IncrediBoy

**IncrediBoy** is .

## Background

### Personality

As a young Buddy Pine, the boy who would become Syndrome aspired to become a superhero and this goal led him to beg Mr. Incredible to hire him as a sidekick IncrediBoy. Sadly, after Bob categorically and justifiably refused to grant Buddy's favor, Buddy returned home in disgrace and rejected the righteous path. He had stopped idolizing Mr. Incredible and became embittered, eventually descending into megalomania. Based on his memories of the events in flashbacks and the fact he did not remember Bomb Voyage's involvement in the incident, or that he (Buddy) caused the train accident as a result of his carelessness, Buddy only cared about fighting and beating up bad guys rather than actually protecting people. As a result, it's likely he was never truly hero material to begin with as he cared more about the glory rather than doing actual good deeds to make a difference.

## Physical Appearance Characteristics

His Known SuperSuit was baggier and with short sleeves and legs, and it was white and sky blue and Had An-"i" Insignia similar to Mr. Incredible's. His Rocket Boots are Also More-Entirely Primitive -also- Regular Blue Cape. He has fair skin, light freckles, Regular Blue Eyes, and Known Barrel Chest.

## Personality

As a child, he was eager and cheerful, if naïve, having great respect and admiration for superheroes, particularly Mr. Incredible, who he claimed was his number one fan. However, after Mr. Incredible rejected his offer to be his sidekick, he stopped idolizing Mr. Incredible and became embittered, eventually descending into megalomania.

## Biography

As a young boy, Buddy was in his own words Mr. Incredible's biggest fan, even wanting to become his sidekick, Incrediboy. Buddy is insistent on this and shows up in Mr. Incredible's car unexpectedly and tries to force this on his idol, but Mr. Incredible immediately ejects him from his car and speeds off as Buddy yells at him, begging him to wait. One night, as Mr. Incredible is facing Bomb Voyage, Buddy shows up with a pair of rocket boots to help him. He flies off to get the police, but he doesn't realize that Bomb Voyage had attached a bomb to his cape. Mr. Incredible has to release Voyage to save Buddy. Eventually, Mr. Incredible is angry at the boy for meddling in his affairs and had the police take him home and report his actions to his mother. Feeling hurt and betrayed, Buddy stops idolizing Mr. Incredible and hates him for his actions, even tearing off the huge poster he had of him on his wall in a fit of rage. By now, Buddy has begun to descend into villainy.

**As a child, Buddy Pine was a superhero fanatic and inventor who sneaked into a youthful Mr. Incredible's car, willing to be his self-appointed sidekick IncrediBoy. Mr. Incredible recognized Buddy from his fan club and said that he posed for photos and signed every scrap of paper Buddy gave him, but Buddy arrogantly informed Mr. Incredible that he didn't have to worry about training him since he knew everything about him, being his number one fan. However, rather than allowing IncrediBoy to accompany him, Mr. Incredible ejected Buddy from his car and speeds off, with Buddy calling out from the road and telling him to wait.** Later on that night, right when Mr. Incredible saved pedestrian Oliver Sansweet from near-suicide convoluted into a bank robbery hostage to stop Bomb Voyage, Buddy showed up again as IncrediBoy and told Mr. Incredible that he made new rocket boots and that 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 he didn't have any evidence to back him up and said that not every superhero has powers and they can be super without them. **After Buddy asked Mr. Incredible if he could fly since he could with his rocket boots, Mr. Incredible responded (while holding up 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 that he would show him by getting the police; but as he was leaving, Bomb Voyage attached a bomb to the end of his cape (which Buddy was unaware of and would echo a later scene in the movie regarding the dangers of wearing a cape by Edna), so Mr. Incredible was forced to let Bomb Voyage escape to save Buddy and dispose of the bomb because of the latter's recklessness. Unfortunately, the rescue ended up opening the floodgate of other lawsuits against supers (because of the two lawsuits that Mr. Incredible faced and lost), and thus, it abolished supers altogether.** Now sick and tired of Buddy, Mr. Incredible handed him over to the police in the back of their police car, telling them to send him back home and tell his mother what he has been doing so she can have a talk with him. When Mr. Incredible told the officers that Bomb Voyage escaped, he also added that "Skippy" made sure of that, only for Buddy to correct him, but Mr. Incredible responded that he was not affiliated with him.

### Becoming An Supervillain

After Buddy was sent home and probably even scolded and sent to his room by his mother (which was shown in a flashback with a grown-up Buddy {as Syndrome} telling it to an older Mr. Incredible), he believed that he could not trust anyone and that he realized that his lifelong dreams had been crushed, which gradually drove him to anger and hatred for Mr. Incredible and the other supers for not giving him the opportunity to become a superhero. Finally, Buddy decided to let it drive him to revenge, becoming a supervillain to get his revenge on Mr. Incredible for refusing him to be his sidekick, as well as possibly getting him in trouble with his mother. Therefore, he started plotting, not acknowledging that it was his arrogance and reckless actions that caused him to be rejected in the first place. Shortly Mr. Incredible was later sued by Oliver Sansweet who he have saved his life before confronting Bomb Voyage for ruining his suicide attempt, which ignites the Supers to become illegal.

## Powers With Eqipments

### Abilities

* **Genius-level Intellect**: While not having superpowers, Syndrome's high intellect made him a fierce opponent, his tactical skills and inventions proving to be more than enough to allow him to compete with the likes of Mr. Incredible. He was also a former child prodigy - when Syndrome was still at a young age, he was a gifted boy who specialized in technology engineering, as he was able to create jet boots at a young age.
	+ **Child-Prodigy:** .
	+ **Technology Engineering:** Syndrome was a formidable foe when it came to building numerous advanced technologies and weapons, as he was also capable of becoming a successful weapons designer.

### Weapons

* **Aero Boots**: In his short days as IncrediBoy, Buddy used makeshift rockets.

## Trivia

* Syndrome was the second Pixar antagonist to die after Charles F Muntz in *Up*.
* According to official sources, Syndrome is 25 years old, is 5'7", and weighs 185 lbs (83 kg).
* Joaquin Phoenix was originally considered for the role, before the producers settled on Jason Lee.
* When Edna Mode refuses to design a cape for Mr. Incredible, deeming capes as hazardous to superheroes, she recalls several past accidents that involved their interference. This foreshadows/foreshadowing, as Incrediboy, Bomb Voyage placed a bomb on his cape before Mr. Incredible removed it leading to the string of events that brought down costumed superheroes in the first place.
* As a young boy, his hair was blond.
* IncrediBoy is a rare instance where a character's voice actor also played their younger self in a Disney film, another being Terk from Disney's *Tarzan*.
* When Buddy sneaks into Mr. Incredible's car, Mr. Incredible goes through several names trying to remember Buddy's name. One of the names he says is Brodie, a reference to Syndrome's voice actor Jason Lee's breakout character from *Mallrats*.
* His villain origin story is similar to the Silver Age version of Lex Luthor from DC Comics. Both characters were once lifelong fans of their respective superheroes (Mr. Incredible and Superman, respectively), until an incident caused them to resent their idols from then on.
* IncrediBoy’s name and what he was doing (making himself seem like a superhero) is quite the same as hero syndrome, the act of causing emergencies and then getting involved in helping deal with them so as to gain attention.