50 Fun Facts About The Incredibles

Who wrote and directed both The Incredibles and Incredibles 2?

He came to Pixar as its first outside director after his 1999 film The Iron Giant flopped, and he also directed Ratatouille in between the two Incredibles movies.

Which character is voiced by the writer-director of the films himself?

The voice began as a scratch track during storyboarding and stuck after several actresses failed to match it; the performance won an Annie Award for voice acting.

What is Helen Parr's superhero name?

Her stretching power was meant to symbolise how mothers get pulled in a million directions at once.

What are Violet Parr's superpowers?

Her long hair that hides her face was so hard to animate that it was only finished near the end of production.

Which Parr child has superhuman speed?

He discovers during the island chase that he can run across water without sinking.

What is Frozone's real name?

He was the best man at Bob and Helen's wedding, and his power depends on how much moisture is in the air around him.

Which actor voices Frozone?

The director wanted a voice that sounded distinctively cool for the character, and cast him in both films.

Who provides the voice of Bob Parr, a.k.a. Mr. Incredible?

He had never done a voice role before and recorded his lines over two years while starring in the TV drama The District.

Which Oscar-winning actress voices Helen Parr?

It was her first ever animated role, and it remained her only voice credit until a 2019 guest spot on Bless the Harts.

What is Syndrome's real name?

As a boy he called himself IncrediBoy and used rocket boots to compensate for having no powers of his own.

Which actor voices Syndrome?

The role was first offered to Jack Black, who turned it down thinking the character was one-dimensional and later regretted it.

Who composed the jazzy orchestral scores for both films?

The Incredibles was his first big feature and his first Pixar film; James Bond composer John Barry was the original first choice.

Sarah Vowell was cast as Violet after the director heard her on which public radio show?

The offer came out of the blue; the director called her immediately after hearing her voice on air.

In the first film, the Parrs live in a quiet suburb of which city?

The whole world is a retro-futuristic take on the 1960s, the future as imagined from that decade.

Syndrome's secret base is on which island?

Say it out loud: no man is an island. The base has its own monorail system and a large staff of guards.

What is Bob's boring day job at the start of the first film?

He gets fired after throwing his supervisor through several walls when he is stopped from helping a mugging victim.

Which actor voices Gilbert Huph, Bob's tiny and demeaning boss?

The same actor is also the voice of Rex the dinosaur in the Toy Story films.

Which item does Edna absolutely refuse to put on any super suit?

Her rant lists heroes who came to grief because of them, including one sucked into a jet turbine, and the same fate later befalls Syndrome.

Along with Animated Feature, in which other category did The Incredibles win an Oscar?

It was nominated for Original Screenplay and Sound Mixing too, giving it four nominations, the most for any film that season.

Which of these was a first for Pixar with The Incredibles?

Animating realistic skin, hair and clothing on so many people required brand-new technology, and animators filmed themselves walking to study human motion.

Which Pixar short played before The Incredibles in theaters?

The short was made by Bud Luckey, the animator who also voices agent Rick Dicker in the film.

Which short film played before Incredibles 2 in theaters?

The eight-minute short about a mother and a steamed bun that comes to life went on to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

Bao, shown with Incredibles 2, was the first Pixar short directed by whom?

Domee Shi wrote and directed it, drawing on growing up as an only child in Toronto; she later directed Turning Red.

In the short Jack-Jack Attack, what is the name of Jack-Jack's babysitter?

The short grew out of a scene cut from the feature and was made for the 2005 DVD release.

In Jack-Jack Attack, which composer's music does Kari play to give the baby 'neurological stimulation'?

The piece is the Rondo alla turca from Piano Sonata No. 11, and it triggers Jack-Jack's powers instead of calming him.

When Kari asks what the 'S' on Syndrome's costume stands for, what does he tell her?

He explains that if he called himself Babysitter his uniform would have to say BS, and no parent would take him seriously.

In Incredibles 2, who turns out to be the real Screenslaver?

She blames society's dependence on supers for her parents' deaths and wants heroes to stay outlawed forever.

Which comedy actor voices Winston Deavor, the superhero-loving telecom boss in Incredibles 2?

The Better Call Saul star was joined by another Breaking Bad alum, Jonathan Banks, who voices agent Rick Dicker.

Which actress voices Evelyn, DevTech's tech-genius designer, in Incredibles 2?

When the character wears the Screenslaver mask, the voice is actually provided by a different actor, Bill Wise.

Who replaced Spencer Fox as the voice of Dash in Incredibles 2?

The original Dash had aged out of the part during the fourteen-year gap, so a younger newcomer took over.

Which Breaking Bad actor took over the voice of government agent Rick Dicker in Incredibles 2?

Original voice Bud Luckey retired in 2014 and died in 2018, and the sequel is dedicated to his memory.

Roughly how much did Incredibles 2 gross worldwide?

It passed the entire run of the original film in about two weeks and was the fastest animated film to reach $1 billion at the time, in 46 days.

Incredibles 2 set an animated-film record with a US opening weekend of about how much?

That was more than the entire lifetime gross of A Bug's Life, Cars 3 or The Good Dinosaur.

How many years passed between the release of The Incredibles and Incredibles 2?

The sequel deliberately picks up right where the first film ended, so nobody aged and Jack-Jack is still a baby.

Incredibles 2 lost the Best Animated Feature Oscar to which film?

The same film also beat it at the Golden Globes, though Incredibles 2 did win the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie.

The box-office failure of which earlier film pushed Bird to pitch The Incredibles to Pixar?

He brought much of that film's crew with him to Pixar, forcing many 2D artists to switch to 3D for the first time.

Edna's round glasses, black bob and blunt manner are believed to be based on which Hollywood costume designer?

The director describes her as a mix of that designer and Q from the James Bond films, since she has to be an engineer as much as a stylist.

Edna's accent is a blend of which two nationalities?

The two countries were chosen because they are small yet powerful, famous for cameras, cars and design, just like the tiny designer who dominates any room.

What is the name of Mr. Incredible's gadget-packed car?

The kids escape in a refurbished version of it in Incredibles 2, and the family gives chase in it in the final scene.

Which Pixar good-luck charm voices the mole-like villain the Underminer?

He appears in the closing seconds of the first film declaring war on peace and happiness, then opens the sequel.

Which fruity flavor did Kellogg's promise in its Incredibles tie-in cereal, Pop-Tarts and fruit snacks?

Pringles also sold chips printed with the heroes and quotes from the film.

Which actress turned down the role of Edna, saying the director should voice her himself?

Another actress reportedly took home a tape of his scratch voice to rehearse, then returned a week later and told him to keep the part.

How did the director get young Spencer Fox to sound genuinely out of breath as Dash?

The trick was used for scenes like the jungle chase; the role was the young actor's feature film debut.

What is the name of Winston Deavor's luxury yacht where the summit is held in Incredibles 2?

The hypnotised heroes lock the ship on a collision course with the city, and the kids sneak aboard as stowaways.

What is the name of the teacher Dash keeps pranking with his super speed?

The teacher hides a camera in the classroom, but Dash moves too fast for it to catch him putting a tack on the stool.

What is the name of Violet's crush at school?

He is voiced by Michael Bird, the director's son, and their movie date is interrupted by a police chase at the end of the sequel.

Which legendary Japanese animator visited Pixar and called the film "a very adventurous thing"?

The director had nervously asked whether the reels made sense or were just 'American nonsense'.

In 2025 The Incredibles became the third Pixar film in the National Film Registry, after Toy Story and what?

The Library of Congress picks 25 films a year that it deems culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.

The films are set in a retro-futuristic version of which decade?

The director grew up on the comic books and spy films of that era, and the score was written to sound like the future as imagined back then.

Which sitcom did the director work on for eight seasons before making The Incredibles?

He also designed the character Sideshow Bob and directed the episode Krusty Gets Busted.