The Incredibles Trivia

Cameos, in-jokes, re-used animation, and other trivia about The Incredibles.

Cameos[]

Doc Hudson from Cars can be seen parked on the street to the left of the screen at the 1:40:27 mark in the film. Although Cars was released after The Incredibles, development of Cars was well under way.
The Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots toy from Al's office in Toy Story 2 appears in Bob's office.
Also in Bob's office, there is a photo from a fishing trip where he caught a shark that resembles Bruce from Finding Nemo.
A fire engine bearing a resemblance to Red is seen outside the jewelry store.

Cameos Gallery[]

In-Jokes[]

At the 1:37:32 mark in the film, Lozano Records can be seen in the background as a tribute to a Pixar production artist named Albert Lozano.
Another building at the 1:39:15 mark is labelled Arriaga & Co after Pixar production assistant Daniel Arriaga.

One instance of A113 in The Incredibles.
Mr. Incredible is told to go to conference room A113, where he is attacked by an Omnidroid. The code is also visible, cryptically, when Elastigirl tracks down Mr. Incredible's holding cell to floor A1, cell block 13.
In one scene, a sign for the Luxo Deli can be seen, and a restaurant called Andy's. The Luxo Deli is a reference to Luxo Jr. (the first short film Pixar produced), and Andy's is a reference to Andy from Toy Story.
When Mr. Incredible is fighting crime in the beginning of the movie, the streets on his GPS are the streets near the Pixar Animation Studios building.
When Mr. Incredible is being spoken to by Mr. Huph, a cup of pencils gets knocked to the floor — a common test shot in early CGI animation.
As Bob Parr apathetically reads the newspaper at the dinner table, one of the sub-headlines on the front-page reads "Catastrophe Seen As Crisis Looms", which is clearly a cheeky nod to the headline seen on the paper read by Harry Connick Jr.'s character Dean McCoppin reading "Disaster Seen As Catastrophe Looms", itself a reference to the headline chomped out of Jim Dear's newspaper in Lady and the Tramp and The Iron Giant.

Deleted Scenes[]

Violet as a baby/Syndrome's original debut (Alternate Opening)[]

The first deleted scene is in the past after Helen and Bob retire. Violet is an infant and has issues with spitting up. Helen and Bob are introduced by a neighbor at a neighborhood barbeque. Bob is asked to cut up steaks while Helen goes off to talk to neighbors. When a woman begins to mock Helen's job as a homemaker and the fact that she has a baby, Helen almost reveals her life as Elastigirl when she begins to reply back to the woman's words. All is interrupted when a woman sees Bob cuts his fingers, when he really withstood the cut with durability, but fools the pedestrians complete with ketchup for blood. The two leave and drive back home, after which a mysterious man finds the broken butcher knife, enters the house, and calls a mysterious person.

That night, Bob and Helen hear noises to which Helen forces Bob to go check. When he does, he finds Syndrome who freezes him with zero-point energy. Helen is also frozen as well. Syndrome hears Violet's cries for her mother, and he walks into her room. He looks over at her but discovers that the infant has turned invisible, and she instantly spits up on Syndrome's face. Helen grabs her and Bob uses a mirror to trap Syndrome in the house. The married couple smell gas and soon discover a gas pipe is fueling and the fireplace is on. They escape the house quickly with Violet and they land on a streetlight. The last frames show Violet's face and lights turning on in nearby houses.

Snug[]

Helen contacts her pilot Snug who comes with them to Nomanisan Island. Instead of them stowing away, Helen brings Violet and Dash who wear their normal attire over super-suits. Snug tries to flirt with the concerned wife to which she yells at Snug. Soon, missiles are detected. Snug desperately tries to turn the plane away from the missiles lock with Dash and Violet tumbling around in the plane. Helen falls over and asks her daughter to generate a force shield. Instead of two attempts, she is not shown trying. The plane blows up and when Helen forces Dash and Violet to go underwater to dodge pieces of the falling plane, Helen sees Snug's hat, indicating that he has died.

Helen's Nightmare[]

Helen has an anxiety nightmare where she is a maid doing laundry while Bob is in his Mr. Incredible suit on a couch while he is getting praised by women in bikinis. She tries to walk over to shoo them away but is pulled back by a sweater and she falls into the nearby pool, which turns into a giant tumble dryer. She is shown in it among the water and bubbles while she watches through the glass Bob leave with the women. She then wakes up from the nightmare and is shown in the living room with Jack-Jack playing in his playpen in the background.

Helen Confronts Bob[]

Helen confronts Bob after discovering hair on his old suit and asks if he is having an affair. Bob angrily tells Helen that he isn't and walks out before Helen can apologize.

Vipers[]

Helen, Dash, and Violet go underwater upon the plane's crash to hide from Viper jets scanning for survivors. They rise back up to the surface when the Vipers confirm that they are "dead." Dash asks his mother if those were the villains, to which she says yes. Violet then asks if Bob is working for evil, and Helen says no. Violet says she wants to know what's going on, and Helen says that they will find out.

Bob In Traffic[]

A deleted scene showed Bob after he is coming home from work. He sees somebody getting attacked from inside his car while driving. He saves the person but is told by cops to go back in his car. Bob becomes annoyed that the cops are ungrateful.

School Prank[]

In class, Bernie Kropp states that students have complained about memorizing useless facts just for tests. He says he works all day for a low wage and doesn't want any guff with it. The students stare at him, confused, so Bernie starts to explain while writing on the chalk board, with a very squeaky chalk that annoys all the students. After he's done, he turns around with a paper that says "I AM AN IDIOT" on his back.

The students begin to laugh and he quickly turns around. Bernie doesn't see anything that the students were laughing at and turns back to the board. Another paper appears on his back that says "SEE?" Bernie turns around once again because of the laughing. As he looks at the class, Dash is writing another paper. Bernie turns to the board again and has Dash's paper that says "SHHHH! WATCH ME SIT ON A TACK." After the prank, Bernie pulls Dash by his ear to the principal's office.

This deleted scene is included as an easter egg on the deleted scene menu found on the 2-disc DVD.

Mr. Huph Gets His Memory Wiped[]

Rick Dicker walks into Mr. Huph's hospital room and proceeds to close the blinds. Rick introduces himself and starts to set up the mind eraser. As he sets up the target, Huph starts panicking, wondering what Rick it doing. Rick then shoots the suction cup onto Huph's forehead. As his mind is being erased, Rick says that it wasn't Bob during the accident, he had already left the company, and says it was a ruptured gas main. Huph insists that it was Bob and Rick can't convince him otherwise. He decides to make Huph forget how the entire accident happened. A nurse then knocks on the door and says that Bob was asking for Rick, to which he says he'll be there in a minute.

Other Trivia[]

In Japan, the film was simply called "Mr。インクレディブル" (meaning "Mr. Incredible").
Near the end of the film, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the last of the legendary group of Disney animators called the "Nine Old Men", make an appearance after the Omnidroid v.10 is destroyed. On September 8, 2004, the day that Brad Bird and producer John Walker recorded the commentary for the DVD, Thomas passed away at the age of 92 from cerebral hemorrhage. Four years later on April 14, 2008, Johnston passed away at the age of 96 from natural causes. The two had also appeared in The Iron Giant as train engineers.
The sequence where, after breaking through an apartment wall into a jewelry store, Frozone is kept at gunpoint by a nervous rookie cop ("I'm just getting a drink."). This is a direct homage/parody of a similar sequence in Die Hard with a Vengeance. In both films, the threatened character is played by Samuel L. Jackson. Even the police officer's facial design is recognizably similar.
This film marks the first Pixar film to center on mostly all-human characters. This may have been the result of Pixar eventually developing technology to get around the infamous "uncanny valley" when it comes to animating humans, compared to the humans seen in the Toy Story films.
This film marks the only major Pixar film where the Pizza Planet Delivery Truck doesn't make an appearance, the reason cited as being the Pizza Planet truck model was not made in the time period (1962) the film is set in. But it still appears in Incredibles 2, despite that film also being set in 1962, and even in Brave, set in the tenth century AD (though as a toy, since motorized vehicles were not invented until the 19th century).
- However, the Pizza Planet Truck does appear in The Incredibles game in the Late To School level multiple times as the player runs past 4-way intersections, and in the final level. It has also appeared in the sequel and in the video game LEGO The Incredibles.
This film marks the first Pixar film to be rated PG by the MPAA.
This is the only Incredibles film to be THX certified and to air in the 2000's.
This is the last Pixar and only Incredibles film to be released on VHS in Australia.
This film marks the first Pixar film to have the title card appear both at the start and at the end (before the credits).
This film marks the final Pixar film released before Pixar’s acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in January 2006.
In the Disney movie Mars Needs Moms, Milo has a poster of Mr. Incredible over his bed.
In the 2011 Indian Disney movie Zokkomon, at the beginning of the movie, the main character is seen reading a comic of The Incredibles.
When the family was in the limo with Rick Dicker, Elastigirl was on the phone listening to Kari's messages she made in Jack-Jack Attack.
This film marks the first Pixar film whose home release has the widescreen and fullscreen version released separately (Finding Nemo had its widescreen and fullscreen releases on separate DVDs, but within the same case). Eventually, only the widescreen version remains still sold.
This is the only Pixar film released during his lifetime where Joe Ranft isn’t involved in the voice cast.
This is the only Incredibles film to be given a U rating in the United Kingdom.
Brad Bird initially had the film planned to be distributed by Warner Bros., who distributed Bird's 1999 animated film The Iron Giant. However, the animation division of Warner Bros. had dissolved, so Brad Bird decided to give the film to Pixar, a thing that Pixar CCO and Bird's close friend John Lasseter had been hoping he'd do for a long time.
It took almost two weeks to render the most complicated shot in the film.^[1]
Zero-point energy is a real physics concept, devised by Albert Einstein and Otto Stern. Scientific opinion differs as to whether it is just a mathematical concept, or something real which could be tapped for free energy.
When Mr. Incredible tracks down the robber at the beginning of the film, the contents of the stolen handbag also includes a Mr. Incredible PEZ dispenser.
This film marks the first Pixar film to use computer processing units from Intel. Pixar replaced servers from Sun Microsystems with Intel Xeon processors in its "render farm"--a bank of servers that fuses artists' images into finished film frames--with eight blade servers from RackSaver. In all, the blade system contains 1,024 Intel 2.8GHz Xeon processors, and it runs the open-source Linux operating system.
The US Google Play purchase of this film uses the international version.
Closing credits:
This film marks the first Pixar film to feature RenderMan's 2003 logo and the first time that RenderMan is seen with a logo in a Pixar film.
At the end of the film, as the family suit up to fight the Underminer, Bob rips his shirt open to reveal his supersuit underneath. This is a nod to the 1978 film, Superman, in which Clark Kent rips his shirt open and his super-suit is underneath.
The scene where Mr. Incredible is being chased by the Omnidroid 08, which rolls into a sphere is a homage to the scene from Raiders of the Last Ark, when Indiana Jones is running from a giant boulder.
While sneaking in Syndrome's base, Elastigirl checks her butt in a mirror and sighs. This is a homage to Disney's 1953 film, Peter Pan, in which Tinkerbell does the same.