The Incredibles: How Society Conforms You

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It is genuinely horrifying to think about how realistic it'd be for a literal superhero being chained diwn to an unfulfilling office job.

NGL, suing someone for saving your life from suicide is crazy

Something I think what is lost is that Bob was actually good at his office job. The boss even said he didn’t know how Bob was writing checks and yet still remaining in the black. I interpreted that to mean, Bob knew the exact amount he could get away with approving without being fired. He knew how to manipulate the system to actually help people and keep the company within their financial limits. But his boss wanted him to squeeze every last penny he could. I think if Bob had been allowed to save people (financially) like he did with that old woman. He would have been happier in his office job but he had to do it in secret. Even helping people that way. Another thing I like is the foreshadowing at the beginning, Buddy almost died when taking off to fly and eventually his cape is what kills him.

“Now you fear me because Im a threat.” Just like how nobody notices or cares about the bullied until they hurt everyone else for it.

The fact that this was a movie mostly intended for kids and it actually confirmed through unambiguous dialogue that it included suicide attempts and a villain who perpetrated mass genocide is still insane to this day. Yet the movie honestly might not have been as great if it hadn’t been that dark.

One detail about the boss is the paper he adjusts. It says they have met their highest profit quarter ever, and also says that the employees will have to pay for things like pencils and other supplies and I think electricity too

I had never heard the "conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth" line before but that is such a perfect way to put it. You can't do anything truly great if there's any expectation to follow a norm because the status quo is the antithesis of innovation.

It occurs to me that normal humans with genius inventions are op in this universe. If Syndrome wasn't so messed up in the head, he could have just actually been the greatest hero ever and uplifted everyone to that level. It would have proven his point, but in a better way.

Fun fact: the good samaritan law was enacted a little after the time Mr. Incredible saved the guy in the beginning. People were getting sued for saving others.

Running into people like the boss is my biggest fear

This was a true family movie. Basic concepts and high adrenaline screens kids would enjoy while at the same time potraying deep, interesting, and controversial topics only teens and adults would understand.

I’d have to agree with you. Bob seemed a lot more miserable living a hum drum life working at an insurance company than he did fighting syndrome and that’s really saying something considering for a moment, he thought his wife and two children were murdered. In a way syndrome becoming a villain and fighting. Mr. incredible was the best thing to ever happen to him in his family.

"And when everyone's super, no one will be" What a hard phuquing line that still gets quoted 20 years later

When I was younger, I thought Syndrome saying "I am your biggest fan" when he confronts Mr. Incredible was him repeating a phrase to remind Mr. Incredible of who he was. But I think he was actually doing more things with that statement. Even though he wants to make him suffer and kill him, he STILL is his biggest fan. That is why he is seen fanboying after he realized Mr. Incredible faked his death. I haven't watched the movie recently as an adult, so I didn't connect those pieces.

The Incredibles helped me understand why the USA's lack of basic healthcare is a problem. Health insurance providers specifically make money by finding reasons to NOT help people.

Honestly if the whole suicide and train incident happened here in the netherlands, mr incredible would be found innocent. Since here in the netherlands we don't have jury trials, but only judges and mr incredible didn't do anything wrong by law. In the movie mr incredible should have told buddy, that bomb voyage put the bomb on his cape and simply and kindly tell him this is why it is still too dangerous for him, but that his inventions can eventually indeed help superheroes and also let him do that.

This is the difference between a kids movie and a family film.

The incredibles not being able to let out their true selves, being forced to conform and hide their biggest talents that are a large part in defining who they fundamentally are and what they want in life… I can draw many comparisons between that and having autism. I mean, if people put people in either the ‘normal’ box or ‘special’ box, I tend to feel like I’m in the special box. My way of experiencing the world, my interests, my way of communicating, etcetera… It’s all different from ‘normal’. But you’re expected to be ‘normal’. You’re raised to be and become ‘normal’. And rings especially true, having had a recent diagnosis, having not known about my autism since the start of my adolescence. I keep thinking that I shouldn’t walk a ‘normal’ path, but instead try and focus on my biggest strengths, which are strengths society doesn’t tend to value much. Society pressures my weaknesses more than my strengths. And in the film, the incredibles have to hide their (literal) strengths, and are over reliant on weaknesses. Dash is not allowed to do sports. Bob works a job meant for heartless, cold people, which he’s not. The pressure points society puts pressure on are the weaknesses of people who would be labelled ‘special’.

Imagine getting in trouble at work for literally doing your job