned whether Kyiv’s cross-border assault is worth the risk, given that Ukrainian forces are already stretched on the front lines of their own country.

How is it affecting the fight inside Ukraine?

Russian forces have been pummeling Ukrainian troops in the east even as Moscow races to respond to the incursion into Kursk , according to analysts, Western officials and Ukrainian soldiers.

Russia has begun to withdraw small numbers of troops from Ukraine, they said, to try to help repel the Ukrainians, but not enough to significantly affect the overall battlefield for now.

Senior American officials have said privately that they understood Kyiv’s need to change the narrative of the war, but that they were skeptical that Ukraine could hold the territory long enough to force Russia to divert significant resources from the front lines in eastern and southern Ukraine.

While Kyiv’s allies have in the past been wary that Ukrainian incursions in Russia could escalate the war, the European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell Fontelles, said last week that Ukraine had the bloc’s “ full support .”

Ukraine has used some Western-supplied weapons in the Kursk operation. But so far, the United States and Britain, two of Kyiv’s closes allies, have said the incursion did not violate their policies.”

What happens next?

As the Ukrainian offensive approaches its two-week mark, analysts say that Kyiv has several options, each with its own challenges.

Ukrainian forces could try to keep pushing farther into Russia, but that will become harder as Russian reinforcements arrive and Ukraine’s supply lines are stretched.

They could keep digging into the territory they now hold and try to defend it, but that could expose fixed Ukrainian positions to potentially devastating Russian airstrikes.

Or, battered by continual losses in eastern Ukraine, they could decide that they have made their point and pull back.

Thibault Fouillet, the deputy director of the Institute for Strategic and Defense Studies, a French research center, said Ukraine’s next move would depend on how Russia responds. “The coming week will be decisive,” he said.

Eric Schmitt contributed reporting.

Andrew E. Kramer is the Kyiv bureau chief for The Times, who has been covering the war in Ukraine since 2014. More about Andrew E. Kramer

Constant Méheut reports on the war in Ukraine, including battlefield developments, attacks on civilian centers and how the war is affecting its people. More about Constant Méheut

Kim Barker is a Times reporter writing in-depth stories about national issues. More about Kim Barker

Anton Troianovski is the Moscow bureau chief for The Times. He writes about Russia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. More about Anton Troianovski

Our Coverage of the War in Ukraine

Ukraine’s Incursion:  Russian troops defending a pocket of territory in Russia’s Kursk region were at risk of becoming encircled, military analysts said, after Ukraine bombed bridges  that are the only routes for resupply or retreat.

Kyiv’s Risky Bet:  President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to hold Russian territory as leverage in future peace talks . But Russians who know President Vladimir Putin expect him to lash out.

Flipping the Script:  Ukraine’s incursion into Russia has not shifted the overall course of the war, but it has offered a rare chance to puncture the Kremlin’s narrative  that Russia is steadily heading toward victory.

Women in the Work Force : More and more Ukrainian women are replacing men mobilized in the army . But there are not enough of them to make up for the labor shortage affecting the economy.

Summer Camps During War: As the once carefree summers of Ukrainian childhood and young adulthood are forever altered by war, traditional camps have taken on a more patriotic tone .

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