Incredibles 2

Bob: I've got to succeed! So she can succeed. So we can succeed!

Incredibles 2 is Pixar's twentieth film, and was released in 2018. It is an Immediate Sequel to The Incredibles, which was released 14 years prior.

Everyone’s favourite family of superheroes is back, but this time Helen is in the spotlight, leaving Bob at home with the kids to navigate the day-to-day heroics of "normal" life. It's a tough transition for everyone, made tougher by the fact that the family is still unaware of baby Jack-Jack's emerging superpowers. When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the family and Frozone must find a way to work together again — which is easier said than done, even when they're all Incredible.

A billionaire in charge of a massive tech company hatches a plan to make Supers legal again. Elastigirl must take down the Screenslaver, and in doing so, convince the public and lawmakers that Supers deserve to be legal. Meanwhile, Bob struggles to manage the kids, with all three having problems of their own.

For information on the DVD short Auntie Edna, see the Pixar Shorts page.

Tropes used in Incredibles 2 include:

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• Actionized Sequel: The first film had plenty of action sequences, but this film kicks them up a notch, due at least in part to the better CGI technology available after 14 years.
• Actually a Doombot: Elastigirl thought she defeated the Screenslaver after tracking the signal, but it turns out to be a decoy that the real Screenslaver had hypnotised to play the role.
• Adults Are Useless: Played with. While the adult Supers defy this trope normally, they play it straight when hypnotised. When only the kids remain free, it is up to them to rescue the others.
• Advertised Extra: Although Rocky the raccoon appears on posters and toys, in the film, he only appears in the scene where Jack-Jack fights him, and again briefly why Bob is on the phone with Helen.
• Aesop Amnesia: Despite Helen becoming supporting of her kids using their powers, after they were busted for intervening in the Underminer situation, she reneges on this.
• Alone with the Psycho: When Elastigirl is alone with Evelyn and gets her Eureka Moment, which prompts Evelyn to intervene and reveal herself to the audience as the real Screenslaver.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: When Bob secretly tries getting Violet and Tony back together, Violet's shoots water out of her nose when she sees Tony serving them. Bob hams it up to try and charm him, including complimenting the water even after learning it's tap. Later, the whole family drives the two of them to the movie theater, Bob claiming that they will be sitting on the other side of the theater. While Bob and Helen claim that they just wanted to watch a movie, Violet does not buy it.
• Ambiguous Time Period: Like with the first film, the line is blurred between a culture with 1960's sensibilities with that of modern, contemporary technology. Brad Bird has also stated that both films are not meant to be set in any specific time period.
• Amphibious Automobile: The Incredibile is already an extremely Cool Car, but it can turn into a boat when the passenger(s) needs to travel over water.
• Amplified Animal Aptitude: Downplayed. When Rocky the raccoon fight Jack-Jack, he is smart enough to counter the baby's Wreathed in Flames power with ash from a nearby barbecue.
• And the Adventure Continues...: The movie ends with the Parrs suiting up to go after a pair of robbers.
• Animal Nemesis: Rocky is one for Jack-Jack, who strikes up an enmity with the raccoon since he was scavenging in the Parrs' garbage can.
• Answer Cut:
  • In the Incredibile, when Dash wonders what he and Violet have to offer to oppose the villain, Jack-Jack makes himself known by showcasing his Reality Warper power.
  • Mr. Incredible, just after he broke free from hypnosis, wonders why the others talk about escape. His question of who they're escaping from is answered when the other mind-controlled Supers break into the room.
• Art Evolution: Expected from a CGI movie sequel released 14 years after the original. The character models have been given a makeover, yielding more detail in facial expressions, clothing texture and hair. The general aesthetics all look better.
• Ascended Extra:
  • Jack-Jack, who only appeared in a few scenes in the first movie, is now much more prominent and integral to the plot. While he's still a secondary character by virtue of being a baby, one of the plot threads of the movie is about his family dealing with his Combo-Platter Powers.
  • Tony Rydinger is now a prominent character in Violet's story arc. In the first film, he had only two scenes.
  • The Underminer gets his chance to shine after a brief, last-minute introduction at the end of the first film. He's still only an introductory villain, but he is seen in action when he manages to successfully rob the bank and make a clean escape.
• Ascended Fanboy: The new superheroes who emerge as a result of Elastigirl's growing popularity. Voyd is especially this, idolising Elastigirl and eventually getting a chance to directly help her against Evelyn.
• Badass Boast: Screenslaver announces, "Supers are no longer in control. I am."
• Badass Bystander: When Evelyn tells Winston to get on the escape jet, he refuses to let the Supers and ambassadors left behind on the EverJust die. He jumps off the plane, frees the Supers and ambassadors, and orders them to the back of the ship to be as far from the impact zone as possible.
• Badass Normal:
  • The raccoon, as seen during his fight with Jack-Jack. Rocky is just a normal woodland animal, while Jack-Jack won the Superpower Lottery, so their tussle shouldn't have been as even as it was.
  • The Screenslaver holds his own very well in their fight against Elastigirl without any powers, only using various hypnotic gadgets. The decoy Screenslaver is just a hypnotised pizza delivery guy, and the real Screenslaver, who also fits this trope, admits they were surprised at how well he fought back.
• Badly-Battered Babysitter:
  • He may be the biological parent, but it's something Bob hasn't done before. Bob had just started to get a handle on running the household when he learns of Jack-Jack's Combo-Platter Powers. Bob is unable to cope; while he isn't injured by anything Jack-Jack dished out, it exhausts Bob.
  • Downplayed with Edna. She has less problems with Jack-Jack and designs him a new super-suit with countermeasures for some of his most common transformations. The Auntie Edna short reveals that she had some difficulty pacifying Jack-Jack, but not nearly as much as Bob.
• Bad Mood As an Excuse: Played with. She becomes understandably livid when she learns Tony forgetting their date was caused by Dicker's memory wipe, done at her dad's request. Dash watches her ensuing tantrum and, befitting the naiveté of a 10-year-old boy, wonders aloud if her behaviour is somehow linked to her "having adolescence".
• Bait and Switch: When Winston talks to the three main Supers about putting heroes back into the spotlight, he appears at first to be building up to having Mr. Incredible as their public figure, only to choose Elastigirl as their best option.
• Bait and Switch Comment: When consoling her dad, Violet says "You're not good. You're super."
• Battle Trophy: After Screenslaver's arrest, Elastigirl is given his mask as a memento. It still has the hypno-goggles inside which controlled the decoy, and Evelyn uses them on Elastigirl once the Super figures out what's going on.
• Beam-O-War: During the battle on the superyacht, there is a quick tug of war between Reflux's lava and Frozone's ice. Frozone wins out and frees Reflux from the hypno-goggles.
• Beeping Computers: At the end of the Runaway Train action sequence, the brainwashed train conductor's monitor makes beeping sounds as the Screenslaver's message for Elastigirl appears.
• Beware the Superman: Not voluntarily, from the Supers' side. One part of Evelyn's plan is to have Supers appear to be bitter at the Super Relocation Act, and deliver a chilling New Era Speech on how they are not going to tolerate it anymore.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Frozone arrives in the nick of time to prevent the monorail from crashing while Bob and Elastigirl are busy with the Drill Tank.
  • The Parr children sneak on board the ship to save their parents. Jack-Jack uses his telekinesis powers to remove the mind control goggles from his mother, freeing her from Hypnosis and ultimately derailing Evelyn's plan. Violet and Dash come up with the plan to turn the boat from the outside, which, along with Frozone cushioning the buildings with ice, ends up stopping the boat in time to save everyone.
• Big Fancy House: Winston loans his spare mansion to the Parrs, which is gorgeous all over. It's spacious and tastefully furnished, with a customisable remote-controlled living room with fancy waterworks, a big yard, and a pool.
• Big No:
  • Dash when Jack-Jack becomes a giant version of himself and breaks his tracker.
  • The Big Bad when Elastigirl smashes the hypno-goggles that were on Frozone and Mr. Incredible.
• Big Yes: Edna, upon witnessing Jack-Jack's vast array of superpowers.
• Black Comedy: Elastigirl suffering hypoxia while on the plane with Evelyn. She sounds drunk and loopy, and her dialogue includes "I don't wanna die".
• Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: Played for Laughs, but downplayed since for the early part of Jack-Jack's fight with Rocky, the raccoon actually holds its own. It's only after Jack-Jack begins unleashing a wide variety of his superpowers that the raccoon realises it's in big trouble, and focuses on trying to get away.
• Blatant Lies:
  • Violet comes up with a clearly unbelievable story for Tony to explain why she was wearing a superhero costume. However, the lie turns out to be unnecessary, because Dicker wipes Tony's memories of her.
  • Bob tells Helen that he and the kids are fine on her first day away, when they're anything but.
• Bookends: Played with. The first movie has Bob "masking up" at the beginning in the Incredibile to become Mr. Incredible and it ends with the entire family "masking up" to take on the Underminer. The second film shifts right into that battle, and ends with the entire family again "masking up" in their new family-style Incredibile to fight crime. For bonus points, the first movie opens with Mr. Incredible pursuing robbers who are being chased by police in his Incredibile. The sequel ends the same way, only this time the whole family comes along for the ride.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • All of the supers except Dash, Violet and Jack-Jack become this under hypnosis, at the command of Evelyn.
  • The decoy Screenslaver is just some pizza delivery man that Evelyn hypnotised to be her fall guy because he was "surly" and her pizza was cold.
• Brick Joke:
  • When the Parrs first arrive at Winston's "spare" house, Bob is initially very impressed with the "water feature" when Dash plays around with the house's decorative indoor ponds. A few days later, when Bob is looking for the remote to his Incredibile, he falls into one of the decorative indoor ponds. After getting out, he mumbles "Stupid water feature!"
  • At the end of the credits, the Underminer's tunnel drilling machine emerges from the bottom of the screen and drives away.
• Broken Lever of Doom: When Bob fights with the Underminer inside his Drill Tank, he is thrown onto a control panel, severely bending a lever in the process. When Bob tries to stop the vehicle later, the lever snaps off and he watches helplessly as the machine digs its way to the surface, causing extensive collateral damage to the city before it is stopped.
• Building Swing: Elastigirl uses her elongated arms to swing from building to building, Spider-Man-style. She also does this to grab a helicopter in flight when rescuing the ambassador.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Provides the page image. Violet lashes out at her dad when she finds out that he asked Rick Dicker to wipe Tony's memory, which is why he forgot their date. She says she hates Supers, renounces hero work, tries to destroy her suit, and marches off in a rage. Bob tries to make things right by staging an interaction between Violet and Tony at his part-time job but only makes Violet feel worse. The two finally reconcile when Bob, exhausted from dealing with Jack-Jack, apologises to Violet for all that he put her through.
• The Cameo:
  • One morning, Dash is watching the Jonny Quest cartoon. The Quest Labs building is also seen, implying that that show is based on actual events, akin to the Bob cartoon.
  • Usher, a self-proclaimed Frozone fan, plays the chauffeur who gushes over him.
• Canon Marches On: The film leads off with fighting and defeating the Underminer and then goes into Elastigirl becoming the family breadwinner and Bob adapting to being a House Husband. It appears the comic adaptation and the Rise of the Underminer game are ignored in favour of only needing the audience to be familiar with the previous film and its short Jack-Jack Attack.
• Cardboard Box of Unemployment: Downplayed. During a phone call between Bob and Rick Dicker, the latter is putting things on his desk into a cardboard box.
• Carload of Cool Kids: The first time Helen takes the new Elasticycle out, one of these drives up beside her to cheer her on and sing her theme song.
• Cartesian Karma: When Elastigirl takes down the Screenslaver, he is arrested. He turns out to be a decoy who was an Unwitting Pawn that Evelyn used, and is actually an innocent pizza delivery guy.
• Casting Gag: The mayor of New Urbem is voiced by Barry Bostwick, who also played the bumbling mayor of New York City in Spin City.
• Catch a Falling Star:
  • Bob and Edna dive to catch Jack-Jack at different points but when Edna attempts to catch him, he uses his power to float and stop his fall mere inches above the floor.
  • Helen does this to both the Screenslaver and Evelyn.
• Character Development: In the first film, Bob admits that his family was his greatest adventure, and that he almost missed it. Here, he has to confront this directly. Helen is getting the spotlight as the more marketable hero and he has to spend time playing the stay at home dad. He turns out to be good at it and that he loves it, at least when he's not sleep deprived. Meanwhile, Helen learns the spotlight isn't that great and she'd rather have her previous roles as both a Super and mom.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • The Incredibile from the Glory Days is revealed to be intact and functional midway through the movie. Later, the kids use it to escape from the hypnotised Supers that have come to kidnap them.
  • In the first movie, the Incredibile was briefly shown to have a Hydro Pursuit setting, though it was never used then. When the kids escape in the vehicle, they use this setting to turn it into a boat so they can get aboard the ship.
  • The flare gun Elastigirl uses against Evelyn can be briefly seen moments before it pops out of the emergency kit.
• Chekhov's Skill:
  • Jack-Jack's ability to fire Eye Beams as an Equippable Ally. Violet uses him as this to fire at a hypnotised Screech, who had abducted Dash.
  • Jack-Jack displays telekinesis when he lifts and drops the lid on the trashcan that triggers his fight with the raccoon. This becomes important later when he uses this ability to dislodge the hypno-goggles from Elastigirl's eyes, freeing her from Evelyn's control.
• Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs: At breakfast, Bob pulls away Dash's sugar-coated cereal and gives him Fiber-O's to eat instead.
• Clothing Damage: The shoulder of Helen's outfit gets ripped as she frees her husband from hypnosis. Fortunately, her red Incredibles costume is immediately made available since the kids brought it.
• Combat Pragmatist: Evelyn gains a significant advantage over Elastigirl by bouncing her around the airplane cabin with erratic piloting. She also reduces the oxygen throughout the plane, causing Elastigirl to suffer from hypoxia, making it hard for her to fight back.
• Company Cross-References: The Pizza Planet Truck can be seen outside the building where Elastigirl captures and rescues the Screenslaver. The truck likely belonged to him considering Evelyn revealed the one she set up was a pizza delivery guy.
• Conspicuous Trenchcoat: Bob and Helen wear trench coats over their costumes to go to their night-time meeting with Winston. Violet is very suspicious.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: In the first film, Syndrome was bombastic, desperate to be the center of attention, and had a Bond-villain-like organisation. Evelyn is quieter and has a lower profile than Syndrome. Their motivations contrast significantly as well; Syndrome wishes to make everyone Super so actual Supers no longer stand out, while Evelyn wants Supers to stay in hiding so that mankind will stop relying on them.
• Cool Bike: The Elasticycle, which is capable of splitting in half, making it suited for Elastigirl's stretching ability. It's also powered by electric motors, so it accelerates even faster than a typical combustion-powered motorcycle.
• Cool Boat: Winston's hydrofoil, the EverJust, boasts several visually appealing features. It has a conference room, a kitchen, accomodation, and a jet, which is used by Evelyn in her attempted escape.
• Cool Car:
  • The Incredibile, which initially only appeared at the start of the first movie, comes back halfway through this movie.
  • In the last scene of the movie, the family wagon turns into a new-and-improved family-sized Incredibile.
• Cool Plane:
  • The EverJust has a small onboard private jet that Evelyn uses to make her escape. DevTech also has some pretty slick-looking corporate jets that Winston uses to bring Elastigirl to New Urbem for crime-fighting.
  • They may be helicopters, but Ambassador Selick and several other characters are flown around in private helicopters with jet turbine-boosters.
• Costume Evolution: Inverted. While participating in Winston's superhero PR plan, Elastigirl's costume is a less colourful and darker version of the bright, colourful one she wore during the Glory Days. After she gets freed from Evelyn's mind control, she returns to her Edna-designed Incredibles costume.
• The Cracker: The Screenslaver has all of the makings of a cracker super-villain, V for Vendetta-style.
• Creative Closing Credits: Just like the previous film, the closing credits are a very stylistic montage of key scenes from the movie.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Krushauer has the power to crush anything using his telekinesis. In a narrow corridor on the superyacht, Mr. Incredible asks Krushauer to un-crush the pipes that block the passage to the bridge, which perplexes him, who says asking him to un-crush something is like him asking Mr. Incredible to "un-punch" something.
• Curse Cut Short: When Frozone sees Jack-Jack turn into a demon, he yells "What the-!" as the scene changes.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Invoked and discussed by Helen. Part of her suspicion that there's more going on with Screenslaver is that he's just a pizza delivery boy, when anybody with this level of skill and tech shouldn't need to keep such a low wage job. Before Evelyn was actively evil, she would design tech for Winston to market, and therefore profit off.
• A Day in Her Apron: Bob take cares of the household while Helen works as the face of the Deavors' campaign to restore Supers' rights. At first, he has some rocky moments attending to everything but appears to be getting things under control. Then Jack-Jack demonstrates his, powers causing Bob to be completely overwhelmed and leading to a downward spiral of not getting enough sleep and making poor decisions to try and help Violet's dating problem. He refuses to call Helen for help, fearing that she would come back home and abandon the Deavors' campaign.
• Darkest Hour: More like a darkest minute. After they escape the hypnotised Supers, Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack stop to take stock of their situation. The kids feel down since the wannabe Supers and Frozone are under someone else's control, and they assume that their parents share that fate. Dash half-heartedly states that they have their powers and the Incredibile, then Jack-Jack does a reality warp in the backseat. Realising they have more leverage than originally thought, they smile, put on their masks and head off to the EverJust.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  • Rick Dicker gets in a couple of good bits of sarcasm.
  • Violet makes sarcastic remarks more often than in the first film since she is less shy.
• Death by Despair: Evelyn and Winston's mother died a few months after her husband from heartbreak.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: For the most part the film's attitudes are completely modern, with the aesthetics of The Sixties. However, the lack of safety measures of said decade are evident.
  • When Jack-Jack is in his car seat, he's always facing forward, a no-no by modern safety standards.
  • Jack-Jack is also put to sleep under a loose blanket, which is a suffocation risk for babies.
  • When Violet and Dash are in the Incredibile, it is seen that the super-powered sports car has no seat belts. Justified, since its intended driver was Nigh-Invulnerable and ease of exit or entry would be more vital than personal safety.
• Department of Redundancy Department: The easy-to-miss text of the International Superhero Accord being signed on the ship concludes with "...the United League of Nations does hereby proclaim Supers legal henceforth unto eternity and for all time, forever."
• Designated Girl Fight
  • Aboard the EverJust, Violet and a hypnotised Voyd fight, with Voyd trying to place a pair of hypno-goggles on Violet as requested by Evelyn. Violet manages to kick Voyd away, and escape back to her brothers to search for their parents and Frozone.
  • The Final Battle between Elastigirl and Evelyn.
• Destructive Saviour: Due to the nature of their powers, Bob and Frozone's heroics are noted as causing much more collateral damage than Helen's. She's therefore chosen as the face of the Super PR campaign.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • Although Evelyn was aware that the Parr children had evaded the hypnotised Supers, they're caught off-guard when the kids show up on the EverJust, and is particularly thrown off by the existence of a super-powered baby.
  • Evelyn doesn't anticipate that the Flare Gun from the jet's emergency kit could be used as a weapon.
• Didn't Think This Through: Regarding Tony's mind-wipe, Bob only thought of the situation in superhero terms of preserving Violet's identity. He didn't stop to consider how the mind-wipe could affect Tony's budding relationship with Violet so he didn't inform Dicker that Tony was anyone important to Violet.
• Dirty Coward: The rich guy who bought the Incredibile is entertaining a date with the car shown in the background. When it blows a hole in the wall with its missile launchers and drives away, he is shown trying to hide behind his date, who is not pleased.
• Disastrous Demonstration: The hovertrain's maiden voyage gets sabotaged by the Screenslaver, who turns it into a Runaway Train.
• Disc One Final Boss: It seems that the masked Screenslaver is the main villain. However, Elastigirl captures them a little over halfway into the movie, and Evelyn reveals herself to be behind the Screenslaver, who set up the decoy. She then hypnotises the DevTech Supers as well as Elastigirl, Frozone and Mr. Incredible in a plot to permanently ruin their efforts to regain public trust.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Evelyn orchestrates the events that send a pizza delivery guy to prison because "he was surly and the pizza was cold".
• Do Not Adjust Your Set: Screenslaver hijacks the television waves to make "an important announcement". Earlier, the opening titles from The Outer Limits (1963) are seen on the Parr family TV, in a clever bit of foreshadowing.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: When Bob tells Dash that it's dangerous to play around with the Incredibile's remote control since it has a rocket launcher, Dash enthusiastically tries to launch the rockets.
• Drill Tank: The Underminer not only has his main enormous tank, but also a secondary smaller tank inside of it for use as an Escape Pod.
• Dull Surprise: Hypnotised people repeating Screenslaver's words speak without any expression and with minimal emotion in their voice.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After spending over a decade-and-a-half in hiding, and all the Parrs have been put through in both films, being a superhero is finally made legal again and the family can finally be public heroes.
• Ejection Seat: The Incredibile has these, which allows the kids to get on the superyacht.
• Elephant in the Living Room: Violet mentions this when she asks her parents if they plan to discuss the day's events.
• The Elevator From Ipanema: Typical elevator music plays when Violet and Dash take the ship's elevator to look for Jack-Jack.
• Epileptic Flashing Lights: Social media health watchdogs expressed concerns, and Disney subsequently issued warnings about the Screenslaver's mind-control hypnosis making use of patterned strobe effects that could trigger seizures in epileptic viewers. Some theatres offered a version of the film that omitted these strobe effects entirely.
• Equippable Ally: Violet shoots down a hypnotised Screech as he's flying around carrying Dash. She does this by holding Jack-Jack and telling him to shoot his newly-discovered eye-beams.
• Escape Pod:
  • The Underminer has a second, smaller Drill Tank inside his main tank, which he uses to escape the scene.
  • Evelyn uses a jet built into the top of the ship to escape once the plan is in motion.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Elastigirl is shocked and betrayed that Evelyn is behind the Screenslaver, and that her plan is to smear the image of Supers in the eyes of the public permanently. She quickly reminds Elastigirl that they barely knew each other.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite Evelyn's hatred of her brother's love for superheroes, she returns to save him before the yacht crashes into the city. After learning her plan, however, Winston isn't having it and jumps off her escape jet to save everyone on the yacht.
• Every Car Is a Pinto: The Elasticycle explodes rather dramatically when it crashes into a mountainside. While electric batteries are combustible under the right circumstances, it is a surprisingly large explosion for such a thin and lean motorcycle.
• Evidence Dungeon: Elastigirl finds Screenslaver in their apartment lair, but it blows up with all the evidence inside. She later learns through watching recordings of her suit-cam that almost all of it was planted by the real Screenslaver to build up their decoy, and that it was destroyed to avoid being caught.
• Evil All Along: Helen learns that the Screenslaver is just a decoy setup by the real Screenslaver, Evelyn. It's revealed that she manipulated events as an elaborate revenge plot on Supers because she blames a reliance on them for the death of her father.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • The government in this case, depending on viewpoint. Winston claims that certain politicians have difficulty believing that somebody would do good solely for the sake of doing good.
  • Evelyn believed her brother would fall in line with her plan once she tried to save them from the yacht. Instead, he jumps off the escape jet and actively heads to foil her plan as best he can.
• Evil Gloating: While the first movie discussed the inherent silliness of the trope, this one plays it straight. After Evelyn has Elastigirl under hypnosis, she restrains Elastigirl in a freezing chamber and shuts off her hypno-goggles just so she can explain her Evil Plan and Freudian Excuse, and then turn the goggles back on and continue with her plan.
• Evil Overlooker: In the official poster, the Screenslaver can be seen looming over the "I" above the family.
• Evilutionary Biologist: Evelyn is one, and she makes the hypnotised Supers put on this façade as part of her plan.
• Exact Words: Helen asks Bob how Jack-Jack is doing. Bob replies that Jack-Jack is in excellent health, which is technically correct.
• Exhausted Eye Bags:
  • Bob develops these as taking care of the kids wears down his patience and sanity.
  • Evelyn has these in all her appearances. It could be a result of her constant drinking, from all the work she's doing developing tech (resulting in a lack of sleep), or a combination of both.
• Explain, Explain, Oh Crap: After seeing Jack-Jack fight the raccoon, Bob is initially elated to learn that his he has powers. However, as he talks it through, he suddenly realises the problems of having a toddler with so many powers.

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• Failed Attempt at Drama: After learning that Tony's memories were wiped, Violet has a huge temper tantrum. She tries to destroy her supersuit by throwing it into the garbage disposal and then biting it, while declaring she renounces heroism. As the supersuit is nigh indestructible, it just flails about comically. When her efforts fail, she throws it against the wall and storms off in a huff.
• Fan Service Pack: Elastigirl was redesigned to be more buxom and toned, and Violet has slightly wider hips and longer hair than in the first movie. Moreover, Violet and Tony received improved designs.
• Feedback Rule: There is a slight microphone feedback when Winston welcomes the guests on the EverJust.
• Feet First Introduction: Besides Violet, Tony's first glimpse of the rest of the Parr family is at their boots, from under a car.
• Fiction 500: DevTech is one of the world's biggest telecommunications companies. As a result, Winston and Evelyn are able to provide Elastigirl with cutting-edge technology, own several "spare" houses, and possess the Cool Boat on which the climax takes place.
• Fictional Accent: Edna Mode, voiced by director Brad Bird, has an accent that resembles a blend between German and Japanese. It fits with the film's aesthetic, which Bird says is based on what people in the '50s and '60s thought the future would be like.
• Fictional United Nations: Logos for a "ULN," which stands for "United League of Nations", (the name being a combination of the current organisation and its predecessor) can be seen on things such as the ambassador's helicopter.
• Five Second Foreshadowing: While conversing with Elastigirl, Evelyn claims that consumers will sacrifice quality for ease every time, which is very reminiscent of the Screenslaver's Motive Rant. She is revealed to be the real Screenslaver before the scene is over.
• Flare Gun: Helen uses one as a weapon to shoot Evelyn's oxygen tanks, causing them to rupture and propel her out of the plane.
• Foil: The Deavor siblings are a study in contrast. Winston is idealistic and a people person, perpetually dressed in an impeccable suit and focused on the bottom line. Evelyn is a cynic and fairly withdrawn, wearing casual, comfortable clothes and more interested in inventing than marketability. Both were also deeply affected by their parents' deaths, but while Winston believes that was proof heroes were needed, Evelyn blames their father for relying on them instead of other means.
• Food as Bribe: Using cookies to lure Jack-Jack back into the third dimension and keep him calm. Lucius creates ice balls to keep the baby satisfied.
• Forced Friendly Fire: When Elastigirl has to fight her husband and Frozone on the ship's bridge, she jumps onto Frozone and directs his stream of ice onto Mr. Incredible.
• Foreshadowing:
  • A line from The Outer Limits (1963) mentioning Do Not Adjust Your Set foreshadows Screenslaver's M.O.
  • During the climax, when the Incredibles and Frozone are freeing the heroes from their hypnosis, one screen stays on in Evelyn's monitor room. This shows that there's one Super unaccounted for, that being Krushauer, who is freed a few scenes later.
  • There are a few hints that the Screenslaver that Helen fights is the decoy:
    • Screenslaver gives a monologue criticising people watching other people do things instead of taking the effort to experience it themselves, preferring simulation over reality. It turns out that decoy Screenslaver is literally a simulation of the villain, being orchestrated by the real Screenslaver giving that speech.
    • Right as Elastigirl tackles him out of the window, the Once per Episode Pixar Easter Egg, the Pizza Planet Truck, is parked next to the building. It belongs to the man in the mask as he's just a regular pizza guy.
    • After Screenslaver is unmasked and arrested, he yells "What did you do to me?", and it appears he's trying to justify that society is to blame. However, it hints that the pizza guy is just a pawn in the real mastermind's plans.
  • There are several hints that point to Screenslaver's real identity, for those looking for it:
    • In many of the scenes in which Winston and Evelyn appear, Evelyn is shown in the background, often slightly out of focus, foreshadowing her later reveal as The Chessmaster working behind the scenes.
    • Evelyn Deavor's name sounds similar to Evil Endeavour.
    • At one point Evelyn states "I'm the genius behind the genius."
    • Evelyn is often seen with unkempt hair and Exhausted Eye Bags, suggesting they've been busy with other things beyond their normal duties.
    • The video imagery that the Screenslaver uses to hypnotise people is a series of black and white shapes forming an interweaving geometric pattern. Throughout the film, Evelyn's outfits are predominately black, white or grey.
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Almost all Supers have this in the form of a one-piece supersuit.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-Universe. The Screenslaver hypnotises people through many screens.
• Freudian Excuse: When Evelyn was a young adult, robbers broke into her father's house and he tried to call two superhero friends for help, but since this was after the Super Relocation Act had passed, there was no response, and the robbers killed him. She seeks to discredit superheroes forever so people will save themselves instead of looking for Supers to do it for them.
• Funny Background Event: While Bob is on the phone with Helen when she is asking him about the kids, Jack-Jack in a stare-off through the sliding glass door with the raccoon he fought earlier, clearly wanting a rematch.
• Gagging on Your Words: Bob can barely get his words out when he's being supportive of Helen's new job. Helen detects Bob's anguish and notes how "painful" it is for him.
• Gas-Cylinder Rocket: Helen shoots the oxygen tanks on Evelyn's back with a flare gun, rupturing them, which causes her to be propelled out of the plane.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Subverted. When host Chad Brentley falls victim to the Screenslaver's hypnosis, Elastigirl's attempt at slapping him out of it has no effect.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: When Violet starts throwing a tantrum upon finding out that Dicker has wiped out Tony's memories of her, Dash nonchalantly asks his father if she is having 'adolescence'.
• Getting the Baby to Sleep: Bob struggles to get Jack-Jack to sleep, falling asleep himself instead.
• "Getting Ready for Bed" Plot: The book Bob reads to Jack-Jack is about everyone in "Doozledorf" going to bed, which seems to work on himself instead.
• Gone Horribly Right: While Rick Dicker was able to erase Tony's memory of seeing Violet in her supersuit, the memory-wiping machine also removed all memories he had of her, including their upcoming date. This results in Violet being depressed and angry for most of the second act.
• Happy Ending Override: The film starts off where the last one left off, with the family getting into their supersuits to fight the Underminer... only for them to get arrested, and the NSA's relocation program is shut down. Violet's big date with Tony is erased from his mind after he accidentally sees Violet without her mask and she is back to square-one with him, or even less so considering the various bad first impressions she winds up having with him. Ultimately, the main characters must re-earn these happy endings and the two films happen to end on the same notes as a result, with both films promising the return of Supers and a relationship between Violet and Tony.
• Have You Told Anyone Else?: Said almost word-for-word to Tony by Dicker in regards to Tony seeing Violet in her supersuit.
• Heartbreak and Ice Cream: After Tony showed Violet up as a result of the memory wipe, she eats ice cream and sobs.
• Hellish Copter: The ambassador's helicopter is hacked by the Screenslaver, causing it to crash-land. Elastigirl rescues Ambassador Selick by parachuting from the chopper, causing the latter to faint.
• Heroes Gone Fishing: The last scene has the Parrs go to the movie theater with Tony, as part of Violet's second attempt at a date with him.
• Hero Insurance:
  • Discussed with regards to the damage caused by the Underminer. The money he stole from the bank was insured and there are contingencies in place that would have covered the initial damage. Mr. Incredibles's failed attempt to capture the Underminer caused more collateral damage than expected, meaning that it was all not worth it.
  • While explaining his PR plan to the three main Supers, Winston mentions that they have set up insurance to cover any potential damage, and decides to send Elastigirl out as the first representative since she has a history of causing the least amount of collateral damage.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Winston believes the real reason why Supers were banned was that the public and the media focused too much on collateral damage, instead of their good deeds and the lives saved. His goal is to counter that with good publicity, marketing and political action.
• Hired to Hunt Yourself: Helen asks Winston and Evelyn to set up another interview with Chad Brentley to track the Screenslaver. This creates an interesting situation because Helen doesn't know that Evelyn controls the Screenslaver, and the person they're hunting is just some hapless pizza delivery guy hypnotised into being the fall guy.
• History Repeats:
  • Early in the first film, Mr. Incredible's heroics inadvertently cause property damage and injury as the bad guy responsible gets away. This film starts off with Frozone and the Incredibles trying to stop the Underminer's heist, and once again, significant property damage ensues and the bad guy gets away, though at least there were not injuries.
  • This film has both Frozone and Elastigirl having to deal with a Runaway Train like Mr. Incredible did in the first movie. It's a painful blow to his ego, since they are able to safely stop the train without major damage or causing harm to the passengers, whereas his efforts resulted in injuries and lawsuits that led to the Super Relocation Act.
• Holding Out for a Hero: During a burglary, Winston and Evelyn's father was shot when he chose to call Fironic and Gazerbeam for help. Evelyn claims he would have survived if he had hidden in the house's safe room.
• Honest Corporate Executive: Winston comes across as a well-intentioned proponent of getting Supers legalised again, and is willing to devote resources from his telecommunications company to that goal. While there were points in the story that implied Winston was secretly the villain, it turns out he was completely honest about his beliefs, and bravely risks his life to help save the day.
• Hypno Pendulum: Downplayed. In the Screenslaver's lair, there is a machine that resembles a clock which has one of these along with three hypnosis spirals. It does not impact the plot, merely setting the scene.
• Hypno Trinket: Evelyn's hypno-goggles.
• Hypocrisy Nod: Elastigirl acknowledges that she is being a hypocrite when she is listening to a police scanner for a crime to thwart, when she herself reprimanded her husband for doing the same thing in the past.
• Identical Hairstyles Gag: Jack-Jack briefly uses his powers to imitate Edna's hair and mannerisms, which she finds amusing.
• Immediate Sequel: The first film ended with the Parrs about to confront the Underminer, with this film starting with said confrontation.
• Impact Silhouette:
  • Violet leaves one in a cloud of smoke after handing off Jack-Jack to Dash in the opening scene.
  • When Jack-Jack turns into a giant baby aboard the superyacht, he goes crashing through several walls, leaving a Jack-Jack-shaped hole in each wall. He shrinks in size as he's doing this so each hole is smaller than the previous one until the final hole is baby-sized, forcing Violet to enlarge the hole with a force field so she and Dash can catch up.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: Bob talks to Violet about the old days of his friend Rick Dicker erasing the memories of anyone discovering his or Helen's secret identity. Violet figures out Bob had Dicker erase Tony's memory.
• Inexplicable Cornered Escape: The kids are infiltrating the evil lair when Jack-Jack makes a noise that alarms one of the wannabe Supers outside. Violet sees them approaching through the door window and scans the room for escape routes. Cut to the wannabe Supers bursting through the door, finding the room empty. Then the camera slowly pans up the air duct below the ceiling, where the kid heroes have somehow escaped into quickly.
• Internal Reveal:
  • Both the ending of the first movie and Jack-Jack Attack show the audience that Jack-Jack has powers, although the Parrs are still unaware of that fact early in this movie. Oddly, Dicker would have learned that Jack-Jack had powers in Jack-Jack Attack but he didn't seem to share that information with the Parrs.
  • Tony's memory being erased is shown to the audience in the first scene, and Bob later reports Tony seeing Violet in her supersuit to Dicker. This leaves Violet unaware of the memory wipe, and thinks that Tony is just pretending to not know her because he thinks she's a freak. When Bob hears Violet complaining about Tony, he mentions how many times Dicker did wipes for him. That's when Violet realises what happened and Bob realises that Dicker removed all of Tony's memories of Violet, not just the superhero reveal part.
• Involuntary Smile of Incapacitation: When Elastigirl confronts Evelyn on a jet plane, she steers the plane up high enough for Elastigirl to become affected with hypoxia. The delirious Elastigirl grins and starts to utter some non-sequiturs.
• Ironic Echo: Winston tells the three main Supers that the reason the world doesn't like them is because of "perspective" (people see destruction, they see superheroes, they blame superheroes). Later, Evelyn points out that her brother has a "childish perspective" — "Superheroes go away, mommy and daddy go away."
• Irony: Helen is among the hypnotised Supers who gives a televised speech to the world about how Supers have become bitter whilst in hiding. It contrasts sharply with the Helen we've come to know from the first movie, the one who didn't become embittered, but instead made the most of her normal life, by raising a family.
• It Has Been an Honor: After Dicker announces that the Super-Relocation Program is shut down, he tells Bob and Helen that he felt honoured to work with them.
• I Was Quite a Fashion Victim: Helen tells Bob she had a mohawk in her youth, but that he didn't miss anything.
• Jerkass Ball: When a stressed, sleep-deprived Bob finds out that the Incredibile is intact and bought by a smug rich guy as a collector's item, he takes out the old remote control to it and uses it to control the car remotely, frightening everyone on the scene. He subsequently realises that he shouldn't be trying to steal his car back.
• Jump Scare: Violet gives Bob a good scare when she appears behind the fridge door.
• Just in Time: All three runaway vehicles (the Underminer's drill tank, the hovertrain and the EverJust) are stopped by the heroes in the nick of time before they crash.
• Karma Houdini:
  • The Underminer manages to steal an entire bank's worth of money and successfully escapes, and is never seen again in the film.
  • Violet believes that this will apply to the Big Bad, who, being rich and well connected, will probably get off with a light punishment for everything they did.
• Kinda Busy Here: Helen gets a call from Dash while being in hot pursuit of the Runaway Train.
• Kiss of Distraction: Bob is forced into a fight with a hypnotised Helen. He attempts to get her to snap out of it, and it seems to work as she stops attacking and suddenly kisses him. Unfortunately, Helen uses the distraction to slap the mind control goggles on Bob's face, making him hypnotized as well.

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• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Played with. At Bob's request, Dicker steps in to erase Tony's memories of having seen Violet without her mask. It turns out the memory-wipe is "not an exact science", and this causes a huge conflict between Violet and her dad when she realises that Tony doesn't remember her at all.
• Late Arrival Spoiler: The first trailer features Jack-Jack using his newly discovered superpowers, then cutting to a scene of Bob absolutely delighted over the fact that he has them. In the first film, the audience was made to believe Jack-Jack had no powers until near the end.
• Late Start Super: Implied with the elderly Reflux, since the six wannabe Supers are relatively new superheroes. Therefore, he's only recently started fighting crime.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Tony tells Dicker how much Violet had "changed", the scene cuts to the recreation of the last scene of her and Tony from the first film with the new higher definition rendering of the characters. It is evident that Violet really has changed.
• Lighter and Softer: When compared to the first film. There is a lot less death and destruction, and the plot and themes are are lot lighter as well.
• Logical Weakness:
  • The Screenslaver's hypnosis requires the victim to be looking at the screen in order to maintain control. Not looking directly at the screens or closing one's eyes makes them immune; even partially removing them breaks the trance. The Screenslaver bypasses this weakness with goggles which contain miniature screens that are placed over a person's eyes.
  • Helen can't use her stretching powers in extremely cold environments, something that the villain exploits.
  • Violet's forcefield can protect her from external attacks but Krushauer's ability to crush things allows him to crush her forcefield, shrinking it in an attempt to crush her. Also, since Violet usually leaves the area she's standing on unprotected, this gives Voyd the opportunity to create portals within the forcefield on the open patch of ground.
• Logo Joke: Both the Disney and PIXAR logos at the beginning are animated in the style of the "pointy" end credit art style, with a red background.
• Low Clearance: Elastigirl has to use all her skills to duck the first train tunnel while on her Elasticycle. The second tunnel is so low that she has to discard her motorbike altogether.
• Lulled Themselves to Sleep: When Bob is having trouble getting Jack-Jack to sleep, he tries reading a parody of Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, but keeps nodding off. Later, when he is sleep deprived he tries watching TV with Jack-Jack, but again, Bob falls asleep and Jack-Jack keeps watching.
• Male Gaze: There are several shots that prominently feature Helen's behind.
• Malevolent Masked Men: The Screenslaver has a full mask that covers their entire head with no exposed skin. This is unusual, as no other character thus far has a mask covering their entire face.
• Manipulative Editing: Winston is aware that major media outlets are using this against Supers to further demonise them to the public, such as a news report of the Underminer's robbery in the beginning. It was focused on the damage it caused and the Parr family getting arrested rather than mention they tried to stop it from smashing City Hall. He counterracts this with secret cameras planted on his employed heroes to provide their side of the story when fighting crime.
• Masculine Lines, Feminine Curves:
  • Bob's Lantern Jaw of Justice and square Heroic Build contrast with Helen's rounder features.
  • Winston has a prominent sharp nose and an angular face, while Evelyn has softer features overall.
  • Violet inherits her mother's round face and wide hips, and has wide eyes and a button nose, while her Satellite Love Interest Tony was retooled to have sharper features.
• Mass Hypnosis: The Screenslaver's plan involves hypnotising various people using flashing patterns displayed on screens.
• Mass "Oh Crap": While the Parrs praise each other in the Underminer's tank, the police arrive, shining lights down upon them as well as guns. Their faces evoke the trope name.
• Meaningful Name: Evelyn Deavor sounds like "evil endeavor". "Evelyn" even sounds like "a villain". Moreover, the Screenslaver enslaves people via hypnotic screens.
• Men Can't Keep House: Bob struggles to do what Helen would normally do, including managing the kids' needs, the shopping, and laundry.
• Mind Control Eyes: Everyone that wears hypno-goggles or are looking at hypnotising patterns on screens has these.
• Misplaced Retribution: Evelyn wants to keep Supers illegal because she blames the death of her parents on her father calling Supers on a private line during a burglary, rather than fleeing to a safe room. However, it's likely the same thing would have happened if her father had called the police, who couldn't be there immediately either. Furthermore, the burglary occurred after the Super Relocation Act had passed and all superheroes were forced underground, so they were legally be unable to answer.
• Mobstacle Course: When pursuing the Screenslaver through the apartment corridors, Elastigirl first collides with some of the civilians that the Screensaver alerts into her path via the fire alarm, but she later uses her Building Swing skills to get past residents.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • As in the first movie, the scenes repeatedly alternate between the extraordinary and the mundane.
  • During a limousine ride, Elastigirl is approached by many adoring civilians thanking her for saving the people of the monorail. One of them turns out to be a happy little girl holding a sign that reads, "The Screenslaver is still out there," much to Helen's dismay as she rides away from the girl.
• Motive Decay: At the end of the first film, The Underminer bombastically rants about declaring "war on peace and happiness" so that "all will tremble before me". In this film, it turns out all he actually wanted was to rob a bank.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Lampshaded and parodied. Elastigirl's new suit is black and grey, contrasting the original's white and red. She is bothered by how edgy and gloomy it looks, while Edna is outright appalled by it.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Both Bob and Dicker show genuine regret of having Tony's memories of Violet wiped.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The ending has the Parr family car transforming into an Incredible-themed mobile, similar to the Parr's family van in Family Matters: Issue #2.
  • While the movie renders Rise of the Underminer non-canon, the opening fight against his drill uses a cover of "Furious Frozen Fight" from that game.
• Never Trust a Trailer:
  • "The elephant in the room" isn't Mom's new job. The dinner scene occurs well before the job offer, where the family discuss the attempt to stop the Underminer at the beginning going horribly wrong.
  • The trailers and television spots made it seem like the main focus will be on Bob learning to adjust to being a House Husband. It's actually the B-plot of the movie, with the main story actually being Helen's quest to take down the Screenslaver.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bob informs Rick Dicker about Tony seeing Violet in her supersuit and with her mask removed, after she expressed her anxiety over it. Bob asks Rick to erase Tony's memories of the incident, which results in Tony forgetting about Violet entirely and thus unknowingly blowing off their date. Violet spirals into a depression and lashes out at her father when she realises what he did.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Syndrome's Evil Plan from the first film is what sparks the turn in public opinion that leads to a campaign to let Supers return, more or less the opposite of what he wanted to happen.
  • Evelyn not only fails to discredit Supers, but her actions ultimately cause the world to decide to reinstate their status.
• Non-Indicative Name: Downplayed. Violet points out The Happy Platter, the restaurant Tony works at, "looks bored", having seen a bored-looking waitress. That is until Tony shows up, and he greets the Parrs in a friendly tone.
• No Sell: Violet's effort to symbolically destroy her supersuit by grinding it up in the garbage disposal and tearing it with her teeth are ineffective, courtesy of Edna. This does not help her mood.
• Nostril Shot: When Bob pulls up to Edna's front gate, the screen is an extreme close-up of Edna's nose.
• Not Helping Your Case: The fight with the Underminer ends with him escaping and his machine causing additional damage throughout the city. While the Incredibles successfully stop it from destroying city hall, politicians use the bad publicity to justify the illegal status of Supers and cancel the Super Relocation Act. Dicker tells the Parrs "If you want to get out of the hole, first you have to put down the shovel."
• Not What It Looks Like: Violet has a panicked look at the start of the film when Tony sees her in her supersuit and tries to explain it. She does it again at school, without knowing that his memory is gone.
• Obligatory Earpiece Touch: Winston does it when he talks to his sister via earpiece on the boat, asking her for the missing heroes.
• Oh Crap:
  • The raccoon when Jack-Jack shows off his more spectacular superpowers.
  • Helen has a brief look of alarm when Screenslaver activates hypnotising screens in the apartment, and attacks her.
  • Dash and Violet freeze in fear when they see the mind-controlled Supers at the front doorstep.
  • Violet has one when Voyd comes across her on the ship. She has another one later when she sees Screech approaching.
  • Krushauer's face displays this reaction when Jack-Jack starts expanding in the air duct, before crushing him, Screech and Voyd.
  • A crew member on the ship's bridge wastes no time reporting mayday when mind-controlled Supers take control of the bridge.
  • Evelyn knows she's in trouble when Jack-Jack uses his telekinesis to remove Helen's mind control goggles, freeing her.
• Ominous Multiple Screens: Evelyn uses a setup like this to track the various hypnotised Supers through their goggles.
• Orgy of Evidence: The Screenslaver's apartment is decked out with everything a hypnosis-obsessed villain is expected to have, plus documentation on their targets. Unfortunately, Elastigirl only gets a cursory look at the evidence before the Screenslaver blows it all up, preventing any deeper investigation.
• Out of Character Alert: Jack-Jack realises something is wrong with his mother when he floats towards her, Elastigirl not responding with any warmth or affection. As a result, he uses his telekinesis to remove her hypno-goggles, freeing her from hypnosis.
• Out of Focus: Dash is the only member of the Parr family to lack a major character arc of his own. This only focus he gets of any sort is needing help with his math homework. Additionally, he doesn't get to display his power as prominently as in the previous film, as the action scenes take place in confined locations that severely limit his abilities as a speedster.
• Parents as People: Bob tries to be a more capable caretaker for his kids while Helen takes on the role of breadwinner. He is disappointed when his wife is chosen over him to help bring supers back into the public due to his Destructive Saviour tendencies, and the stress of trying and failing to handle the kids by himself causes him to break down. It is not until he finally allows others to help him (Violet and Dash calling in Frozone, who then has Edna look after Jack-Jack) that he is able to catch up on sleep and finally re-balance his life. He even has a heartfelt confession to Violet about how he is trying to help before he falls asleep. Violet accepts his apology as she loves her father dearly and decides that she and Dash should let him sleep for 17 hours.
• Possessed All Along: The Screenslaver seems to be willingly working as a villain at first glance, but being defeated by Elastigirl, he turns out to have been a brainwashed pizza delivery guy, with Evelyn Deavor being the person that hypnotised him with a special pair of goggles.
• Power Limiter: Edna upgrades Jack-Jack's suit with sensors that allow his family to track him or rein in his powers via remote control, such as triggering fire-extinguisher foam when he spontaneously ignites.
• The Power of Love: Exploited by a hypnotised Elastigirl when Mr. Incredible is summoned to the ship by Evelyn to "rescue" her. She trick Bob into lowering his defences by kissing him, then slips hypno-goggles on him.
• The Power of Potential: Though implied in the first movie, Jack-Jack is depicted as someone with massive potential, as pointed out by Edna. He is a polymorph, which gives him Combo-Platter Powers.
• Production Foreshadowing: The blanket in Jack-Jack's crib has an image of Duke Caboom from Toy Story 4, which was released the following year.
• Propaganda Machine: Winston explains that people see what politicians tell them to see. In the case of the Underminer chase, the public was given pictures of the destruction and the heroes being arrested. In order to fight Manipulative Editing, he proposes having mini-cameras put into the heroes costumes so they can document their side of the story.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: After Bob first sees Jack-Jack's powers in actions he says to him, "You... have... powers!"
• Punny Name:
  • The Screenslaver uses screens to hypnotise people into obeying them, using screens to make them slaves. The name is also one letter of "screensaver", which means simple images or animations shown on screens, much like the projections they use to hypnotise people.
  • Winston and Evelyn Deavor's first names both end in "n". Added to "Deavor", it makes it sound similar to the word "endeavour". Evelyn Deavor also happens to sound like "evil endeavour."
  • Brick, one of the wannabe Supers, has the strength of and can become the size of a brick wall. Her full name is Concretia Mason.
  • Bob's car is named aloud for the first time. The name "Incredibile" is a clever Portmanteau of "Incredible" and "automobile".
• Rage Breaking Point: Bob hits this when Dash and Violet demand answers of why he hadn't told Helen about Jack-Jack's powers. He mentions that he's being trying to solve everyone's problems, and that he's been "rolling with the punches".
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Screenslaver lays out their contempt for a society that relies on the ease of watching things instead of doing them.
  • When Elastigirl confronts Evelyn on the jet, she makes fun of Elastigirl for her core beliefs. Elastigirl, suffering from hypoxia, retorts that at least she has core beliefs.
• Redemption Demotion: Voyd has much better control and mastery of her powers when hypnotised than afterwards when she's freed.
• Red Herring:
  • When the Parrs arrive at their loaned mansion, Bob mentions that the previous owner had a bunch of escape routes since they wanted to arrive and leave without being seen. When a home invasion by the brainwashed Supers occurs, Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack escape using the Incredibile instead.
  • The appearance of the Screenslaver along with the train incident helps boost the public opinion of Supers. However the advantageous timing of these two events makes it appear that Winston Deavor may be setting up Engineered Heroics to support his superhero fanboyism. It turns out his motives are sincere and it's actually his sister who is behind the Screenslaver.
• Red Sock Ruins the Laundry: When a very tired Bob drops off Jack-Jack at Edna's house and begins to lament about the many blunders he made while trying to be a House Husband, mixing red and white clothes in the laundry is one of the things he mentions.
• Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: A man uses a giant pair of scissors to cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony for the Metrolev train.
• Ruder and Cruder: The sequel uses some mild profanity, mostly "damn," "hell" and "crap", which did not feature in the first film. At the time of its release, this film was the only Pixar film to contain profanity stronger than "crap".
• Rule of Three: It takes Voyd three attempts to portal Elastigirl onto the jet.
• Runaway Train: The newly opened Metrolev train, after its conductor gets controlled by Screenslaver. Elastigirl manages to stop it Just in Time, the front carriage dangling over the end of the unfinished track.
• Running Gag: At the start, Violet and Dash keep leaving Jack-Jack with each other to look after while the other charges into action.

S-Z

• Samus Is a Girl: Elastigirl assumes that Screenslaver is a man, and she seems to be proven right when she unmasks Screenslaver, who was a hypnotised young man. However, it turns out he was just a decoy, and Evelyn Deavor has been the Screenslaver the whole time.
• Save the Villain: Elastigirl saves Evelyn from plummeting to her death despite Evelyn actively refusing and resisting to be saved. Justified, as not only is Elastigirl a superhero (the very thing Evelyn is against), but keeping Evelyn alive will help prove the Supers' innocence, and she also did it out of respect for Winston.
• Scenery Porn: New Urbem is a gorgeous city, and there are several spectacular shots of it throughout the film. The architecture and greenery of the Parrs' new house is also lovely to look at.
• Schizo-Tech: As in the first film, 1960s era cars, fashion and landline phones exist alongside cordless phones, wireless microphones, miniaturised closed-circuit cameras, big-screen colour monitors, high-speed hovertrains, voice-command and eye-scan security systems, and technology induced hypnosis.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money: Violet points out that Evelyn has an advantage for her trial, being that Evelyn is a high-ranking and well-paid employee of a major corporation.
• Second-Person Attack: When Dash punches out Screech on the ship's deck, the camera shows the moment from Screech's POV as he is punched.
• See the Invisible: Invisible Violet accidentally leaves behind soiled footprints in the carpet, which makes it easy for a hypnotised Voyd to follow her. During their fight, Voyd sprays foam from a fire extinguisher to make Violet visible.
• Self-Destruct Mechanism: When Elastigirl encounters the Screenslaver in their lair and gives pursuit, they activate one which destroys the lair with all the evidence inside.
• Sensory Abuse: The Screenslaver uses this to such a degree that there had to be official seizure warnings. Even people who aren't epileptic found themselves covering their eyes.
• Shoot Out the Lock: Helen uses a gun to shoot open the lock on the door of the driver's compartment on the Ambassador's helicopter. This allows everyone on board to escape before the Screenslaver can crash the helicopter.
• Short-Lived Aerial Escape: Evelyn has the hypnotised Supers set the superyacht on a collision course with the city and then tries fleeing with her jet. The escape attempt is foiled by Elastigirl, who boards the jet and uses a flare gun to shoot Evelyn's oxygen tank, launching her out of the jet. Elastigirl saves Evelyn and brings her back down to the ground, despite some resistance from the villain.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Twice towards the Big Bad.
  • When Evelyn moves to escape the EverJust on a plane, she brings along Winston. However, Winston rebukes Evelyn's claim that abandoning the ship is for his own good, and jumps out of the plane to go back to save the heroes and ambassadors still onboard.
  • After Evelyn’s arrest, Elastigirl calls her out for not showing any gratitude after the rescue. Evelyn claims that saving her doesn't make Elastigirl right, but the Super retorts that it at least she's alive.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: During one of her conversations with Evelyn, Helen describes Winston and Evelyn's relationship as this. Their respective talents are opposite yet complementary; she invents the products with her tech genius and he markets them with his social prowess.
• Slapstick:
  • When Helen first tries out her new Elasticycle, she finds in difficult to handle. Because it's an electric drive, it's "torque-y", being able to accelerate surprisingly quickly. Helen smacks into many things before eventually getting a feel for the bike.
  • Violet shoots the water she's drinking out of her nose when it turns out her amnesiac crush Tony is the waiter for her table.
• Sleep Deprivation: Bob is unable to sleep for several nights while trying to watch the kids, due to Dash's difficult math homework, Violet's relationship trouble, and Jack-Jack's recently-manifested powers. During this time, he is completely exhausted and cannot think clearly. When circumstances finally allow him some much-needed rest, Violet reports that he slept for 17 hours.
• Small Role, Big Impact: As with the first film, Edna Mode has limited screen time, but makes the most of it. She proves vital to understanding and controlling Jack-Jack's powers, which in turn is a major asset in the climax.
• Snowy Screen of Death: Evelyn has Ominous Multiple Screens for each of the Supers wearing hypno-goggles. Whenever the goggles are destroyed, the corresponding screen goes dark.
• So Much for Stealth: Violet's attempt to go unnoticed while invisible on the EverJust is foiled when she makes noise knocking over a potted plant. She also leaves behind soiled footprints in the carpet, prompting her to retreat as a hypnotised Voyd goes after her.
• So Proud of You:
  • Helen is on the phone with Bob and gushes about her stopping a runaway train. He then switches on the TV, and sees the story on every channel, which leaves him feeling inferior, especially when Helen says that there were no casualties caused by her rescue. While he has to suppress his feelings in the process, he genuinely tells Helen he's proud of her.
  • Directly after, Helen tells Bob she's proud of him and that she realises how much Bob wants to be out doing superhero work as well. She acknowledges that, for now, she couldn't be doing this if he hadn't taken over housekeeping duties so well.
  • When the kids save their parents from Evelyn's hypnosis, Violet asks her mother not to be mad that they used their powers and entered into a dangerous situation, but she just hugs them and says she's proud.
• Spanner in the Works: Evelyn succeeds in pulling off the first part of their plan. However, she did not expect the three kids to start unraveling everything. Jack-Jack ends up saving the day by using his telekinesis powers to remove his mother's hypno-goggles, who then starts the chain-reaction of freeing everyone else.
• Spotting the Thread: Helen noticed that the fight with the Screenslaver was too easy. She remarks that the locks were too conventional, that a surly pizza delivery boy couldn't mastermind everything himself, and that one of the screens in Screenslaver's lair was tuning in to the signal on her closed-circuit costume-cam.
• Spraying Drink from Nose: Violet sprays water from her nose when she sees Tony at his parent's diner, working there as a waiter. He was about to serve the Parrs, and Violet leaves for the bathroom, embarrassed.
• Starstruck Speechless:
  • When Voyd meets Elastigirl, she starts stammering out of excitement over meeting her heroine.
  • A limousine driver who is a big fan of Frozone finally meets his hero but he is so nervous that he mixes up his line.
• Start X to Stop X: Helen discusses the dilemma of accepting the Deavors' job offer with Bob. She says that to help her family, she to leave it, and to fix the anti-Super law, she has to break it.
• Stealth Pun:
  • Edna's Jack-Jack tracker with its touch-sensitive screen gives new meaning to the term "baby monitor".
  • Evelyn Deavor's name sounds like "evil endeavour", foreshadowing her reveal as the Big Bad. Her first and last names are not mentioned together until after the reveal.
• Stock Sound Effects: Jack-Jack's babbling is mostly reused from the first film, which explains why Eli Fucile is again credited for voicing the character, even though he should be at least 14 years old.
• Stock Yuck: Dash is quite displeased when Helen shoves broccoli on his plate. He is also disappointed later when Bob switches out his favourite cereal Sugar Bombs for healthier and blander Fiber-o's. He eats both without more than an annoyed groan.
• Stood Up: Violet is devastated when Tony doesn't show up for their date.
• Stop Hitting Yourself: Voyd uses portals to deflect Elastigirl's punches and kicks so that she strikes herself.
• Suddenly Shouting:
  • Winston loses his calm demeanour momentarily, and shouts at his sister when the latter argues that their father should have gone straight to the safe room instead of calling the superheroes.
  • Helen is calmly talking to Bob on the phone for a few minutes, before she screams out with excitement that she had saved a Train Full of Innocents.
• Super-Persistent Predator: While Jack-Jack's persistence can be excused, the raccoon choosing to stay and fight an enemy with Combo-Platter Powers shows a lot of dedication for a scavenger. The raccoon returns to have a stare-off against Jack-Jack through the sliding glass door while Bob and Helen are on the phone, clearly wanting a rematch.
• Super Registration Act: The movie is about trying to repeal the anti-Super law so that they can legally carry out superhero work.
• Swapped Roles: In the first film, Bob was the one back to life as a superhero while Helen took care of the kids. In this film, Helen is fighting crime while Bob is the stay-at-home parent. This is even lampshaded by Helen at one point.
• Switching POV: Between the end of the first film and the introductory scene. The rise of the Underminer is seen not from the Parr family's viewpoint, but from Innocent Bystander Tony's. The whole situation would have been a lot more unsettling for Tony since he doesn't have superpowers.
• Take That:
  • While trying to help Dash with his homework, Bob's brief tirade about New Math sounds like it could just as well be about the Common Core Math Standards adopted by U.S. public schools in the early 21st century.
  • Helen doesn't like her new suit, saying it's too "dark and angsty" for her, which can be taken as a shot at gratuitously Darker and Edgier superhero redesigns.
  • After Evelyn is taken into custody, Violet points out that she's rich, and will probably get off with a slap on the wrist.
  • There's a brief line on the radio about people having more trust in the decision-making of a monkey throwing darts than people in Congress.
  • Dicker at one point admits that politicians have difficulty accepting the idea of people doing good without seeking something in return.
• Take That, Audience!: When the Screenslaver gives a chilling monologue to the masses about how they are content to watch things from the comfort of their TVs instead of experiencing them. It also applies to people of modern times addicted to their phones and tablets, and the people sitting in the comfort of movie theatres.
• Take This Job and Shove It: When Violet finds out that Bob had Dicker accidentally erase Tony's memory of her, she renounces Supers, trying and failing to destroy her supersuit. She later renounces her renunciation when she finds out that her parents are in trouble and need her and her brothers.
• Talking in Bed: Bob and Helen are in bed while Helen mulls over whether to accept Devtech's offer to be the poster girl for their Super re-legalisation effort. Bob convinces Helen to take the job and make superheroes legal again.
• Teens Are Angsty: Violet is in a very bad mood during the film's middle phase due to troubles with her boyfriend Tony. When Dash sees her storm off, he asks if she is "having adolescence".
• Teetering on the Edge: Elastigirl manages to stop a Runaway Train Just in Time before it could fall off the unfinished tracks. A separated car crashes into the first one, almost pushing it over the edge.
• Tempting Fate: After seeing Helen's new costume, Bob teasingly notes Helen will have to explain to Edna why she's using a costume by another designer. Bob ends up taking the brunt of Edna's anger since Helen doesn't meet with her in this film.
• Ten-Minute Retirement: After learning that Dicker erased all of Tony's memories of her, Violet renounces superheroism and unsuccessfully attempts to destroy her supersuit. However, when her mother is in trouble and her dad leaves to rescue her, she gets out her, Dash's, and her mom's super suits, and renounces her renunciation.
• Thememobile: Elastigirl gets a new Elasticycle designed by Evelyn, and Mr. Incredible gets his Incredibile back. The Incredibile shown at the end is either modified or a new version, designed for the whole family.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: In-universe. Bob's rant about Dash's New Math homework, which is based on a real thing, but also echoes the sentiment of many U.S. parents with the Common Core curriculum.
• Thicker Than Water: Played with. Evelyn plays it straight when she tries rescue Winston from the EverJust before it crashes. Winston, however, turns on Evelyn when he realises she's put everyone on the ship in danger, and leaps from the escape plane to try and free everyone from her hypnosis. He still expresses his gratitude to Helen for saving her life.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Bob is first ecstatic upon discovering Jack-Jack has a plethora of powers. However, it immediately dawns on him that parenting will be a lot harder.
• Thou Shall Not Kill: While the heroes can make exceptions when there is no other option, this is not seen here. The hypnotised Supers are never seriously hurt, and Elastigirl saves Evelyn, even after Evelyn resists.
• Toilet Humor: One of Jack-Jack's first actions when alone with his father is to visibly soil himself, and when sneaking aboard the superyacht, Violet has to change Jack-Jack's diaper at one point.
• Too Dumb to Live: Winston and Evelyn's father had two superhero hotlines installed into his home, but didn't think to make them accessible from within his panic room. So, when thieves break into his house, he tries to go for the phones sitting in the open which allows the thieves to shoot and kill him. Even so, the incident happened after superheroes are outlawed, meaning with or without the superhero hotlines installed in the panic room, their father couldn’t call in their help. Lampshaded by Evelyn twice.
• Traveling Pipe Bulge: When Bob is sucked in by the Underminer's vacuum, he is visible as a bulge traveling through the tube.
• Twerp Sweating: The film ends with the entire family doing this to Tony, with Bob doing the traditional father-cheerfully-intimidating-date routine.
• Two Lines, No Waiting: The middle act flips between Helen at her new job with DevTech and Bob being a House Husband before these storylines converge in the final act.
• Ungrateful Bastard:
  • The government and wider public for their ill treatment of Supers, which Winston rectifies.
  • In the end, Evelyn refuses to thank Helen for saving her life, instead claiming that it doesn’t make her (and superheroes in general) right. Helen shoots back the argument right in her face since it’s the only reason she’s alive in the first place.
• Unwanted Rescue:
  • When Evelyn boards an escape jet, she tries to take Winston away from the ship that is set to crash, but he leaps from the plane back to the ship to save everyone else.
  • Elastigirl saves Evelyn from plummeting to her death despite her actively resisting.
• Verbal Backpedaling: When Bob encourages his wife to take on Winston's assignment, he says "Of course you can leave. You've got to. So that I- we can be Supers again."
• Villain Has a Point: Evelyn is possibly correct in that her father could have survived if he had gone into the house's safe room instead of trying to call Supers to help. His over-reliance on heroes was his undoing. However, a weakness in her argument is blaming the Supers completely, when the same thing would've happened if he'd called the police.
• Villainous Exit Denied: After hypnotising nine Supers and arranging for the superyacht to crash into the city, Evelyn tries to escape in a jet, but Elastigirl, with the assistance of Voyd, manages to capture her and return her to the ship to be arrested once they reach land.
• Villainous Face Hold: As Evelyn reassures Elastigirl her Evil Plan means Supers will never become legal again, Evelyn holds her chin as she's being incapacitated by hypoxia.
• The Voice: Honey remains an off-screen voice, just like in the previous film, since the writers determined it would be funnier.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Whenever Reflux uses his lava vomit power.
• Wham Shot: At an event celebrating Elastigirl capturing Screenslaver, Elastigirl looks at one of the screens showing her fight with the villain and sees the action being played on a screen in the background. By realising that the Screenslaver somehow accessed her suit's camera, Elastigirl has a Eureka Moment that gets her one step closer to finding the person responsible. This is then followed by Evelyn, who's been "helping" her the entire time, slapping hypno-goggles on her.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: When the family battles the Underminer, he escapes and is never seen again. A very small animation of him burrows his way out of the bottom of the movie screen at the very end of the credits.
• What You Are in the Dark:
  • When he realises what his sister has done, Winston refuses to go along with Evelyn's plan. He refuses to escape with her and instead frees everyone from her hypnosis, and create a plan to protect the ambassadors.
  • Elastigirl has every opportunity to let Evelyn fall to her death. Instead, to demonstrate that her moral compass overwhelms Evelyn's lack thereof, Elastigirl saves her.
• Who's Laughing Now?: Winston’s reaction when someone who dismissed him previously calls him. He says "Oh, Ellingwood. Hi. Oh, now you want to return my calls about superheroes being legal? Oh, I’m sorry. I’ll have to call YOU back."
• Women Are Wiser:
  • Elastigirl has the idea of breaking the boiler to stop the Underminer's drill machine.
  • Mrs. Deavor begs her husband to retreat to their safe room instead of trying to call Supers, which results in his death.
  • When it turns out they can't access the steering controls or the engine room, Violet comes up with the plan of turning the boat by physically manipulating its rudders and hydrofoils.
  • The final commercial before the live broadcast from the EverJust is a spoof of the infamous "So easy a man can do it" ad.
• The Worf Effect: Brick's Super Strength is given ample demonstration when she fights Bob. She knocks him across the room and slams him into the bulkhead so hard that it dents.
• X-Ray Sparks: At the mansion, Violet traps He-Lectrix in one of her forcefields, which makes him electrocute himself, showing this effect.