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- The banning of Supers. The interviews at the beginning emphasise the fact that all Supers had to give up what they loved doing. It was sad they had to quit when they still had a lot in them.
- Bob's soul-crushing job and Mean Boss who doesn't even want Bob to do his job properly.
- How about Violet's point of view? All her life, she's had to hide her powers from the world, is it any wonder she's such a Shrinking Violet for half of the film?
- It is brief, but the shot of Violet looking sad at the dinner table and saying she's not hungry.
- Mr. Incredible in his room pondering whether or not to take the mission, and seeing all the memorabilia of things he has accomplished throughout his superhero career, considering how much he's done.
- When Helen listens in on the phone call between Bob and Mirage, and assumes them to be having an affair, the look on her face when she says "Bob, I really love you" is heartbreaking.
- Edna is likely responsible for the deaths she listed in her 'no capes' rant.
- When Thunderhead died of Cape Snag, he left behind a roommate and their adopted kids. Moreover, he was severely mentally disabled.
- Stratogale was still in high school when she got sucked into an airplane engine. Moreover, the plane could have crashed and killed those on board.
- It is sad seeing Buddy Pine go from a sweet kid to a murderous supervillain. Mr. Incredible was treating him reasonably well, just he didn't want him to be involved in super-heroics since it it dangerous.
- Syndrome's Motive Rant, regarding why he set out to wipe out Supers and make the term obsolete. It just sounded so much like he was still that disillusioned kid, and who doesn't remember how much those kinds of disillusions hurt?
- When Mr. Incredible learned the totality of Syndrome's plan via computer. The Supers who died perfecting the Omnidroid weren't just allies of Mr. Incredible; they were his friends. Several of them had been at his wedding, and he recognized Gazerbeam instantly upon seeing the picture of his secret identity in the paper. Also, remember that each of the Supers had gotten the exact same message as Mr. Incredible, reminding them of their Glory Days, asking them to come back and make a difference one last time, and leading them to be unceremoniously slaughtered to perfect a machine that will be used to discredit Supers once and for all.
- The scene on the plane when Elastigirl realizes that Syndrome's missiles are going to hit them and they cannot be stopped, all the while frantically yelling "Abort abort abort! There are children on board!" into the radio. Her face shows pure terror. She then unhesitatingly leaps into the back of the plane at the last second, fully prepared to die for her son and daughter.
- "Put a field around us NOW!!" There is something about that line that's heartstring-tuggy for an unknown reason.
- Violet's face when she tries to do a force field is upsetting. She's trying so hard and she just can't do it.
- Bob being forced to listen.
- Bob initially believes his family has been killed. Syndrome's Kick the Dog line about working alone only makes things worse. You can even hear him sobbing in the background as Syndrome walks away, it's heartbreaking.
- And just look at him afterwards when Mirage comes in to free him.
- Violet apologising for what happened on the plane. Helen reassures her that she is powerful.
- And when Bob reveals to Helen just why he'd prefer to take on the Omnidroid alone, as a direct result of the above.
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- Briefly, Dash fears that Violet was killed by the Omnidroid v.10. Thankfully, this was averted when she woke up.
- This one is more of a tear jerker with backstory. When the Omnidroid v.10 is defeated, two old men look on and say, "You see that, Frank? That's how you do it, that's old school!" "Yeah, no school like the old school!" Nothing heart wrenching about that, but consider that they were voiced and modelled after Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the last remaining members of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men group of animators. Frank died a couple months before The Incredibles premiered, and Ollie Johnston died in 2008. "No school like the old school" is an incredibly poignant tribute to old school men such as them.
- Syndrome's attempted kidnapping of Jack-Jack. He freezes the other Parrs so that they're helpless to stop him gloating about how he's taking away their future, then blows a hole through their roof to escape. After he takes off, Jack-Jack wakes up and immediately starts crying in terror. It's made even worse by the terror on all their frozen faces.
Deleted Scenes[]
- There's a deleted/unfinished scene where Violet rants to her mom about how much she hates herself (which can be seen in the "Vowellet" special feature). Thankfully, her outlook and appearance at the end of the film and in the sequel proves that wrong.
- Helen confronts Bob about the platinum-blonde hair on his business suit. He tries to lie that it was the dry-cleaner woman's, but she asks him bluntly whether he having an affair or not? Bob says no, but can't tell her why he's going on these trips all of a sudden. He leaves her in the closet, where she starts to cry.
- As Helen fears that Bob may be cheating on her, she falls asleep on the couch and has a dream of Bob with several beautiful blonde women by a pool while she is a maid, appearing older than she is, with Bob ignoring her entirely. She confronts Bob, but is pulled into the pool by a rope made from clothes and into a washing machine.
- In a storyboarded scene, the guy Helen gets the plane from, Snug Porter, actually goes with the family. When Syndrome blows the plane up, he doesn't survive. Mercifully, while Brad Bird fought to keep Snug in, he admitted that the character had to mostly be cut, since building enough of his character to make his death impactful would eat up too much of the movie's time.