Mr. Incredible

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Mr. Incredible
Close-up of Mr. Incredible
Publisher Dark Horse Comics/Pixar Animation Studios First appearance The Incredibles Created by Brad Bird
Characteristics Alter ego Robert "Bob" Parr Affiliations Incredible Family (co-leader and head of household), National Supers Agency (ties), Edna Mode (receives costumes and gadgets from her), Frozone (long-time friend), Mirage (ally), Insuricare (employment terminated), Syndrome (when deceived by Mirage) Notable aliases Mr. I, The Hero's Hero Abilities Superhuman strength and endurance, enhanced speed and senses, invulnerability

Robert "Bob" Parr (superhero name Mr. Incredible), is a fictional superhero with great strength introduced in Disney & Pixar motion picture The Incredibles. His strength is of such dimensions that he can single-handedly lift a semi-truck with little difficulty. He is still good friends with fellow "Super" Lucius Best a.k.a. Frozone, and married to fellow "Super" Elastigirl (Helen), now known as Mrs. Incredible. Together, he and Elastigirl have three kids: Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. After recent events, the whole family is able to openly save the world again in the traditional costumes and masks, but it took nearly losing everything for Incredible to realize just how important his family is, and has since considered the family to be his greatest adventure.

Contents 1 The movie 2 Character information 3 Personality 4 Events after the movie 4.1 Rise of The Underminer 4.2 Holiday Heroes 4.3 A Magic Kingdom Adventure 5 The Incredibile 6 Trivia

[edit] The movie

After being forced into retirement fifteen years ago due to "Supers" being outlawed, Mr. Incredible worked at an insurance company (Insuricare) under his real name, Bob. He found it boring and repeatedly told his honest customers how to get around the system to get the money they deserved. His boss, Gilbert Huph, finally fired him for it as well as a particularly nasty incident in which Parr threw Huph through four office walls.

At home later that night he found a package waiting for him. It was a proposal from a mysterious woman named Mirage to work for her and resume his life as a Super. Eager to relive his glory days and support his family, he agrees. While not in the shape that he was in his prime (he even popped his back in the process), he was still able to defeat a robot, the Omnidroid 9000, sent to stop him as his first mission. He soon worked himself back into shape over the several missions Mirage set up for him.

However, he slowly found out things are not as they seem. He finds a computer file showing the names of several Supers and their confirmed deaths by the Omnidroid. He is then captured by his true employer, Syndrome, who then plots to eliminate all the Supers so he can replace them using a fake attack, the Omnidroid, and its remote destruction, making Syndrome seem like a hero.

With help from Mirage and backup from Frozone, he and his family destroy the Omnidroid and manage to save Jack-Jack from Syndrome.

[edit] Character information

Mr. Incredible's primary superpower is super strength. He is seen bench-pressing locomotives and throwing boulders at speed, even in middle age; presumably his strength was even higher in his prime. This gives him a leaping ability of a few stories, with corresponding agility. He also has good swimming ability, though not as a separate power (he also doesn't hold his breath very well underwater and therefore has to cough for air upon surfacing).

The next most significant power is invulnerability. Mr. Incredible can withstand tremendous amounts of physical trauma, including multistory falls, the direct impact of a train, and breaking through brick walls. He can be cut, though, with very hard metals and a suitable amount of force.

His third and final power extremely sharp senses. This power is seen when Bomb Voyage is about to blow open the vault of a skyrise building; Mr. Incredible is able to hear the faint beeping of the bomb from the other side of a thick wall.

Mr. Incredible's chief drawbacks appear to be his mind.

No origin is given for him or his powers, and only very little backstory is told about him. It is presumed that his powers are a birth trait, as with all other explicitly-stated superpowers in the Incredibles Universe.

In the Operation Kronos database, Mr. Incredible was given a threat rating of 9.1, the highest rating of any of the Supers.

[edit] Personality

Mr. Incredible has joviality, generosity, and the ability to eat massive quantities (in fact, according to his NSA file, he once beat the late Thunderhead in an eating contest). He can be charming when needed, but also quite irritable.

He is not unintelligent, but displays distractability and a lack of foresight, sometimes leading to poor judgement. Significant vanity is a key element of the story, at least until the climax. In some instances he is portrayed as almost adolescent in his demeanor.

[edit] Events after the movie

[edit] Rise of The Underminer

In this video game, Mr. Incredible tells the family to evacuate the city (along with the rest of the citizens of Metroville) after they are surrounded by The Underminer's robots. After destroying the robots, Mr. Incredible and Frozone follow The Underminer underground and fight more robots along the way. When they access The Underminer's main computer, they learn that he plans to use a machine called the Magnomizer to make the surface world feel like his home. In order to stop the Magnomizer, they have to go through the Sludge Station. After fighting more robots and hard obstacles, they destroy a machine blocking their path and apparently do the same thing to a wall which reveals a snowy underground part. They go through it and enter a room where they encounter the Magnomizer Guardian and her robot minions. Mr. Incredible throws enough objects to make the Guardian go into overdrive and destroy the room. He and Frozone escape in time and take an elevator into the Magnomizer basement. They fight more robots and work their way up, but have to avoid falling from a trap staircase that they cross, and finally reach the top of the building, where the Magnomizer is. Mr. Incredible uses his strength to unscrew the bolts that hold the machine down while Frozone fends off the guard robots. After Incredible unsrews the last bolt, the building starts to self-destruct. Luckily, the heroes escape with a tank-like machine which falls all the way into a deep, dark pit. There, they fight more robots, whom the Crustodian, head of the Giant Robot Factory, had alerted of the heroes' presence in the Factory. Finally, the two reach the apparent main office, where the Crustodian is, and eventually defeat the Crustodian in battle and the Factory crumbles apart. The Crustodian starts to leave, and Frozone tells Mr. Incredible that there is no time to destroy it (which Incredible is obsessed with doing). They leave once the Crustodian disappears and take and elevator that leads to an underwater tower. They figure out that they are in a power impressure plant run by a robot named Dug, and that the water is braking through the crumbling plant! The two reach Dug (after battling difficult robots), who tells them that he did not intend to have the robots attack them, and he agrees to help them save some non-human scientists who are stranded somewhere else in the plant. Along the way, the heroes protect Dug from rouge robots over which Dug has no command and also lasers, lethal obstacles, and gaps. After all this, Dug opens the door to another elevator to allow Mr. Incredible and Frozone to rescue the scientists, but refuses to travel any further, leaving the heroes on their own. The heroes find the scientists and save them from being exterminated by rouge robots and lasers. After the heroes take these threats down, the scientists help them return to the surface and confront The Underminer, who shows off a giant machine. But first, the heroes must first more robots that The Underminer has for them, and after the duo defeats the robots, The Underminer returns with another machine. The heroes give damage to the machine but The Underminer returns to the bigger machine while the rest of the robots fall at the hands of the heroic duo. The Underminer returns to give damage to the heroes, but they give more damage to him than the other way around. When The Underminer returns to the smaller machine, he has run out of reinforcements and the rest of the Incredible Family returns to watch as the duo defeats him, the small machine goes haywire, takes off into the air, and crashes onto the big machine, creating a large explosion which presumably kills The Underminer, and the heroes escape the blast.

[edit] Holiday Heroes

In the short comic, The Incredibles in Holiday Heroes, he picks Mount Tiki Toki for a family vacation, but when the volcano on the island erupts, he, Helen (transformed into a water bowl), and Dash (who kicks at high speed) pick up some water from the ocean to save Lucius (who is desperately trying to freeze the lava) from being dehydrated by the extreme heat from the eruption. The episode forces the family to vacation somewhere else.

[edit] A Magic Kingdom Adventure

They choose Walt Disney World instead and are made Grand Marshalls for the Main Street Parade (much to the chagrin of both parents, as they wanted the family to maintain a low profile). While on a jungle cruise, Bob wrangles a crocodile to stop it from eating the boat, but Helen has to tell Bob that it was an animatronic, and later in the cruise, Bob spins the boat around to keep the local rain god from pouring down on the family. Later, in a runaway mine train ride, Bob grinds the train to a halt after hearing of a mine car full of volatile dynamite and and body-slams the car to pieces, but Helen reminds him that the dynamite was part of the ride. Unfortunately, the ride is taken out of commission indefinitely. Bob is shocked when he learns that a robot copy of Syndrome (as Mr. Incredible, he had sacrificed his very expensive sports car in order to ensure that Syndrome learned the hard way that a cape is a ticket to death) has taken Mickey and Minnie Mouse hostage. It is he who warns the others that the real Syndrome has grown in power. After he contacts Frozone and they get their super-suits from E, they search half of the resort and Bob is forced to tamper with another attraction—a windmill in the "it's a small world" attraction—when Jack-Jack gets stuck on it, and "over-corrects it 'a little'" (Helen, Vi, and Dash: "A little?") upon recovering him, making it (and the singing pitch) go too fast. In the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, Bob frees some animatronic pirates from their prison by prying the cell door loose ("Bob, you've done it again!"), but the robot Syndrome later reprograms all of the pirates to attack the family. After the robot Syndrome is congealed, and Mickey and Minnie are liberated, the family heads for the Enchanted Tiki Room (Helen wanted to go there first, but this area is unpopular with the others).

[edit] The Incredibile

The Incredibile (Mr. Incredible's car) is equipped with gadgets and locators that enable it to hover above the ground or drive into waters (making it a Multi-Environment Vehicle, or MEV), has an autodrive that tracks police chases and merge with them, and a tailoring mechanism that dresses Robert Parr with the super suit, turning him into Mr. Incredible. The silhouette of a newer version of the Incredibile for the entire family is seen in the ending credits just before the scrolling begins.

According to a Dorling Kindersley guidebook for the movie, the Incredibile is armed with an array of machine guns, micro-missiles, grappling cables, magnetic bombs, and torpedoes in the front, and caltrops, oil slicks, smoke pellets, rear-firing micro-missiles, and velocity suppressant in the rear, and has a bullet-, fire-, crush-, bomb-, and rocketproof windshield that is tinted to reduce glare. The family-friendly version may dispense rubber-eating nanobots as well.

The tires are equipped with a special tread that adjust traction. This allows the Incredibile to drive on any surface and at any speed. The tires are puncture-, fire-, and waterproof.

The Incredibile's force provided by a 2,000 lbf (9 kN) thrust, 36-cylinder turbo compression atomic engine. Incredibile has rocket turbine thrusters (one on each side) and a main solid propellant thruster. (The hood has a black lowercase "i" with a glowing red dot.)

The front passenger seat can eject unwelcome passengers.

The Incredibile can go undercover by transforming its exterior to resemble a stock car.

There is an instrument panel which enables Mr. Incredible to control all of the car's functions.

The Incredibile's radio acts as a tracking device to pursue other cars. The tracker has a few options. It can enter "Isolate Pursuit" mode, which locates the offender. It can enter "Merge Pursuit" mode, which causes Incredibile to take the quickest route available to the offender's position. And finally, it can enter "Engage Pursuit" mode, which causes the Incredibile to automatically follow the offender.

The Incredibile also has a reasonable rate of fuel consumption.

According to Mr. Incredible's file in National Supers Agency records, Mr. Incredible himself was very protective of the Incredibile. According to the movie guidebook, the Incredibile was the car that every Super dreamed of driving, and that the Incredibile was the closest thing to a sidekick that Mr. Incredible had before he became the family man that he is today.

[edit] Trivia

• Mr. Incredible's voice actors include:
  • Craig T. Nelson in the original English version
  • Victor Trujillo in the Latin American Spanish version
  • José Antonio Ceinos in the Castillian Spanish version
  • Markus-Maria Profitlich in the German version
  • Marc Alfos in the French version
  • Demetres Starovas in the Greek version
  • Scuja Imre in the Hungarian version
  • Adalberto Maria Merli in the Italian version
  • Piotr Fronczewski in the Polish version
  • Márcio Seixas in the Brazilian Portuguese version
  • Allan Svensson in the Swedish version
  • Shahrukh Khan in the Hindi version
  • For the Japanese dub, Mr. Incredible was Tomokazu Miura's first role as a seiyū.

• In A Magic Kingdom Adventure, Bob is played by Igor Sinyutin. However, Nelson does not provide the voice.

• A tip-of-the-hat to Superman where Mr. Incredible's wall has pictures of himself, most very similar to many of Superman's poses from the Golden Age era of comics.

• The blue suit (complete with domino mask) that Mr. Incredible wears to dinner with Mirage is a reference to The Spirit, Will Eisner's famous hero.

• Mr. Incredible's strength and invulnerability are reminiscent of the Thing, with a shade of Hulk: Incredible's strength has been known to increase with emotional stress.