The Mrises Incredible

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**The Mrises Incredible** is The Super Name after The Mr. Incredible. / **Helen Parr** (née **Truax**), also known as **Elastigirl**. She is the overall deuteragonist of *The Incredibles* franchise. She is the wife of Bob Parr, and the mother of Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. She is the deuteragonist of *The Incredibles*, and the main protagonist of *Incredibles 2*.

## Biography

### *A Real Stretch: An Elastigirl Prequel Story*

As a teenager, Elastigirl was recruited by Rick Dicker into the NSA program. She operated under the secret identity of Helen Highwater.

### The Incredibles

After resuming hero work, Bob's temperament at home changes dramatically for the better. He gets back in shape and spends more quality time with Helen and their children. Helen finds a strand of platinum-blonde hair on Bob's clothes, and she becomes suspicious when she hears Bob talking on the phone to his contact, Mirage, and begins to believe that Bob might be having an affair.

She shows Helen all of the super suits, and Helen is furious at Edna for helping Bob resume secret hero work behind her back. Edna, who was unaware that he was hiding anything from Helen, informs Helen of the homing device she included in each super suit. Helen uses it to locate Bob and is briefly overcome with emotion, convinced that Bob is cheating on her. Edna snaps her out of it, smacking her furiously with a newspaper and encouraging her to go to him and win him back. An accomplished pilot, Helen borrows a jet from Snug, her pilot from the Golden Days, to journey to the island and find her husband. During the flight, she finds Violet and Dash stowed away. Syndrome sends missiles in response to her request to land on the island and the plane is destroyed, with the transmission of Helen's pleas to call off the missiles playing in the containment unit where Bob is being held. Helen uses her body as a parachute, and with the help of her new, indestructible super suit, saves herself and her children from the wreckage. They land safely in the water, and Helen morphs her body into a boat, which is propelled by Dash's super-speed and carries Violet to land. Mirage confirms the destruction of the jet, leaving Bob to believe his family has been killed.

Helen and the children seek shelter in a cave, where Helen tells Dash and Violet that she is afraid their father is in trouble and instructs them to stay hidden while she goes to look for him. She warns both Violet and Dash that the enemies that shot their plane down are merciless killers, and urges them to use their powers to protect themselves at all costs. Violet apologizes for not being able to protect the plane but Helen replies, saying that it was asking too much of her. Helen also tries to bolster Violet's confidence by telling her that she has more power than she realizes, and not to worry or think because she will do the right thing when the time comes.

Helen leaves the cave to save Bob. She uses her quick thinking skills and elasticity to make her way to the containment unit where her husband is being held captive. On the way, she looks at herself in a hallway mirror and notes that she has put on weight since she retired from superhero work. She runs into Syndrome's security guards, but defeats several of them at once while her body is caught between two sets of sliding automatic doors by kicking one, using her abdomen unintentionally to knock out two others and punching two more to knock them out and obtain the keycard to the doors to free herself. She takes the unconscious guards to a locker and hides them.

Mirage, disillusioned by Syndrome's narcissism and callousness, frees Mr. Incredible and tells her his family survived the crash. Flooded with relief and gratitude, he draws Mirage into an embrace right as Helen enters the room. Helen, livid, delivers an extended punch from the doorway, knocking Mirage to the ground, believing Bob has been unfaithful to her. Bob grasps her extended arm and pulls her in as quickly as he can. Helen resists, but of course, is no match for his strength, and he kisses her passionately, asking her how she could think he would ever betray "the perfect woman." Mirage urges them to hurry because their children are in danger, and Bob and Helen escape into the jungle to find them. Meanwhile, Violet and Dash are attacked by Syndrome's security force, but manage to evade them using their powers. The children and Bob and Helen run into each other along the way and continue to fight the security forces until Syndrome arrives and recaptures the family. Syndrome, recognizing Helen as Elastigirl, is surprised to see that Bob married her and had a family with her.

Back in the containment unit, Syndrome reveals that he intends to use his latest Omnidroid model to attack the city of Metroville, and then orchestrate a rescue, in which he appears to defeat the immense weapon, which is in reality under his control. The Parrs escape again and manage to journey back to Metroville with the help of Mirage, where they, along with Frozone, destroy the Omnidroid v.10 and save the city once again.

Back at their house, they are again confronted by Syndrome, who tries to kidnap Jack-Jack. Syndrome uses his rocket boots to reach his plane, and Jack-Jack reveals his shape-shifting powers in mid-air to overcome Syndrome. Helen orders Bob to throw her into the air and she catches Jack-Jack, using her body as a parachute once again to return them safely to the ground. Bob throws his car at Syndrome's plane, and Syndrome is killed when his cape is sucked into the turbine of his private jet, also resulting in the explosion of his plane.

Three months later, Helen is seen with the rest of the family cheering on Dash at his school's sports day where he finished second. With the threat of The Underminer looming in the city afterward, Helen is seen wearing her mask as she joins the family in the fight against the villain.

### *Incredibles 2*

Elastigirl helps her family attempt to defeat the Underminer, though he escapes. They manage to save the Municiberg town hall, however, they are arrested by the police and require Rick Dicker to bail them out. Dicker escorts them to a motel that they will live in until they find a new home. He tells Helen and Bob that the Super Relocation Program has been shut down and they can only stay at the motel for two weeks. At dinner, she argues against fighting crime against, telling her family that the law dictates they cannot do so.

The hypnotized wannabe supers enter the bridge, who fight the other supers. Since the DevTech Elastigirl super suit was badly damaged, Violet gives Helen her Mrs. Incredible super suit and so Helen becomes Mrs. Incredible once again. She helps her family and Frozone free the wannabe supers of their hypnosis, with the exception of Krushauer, who is dealt with by Mr. Incredible.

While the others focus on stopping the superyacht from crashing into the city, Elastigirl chases after Evelyn's jet and is teleported into it through Voyd's portal. Once she encounters Evelyn, Evelyn steers roughly to throw her around the cabin. Evelyn taunts her as she feels the effects of hypoxia, but as Evelyn keeps talking, she sees a flare gun. She shoots Evelyn's oxygen tank, which propels her out of the jet. Elastigirl pilots the jet and figures out her bearings, then jumps out of the jet to catch a falling Evelyn. Evelyn breaks free, not wanting to be saved by her enemy, but is grabbed again by Elastigirl. She uses her parachute form and Voyd's portal to safely land on the superyacht, just before it reaches the city. Frozone's ice protects the buildings from damage and Evelyn's plan is thwarted. Afterward, Winston thanks her for saving his sister. She is present at the courthouse as the Super Relocation Act is officially repealed, enabling supers to resume hero work freely.

The Parr family and Tony Rydinger are in a new family car on their way to the cinema. Bob and Helen claim they will not be watching Violet and Tony in the cinema, though Bob winks in the rearview mirror. Two cars engaged in a shootout drive past once they get to the cinema. Helen and her family prepare to intervene, though not before Violet shoves Tony out of the car and tells him they will be back before the previews finish. The car transforms into a redesigned Incredibile, and drives off towards the shootout.

## Physical Appearance

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. She has fair skin, rosy cheeks, pink lips, auburn (reddish-brown) hair, and brown eyes.

After fifteen years of forced retirement and three children, Helen wears her hair in a more manageable medium bob, and much to her chagrin carries a little extra weight on her abdomen, hips, thighs, and buttocks.

Following Mr. Incredible's secret return to hero work, the family's old friend and designer extraordinaire Edna Mode designs a new super suit for him, along with matching suits for Helen and their three children. Helen's "Mrs. Incredible" super suit is a red leotard with an orange, black and yellow "I" insignia on the chest that houses a homing device, along with a black mask, long black gloves, black bottoms, an orange belt, and thigh-high black boots.

## Powers & Abilities

#### Powers

* **Superhuman Elasticity:** Elastigirl can convert the mass of her entire body into a highly malleable state at will. In such a state, she can stretch, deform, expand, or compress her entire body or parts thereof into any contiguous shape she can imagine. She can extend her limbs, torso, or neck to great distances: according to her *NSA* file, Elastigirl's functional stretch length is 30 meters. The *Operation Kronos* database stated that she can leap up to 80 feet (24.39 m) via her elasticity. She can also extend her body in two directions, creating a canopy, parachute, or sheath, its thickness determined by the extent of its distention; Elastigirl's minimum thickness is recorded by the NSA as being 1 mm. Her overall strength diminishes in direct proportion to her maximum elasticity.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** Helen possesses super agility, which allows her to perform acrobatic and gymnastic movements very easily.
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** Though superhuman strength is her husband's speciality, she is strong enough to lift and toss a manhole cover, with some difficulty, even though a manhole cover weighs over 200 pounds. She can also knock out a man with one punch.
	+ **Shapeshifting:** She has also shown the ability to shape-shift by means of her elasticity. An example of this is when she transforms into a boat in the middle of the ocean to get Violet and Dash to shore. Another instance is when she transformed into a parachute twice in the first film: first to safely land Violet and Dash in the ocean and second to safely bring Jack-Jack back onto the ground.
	+ **Density Changing:** Helen can augment her bodies shape including compressing it down into a compact form, with her mass remaining the same her can increase or decrease accordingly.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Due to the great malleability and elasticity of her body, Elastigirl has high durability to physical injury. A high degree of protection is also afforded by her super suit. Combined with her super-flexibility, this, in theory, should make her immune to bullets, though this is never truly demonstrated, save for when she is caught in between several doors while sneaking into Syndrome's compound and manages to have a ricochet of bullets deflected from hitting her leg by her super suit's boots. However, Edna Mode verified her suit was capable of withstanding gunfire.

#### Abilities

* **Piloting:** Helen Parr is a highly skilled pilot.
* **Expert Hand-To-Hand Combatant:** Elastigirl is shown to be an exceptional operative, investigator, and tactician, as well as a masterful hand-to-hand combatant. While under the control of Evelyn Deavor, she easily defeated Mr. Incredible, who is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant in his own right. However, it should be noted that she caught him off-guard and Mr. Incredible was holding back at the time.
* **Enhanced Eyesight:** Elastigirl has shown to be able to see very small things, even at long distances: she was able to spot a tiny piece of wall on Bob's shoulder even from the other side of a dim-lighted room.
* **Expert Motorcyclist:** Elastigirl is an expert at driving motorcycles, having once had her own personalized motorcycle that was called the Elasticycle before her retirement. She demonstrated great skill in driving the one given to her by Evelyn and was able to ride precarious ledges and use her elastic powers to slingshot herself and her cycle across far distances in order to catch up to a runaway train.

## Trivia

* The novel *A Real Stretch: An Elastigirl Prequel Story* reveals that Helen's secret identity used to be Helen Highwater before she married Robert Parr.
* In *Incredibles 2*, Helen tells Bob that she used to have a motorcycle and a mohawk during the glory days, both of which Bob was unaware of.
* 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.
* In the Operation Kronos database, she is given a threat warning of 6.2.
* How her body's respiration and circulatory systems function at the distorted extremes she can achieve is currently unknown.
* She is the only Parr family member to have brown eyes while her husband and all three of her kids have blue eyes.
* 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.
* 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 companions 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 the 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.
* The reason why Helen was referred to as Mrs. Incredible in promotional material and merchandising for The First Incredibles Movie and Maybe The Second Incredibles Movie, is because Elastigirl (Helen's original 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. Pixar was forced to use this name for marketing to avoid copyright claims, though this name was only heard once in the first film, by Mirage since she didn't know she and Mr. Incredible were married. DC's Elastigirl has since changed her superhero identity to "Elasti-Woman", however, since 2006, the name Mrs. Incredible was still used afterward.
* Elastigirl looks at the size of her buttocks in the mirror and sighs, just as Tinkerbell did in the movie, *Peter Pan* (1953), when Tinkerbell was surprised by the size of her figure and hips.
* Elastigirl shares a powerset with Mr. Fantastic of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, just like the other members of her family with other Fantastic Four characters.
* Helen Parr'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.
* She bears a resemblance to Annie Hughes from *The Iron Giant* (a film also directed by Brad Bird) and Alice Thompkins from *The Critic* (a television series where Bird served as a creative consultant).
* Helen’s voice actress (Holly Hunter) in “The Incredibles” learned different flying terms so Helen’s voice would sound more realistic in the plane crash scene.