The Incredibles

The Incredibles (2004)

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Corrected entry: When the plane is destroyed by rockets, Helen transforms herself into a parachute to save the kids from falling. So as they descend slowly into the sea she starts to talk to the kids, but after all that (which is 30-40 seconds after the rocket hit) finally the huge part of the plane falls into the ocean. What exactly is the destroyed plane doing in the air so long? Gravity surely works another way. This is obviously deliberately done for the drama.

Correction: Some of the debris from the aircraft will be impelled upwards, both by the warheads of the missiles and the exploding fuel tanks of the jet itself. This particular piece of the fuselage went up and then came down, in about the same time the parachuting family did.

Corrected entry: Whenever we see one or more of the Incredibles wearing a mask, when they blink their eyelids are black as if the mask covers their eyelids.

OL1V3R666

Correction: Considering the type of suits Edna Mode can make, is it really such a stretch that she can make masks that cover the eyelids as well? It does help camoflauge.

Corrected entry: When it shows the details for the Omnidroid in Mirage's video, it says Omnidroid 7. Later she calls it the Omnidroid 9000 at the briefing. Then when he is fighting the first Omnidroid, the side of the robot says Omnidroid 8. While the discrepancy between 7 and 8 can be explained, there is no reason that Mirage would screw up the production number and number format.

Correction: While the actual technical name of the machine is the Omnidroid 9000, possibly named for it's computer drive, or some other feature, it is not unlikley that they would put a separate number on each bot, so they would know easily which robot is which in the sequence-i.e. An Omnidroid 9000, and the eighth Omnidorid made. Meanwhile the 7 and 8 could just be because of old information still on the computer from the last super.

Corrected entry: When Mr. Incredible fights the Omnidroid, the robot cuts his suit near the shoulder. When Helen notices the stitching later on, the cut is now towards the elbow.

Correction: The cut is inflicted at mid-bicep level. The repair is also at mid-bicep level.

Corrected entry: When Mr. Incredible first fights the Omnidroid, his suit gets cut by the robot. What takes him so long to realize he needs to get it fixed. Assuming he took his suit to every "meeting" and used it for a job, he would have realized the cut and gotten it fixed sooner.

Correction: Mr. Incredible goes to exactly two meetings with his new employers and only wears the original suit to the first one. After the first job he uses the time normally spent at the Insuricare job to work out in the train yard, returning home at 5 so his wife doesn't notice anything different. Getting the cut fixed isn't emergent at all.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: When Bob cuts Dash's plate into pieces, the table isn't harmed at all, but Bob says, "First the car, now I gotta fix the table."

Correction: We don't SEE the table being harmed because of the things in the way, but in the next shot, the knife is quite stuck in the table as it's standing up by itself (as if it's been pushed deep into the table).

Gary O'Reilly

Corrected entry: As Mr. Incredible is scanning the files of the superheroes, the photos show them from 15 years earlier. However, Frozone's picture shows him with his goatee as he currently is, not clean-shaven as he was then.

Correction: As beards are not particularly difficult to grow and shave off, it's not unreasonable to think that Frozone might have had the beard at some point during his earlier career.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Helen is sneaking into Syndrome's headquarters she narrowly misses being hit by a pod/vehicle. Every other pod/vehicle has had people aboard, so the guards on duty in the pod would have seen that a super was in the building and they would have told Syndrome.

Correction: The guards wouldn't have warned anyone if they hadn't have seen her. They didn't have to pay attention to steer the vehicle. They were probably just talking to each other, not thinking anyone else was on the island but them, so they could have easily missed seeing her.

Mark English

Corrected entry: In the scene where Helen goes to the principal's office, she doesn't have the baby with her, but in the next scene, driving home with Dash, the baby is in the backseat.

Correction: This has already been corrected. Helen leaves the baby in the back seat while she goes into the school to talk to the principal. It's Helen's (rather severe) parenting mistake, not a movie mistake.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: The robot slashes Mr. Incredible's arm, leaving a big cut, but the cut doesn't bleed.

Correction: According to Syndrome's log of Supers' powers, one of Mr. Incredible's powers is resistance to physical injury. The cut breaks the suit but doesn't break his skin.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: In the scene in which Kari is reassuring Elastigirl that she can "totally handle anything this baby can dish out", Kari starts talking to Jack-Jack (as Elastigirl listens) and then the missile alert sounds. However, in the short "Jack-Jack Attack", the beeping starts earlier, while Kari is still talking to Jack-Jack, and Elastigirl hangs up more quickly.

Correction: This mistake compares the film to the short, thus making it an invalid movie mistake.

Corrected entry: When Mr. Incredible saves Mr. Sansweet, he puts his ear up to a wall, the wall explodes & Bomb Voyage walks out of the dust. Mr. Incredible then pushes a vault door away from him. There wasn't a vault door when the wall exploded.

Correction: The vault that was destroyed by Bomb Voyage was in another room. Mr. Incredible just heard the sound of the beeping bomb timer through the wall. The vault door was blown off its hinges, through the wall and onto Mr. Incredible.

Mark English

Corrected entry: Edna Moda Talked about a few heroes having accidents with capes. Most of them are in Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl wedding. Prohibition for superheroes occurs immediately after the wedding. Did all of them die in that short period of time? (none of them appeared in the list of superheroes defeated by the robot).

Correction: The law prohibiting supers did not take place immediately after the wedding, that was just when the law suit was filed. Court cases such as the one in the movie could take years to end. Not to mention the law suit filed by the passengers of the train and other law suits against other supers. Then Congress would have to pass the law prohibiting supers which could take at least a few more months or up to a year. Then they would have to create the organization to hide and monitor the super's activities. During that time the supers who had "wardrobe malfunctions" with the capes could have died. It's possible that Violet or even Dash could have been born during this time.

Mark English

Corrected entry: When Mr. incredible is driving wildly in the caravan after landing in it from the rocket, he eventually brakes for no reason other than to do the parallel parking joke. Surely he couldn't have known that the van would land exactly in that spot. There was no traffic crossing the path of the van either, so no reason for him to brake.

Correction: The van is moving extremely fast and they need to stop it so that they can get out to go after the Omnidroid. Hitting the brakes is the traditional method of doing this. Mr. Incredible was not planning on the van flipping. He just got lucky on the parallel parking bit.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Bob is in the "X-Men"-like computer room looking through the Omnidroids History, it is 23:07 (or 11:07PM). We know this as Syndrome tells us a little later that this was when the homing signal was set off meaning it would be night time at the Island Lair. There are 8 hours, 10 mins left to go on the countdown. Now back home it is day light due to the time difference, Elastagirl is at Edna's home. She goes home, packs, and then catches the plane. The whole fight is gone through and it's day time when they're in the sea. They swim to the island and it's night again. Now for this to happen, they would miss the launch of the rocket. But no, it goes off when they get into the cave, and the kids are left alone.

Graeme Chicken

Correction: Perhaps Mr Incredible's antics delayed the launch, maybe the incoming plane kept Syndrome too busy to get the launch ready, or perhaps there was another technical reason not seen in the movie. There are tons of possibilities.

Corrected entry: When Bob Finds the message in his briefcase about the Omnidroid, he switches it on and it says the Omnidroids name is the Omnidroid X7. But when Bob goes to the island as Mr Incredible, he fights the Omnidroid, and on it's side it has the digits 08, so it is the Omnidroid X8. But the next Omnidroid is the Omnidroid X10. I know Syndrome might have missed Omnidroid X9 out, but why?

Correction: The Omnidroid 08 was probaly not fully built when Mirage sent him the message. Also Omnidroid 09 wasn't missed out. When Mr Incredible meets Syndrome in the forest clearing Syndrome has the Omnidroid 09 with him which also attacks Mr Incredible a few times too.

Corrected entry: If the superheroes want to keep their identity secret, why do they go to Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible's wedding in their supersuits? (00:10:05)

Dr Wilson

Correction: It is possible that Bob and Helen have relationships with some heroes and NOT with their alter egos. Just because a hero shows up in hero form it does not they MUST have a connection to their identity. ie If Batman showed up to Barbra Gordon's wedding that implicates neither Bruce nor Batgirl as Batmans relationship with Commish Gordon is evident and provides the reasoning for Batman's appearence.

Serrabowler

Correction: This was actually before superheroes wanted to keep their identity secret.

That is not true. They had secret identities before Helen and Bob were married. In the newsreel, there is a woman that says something to the effect of, "It is time for the secret identities to be their only identities." The first correction is likely correct.

Corrected entry: On the island, Violet's pink headband just appears out of nowhere when she decides to wear her hair off of her face.

Correction: Edna could have made a headband for Violet that wasn't initially shown - don't forget, when the suits first appear, the masks aren't there, yet Helen has them with her in her bag. The headband might have been in the bag too, as Helen was packing the kid's suits until they stole them.

Corrected entry: When flying back to the city the only connection between the caravan and the plane/rocket is Elastigirl. Nevertheless they push a button inside the van to split the plane and release the caravan. That doesn't make sense because there is no cable connection to the plane and why would a radio transmitter be build into the caravan (using/making a standalone transmitter would be much easier)?

Correction: Splitting the rocket is not done to release the RV - it's done to deactivate it, to kill its engines and ensure that it drops harmlessly into the sea instead of flying unpiloted into the city where it would eventually crash and possibly injure or kill civilians.

Corrected entry: At the end, Bob throws Helen to catch the falling Jack-jack. After that, she transforms herself into a parachute. In the next shot, when Syndrome shouts down from the plane to Bob, "parachute/mom" disappears. But after the plane crashes, she is back again.

Correction: "Parachute/mom" doesn't disappear. You can see a bit of her suit faintly on the right side of the screen.

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Continuity mistake: When Lucius is putting aftershave on in front of the mirror, he hears the robot outside and runs to the window, leaving the bottle of aftershave on the desk with the lid off. He returns to open the drawer, and the lid is back on. (01:29:00)

Hamster

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Edna Mode: This is a hobo suit, darling, you can't be seen in it, I won't allow it! Years ago maybe, but now? Pheh!
Bob Parr: What do you mean? You designed it!
Edna Mode: I never look back, darling, it distracts from the now.

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Trivia: The two old men near the end, talking about it being "old school" are voiced by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two Walt Disney animators who worked on such classics as Bambi and Cinderella.

Jon Sandys

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Question: Can someone please explain to me what Violet says when she frees them from the prison? No matter how many times I see this movie, I still don't get it.

Brad

Chosen answer: She says "Well, I think Dad has made excellent progress today, but I think it's time we wind down now". It's a joke, pretending to be winding down a counselling session, based on the fact that her father has been baring his soul a bit while imprisoned.

Tailkinker

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