Syndrome

**Buddy Pine**, formerly known as **IncrediBoy** and better known as **Syndome**, is the main antagonist of the 2004 Disney/Pixar film The Incredibles and a minor character in the 2005 short Jack-Jack Attack.

He is the former fan-turned-arch-enemy of Mr. Incredible who lured many superheroes into his island/lair in order to have them be killed by the Omnidroid just to make it powerful enough to defeat Mr. Incredible as revenge for him rejecting his help and making sure no one stops his plan of endangering Metroville. He is also Mirage, the Omnidroid and the other minions' former boss and leader.

He is voiced by Jason Lee.

## History

### The Incredibles

As a child, Buddy was the number one fan of Mr. Incredible. In the beginning of the film, Buddy sneaked into Mr. Incredible's Incredible, wanting to be his idol's sidekick. Mr. Incredible recognizes Buddy from his fan club and said that he has been nice and done everything he ask him to do, but Buddy arrogantly informed Mr. Incredible that he didn't have to worry about training him since he knew everything about him considering the fact that he is Mr. Incredible's number one fan. However rather than having Buddy/IncrediBoy to be his sidekick, Mr. Incredible ejected Buddy from his car and sped off, with Buddy telling him to wait.

Later that night, right after Mr. Incredible saved Oliver Sansweet from killing himself and about to fight/stop Bomb Voyage, Buddy showed up as IncrediBoy again and told Mr. Incredible that he made new rocket boots and he finally figured out who he is: his ward, IncrediBoy. However, when Mr. Incredible tells him that he's now officially carried it too far, Buddy unfairly assumed that it was because he doesn't have powers, despite the fact that he didn't have any evidence to back him up and said that not every superhero has powers, and they can be a superhero without them.

After Buddy asked Mr. Incredible if he can fly since he could with his rocket boots, Mr. Incredible responded (while holding Bomb Voyage, who tried to escape during his and Buddy's conversation), "Fly home Buddy. I work alone". Buddy told Mr. Incredible to just give him one chance and he would show him by getting the police as well as the fact that it would only take a second. As Buddy was leaving, Bomb Voyage put a bomb on the end of his cape (which Buddy was unaware of and would foreshadowing a later scene regarding the dangers of wearing a cape by Enda Mode and his death in end of the movie). Mr. Incredible notice this and tries to save Buddy from the bomb but because of the latter's recklessness, the bomb ended up falling on a railway, destroying it, forcing Mr. Incredible to save the incoming El train from falling off the tracks, saving the passengers of the train.

Now sick and tired of Buddy's actions, Mr. Incredible handled him over to the police in the back of their police car, telling them to send him back home and make sure that his mother knows what he's doing. When Mr. Incredible told the officers about Bomb Voyage and his escape, he also added that "Skippy" made sure of that, only for Buddy to correct him but Mr. Incredible roughly responded that he was not affiliated with him before leaving for his wedding with Elastagirl.

Unfortunately, the actions of Buddy, Oliver Sansweet and Bomb Voyage caused superheroes to be illegal (due to two lawsuits from Oliver Sansweet and the train passengers that Mr. Incredible faced and lost).

For 15 years later, Buddy (who has become Syndrome) sent Mirage to look for Frozone (who was the original target to be killed in Operation Kronos) but since Mirage witnesses Mr. Incredible knocking down a building, she tells one of Syndrome's guards to switch targets considering Mr. Incredible is the one Syndrome is looking for (which is due to the latter's hatred of the former). Syndrome then sends Mirage to Insuricare where she pretends to be an employee and slips a video message for Mr. Incredible/Bob by going into his office. This plan successfully works when Mr. Incredible saw the video message and accepts the mission.

At the Nomassion island/Syndrome's lair, Syndrome sends the Omnidroid v.8 to kill Mr. Incredible but when the supervillain witnesses Mr. Incredible defeating the Omnidroid by tricking the robot to destroy itself, he was surprised by this and decides that needs Mr. Incredible back to his island/lair as well as ordering Mirage to sound the all clear and invite Mr. Incredible to dinner. At the dinner with Mirage, Syndrome tells Mirage to keep things light as well as praising Mr. Incredible and make feel like that they appreciate his abilities which before he leaves.

After Mirage tricks Mr. Incredible into thinking that he had an assignment in the conference room at 2:00 P.M, the latter was ambushed by the Omnidroid v.9 which is before Syndrome reveals himself, revealing the fact he is actually Mirage's boss and Buddy (also saying that all he wanted was to help Mr. Incredible but what made him snap was when he told him to fly home and he works alone) Syndrome cruelly scolds Mr. Incredible for not letting him to be sidekick and he ruined everything for him given the fact he turned evil when it tore him apart and he learned a lesson which is cannot count on anyone, especially their heroes. Mr. Incredible sadly admitted that he was wrong to treat Syndrome that way and apologized at him for it. Syndrome, however, does not accept Mr. Incredible's apology since he believes that he only apologized because he is a threat. Syndrome then goes on a monologue with Mr. Incredible. After Mr. Incredible takes advantage of the moment to throw a log at Syndrome (who dodges it). Syndrome then immobilizes Mr. Incredible with his zero-point energy ray, which is shot from Syndrome's glove. Syndrome was amused by Mr. Incredible got him monologuing.

Syndrome then uses then ray to throw Mr. Incredible around several times to show his power over the superhero. Syndrome then accidentally uses his zero-point energy ray to throw Mr. Incredible over a waterfall, much to Syndrome's irritation. Syndrome then tries to finish off Mr. Incredible at the waterfall but Mr. Incredible jumps off the cliff of the waterfall and into the lake. Syndrome then attempts to kill Mr. Incredible with an explosive decide by throwing it into the lake that Mr. Incredible jump on. Mr. Incredible (who is now scared) sees the explosion device in the water and avoids it by swimming away from it. After arriving at a cave, Mr. Incredible sees Syndrome's probe and hides behind Gazerbeam's skeletal remains (who had been previously killed by the Omnidroid presumably for knowing too much about Syndrome's schemes) to make Syndrome think he was killed by the bomb, which works given that Syndrome left and head back to his lair.

Unfortunately, Syndrome was able to capture Mr. Incredible when he tried to infiltrate his base later on (during which Mr. Incredible discovered Syndrome's computer and found out that Syndrome had killed former superheroes before him with his Omnidroid, Frozone and Elastigirl being Syndrome's next targets after Mr. Incredible (in which in the beginning of the film shows that Syndrome had Mirage track down Frozone's location and Frozone being the original target before switching targets) and Syndrome's plan which is sending the Omnidroid v.10 to Metroville in order to endanger the city), also realizing that he used Gazebeam's remains to trick the probe into thinking he was dead to begin. Syndrome then admitted that he was right to idolize Mr. Incredible as well as him being truly Mr. Incredible and tough, despite his grudge against him, though he is disappointed when he believes that Mr. Incredible decides to call for help and that it was lame.

Due to the fact that Elastigirl had activated the homing device on his supersuit in an attempt to find out where Mr. Incredible was due to the fact that she realize that he lied to her about being on a business trip from Insurance (thus causing Mr. Incredible's beeping badge, that led to his capture, to trigger the alarm), Syndrome believes that Mr. Incredible had sent a homing signal and made contract for reinforcements during the time he was snooping around his lair and began to question him about it. When Mr. Incredible tells Syndrome that he didn't send a homing device nor contracting anyone, Syndrome believes that he is lying and orders one of his guards to torture Mr. Incredible with the electricity machine as well as also ordering Mirage to play the transmission, Mr. Incredible inadvertently recognized Elastigirl's voice on the transmission line as she's flying a government plane (borrowed by her old friend Snug Porter), making Syndrome realize that Mr. Incredible does now the people that heard from the transmission line. With this knowledge, Syndrome decides to send a "little greeting" by having missiles to take down Elastigirl's plane.

Mr. Incredible became horrified to hear Elastigirl having to deal with Syndrome's missiles and reveal their children were onboard as well as begging Syndrome to call off the missiles and that he'll do anything. Syndrome coldly refuses, saying that its "15 years too late". This earns shock from Mirage, as she sees that Syndrome doesn't care about children (Dash and Violet) being onboard. As the missiles finally destroys the plane, Mirage tells Syndrome that the target was confirmed to be destroyed in which Syndrome took great pleasure in killing the occupants (unaware that they actually survived the crash and now using their powers to swim to the island) by telling Mr. Incredible that he'll get over it later as well as also recalling how Mr. Incredible had told him that he worked alone after he offered to be his sidekick. Mr. Incredible then tries to attack Syndrome, but Mirage saves Syndrome, and the former is the one Mr. Incredible retaliated. Mr. Incredible then demands Syndrome to release him, or he'll crush Mirage. Syndrome (although at first is aware what Mr. Incredible is going to do sounds dark), goads him to crush Mirage.

Mr. Incredible decided to let Mirage go, realizing that wouldn't make things better and Syndrome teased Mr. Incredible that he knew he couldn't do it, even when he's got nothing to lose because he says that Mr. Incredible is weak, and he outgrown. As Syndrome prepares the rocket to launch the Omnidroid v.10 towards Metroville, Mirage (feeling sorry for Mr. Incredible, who is crying over the supposed loss of his family) gets mad at Syndrome for not saving her when her's life is threatened by Mr. Incredible. Syndrome attempts to attempts to appease Mirage that he had everything under control and that he called Mr. Incredible's bluff and that he knew that he wasn't planning to hurt her, but a disgusted Mirage tells her former boss "Next time you gamble, bet your own life!" and quits, leaving Syndrome confused. Syndrome then sends the rocket with the Omnidroid v.10 to Metroville. in which causes the rocket's fire to almost kill Dash and Violet but thankfully, the two superheroes avoid it.

Mirage later learns that Mr. Incredible's family survived the plane crash and are on the island. She then frees Mr. Incredible from the electric cell, informs him of his family's survival, and helps him escape and reunite with his family. However, Syndrome (unaware of Mirage' recent actions) was able to recapture Mr. Incredible along with his family by immobilizing with his zero-point ray and finds out that Mr. Incredible married Elastigirl (who is another target of Syndrome and whose location was unknown in his database) and two children (Dash and Violet).

Beliveing that he hit the jackpot by capture an entire family of superheroes, Syndrome imprisons the Incredibles in his electric cell. He then shows the recent broadcast of his Omindroid landing in Metroville. He then tells the superheroes that his plan is cool and just like a movie in which is also where he reveals his plan; he intends to send the Omindroid to Metroville to go on a rampage, and then stops it himself, therefore making him a bigger hero than Mr. Increidble and taking credit and setting himself as the city's new hero until he retires. When Mr. Incredible sees that Syndrome killed off many superheroes just so he can pretend to be, Syndrome takes the opportunity to brag about how he defeated him, even without any precious gifts and any superheroes for himself. Syndrome also announces that he'll give the city heroics and most spectacular heroics they ever see and when he retires and found his fun, he will sell his inventions to the world so others can be supers, thus destroying the concept of supers and making the term meaningless. Syndrome then leaves after that.

Believing that he finally beat the best superheroes as well as the Incredibles, Syndrome then heads off to Metroville to finalize his plan, pretending to fight against the Omnidroid-stopping it from nearly killing a woman and her baby. However, Syndrome realized too late that the Omindrioid's ability to learn allowed it to identify Syndrome as a threat, blasting his remote-control wristband from his wrist. Panicking, Syndrome attempted to flee the area, accidentally knocking some bystanders down, before the Omnidroid destroyed one of his rocket boots, sending him flying out of control into a building, knocking him unconscious. He remained unconscious during the Incredibles' escape and return back to Metroville, where they team up with Frozone to destroy the Omnidrioid by taking out its brainpan, causing to shut down and explodes. As soon as Syndrome regain consciousness, he is angry to see that the Incredibles destroyed his robot.

Wanting to have revenge on The Incredibles for stopping his plan and taking away his future, Syndrome breaks into the Incredibles' house and abducting Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl's infant son Jack-Jack by lying to Kari McKeen about being a replacement for Jack-Jack. When the Incredibles arrive at their house to rescue Jack-Jack, Syndrome zapped them with his zero-pointed energy ray with his finger and reassured them that he'll be a good mentor to Jack-Jack and raised him as his side-kick. He then threw the Incredibles out of their home and crashed through the ceiling and up to his jet plane while holding a crying Jack-Jack.

But unfortunately for Syndrome, his plan failed when Jack-Jack's transforming superpower manifested and allowed him to beat up Syndrome up. Elastigirl was then thrown into the air by Mr. Incredible to rescue their baby (who fell out of Syndrome's arms when he hit the wing of his plane due to Jack-Jack removing one of his rocket boots that made him fly uncontrollably) and she then used her body as a parachute to glide back to safety. Syndrome then heads to his jet plane, vowing revenge on the Incredibles family and yells at Mr. Incredible that their battle "isn't" over and he will get Jack-Jack again before proceeding to cackle evilly.

Not wanting to let Syndrome get away and finally pushed to his limit to make up not handling what he did for 15 years ago better. Mr. Incredible started looking around for something to throw at Syndrome and his plane, spotting the car he had bought with the money he had given him earlier. Mr. Incredible threw the car at him (to make sure he never comes back and get Jack-Jack ever again and their battle is already over), knocking Syndrome off-balances inches away from the plane's turbine. Syndrome then attempted to escape but was killed for good when his cape snagged him into the turbine, causing the ship to explode.