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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.

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• 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 (The Incredibles)

Last Updated on: October 18th, 2023

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 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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Frozone/lucius best.

"Super-ladies, they're always trying to tell you their secret identity. Think it'll strengthen the relationship or something like that. I say, "Girl, I don't wanna know about your mild-mannered alter ego or anything like that". I mean, you tell me you're, uh, super-mega-ultra-lightnin' babe? That's all right with me. I'm good. I'm good."

• Bald Head of Toughness : He's bald and a cool superhero with ice powers.
• Blue Is Heroic : White and light blue super suit.
• Blue Means Cold : He has ice powers and his suit is light blue.
• Deadpan Snarker : Primarily earlier in the film, as later on he's fighting for his life while badly out of condition.
• Didn't Want an Adventure : "I WANTED TO GO BOWLING!"
• Elemental Baggage : Needs to use the water available around him to make his ice. Usually it's not much of a problem, but he can run out of ice in situations like the middle of a burning building.
• Elemental Speed : Frozone can use his powers to create ice ramps that he can skate and slide on to get around quickly.
• Fat and Skinny : The Skinny to Mr. Incredible's Fat. Although Mr. Incredible gets more fit later on, he still has a far more muscular build.
• Formerly Fit : Averted, as he's the only super seen in the present day who didn't put on weight in the Time Skip , unlike Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl.
• Fragile Speedster : He can move around very quickly by skating along ice paths, but he's physically still a normal human. The Omnidroid easily smacks him around when he tries to fight it near the end of the movie, forcing him on the defensive.
• Hand Blast : His ice powers are emitted from his hands.
• Henpecked Husband : Implied . Mrs. Best: Greater good? I am your WIFE! I am the GREATEST GOOD you're ever gonna get!
• Heterosexual Life-Partners : With Mr. Incredible. They've been best friends and superhero partners for a long time, and he had the honor of being the best man at his and Elastigirl's wedding. Mr. Incredible is so thick with Frozone that he entrusted him with a (voice) key to the Incredibile , which Mr. Incredible is normally rather possessive of.
• Honorary Uncle : He's an uncle figure to Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl's kids, who occasionally refer to him as "Uncle Lucius". It's implied that he's the kids' godfather.
• An Ice Person : Generating ice is his superpower. He also appears to be able to simply freeze things by touching them.
• I Know Madden Kombat : He uses moves similar to speed skating while creating ice paths in battle, and his suit's equipped with a pair of skates, as well as skis that can expand into a metal disc.
• Large Ham : While typically quite composed, they just had to let Samuel L. Jackson get a few moments in there. His "Where's My Super Suit?!" scene is easily the most famous.
• Logical Weakness : He relies on the water in the air to use his ice powers. When he's in a place with no water, like an apartment fire, he's useless. He also sometimes needs to keep hydrated himself, needing to request a drink of water while held at gun point for his chance to escape. Additionally, his habit of keeping himself moving on paths of ice helps him move fast, but makes turning or stopping on a dime more difficult, which is exploited by Voyd and Brick to capture him.
• Mundane Utility : When he and Mr. Incredible run out of cookies to pacify Jack-Jack, he conjures an ice sphere for the baby to suck on.
• Never Heard That One Before : To Mr. Incredible's " ICE of you to drop by " line.
• Nice Guy : Cool (no pun intended), laid-back, friendly, brave, and heroic.
• Only Sane Man : He's settled into civilian life much better compared to his friend Bob, who absolutely chafes at the forced civilian existence. While he's not entirely without his own issues (he did still choose to join Mr. Incredible out on moonlighting hero work despite the very real risks), he also tries to note that what they're doing is increasingly risky and will eventually blow up in their faces (which is exactly what happens when Bob ends up running into Helen sneaking back into the house).
• Papa Wolf : Fights all out when defending the Parr kids from the hypnotized supers.
• Perma-Stubble : The film neither confirms nor denies whether he ever shaves, but it's never more than stubble with him.
• Personality Powers : The cool and collected Frozone has ice powers.
• Power Stereotype Flip : Ice-themed superheroes generally tend to be on the slower side . Frozone is fast , as his costume and skillset takes cues from winter sportsmen.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni : The Blue to Mr. Incredible's Red, down to the color of their suits post time-skip. He's more mellow and aware of how dangerous their vigilante hobby can be.
• Retired Badass : He's in the same boat as Mr. Incredible.
• Serendipitous Survival : Mirage recognizing Bob as Mr. Incredible saved him from being the Omnidroid's next target.
• Sixth Ranger : Is the superhero most likely to assist the Incredibles, to the point he can be considered a technical member. Keeping with their family dynamic, he's viewed as something of an honorary uncle.
• Super Hero : Just like Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl.
• Super Sliding : When there's enough moisture in his body and in the air, he can create entire pathways of ice that he can skate across to rapidly traverse long distances.
• Token Black Friend : To Mr. Incredible. The only speaking Black character in the first film, he's a great source of emotional support to the Parrs, but not as focused on.
• Too Qualified to Apply : Frozone was barred from competing in the Winter Olympics on account of his Super abilities granting him a tremendously unfair advantage.

Gazerbeam/Simon J. Paladino

• All There in the Manual : His backstory and relationship with Mr. Incredible are revealed in a deleted scene in which Mr Incredible talks about his history with the man at Gazerbeam's funeral.
• Artistic License – Biology : Gazerbeam died at earliest a few months before the present day, where he was fatally wounded by the Omnidroid and managed to escape into a cave where his corpse was later found by Mr. Incredible. Yet by the time Mr. Incredible gets there, his corpse has deteriorated to that of a skeleton. While there are instances of bodies experiencing rapid decomposition depending on the environment, it is very rare to have a complete skeletonization within a year. Pixar most likely chose to depict the deceased Gazerbeam as a skeleton to make it less gory and graphic for younger viewers.
• Atrocious Alias : A deleted scene has Mr. Incredible talk about how the best codename Simon could come up with on his own was "Viewpoint". Mr. Incredible advised him against it and offered his own suggestions, as he thought the name sounded "like a TV show nobody watches".
• Bat Signal : Winston's father had phones that called directly to Gazerbeam and Fironic.
• Chekhov's Gunman : One of the Supers in attendance at Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl's wedding.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome : A deleted scene reveals that once he became a hero, Gazerbeam really enjoyed helping others and being useful. So much that when forced into retirement, he spent the rest of his life trying to get the law undone so that Superheroes (himself included) could go back to helping people again.
• Doomed Predecessor : As Mr. Incredible is trying to escape from Syndrome's island, he takes shelter in a cave and finds the skeleton of fellow superhero Gazerbeam, whose disappearance had been noted in a newspaper several scenes prior . Mr. Incredible notes that Gazerbeam wrote a word on the cave wall with his Eye Beams : "KRONOS", which turns out to be Syndrome's computer password. And then he hides behind Gazerbeam's corpse to evade detection by Syndrome's drone.
• Expy : The combination of his costume and superpowers make him highly reminiscent of Cyclops from the X-Men .
• Eye Beams : His core superpower, which are directed and amplified by his helmet and allow him to leave a message for other supers on Nomanisan.
• Glass Cannon : He can shoot laser beams out of his eyes but is no more durable than a regular human, according to his NSA profile.
• Hero of Another Story : He was established as a long-time activist in favor of superheroes' rights while in his civillian identity. He also discovered the password to Syndrome's computer before his death.
• I Just Want to Have Friends : A deleted scene reveals that Gazerbeam was a serious, awkward guy who became a loner thanks to his powers. When Mr. Incredible and some other Supers got him to join them as heroes, he was initially unsure about the whole thing, didn't like the name they came up for him, etc. But he enjoyed being around them, enjoyed talking with them and having friends for the first time in his life. Eventually his friends helped him become a great hero, while those same friends became his family.
• It's All About Me : A minor example: it's noted he used to be a part of a team called the Thrilling Three, but they broke up because, as one of his teammates put it, it was always more like the Thrilling One Plus Two.
• Meaningful Name : In Gazerbeam's civilian identity, Simon J. Paladino, "Simon" means "he has heard" and "paladino" is Italian for "paladin", both referencing his role as not only a super, but an active advocate for superhero rights in his civilian life.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome : Somehow, he was able to stumble upon enough of Syndrome's scheme to learn the password for his computer, and then managed to live long enough to use his laser vision to carve it into a cave wall so that some other hero would discover it.
• He's only seen alive once at Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl's wedding for a few seconds, and after a Time Skip his disappearance alerts Mr. Incredible to potential trouble. His dead body allows Mr. Incredible to escape detection and his last act of carving the password to Syndrome's computer in the rock, helped Mr. Incredible uncover Syndrome's plan.
• Also serves this role in Incredibles 2 . In flashback, he and Fironic set up a direct phone line to Mr. Deavor. He goes underground before Deavor can call him during a robbery, and Deavor is shot and killed. This sets in motion the villainy of Deavor's daughter Evelyn, as the Screenslaver.
• Punny Name : A portmanteau of "gaze" and "laser beam".
• Small Role, Big Impact : In the first movie, his final act of using his power to carve Syndrome's computer password into the cave wall allows Mr. Incredible to access it later on, leading to him discovering Syndrome's Evil Plan and thwarting it with his family.

• Ascended Fangirl : Elastigirl is her hero and she gets to help her defeat the Screenslaver in the end. And it seems judging by her interaction with Violet after Evelyn is brought to justice, Voyd might have gained a fan girl of her own in her idol's own daughter.
• Dark and Troubled Past : Downplayed. While her past is never really brought to light (her first name is revealed to be Karen), everything from her body language to her nervous stammering to her asking Elastigirl how she is able to balance her life implies that her superpowers have not made life easy for her.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!" : She's a superhero herself and quite combat-capable, but she still sees Elastigirl as her hero and gets quite nervous when talking to her, this even extends to her idol's own daughter Violet.
• Nervous Wreck : At least when dealing with Elastigirl, who she looks up to. She's just as nervous around Elastigirl's daughter Violet, who has similar anxiety issues to Voyd, simply because she's her idol's daughter.
• Nice Girl : Voyd is generally shown to be a friendly, if slightly awkward young woman, even when she accepts Violet's apology for knocking her out and noticing quickly how much they have in common due to their shared anxiety problems.

• Squishy Wizard : Her powers have a lot of utility, but she herself is physically a normal human. Even waifish Violet is able to kick her off when a hypnotized Voyd tries to force hypno-goggles on her and makes Voyd pay for it with a good but tough beat down, and when Elastigirl finally confronts her, Voyd doesn't put up a fraction as much resistance as the pizza guy.
• Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors : Her powers are effective against Violet's defensive forcefields since Violet usually leaves the area she's standing on unprotected, and Voyd can create portals within the forcefield on that patch of ground. But once Violet goes on the offensive via turning invisible, Voyd is easily taken down thanks to her Squishy Wizard status, despite giving Violet a tough fight.
• Thinking Up Portals : Has the power to create portals through space and she is shown to be very creative in using them.
• Xtreme Kool Letterz : Her name is spelled with a "Y" instead of an "I".

DEVTECH Supers

• Achilles' Heel : Brick is a very strong and durable super, however, during the fight on the Everjust, her head and neck are presented as a weak spot not capable of withstanding the same damage as her enormous hands and body. Brick is shown initially holding her own against Mr. Incredible, but when Elastigirl intervenes and twines her arms around Brick's throat, she is able to get Brick to yield and stagger backwards even though Elastigirl's mass is not sufficient to actually pull Brick back. This provides Mr. Incredible the opening to deliver two strategic punches to her jaw that stun her into collapsing to the ground which allows them to destroy her hypno-goggles.
• Actor Allusion : He-lectrix isn't the first electric superhero Phil LaMarr played.
• All There in the Script : DownPlayed . Krushauer and He-lectrix don't give their names to Elastigirl when they meet, unlike the others, and their names are never said on screen, only appearing in the end credits.
• Amazing Technicolor Population : Screech has grey skin, with no explanation why.
• Ambiguous Situation : It's unclear whether some of the DevTech Supers were active during the Golden Age of Supers or not. Elastigirl doesn't seem to recognize them, but Winston's comments suggest that at least some of them were. Reflux clearly has heroic impulses and would have been more than old enough to fight crime before Supers were banned, it's also hinted Screech was around during the same time as well since he's implied to be around the same age as Reflux.
• Ambiguously Human : Screech, Brick, Krushauer and Reflux have the oddest physiology of all Supers in the team. Screech can twist his head 360 degrees and has grey skin, Brick and Krushhauer have arms that go down past their knees and hands larger than their heads, and Reflux has a strong amphibian design to his face.
• Animal Themed Super Being : Screech is basically an anthropomorphized owl. A ''screech owl,'' to be exact!
• Brawn Hilda : Brick is a giant brawny woman who has enormous super strength and invulnerability, much like Mr. Incredible.
• Cool Old Guy : Reflux is the oldest of the DEVTECH supers and is a nice friendly guy. He is able to spew out magma.
• Crippling Overspecialization : Krushauer is a telekinetic who uses his powers to "crush" things exclusively. It isn't known if he's able to "un-crush" things, but he currently reasons that it would be silly to do so.
• Exorcist Head : Screech can rotate his head 360 degrees. It goes with his owl theme but it's unclear if this is one of his powers or a function of his costume.
• Gentle Giant : Despite being a gigantic woman, Brick is shown to be good-natured and soft-spoken. She's only antagonistic while hypnotized by Evelyn, and goes right back to being a heroic person.
• Reflux's ability to breathe magma is impressive but since he's a Miniature Senior Citizen , he goes down quickly.
• He-lectrix is taken out by his powers backfiring on him when Violet puts him in a force field.
• Krushauer only uses his telekinesis to crush things. The movie makes it clear that he hasn't even considered any other application of his power so he currently lacks any defensive ability.
• Good Feels Good : They're all very excited and grateful that Elastigirl and Winston are trying to get Supers legalized again so they can use their powers to help people.
• Magma Man : Reflux has stomach acid made out of magma, which he weaponizes.
• Mighty Glacier : In her limited screen time, Brick is shown to be huge, incredibly strong and very durable but not particularly fast-moving, which is a huge contrast to Mr. Incredible, who has Brick's exact power set but is far smaller, faster and far more experienced than her.
• Mind over Matter : Krushauer's power is to crush things with his mind.
• Miniature Senior Citizen : Reflux has the body design of an elderly man and is the shortest member of the team.
• Nice Guy : They're all good people who get along very well with the Parrs and are incredibly grateful to Elastigirl for trying to get Supers to be made legal again so they can do good in the world. The moment they're freed from Evelyn's control, they instantly jump into action to help save everyone.
• Reflux has an exaggerated senior citizen body style with very curved spine and extended pot-belly with a face that incorporates the design of a frog.
• Brick and Krushauer both have an exaggerated body style based on Top-Heavy Guy with a Heroic Build but with a disproportionately huge upper body, extremely long arms, and hands bigger than their head.
• Voyd has an excessively long face and wide shoulders in a setting where most females are either Noodle People or have Hartman Hips .
• Screech has unusually grey skin and his head/neck movements have a twitchy, jerky feel that reflects his owl-based superhero persona.
• Old Superhero : Reflux is clearly a senior citizen superhero. Screech is also implied to be around Reflux's age due to his gentleman way of greeting to Elastigirl.
• Scary Black Man : Krushauer, when he's under the Screensaver's control, is indeed scary when he looms over and crushes you, which he nearly does to Violet almost killing her.
• Shock and Awe : He-Lectrix's electrical powers.
• Super-Scream : When Frozone, Violet and Dash are attacked at the house, there's a blink-and-you-miss-it moment where Screech is outside flying toward a window. He pauses to release a high-pitched shriek that shatters the glass before he flies inside.
• Super Spit : Reflux has the ability to turn his heartburn into lava, which he spits up.
• Two Girls to a Team : Voyd and Brick are the only female members of the DEVTECH Supers while the rest are men.
• Ugly Slavic Women : Subverted. Brick looks the stereotype and sounds vaguely Slavic, but says she's from Wisconsin. note  It's likely implied she's a recent immigrant from the Incredibles version of the Soviet Union (which would still exist in their universe since the series is set in The '60s , which was when the USSR was at their peak) and has yet to properly master her American accent.
• Unskilled, but Strong : They have powers, but aren't as experienced in using them or adapting to changing situations in a fight, allowing the slightly more experienced Parrs to defeat them.
• What the Hell Is That Accent? : Brick has an ambiguously European tone to her voice, but is actually from Wisconsin. note  Which implies she's a recent immigrant from one of the European countries, likely the Soviet Union which was at their peak during The '60s .
• Xtreme Kool Letterz : Krushauer and He-Lectrix both make use of these in their superhero names.

    Other Referenced Superheroes  Voiced by: Joe Ranft (Universal Man)

• Ambiguous Situation : Fironic, Plasmabolt, and the unnamed hero with X-Ray vision are not seen in the list of superheroes confirmed to have been terminated by the Omnidroids, but not every entry on the list is shown because the scene keeps cutting back to Elastigirl and Edna, as Mr. Incredible keeps scrolling through the list.
• Badass Cape : Deconstructed. While they look nice and cool as a costume piece, many supers with capes were killed due to a Cape Snag . As such, Edna refuses point-blank to include them in any future super suit designs.
• Cape Snag : Thunderhead, Stratogale, Meta Man, Dynaguy, and Splashdown were listed by Edna as supers killed or missing in action due to a cape malfunction.
• Creator Cameo : They're voiced by Pixar staff in the DVD extras.
• Early-Bird Cameo : In the background of Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl's wedding we can see Dynaguy, Stratogale, Gazerbeam, Thunderhead and Meta Man in attendance. Dynaguy is also shown as one of several superheroes who are sued for damages, though it's not clear what for.
• The Faceless : Blitzerman, Tradewind and Vectress. There's a close-up of their names and powers when Mr. Incredible is looking through the Operation Kronos files, as opposed to their pictures (which appear to be copies of other photos already shown), and none of the three have an NSA file.
• Off Screen Moment Of Awesome : Some of them (including Gamma Jack, Macroburst and Hypershock) managed to defeat one of the Omnidroid prototypes before Syndrome set the next one on them that would eventually kill them.
• Posthumous Character : Like Gazerbeam, most of them have died at the hands of Syndrome's Omnidroids prior to the events of the first movie.
• Power Perversion Potential : In the prologue, one unnamed Super is arrested for allegedly using his X-ray vision powers to be The Peeping Tom .
• Speaks Fluent Animal : Stratogale, with birds; Meta-Man, with aquatic mammals; Splashdown with underwater lifeforms.
• The Voiceless : Several heroes' audio files have been rendered inaccessible or unfit for the file, and a message from Dicker will play explaining the lack of an audio. As a result, these heroes are never heard speaking.
• Boxed Crook : Blazestone was once a supervillain before being arrested and convinced to become a superhero at least partially for release.
• Fire-Forged Friends : Prior to the film's events, Blazestone and Universal Man were paired together by the NSA to ensure Blazestone would stay a Boxed Crook . They initially didn't get along (the NSA file says they expect great things of the two if they manage to keep from killing each other), but in her audio file, Blazestone speaks favorably about "my team".
• Fire/Ice Duo : Blazestone and Frozone were briefly a couple.
• Motor Mouth : Blazestone's file has her talking about 10 miles a minute. She attributes it to confusing what dimension she was in.
• Playing with Fire : Blazestone's power set.
• Head Blast : Dynaguy could fire Disintegrator Rays from his forehead.
• Line-of-Sight Name : Dynaguy got his name by reading the placemat at Ralph's Diner. He knew he couldn't name himself after anything in the diner, so he just went for the whole diner!
• Shrine to the Fallen : Winston's father raised money for a statue of Dynaguy to be made.
• Sickening "Crunch!" : Heard when Dynaguy suffers his Cape Snag , heavily implied to be a Neck Snap .
• Super Wrist-Gadget : Dynaguy's arm-mounted rocket boosters.
• Blessed with Suck : Everseer has an extraordinary range of vision which allows him to see things both tiny and far away. Unfortunately for him, he is an OCD germophobe... and he can see those germs and dirty conditions that most people can't.
• Brain in a Jar : At the end of the comics, this is revealed to be the fate of Everseer, as Xerek wanted to use his clairvoyance for his own purposes.
• Death by Irony : Everseer had the power of foresight, and claimed that he could "avert conflict before it happens" but was unable to prevent the events of the film, including his own death. In the comics, he actually did foresee his death, but evidently couldn't stop it from happening.
• The Smart Guy : Everseer's file gives him the highest possible "Intelligence" score.
• Smart People Speak the Queen's English : Everseer is the only super heard with a distinctly posh British accent, and his "Intelligence" stat in his NSA file is completely maxed out.
• Terrified of Germs : Everseer's abilities left him with a crippling fear of germs.
• Ascended Extra : Downplayed with Fironic, who gets a single mention (and not even a picture or a NSA file) in the first movie but gets a prominent flashback appearance in the sequels (albeit unvoiced) as a friend of the Deavor's.
• Shown Their Work : In the first movie, a passerby mistakes Syndrome for Fironic, when another intervenes and states Fironic has a different outfit. Come his flashback appearance in the second film, and their outfits do indeed look similar, adding to why Syndrome was mistaken for him!
• Anti-Hero : Gamma Jack, a super supremacist who preferred rescuing attractive women but nevertheless fought the good fight. The NSA was monitoring him closely in case he dropped the 'hero' part.
• Atomic Superpower : Gamma Jack was a super who could create controlled bursts of radiation, from focused burns to complete disintegration. The maximum range of this high-intensity burst was 100 meters, before a sharp intensity falloff.
• Chick Magnet : Gamma Jack was known to be a favorite among the ladies, to the point they'd often nickname him "Handsome Jack".
• Distracted by the Sexy : Gamma Jack mentions that he has a hard time fighting female baddies because of this.
• It's All About Me : Gamma Jack's megalomaniacal attitude caused the NSA to worry that it may lead to him having a Face–Heel Turn and recommended "A level" monitoring on him.
• Jerkass : Gamma Jack was prone to tyrannical, megalomaniacal impulses and believed Supers to be a "superior race". He also admitted to prioritizing some rescues over others and comes across as a womanizing sleazebag as well.]
• Picky Eater : According to his NSA file, Gamma Jack was a picky eater.
• Smug Super : According to his profile, Gamma Jack believed Supers to be a superior race, often preferred saving beautiful or attractive women before anyone else, and mentioned to have "tyrannical/megalomaniac tendencies", prompting close monitoring from the National Supers Agency.
• Super Supremacist : The NSA files of Gamma Jack state that he believes that supers are a "superior race".
• The Alcoholic : Hypershock has "fondness for alcohol" listed as a personality trait in his NSA file. In his interview he complains about having a hangover.
• Hair-Trigger Temper : Hypershock's profile notes he had one, which was quite a problem because he had the ability to cause seismic tremors. He required a lot of praise to keep a level head of any kind.
• Vibration Manipulation : According to his NSA file, Hypershock had the ability to generate seismic waves which registered as 6 on the Richter scale.
• Ambiguous Gender : Macroburst, who is described as being "oddly androgynous". In addition, Dicker explains that the audio file was damaged and deemed unfit for presenting, so we never hear Macroburst speak. Averted in the LEGO The Incredibles game, in which Macroburst is revealed to be male.
• Blow You Away : Macroburst has the ability to control air currents, create high-velocity winds and fly as a result of wind propulsion.
• Combo Platter Powers : Meta-Man, including Super-Strength (he is just behind Mr. Incredible), Super-Speed , Flight , X-Ray Vision , Invisibility , Teleportation , Magnetism Manipulation , and Sonic Screams. However, as he lacks Nigh-Invulnerability , he ends up being killed by a Cape Snag .
• The Ditherer : Meta Man is noted to be indecisive in his file.
• Superman Substitute : Meta-Man, between the costume, the powers, the name, and the overall description.

The Phylange

• Ironic Allergy : Not an allergy per se, but a medical condition, which may or may not have been caused by his super-scream powers. Despite having a voice that could generate shockwaves, he had laryngitis.
• It's All About Me : Phylange is said to "demand respect he doesn't earn", and left his superhero team seemingly because he felt like he should have gotten more attention. He never caught on on his own, however.
• Narm : In-universe. Phylange tried to make a superhero yodel, which Mr. Incredible found hilarious and embarrassing to the superhero community.
• Spell My Name with a "The" : His name is typically said and written in his NSA profile as 'THE Phylange'.
• Super-Scream : He parlays this into a secret identity as an opera singer.
• Nature Lover : According to her NSA profile she loves the outdoors, with her secret identity being a forest ranger.
• Sole Survivor : Plasmabolt is presumably the only member of her hero team (the Phantasmics) not to be lured in to fight an Omnidroid by Syndrome.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance : In her NSA audio file, she talks about using her powers to force breakups and essentially date-rape an unknown number of boys as if it's nothing more than harmless fun. For a modern audience, hearing about what she did with her powers is incredibly uncomfortable to hear. Gamma Jack probably wasn't the only Super the NSA should have been keeping an extra eye on for signs of supervillainy.
• Power Perversion Potential : In her NSA file, Psycwave admits to using her mental manipulation powers to make cute boys in her high school dump their girlfriends and go out with her.
• Making a Splash : Although he doesn't have any abilities that influence water, Splashdown's powers included underwater high-speed travel, underwater breathing and the ability to communicate with underwater lifeforms. Oddly, for this trope, he could also fly.
• Uncertain Doom : While Splashdown was sucked into a water vortex, his NSA file states that he went Missing In Action, unlike the other superheroes with capes, who are confirmed to have died. Adding to the ambiguity, his file also states he can breathe underwater.
• Accidental Pun : Stormicide addresses that her gaseous powers tend to make her the 'butt' of the joke. Cue laughing in the background as she realises how she worded this.
• The Caretaker : Stormicide is a caregiver for her invalid uncle.
• Never Heard That One Before : Stormicide's powers involve absorbing and emitting gases. She seems largely resigned to the inevitable jokes.
• Cloudcuckoolander : Stratogale's file notes that she "keeps her head in the clouds". There're multiple interpretations there.
• Death of a Child : Downplayed by Stratogale, who was in high school when she died.
• Flight, Strength, Heart : Stratogale, although in her case it's "Flight, Strength, Talking with Birds".
• Ideal Hero : Stratogale's file describes her as altruistic.
• Turbine Blender : Stratogale died by flying too close to the front of a jet turbine to wave to the passengers. Her cape got caught in the powerful intake and she was sucked into the engine.

Thunderhead

• Ambiguously Gay : Thunderhead's profile mentions he was raising five adopted children with the help of his roommate Scott. It's not clear if they were romantic partners or just friends. It should be noted that his death was caused by him getting distracted by a woman.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing : In-universe, Thunderhead's PSA tries to go for the message of "I dropped out of school, and I always regretted it, so stay in school, kids", but he realizes pretty quickly that "stay in school or you'll be like me" doesn't work when you're a beloved superhero.
• Dumb Muscle : Mr. Incredible remarks that Thunderhead "was not the brightest bulb". Demonstrated when we hear him performing a PSA on the special features of the DVD. He speaks slowly, admits that he's illiterate, is uncomfortable speaking without a script and requests that someone help him by feeding him his lines via his earpiece.
• Friend to All Children : Edna remarks that Thunderhead was good with kids. Also, in his DVD file, it is said that before his death, he was raising five adopted children.
• Kindhearted Simpleton : Thunderhead was a kind man and an incredibly powerful superhero, but not only was he dim, it's implied that he was noticeably mentally disabled and didn't even finish school.
• Never Learned to Read : When Thunderhead speaks on the DVD special features, he claims uncomfortably, "I don't read" (While he does seem a tad slow, when he tries to give a message to the kids, he stammers through a few bad takes in which one of them turns into hoping that maybe your teachers won't be like the ones he... he has to come up with something else).
• Punny Name : "Thunderhead" is two letters away from being "dunderhead", which fits its owner's low linguistic intelligence. note  A thunderhead is a cumulonimbus cloud seen during a thunderstorm.
• Weather Manipulation : Thunderhead has the ability to harness and control extreme weather conditions.

Universal Man

• The Ahnold : Universal Man speaks in an exaggerated parody of Arnold's accent.
• Irony : Universal Man, who is said to be one of the most indestructible of the Supers, according to the NSA files on the DVD extras, ends up being killed by the very first Omnidroid prototype.
• Shout-Out : Universal Man's The Ahnold accent references Arnold's nickname of being "Mr. Universe".

Syndrome/Buddy Pine

"All I wanted was to help you [Mr. Incredible]. I only wanted to help! And what did you say to me?... "Fly home, Buddy. I work alone." It tore me apart, but I learned an important lesson: you can't count on anyone, especially your heroes."

• Actually a Doombot : Inverted . In all appearances outside of the movie, such as the Disney on Ice show, Disneyland Adventure , Syndrome is portrayed by a robot since he died at the end of the movie. Why this applies to only him and none of the countless other villains in Disney media who died at the end of their movies is anyone's guess.
• Anime Hair : His impossibly tall, onion-shaped hairstyle — inspired by Heat Miser — certainly fits. Taking his short temper and bombastic nature into account, its resemblance to a flame certainly fits.
• Arch-Enemy : He calls himself Mr. Incredible's nemesis. Bob returns the feeling when he learns that Syndrome killed his old friends in Operation Kronos and when Syndrome shot down Elastigirl's jet with his kids on board.
• Arms Dealer : He made his fortune by inventing, manufacturing, and selling weapons.
• Ascended Fanboy : At the beginning of the film he wants to be "Incrediboy", Mr. Incredible's sidekick. Even his general demeanor as a supervillain reflects this: he constantly geeks out about aspects of his plan and Mr. Incredible in general, at least when not being sadistic.
• Attention Whore : Syndrome cares far more about being worshipped as a "big superhero" rather than actually helping and saving others, which might have been his actual goal as a kid. His disastrous performance against the Omnidroid is in part due to him focusing on introducing and parading himself in the most vainglorious way possible , rather than on fighting the Omnidroid, giving it the perfect opportunity to deduce that he's using its remote against it and shoots it off his arm while he wasn't looking .
• Ax-Crazy : He is clearly a sociopath and after being rejected in his youth by Mr. Incredible, he snapped and became the homicidal maniac he is today. He intentionally kills Super after Super to build the perfect Omnidroid to defeat Mr. Incredible. He unleashes his Omnidroid on the city without regard for the civilians who could be hurt or killed just so he can pretend to be a superhero. When his plans are thwarted, he tries to abduct Jack-Jack, fully intending to raise him as his own sidekick, only for it to be completely backfired.
• Bad Boss : He's an outright horrible boss towards Mirage, seeing that he gambled on her life when she was held hostage by Mr. Incredible.
• Badass Normal : In spite of having no real powers of his own, Syndrome manages to fight characters with actual powers using his vast intellect and array of gadgets . Even discounting him building a robot powerful enough to kill dozens of supers, he near-effortlessly defeats the Parr family multiple times by immobilizing them with his Zero-Point energy gloves and is only defeated in the end because he didn't anticipate Jack-Jack having powers and attacking him.
• Baddie Flattery : Even though he openly calls himself Mr. Incredible's nemesis, he still compliments him at several points and fanboys over his tenacity. Syndrome: You , sir, truly are "Mr. Incredible". Y'know, I was right to idolize you, I-I always knew you were tough, but tricking the probe by hiding under the bones of another super?! Oh, MAN! I'm still geeking out about it!
• Believing Their Own Lies : When he reintroduces himself to Mr. Incredible on the island, he claims that all he wanted to do all those years ago was help his favorite superhero, but from what we see him do in the prologue, his recollection couldn't be any more false. He never tried to help Mr. Incredible take down Bomb Voyage, he just wanted to show off the gear that he has made for himself, wanting to be seen as a hero rather than actually being one. In fact, his interference is what even allowed Bomb Voyage to get away. Refusing to see what he did wrong , Syndrome took his hero's rejection as him not wanting his so-called help and that he's the victim.
• Berserk Button : Being called 'Buddy' (and by extension, 'Incrediboy') sends him into a frothing rage. Bob: ( realizing who he is ) Buddy...?! Syndrome: MY NAME IS NOT BUDDY! ( throws Bob to the ground ) And it's not Incrediboy, either! That ship has sailed.
• Big Bad : As the main antagonist of The Incredibles , Syndrome is responsible for all the danger in the plot and stopping his Evil Plan is the Parr family's first family mission.
• Big Bad Wannabe : Downplayed overall since he is still the cause of all of the conflict in the film. Syndrome is a very dangerous foe for most of the movie being the mastermind of Operation Kronos, which led to the murder of dozens of supers and the creation of the nigh-unstoppable Omnidroid. However, Syndrome is not nearly as smart and in control as he thinks he is . His Engineered Heroics plan fails without any interference or sabotage from the heroes as he is outsmarted, sidelined, and indirectly knocked unconscious by his own creation before the climactic battle. The heroes don't spend the climax stopping his plan as much as cleaning up the mess he made. Even when he tries to make a last ditch effort to kidnap Jack-Jack he is quickly defeated and killed.
• Like any classical villain, he has several chances to kill Mr. Incredible and the whole Parr family, but either starts monologuing or just contents himself with restraining them, giving them the opportunity to escape later. Also, during his short fight with the Omnidroid V10, he stops the fight a few times to show off, which gives the robot the perfect opportunity to shoot the remote device out of his hand. He himself lampshades how Mr. Incredible nearly got him monologuing in their first confrontation after his Zero Point Energy beam saves him.
• It never occurs to him that Mirage may not be trustworthy anymore after cruelly betting on her life, and how furious she was about it, and as doesn't take any measure to prevent or stop her from turning on him. This allows Mirage to help the Incredibles twice without suffering any retaliation from him and his men.
• Brilliant, but Lazy : Zig-Zagged . Syndrome is an amazing scientist, and he does put effort in his engineering, constantly working on and improving his inventions and in particular his Omnidroids to make them suited to fight and kill superheroes, and putting extra effort to make the Omnidroid V9 capable of defeating Mr. Incredible, while gaining wealth by selling his inventions. On the other hand, he put no effort into actual training to become a superhero, even telling Mr. Incredible that he doesn't need to train him while trying to become his sidekick since he knows all of his idol's powers and moves and shows no fighting skills or experience outside of his gadgets. This backfires hard on him during his battle against the Omnidroid.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S" : Syndrome's supersuit bears a large "S".
• Card-Carrying Villain : He became a villain because he thought Mr. Incredible rejected his chance to become his sidekick. Ironically, his whole plan is to pretend to be a hero , so why on earth he would embrace being a villain is quite the mystery since it contradicts that goal in every way.
• Cape Snag : How he dies, with his cape being caught in his escape jet's turbine.
• Chekhov's Gunman : Remember Buddy, Mr. Incredible's biggest fan from the opening sequence who vanishes after the Time Skip ? Turns out he's the Big Bad of the movie.
• Child Prodigy : He invented his own rocket boots when he was a pre-teen. He very easily could have been a hero using these talents...sadly.
• Childish Villain, Mature Hero : Unlike Mr. Incredible, he is fixated only on the "super" part of being a superhero. He doesn't realize it takes real "heroic" qualities like morality and self-sacrifice to be truly one.
• Classic Villain : Envy, with a healthy dose of Wrath. While not exactly completely distinctive, Syndrome is still about a foot or two shorter than most of the characters. He has a fancy costume (with a cape), while the heroes already called the red and black motif. This deceives our hero into thinking that his inventions had gone rogue, but he was actually using them to kill heroes. He has the largest explicit body count of any Disney animated villain. He uses technology while the heroes use their own powers, and he has a second in command who may or may not be a super and may or may not be romantically involved with him. Is a deconstruction of the stereotypical comic book origin/villain. He is defeated when his cape, a symbol of his over-the-top overcompensation, due to his lack of self-esteem, is caught in a plane turbine, which then explodes.
• Combat Pragmatist : Whenever Syndrome actually has to fight someone, he immediately immobilizes them with his zero-point energy gloves before they can get the chance to attack him. If that fails, he has no qualms about blowing them up with bombs from his gauntlets.
• Cruel and Unusual Death : Syndrome ends up getting pulled into and mulched by a jet engine, thanks to his own cape getting caught in it . And then presumably incinerated when said jet explodes soon after.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check : Nicely averted. Syndrome made a fortune out of military inventions. The last part of Syndrome's plan is to sell his inventions to normal people in order to dispose of the "special people with special powers" meaning of superhero.
• Dark Is Evil : His supervillain suit is predominantly black and he is Beyond Redemption just because Mr. Incredible rejected his offers for becoming the latter's sidekick (even if that was done for his own safety).
• Deadpan Snarker : Syndrome: ( after unintentionally throwing Mr. Incredible out of sight ) Oh, brilliant...
• Death by Irony : His Cape Snag death is caused by Mr. Incredible tossing the car he bought with Syndrome's money at his escape jet.
• First, he recklessly threw the oil tanker behind him without looking, likely endangering more civilians.
• Second, when the Omnidroid started to attack him, he fled in the direction of the civilians he was just earlier trying to save, endangering them as well.
• Didn't Think This Through : Besides his attempt in publicly faking heroism (with the use of the Omnidroid) being backfired due to his narcissism, he was also short-sighted about making Bob Parr Mr. Incredible again, since he didn't realize at first that the entire Parr family is a collection of supers, as well, which then leads to his ultimate demise.
• Diligent Hero, Slothful Villain : Unlike Bob (who is a real superhero), Syndrome's Engineered Heroics scam involves killing real superheroes out of pettiness, so he'll have all the glory to himself. He also lacks the maturity needed to become a real superhero.
• Dirty Coward : The second the Omnidroid shoots off his remote, he flies into the crowd of civilians and even pushes a couple of people out of the way.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul" : He doesn't like being called either Buddy or Incrediboy as he sees those names as a relic of the time when he was just a fanboy of Mr. Incredible. Syndrome: My name's not "BUDDY"! And, it's NOT "Incrediboy", either!
• Dramatically Missing the Point : Syndrome's dream to become a superhero was flawed from the very start because he was too focused on the "super" part of superheroics that had to do with having amazing powers and abilities and never understood the "heroics" part that motivated Mr. Incredible to use his powers for the greater good and help others who couldn't help themselves. As a boy, he assumed that Mr. Incredible's refusal to accept him as his sidekick was due to lacking superpowers rather than being an impulsive, reckless minor who stalks Mr. Incredible and foolishly put himself in harm's way by barging into a confrontation with a super-villain. As an adult, when Mr. Incredible calls him out for killing off real superheroes so he can pretend to be one, Syndrome clings to this stunted mindset by boasting how his technology made him a "real" super that was able to defeat Mr. Incredible rather than recognize that he had become a remorseless, sociopathic killer that was acting out a self-absorbed fantasy.
• Driven by Envy : Implied to be Syndrome's motivation to blur the line between supers and non-supers. As Buddy, he felt one of the big reasons Mr. Incredible wasn't accepting him as his sidekick was because he didn't have superpowers, so he created his own similar abilities using tech and set out to be better than him . Syndrome: Just like a movie... the robot will emerge dramatically, do some damage, throw some screaming people. And just when all hope is lost? Syndrome will save the day! I'll be a bigger hero than you ever were . Mr. Incredible: ( furiously ) You mean you killed off real heroes, so that you could pretend to be one?! Syndrome: Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so special powers . I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics anyone's ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions , so that everyone can be superheroes. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super... ( chuckles darkly as he leaves to enact his plan ) no one will be .
• Drone Deployer : Has a deployable search drone on one of his self-made wrist gauntlets.
• Engineered Heroics : Syndrome's Evil Plan is a textbook case of hero syndrome , staging a threat that only he could stop or so he thought and then bask in the public admiration.
• Entitled Bastard : Young Buddy believed that being able to invent jet-boots and claiming to know Mr. Incredible's moves, fighting style, and catchphrases automatically entitled him to become Mr. Incredible's ward. Even when he recalls the hurt, he felt at Mr. Incredible rebuking him for his foolish decision to interrupt the confrontation between Mr. Incredible and Bomb Voyage, the audience sees that the flashback is actually a Self-Serving Memory because in Syndrome's version, Bomb Voyage is completely missing and Mr. Incredible is looking directly at him when he says "I work alone" with a dismissive, condescending hand wave.
• Epic Fail : His attempt to be a full-fledged superhero was a total disaster as he ends up getting easily defeated by his own creation once it turns against him, not to mention his public act of cowardice as he tries to flee the Omnidroid by pushing the people he's meant to be saving aside.
• To highlight his Lack of Empathy , his idea of comforting Mirage after she was taken hostage by Bob was to assure her that he called Mr. Incredible's bluff because he knew that the latter was "weak" and wouldn't have it in him to kill her , but it falls flat when she instead calls him out, which leaves him quite surprised and dumbfounded.
• Both are incredibly gifted people capable of extraordinary feats and both are formidable in combat.
• They both glorify the "golden age" of superheroes and both seek recognition from the public, though since Buddy has bad morals, he stages his own heroics using the Omnidroid that causes destruction when its AI goes rogue, while Mr. Incredible causes unintentional destruction and trouble during his genuine heroics . Not to mention Syndrome killed dozens of supers just so he could make room for himself to be one. Ironically, Syndrome did all of this because Mr. Incredible rejected Buddy's desire to be his Kid Sidekick . Interestingly, even while being the villain, Syndrome still geeks out the same way Mr. Incredible does over heroic exploits.
• They also both believe in the Badass Cape, though Edna warned Mr. Incredible against it while Syndrome learned too late.
• Evil Genius : His genius was already on display as a youth when he built his own rocket boots . As an adult, he creates an island lair, zero-point energy gloves, intelligent robots that can learn, and other such amazing gizmos; he uses them for petty revenge and self-satisfaction.
• Evil Is Hammy : He's quite fond of his Evil Gloating . His dramatic flourishes also get him in trouble a couple of times, as he accidentally flings away something that he had held immobile with his Zero-Point energy gloves. This is what allows Mr. Incredible to escape him after he captures Mr. Incredible for the first time.
• Evil Is Petty : Perhaps one of the biggest and most ridiculous examples in any media. His path to villainy was because Mr. Incredible rejected him and it wasn't out of smugness, but more concern for his safety and growing frustration with Buddy's interference. Unfortunately for him, Buddy never saw it that way.
• Evil Laugh : Absolutely loves doing this, to both entertaining and bone-chilling effect depending on the scene.
• Evil Mentor : He plans to become one to Jack-Jack as a last attempt to hurt Mr. Incredible.
• Evil Redhead : He is the main antagonist and has red flame-shaped hair, though his hair was blond as a kid.
• Expy : If the Parr Family were a Fantastic Four send-up, Syndrome is their Doctor Doom. Like Doom, Syndrome harbors a petty grudge against their superhero protagonist and seeks to prove themselves superior with their intellect and technology. Syndrome owns a private island where he essentially has free reign—not unlike Latveria—and extensively employs robotic minions to carry out his will. He even makes use of robotic doubles, though in contrast to Doom, this only goes into effect after the real Syndrome is killed.
• Face–Heel Turn : After Mr. Incredible rejected him out of concern for his safety because of the lack of common sense and immaturity he repeatedly demonstrated, Buddy Pine goes from wannabe superhero sidekick to genuine super villain .
• Fake Ultimate Hero : He hopes to use his Engineered Heroics scam as a way to bask in public glory by staging a threat that only he could stop, unaware it takes real qualities like self-sacrifice and morality to be a real hero, something which Mr. Incredible calls him out on.
• Familial Foe : While Mr. Incredible is the hero who Syndrome really hates, he has no problem with targeting his nemesis’s wife and kids, and they gladly oppose him in turn.
• Fan Disillusionment : He's the quintessential example of a disillusioned fan, being rejected by his hero himself. He then focuses his fanboy energy into a Face–Heel Turn .
• Fan Dumb : Invoked , as he used to be a stalker stan, desperate to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick while ignoring the latter's errands such as stopping Bomb Voyage. When he recalls the event years later, he only focuses on what Mr. Incredible has told him in a more condescending voice.
• Syndrome's weakness is that he wants to be acknowledged as a superhero simply by having "powers" which, for him, are provided by advanced technology. However, he shows no interest in actually cultivating the deeper aspects of character that make one a true hero like a desire for justice, self-sacrifice, or a willingness to help those who can't help themselves. It's a lesson he never learns. Even as a kid, it was clear that his venture to try and be a hero was doomed from the start due to a callous lack of respect for human life, which ends up biting him in the ass once Mirage betrays him.
• Furthermore, he is an incredibly arrogant braggadocio even during dangerous situations. It nearly gets him killed as a kid and causes him to disastrously lose against the Omnidroid v.10.
• Faux Affably Evil : Syndrome starts out casual and cheerful when talking to Mr. Incredible, but shifts to gloating and cruelty as his Psychopathic Manchild tantrums emerge. For example, after he captures Mr. Incredible during his infiltration of the computer room, Syndrome starts by "geeking out" about Mr. Incredible and praising the way he escaped the probe's detection, but when talking about the distress signal Syndrome calmly shocks Mr. Incredible with enough voltage to cause him extreme pain when his answer is deemed unacceptable.
• Fearless Fool : He had no fear or awareness of how dangerous superhero life really is as a kid, recklessly barging in and interfering with Mr. Incredible's work without any care for his own safety, which nearly got him killed by one of Bomb Voyage's bombs. Even as an adult, he doesn't seem to realize how dangerous being a superhero and his own Omnidroid is, only realizing the danger and panicking after the Omnidroid turns on him to get rid of his remote control.
• Fiction 500 : Selling most of his inventions has made him amazingly wealthy. The elaborate secret island base manned by hundreds of mercenaries and technicians for the purpose of building and testing giant killer robots is a showing of his enormous resources.
• Fiery Redhead : Besides being an Evil Redhead , he also has a large personality with a fiery temper. His hair actually looks like flames.
• Flight : Syndrome's rocket boots enable him to fly around freely.
• Freudian Excuse : A ridiculously petty one . He turned against the Supers because Mr. Incredible wouldn't take him in as his heroic sidekick.
• From Nobody to Nightmare : From an unknown child prodigy to a supervillain and mass murderer.
• Gadgeteer Genius : Buddy is incredibly smart, having invented rocket boots as a child . His Syndrome outfit not only includes improved versions of those, but also gauntlets that he created which contain zero-point energy tractor beams, a tiny but highly-powerful lollipop bomb, and a remote-controlled scanner drone. Syndrome: That's cool, huh? Zero-Point Energy. I save the best inventions for myself!
• Glory Hound : Part of his Evil Plan includes staged disasters so he can fix them and be adored as a superhero. His disastrous performance against the Omnidroid is in part because he spends too much time parading himself as a great hero which allowed the robot to analyze his attack and take out Syndrome's remote control.
• Gone Horribly Right : His goal was to make his Omnidroid as smart, impenetrable, and almost unbeatable as possible so it would look even more impressive when he then managed to "destroy" it. But due to making it too smart, his design worked against him when the robot blasted away the remote he had on his arm, which took away any chance Syndrome had of winning.
• Gonk : He surely does possess a rather massive chin and crooked teeth that are often on display. Even when he was younger, he already has these kinds of physical traits.
• Grayscale of Evil : Wears a black bodysuit and cape with a large white 'S' symbol, and white gauntlets and boots, in contrast the the Incredibles' Red Is Heroic , and is the Big Bad of the first film.
• He got extremely jealous when he awoke to find out that the Incredibles and Frozone defeated his Omnidroid and got all the attention and glory.
• Also implied to be his motivation to blur the line between supers and non-supers. As Buddy, he felt the reason Mr. Incredible wasn't accepting him as his sidekick was because he didn't have powers.
• Hate Sink : Due to his petty reaction from Mr. Incredible rejecting his sidekick offers at the past (even when it's with reason), him becoming a supervillain via killing legitimate superheroes and faking heroism publicly is one big headscratcher.
• Hero Killer : Syndrome is responsible for the deaths of many superheroes, having invited them to his island to get killed by his Omnidroids in battle. Each Omnidroid that got destroyed was replaced by an updated model, and no hero was able to defeat two Omnidroids in one-on-one fights. His hatred for heroes aside, he needed his Omnidroid get stronger, so that nobody but Syndrome (with the remote control) can defeat it and he would gain all the glory.
• Heroic Wannabe : His entire motivation is a very dark take on this trope. When he was young, he wanted to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick, and when he grew up, he set up Operation Kronos to create Engineered Heroics so he could play the superhero he always wanted to be. As a bonus, he would also eliminate all former superheroes with the operation to stop them from stealing his glory.
• Hoist by His Own Petard : His attempted fake heroism with the use of the Omnidroid got backfired after his own creation recognized his deliberate detachment of one of its arms, resulting in the machine attacking him, sending him off flying recklessly from it.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters : In a way, since he's apparently targeting what's referred to as "supers", which are superheroes who have legitimate superpowers, like his ex-idol Mr. Incredible (who possesses the power of super strength).
• His Engineered Heroics plan fails spectacularly when the Omnidroid 10 actually identifies him as a threat and defeats him in less than a minute, indirectly knocking him unconscious. Additionally, this happened without Mirage or the Parrs sabotage. He wakes up to the Parrs saving the day, like he was supposed to.
• Rick Dicker freezes his assets and puts out an arrest warrant for him, destroying his organization and resources.
• Syndrome's last-ditch plan is to kidnap Jack-Jack, but not knowing or anticipating the baby has superpowers, Jack-Jack transforms into his demon-baby form and beats up Syndrome, in an uncharacteristically comedic manner for a character who had been taken seriously.
• After he fails to kidnap Jack-Jack, Syndrome attempts to gloat that he will get Jack-Jack eventually , but Mr. Incredible throws a car at him, leading to Syndrome dying by Cape Snag , panicking at the last moment of his life.
• I Just Want to Be Special : He could've started his own career as a Science Hero after being rejected by Mr. Incredible, but his Engineered Heroics scheme revolves around killing real superheroes out of pettiness so he could hog all the glory to himself.
• I'm Your Biggest Fan : Says this word-for-word towards Mr. Incredible after the final Omnidroid has him dead to rights. It's how Mr. Incredible instantly recognizes that he's Buddy . Syndrome : It's finally ready! Y'know, I went through quite a few supers to get it worthy to fight you, but man... ( chuckles ) it wasn't good enough! After you trashed the last one, I had to make some major modifications. Sure, it was difficult, but you are worth it! After all, I am your biggest fan . Mr. Incredible : (gasps) Buddy?
• Improbable Age : He couldn't be a lot older than 10 in the opening, by which point he was already inventing fully functional rocket boots. Cut to the main story 15 years later and Syndrome is now the owner of his own island, established a small terrorist organization, constructed his own gadget-laden private jet, and developed a small legion of robots capable of killing legions of Supers. At approximately age 26 .
• Improbable Hairstyle : It stands straight up like a cone.
• Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist : He's the braggadocio to Mr. Incredible's insecure hero. While Mr. Incredible goes through many hardships such as being forced into retiring from heroism after getting sued for saving a man's life to losing his insurance job for trying to help someone, Syndrome became a mass-murdering madman clinging on to a petty grudge against Mr. Incredible for not letting him become his sidekick defining his entire life to the bitter end.
• Insufferable Genius : He's a smug asshole who brags about his inventions and intelligence.
• Later on, during the climax of the first film where he unleashes the Omnidroid in Metroville, he tries to fake his attempt in heroism publicly by confronting the robot, but when such plan backfired (even literally), it seems that the general public in that city now finds him untrustworthy, especially as a legitimate superhero.
• Irony : Him making Bob Parr get back into superheroism once more as Mr. Incredible, with the use of Mirage, is abruptly the starting point of his eventual downfall as a fake superhero (especially given Mirage's own moral conscience).
• It's All About Me : His Evil Plan begins and ends with his ego and personal vengeance. In hindsight, this was probably his real motivation as a child, too; he wanted to be special and save the day. Highlighted when Mr. Incredible points out that he killed real heroes just so he could pretend to be one. Syndrome assumes he's talking about his lack of superpowers, not being a mass murderer for the sake of his own ego. It's also telling his plan to make everyone super so no one is once he's had his fun still includes literally selling them and making money.
• Jerkass : As if being evil wasn't enough, he's also an even bigger jerk than Huph due to him being the Big Bad of the film. He often taunts Mr. Incredible to the point that he provokes the latter to kill Mirage.
• Karmic Death : For someone who had killed a bunch of legitimate superheroes just because his idol reasonably rejected his sidekick offers , he did had it coming when he got sucked in by a jet turbine.
• Kick the Dog : What he says to Mr. Incredible after a missile strike seemingly kills his wife and children. Syndrome : Oh, you'll get over it. I seem to recall you prefer to... work alone?
• Kid Sidekick : What he tried to be as "Incrediboy". However, him completely lacking any of the training and experience, caused him to be much more of a liability than help, causing Mr. Incredible to lose his patience and reject him. He later tries to kidnap Jack-Jack with the intention of making the boy one out of one last act of spite against Mr. Incredible.
• Feels no remorse for killing hero after hero just so he can develop the perfect Omnidroid that can defeat Mr. Incredible and serve his plans to pretend to be a superhero.
• Hearing that the plane he just fired missiles upon has children aboard causes no emotional reaction or interest in aborting the missile attack.
• After he apparently kills Elastigirl and the children, he taunts Mr. Incredible about it, telling him that he'll get over it since he always said that he prefers to "work alone".
• His idea of comforting Mirage after she was taken hostage was to assure her that he called Mr. Incredible's bluff because he knew that the latter was "weak" and wouldn't have it in him to kill her. He's actually quite surprised and completely confused when she gets mad at him after that.
• When pretending to be a new superhero, he saves a mother and her baby from a gas truck thrown by the Omnidroid, only to carelessly fling it behind him as he's busy parading himself before the people. Nobody was caught in the tanker's explosion fortunately, but it shows his flagrant disregard for the safety of innocents and that he still lacks the qualities needed in a real hero.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice : A rare case of the villain having a lantern jaw comparable to the hero.
• Laughably Evil : He is both humorous and unnerving. His dialogue is ripe with villainous cliches, and his goofy, hammy demeanor can almost make you forget that the guy is responsible for methodically killing several superheroes, would knowingly kill children, and is going to use a dangerous robot to attack a city so that he can pretend to be a superhero.
• Light Is Not Good : His supervillain suit consists of white accents, but he's none other than a sociopathic human being himself.
• The Load : Despite his obvious scientific intelligence and considerable enthusiasm, Buddy becomes this to Mr. Incredible because he won't take no for an answer, doesn't have any formal training, and barges into a superhero/supervillain confrontation without any apparent concern for his own safety.
• Loony Fan : He is Mr. Incredible's former ultra-obsessed fan turned now ultra-obsessed enemy when he didn't get the recognition he felt he was entitled to. Mr. Incredible: I've been nice. I've stood for photos, signed every scrap of paper you pushed at me, but this?!
• Mad Scientist : The technology, the megalomania, the hamminess and the self-obsession, they're all classic mad scientist traits.
• Manipulative Bastard : He makes superheroes that were forced underground due to the Super Relocation Act (which happened largely thanks to him) think they're reliving the "glory days" by making them fight his Omnidroids on his private island, which includes providing catering. In reality, he's making the droids analyze their moves to make them stronger so he can then unleash them at their strongest as part of Project Kronos so he can fake being a hero himself , and sees their lives as worthless because he's completely fine with letting them be killed in the process of this .
• As a child, Buddy Pine was pining away to become Mr. Incredible's buddy and sidekick. As an adult, his Evil Plan is a textbook example of hero syndrome and his villain name seems to be an intentional nod toward this.
• The word "Syndrome" is derived from the Greek term súndromos meaning "running together," and it indicates an accumulation of medical issues or irregularities. This clue hints that Syndrome is a character who has severe psychological problems and cannot make rational decisions.
• Mood-Swinger : As a show of his insanity, Syndrome has a tendency to change moods without warning, switching from petulence and excitement to anger or sinister sadism in seconds and for the slightest reason. Part of what makes him so unnerving is how effortlessly can turn from a Laughably Evil Large Ham to a sinister and terrifying Soft-Spoken Sadist over the course of a few sentences.
• Mundane Utility : Played with. He does use his technology efficiently, but he really only does it for his psychopathic amusement and not to its full effect. Also invoked, as part of his plot is selling it so that "everyone can be super", resulting in "no one being super", rather than selling it for any real purpose beyond being used by the average person so they can feel "super" like he wants them to.
• Narcissist : He cares only for himself and his fame. He's notably a much more realistic example of this than most: he doesn't just have an ego, he actively can't comprehend the idea that he's wrong or that anything is his own fault. Even his memory of the trigger event that drove him to villainy completely removes Bomb Voyage or anything that may have been his fault.
• Buddy never acknowledges that it's his own actions that caused Mr. Incredible to lose his patience and sternly reject him. Buddy refused to take no for an answer to his continued pestering or acknowledge that he had no superhero training. He barges into a superhero/supervillain confrontation without concern for his own safety which results in Bomb Voyage planting a bomb on his cape that causes considerable collateral damage. It's particularly telling that when Buddy flashbacks to Mr. Incredible telling him to "fly home," Bomb Voyage is completely absent .
• At the end, Syndrome curses Mr. Incredible and his family for ruining his plans even though it's his own fault for his plan's failure, as he had made the Omnidroid to be a superhero killer capable of finding and exploiting its foes' weaknesses and of doing everything to win, made no failsafe to ensure that it wouldn't turn on him, spent most of the time showing off and took no training to be a superhero resulting in a disastrous performance and him being knocked out throughout the entire fight.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero : Played With . He's no hero, but he did ruin his chance of becoming one when he used to call himself Incrediboy When attempting to get the police, Bomb Voyage slyly puts a bomb on his cape, forcing Mr. Incredible to abandon Bomb Voyage and save him. This not only causes Bomb Voyage to escape, but for innocent civilians to get seriously injured while riding a train (the bomb destroyed the train tracks). This then leads to several events and lawsuits against the supers and the Superhero Relocation Program. After all this, Syndrome had the gall to play the victim.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain : Making Bob Parr Mr. Incredible again indirectly lead to his eventual ruination as a genuine supervillain, where it also involves the rest of the Parr family (including Bob's wife Helen, who re-emerges again as Elastigirl).
• Not Good with Rejection : He never accepted being rejected by Mr. Incredible for wanting to be his sidekick. He spends his life developing advanced technology and killed supers as part of an Engineered Heroics plan that would enable him to publicly act the part of a superhero.
• Obliviously Evil : Syndrome's view of being a superhero emphasizes on the "super" part only and doesn't have the morals of an actual one. He has no qualms about killing innocents just so he could get much recognition as a hero.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain : The younger villain to Mr. Incredible's older hero, being roughly two decades younger than him.
• Paper-Thin Disguise : According to Jack-Jack Attack , he gained access to the Parr household and Jack-Jack after he was mistaken by a desperate, frazzled Kari as the "replacement" Helen promised she'd send over, and he just decided to roll with it ; although Kari at least had the presence of mind to notice how he was dressed like a supervillain, he bluffed that the "S" on his chest stood for "sitter". Dicker seems almost disappointed in her for believing it.
• Post-Climax Confrontation : The final encounter with Syndrome is after the climactic battle against the Omnidroid 10. After Rick Dicker freezes his assets and puts out an arrest warrant for him, Syndrome makes a last-ditch attempt to kidnap Jack-Jack after his plans have been foiled. He fails at this and dies while attempting Evil Gloating .
• Psychopathic Manchild : He balances a genius-level talent for inventing technology with a juvenile personality as an adult: he's immature, excitable, petulant, irresponsible, prone to mood swings, obsessed with his 'toys', and is quite spiteful. His Face–Heel Turn motivation stems from an admittedly wounding and hurtful, but still relatively small, slight he suffered when he was a child, which he refuses to move on from. Syndrome : (watching a news report on the panic caused by the Omnidroid's landing) Huh? Huh?! Aw, come on! Ya gotta admit, this is cool! It's just like a movie! The robot will emerge dramatically, do some damage, throngs of screaming people and just when all hope is lost, Syndrome will save the day! I'll be a better hero than you ever were!
• The Resenter : He resents Mr. Incredible after the superhero rejected him as a sidekick.
• Rich Bastard : He's rich enough to own a private island and make technological advancements all on his own, like rocket boots, zero-point energy, his labs, and his Omnidroids, but uses all of his advantages to be a villain with an extremely petty goal.
• Robot Master : The creator of the many Omnidroids around Nomanisan Island.
• Rule of Three : Syndrome has been humiliated three times from the ineffectiveness of the use of his numerous rocket boots (including the ones he built when he was younger while as Incrediboy).
• Sadist : When he realizes Mr. Incredible knows the people on the plane approaching his island, Syndrome takes great pleasure in launching a missile attack while Mr. Incredible watches helplessly. Syndrome: So you do know these people... Well, I'll just send them a little greeting.
• Self-Serving Memory : When remembering Mr. Incredible's rejecting him, Syndrome doesn't recall that Bob was busy stopping Bomb Voyage at the time, nor that he saved the young Buddy from a bomb that the mime planted which led to the train tracks blowing up ; all he remembers is that he was denied being Mr. Incredible's sidekick . Noticeably, Mr. Incredible's demeanor in the flashback is considerably colder and more dismissive, as opposed to his actual demeanor where he was both focused on apprehending a supervillain and increasingly frustrated with Buddy's antics .
• Serial Killer : Zig-Zagged. When Mr. Incredible reviews the terminated list of supers on the island, there are at least 18 which certainly give Syndrome the body count for a serial killer. However, Syndrome never directly kills the supers and doesn't seem to derive personal satisfaction over their individual deaths. In many ways, those supers are treated as expendable lab rats fed to Project Kronos and tends to showcase Syndrome's sociopathic disregard of human life.
• Pride: He only thinks about himself and doesn't care about the lives of others, even when he's faking heroism in front of the public.
• Wrath: He's easily angered (which can be rooted from his childhood rejection from Mr. Incredible), especially when his plans as a supervillain were foiled by someone else.
• Sloth: His own Engineered Heroics don't necessarily make him a real superhero, anyway (since that's not how heroism works in general).
• Envy: If someone overthrows his attempts in heroism (even if they're fabricated), he gets to be jealous about it.
• Gluttony: It is implied that he had continuously eliminated actual superheroes before (namely the "supers" kind), albeit done more pragmatically, just so that he could be the only living "superhero" himself.
• Greed: He wants to be adored by the public as a "superhero" (where, in reality, he's a supervillain), so much so that his Engineered Heroics prove this case.
• Lust: He is amused by both his act of eliminating legitimate superheroes and the public admiration he gets from his fake heroism.
• Syndrome to Mr. Incredible. At the start of the movie, we see they both desire the glory of being a superhero. While Mr. Incredible's motivation was due of his sense of justice and desire to save people, Syndrome wants the praise and recognition. When the Super Relocation Act is passed, Mr. Incredible continues to pursue the glory by illegally listening to the police scanner and helping out when he can. Syndrome, however, kills Supers to develop his Omnidroid which will be part of an elaborate Engineered Heroics situation that will allow him to single-handedly "save the day" and receive all the accolades without any concern for those who may be hurt or killed as a result. In the end, Mr. Incredible realizes his desire for the glory days has caused him to miss out on his family and apologizes. Syndrome, however, has no such realization.
• Syndrome to Edna Mode. They're both non-supers but are also geniuses in their respective fields (technology vs textiles). However, while Edna is a quirky but genuinely good-hearted person who thrives in the challenge of creating customized uniforms to support the supers, Syndrome is a megalomaniac who made a career out of inventing weapons and plans to tear down the supers.
• Smug Snake : He's generally competent enough, but his overconfidence causes him problems. Despite having designed the Omnidroid to be a learning machine that will adapt and exploit any advantage, he never considers that it will treat him the same way. So, when it shoots off his remote control, he loses his only advantage and because we can see he never felt the need to train or practice before facing the Omnidroid himself, he ends up fleeing in panic. He finally pays for his cockiness with his life when he chooses to gloat to Mr. Incredible about how he'll successfully kidnap Jack-Jack one day instead of making good on his escape.
• The Sociopath : An interesting example of someone who was already predisposed to be a sociopath, but an event in his life was the trigger for those traits. As a child, he wants to be the center of attention and tries to force Mr. Incredible to accept him as a sidekick, with no regard for his own safety or Mr. Incredible's concerns about this. As an adult, he's a Glory Hound who is willing to cause the deaths of innocents, even children, with no remorse at all to achieve that fame. He calls Mr. Incredible "weak" for sparing Mirage after he threatened to crush her. When Mirage gets mad at him for risking her life, his facial expression is one of complete confusion on why she is upset.
• Something Only They Would Say : Mr. Incredible is able to recognize him as Buddy Pine after Syndrome says, " I'm Your Biggest Fan ".
• Squishy Wizard : Syndrome's Zero-Point Energy beams and various gadgets makes him extremely dangerous and overpowered in combat, but he's still a normal human and is quite vulnerable because he lacks any field experience being a super-hero. So while supers without Super-Toughness like Frozone or Elastigirl have learned to deal with unexpected situations and roll with the punches to take hard hits, Syndrome is completely unprepared when the Omnidroid fights back by shooting off his remote-control gauntlet and a boot jet. The best Syndrome can manage is to flee in panic and fly straight into a wall at full speed which knocks him out for the remainder of the Omnidroid fight.
• Story-Breaker Power : His Zero-Point Energy is a very huge threat to the Incredibles, as it allows him to stop them in their tracks before they can even react. At no point is there a counter to the power shown beyond the Omnidroid itself being too big for him to control.
• Tagalong Kid : Deconstructed. Buddy had already made himself a persistent nuisance before the events of the flashback (Mr. Incredible recognizes him with little effort as "that kid from the fan club", and implies he's had to endure a lot of selfies and autographs), but his attempt at becoming Incrediboy really tests his hero's patience; Bob finds him sitting expectantly in the passenger seat without any explanation, as if Mr. Incredible would let an unaccompanied minor with no superpowers come along with him on patrol, no questions asked. Even if he's enthusiastic and has built actual working gadgetry, Buddy's knowledge of how to be a superhero is completely academic and he has no field experience, not to mention that his motives for doing so are selfish ones posing as altruism. When his own reckless naivete almost gets him killed and causes a rail disaster, he refuses to admit fault and instead fixates on getting revenge.
• The Team Wannabe : To Mr Incredible, when he was a child.
• That Man Is Dead : He disowns his real name, Buddy, in favor for Syndrome once he becomes a supervillain. Mr. Incredible: ...Buddy? Syndrome: MY NAME IS NOT BUDDY! And it's not Incrediboy, either! That ship has sailed.
• Too Clever by Half : His plan was ultimately well thought out, but Syndrome's Bad Boss tendencies cause Mirage to betray him and help the Parrs, and he also fails to account for the possibility of the Omnidroid treating him the same as other threats and going off script. As soon as he loses control of the situation, he panics and accidentally knocks himself unconscious, ruining his plan and forcing the Parrs to stop his robot.
• Took a Level in Jerkass : Although Buddy was already showing sociopathic traits as a child, he at least seemed to be motivated to try and help (even if it was likely for his own selfish reasons). As an adult he became significantly more self-absorbed, cruel and lacking empathy .
• Turbine Blender : His fate, when he gets hit by a flying car and his cape gets caught in a jet turbine.
• Underestimating Badassery : Despite creating the Omnidroid to be a learning robot capable of adapting quickly to its foes , Syndrome's narcissism means he never anticipates it would treat him the same way during his Engineered Heroics plan. He's taken completely by surprise when it blasts the remote off his arm, having determined that it's what he was using to fight it.
• Undignified Death : A mass murdering, sociopathic Evil Genius who gets killed by being shredded by a jet turbine, an embarrassing way to go out.
• His interference in Mr. Incredible's encounter with Bomb Voyage nearly gets him killed, with the resulting damage kick-starting the Super Relocation Act which forces Mr. Incredible and all Supers as well into retirement and hiding. Yet years later, Buddy/Syndrome has the gall to say he got the short end of the stick that day.
• Mirage pushes Syndrome out of the way as Mr. Incredible reaches out in a fury to grab him. There is little doubt, Mr. Incredible would have crushed Syndrome if he succeeded in getting his hands on him. Yet, Syndrome never acknowledges her loyalty or thanks her for saving his life. The closest he gets to an apology or reassurance is telling her that he didn't move to save her because he was certain the threat to her life was a bluff. Unsurprisingly, Mirage is unimpressed. Mirage: Next time you gamble? Bet your own life !
• Unreliable Narrator : His recollection of being told to "Fly home... I work alone," portrays Mr. Incredible as cold and literally turning his back on him, but in reality, he was annoyed that he interrupted him in the middle of capturing Bomb Voyage (who is completely absent in his flashback) and genuinely concerned for his safety, especially after Voyage strapped a bomb to his cape and he ran to save his life, details he forgot through his disillusionment.
• Unskilled, but Strong : Syndrome is equipped with a number of high-tech weapons that allow him to fight on par with actual superheroes. However, he has never been in an actual fight before and is only able to catch them by surprise by immobilizing them. In fact, it was his Omnidroid that killed the heroes, not Syndrome himself. When fighting against the latest Omnidroid model, he only has the advantage because he carries its remote. Devoid of it, he becomes a cowardly slimeball who doesn't know what to do next.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom : As Buddy Pine, he intruded on Mr. Incredible's apprehension of Bomb Voyage, which ended with the villain tossing a bomb onto his cape as a distraction. After the bomb was pulled off, it blew up the train tracks, causing Bob to stop the train with his super strength but resulting in multiple injuries for everyone on it. While the botched and unwanted rescue of Oliver Sansweet came and was reported on first, the trainwreck was the biggest factor into the Super Relocation Act being enacted, which is a fact that Syndrome never acknowledges or even seems to realize .
• Villainous Breakdown : After his plans are foiled, his assets frozen, and being branded a criminal, Syndrome seethes with rage and decided to abduct Jack-Jack with the intent to raise him as a supervillain just to spite the Parr family. After Jack-Jack escapes his grip with his newly discovered powers, Syndrome loses whatever sanity he has left and rants at the Parr family that this is far from over and that he will return to kidnap Jack-Jack eventually, before he is sent to his doom by Bob. Syndrome: Shh... the baby is sleeping. ( giggles insanely ) You took away my future. I'm simply returning the favor. Oh, don't worry. I'll be a good mentor. Supportive, encouraging. Everything you weren't. And in time, who knows? He might make a good sidekick. (...) Syndrome: THIS ISN'T THE END OF IT! I WILL GET YOUR SON EVENTUALLY! I'LL GET YOUR SON!! ( laughs madly, but then gasps at the car Bob threw at him ) Oh, no...
• Villain Respect : Despite no longer considering himself Mr. Incredible's biggest fan, he still respects Mr. Incredible's strength, and admits to "geeking out" about Mr. Incredible's quick thinking in tricking his probe. He admits that he put the Omnidroid through many revisions to get it worthy to fight Mr. Incredible.
• Virtue Is Weakness : He outright declares Mr. Incredible a weakling for refusing to follow through on his threat to kill Mirage even when he had nothing to lose .
• Who's Laughing Now? : He wanted to be a superhero but was turned away by Mr. Incredible and this caused a grudge against natural superheroes. Syndrome: See, now you respect me. Because I'm a threat . That's the way it works. Turns out there are a lot of people, whole countries, who want respect...
• Wicked Pretentious : Syndrome lives on his private, seemingly idyllic island, has spared no effort to make sure everything in his secret base and labs is top-notch in quality, and if Mirage is to believed, he has a good enough working knowledge of agriculture to grow all of the island's food using volcanic soil. When Mr. Incredible actually meets him, Syndrome turns out to be an utterly deranged Psychopathic Manchild . All in all, he lives up to both the "wicked" and the "pretentious" parts as his highly polished designs and apparent "high-class" stature is really just a mask for how much of a vainglorious monster he really is.
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility : Played with. To Syndrome, being a hero isn't about having the responsibility to use his gifts to help others but to gain fame. He doesn't know what is right and wrong but to him, being a hero is not about having morals.
• Worthy Opponent : Some shades of this with Mr. Incredible. Mr. Incredible is the last super he tests his Omnidroid on (it goes through 8 incarnations before he thinks it might be able to beat his old hero), and he quite readily admits to being impressed by how Mr. Incredible managed to escape his probe. Mr. Incredible also has the highest threat rating in the Operation Kronos database (a database written by Syndrome) by a significant margin, at 9.1 (with Gamma Jack's 7.9 as second).
• He continued a missile attack on Elastigirl's plane even after she broadcasts that there were children aboard.
• He once captured Jack-Jack and tried to ruthlessly make the infant his own apprentice (which is considered as child endangerment ) as a form of vengeance to the Parr family for destroying his previous Engineered Heroics plan with the Omnidroid v.10, although ironically this backfired on him due to him not knowing at first that Jack-Jack has various superpowers.
• Wrong Genre Savvy : He occasionally slips into expecting the film to work more like a classic Superhero comic than the Modern-Age-influenced Decon-Recon Switch it actually is. It's one of the contributing factors to his death, as he assumes he's an Arch-Nemesis with Joker Immunity and that Mr. Incredible wouldn't dare interrupt his evil gloating, leaving him open for the aforementioned flung car.
• Youthful Freckles : He has freckles on his cheeks as a pre-teen. Years later, he still has them as an adult, which serves to emphasize him being a Psychopathic Manchild .

"He's not weak, you know. Valuing life is not weakness. And disregarding it is not strength."

• Affably Evil : She is very polite towards Mr. Incredible despite being his false recruiter and works for a madman who has the intention to kill him. But she herself doesn't hold anything personal towards the supers.
• Ambiguously Brown : Has a significantly darker skin color than any other character besides Frozone, as well as unidentifiable accent. She is played in this movie by Elizabeth Peña, an actress of Latin American descent.
• Ambiguous Situation : It's not clear if Mirage herself has any superhuman abilities, or if she is simply a gifted spy. Her name definitely sounds like a superhero or villain title, and she's able to effortlessly blend into the offices of Insuracare, suggesting a mild degree of illusion casting . Furthermore, in her first video message to Mr. Incredible, she remarks that "according to the government, neither of us exists," suggesting that she too was subjected to the ban on supers; that line, though, could simply be a ploy to appeal to his desire to relive his glory days.
• Beauty Equals Goodness : What she actually is, deep down, even when she once worked under Syndrome. This trait of hers is partially what made her lead him to his ultimate downfall with the help of the Incredibles (alongside her Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal against him).
• Beauty Is Bad : Downplayed. She is a villain of great beauty, but she has several mitigating factors that make her less of an evil than Syndrome, such as her genuine politeness , a demonstration of the fact that she doesn't want to get children involved in her plans with him and that she is immediately aware that Syndrome is completely selfish when he allows Mr. Incredible to try and kill her .
• Dark Mistress : Possibly. There is a scene where Syndrome attempts to flirt with her, though she rebuffs him since moments earlier he had called Mr. Incredible's bluff about killing her, gambling on her life . It's unclear if it was unwanted sexual attention or if she and Syndrome had some kind of relationship before.
• The Dragon : She is Syndrome's second-in-command and is at his side in a majority of the scenes on the island. She's actively involved in his plan to attract superheroes as part of "Project Kronos". Besides Syndrome, she's the only one on the island not wearing a face-obscuring mask.
• Enemy Mine : She and Elastigirl have a rocky relationship in the comics, but cooperate while facing Xerek.
• Even Evil Has Standards : She might have helped Syndrome with his Evil Plan , which involved killing a lot of supers, but she was clearly horrified when she learned that the plane Elastigirl was in had children in it and visibly saddened when they were thought to be dead. That's one of the reasons she had a High-Heel–Face Turn later.
• Females Are More Innocent : As later shown throughout her appearance, despite working under Syndrome, she's actually not as bad as he is, especially because she has a much higher sense of morality than he does, which is a contributing factor as to why she decided to help the Incredibles in defeating him.
• Femme Fatale : Implied. A mysterious and alluring woman in league with the main villain who draws Mr. Incredible into an undercover hero mission.
• High-Heel–Face Turn : She's the only member of Syndrome's crew to willingly help the heroes. It starts when Syndrome launches missiles at a jet plane carrying children and becomes solidified when he is willing to risk her life when Mr. Incredible threatens to crush her.
• In Love with the Mark : It's heavily implied by her expression when Mr. Incredible hugs her that she grows to genuinely like Mr. Incredible, even though at first she was manipulating him.
• Long Hair Is Feminine : She has long, straight silver hair and comes across as quite feminine, considerably more than the short-haired Helen.
• Meaningful Name : A mirage is something that appears real or possible but is not in fact so. Throughout her first encounters with Mr. Incredible she masterfully pretends to be something she isn't.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal : She didn't take kindly to Syndrome's willingness to risk her life when Mr. Incredible took her as a hostage, which is what indirectly lead to Syndrome's own downfall. Mirage: ( furious ) Next time you gamble, bet your own life .
• Mysterious Past : Mirage discloses a single vague and tantalizing hint as to her past in order to strike up a Commonality Connection with Mr. Incredible. Nothing more is ever revealed.
• Noodle People : She's exceptionally stringy, even when you consider the animation style.
• Punch-Clock Villain : Unlike Syndrome, Mirage does not seem to possess any Anti-Super sentiments and is only working for Syndrome because it is her job (and possibly an attraction to her boss). She seems fine with Syndrome's plot involving the death of multiple supers, who are all essentially superhuman veterans willingly marching into life-threatening situations, and she does not express doubts until Syndrome ordered Elastigirl's plane to be destroyed in spite of there being children aboard and finding out that Syndrome was willing to let Mr. Incredible kill her .
• Spy Catsuit : Wears a grey one in the comics.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech : Gives a subtle one to Syndrome when calling him out for betting her life during his mind game with Mr. Incredible. Mirage: He's not weak, you know. Syndrome: What? Mirage: Valuing life is not weakness. Syndrome: Oh, hey, look, look, if you're talking about what happened in the containment unit, I had everything under control. Mirage: And disregarding it is not strength.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl : She's the alluring and seductive, girly Femme Fatale with long silver hair compared to the moderately tomboyish heroic biker chick, Helen/Elastigirl.
• Vague Age : She looks young, but it's pretty hard to tell her exact age range due to factors like the silver hair.
• Villains Want Mercy : When Mr. Incredible is pushed to the Despair Event Horizon and strangles Mirage after releasing him, she begs him to stop. It was only when she reveals that his family is still alive that he willingly shows her mercy.
• What the Hell Is That Accent? : Her accent suggests she is either Latin American, Eastern European or Middle Eastern.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child : She is obviously disturbed when Syndrome shoots down Elastigirl's plane knowing that there are children aboard, and this seems to be part of why she turns against him.

• Adaptive Ability : One of the things that makes it dangerous is the fact that it will adapt its tactics to defeat whatever is being used against it. We see in Mr. Incredible's fight with v.08 that his attacks only work once before being anticipated and countered by the robot.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot : Played with; the cover story Mirage gives Mr. Incredible before he fights the V8 is that (as Mr. Incredible guesses) it became smart enough to wonder why it had to take orders and went rogue. This is, of course, a lie intended to try and get him killed. However, given that Mr. Incredible was smart enough to come to that conclusion, Syndrome really should have expected a simple remote to not stop the thing when he presented himself as an opponent to it, though in this case it's due to Syndrome grossly underestimating how much control he actually had over the robot which was simply following the directives he programmed into it .
• Artificial Stupidity : When Mr. Incredible fights the v.08, its programming didn't account for the situation where Mr. Incredible would be inside the unit and it starts attacking itself to get at him, eventually pulling out its own core.
• Attack Its Weak Point : The Omnidroid only finally stops when Mr. Incredible tricks it into ripping out its own power source. The final Omnidroid is likewise only defeated when the Incredibles launch one of its claws through its power source.
• Awesomeness by Analysis : It will take note of repeated tactics and devise a way to counter them. Mirage: It's a learning robot. Every moment you spend fighting it only increases its knowledge of how to beat you.
• Be the Ball : It can retract its legs and head into its body so that it can roll around as a ball. Earlier models lacked this, being less circular in appearance- it wasn't until the fifth model that Syndrome began making them spherical.
• Climax Boss : Despite not being the Big Bad , the climax of the film is against the final Omnidroid, rather than Syndrome, who spends the entire battle unconscious and is dealt with in a Post-Climax Confrontation .
• Combat Pragmatist : It will use every aspect of itself and the environment to win, including bringing its full weight down on enemies, rolling over them in ball form, hurling rocks, and bathing its claws in lava to make them deadlier.
• Combat Tentacles : Its primary weapons. The claws can rotate as saws or be propelled using rockets.
• Cyber Cyclops : All Omnidroids seen in the movie have a single slit-like optical sensor. Technically there's two (one on the bottom and one on the top), but usually only one is active at a time.
• Dark Is Evil : The second and final Omnidroids are both black. The first one tosses Mr. Incredible around and gives him no opportunity to fight back, and the one in the climax takes Syndrome down pretty quickly, and becomes the bigger threat that has to be stopped .
• Defeat Equals Explosion : After the Omnidroid V10's power source is ripped out, it falls over and explodes.
• Determinator : Fitting for a robot, even losing multiple limbs won't stop it. It has to be dead .
• The Dragon : The Omnidroid is Syndrome's strongest subordinate in combat, and the centerpiece of his plan. After Mirage has a Heel–Face Turn and the story moves off Nomanisan Island and into Metroville, the Omnidroid takes this role from Mirage. Unfortunately, Syndrome does not have as much control over it as he thought, especially when he starts to attack it .
• Dragon-in-Chief : The final Omnidroid is an unstoppable and efficient foe and proves itself to be far more dangerous than Syndrome. It takes the spotlight from him in the climax of the movie, easily defeating and outsmarting its creator. Syndrome himself is defeated much more quickly shortly after.
• Syndrome programmed it to destroy the city and planned to use his remote to defeat it. The Omnidroid 10 defends itself and treats Syndrome the same as any other threat, rather than as its master. It analyzes that his remote is what's causing the damage and attacks him, defeating him quickly. It then continues destroying the city, as it was programmed to do. It succeeds in overtaking Syndrome as the main threat of the climax .
• Energy Weapon : The Omnidroid's primary long-range weapon is a laser cannon positioned on its upper eye.
• Evil Evolves : There are multiple Omnidroid models shown on Syndrome's computer, with the design being revised and improved every time a superhero defeats it. When Mr. Incredible is beaten by the ninth iteration of the Omnidroid, Syndrome uses it as the basis for the final, much larger Omnidroid used in his scheme.
• Genius Bruiser : A very large, very powerful Killer Robot whose most dangerous trait is explicitly stated to be its intelligence and capacity for learning. Its intelligence is so great that it figures out that it was being controlled by Syndrome's remote and turns on him as a result.
• Gone Horribly Right : Syndrome wanted a robot so powerful and smart that no one person could beat it. He got exactly what he wanted, to his dismay .
• Heel–Face Turn : According to the Blu-Ray extras, there were smaller Omnidroids left behind on Nomanisan Island. Vanquished Villains Redevelopment reprogrammed them into being servants (spa massagers, tour guides, camp counselors, hula dancers, etc.) while Nomanisan Island was turned into a tourist paradise.
• Hero Killer : They've killed many other heroes before Mr. Incredible came along.
• The Juggernaut : The Omnidroid 10 is effectively invincible in direct combat, even when facing multiple supers. Nothing causes any meaningful damage to it except its own claws. If the family did not have Syndrome's remote, it would have been extremely unlikely for them to win.
• Lightning Bruiser : It can move at ridiculous speeds, is covered in thick layers of armor, has a super-intelligent AI brain, and is armed to the teeth with blades and saws.
• Logical Weakness : While all versions of the Omnidroid appear to be made of a virtually indestructible material, we see that it can be damaged by parts of its own body. The Omnidroid v10 being designed to detach parts of itself allowed for its rocket-powered claw to later be used as a spear against it.
• Made of Indestructium : What its shell is made of is never specified, but it's so tough that absolutely nothing can even dent its exterior except for its own claws (which are presumably made of the same material).
• Omni is a prefix meaning "all", which fits with the Omnidroid's variety in skills and weaponry, and that fact that it has defeated and killed supers with all types of powers.
• Operation Kronos, for which the Omnidroid was developed, also foreshadows it turning on his creator, Syndrome. The mythological Kronos (more often spelled as Chronos) overthrew his father and was overthrown by his son, Zeus.
• Monster Protection Racket : The Omnidroid's role is to be the monster in Syndrome's glory scam. Unfortunately, it goes off script and actually attacks Syndrome when it figures out that the remote is the cause of its damage, causing the whole plan to fall apart.
• Mundane Utility : Mini-Omnidroids were reprogrammed into being workers for Nomanisan Island Paradise, despite their original purpose being to kill heroes and cause mass destruction.
• Nigh-Invulnerability : The Omnidroid doesn't flinch at anything the Incredibles or the Army throws at it. An earlier version even survives being submerged in lava. The only thing that can damage it are its own claws.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis : The Omnidroid's programming does not include dramatic flourishes, villainous ranting, or showing off like his master. It simply tries to defeat an opponent as expediently as possible. This clashes with Syndrome's Bond Villain Stupidity , where the Omnidroid 9 would have been simply killed Mr. Incredible if Syndrome did not stop it to gloat, and the Omnidroid 10 would have been unstoppable if Syndrome had not lost his remote while pretending to fight it.
• One-Man Army : These things were designed to kill supers . As shown in the movie's climax, an army of normal armed humans stands no chance against them.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning : The eighth model had blue eyes, the ninth which quickly defeated Mr. Incredible had orange ones (hinting at its deadly ascendance), so the final and most dangerous production model has red ones, which match its black body .
• Rolling Attack : If it needs to move fast, it can retract its limbs and get rolling. Its sheer size and weight makes this particular attack extremely destructive.
• Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale : The Omnidroid sinks in lava, giving it a density of more than 3,100 kg/m^3. Not only is that pretty unbelievable given we see that it's almost totally hollow below a relatively thin layer of armor (although said armor would have to be dense to be as Nigh-Invulnerable as it is), but later in the film, Mr. Incredible is able to pick up the final Omnidroid. Mr. Incredible, a man who treated bench pressing ~300 tons to be hard work, is obviously the World's Strongest Man , but still nowhere near strong enough to lift that thing if it really was that dense. Considering that the Omnidroid is a sphere at least 12 meters in diameter, then going by the earlier density the thing should weigh around 2,800 tons.
• Took a Level in Badass : Built into Syndrome's plan. He would make an Omnidroid, and then pitted it against a super. If the Omnidroid won, he'd repeat the process, while if the super won, he would use the data from the battle to build an upgraded version, who he would pit against the same super (the new Omnidroid invariably won). We see v8 defeated by Mr. Incredible after a long battle, but the upgraded v9 is able to defeat him. The v9 becomes the template for building the giant v10 which is unleashed upon the city.
• Torso with a View : After being penetrated by its own giant claw, the Omnidroid remains standing long enough for the camera to focus on the heroes' reaction, then pull back through the torso hole and provide a long distance view of the damage.
• Turned Against Their Masters : When Mirage introduces it as a rogue "learning robot", Mr. Incredible immediately posits that the Omnidroid got smart enough to wonder why it was taking orders from Puny Humans . While this is soon revealed to have been a lie, it serves as foreshadowing — Syndrome's final Omnidroid model does turn against him when it notices his remote-control is being used to injure it.
• Zeroth Law Rebellion : The Omnidroid's directives are simple: defeat its enemy, keep itself intact (from v9 onward), and adapt to what the opponent dishes out. These directives do not include actual loyalty to Syndrome, nor does his remote instill it, so when he presented himself as an opponent for the Omnidroid to defeat, the machine simply obliged.

• Badass Bandolier : Wears two in a X pattern over his chest, covered in explosives.
• Badass Normal : From the short time he's seen, he doesn't appear to have any superpowers, yet both Mr. Incredible and the city's police force regard him as a major threat. He's apparently just really smart concerning his explosives.
• Bank Robbery : He's a one-man heist crew and his only scene in the movie has him pulling a rather daring one.
• Beware the Silly Ones : Dressed as a mime, he might look ridiculous, but his bombs are powerful and very dangerous.
• Combat Pragmatist : Rather than use bombs directly against Mr. Incredible's Nigh-Invulnerability , he slips a bomb onto Buddy's cape to force Mr. Incredible to let him go in favor of saving Buddy and uses the distraction to escape.
• Demolitions Expert : He uses bombs to gain access to a bank vault then to make his escape, he slips a small bomb on Buddy's cloak to distract Mr. Incredible that is powerful enough to destroy an entire section of a railway.
• Dub Name Change : In the European French dub, his name is changed to Folamour; which is French for "Strangelove", as in Dr. Strangelove .
• Enemy Mime : He isn't mute but has the look.
• French Jerk : He only speaks in French, shows disdain for Mr. Incredible, insults Buddy's costume and blows stuff up without regard for who might get hurt.
• Gratuitous French : All of his spoken lines are in French.
• Hypocritical Humor : He calls Buddy's outfit ridiculous, which is pretty rich coming from a guy who robs banks while dressed as a mime.
• Mad Bomber : His name is "Bomb Voyage", and his main weapons and skillset revolve around using bombs.
• Monster Clown : He looks like one. His face is tinted in white with some black dots, his lips are red and he's a nefarious criminal.
• National Stereotypes : He's pretty much walking cliché. He makes his entrance onscreen with an accordion riff and his makeup is that of a mime. All his lines are spoken in French and he shows an arrogant disdain for Mr. Incredible and Buddy.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain : With his pun-based name, mime costume and makeup, he comes across as a comical figure. However, he cold-bloodedly demonstrates that he Would Hurt a Child when he attaches a bomb to Buddy's cape to force Mr. Incredible to drop him and allow him to escape.
• Practically Joker : He's a performer-themed villain, like the Joker's clown aesthetic, and in spite of his silly appearance is dangerous enough for Mr Incredible to treat him with upmost seriousness. The fact he has also has a white painted face further emulates his Joker-like status, along with his wiry frame and his chilling ruthlessness to attach a bomb to a child.
• Punny Name : Of the French phrase bon voyage , meaning "pleasant journey".
• Same Language Dub : In the European French and Canadian French dubs, all of Bomb Voyage's lines were re-recorded by Patrick Osmond and Alain Zouvi, respectively.
• Small Role, Big Impact : By sticking a bomb onto Buddy that caused the destruction of part of the train line, he's partially responsible for an onslaught of lawsuits that leads to the passing of the Super Relocation Act, which bans superhero activity and forces them underground.
• Starter Villain : He is the first villain introduced in the film, but has no further involvement in the plot beyond accidentally triggering the anti-super movement by putting a bomb on Buddy's cloak, which causes significant property damage and personal injury.
• The Unreveal : It's never mentioned if Mr. Incredible managed to capture him before the Super Relocation Act forced him into retirement.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left : After being grabbed by Mr. Incredible, he plants a bomb on Buddy's cape and slips away as Mr. Incredible goes after Buddy to save him. The police officers stated they'd be setting up a dragnet for him, but it's unknown if anything came of it.
• Would Hurt a Child : He risks Buddy's life by putting a bomb on his cape to create a distraction while he escapes, showing he has no problem putting a child in danger.

"Behold, the Underminer! I'm always beneath you, but nothing is beneath ME!! I hereby declare war on peace and happiness!! Soon, all will tremble before me!!"

• Animal-Themed Superbeing : Zig-zagged. His declared villain name has no animal theme, nor does his outfit portray any animal symbols. However, since he is a Captain Ersatz of the Mole Man from the Fantastic Four, his face has a distinct rodent teeth to convey a mole (or gopher, given the buckteeth) -like appearance.
• Artificial Limbs : His arms appear to have been replaced by crude metal prosthetics.
• Ascended Extra : He is only introduced in the last minutes of the first movie. Rise of the Underminer promoted him to Big Bad status. He is also the Starter Villain of the sequel.
• Badass Cape : A long, flowing brown one.
• Badass Boast : "Behold, the Underminer! I'm always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me! I hereby declare war on peace and happiness! Soon, all will tremble before me!"
• Big Bad : He is the primary antagonist of the non-canon video game Rise of the Underminer .
• Calling Your Attacks : Shouts out his hits like a wrestling announcer while grappling with Mr. Incredible in the sequel.
• Captain Ersatz : He's pretty much Fantastic Four villain, Mole Man, in all but name.
• Card-Carrying Villain : He declares war on peace and happiness and expects all to tremble before him. Pretty cliche villain.
• Characterization Marches On : In the first film his iconic speech implies he's here to declare war upon the surface world. In the second, it's shown that he's just a bank robber.
• Cyborg : He seems to be some kind of mechanized human, going by his mechanical hands and eye.
• Evil Sounds Deep : John Ratzenberger drops his voice an octave and rants of the doom he will bring!
• Eye-Obscuring Hat : His eyes are always obscured by his miner hat.
• Harmless Villain : For all his Evil Gloating in the final moments of the first film, it seems that robbing a bank was all he had planned. The film even points out that the bank losses and infrastructure damage would have been covered. It was the intervention of the Incredibles that caused the additional collateral damage to the overpass and the city block and nearly destroyed city hall.
• I Call It "Vera" : When about to punch Mr. Incredible, he introduces him to "Jack Hammer", his left hand.
• Incoming Ham : "BEHOLD, THE UNDERMINER!"
• Karma Houdini : He manages to evade the Incredibles at the start of the second movie and is unaccounted for by the end of the movie. One of the federal agents even chides Mr. Incredible for letting him get away with the money too.
• Meaningful Name : His appears right on cue to try and undermine the happy ending that the Parr family have earned themselves by demonstrating that there are still active supervillains. Played more straight in the sequel, as he did manage to undermine superheroes.
• Mole Men : As stated in Animal-Themed Superbeing , the Underminer's design and expertise give him a very mole-like aesthetic, especially his prominent nose and buck teeth.
• Motive Rant : He gives a very long misanthropic tirade at the end of the first and the start of the second films, but it turns out all he really wants is to rob the city bank.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain : He might look like an complete cartoon villain with his antics, but he actually manages to trade blows with Mr. Incredible and turns into a complete Karma Houdini in the second movie, managing to escape justice alongside the dollars he had stolen.
• Power Fist : His replacement arms allow him to trade blows with Mr. Incredible.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs : His left fist contains a jackhammer-like servo he can use to punch people very quickly.
• Scary Teeth : He has long rodent-like incisors, which look quite off-putting on a human.
• Starter Villain : He may have appeared at the ending of the original movie as an unrelated threat, but since Incredibles 2 is an Immediate Sequel , he's the first villain faced there. Surprisingly for a Starter Villain , he actually manages to escape from the heroes.
• Super-Strength : He's able to almost match Mr. Incredible in terms of strength, likely due to his Artificial Limbs .
• This Is a Drill : His main weapon is a giant mining drill.
• Tunnel King : Makes his entrance by tunneling up through the street.
• Weapons That Suck : Uses an enormous tube to vacuum the money from the bank (and, inadvertently, Mr. Incredible).

Evelyn Deavor (The Real Screenslaver)

"Superheroes keep us weak!"

• All for Nothing : Evelyn wanted to permanently make all supers illegal was all in vain due to being exposed and getting arrested. The Supers became legalized, and if anything have more respect and goodwill than ever. Even if she does get out of prison, everyone now knows what she did and they will keep an eye on her. She is no longer trusted.
• Alto Villainess : Evelyn is a vengeful mastermind with Catherine Keener 's deep and husky voice.
• And Then What? : It's obvious Evelyn didn't have a replacement plan to compensate for the complete illegalization of supers, which further shows that she's blinded by her hate to the point of Didn't Think This Through .
• Ax-Crazy : She may look relatively subdued, but the fact that her sheer hatred for superheroes escalates into attempted mass murder just to settle an imaginary grudge borne of grief-driven madness shows a thoroughly deranged mind underneath.
• Badass Normal : As the Screenslaver, she has no superpowers, but she uses her intellect to be an effective Combat Pragmatist . She also developed projectable hypnotic patterns, which she shrewdly puts to use to give her an advantage over supers.
• Beauty Is Bad : In contrast to Mirage (who isn't even that remotely bad in the first place), Evelyn is quite pretty (save for her Exhausted Eye Bags ), but also vindictive, especially against supers.
• Big Bad : She's the Screenslaver, who's been orchestrating disasters around New Urbem and Municiberg by projecting hypnotic patterns on any screen she can hack into. Her main goal is to cement the world's bias against supers for good in the hopes of ensuring that people stop what she considers mindless hero worship and rely on their own ability to protect themselves. She believes this mindset was the cause of her father's death.
• Big Sister Instinct : While their relative ages are unknown, Evelyn definitely feels this towards her brother even if she thinks he's childishly naïve. Elastigirl even notes how much she loves him during their conversation at the DevTech party. While she does want to sabotage Winston's plan to re-legalize superheroes, she fetches her brother and makes sure he accompanies her onto the escape plane.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing : At first, she seems kind and supportive of her brother's plan, wanting to bring superheroes back along with striking up a friendship with Elastigirl. However, she is later revealed to be the Screenslaver and heavily prejudiced against supers . Despite this, her love for her brother is genuine.
• Bond Villain Stupidity : The Screenslaver has Elastigirl dying of hypoxia on her plane (which has an auto-pilot), barely able to move. She taunts Elastigirl, kicks her down, and then turns away from her to continue flying the plane instead of making any effort to finish her off or turning on the auto-pilot to keep an eye on her. While the Screenslaver's back is turned, Elastigirl grabs her flare gun and shoots the Screenslaver out of the plane, defeating her.
• Boyish Short Hair : Evelyn has short hair and doesn't seem to have many stereotypically feminine character traits.
• Brainy Brunette : With all the gadgets she's invented, Evelyn's most definitely a brilliantly brainy brunette.
• Brother–Sister Team : She and her brother run DevTech —with Winston being The Face of the company and Evelyn being the brains behind their tech. They've been working together successfully for over 15 years. Winston mentions that people doubted they could do it since they were both relatively young when they took over.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You : She muses that using the Supers to further her goals is better than just killing them out of her sheer hatred for them.
• Combat Pragmatist : She uses erratic maneuvers to throw Elastigirl all over her airplane's cabin and then depressurizes the plane to suffocate her with the loss of air.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist : Unlike Syndrome's overall grandiose feel and criminal organization, the Screenslaver is quieter and operates alone, using only co-opted resources and hypnotized pawns. She also wants Supers to remain illegal, while Buddy wanted supers to be back in the spotlight (and to join them). Where Buddy was an entitled fanboy attempting to be a phony superhero before dragging people up to his level after reveling in his fame, Evelyn is a behind-the-scenes sort whose entire plan to get people to stop relying on supers to save them and relies on her anonymity. Syndrome also seems to be The Sociopath who has no problem sacrificing Mirage when Mr. Incredible holds her hostage, while Evelyn still loves her brother and takes care of him even in the middle of her evil scheme.
• The Cynic : She is noticeably more subdued and much less idealistic than her brother. She seems to be quite disdainful of peoples' natural inclination to gravitate towards ease over quality. By the end, Evelyn is shown to truly hate idealism even in the people she cares about; Elastigirl herself points out she doesn't have an ideology, but rather a list of things she hates.
• Cynicism Catalyst : The murder of her father, and subsequent death of her mother, resulted in her cynical worldview, and it's also her Start of Darkness since it's why she decided the world's better off without heroes.
• Do Not Adjust Your Set : The Screenslaver's M.O. is to hijack any monitor or screen she can to project her hypnosis screens. Through the decoy, she takes over an interview with Elastigirl to give a breaking speech to the public.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones : In spite of how quick she is to complain about Winston's naïve idealism, she truly does care about her brother, and she takes him with her while she escapes from the Everjust . Evelyn's also emotionally compromised thanks to her father's murder, as she views the tragedy to have been preventable.
• Evil Is Petty : She orchestrates a pizza delivery guy's imprisonment... because he's "surly" and "the pizza was cold".
• Exhausted Eye Bags : She constantly looks tired throughout the film.
• False Friend : Elastigirl is hurt by Evelyn's betrayal because she relied on her, but Evelyn points out that neither of them know each other. Elastigirl just responds by saying if their situations were reversed, Evelyn could rely on her.
• Fantastic Racism : She unjustly blames supers for the death of her father. During a burglary, he tried to contact two supers for help instead of retreating to his safe room—resulting in him being fatally shot. Unfortunately, this occurred after the Super Relocation Act had passed, so those supers couldn't respond even if his calls went through. However, that doesn't stop Evelyn from nurturing a bias against supers and developing a plan to discredit them as the Screenslaver, ensuring they remain illegal.
• Faux Affably Evil : She has a friendly, laid-back demeanor even as she tries to orchestrate mass murder or watch Elastigirl suffer from hypoxia.
• Females Are More Innocent : Unlike Syndrome from the first Incredibles movie, the reason for her descent into villainy is actually a lot more tragic, as the deaths of her and Winston's parents heavily affected her, to the point where she thinks that supers are responsible for making humans reliant on them for serious criminal cases. Additionally, she does have her loved ones , as well, as opposed to Syndrome, who truly cares about no one but himself in the end.
• Foil : Is somewhat this to Mirage, as both have done some significantly criminal work, especially against superheroes (such as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl). However, Mirage herself actually doesn't hold anything against superheroes in general, despite working under Syndrome (who passionately hates them just because of his childhood rejection from being Mr. Incredible's sidekick) as opposed to Evelyn, whose personal grudge towards superheroes is strongly rooted from the tragic loss of her and Winston's parents.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling : Played with in their corporate roles. Evelyn seems like the Responsible to Winston's Foolish, as Evelyn's the one who comes up with the actual means to implement Winston's grand ideas. She also softly scolds him for his over-enthusiasm and childlike tendencies, and keeps business conversations on track from his tendency to get sidetracked. These roles are reversed once Evelyn is revealed as the Screenslaver, as her misplaced anger and bitterness towards supers causes her to endanger lives to ensure they stay illegal. In turn, Winston is responsible enough to go back and try to help save the innocent people caught up in Evelyn's scheme.
• Gadgeteer Genius : She is the primary developer of DevTech's technology.
• Genius Slob : Downplayed. Compared to her impeccably dressed and groomed brother, Evelyn is more inclined towards comfortable, bohemian-casual clothing with mildly unkempt hair. In her first onscreen appearance, she is running late to her meeting with Winston and Elastigirl, and dumps everything she's carrying onto a poor employee.
• Hidden Villain : Evelyn's supervillain identity remains unknown for much of Incredibles 2 .
• Hypocrite : She accuses her brother of being a Manchild for associating the presence of heroes with their parents, but the loss of her parents was a defining moment for her as well, and her entire plan is intended to lash out at superheroes. She puts on an act where she appears to accept that her father was responsible for his own actions, but her Motive Rant to Elastigirl show that this is clearly not the case.
• Icy Blue Eyes : Her eyes are a very pale shade of blue-grey.
• Knight of Cerebus : After The Reveal she's the Screenslaver, the mood plunges into darkness when she shows up.
• Lack of Empathy : Evelyn shows little empathy towards the people caught up in her scheme. She hypnotizes a pizza delivery guy into becoming the decoy Screenslaver simply because he was surly and delivered cold pizza, getting him beaten up and arrested. She then hypnotizes superheroes and sends them to kidnap children. If none of that is enough, Evelyn doesn't care about the scores of innocent people who would have died if the Everjust crashed into Municiberg. The only people she seems to have any feelings for are her relatives—especially Winston. Even so, it doesn't stop her from using his superhero legalization plan for her own ends.
• Mad Scientist : While not as outwardly unstable as Syndrome, Evelyn uses his skill in technology to advance her own evil goals to discredit supers and prevent their return to the public eye.
• The Man Behind the Man : She's the one who works on the technology that her brother sells, but he's The Face of their company. It later turns out she's the Screenslaver, and this is her modus operandi—as the hypnotic patterns which are projected lead back to her.
• Meaningful Name : Her name sounds like "evil endeavor," hinting she's the Big Bad .
• Motive Rant : When she captures Elastigirl, she basically rants about why Supers betrayed her and her father's trust and why she is deciding to eradicate all Supers because "they keep us weak!"
• Non-Action Big Bad : For the most part. Evelyn lacks physical training and does not appear to have skills with firearms. She does not have the means to fight any supers directly. She is an effective Combat Pragmatist and does briefly fight Elastigirl on the plane in a situation where she has every advantage. Most of her threat still comes from her mind-controlled super minions.
• No Social Skills : Subverted. She claims to have poor interpersonal skills but then accurately assesses that people crave ease over quality. She also masterfully sets up the theatrics of the Screenslaver to be an adequate foil for Elastigirl so that it merges seamlessly into her brother's PR plan. Ultimately, she is shown to have a Lack of Empathy toward anyone except her family but has a talent for manipulating people.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist : She styles herself as a Well-Intentioned Extremist who hates the concept of superheroes because Holding Out for a Hero means people don't actually try to save themselves, like how her father would rather call two heroes than go to a safe room with his wife. Elastigirl points out that the method she chose indicates she's lashing out at superheroes because she blames them for her parents' deaths. Furthermore, she doesn't seem to have any idea about how to fix that problem other than ensuring supers are illegal for good ... not even considering the possibility of teaching people how to defend themselves without them. As Elastigirl points out, Evelyn doesn't have an ideology—just a list of things she hates. This is because Evelyn is acting out of rather directionless grief and bitterness rather than a megalomaniacal sense of villainy like Syndrome.
• She also had her proxy pull the fire alarm while escaping the apartment complex to ensure the place was evacuated and no one got hurt when the evidence in her proxy's workroom was set to blow up. This is note worthy as she later risks crashing an entire ship full of innocent people.
• Psychological Projection : It's notable that most characterization of Winston as a Manchild comes from Evelyn, whose villainy really boils down to throwing a tantrum over her parents' deaths and blaming superheroes for being tangentially involved without dealing with the underlying problem (that Holding Out for a Hero makes people less likely to act for themselves) that she identifies. Winston, meanwhile, blames no one for his parents' deaths, and proves to be quite selfless and willing to act heroically when push comes to shove, making it likely that this trope is in play and Evelyn characterizes her brother as a manchild to avoid admitting she's the childish one.
• Samus Is a Girl : Evelyn is the Screenslaver, and she's an example of this trope that's instead done by proxy.
• Sibling Yin-Yang : She's the laid-back genius who works behind the scenes to develop the technology that ensures their success—with her brother being enthusiastic and immature, but charismatic enough to be The Face for DevTech . Moreover, he wants to help superheroes regain their legality, and Evelyn wants to permanently discredit them.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift : Her outfits start to reflect the Screenslaver, her supervillain identity, as the film goes on, with darker colors and patterns reflecting the optical hypno-designs used in the broadcasts. By the end, she's in a practical yet stylish jumpsuit that evokes villain gear, and she even dons a pilot's oxygen mask, which resembles the skeletal grille on the Screenslaver decoy's mask.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer : She doesn't appear in any of the trailers.
• Smug Snake : Her attitude following her reveal is of great disdain for both Elastigirl and her father, and she seemingly takes pride in being a successful villainess, albeit unaware of her own villainy .
• Squishy Wizard : She isn't physically intimidating, but her intellect and skill as a Gadgeteer Genius allow her to be quite an effective Big Bad .
• Start of Darkness : Evelyn's hatred towards supers started after her father's murder.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero : Her name sounds similar to "evil endeavor," which is fitting since she's the film's true main antagonist.
• Straw Feminist : Downplayed; this trait comes out only once during a conversation with Elastigirl. The latter correctly surmises that Evelyn intends to win her over with "Man's World" rhetoric and shoots the idea down almost as quickly as it's brought up, which Evelyn takes in stride.
• Straw Nihilist : Excluding her own family , Evelyn values nobody's life—super or otherwise. She also kicks Elastigirl while she's acting as her parachute from several dozen feet above the ocean and shows zero gratitude whatsoever after she saves her life, implying she doesn't even value her own life either.
• Tragic Villain : She lost her parents at a young age, and her Evil Plan is a case of Misplaced Retribution .
• Ungrateful Bitch : Even after Elastigirl saves her life, Evelyn remains ungrateful and argues it doesn't prove Elastigirl's right. While she falls, Evelyn actively resists Elastigirl's first attempts to reach her, as she doesn't want to be saved by someone representing what she hates.
• Unkempt Beauty : Her hair may be messy and her eyes may be shadowed, but there's a reason why her design has gotten praise from critics and moviegoers alike.
• Villain Has a Point : As much as she loved her father, Evelyn was right on how ridiculous it was for him to try and call supers, who were illegal at that point (And even if they weren't, it's unlikely they would've arrived on time), instead of hiding in the safe room, which costs him his life .
• Villainous Breakdown : When her plan begins falling apart, she becomes more frantic and panicked, even shouting a few Big Nos .
• Villainous Underdog : Unlike Syndrome, Evelyn lacks a villainous organization, mooks , or any anti-super weapons like the Omnidroid or zero point energy. Not even her brother is helping her directly with her plans. Evelyn gets by with her cunning and manages to build a small army of brainwashed supers without any outside help.
• Virtue Is Weakness : She sees idealism as a sign of weakness, and near the end, she shows irritation with Elastigirl for saving her life, arguing that it doesn't prove Elastigirl is right.
• Walking Spoiler : Her reveal as the Screenslaver is a major turning point of the film.
• We Have Become Complacent : Believes that people will choose ease and convenience over quality and actively engaging with life. This is reflected in both her conversation with Elastigirl and in the Screenslaver's breaking speech. It's revealed this worldview comes from grief-driven bitterness since she believes her father's complacency led him to try calling his super friends instead of retreating with his wife into their safe room.
• Would Hurt a Child : Has no problem using mind-controlled supers to harm Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack, and at one point she ordered the screenslaved Khrusher to crush Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack under Violet's own Force Field while she was busy blocking He-lectric's electricity. Had Dash's timely calling of the Incredibile been about 5 seconds late, the Parr siblings would have died a gruesome death if Violet's horrified screams are any indication. Evelyn also does this again in the climax by threatening to have the Everjust crash into Municiberg which would have killed many civilians, which would have included kids too (in addition to the less durable Violet and Dash who would have likely been thrown off the ship to their deaths had it directly struck the city).
• You Are What You Hate : She became the very villains that murdered her father, but she is too blinded and crazy to see that.

Unnamed Pizza Deliveryman (Decoy Screenslaver)

"Go ahead, send your supers to stop me. Grab your snacks, watch your screens, and see what happens. You are no longer in control. I am."

• Anti-Climax Boss : Invoked Trope In-Universe . When Elastigirl encounters the decoy Screenslaver, he turns out to just be a guy with a few sets of hypno-goggles working out of a small apartment—lacking the death machines, armies of mooks , and secret island bases that Syndrome had. In a straight fight, he goes down relatively easily. This puzzles Elastigirl, as she reasons that someone brilliant enough to create hypnosis technology could've afforded more resources and defenses. It turns out that the decoy was supposed to be weak enough for Elastigirl alone to handle as part of Evelyn's plan.
• Badass Boast : His speech is a pretty impressive Bring It to all supers, and ends "You are no longer in control, I am". Ironically he said this while under someone else's control.
• Badass Normal : The decoy puts up a surprisingly good fight during his fight with Elastigirl, making good use of strobe lights and whatever he can get his hands on to level the playing field. Even Evelyn admits to being surprised at how well the decoy fought. Evelyn : He gave you a pretty good fight. I should say, I gave you a pretty good fight through him.
• Big Bad : Subverted, in that the apparent Screenslaver is a decoy that Evelyn hypnotized to be found, beaten up, and arrested for being surly and bringing cold pizza.
• Combat Pragmatist : The decoy uses everything he can find in his fight with Elastigirl, from strobe lights, to knocking over shelves to make obstacles, to using a cattle-prod and a fire axe, to taking cheap shots at Elastigirl as she chases him through the apartment.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist : The decoy can be considered one to the Omnidroid. Both are fake villains used by the real villain to prop up the protagonist. They are presented as a major threat by the protagonist's treacherous Mission Control and fought about halfway through the movie. The Omnidroid after being destroyed is rebuilt stronger and eventually turns on its master in the climax while he was attempting to use it to prop himself up. The decoy has no ability to resist the Screenslaver and drops out of the narrative after his defeat, being totally disposable after use as a boost to Elastigirl's profile.
• The Cracker : The Screenslaver can be considered a period-appropriate equivalent to Anonymous-esque hacktivists and cyber terrorists. Screenslaver broadcasts pre-recorded videos on live networks and causes havoc via hacking. The name "Screenslaver" is even a pun on the term "screensaver".
• Disc-One Final Boss : The decoy Screenslaver is prominent in the marketing of the film, and is defeated roughly halfway through the movie... But then he is revealed to be just a pawn of the real Big Bad , Evelyn Deavor.
• Evil Sounds Raspy : The voice modulator in the mask makes the Screenslaver's voice sound harsh and raspy.
• Evil Wears Black : The decoy wears a black suit. However, the goggle lenses on his mask are bright in color, and his Scary Teeth mouth apparatus is silver.
• Gas Mask, Longcoat : The decoy's suit has the goggles and breathing apparatus on his mask and the rest of the suit shows off no skin with black gloves. This overall appearance has a mad scientist-like feeling.
• Knight of Cerebus : The decoy greatly darkens the mood, with the scene of his speech and Elastigirl searching for him being one of the most tense in the movie.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall : Parts of the Screenslaver's speech about using superheroes as escapism from life's problems is applicable to the audience, especially when he says "you don't talk, you watch talk shows, you don't play games, you watch game shows", since superhero movies is one of the most common forms of escapist media at the time the movie was released. He even uses the real world terminology "superheroes" instead of the more common in-universe "supers".
• Lean and Mean : The decoy has a fairly thin physique. Turns out to be justified because Evelyn picked somebody who fit the physique she wanted for the fight with Elastigirl.
• Meaningful Name : The Screenslaver enslaves people with screens, using a hypnotic pattern.
• Mouth of Sauron : Even though his speech was manufactured to antagonize Elastigirl and supers, the content of it also seems to align with Evelyn's actual beliefs, mainly that normal people are complacent and eager to watch supers deal with problems rather than do something themselves.
• No Name Given : The decoy's name is never revealed.
• Punny Name : Screenslaver's name is a pun, changing "screensaver" into "screen" and "slaver" because she uses screens to enslave people, by showing a hypnotic pattern.
• The Scapegoat : The decoy Elastigirl defeats is just a pizza delivery guy who was hypnotized by the real Screenslaver so she could throw the supers off the trail of her actual plans.
• Stranger Behind the Mask : Subverted. When the Screenslaver is first fought and seemingly unmasked, the person in the costume turns out to be some random blond kid who made no previous appearances... because he's a pizza guy who the real Screenslaver hypnotized to distract Elastigirl. The Screenslaver is actually Evelyn Deavor, who was believed to have been Elastigirl's friend .
• Vocal Evolution : His voice sounds much less modulated in the trailer and speaks more quickly and clearly, instead of the soft and slow voice he uses in the movie. note  Since the decoy's costume does not show any lip movements, his lines are some of the easiest ones to change the voice for, so it may have been a last minute decision, or intentionally altered to be more trailer-friendly.
• Voice of the Legion : The voice modulator in the mask makes the decoy's voice reverberate and deep, whereas he sounds more normal when he's unmasked and not being mind controlled.
• Walking Spoiler : The Screenslaver's identity is a huge mystery for most of the movie, and when the decoy's unmasked, there's still lingering questions until The Reveal that the real Screenslaver is Evelyn .

Other Movie Characters

Edna marie mode/"e".

"'Supermodels'—ha! Nothing 'super' about them. Spoiled, stupid little stick figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves. Feh! I used to design for GODS ..."

• Always Camp : Designs super suits and behaves in a hammy way.
• Asian and Nerdy : Downplayed since she's only half Japanese, but has a mastery of super-advanced textile manufacturing to design and create super-suits for the heros. She was even able to invent a suit that becomes invisible when Violet does.
• Badass Bookworm : Edna is an absolute no-nonsense fashion designer who uses all sorts of advanced sciences in designing custom costumes for superheroes.
• Berserk Button : She's furious when Elastigirl gets a costume by another designer in the sequel and insists that her fee for Jack-Jack's new costume is that she'll be the family's exclusive designer "throughout the known universe and until the end of time." Edna: Gal baki ? Elastigirl's suit is by GALBAKI ?! EXPLAIN YOURSELF!
• Big Fancy House : She lives on a grand estate complete with laser gates and a security detail. The house itself is an extremely spacious mansion that not only has the typical living space areas such as the kitchen and living room, but also has a huge basement workshop for designing and testing supersuits.
• Breakout Character : Despite her limited screentime, Edna has captivated audiences and even been directly referred to as this for the franchise overall by several media outlets and publications. Those same sources even cite her as one of Pixar's greatest characters of all!
• In the first movie, upon seeing Robert on her security camera: Edna: My God , you've gotten fat.
• In the second movie, once she sees how much of a wreck he is in person: Edna: You look ghastly , Robert.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer : An eccentric and hammy woman who is a genius at designing super suits.
• Challenge Seeker : At least, concerning superhero clothes (Violet's supersuit was the only one to give Edna a decent challenge since she needed to figure out how to turn it's material invisible when Violet herself does). She considers the normal fashion industry beneath her, and is thrilled at the prospect of designing a new supersuit. In the sequel, she positively lights up at the prospect of creating a suit that will work with Jack-Jack's Combo Platter Powers .
• Character Catchphrase : Dahling! Also, "I enjoy our visits" when shooing someone out of her house.
• Chewing the Scenery : Everything she does is larger than her life, from her expressions to her blunt opinions, to her body language.
• Clingy Jealous Girl : Non-romantic example, but she is furious when she learns that Elastigirl's new costume in the sequel was designed by someone else, and makes Mr. Incredible agree that she is Mr. Incredible's, Elastigirl's, and Frozone's exclusive designer, in the entire universe and until the end of time.
• Cool Old Lady : A hammy and eccentric super suit designer.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right : Never brush off her warnings about wearing capes when doing superhero work. Syndrome experienced this first-hand.
• When Edna decides to make the entire Parr family new costumes, she tailors each suit to the wearer's powers. With Jack-Jack's powers unknown she says she "covered the basics" which includes being roomy for free movement, comfortable fabric for sensitive skin, able to withstand temperatures over 1000 degrees, completely bullet-proof and machine washable. Elastigirl: What on Earth do you think the baby will be doing? Edna: Well, I'm sure I don't know, darling. Luck favors the prepared.
• Another moment of prescience is that she secretly planted Tracking Devices in her costumes in case any Super was in danger and needed help. This helps Helen to locate Bob when he's stranded on a remote island and being held captive by Syndrome.
• Dark Is Not Evil : Has black hair and is usually seen in black outfits, but is also responsible for designing the suits of the heroes and she's not evil, just eccentric.
• Deadpan Snarker : The only parts of her dialogue that are not biting wit are her hammy lines, which are also snarky.
• Death Montage : While "No Capes!!" is initially played for laughs, Edna then goes on to list several heroes that were killed by Cape Snag .
• Early-Bird Cameo : Appears as a guest at Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl's wedding during the prologue long before the film identifies her by name.
• Eccentric Artist : She's very excited about her work.
• Eccentric Fashion Designer : She specializes in superhero clothes, and her demeanor is very quirky. Despite this, she's very competent and Genre Savvy when it comes to designing supersuits - most notably, she doesn't use capes because a number of heroes have been killed by Cape Snags .
• Establishing Character Moment : Edna's Brutal Honesty and high standards are established right off the bat when she bats a security guard from his post when he prevents Mr. Incredible from entering her mansion, then remarking that Mr. Incredible has gained a lot of weight before happily letting him in.
• The Fashionista : She's a fashion designer but she is quite bored working for the fashion industry. In her opinion, supermodels are profoundly uninteresting subjects. However, the creators state that she designs all her own clothes and it's implied she won't wear anything but her own designs. Also, she's enough of a fashion icon in-universe for her recognizable hair and glasses to be featured in her "Mode" business logo.
• For Science! : Decides to babysit Jack-Jack pro bono to explore the challenge of creating a suit that fits his powers.
• Gadgeteer Genius : Her genius covers the fields of both textile and electronic engineering. She is able to invent clothing that is friction-proof, bomb-proof or even able become invisible as well as embed miniature tracking devices or biometric and dimensional scanners into the fabric. Edna: And machine washable, dahling. That's a new feature.
• Genki Girl : Just listen to that first phone call. It's almost too much for both Elastigirl and the receiver.
• Glad You Thought of It : She pulls this on Mr. Incredible when he asks her to mend his old superhero costume. She insists that it's a "hobo suit" and tells him that he needs a new one: Mr. Incredible : A new suit? Now where the heck am I gonna get a new suit— Edna : YOU CAN'T! It's impossible, I'm far too busy, so ask me now before I again become sane. Mr. Incredible : ...wait. You want to make me a suit? Edna : You push too hard , dahling!—but I accept.
• Glory Days : She misses the Golden Age too. Edna: "Super"models - ha! Nothing super about them. Spoiled stupid little stick figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves. FEH! I used to design for gods !
• Hero-Worshipper : Heavily implied. As the quote above notes, she refers to heroes as gods. She even refers to Jack-Jack as a "tiny god" in the sequel, which is a pretty fitting description in all honesty.
• Honorary Aunt : After learning about Jack-Jack's multiple powers , she instantly decides to bond with him to study his potential and eventually comes to like the little guy. She even refers to herself as Auntie Edna .
• Gonk : Very short and very ugly, with a very goofy and cartoonish design.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes : She makes these; bulletproof clothing stylized heroic red with a tracking device.
• Insufferable Genius : She can be extremely grating to people she isn't interested in and even her close friends, but there's no denying that she is probably the single greatest superhero costume designer. She also declares superheroic authority on subjects she is inexperienced with in practice, such as parenting, because she's just that smart.
• Intergenerational Friendship : She was among the few people invited to Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl's wedding in the Glory Days.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold : She is somewhat arrogant and bad-tempered, but is a good person at heart. She is also dismissive and hard on certain types of fashion, but puts new heart into Elastigirl with some tough love.
• Jumped at the Call : Mr. Incredible only wants some minor mending for his old suit done, but she's clearly inspired by his visit to start designing superhero costumes again.
• Mad Scientist : The "tamed" variety. Yes, Edna's firmly on the side of the heroes, but she's also highly eccentric and tackles her work of making high-tech super-suits with an almost disturbing enthusiasm. All that's missing is the maniacal laughter, but she's already hammy enough as it is.
• "Edna" means "pleasure" in Hebrew — she does enjoy designing. It can also mean "rejuvenation," and she helps breathe life back into Mr. Incredible's superhero career by designing him a new suit.
• "Mode" is the French word for "fashion" or "style" (as in the expression "à la mode" i.e. "fashionable"), which is an appropriate name for a fashion designer.
• Miniature Senior Citizens : Clearly, she's older than all of her clients, and she is shown to be about knee-high with Mr. Incredible who's in his forties.
• The Napoleon : Edna Mode is very short and she's also noticeably rude and hot-tempered. Unlike Mr. Huph (who's an outright Hate Sink ), she's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold , and one of the most beloved characters in the movie to boot.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed : Her appearance and demeanor are believed to be based off of either Edith Head, Linda Hunt, Anna Wintour, or a combination of all three. Fittingly, Head was a costume designer in real life, while Wintour is the Editor-in-Chief of Vogue , the world's most famous fashion magazine.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist : The incredible tech she puts into each suit suggests that she's mastered the fields of theoretical and experimental physics, mechanical engineering, nanotechnology, biometrics, and (super)human biology, just to name a few. She's also naturally perfected the art of fashion design and everything it entails, from planning to construction to the business aspect of the job.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business : Edna has an over-the-top and flamboyant personality... so when she gets quiet and intense to discuss Mr. Incredible's keeping secrets from Elastigirl, we're immediately aware that this is serious. Tellingly, the scene is animated in dark tones —the only time Edna is lit in this way— to further signify its importance. Edna : Do you know where he is? Elastigirl : ...of course- Edna : (turning violently toward Elastigirl) Do you KNOW where he is?!?
• Reed Richards Is Useless : Her character is a interesting deconstruction of the trope. After the age of superheroes ended, she successfully shifted her skills to become a prestigious fashion designer that allows her to live quite comfortably. However, she's also clearly bored out of her mind with no excitement or challenge she experienced with superhero costume work, and jumps at the chance to design new costumes when the opportunity presents itself. Edna: Supermodels - ha! Nothing super about them. Spoiled, stupid little stick-figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves. Feh! I used to design for GODS!
• Rousing Speech : She delivers one to Elastigirl to get her to go after Mr. Incredible. Edna : What are you talking about? You are Elastigirl ! My god... Pull yourself together! 'What will you do?' Is this a question?! You will show him that you remember he is Mr. Incredible, and you will remind him who you are ! You know where he is, go! Confront the problem! Fight! WIN! And call me when you get back, dahling, I enjoy our visits.
• Sci-Fi Bob Haircut : A practical and stylish choice for a fashion designer who lives in a world with superheroes and incredibly advanced tech.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! : Or an incredibly gifted and prestigious designer or all of the above. Either way, she takes no crap and does not soften her opinion of anyone, for anyone.
• Smart People Wear Glasses : Wears circular glasses and has created custom-made original outfits for superheroes since the "glory days".
• Super Costume Clothier : Perhaps one of the most well known examples of the trope. Edna is a Challenge Seeker who loves designing outfits for superheroes and having to factor their powers into her designs. She was intentionally written to evoke both the Eccentric Fashion Designer and Mad Scientist character archetypes. In the first film she mentions she despises having to work with mundane supermodels when she used to design for people she saw as gods. Incredibles 2 reveals that she has a rival we never see , called Alexander Galbaki, who Edna has an extremely low opinion of. This implies that before superheroing became illegal, superhero fashion design was a healthy trade.
• What the Hell Is That Accent? : When Bird did the scratch voice for Edna, he described it as a kind of German/Japanese accent mix. Apparently, Brad Bird intended Lily Tomlin to be Edna's voice actor but she had a hard time speaking her lines with this accent and when Bird demonstrated it, Tomlin felt he had captured her voice so perfectly, she recommended him to be Edna instead.
• Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? : Edna was created expressly to avert this. Brad Bird wondered where supers got their suits, and didn't buy the idea that they made them on their own, so he made a character who designed suits with special tech included as an explanation, with the idea that this is a parallel industry to superheroics.
• The Wonka : She is undeniably brilliant, but equally eccentric and single-minded. Her gifts are solely aimed at designing uniforms for superheroes and she can design fabrics in her own workshop that can match any Super's powers.

"I don't care about their coverage, Bob! Don't tell me about their coverage! Tell me how you're keeping Insuricare in the black! Tell me how that's possible with you writing checks to every Harry Hardluck and Sally Sobstory that gives you a phone call!"

• Ambiguous Situation : Was Huph knowingly taunting the mugging victim after Bob said "he got away", or did he think Bob was referring to the mugging victim?
• Bad Boss : He shows he is just as indifferent to his employees as his client, as shown through a memo basically stating that all business expenses, such as electricity conception and office supplies, would be deducted from their paychecks and they'd be billed hourly for parking.
• Bandage Mummy : He ends up in a body cast after being thrown through several walls by an enraged Bob.
• Card-Carrying Villain : Of the lower key sort among a cast of super villains. He makes very clear to Bob that legal issues are the only thing preventing him from openly basking in what a con-job his company is designed to be.
• Clocks of Control : Huph is as heartless as he is fastidious (even stopping to readjust one of the pencils on his desk to keep them all arranged in a perfect row). While chewing Bob out (for caring more about helping clients than helping the company profit), he goes on a long tirade about how a good company is like a clock, and the employees are like cogs that all work together for one purpose. To sell it even further, one wall of his office is actually lined with clocks, all the same rounded-square shape and arranged in a perfect row.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive : Regardless of whether their clients' policy covers them, he only cares about Insuricare's profitability. During their meeting, he makes it clear he is mad with Bob's customers successfully "penetrating the bureaucracy" to get their insurance payouts. Bob: Are you saying that we shouldn't help our customers? Huph: (frustrated) The law requires that I answer "no".
• Depraved Dwarf : He stands at an extremely short height, and he is a greedy and abusive businessman.
• Establishing Character Moment : His first five seconds on-screen involve him brushing a weeping old lady (she was pretending, but there's no indication he knew that) out of his way so he can confront Bob. He then begins to chew him out on being a good Samaritan and damaging the company's profits, an apt summary of his opinion on him.
• Fatal Flaw : His Lack of Empathy and abuse of power shown when he prevents Bob from stopping the mugging leads to him being thrown through several office walls and ending up in a full body cast.
• Faux Affably Evil : When he's calm and composed, he can put up a somewhat cool façade, like when he talks about a company being like an enormous clock or when he says "Complaints, I can handle". But at his core, he's just a straight-up Jerkass .
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul : Even though Huph wears glasses, he's a calculating and greedy manager who serves as a foil to Bob's sense of justice.
• Greed : His obsession with money is why he is more concerned with earning more money than giving his clients the insurance they need.
• Hate Sink : He is a cruel, greedy insurance executive who actively discourages his workers from granting their clients' insurance claims; his only loyalty is to the stockholders and the profitability of Insuricare. He shows a complete Lack of Empathy for the civilian being mugged down in the street, preferring to exert his authority over Bob by preventing him from going to help. This makes his comeuppance at Bob's hand all the more deserving.
• Incoming Ham : His first line is yelling "PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARR!!!" at the top of his lungs while entering Bob's office.
• It's All About Me : All he cares about is helping his own people in his business, rather than others.
• Jerkass : Not only does he not think much of Bob, but he is greedy and willing to help his own people in his business as opposed to providing customers with the insurance they need.
• Jerkass Has a Point : Subverted. He does have a point that if Bob continues to give every customer insider knowledge of Insuricare, it'll eventually tank the company. But that's eclipsed by the fact that he very clearly doesn't care about anyone or anything besides making a profit.
• Kick the Dog : Him smiling and saying "Well, let's hope we don't cover him!" when learning that a man is getting mugged outside his window, then threatening to fire Bob if he leaves to help.
• Lack of Empathy : When Bob points out a man down on the street is getting mugged, Huph briefly looks over and notices what is going on outside. What does he say in response? "Well, let's hope we don't cover him!"
• Large Ham : He goes completely off the deep end when he figures out Bob has been letting his customers do an end-run around the bureaucracy. Not to mention it also comes with him being played by Wallace Shawn .
• Laser-Guided Amnesia : Implied . After Huph tells Rick about Bob's dismissal, Rick erased Huph's memories of Bob's super strength.
• Laser-Guided Karma : After forbidding Bob from helping a mugging victim, he gets a far worse beating than said victim. And to add salt to the wound, due to his implied Laser-Guided Amnesia , it's unlikely he'll be able to make an insurance claim for his injuries.
• Loophole Abuse : He uses this often to deny claims, and then worries when Bob's customers learn to turn this back on him.
• Mean Boss : Exaggerated . In addition to his greed and complete apathy towards his customers, he fiddles with an Insuricare memo which says that things like electricity consumption, phone charges, and even office supplies will be deducted from employee pay. It then goes on to thank employees for the most profitable year so far! Additionally, when Bob points out a man down on the street is getting mugged, Huph's hopes the company won't cover him and is glad that the mugger got away, so he could keep grilling Bob with words.
• Milking the Giant Cow : He does it with both hands when he tells Bob "We're supposed to help our people!"
• Mister Big : Huph is a fairly short man in comparison to Bob, who could easily wreck him in a physical fight (which he eventually does).
• The Napoleon : He clearly gets a buzz out of humiliating the extremely tall Bob and forcing him to comply with his authority.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat : He points out to Bob that his clients always exploit the loopholes that allow their claims to get paid and it drives him mad that they are "penetrating the bureaucracy".
• Smug Snake : It's made pretty evident how satisfying it feels to him to keep Bob on his leash by the way he orders him around. You know, before Bob responds by chucking him through several walls.
• The Sociopath : Though not on Syndrome's levels, Huph is still a greedy, selfish and arrogant man who's only concerned about money and refuses to help customers even when they desperately need help. When Bob tries to make him notice a man being mugged, his only concern is hoping that they don't cover him.
• The Unfettered : He will do anything to keep Insuricare profitable, even if it means threatening one of his own employees with termination if they try to stop a mugging.

• Action Survivor : Her first scene shows her to be rather ditzy, but she manages to stay alive despite being left alone for a long time with an uncontrollable, super-powered infant.
• Badly Battered Babysitter : She provides the page image AND page quote. It's only to be expected when your charge turns out to have multiple superpowers.
• Be Careful What You Wish For : At the end of her ordeal, she just wishes she could forget the whole thing. Rick Dicker obliges.
• Braces of Orthodontic Overkill : They don't look too bad, but they give her a terrible lisp.
• Break the Cutie : Poor girl had no idea what she was getting into.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer : She's scatterbrained and a Motor Mouth , but she's also an extremely competent babysitter. She's savvy and responsibile enough to immediately contact Elastigirl (or at least try to) when she notices that something is amiss about Jack-Jack, thinks quickly to douse him when his Playing with Fire abilities activate, and, over the course of the night, assembles everything she needs to deal with all of his Combo Platter Powers . Kari's only mistake is not verifying Syndrome's identity when he shows up as her "replacement," but at that point she's too exhausted to think clearly.
• Cassandra Truth : Her parents didn't believe her when she told them about Jack-Jack's powers. At least that saved The Men in Black another brain-wipe job.
• A Day in the Limelight : Kari's interaction with Jack-Jack and his new superpowers receives a lot of focus in the Pixar short Jack-Jack Attack .
• Determinator : Ditzy though she may be, she refuses to give up on Jack-Jack or leave him alone, apparently staying up all night and figuring out how to deal with each of his individual powers. Yes, she's exhausted and nearly driven insane by the situation, but she also recognizes that Jack-Jack is still a baby who needs to be taken care of.
• Exhaustion-Induced Idiocy : Kari believed Syndrome was the replacement babysitter and that the "S" on his supervillain costume really did mean "sitter". However, considering the fact that she had been dealing with Jack-Jack's erratic powers for the whole night to prevent him from destroying the house (and largely failing), she was so tired and desperate to get away from him that she took the first opportunity to hand him off and get out of there .
• Heroic Bystander : Oddly enough, Kari is ultimately the one responsible for Syndrome's defeat. By playing Mozart music for Jack-Jack, she unknowingly awakens his dormant superhuman abilities, which are later the only thing that keep Syndrome from successfully kidnapping the baby and lead to his demise, as his Evil Gloating after Jack-Jack escapes gives Mr. Incredible the opportunity to hurl a car at him and make him suffer a Cape Snag . If it wasn't for Kari, Syndrome would have won .
• Hero of Another Story : Her experience babysitting Jack-Jack, which is the focus of the Pixar short Jack-Jack Attack . It's about her dealing with Jack-Jack manifesting superpowers for the first time.
• Horrible Judge of Character : A downplayed example in that Kari was a nervous wreck after a sleepless night of dealing with Jack-Jack, but when Syndrome comes to the house in his supervillain costume , while stumbling over his words and telling Kari that his "S" stands for "sitter", she believes him and hands Jack-Jack over. Agent Dicker even lampshades this: Rick : And you believed him. Kari : The baby was exploding !! Have you ever sat an exploding baby before, Mr. Dicker?!
• Laser-Guided Amnesia : Agent Dicker uses a memory wipe machine to remove Kari's memory of the babysitting experience. Bonus points in that the machine uses a laser site to target the point on her head that the machine's electrode will attach to.
• Logical Weakness : Exploits several to deal with Jack-Jack- his fiery form can be extinguished, his lasers can be reflected by a mirror, and so on.
• Motor Mouth : When Elastigirl calls her to talk about her babysitting assignment, Elastigirl can barely get a word in edgewise over Kari's ramblings about her babysitting prowess.
• Noodle Implements : By morning, she's surrounded herself with an arsenal of tools she used to contain Jack-Jack, including a butterfly net, a bucket, a pair of tongs, a pair of oven mitts, a fire extinguisher, a mirror, a grappling hook, and a chainsaw.
• Seen It All : At the end of a very long night, she has a completely deadpan reaction to Jack-Jack bursting into flames and shooting at her with Eye Beams , being ready with the appropriate fire extinguisher and mirror .
• Sequel Non-Entity : She does not appear in the sequel at all, though she does feature in a deleted scene which was to be an alternate opening to the second film that focuses on her strange behavior after her memory of Jack-Jack was wiped by Rick Dicker and it's revealed that the memory-wipe of the experience wasn't completely full-proof, which is seen when Kari's eyes twitch in fear over just hearing Jack-Jack's name.
• Tempting Fate : "Don't you worry about one single thing, Mrs. Parr. I can totally handle anything this baby can dish out".
• Twitchy Eye : When saying the word 'baby' in 'babysitter'.
• What You Are in the Dark : Kari could have easily abandoned Jack-Jack when he started getting out of control with his powers—especially since Elastigirl wasn't returning any of her increasingly-frantic calls about the situation. But she stuck with Jack-Jack the whole night and didn't leave him alone until someone else showed up to take over the situation; granted, that someone else was Syndrome, but after the beating the poor girl took, can you blame her for wanting to get out of Dodge?

Anthony "Tony" Rydinger

• Curtains Match the Windows : Tony is a brunet with brown eyes.
• Chick Magnet : A couple of girls greeted him in a flirty manner.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference : His hair goes from auburn in the first film to dark brown in the second. Likely to differentiate him from Elastigirl who also has a similar hair color.
• Family Business : Works part-time at his parents' diner, the Happy Platter.
• Flat Character : Since he mainly exists to be Violet's Satellite Love Interest , he doesn't have much screen time to develop much of a definitive character. However, he does appear to be a bit shy and a Nice Guy . The sequel does give us more information about him courtesy of Dicker looking him up; Dicker describes Tony as a nice kid who plays sports, plays music, and works part-time as a waiter at his parents' diner. But once again serves to develop Violet.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia : Subverted when Rick accidentally erases all his memories of Violet instead of just seeing her in costume without a mask. Dicker : It's not an exact science.
• Nice Guy : Once he figures out Violet's interested, he turns out to be friendly and polite to her. In the second film, he's even polite when Violet embarrasses herself by accidentally snorting water out through her nose, and at the end he does agree to go to the movies with Violet just because she asked him again, despite him not remembering the first time she asked him. When they finally go on their date, Violet's whole family shows up to take them and even though there's some teasing, Tony rolls with it and seems to like them.
• No Guy Wants an Amazon : Subverted. He runs away when he discovers Violet has superpowers. However, during his interrogation with Agent Dicker, he specifically says that he's secure enough in his masculinity to not be bothered by strong girls. He ran away simply because he was surprised and caught off-guard by the revelation of Violet being an illegal Superhero.
• Pretty Boy : Very much so; it's not hard to see why Violet's interested.
• Satellite Love Interest : He shows up in the beginning and the end of the film and mainly exists as Violet's crush. In fact, he only really exists to demonstrate Violet's character development. At the beginning of the film, she's too shy to even remain visible in his presence. At the end, she's able to talk with him and get a date while he's stammering nervously. In the sequel, we do learn more about him (he plays music and sports and works part-time as a waiter in his parents' diner) and he gets more screentime, but his character still serves mostly to develop Violet (in this case, her accepting responsibility to taking care of Jack-Jack and learning to protect her secret identity).
• You Don't Look Like You : Tony's character model is revamped in the sequel, with him gaining darker hair and more angular features compared to the first film.

• Beleaguered Bureaucrat : The years of the job (and dealing with Bob's antics in particular) have clearly gotten to Dicker, as shown in his gloomy, worn-out disposition.
• Boring, but Practical : Compared to the Incredibles' and Frozone's climactic battle with the Omnidroid, Dicker merely freezes all of Syndrome's assets and marks him for arrest, effectively ruining his plan to craft himself into a superhero far more than the Supers.
• Chekhov's Gunman : First appears during Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl's wedding, sitting next to Edna Mode.
• Cool Old Guy : Despite his deadpan, stoic attitude, Rick is an elderly Reasonable Authority Figure who does his best to help the Parrs against society's negative view on supers. He even admits his error when he accidentally wiped out Tony's memory of Violet which included the Friday night date they were planning on having, and sets the eventual re-establishment of their relationship by revealing Tony's background to Bob.
• Deadpan Snarker : With emphasis on 'deadpan'. Mr. Incredible: I'm fired, aren't I? Rick: Oh, ya think?
• Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist : How he dresses when he's clearing out his desk in the second movie.
• It Has Been an Honor : He invokes the trope to Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl after the Super Relocation Act is shut down and he can no longer assist them. Despite everything he assures them that it was his greatest honor to work alongside such fantastic people.
• Ink-Suit Actor : Rick's appearance, personality and mannerisms are all based off of those of his voice actor in the first movie, Bud Luckey, and those who have worked with Bud have stated that Rick is a dead-on caricature of him.
• Knight in Sour Armor : After telling Mr. Incredible that he's screwed up once too often and is on his own, Dicker immediately relents and offers to help him out for old times sake. As well, his commentary on the National Super Agency files has him comment that he hopes superheroes will be made legal again someday.
• Memory-Wiping Crew : He has a clunky looking device that can erase memories. He does this to Kari at the end of her short and to Tony Rydinger in the sequel, and a deleted scene shows him doing it to Mr. Huph after Mr. Incredible punches him through several walls.
• The Men in Black : He's part of the government agency that monitors and conceals the existence of superheroes.
• Mundane Solution : After Syndrome is outed as a supervillain, Dicker simply has his assets frozen and arrest warrants put out, instantly demolishing his organization.
• Perpetual Frowner : He mostly has a weary look on his face and rarely smiles. He is shown smiling during the wedding, but he's got every right to since things haven't gone bad.
• Perp Sweating : "Jack-Jack Attack!" shows he prefers the old-school, light-shining-in-face technique. This continues in the opening of the second film when he interrogates Tony.
• Reasonable Authority Figure : Dicker's complaints about having to fix Mr. Incredible's messes over and over again have merit. It's not that Rick doesn't care, it's that he realizes always jumping in with super-heroics isn't sustainable. As he says "Someone's always in trouble" but even though frustrated at Mr. Incredible's actions, he still offers to help Mr. Incredible just once more "for old times' sake". Later when Syndrome is revealed as a super-villain and terrorist, Rick takes the pragmatic action of immediately freezing all of his assets. He even admits his regret when Bob confronts him about accidentally wiping out Tony's entire memory of ever meeting Violet, including their date. In which Rick quickly reveals all of Tony's background and job life to Bob, setting the stage for Violet and Tony to reconnect.
• Seen It All : Agent Dicker has dealt professionally with supers and their associated weirdness for a long time. It's implied that he's had to deal with Mr. Incredible screwing up and blowing cover way more often than he'd care to admit. Mr. Incredible: I mean, what can I say, Rick? Rick: [without missing a beat] Nothing you haven't said before.
• Undying Loyalty : Dicker still helps out the Parrs after they went underground, paying to keep things quiet and relocating the family whenever Mr. Incredible blows his cover. Even when he has his job taken from him in the sequel, he is still firmly in support of Supers and their cause, and was able to reveal Tony's background to Bob before leaving.
• Vitriolic Best Buds : Though they're not best friends, it's clear that the casually snarky way that Rick and Mr. Incredible go back and forth with one another suggests that they are pretty close. Dicker even attended the Parrs' wedding, sitting in the front row with Edna and Gazerbeam. He could approach this as just another job and Mr. Incredible as an extraordinarily frustrating case to handle...but it's clear that he deeply respects Mr. Incredible.

    Rocky the Raccoon  A raccoon who hangs around the house Winston gives to the Parrs and serves as Jack-Jack's first nemesis. Their fight is the reason Mr. Incredible knows that Jack-Jack has superpowers.

• Amplified Animal Aptitude : He's a raccoon who managed to put up a better fight against Jack-Jack than Syndrome, the previous film's Big Bad .
• Animal Nemesis : Jack-Jack mistakes the raccoon for an actual thief leading to free-for-all scuffle in the backyard. Despite Jack-Jack's powers, the raccoon does a fair job of holding his own. Even after fleeing into the woods, we see that he later returns to continue to posture with Jack-Jack through the sliding glass door while Mr. Incredible is on the phone with Elastigirl.
• Badass Bystander : He's just a raccoon scavenging from the Parrs' trash can minding his own business, but Jack-Jack was watching a movie with an Obviously Evil robber and made a connection between the criminal's mask and the raccoon's eye markings. Being a baby, he was unable to realize that the markings did not make Rocky a criminal. However, once Jack-Jack takes heroic action against the "evil-doer", he finds that Rocky puts up a surprisingly good fight.
• Bit-Part Bad Guys : Downplayed in that Rocky has no relevance to the overall plot and only a few minutes of screentime in which he's less a "bad guy" and more "animal fighting over food". He exists solely to give Jack-Jack an opportunity to show off his plethora of superpowers to the audience and Mr. Incredible.
• The Cat Came Back : When Mr. Incredible runs out to the back yard to break up the fight, Rocky dashes to the edge of the yard to utter some angry chittering before vanishing into the night. However, moments later while Mr. Incredible is on the phone with Elastigirl, Jack-Jack and Rocky can be seen in the background standing off again through the sliding glass door.
• Combat Pragmatist : He uses the environment in his fight against Jack-Jack, like overturning the barbecue to make a makeshift smoke bomb.
• Shout-Out : He is obviously named for The Beatles song "Rocky Raccoon".

• All There in the Manual : His name is never said in the movie, but was revealed by official Pixar sources.
• Staring Kid : He first appears when Mr. Incredible lifts up his family's car in frustration, then comes back later when he thinks Mr. Incredible might do it again. He finally appears again after having watched the Parrs save Jack-Jack and defeat Syndrome.
• Ace Pilot : The deleted scene that showed him flying the plane demonstrates his skilled maneuvering, all while he's shouting for Syndrome to "Abort!" the missiles. He buys time for Elastigirl to protect the kids when Violet can't summon a shield big enough to protect everyone, leading to his death.
• Demoted to Extra : He was intended to play the role of a Sacrificial Lamb , to emphasize that Syndrome is a legitimate threat. However, Brad Bird realized that it was going to take too much screen time to establish him as character that the audience would feel for when he died. So, the pilot role was transferred onto Elastigirl and Snug becomes the go-to guy when she needs a plane, which saves his life.
• Mysterious Past : He and Elastigirl both got pilot training together, but the only hint that we have about it is the photo that Elastigirl looks at while talking to him on the phone.
• Secret-Keeper : He worked with Elastigirl back in the superhero days, and apparently owes her a favor big enough for her to ask to borrow one of his planes.

    Honey Best  Voiced by: Kimberly Adair Clark Other Languages Annie Milon (European French), Hélène Mondoux (Canadian French, first film), Nadia Paradis (Canadian French, second film)

"'Greater good?!' I am your wife! I am the greatest good you are ever gonna get!"

• All There in the Manual : Wanna see what Honey really looks like? Just take a look at her concept art!
• Large Ham : Her response to Frozone's "Where's My Super Suit?!" moment counts.
• Sassy Black Woman : She's a Black woman in the concept art, though she's never seen, and she always has a snarky remark up her sleeve.
• Skewed Priorities : She seems to be more annoyed than anything else by her husband's superheroics because they are inconvenient. In the first Incredibles , she cares more about a planned dinner than the city being saved. Frozone: The public is in danger! Honey: My evening's in danger!
• Trickster Girlfriend : Honey hides her husband's super suit so he'll have no choice but to take her to dinner without getting distracted by superheroics. She relents in time for Frozone to join the Parrs in destroying the Omnidroid.
• The Voice : She's only heard during an argument with her husband. In Incredibles 2 , it was originally planned for Honey to appear in person, but the writers decided it'd be funnier if she stayed just a voice.

"It's time to make some wrong things right."

• Ascended Fanboy : Having been a fan of superheroes since he was a child, he is active in reintroducing supers back into society and having the Super Registration Act repealed. He even manages to engage in his own act of heroism in the end by breaking everyone on the Everjust out of hypnosis.
• Big Good : Winston's actions and character are definitely good and noble, and he calls all the shots in the organization of the return of superheroes.
• Brother–Sister Team : Winston and his sister run DevTech , with Winston being The Face of the company, and Evelyn being the brains behind their tech.
• The Face : While Evelyn got the technical genius in the family, Winston got the social prowess. His skills at marketing are what made their company DevTech the worldwide conglomerate it is, and now he wants to use his talents to bring superheroes back.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling : Played with in their corporate roles. Evelyn seems like the Responsible to Winston's Foolish, as Evelyn's the one who comes up with the actual means to implement Winston's grand ideas. She also softly scolds him for his over-enthusiasm and childlike tendencies, and keeps business conversations on track from his tendency to get sidetracked. These roles are reversed once Evelyn is revealed as the Screenslaver, when her misplaced anger and bitterness towards superheroes (who she blames for their parents' tragic deaths) causes her to endanger lives to ensure they stay illegal. However, Winston is in turn responsible enough to go back and try to help save the innocent people caught up in Evelyn's scheme.
• Good Counterpart : Winston is a belated one to Buddy Pine/Syndrome. Like Buddy, Winston grew up being a fan of Supers and saw his life tragically subverted due to his relation to them. Buddy was rejected by Mr. Incredible after a botched attempt of becoming his sidekick, while Winston's parents died because his father preferred to call the supers (even though the Super Relocation Act was in effect) instead of the police and retreat to his safe room. Despite this, Winston grew up rather mentally balanced, using his wealth to try and support and bring superheroes back rather than trying to kill them all off like Syndrome did.
• Good Feels Good : A big proponent of this and one reason he adores the Supers.
• Honest Corporate Executive : He is completely genuine in wanting to restore superheroes to their former glory, is unaware of his sister's evil plan, and the second he finds out what she's done, he decides to risk his life to save the gathered world leaders and Supers rather than escape with Evelyn to safety.
• The Idealist : He honestly believes that the world would be a better place with Superheroes back in action, and has the means, motivation, and plan to make it happen.
• Ink-Suit Actor : Looks exactly like his voice actor.
• Manchild : Played with. His sister considers him as such, saying he conflates the time of supers with his time with his mother and father and that his zeal towards superheroes is a reflection of wanting some part of his parents back. However, he does maturely decide to risk his life to save those aboard the Everjust and aside from being a huge fanboy of superheroes, he really does not exhibit any manchild behaviors and instead functions as a really successful businessman.
• Morality Pet : Winston is probably the only person that Evelyn still cares about as, even though she thinks his idealism is childish , she still takes him with her when she escapes the Everjust instead of letting him die.
• Nice Guy : Not only is he genuine in wanting to restore the superheroes to their former glory, he is also a very fun and cool guy to be around.
• Non-Action Guy : He's a talker, not a fighter. He upgrades to Action Survivor when he decides to help stop Evelyn's plan.
• Nostalgia Filter : An In-Universe example. Evelyn accuses him of having this, equating the good times he had as a child with his parents to the presence of superheroes. He thinks if supers are back, things will be like when his parents were still alive. Frozone even identifies him as being nostalgic and suggests that Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl show up in their old superhero outfits instead of their new ones.
• Red Herring : His enthusiastic love of superheroes and the fact that he definitely has the resources to be a supervillain is done to imply that he could be the film's main antagonist. Nope, he's an honest man who genuinely wants to legalizes superheroes, and has no ill intentions. The same cannot be said of his sister, however.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money! : He gets Elastigirl the opportunity to openly fight crime in New Urbem despite Supers still being illegal because of his wealth or connections .
• Sharp-Dressed Man : Always dressed in a snazzy suit, befitting his image as operations head of one of the world's richest companies.
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing : His appearance suggests that he will be the Big Bad of Incredibles 2 . Not only is he a genuinely heroic character, but it turns out that his sister is the movie's Hidden Villain .
• Shut Up, Hannibal! : His response to Evelyn telling him that her taking him with her on her escape craft was For Your Own Good ? Winston : No. This is. [Jumps out of the escape ship and back onto the Everjust ]
• Sibling Yin-Yang : He's enthusiastic and immature but charismatic enough to be The Face for DevTech , while his sister is a laid-back genius who works behind the scenes to develop the tech that ensures their success. He wants to help return superheroes to the world, while Evelyn wants to permanently discredit them.
• The Social Expert : He is highly media savvy and uses his skills to meticulously design a media PR campaign around Elastigirl to improve the perception of superheroes among regular humans.
• Strong Family Resemblance : He looks just like his father, only younger and without the beard.
• Thin Chin of Sin : Subverted, as while he does have the facial feature and promotional art depicted him as looking sinister, he's a genuinely goodhearted and heroic person.
• Took a Level in Badass : For most of the movie, Winston is simply a very rich fan of superheroes who wants to make them legal again, but after discovering his sister's villainous plan, he does something heroic himself: he turns down the opportunity to escape, and instead breaks the screen hypnotizing the superheroes and ambassadors so they can escape.
• Uncle Pennybags : An eccentric billionaire who wants to make superheroes legal again and gives the Parrs one of his mansions when they go into business together. He's also a total sweetheart in person.
• What You Are in the Dark : He could have escaped the Everjust with Evelyn and no one would be any the wiser to what happened, but instead he chooses to return and save the civilians on board.
• Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like : He sued Mr. Incredible for stopping his suicide, which injured his neck.
• Driven to Suicide : His method of doing so was to jump from the roof of the tallest building he could find. As to why exactly he chose to do it... Well, it's never made clear.
• Never My Fault : He blames Mr. Incredible for causing his injuries and not letting him die when he tries to kill himself in a very public way in a city full of superheroes . Mr. Incredible was simply trying to save a man he thought was falling to his death.
• Small Role, Big Impact : He only has two scenes, but his lawsuit opened the doors for further lawsuits against the actions of superheroes which eventually led to the Super Relocation Act. Essentially, if not for his decision to sue, we wouldn't have a series.
• Ungrateful Bastard : Because he wanted to die, he was not appreciative of Mr. Incredible saving him and filed a lawsuit against him.

    Tommy  Voiced by: Robert Clotworthy

• The Driver : Shown driving Winston Deavor, and later Elastigirl.
• Nice Guy : Always very polite and comforting with his words.
• The Reliable One : He's well aware of Winston's plans to bring back Supers and successfully tracks down Frozone to deliver Winston's offer. He even takes having his feet being frozen to the ground in stride.
• Small Role, Big Impact : He has very little screen time, but his success in delivering Winston's offer of support to Frozone allowed the rest of the movie to unfold.

Chad Brentley

• Lantern Jaw of Justice : He has a long jaw and thick chin and is a media personality who seems interested in helping superheroes make a comeback.
• Nice Guy : He's polite to Elastigirl during both of her visits to his show. The second time, he also seems fine with talking about how he got hypnotized and embarrassed by the Screenslaver earlier in the film.
• Sharp-Dressed Man : As befitting a TV personality, he wears nice suits.

Bernie Kropp

• Cassandra Truth : He cannot convince the principal that Dash is putting tacks on his chair right at the moment he sits down, since the boy uses his super speed to get away with it. Even when he sets up a camera to record the prank as it happens, Dash is moving so fast that the camera can't catch him.
• Crazy-Prepared : Bernie set up a hidden camera in his classroom to catch Dash using his Super-Speed to pull a prank, but since the camera didn't record the act too well, it's all moot.
• Sanity Slippage : He's already showing signs of this by the time Helen visits the principal's office. When the principal lets the Parrs go due to lack of concrete evidence, Bernie completely loses it, screaming at the top of his lungs that Dash is guilty. Bernie : You're letting him go again?! He's guilty! You can see it on his smug little face! Guilty, I say! (angrily shaking the chair) Guilty, guilty, guilty!
• Thumbtack on the Chair : Was on the receiving end of one such prank by Dash, which he futilely tried to catch in the act. It didn't work.

Comics characters

• Ambiguously Jewish : Judging by his constant use of the word bubbeleh.
• Anime Hair : Has tall, spikey hair in your typical mad scientist style.
• Character Catchphrase : "Bubbeleh".
• Dark Is Not Evil : Has the stereotypical mad scientist appearance, but is a good guy.
• Distressed Dude : Downplayed. He's a male character who needs rescuing but he's hardly distressed.
• Mad Scientist : Appearance only.
• Miniature Senior Citizens : Seems to be quite a bit older than Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, and is only about as tall as Edna, maybe even shorter.
• Nerves of Steel : Is held hostage, continues to low-key insult and defy his capturers.
• Non-Action Guy : He delivers babies and seems to be an inventor, doesn't fight.
• Verbal Tic : The word bubbeleh is Yiddish for "little grandma" and is typically used as a term of endearment for older female relatives. Sunbright however uses this word for everyone, including someone he didn't immediately know the identity of (Mr. Incredible, at the time,) and Dash, a boy who could be no younger than eight and no older than ten.
• The Dragon : To Xerek in the comics as the head minion.
• Evil Redhead : Has red hair, and is an evil hypnotist.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual : Hypnotic ability channeled through them aside, the goggles were what ended up making her a villain to start with.
• Lotus-Eater Machine : Put Dash into one.

• The Bad Guy Wins : Thanks to the story being Cut Short , at the end of the comics, he successfully ruins the reputation of the Incredibles with no consequences whatsoever. Of course, there's also the fact that this is his actual superpower.
• Bald of Evil : Aging, bald head? Check. Big Bad ? Check.
• Big Bad : He's the main villain in the comics.
• Born Winner : A thorough villainous deconstruction of the trope. His superpower enabled him to be fortunate all his life, gaining wealth, power, and stature well into his old age, but the non-stop success eventually made him feel unfulfilled and hollow, since he never managed to achieve what he really wants in life and became disenchanted with the world. As such he becomes an Omnicidal Maniac and Death Seeker simply because life has nothing to offer him anymore.
• The Chessmaster : A cold and calculating one.
• Dating Catwoman : Was this for Elastigirl in the old days.
• Death Seeker : His ultimate goal is to bring the world down with him, having become tired of victory and his unnaturally long life
• Evil Old Folks : He's been alive for over 200 years thanks to his assorted experiments, but only looks the part after a climactic battle with Mr. Incredible years in the past.
• Green-Eyed Monster : He's driven to destroy Elastigirl's family life and superhero career because he can't have her to himself.
• The Man Behind the Man : Implied to be one to Syndrome or at least a good business partner.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child : Xerek's extended his life through machines siphoning off the lifeforce of others, having once killed a bunch of people born on a specific day to get such a recharge.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome : Before he aged up.
• Villainous Crush : One of his main goals was to win Elastigirl's heart.
• Yandere : Xerek has an unhealthy obsession towards Elastigirl, who had dated Xerek for a time but broke up upon learning of his villainous activities. Despite this, Xerek still pines for Elastigirl and seeks to prove that her current life as the wife of Mr. Incredible is a complete waste compared to being with him.
• Chekhov's Gunman : His de-evolution bomb.
• Starter Villain : Created explicitly as such for the comics.
• Badass Normal : She's not a super, but her lack of powers is more than made up for by her knowledge of chemistry and her golem minons.
• Big Bad : Of the first Comics arc.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing : She plays at being a nice homemaker... then tries to depower Elastigirl.
• Forced Transformation : Is turned into a monkey thanks to Futur10n 's devolver bomb.
• Mad Scientist : De-powering agents hidden in baked goods.
• The Man Behind the Monsters : The one behind the golems attacking the Parrs in the first arc.
• Pet the Dog : While she used them for her vendetta, she clearly loves her family and tries to keep her identity hidden from them.
• Stocking Filler : She wears fishnets.
• Took a Level in Kindness : After being turned into a monkey, she becomes a much better mother.
• Xanatos Gambit : Sends her golems to the mall to attack figuring the Parrs would be literally powerless to stop her. Instead only Mr. Incredible and Jack-Jack were.
• Badass Normal : Like mother, like son.
• Love Interest : To Violet.
• Put on a Bus : At the end of the first arc due to his family being put into witness protection. He shows up later in the series for an appearance.
• Redeeming Replacement : For his mom.
• Science Hero : With the use of his mom's potions, he fights the good fight.
• Took a Level in Badass : Goes from a regular teenager to a self-made super able to keep up with Violet.
• Calling the Old Man Out : After her Heel Realization , she confronts her father about how his criminal actions have hurt the one he tried to protect the most. Bulbox: Rose, how could you do this? Don’t you understand I did everything just to keep us together? Rose: I know, Dad. But to keep our family together, you were threatening to tear theirs apart. Everything we were doing…we were hurting people, good people. (looks to Violet) People who are my friends…or used to be. Violet: Still are. Rose: I couldn’t handle the drama club, because my whole life was playing a role. A role I didn’t feel right in. We have to change , Dad. We have to do what’s right. Even when it’s hard.
• Commonality Connection : Comes out of her shell when Violet reveals that she also has powers, with the two of them bonding over being the only ones who can really relate to each other.
• Daddy's Girl : Deeply cares for her father, being that he is her only family for much of the comic, which is why she assists him in his robberies. Even after she defects from him , when he sees her before he’s sent to jail, she promises to forgive him if he follows through on forming a clean slate after serving his time, hugs him, and says "I love you, Daddy".
• Evil Counterpart : Downplayed, as she’s more anti-villainous and only briefly serves as a full villain, but Rose is this to Violet. Both are shy teenage female Supers around the same age, with the name of a flower, and a father with super-strength. However, where Violet is a superhero with powers that are mostly defensive, Rose’s powers are largely offensive and she works for Bulbox, a villain.
• Logical Weakness : Her powers being based around sound means that earplugs are a vital defense against her, which both Violet and Bulbox use to their advantage.
• Make Some Noise : Her main power is to unleash sonic blasts, which can cause objects to break and enemies to be disoriented or dizzy. Her blasts can be used for means as subtle as breaking a lock without anyone noticing, or as loud as a full blast that leaves others unable to walk straight.
• Missing Mom : Throughout most of the comic, Rose’s mother is not seen. According to Rose, when she and her dad moved into their new home, her mom didn’t come with them and just left. It turns out that this was a lie, though, as Bulbox took the opportunity to leave while his wife was away visiting her sister, and changed both his and Rose’s last names. Rose and her mother are finally reunited at the end of the comic.
• Power Stereotype Flip : A shy girl who rarely speaks to others, with the powers to Make Some Noise .
• Secondary Color Nemesis : When she becomes an open henchman of her father, she dresses in green and white, contrasting with the Incredibles' red and black.
• Secret-Keeper : At the end of the comic, Violet trusts her enough to let her keep the secret of the Incredibles' identities without going through memory erasure.
• Shrinking Violet : Being a Mirror Character to Violet , she is this. One classmate states she "just doesn’t talk to anyone", and she often walks away silently when spoken to. She only opens up to Violet when she reveals that she’s also a Super.
• Arc Villain : Of "Secret Identities".
• Blackmail : Uses this against the whole family when he reveals that Rose knows their secret identities. He also threatens to tell the police about Violet's (unintentional) involvement with Rose disabling the security of places he planned to rob, potentially landing her in jail. It’s this trick that causes Rose to betray him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones : Every crime he did was so that he could support Rose, out of his wishes for her to have a better life. He doesn’t want to be separated from her and would do anything to avoid it, even flee from his wife and cover his tracks by changing surnames.
• Heel–Face Turn : Rose calling him out causes him to recognize that he can’t keep trying to escape the consequences of his crimes. He goes to jail without resistance, agrees to a memory erasing to forget the Incredibles’ secret identities, and promises to Rose that when he gets out of jail, he’ll really try to start fresh.
• Arc Villain : He serves as the main antagonist of the "Slow Burn" arc.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul : He wears glasses and is a bad guy.
• Freudian Excuse : He was once an ordinary watchmaker who had a quiet life. But all that changed when the world got louder and better technology was invented, putting his watch-making shop out of business. So Slow Burn set off to use the chaos people create against them.
• Non-Standard Character Design : Unlike half of the characters in the films and comics that have cartoony looks, Slow Burn stands out among them in having a very realistic appearance.
• Power Nullifier : His "jump-starter" gun, when put into reverse, completely erases Dash's super-speed .

Alternative Title(s): Incredibles 2 , The Incredibles Rise Of The Underminer , The Incredibles 1 , The Incredibles Syndrome

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Bomb Voyage is a French terrorist and supervillain in the universe of The Incredibles.

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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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Jason lee: buddy pine, syndrome.

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Mr. Incredible : I was wrong to treat you that way. I'm sorry...

Syndrome : See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it...

[Mr. Incredible throws a log at Syndrome, who dodges it and traps Mr. Incredible with his zero-point energy ray] 

Syndrome : Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it...

[to Mr. Incredible] 

Syndrome : Oh, no. Elastigirl? You married Elastigirl? Ho, ho, ho...

[sees the kids] 

Syndrome : Oh - and got biz-zay! It's a whole family of supers! Looks like I hit the jackpot! Oh, this is just too good!

Syndrome : [watching live news footage of the Omnidroid]  Huh? Huh? Oh, come on! You gotta admit, this is cool! Just like a movie: the robot will emerge dramatically, do some damage, throw some screaming people. And just when all hope is lost? Syndrome will save the day! I'll be a bigger hero than you ever were.

Mr. Incredible : You mean you killed off real heroes so that you could *pretend* to be one?

Syndrome : Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat *you*! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics anyone's ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can be superheroes. *Everyone* can be super! And when everyone's super...

[laughs maniacally] 

Syndrome : ...*no one* will be.

Syndrome : It's finally ready! You know, I went through quite a few supers to make it worthy to fight you, but man, it wasn't good enough! After you trashed the last one, I had to make some major modifications. Sure, it was difficult, but you are worth it. I mean, after all... I am your biggest fan.

Mr. Incredible : [recognizing that last line]  Buddy?

Syndrome : My name is not Buddy! And it's not Incrediboy, either. That ship has sailed. All I wanted was to help you. I only wanted to help, and what do you say to me?

Mr. Incredible : [Flashback]  Fly home, Buddy. I work alone.

Syndrome : It tore me apart. But I learned an important lesson. You can't count on anyone, especially your heroes.

[Helen's plane is targeted by Syndrome's missiles] 

Elastigirl : India-Golf-Niner-Niner transmitting in the blind guard, disengage, repeat, *disengage*.

[she releases anti-missile devices, begins evasive maneuvers] 

Elastigirl : Disengage, repeat, *disengage*!

Mr. Incredible : No! Call off the missiles, I'll do anything!

Syndrome : Too late! Fifteen years too late...

Elastigirl : Friendlies, at two-zero miles south-southwest of your position, angels ten, track east, disengage, over! Vi! You have to put a force field around the plane!

Violet : But you said we weren't supposed to use our powers!

Elastigirl : I know what I said! Listen to what I'm saying *now*! Disengage, repeat, *disengage*!

[missiles close in] 

Dash : [frightened]  Mom?

Elastigirl : *Violet*! Mayday, mayday, India-Golf-Niner-Niner is buddy spiked! Abort, abort, there are children aboard, say again, there are children aboard this plane!

Mr. Incredible : NO!

Elastigirl : [shouts]  Put a field around us, *now*!

Violet : [frightened]  But I've never done one that big before...!

Elastigirl : Violet, do it NOW! Abort, abort, abort!

[the missiles close in, Violet tries to create a force field but can't] 

Elastigirl : Abort abort abort!

[the missiles hit; Helen envelopes the children as the plane explodes around them] 

Mr. Incredible : Bomb Voyage.

Bomb Voyage : Monsieur Incroyable!

[Subtitles: Mr. Incredible...!] 

Buddy : And IncrediBoy!

Bomb Voyage : [not French, but with an accent]  IncrediBoy?

Buddy : Hey, hey! Aren't you curious about how I get around so fast? See? I have these rocket boots! They're made from...

Mr. Incredible : [cuts him off]  Go home, Buddy.

Buddy : What?

Mr. Incredible : Now.

Bomb Voyage : Petit naïf libe!

[Subtitles: Little oaf...!] 

Buddy : Can we talk?

[pulls Mr. Incredible off to the side] 

Buddy : You always, always say "Be true to yourself," but you never say which part of yourself to be true to! Well, I finally figured out who I am: I am your ward. IncrediBoy!

Mr. Incredible : And now, you have officially carried it too far, Buddy.

[grabs Bomb Voyage, who yells in surprise] 

Buddy : This is because I don't have powers, isn't it? Well, not every superhero has powers, you know. You can be super without them. I invented these.

[points to his rocket boots] 

Buddy : I can fly! Can you fly?

Mr. Incredible : Fly home, Buddy. I work alone.

Bomb Voyage : Et ton tenue est complètement ridicule!

[Subtitles: And your outfit is totally ridiculous!] 

Buddy : Can you just give me one chance? Look, I'll show you, I'll get the police!

[Buddy runs off and Bomb Voyage puts the bomb on the cape] 

Mr. Incredible : Buddy, no!

Buddy : It only take a second, really.

Mr. Incredible : No, STOP!

[He began to stop Buddy] 

Mr. Incredible : There's a bomb!

Buddy : Let go, you're wrecking my flight pattern.

Buddy : I can do this if you lets go!

Mr. Incredible : Will you just...?

Mr. Incredible : I'm trying to help! Stop!

Buddy : Let go of my cape!

[Mr. Incredible removes the bomb from the cape] 

Mirage : He's not weak, you know.

Syndrome : What?

Mirage : Valuing life is not weakness.

Syndrome : Oh, hey, look, look, if you're talking about what happened in the containment unit, I had everything under control.

Mirage : And disregarding it is not strength.

Syndrome : Look, I called his bluff, sweetheart, that's all. I knew he wouldn't have it in him to actually...

Mirage : [through her teeth]  Next time you gamble, bet *your own* life!

Syndrome : You, sir, truly are Mr. Incredible. You know, I was right to idolize you? I always knew you were tough, but tricking the probe by hiding under the bones of another super? Oh, MAN! I'm still geeking out about it!

[sigh] 

Syndrome : And then you just had to go and ruin the ride. I mean, Mr. Incredible calling for help?

[Mocking voice] 

Syndrome : Help me! Help me! Lame, lame, lame, lame, *lame*!

Syndrome : [Slams Mr. Incredible against the ground]  Am I good enough now?

[Slams him again] 

Syndrome : Who's super now? I'm Syndrome, your nemesis and...

[inadvertently throws Mr. Incredible out of sight] 

Syndrome : Oh, brilliant.

[the Incredibles enter their house to find Syndrome holding Jack-Jack. Syndrome paralyses them with his zero point energy] 

Syndrome : Shhh. The baby's sleeping.

[Syndrome gets up with Jack-Jack still in his arms, preparing to leave] 

Syndrome : You took away my future. I'm simply returning the favor. Oh, don't worry. I'll be a good mentor: supportive, encouraging...

[glares at Mr. Incredible] 

Syndrome : Everything you *weren't*. And in time, who knows? He might make a good sidekick.

Syndrome : [about his newest Omnidroid]  It's bigger. It's badder. Ladies and gentlemen, it's too much for Mr. Incredible!

[Watching news reports about his Omnidroids] 

Syndrome : Oh, come on! You gotta admit this is cool! Just like a movie! The robot will emerge dramatically, do some damage, throw some screaming people, and just when all hope is lost, *Syndrome* will save the day! I'll be a bigger hero than you ever were!

Syndrome : Whoa, whoa, whoa. Time out!

Syndrome : [after the plane is shot down]  Oh, you'll get over it. I seem to recall you prefer to..."work alone."

[laughs maniacally; Mr. Incredible tries to catch him, but Mirage pushes Syndrome out of the way and is captured] 

Mr. Incredible : Release me, now!

Syndrome : Or what?

Mr. Incredible : I'll crush her.

Syndrome : That sounds a little dark for you. Eh, go ahead.

[Mirage gasps] 

Mr. Incredible : It'll be easy, like breaking a toothpick.

Syndrome : [chuckles]  Show me.

[after a tense few moments, Mr. Incredible lets go of Mirage] 

Syndrome : I knew you couldn't do it. Even when you have nothing to lose! You're weak! And I've outgrown you.

Syndrome : This isn't the end of it! I will get your son eventually! I will get your son!

Mr. Incredible : No, you're that kid from the fan club. Brophy... Brody... Buddy! Buddy...

Buddy : My name is IncrediBoy.

Mr. Incredible : Look, I've been nice, I've stood for photos, signed every scrap of paper you pushed at me, but this...

Buddy : Oh, no, no, you don't have to worry about training me! I know all your moves, your crime-fighting style, favorite catchphrases, everything! I'm your number one fan!

[Mr. Incredible ejects him from the car, and speeds off] 

Syndrome : [during his fixed fight with the Omnidroid]  Somebody needs to teach this hunk of metal... a few manners!

Syndrome : Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey, time out! What have we here? Matching uniforms? Oh, no! Elastigirl?

[laughs] 

Syndrome : You married Elastigirl? Whoa! And got busy! It's a whole family of supers! Looks like I've hit the jackpot! Oh, this is just too good!

[Mr. Incredible is carrying Buddy by the arm to the police] 

Mr. Incredible : [to the officers]  Take this one home. And make sure his mother knows what he's been doing.

Buddy : [to Mr. Incredible]  I can help you. You're making a mist...

[the second policeman shoves Buddy in the police car] 

Mr. Incredible : The injured jumper. You sent paramedics?

Police Officer #1 : They've already picked him up.

Mr. Incredible : The blast in that building was caused by Bomb Voyage who I caught in the act of robbing the vault. Now, we might be able to nab him if we set up a perimeter.

Police Officer #2 : [to Mr. Incredible]  You mean he got away?

Mr. Incredible : Well, yeah.

[pointing to Buddy Pine in the police car] 

Mr. Incredible : Skippy here made sure of that.

Buddy : IncrediBoy!

Mr. Incredible : You're not affiliated with me!

[looks at his watch, clicking on a button so his car auto drives itself to pick him up] 

Mr. Incredible : Holy smokes I'm late. Uh, listen I got to be somewhere.

Police Officer #1 : What about Bomb Voyage?

[Mr. Incredible gets in his car] 

Mr. Incredible : Any other night, I'd go after him myself. But I really gotta go. But don't worry! We'll get him! Eventually!

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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.

• 1 The Incredibles
• 2.1 Early life
• 2.2 Following life
• 3 Jack-Jack Attack
• 4 Physical appearance
• 5.1 Weaponry and gadgets
• 6 Personality
• 7.1 Conception and creation
• 10.1 Posters
• 10.2 Promotional
• 10.3.1 The Incredibles
• 10.3.2 Jack-Jack Attack
• 11 References

The Incredibles [ ]

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 angrily 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 angrily told Buddy to leave, furiously 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. Having had enough of Buddy's carelessness, Mr. Incredible angrily hands him over to the police and furiously 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, vowing to return and get Jack-Jack. 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.

Biography [ ]

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 grounded 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 venomous 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 one of the secondary antagonists (alongside the Omnidroids ) of The Incredibles who is Syndrome's assistant during the super genocide plan . However, she has a change of heart after Syndrome appears to undervalue her life, and becomes an anti-heroine, helping the Incredibles defeat Syndrome.

• 1 Personality
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Personality [ ]

"Mirage" is a pseudonym; her real name is currently unknown. She 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. She speaks with an exotic accent, further increasing her allure.

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 honour, as she was clearly ill at ease with Syndrome opening fire on Elastigirl 's plane when they learned children were aboard, and all loyalties faded when Syndrome expressed no concern for her life when Mr. Incredible threatened to kill her and then mocked the man whose family he thought he had killed by calling him weak.

Physical appearance [ ]

Mirage is an attractive and tall, slim, tan-skinned woman with mid-length platinum-blonde hair that has bangs swept to the left side, and has green eyes. She has a penchant for expensive clothes; she sometimes wears earrings and also wears black high heeled shoes.

Biography [ ]

Mirage 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 . However, this is simply a ploy to lure him to an island to kill him. 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 jet and requests him to deactivate the allegedly defective Omnidroid v.8 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 a rejuvenated Mr. Incredible for a new mission. She greets him by 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 the dining room. This is in reality a trap where Syndrome and the upgraded Omnidroid v.9 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.

After Mr. Incredible is captured, having found out the true intentions of the two, Syndrome sends missiles to kill his wife and eldest two children, with Mirage being uncomfortable in response to hearing there are children aboard the plane. Mirage has to inform him that his family has died due to their cause. Mr. Incredible grabs Mirage and threatens to kill her if Syndrome doesn't let him free. Syndrome, thinking that he is bluffing, teases him to kill her. After a moment of silence, Mr. Incredible releases Mirage, to Syndrome's amusement. Mirage's expression shows even more uncertainty as she leaves the room, with Syndrome continuing 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 Mirage. Disgusted, she angrily tells him to bet his own life when he gambles again and storms off, leaving Syndrome confused.

The next morning, Mirage has decided to defect from Syndrome. After learning that Mr. Incredible's family had survived and made it to the island, she goes to free him. He nearly chokes her before she manages to say that they're alive, upon which he 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 been having an affair with her. Mr. Incredible uses Elastigirl's outstretched arm to roll her towards him to kiss her, and assures Elastigirl that he still loves her. 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." This allows the Incredibles to return to Metroville to foil Syndrome's plan for good.

After this, her fate is unknown, but Rick mentions that the agency has frozen all of Syndrome's assets.

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 [ ]

Lego the incredibles [ ].

Mirage appears in this game, having essentially the same role in the film, except Mr. Incredible does not choke her when she frees him.

Disney Infinity [ ]

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

• 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 evil employers.
• Her canonical fate after the first film is still unknown due to all printed media being rendered non-canon as of the release of Incredibles 2 .
• Despite her original voice actress Elizabeth Peña having a Spanish last name, and the ability to speak Spanish, she did not dub 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).
• Brad Bird has said that Mirage does not have superpowers.
• 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.
• Ironically, almost everything she says to Mr. Incredible during their meeting on the plane turns out to be or become the truth. For example, the Omnidroid's powers she lists are real and Syndrome loses control of the Omnidroid v.10.
• 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).
• Accessory to murder/manslaughter (wilful aiding in the murder of several superheroes).
• Terrorism (launching an attack on US soil).

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Syndrome (real name Buddy Pine ) is the main antagonist of the 2004 Disney • Pixar animated film The Incredibles . He originally wanted to be a sidekick to his then-idol Mr. Incredible . However, Mr. Incredible had no interest in such a concept and considered it risky behavior. Pine did not accept this and believed that Mr. Incredible (and superheroes in general) were now nothing remarkable. To take revenge on Mr. Incredible, he became a supervillain and devoted his life to his vendetta. He used his high intellect to manufacture high-tech weaponry, making tremendous amounts of money as an arms dealer and buying a private island. He then masterminded his plan to kill all superheroes through deploying all terrain killing machines known as Omnidroids. Should a Super defeat an Omnidroid, Syndrome would put his plan on hiatus to analyze what happened then later deploy upgraded models.

• 1.1 Development
• 1.2 Personality
• 1.3 Abilities
• 1.4 Weapons
• 2.1 The Incredibles
• 2.2 Jack-Jack Attack
• 2.3 Incredibles 2
• 3.1 Disney Infinity
• 3.2 LEGO The Incredibles
• 3.3 Disney Heroes: Battle Mode
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Background [ ]

Development [ ].

Originally, in the early drafts of the film's script, Syndrome was originally going to be featured as a minor villain, like Bomb Voyage in the prologue of the film. The film's main antagonist was originally supposed to be Xerek , who was to fulfill what became Syndrome's role in the finished version of the film: He was to call retired superheroes back to action to battle to death the Omnidroids and was the boss of Mirage . Syndrome's role in the film was small, only appearing in the original opening sequence.

However, when Brad Bird noticed that Syndrome was more popular for the film's producers, he deleted Xerek from the story and used Syndrome instead in what would have been Xerek's role if the film's story would have been left intact. Despite this, Xerek ended up being reintroduced in The Incredibles comic book series of Boom! Studios .

Personality [ ]

As a young Buddy Pine, the boy who would become Syndrome aspired to become a superhero and this goal led him to beg Mr. Incredible to hire him as a sidekick IncrediBoy. Sadly, after Bob categorically and justifiably refused to grant Buddy's favor, Buddy returned home in disgrace and rejected the righteous path. He had stopped idolizing Mr. Incredible and became embittered, eventually descending into megalomania. Based on his memories of the events in flashbacks and the fact he didn't remember Bomb Voyage's involvement in the incident, or that he (Buddy) caused the train accident as a result of his carelessness, Buddy only cared about fighting and beating up bad guys rather than actually protecting people. As a result, it's likely he was never truly hero material to begin with as he cared more about the glory rather than doing actual good deeds to make a difference.

Buddy was a technical genius and, even at an early age, could create wondrous gadgets to circumvent his lack of "super" powers. After his dismissal at the hands of Mr. Incredible, and the dissolution of classical superheroes, the young man turned his gifts towards evil, eventually killing several superheroes with his Omnidroids and various superweapons. He was a classical sociopath, caring not at all for the rules of society, and seeing it as his mission to make himself the world's ultimate hero through trickery and technology, and when he grew tired of that, to make superheroes entirely obsolete by selling his weapons to the highest bidder. Because "when everyone's super... no one will be."

Syndrome appeared to be driven at an early age for recognition and ego nourishment, which are normal traits for that of a child prodigy as seen by him trying to overcompensate for his lack of super abilities with his brainpower and technology. Perhaps even if Mr. Incredible had not rejected Buddy, he would have still descended into villainy (or simply become an anti-hero) as he proved of having no grasp on the terms of what it means to be a hero, which was shown when he still considered himself one despite having killed real heroes. To put it simply, Syndrome, having never been told he was special or could do great things, wished to remove the world of its specialties (specifically supers) by either eradicating them or turning them redundant with his technology, which made him a bit of a complex character as well.

Despite his evil personality, Syndrome is shown to have a comedic side, as he says that Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl "got busy" when he sees their children and he accidentally throws Mr. Incredible away while he reveals himself to his former idol. This also manfested through snark. When Mr. Incredible fears his wife and kids will be killed, Syndrome says "you said you work alone", making Mr. Incredible eat his words about the rejection.

Aside from being bitter and sociopathic, Syndrome was intensely sadistic as shown by how he taunted Mr. Incredible with his family's supposed death and a second time when he gloated to the family on how he would steal away Jack-Jack and turn him into a sidekick in a last-ditch attempt to spite Mr. Incredible.

Though it was years and his vindictiveness had completely absolved him, Syndrome did have a memory of why he respected Mr. Incredible and was visibly impressed when he tricked the probe by hiding behind the corpse of Gazerbeam while claiming "he truly was Mr. Incredible" and was "still geeking out about it."

Additionally, Syndrome was, in spite of his genius intellect, very short-sighted, not realizing the ramifications of his actions. He underestimated Mr. Incredible and his family multiple times due to their own innovativeness and intelligence, allowing them to escape him multiple times and stop him. His habit of not making contingencies in case his plans were foiled led to his eventual downfall and likely would have resulted in his arrest or demise even if he had succeeded in his goals due to governments being able to tie him to his illegal dealings. A perfect example of this was when his Omnidroid turned on him, as it had become aware that he could control the robot and acted accordingly, with Syndrome having no means of stopping his own creation from liberating itself from his control. Another was that he did not expect Jack-Jack to have powers, and was unprepared for Jack-Jack's shapeshifting and resistance to being kidnapped. His penchant for wearing capes also was a literally fatal flaw, as he did not remember or know that many supers had been killed through accidents involving their capes, leading to his demise when it sucked him into his jet's turbine.

Abilities [ ]

• Technology Engineering : Syndrome was a formidable foe when it came to building numerous advanced technologies and weapons, as he was also capable of becoming a successful weapons designer.

Weapons [ ]

• 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 explosive. Worn in 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.
• 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 them to solve any problem that they encounter; 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 different colored eyes (e.g., v.8 has a blue eye, v.10 has 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, with help from his family and friends, 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 suspended inside a powerful electric field and unable to escape due to large metal balls attached to their limbs. Violet Parr is the only known superhero who manages to escape the device, using her force field to counteract its effects.

Appearances [ ]

The incredibles [ ].

Buddy as a child.

As a young boy, Buddy was in his own words Mr. Incredible 's biggest fan, even wanting to become his sidekick IncrediBoy . Buddy is insistent on this and shows up in Mr. Incredible's car unexpectedly and tries to force this on his idol, but Mr. Incredible immediately ejects him from his car and speeds off as Buddy yells at him, begging him to wait. Later at night, as Mr. Incredible is facing Bomb Voyage , Buddy shows up with a pair of rocket boots to help him. He flies off to get the police, but he doesn't realize that Bomb Voyage had attached a bomb to his cape. Mr. Incredible has to release Voyage to save Buddy. Eventually, Mr. Incredible is angry at the boy for meddling in his affairs and had the police take him home and report his actions to his mother. Feeling hurt and betrayed, Buddy stops idolizing Mr. Incredible and hates him for his actions, even tearing off the huge poster he had of him on his wall in a fit of rage and began to descend into psychopathy and villainy.

Over the next 15 years, Buddy excelled in technological engineering and eventually became a weapons manufacturer. He amassed a large fortune inventing and selling weapons to various countries who paid handsomely for attaining those weapons that would allow them to gain respect. With his nearly endless wealth, Buddy transformed the isolated island of Nomanisan into his personal headquarters and hired an army of loyal enforcers and also Mirage, who became his right-hand woman and possible lover. Arming himself with some of his best inventions, Buddy created his new identity of "Syndrome" and wore his own superhero costume. Buddy then embarked on his lifelong quest to become a "real" superhero and exact revenge on Mr. Incredible for rejecting him. He at one point created the Omnidroid, a deadly battle robot that he hoped to one day use to kill Mr. Incredible. He also developed "Operation Kronos", a plan that involved the Omnidroid being sent to the mainland and wreaking havoc on the city in order for Buddy to reveal himself as Syndrome and defeat his own creation, thus becoming a superhero and basking in recognition. To perfect his creation and prevent any interference in his plan, Buddy had Mirage systematically track down various Golden-Age superheroes in hiding on the mainland and lure them to Nomanisan under the guise of the Omnidroid being on a rampage to study the tactics of each superhero. The Omnidroid succeeded in defeating and killing every superhero lured to the island and those who managed to defeat the Omnidroid would be lured a second time and killed by an improved model of the robot. The superhero Gazerbeam , however, was able to somehow infiltrate Syndrome's headquarters, hack his computer and learn the computer's password: "Kronos", allowing him to figure out Syndrome's plan. Unfortunately, Gazerbeam was eventually mortally wounded by an improved Omnidroid after he defeated the previous model. Unbeknownst to Syndrome, in his dying moments, Gazerbeam managed to carve Syndrome's password on the wall of a cave with his laser vision for someone else to eventually find.

Shortly after this, Mirage was sent to track down the hero Frozone and presumably lure him to the island to face the Omnidroid v.8 . Instead, she was able to learn of Mr. Incredible's location after witnessing him and Frozone save people from a burning building and escape the police. With this new information, the plans for Frozone were abandoned and Syndrome had Mirage lure Mr. Incredible to the island to face the Omnidroid, which he agreed to do after losing his job.

Mr. Incredible is able to defeat the Omnidroid v.8, leading to Buddy building another, more powerful unit, the Omnidroid v.9 . The robot easily defeats Mr. Incredible and Buddy arrives, revealing his identity as the latter is shocked that it is his former fanboy. Buddy declares himself to be Bob's nemesis and better, " Syndrome ." Syndrome discusses his past and reveals how he got rich before Mr. Incredible tries to attack him. Syndrome immobilizes him with his zero-point energy invention, remarking on his attempt to trick him into monologuing, and, in a fit of rage, accidentally tosses Mr. Incredible over a cliff with his invention, making the hero land in a river. After tossing a bomb into the water, Syndrome sends a robot probe after him to confirm the kill, but Mr. Incredible manages to trick the probe by hiding behind the corpse of Gazerbeam.

Mr. Incredible later sneaks into Syndrome's hideout, infiltrates his computer and discovers that he has systematically killed nearly all of his Golden-Age superhero friends and also the elements of Syndrome's master plan: Operation Kronos. Syndrome planned to release the final model of the Omnidroid on the mainland. Unfortunately, due to a tracking device, Mr. Incredible is caught by a high-security trap and held in a torture device. When Syndrome finds out that a government aircraft is coming to the island, he assumes his prisoner has called for reinforcements. When Mr. Incredible denies any involvement but inadvertently reveals that he knows the occupants on board, Syndrome is amused and sends missiles to destroy the plane anyway, not knowing that it was, in fact, the Parr Family.

Even though the missiles hit their mark, the family survives and swims to the island, but Mr. Incredible thinks his family had been killed. After Mirage tells Syndrome the target was destroyed, he mocks Mr. Incredible, telling him he will get over it since he recalls that Mr. Incredible prefers to "work alone". In a fit of rage, Mr. Incredible lunges toward Syndrome, only to capture Mirage since she pushed Syndrome out of the way to save his life. Mr. Incredible angrily orders Syndrome to release him or he will crush Mirage. Syndrome comments on how uncharacteristically dark that sounds for Mr. Incredible, but dares him to do it. Upon releasing Mirage, Syndrome tells Mr. Incredible he knew he could not do it, even with nothing to lose, denouncing him as "weak" and that he has outgrown him. Later, Mirage calls Syndrome out on his attitude, stating that valuing life is not weakness and disregarding it is not strength. Syndrome assures Mirage he simply called his bluff and he already knew Mr. Incredible would never kill an enemy. Nonetheless, Mirage tells Syndrome to bet his own life next time he gambles and storms off in a huff, leaving Syndrome confused.

Later, Elastigirl breaks Mr. Incredible out of Syndrome's prison and they reunite with their children. Syndrome manages to recapture the family and is surprised that Mr. Incredible had a family with a fellow hero. He later reveals his plan which was to send his Omnidroid v.10 to wreck the city, after which he would arrive to stop it and look like a hero in the public's eyes, and when he has finished his run as a hero, he would sell his inventions so everyone can be superheroes, thus rendering the term Super meaningless.

However, when he arrives to defeat the robot with a special remote control, the Omnidroid (which has become self-aware like its predecessor before it) betrays and outsmarts him, knocking Syndrome's remote off his wrist and shooting at his rocket boots with a laser gun. With his rocket boots out of control, Syndrome crashes into a building and is knocked unconscious. He remains unconscious during the Incredibles' battle and awakes just as the robot is defeated spectacularly; destroying his plans of glory and revenge and infuriating him.

With his plans foiled, accounts frozen, and a warrant issued for his arrest, Syndrome breaks into the Incredibles' home and tries to kidnap their baby, Jack-Jack , to be his sidekick and protege, just as he had been denied in his youth. The family arrives just as he is preparing to leave, and he suspends them and slams them into a table. He then begins his trip to his hoverjet. However, Jack-Jack transforms into a mini-monster and disables his rocket boots. Syndrome gets back on his jet and starts yelling that their battle is not yet over and he will "get their son eventually!". However, as Syndrome laughs evilly, Mr. Incredible throws his prized sports car at the jet, knocking it off-balance and blasting Syndrome into the jet's left turbine. Syndrome's cape gets caught in the spinning blades (just as foreshadowed by Edna Mode ) and the evil genius is pulled in, resulting in the explosion of the plane. Syndrome is finally killed, ending his reign of terror on the Incredibles, as well Frozone, avenging Gazerbeam and the other supers he killed, and indicating that the battle was already over. Moreover, his death also prevents Jack-Jack from potentially becoming a supervillain.

Jack-Jack Attack [ ]

Syndrome was seen only during the end of Jack-Jack Attack , when he came to the door of the Parrs' home, claiming to be a replacement babysitter. In the mix, he lied that his 'S' symbol stood for "sitter" (also mentioned that he wanted initials for Baby Sitter, but he didn't want to go around wearing a big BS) and Kari (exhausted from babysitting Jack-Jack) believed him and left gratefully. This was when he attempted to kidnap Jack-Jack. Here he was shown for the second time without a mask.

Incredibles 2 [ ]

Due to his death, Syndrome doesn't appear in the sequel, but he is indirectly referenced by Bob Parr . He referenced that the jet blew up and took his suits and their old house with it, which was accidentally caused by Syndrome's death in the jet turbine.

However, he was seen in a storyboard that depicted Gazerbeam being fatally injured by one of the Omnidroids.

Video games [ ]

Disney infinity [ ].

Syndrome appears as a playable character in the Disney Infinity video game series. While the main antagonist of the Incredibles Play Set level (which is likely set in an alternate universe where he survived the events of the 1st film), he also made a major antagonistic role in the 3.0 level, Toy Box Takeover , where he stole the Magic Wand from Mickey Mouse (as well as Merlin's magic wand) and tried to control the Toy Box world with the other villains (most notably Davy Jones , Venom , and Darth Vader as level bosses and the other Marvel villains within his "Hero Eliminator" level). When confronted in his lair, he used the Sidekick feature to make five copies of himself. After he was defeated, Syndrome and the other villains were blasted far away by Merlin's magic.

LEGO The Incredibles [ ]

Syndrome and his past-self Incrediboy are playables in the LEGO The Incredibles game. Some scenes are the same as the first film with a few differences:

• Incrediboy arrived to help Mr. Incredible fight against Bomb Voyage like the first film's game console adaption. Except he is finally able to aid Mr. Incredible in defeating Bomb Voyage before calling the police, while unaware that Voyage managed to implant the bomb on his cape at his defeat.
• Incrediboy's hair is red instead of blond as it is in the film.
• After Mr. Incredible and Frozone defeat the first two Omnidroid tests, Syndrome's full appearance is seen.
• He uses a control pad to control Omnidroids instead of his control wrist.
• Syndrome's tragic past is cut from this game, where he instead accidentally throws his Omnidroid remote control pad.
• Syndrome survived at the end of the first film's chapter and he is instead beaten badly by the awakened superpowered Jack-Jack while attempting to kidnap the baby at home off-screen before the other Incredibles arrived there. As Syndrome surrenders, right before he goes into hiding, he advises the Incredibles to find a better babysitter, regarding how dangerous Jack-Jack has become. He can be later fought as a bonus boss where he is arrested.

Disney Heroes: Battle Mode [ ]

Syndrome appears in the game as one of the playable and unlockable characters of the Incredibles category, he can stun enemies with his powers and can use his drone to get close to the enemy and explode.

Gallery [ ]

• Syndrome was the second Pixar antagonist to die after Hopper in A Bug's Life .
• According to official sources, Syndrome is 25 years old, is 5'7", and weighs 185 lbs (83 kg). [1]
• In another instance of foreshadowing, as Incrediboy, Bomb Voyage placed a bomb on his cape before Mr. Incredible removed it leading to the string of events that brought down costumed superheroes in the first place.
• As a young boy, his hair was blond. However, as an adult, it is red. He could have either dyed it red or his hair could have naturally turned said color.
• In Jack-Jack Attack , his mask is not on and he still has his cape.
• Syndrome is a rare instance where a character's voice actor also played their younger self in a Disney film, another being Terk from Disney's Tarzan .
• 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, a reference to Syndrome's voice actor Jason Lee 's breakout character from Mallrats .
• In some novelizations, Syndrome's fate is not fully explained. Instead of being sucked by the propellers, it's described that after Mr. Incredible launched his car against the plane, Syndrome was left without his getaway vehicle. Then it is said that after that "anyone never heard anything about Syndrome again".
• As mentioned before, Syndrome was to be a minor antagonist in the original version of the film when Xerek was to be the main antagonist. In the original proposed opening sequence, Syndrome was to attack the Incredibles after learning from an agent of his that Mr. Incredible had recently moved into [the agent's] 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), break into the Incredible Family's home (the Incredibles used the last name "Smith" instead of "Parr" in these earlier drafts), disguise himself as a burglar and make enough noise to lure Bob to him, and then use 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 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. [2] It should be noted that in the proposed original prologue sequence of the film, it is clear that Syndrome and Mr. Incredible had already met and by their conversation, it is understood that they had already fought in the past on several occasions. Also, as a curiosity, Syndrome did not carry a layer, though it carries one in the finished film.
• His villain origin story is similar to the Silver Age version of Lex Luthor from DC Comics. Both characters were once lifelong fans of their respective superheroes (Mr. Incredible and Superman, respectively), until an incident caused them to resent their idols from then on.
• The manner of his death is similar to the character Gustav Graves from the film Die Another Day .
• Syndrome’s name and what he was doing (making himself seem like a superhero) is quite the same as hero syndrome, the act of causing emergencies and then getting involved in helping deal with them so as to gain attention.
• Syndrome serves as a dark parallel to Bob Parr/Mr Incredible. They both desire the glory of being a superhero. Bob's motivation was due of his sense of justice and desire to save people, Syndrome wants the praise and recognition. When the Super Relocation Act is passed, Bob continues to pursue the glory by illegally listening to the police scanner and helping out when he can. Syndrome, however, kills Supers to develop his Omnidroid which will be part of an elaborate Engineered Heroics scam that will bask in the glory without regards for those who may be hurt or killed as a result. Bob realizes his desire for the glory days has caused him to miss out on his family and apologizes, but Syndrome has no such realization. If Bob started to puts his excessive obsessions with glorifying the golden age of superheroes and seeking public recognition before his family, he would've ended up like Syndrome.
• He is also a darker reflection to Evelyn Deavor. Both initially like supers but eventually hate them due to a traumatic experience involving supers (Evelyn's father was killed by buglars when the supers failed to arrive due to the new law and Syndrome is rudely turned down by Mr. Incredible.) Both them also possess no superpowers, therefore making them ordinary humans; however, their great intelligence compensates for their lack of powers. Both of their goals involve getting revenge against supers (Evelyn wants to ban supers forever, Syndrome wants to kill all supers and render them obsolete with his technology.) But while Evelyn has some redeeming qualities (she cares for her family) Syndrome is far more despicable as he enjoys killing others, including children. Syndrome also has gone so far with his crimes he even captures Jack Jack. Thus, Syndrome is an example of what Evelyn would have become is she let her hatred of supers really consume her.

References [ ]

• ↑ Disney UK - The Incredibles - Syndrome
• ↑ The Incredibles Alternate Opening with Intro and Outro by director Brad Bird at YouTube

External links [ ]

• 2 Inside Out 2
• 3 Bradley Uppercrust III