Elastigirl

***Your Elastigirl! My God, pull yourself together! - Edna Mode to Helen Parr***

## Elastigirl

### Personality

Gentle, feisty, smart, sometimes short-tempered, independent, humble, maternal, confident, strong-willed, protective, kind, selfless, resourceful, motherly, loving, warm, caring, no-nonsense, supportive, serious, strict, intelligent, somewhat hypocritical, slightly insecure, defensive, flexible, sweet, sensitive, strong

### Loves/Likes

Her family, obedience, honesty, peace, justice, gender equality, motorcycles

### Hates/Dislikes

Dishonesty, distrust, Dash and Violet's disobedience, crime, her husband's antics, lies, injustice, her family in danger, freezing temperatures, getting hypnotized, betrayal

### Allies

Frozone, Edna Mode, Kari McKeen, Mirage, Rick Dicker, Winston Deavor, Evelyn Deavor (formerly), Voyd, Brick, Screech, He-Lectrix, Krushauer, Henrietta Selick, Tony Rydinger

### Enemies

Syndrome, Mirage (formerly), Evelyn Deavor, Omnidroid, Underminer, Organa, Xerek, Screenslaver

### Relatives

Bob Parr (husband)Violet Parr (eldest daughter)Dash Parr (younger son)Jack-Jack Parr (youngest son)

### Qoute

"Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!"

**Elastigirl** (real name Helen Parr) is the deutaragonist in Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles and the protagonist in it's

sequel.

## Background

### Personality

Prior to marrying Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl seemed to have a strong opinion, stating that she both planned to break the "glass ceiling" (as Supers were a predominantly male profession) and would *not* settle down, at that time, in her firebrand ways as a married housewife. Life had other plans for her, however, as Mr. Incredible had managed to be so dazzling that she broke down and agreed to marry him. Shortly after their wedding, a chain reaction of events involving lawsuits results in Supers being outlawed by the U.S. government.

Since it became illegal to work as a Super, her goal of becoming a prominent superheroine was made a moot point. Elastigirl then changed to a more traditional role: becoming a housewife and devoting her effort to being a good wife and mother. This is particularly important for raising three children while living in witness protection and trying to raise super-children in a normal world.

Helen adjusted skillfully to the anti-Super law by completely renouncing her career as Elastigirl. In the privacy of the Parr residence, however, she still sometimes used her superpowers to aid her in housework and keep her three children under control. Her biggest concern is that since both she and Mr. Incredible were superheroes, their marriage has begotten "superkids", and she does not want her children breaking the anti-Super law (whereas her husband takes the stance that the kids need to revel in their very special abilities).

## Trivia

* In *Incredibles 2*, Helen tells Bob that she used to have not only a bike (The "Elasticycle") during the Glory Days, she also had a mohawk. Bob was unaware of it, which leads to Helen reassuring him, "*You didn't miss anything*".
* According to official sources, Helen is in her late thirties and she is 5'8" (172 cm) in height and is 125 pounds (56 kg) in weight.
* Helen's (Holly Hunter) flight approach into Nomanisan Island is similar to Dorinda's (Holly Hunter) end-of-movie flight in *Always* where the plane is in an uncontrollable dive and then she pulls hard on the controls to regain control of the plane. In both, she is initially distracted before returning to the controls to avert complete disaster when the plane crashes.
* When borrowing a plane, Helen's pilot call sign is "India Golf Niner-Niner", which translates to IG99, a reference to the 1999 film *The Iron Giant*, also directed by Brad Bird.
* In the alternate opening to the movie, Helen Parr (then known by Helen Smith) was to be present at a welcoming ceremony by their neighbors along with her husband and daughter Violet (who was an infant at the time). One of her neighbors talks badly about children, causing Helen to snap at her and almost reveal her true identity, but managed to stop herself when her neighbor asked what her former job was. She also ended up allegedly taking Bob Smith to the hospital after the latter allegedly severely injured his fingers with a butcher knife while working the barbecue (in actuality, he was not injured at all and dented the cleaver with his fingers as a result of his superhuman durability, so they were forced to fake his injury in order to maintain his secret identity). They were later endangered by an old enemy of Mr. Incredible, Syndrome (then a minor villain), but they managed to escape the house when their encounter with Syndrome caused a gas leak that detonated, although Syndrome was not nearly as lucky.
* Coincidentally enough, Elastigirl, Helen's superhero name, is also the name of a superheroine with similar elasticity-based superpowers that originated from the DC Comics superhero team, the Doom Patrol. The character's civilian name also resembles Helen's, her surname being Farr.
	+ This was the main reason why Disney/Pixar was forced to use the name **Mrs. Incredible** for marketing to avoid copyrights. The DC character's name has since been changed to "Elasti-Woman", presumably as a compromise to allow Disney/Pixar to use "Elastigirl" again.
	+ The name "Mrs. Incredible" is used in the first movie only once, by Mirage, because in that moment nobody knew Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl were married.
* Elastigirl shares a powerset with Mr. Fantastic of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four. Other members of the family have counterparts in the team (Bob/the Thing, Violet/Invisible Woman, Jack-Jack in fire form/Human Torch).
* In earlier scripts of *The Incredibles*, after Helen calls her friend Snug Porter inquiring about a jet, he pilots her and the hidden children to Syndrome's island, and is killed when the plane was destroyed by the missiles. Helen realizes he is dead when she spots his cap sinking into the ocean depths with the wreckage. This is foreshadowed by photographs of Snug and Elastigirl together in her youth as boone companions still seen in the final cut of the movie, suggesting he was her flight instructor instead.
	+ Brad Bird fought to keep the scene as it was originally written which reached storyboard stage, but ultimately accepted that having Helen at the controls, and thus having the situation entirely in her hands, created more tension and impact.
* During the interview that opens the first movie, Helen's attitude towards a possible retirement is denying the idea completely, while Bob admits he would do it; while actually retired, their attitudes are reversed.