50 Fun Facts About Incredibles 2

Which animal does baby Jack-Jack fight in the backyard in Incredibles 2, unleashing his new powers?

A raccoon gets the full force of Jack-Jack's newfound powers in the yard, at a point when the rest of the family still has no idea the baby has any.

Why did Disney ask cinemas to warn audiences before screenings of Incredibles 2?

Flashing lights risked seizures in viewers with photosensitive epilepsy, above all in Elastigirl's fight with the Screenslaver. A re-edited version with the strobing toned down was later released in the United Kingdom.

Which villain are the Parrs fighting as Incredibles 2 begins, exactly where the first film left off?

The Underminer robs a bank and escapes while the family saves city hall. The wreckage left by the battle turns the authorities against the heroes who fought him.

Which member of the Parr family got a new voice actor for Incredibles 2, fourteen years on?

Dash was recast because Spencer Fox, who voiced the speedy schoolboy in the first film, was in his twenties by then. Newcomer Huck Milner took over the part.

Which school subject baffles Bob when he tries to help his son with homework in Incredibles 2?

Math trips Bob up because the school now teaches a new method he never learned. It is one of several home-front trials he faces while Helen is out fighting crime.

Why does tycoon Winston pick Elastigirl over Mr. Incredible to front his campaign in Incredibles 2?

She causes less damage: Helen's rescues have wrecked the least property, which matters to a campaign built on winning back public trust. Bob is left at home, quietly envious.

Which Pixar short about a lonely mother's second chance at parenting played in cinemas before Incredibles 2?

Bao follows a Chinese-Canadian mother whose steamed bun comes to life, and it went on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Which actor, also Marvel's Nick Fury, voices the ice-making hero Frozone in Incredibles 2?

Samuel L. Jackson has voiced Frozone, real name Lucius Best, in both films. His other long-running parts include the Jedi Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequels.

Which family friend babysits Jack-Jack for an exhausted Bob in Incredibles 2?

Edna Mode is reluctant at first but warms to the baby once she sees how many powers he has, and she hands him back in a new suit packed with sensors.

Who is finally revealed as the real Screenslaver, the screen-hijacking villain of Incredibles 2?

Evelyn Deavor, the engineering brain of her brother's company, built the masked persona herself. Her name is a pun on the phrase "evil endeavor".

What does the Screenslaver clamp onto captured heroes in Incredibles 2 to keep them hypnotized?

Goggles keep the wearer hypnotized for as long as they stay on, which is how the villain turns Mr. Incredible, Frozone and a team of other supers against their own side.

Which film beat Incredibles 2 to both the Oscar and the Golden Globe for best animated feature?

Into the Spider-Verse, in full Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, took both prizes. The Parrs' sequel still won the National Board of Review's animated award and a Kids' Choice Award.

Whose memory of Violet does agent Rick Dicker wipe by mistake in Incredibles 2?

Tony Rydinger sees Violet unmasked in her supersuit, and a wipe meant to remove that one moment takes his whole memory of her, including the first date they had planned.

What is built into Elastigirl's new suit in Incredibles 2 so the public can watch her rescues?

A camera in the suit shows each rescue from the hero's side, the heart of Winston's plan to win back trust by letting people see how much she does for them.

Which aspiring super in Incredibles 2 is a young fan of Elastigirl with the power to create portals?

Voyd, whose real name is Karen, is voiced by Sophia Bush and belongs to a group of would-be heroes hoping to join the ranks of the famous supers.

Which Oscar winner for The Piano voices Helen Parr, alias Elastigirl, in Incredibles 2?

Holly Hunter came back as the stretching heroine, who takes the lead this time. The Alliance of Women Film Journalists named her Elastigirl the best animated female of the year.

What runaway vehicle does Elastigirl stop on her first mission for Winston in Incredibles 2?

A hovertrain crowded with passengers is sent out of control by the Screenslaver, and saving it gives Elastigirl her first brush with the film's villain.

Which Ratatouille director wrote and directed Incredibles 2, as he had the original film?

Brad Bird had the core idea while promoting the first film: the parents would swap roles, and the baby would reveal powers the family knew nothing about.

Which toy brand released a video game based on both films on the same day as Incredibles 2?

Lego The Incredibles makes players finish the events of the sequel first, and only then unlocks those of the original film.

Where does the homeless Parr family spend two weeks near the start of Incredibles 2?

A motel room is the last favor agent Rick Dicker can arrange before his program is shut down, and he warns the family they will be on their own after that.

How does Elastigirl's motorcycle in Incredibles 2, the Elasticycle, match her stretching power?

It splits in two and extends, then folds back into itself. Pixar's designers styled the bike on a 1960s café racer and had to keep that clean look through every change of shape.

Where does Violet leave her date at the end of Incredibles 2 as the family joins a police chase?

A movie theater is as far as the rearranged first date gets. Violet promises the boy she will be right back, then masks up with her family and goes after the criminals.

Who is under the mask when Elastigirl captures the supposed Screenslaver in Incredibles 2?

A pizza delivery driver, disoriented and with no idea how he got there, is all she finds. He was a hypnotized decoy, which leaves the true culprit free to strike again.

Which Better Call Saul star voices Winston, the superhero-loving telecom tycoon of Incredibles 2?

Bob Odenkirk plays Winston as an ardent fan who wants supers back in public life. The actor began his own career as a writer on Saturday Night Live.

Which Breaking Bad actor took over as government agent Rick Dicker in Incredibles 2?

Jonathan Banks, the fixer Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad, stepped in because the original voice of the weary agent had retired from acting in 2014.

What is the Screenslaver's real aim in sabotaging the summit of world leaders in Incredibles 2?

Keeping supers outlawed is the goal: the villain believes people have grown too dependent on heroes and would be safer learning to protect themselves.

Why is the Parrs' longtime suit designer offended by Elastigirl's new costume in Incredibles 2?

A rival designed it, as part of Winston's publicity campaign, and the family's own designer is upset to learn Helen has been made to wear another creator's work.

Which actor, the voice of Mack in Cars, plays the mole-like bank robber of Incredibles 2?

John Ratzenberger, best known as Cliff Clavin in the sitcom Cheers, has voiced characters in Pixar films ever since the studio's first feature in 1995.

Which composer of the TV series Lost wrote the jazzy orchestral score for Incredibles 2?

Michael Giacchino returned from the first film and recorded the final sessions with a 99-piece orchestra, its brass-heavy big band seated opposite the strings.

Which character, heard but never seen in Incredibles 2, is the wife of the hero Frozone?

Honey, voiced by Kimberly Adair Clark, knows all about her husband's superhero past but has little patience for his public-spirited ideals.

In Incredibles 2, how did Winston's father die while waiting for superheroes to answer his call?

Shot by burglars after the newly banned heroes Fironic and Gazerbeam failed to pick up his calls for help, he left a widow who then died of grief.

How is the captured Elastigirl stopped from stretching her way to freedom in Incredibles 2?

She is kept freezing cold in a chilled cell, because intense cold leaves her body too fragile to stretch.

How do the Parr children escape the hypnotized supers sent to capture them in Incredibles 2?

In Bob's old supercar, the Incredibile, the three children get clear, work out that their parents are in danger and stow away on the tycoon's yacht.

Which aspiring super in Incredibles 2 is an elderly man whose real name is Gus Burns?

Reflux, the old-timer among the would-be heroes, can vomit hot lava. He is voiced by Paul Eiding and is drawn out of hiding by Winston's campaign.

What is the name of the telecommunications company run by superhero fan Winston in Incredibles 2?

DevTech is run by Winston with his sister, and it bankrolls the secret missions that are recorded and broadcast to win back public trust in supers.

Which star of the sitcom Coach voices Bob Parr, alias Mr. Incredible, in Incredibles 2?

Craig T. Nelson won an Emmy as Hayden Fox in Coach and has voiced the super-strong father in both films, though another actor took the part in a spin-off video game.

Which later film finally overtook Incredibles 2 as the highest-grossing Pixar release?

Inside Out 2 took the record in 2024, six years after the Parrs' sequel had become the first animated film to earn more than $600 million in the United States and Canada.

Incredibles 2 swapped release dates with which Pixar film, losing a full year of production?

Toy Story 4 took the later date in a 2016 switch, because the superhero sequel was further along. Its director later said the lost year forced him to cut plotlines and ideas.

Only two films of 2018 out-earned Incredibles 2 in the US: Avengers: Infinity War and which other?

Black Panther and the Avengers sequel were the only releases ahead of it at home. Worldwide the Parrs' sequel took over $1.2 billion, the fourth-biggest total of 2018.

Incredibles 2 opened to $182.7 million in the US, smashing the animated record held by which film?

Finding Dory had held the record at $135.1 million. The Parrs' opening weekend alone beat the entire US runs of A Bug's Life, Cars 3 and The Good Dinosaur.

Which Get Out and Capote actress voices the tech-genius sister of tycoon Winston in Incredibles 2?

Catherine Keener, twice an Oscar nominee, plays the engineer behind the family firm's technology, a woman said never to have met a problem she could not solve.

Which Italian star of Blue Velvet voices the ambassador rescued by Elastigirl in Incredibles 2?

Isabella Rossellini plays Henrietta Selick, a foreign official who champions the supers' cause, and she voiced the same part again for the film's Italian dub.

In which city does Elastigirl first cross paths with the Screenslaver in Incredibles 2?

New Urbem is where Helen meets the hacker who hypnotizes people through any screen. Pixar's designers made the sequel's world far more urban than the first film's.

Which Disneyland Resort roller coaster became the Incredicoaster to tie in with Incredibles 2?

California Screamin' closed in January 2018 and reopened that June as the Incredicoaster, on which the Parrs chase an escaped Jack-Jack through the ride's tunnels.

Pixar modeled the headquarters of Winston's company in Incredibles 2 on a stack of what?

Poker chips were chosen to stand for the gamble the tycoon is taking with his campaign to bring supers back into public life.

Which director's idea of a set as a mousetrap shaped the Screenslaver's lair in Incredibles 2?

Alfred Hitchcock's notion guided the design, Pixar says, because the audience knows the villain is waiting in the shadows as the hero walks in.

The short shown before Incredibles 2 made which filmmaker the first woman to direct a Pixar short?

Domee Shi worked on her eight-minute film alone for two years before a crew joined her, and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Incredibles 2 is dedicated to which Pixar veteran, the original voice of agent Rick Dicker?

Bud Luckey died in February 2018, months before the release. One of Pixar's first animators, he is credited with creating and designing the cowboy Woody.

An episode of which 1960s adventure cartoon is briefly shown in a scene of Incredibles 2?

Jonny Quest, a Hanna-Barbera series that ran in prime time from 1964 to 1965, suits a film set in a retro-futuristic version of the 1960s.

Which Pixar in-joke code is spray-painted on a dumpster during the opening battle of Incredibles 2?

A113 is a classroom at the art school CalArts where the film's own director once studied, and the code turns up in almost every Pixar feature.