The Incredibles/Characters

The Parrs/Incredibles

Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible

Mr. Incredible is a super-hero from the Golden Age. He marries Elastigirl and accidentally starts the "Supers Relocation Program" to force all Supers to keep their secret identities to themselves.

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• Badass:
  • Badass Abnormal
  • Badass Family
  • Badass in Distress: As Syndrome's prisoner.
  • Retired Badass: For a while.
• Battle Couple: With Helen.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome
• Genius Bruiser
• Glory Days: He wants to be a super again.
• Happily Married
• Heroes Want Redheads: He's married to a Red Headed Heroine.
• Hot Dad
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The Huge Guy to Helen's Tiny Girl.
• Improbable Weapon User: He takes out a mook with a coconut.
• In Harm's Way
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: You bet.
• Meaningful Name: Drop an R from his last name and he's Bob Average.
• Made of Iron/Nigh Invulnerable: Survives being crushed by a bank vault door, falling several stories, and being hit by a train all in one scene.
• Neck Lift: Rare heroic examples.
  • Though he was on the precipice of a Despair Event Horizon...
• Old Superhero
• Papa Wolf
• Religious Bruiser: He was married in a Christian ceremony.
• Smarter Than You Look: You'd expect him to be the Dumb Muscle. You'd be wrong.
• Super Senses: Although we only see it once in the movie.
• Super Strength
• Team Dad
• Top-Heavy Guy

Helen Parr/Elastigirl

Mr. Incredible's wife, Helen Parr is the mother of three children. Ever since the government forced her to stop being Elastigirl, she has problems getting her family of supers to fit in.

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• Action Mom
• Baby Got Back
• Badass:
  • Badass Abnormal
  • Badass Family
  • Retired Badass: For a while.
• Battle Couple: With Bob.
• Closer to Earth: She copes with not being a super hero much more than Bob does.
• Fiery Redhead
• Happily Married: While her relationship with Bob has hit it's rough patches, when all is said and done they are indeed a happy couple.
• Hartman Hips
• Home, Sweet Home
• Hot Mom
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The Tiny Girl to Bob's Huge Guy.
• Mama Bear
• Red Headed Heroine
• Rubber Woman
• Super Senses: At the very least she can see very small objects from across the room (very small as in "crumb of rubble from Bob's latest escapade").
• Team Mom: A literal example, too!
• Thigh-High Boots

Dash Parr

The middle child of the Parr family. He has super-speed powers and gets in trouble in school because he wants to play sports. His dad insists that competing in sports events would be cheating, even if he won by a little.

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• Annoying Younger Sibling: Thanks to being proud of his Super Speed, he loves to use it to be as big of a pain as possible.
• Badass:
  • Badass Abnormal
  • Badass Adorable
  • Badass Family
• Brother-Sister Team: With Violet.
• Cute Bruiser: Throwing punches at super speed certainly makes him one.
• Fragile Speedster: Very frail as one would expect form a kid, but is more than capable of going toe-to-toe with villains thanks to his speed.
• Keet
• Meaningful Name: Guess what super power Dash has.
• Super Speed

Violet Parr

The oldest child in the Parr family. Violet has a crush on popular student Tony Rydinger, but she is too shy to talk to him. She has the power to create force fields and turn invisible.

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• Adrenaline Makeover
• Badass:
  • Badass Abnormal
  • Badass Adorable
  • Badass Family
  • Little Miss Badass
  • Took a Level in Badass: It takes her a little while to fully master her powers and realize their full potential.
• Barrier Warrior
• Berserk Button: Dash insulting her about being shy to Tony Rydinger.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Acts a bit like this at the beginning, but she gets over it.
• Brother-Sister Team: With Dash.
• Character Development: In the ending, she goes from being shy to being outgoing and much happier.
• Cool Big Sis
• I Just Want to Be Normal: At first.
• Invisible Streaker: She can't turn her normal clothing invisible. However, her super suit fixes it.
• Peek-a-Bangs: At the beginning. As she gains more confidence in herself, she has gotten rid of it so we see BOTH her eyes.
• Shiny Midnight Black
• Shrinking Violet: Grows out of it somewhat.
  • Meaningful Name
• Stone Wall
• Thigh-High Boots

Jack-Jack

The youngest member of the Parr family, Jack-Jack has not learned how to talk and hasn't shown any signs of possessing super-powers.

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• Badass in Distress: You shouldn't have kidnapped him, Syndrome.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Goo-Goo Godlike
• Killer Rabbit
• Magic Pants: His diaper.
• Repetitive Name
• Superpower Lottery
• Walking Spoiler: Mainly regarding his role at the film's ending.

Other movie characters

Syndrome/Buddy Pine

• Big Bad
• Badass:
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Badass Cape: Subverted in that it ends up being the cause of his death.
  • Badass Normal: Has no superpowers whatsoever, and instead is a genius inventor who created all sorts of tools to assist in his plans.
  • Took a Level in Badass: He wasn't so competent as a child.
• Byronic Hero: A villainous example.
• The Chessmaster
• Complete Monster: About halfway through the film, he's crossed the line into this. By the end he's the most evil Pixar villain ever.
• Dangerously Genre Savvy: This, more than all of his minions and weapons, is what's most threatening about him.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The reason why he commits genocide against supers and spends a good deal of the film doing all he can to piss off Mr. Incredible? He was turned away when he wanted to be his sidekick, which was done for his own safety.
• Evil Genius
• Evil Redhead: Overlaps with...
  • Fiery Redhead
• Face Heel Turn: Went from an obnoxious yet well-meaning fanboy of Mr. Incredible's to a criminal mastermind.
• From Nobody to Nightmare
• Gadgeteer Genius
• Hero-Killer: A lot of heroes.
• Hero Syndrome
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The cape he chose to wear for his costume gets caught in the turbine of his plane and he's sucked into it.
• I'm Your Biggest Fan
• Jerkass: Dear god. And this is pretty much the nicest thing you can say about the guy, too.
• Karmic Death: Is killed when the car his money let Mr. Incredible buy is thrown into his plane while he's threatening to return to take his revenge on them.
• Kick the Dog: A whole lot.
• Killed Off for Real
• Knight of Cerebus: While not exactly upbeat, the movie certainly takes a darker turn when he shows up.
• Large Ham: He's quite fond of his Evil Gloating.
• Lack of Empathy: Shows a disturbing amount when he's torturing Mr. Incredible, not only laughing when he finds out that his family are on board the plane that's being attacked, but when he tries to goad him into killing Mirage.
• Loony Fan: He started off as Mr. Incredible's ultra-obsessed fan. He later became his ultra-obsessed enemy.
• Mad Scientist
• Pet the Dog: Despite bordering on Complete Monster, the one decent thing he does in not simply kill Kari the babysitter in order to take Jack-Jack when he very well could have. Of course this moment doesn't appear in the actual film, while his numerous Kick the Dog moments do...
• Psychopathic Manchild: Despite being a ridiculously rich and intelligent man, he never mentally matured past childhood in regards to Mr. Incredible.
• Smug Snake
• The Sociopath
• The Team Wannabe
• Who's Laughing Now?: He was turned away by Mr. Incredible despite just wanting to help, giving him a grudge against natural superheroes. "See, now you respect me. Because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there a lot of people, whole countries, who want respect..."
  • Never mind that Bob turning him away wasn't out of malice or arrogance but for Buddy's own safety. The kid nearly got himself blown up, for crying out loud. Buddy, however, didn't see it that way, as you can tell from his flashback of Bob telling him this.

Mr. Gilbert Huph

• Blown Across the Room: More like thrown through a wall and several cubicles, but same difference. Not to say the jerk didn't deserve it though.
• Jerkass
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Vizzini.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: |Rex.
• Large Ham: Very prone to raising his voice.
• Made of Iron: Being tossed hard enough to where you go flying through several walls would potentially be enough to kill someone, but Mr. Huff survived, albeit in a full-body cast.
• Mean Boss: His entire role in the movie.
• The Napoleon
• Obstructive Bureaucrat
• One-Scene Wonder: Appears in only two scenes of the film, but due to his hammy tendencies and ludicrously assholish behavior, he tends to stick out rather well.
• Step Three: Profit: You'd think that a smarter business exec might at least consider that Parr's diligent efforts for deserving policy holders might attract many new customers when word of such good service spreads around.

Mirage

• Affair Hair: Subverted. Helen only thinks that this is what happened when she finds one of Mirage's hairs on Bob's super suit.
• Bond Girl
• Darkskinned Blonde
• Enemy Mine: She and Helen have a rocky relationship in the comics, but cooperate while facing Xerek.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She won't stoop to harming children.
• High Heel Face Turn
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Buddy risking her life haphazardly contributed to betraying him.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: We never see what happens to her in the movie, but in the BOOM comics she joins the government agency as a spy.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl

Lucius Best/Frozone

• An Ice Person
• Badass:
  • Badass Abnormal.
  • Retired Badass: For a while.
• Black Best Friend
• Large Ham: His "Where's My Super Suit?!" moment really does count.
• Never Heard That One Before
• Ride The Ice
• Samuel L. Jackson

Edna Mode

• Always Camp
• Bob Haircut
• Bunny Ears Lawyer
• Brainy Brunette
• Cool Old Lady
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: Don't brush off her warnings about wearing capes.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Voiced by the film's director, Brad Bird. Originally they hired Lily Tomlin, but at Bird's "demonstration" she laughed and said they didn't need her because he already had it down cold.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• The Fashionista: Fashion designer. She actually hates working for the fashion industry, though - in her opinion, compared to superheroes, supermodels make profoundly uninteresting subjects.
• Foreshadowing: She mentions how tons of heroes met their downfall due to capes. Guess what happens to Syndrome?
• Get A Hold Of Yourself, Helen!

"You are Elastigirl! Find him!"

• Impossibly Cool Clothes: She makes these.
  • Impractically Fancy Outfits: ...but not these.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Large Ham: She might be tiny, but the ham is enormous.
• Mad Artist: She's very excited about her work.
• Meganekko
• Miniature Senior Citizens: Brad Bird talks about how everything about her - her house, her furniture, the art on her walls, the people she spoke with - were designed to highlight the contrast between her tiny physical size and her forceful, overbearing personality. She might be tiny, but she thinks, talks and acts BIG.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Or, well, 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.

Kari

• Badly-Battered Babysitter: AND HOW.
• Break the Cutie
• Cassandra Truth: Her parents didn't believe her when she told them about Jack-Jack.
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Manages to stay alive despite being left alone for a long time with an uncontrollable, super-powered infant.
• Genius Ditz: She's one hell of a devoted babysitter. However, she meets her match in Jack-Jack.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: A literal example.
• Motor Mouth
• What the Hell, Hero?: She eagerly hands Jack-Jack over to Syndrome, who is a complete stranger to her. She later gets called out on this.

The Omnidroid

• Awesomeness By Analysis: It will take note of repeated tactics and devise a way to counter them.
• Dragon Ascendant
• Hero-Killer: That's what it was built for and how it was tested.
• Nigh Invulnerability: The only thing that can damage it is literally its own claws. An earlier version even survives being submerged in lava.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: The penultimate model had blue eyes, so the final and most dangerous production model has red.
• Took a Level in Badass: The first model to appear in the film is beaten by just Mr. Incredible, which apparently could have taken out all previous heroes. It took the whole Incredible family to beat the final product.

Superheroes killed by the Omnidroid

Superheroes killed by their capes

• Chekhov's Gun: These guys died when their capes snagged on things. Guess how Syndrome dies?
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Yeah.
• Deconstructed Trope: These guys serve to deconstruct the Badass Cape.
• Flight: Stratogirl.
• Friend to All Children: Thunderhead, apparently.
• Shock and Awe: Thunderhead.

Minor villains

Bomb Voyage

• French Jerk: Bomb Voyage.
• Gratuitous French: Guess. ^[1]
• Mad Bomber: Bomb Voyage, again.
• Monster Clown: Bomb Voyage. Sort of, he's actually supposed to be a French Mime, but they're similar enough to qualify.
• Punny Name: Bomb Voyage.

Underminer

• And the Adventure Continues...: His main purpose is to show that with the re-emergence of Superheroes, Supervillains are back in action as well.
• Big Bad: Of the spin-off game Rise of the Underminer.
• Killer Robot: Leads an army of these in Rise of the Underminer.
• Large Ham: He seems to be completely incapable of talking in an indoor voice.
• Mole Men: Apparent in his buck teeth, lack of visible eyes, short stature, and love for digging and underground bases.
• One-Scene Wonder: Only appears at the very end of the movie, but god DAMN if he isn't memorable.
• This Is a Drill: Emerges from beneath the earth in a humongous drilling machine.

Minor characters

Comics characters

Mezmerella

• Evil Redhead
• Goggles Do Something
• Hypnotic Eyes
• Lotus Eater Machine: Put Dash into one.
• Squishy Wizard

Xerek

• The Chessmaster
• Dating Catwoman: Was this for Elastigirl in the old days.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome: Before he was aged up.
• What Could Have Been: Was the villain of the movie in the original scripts but was replaced by Syndrome.

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1. ↑ Hint: he's the most common name under "Minor Villains."