Mr. Incredible

**Robert "Bob" Parr**, also known as **Mr. Incredible**, is the husband of Helen Parr and the father of Violet Parr, Dash Parr, and Jack-Jack Parr, also the overall main protagonist of *The Incredibles* franchise. He is the main protagonist of *The Incredibles* and its first short video *Mr. Incredible and Pals*, the deuteragonist of *Incredibles 2*, and a minor character in its second short video *Auntie Edna*.

## Appearance

Bob is an exceptionally tall and muscular man with a broad chest, shoulders, arms and legs (as it befits his superhuman strength). According to official sources, currently Bob Parr is 6'7" (200 cm) in height and is 350 pounds (158 kg) in weight.

At the beginning of the first film, Bob was 25 years old and slim-waisted. In the present day, a now 40 year-old Bob had become somewhat obese by the time his daughter Violet was in middle school, gaining a large gut. He goes on an intense training regime, and eventually succeeds in losing a lot of the weight so as to resume his super-heroics before leaving to go to Nomanisan Island. He has short, blond hair (which has receded in his middle-age), fair skin and blue eyes.

## Personality

Bob's personality is that of a classical hero. He is nice, friendly, brave, heroic and pleasant. But as shown in newsreels, Bob is physically invulnerable but all too human in his flaws. His NSA file described him as easily distracted and unable to prioritize. He grows weary of a world that cannot stay saved for more than five minutes; and later, shows a streak of hubris and arrogant pride, seeking to relive his glory days at the expense of his family life. Bob also has a tendency to try to solve the world's problems on his own, refusing and actively dismissing help from anyone, even from his loving wife and the sage counsel of his best friend Frozone. These flaws combined nearly cost him his life and the lives of his family. He loves his wife, even though he doesn't spend much time with his family and frequently goes off with Lucius for some crime fighting. He also treats other women with respect, which was picked up by Syndrome, who instructs Mirage to be appreciative, but not seductive, towards Mr. Incredible.

Bob's commitment to doing what is right is so strong that he displays it even when not involved in heroics. This is shown when while working for Insuricare, where he constantly found legal loopholes to help his customers, which often earned him the ire of his greedy and selfish boss, Gilbert Huph. These disagreements eventually came to a head, when Huph stopped Bob from helping a man being mugged, and was glad he didn't help the man. Fed up, Bob angrily grabbed Mr. Huph by the neck and threw him through five walls, leaving him in a full body cast, which caused Bob to lose his job. Bob is also calm, collected, and polite, but occasionally he exhibits an intimidating and ferocious rage, and if sufficiently angered, he can be quite fearsome, such as when he threw Mr. Huph through five walls, appearing to break several of his bones. He always tries to reason with his opponents and appeal to their better nature to avoid unnecessary violence, but if a villain cannot be reasoned with and posed a threat to innocent lives, he tries to terminate them if their capture wasn't an option because he knows how many innocent lives could be lost if he allows them to live. However, he always spares an opponent if they appeared to have underlying goodness, such as Mirage.

In the sequel, Bob has learned to keep his pride and ego somewhat in check. While initially jealous that Helen was chosen to be the face of the superhero legalization campaign over him, he swallowed his pride and was ultimately the one who convinced her to do it, even admitting that it was for his sake after claiming it was for their children. Also, despite his jealousies, Bob continued to deeply love Helen, immediately attempting to rescue her when he believed she was in danger. With Helen doing superhero work, Bob decided to try his best at being a good dad for his children. However, his aggressive methods of doing so ironically only caused him to push them away. Meanwhile, his wife's success caused him to hide his failings from her. All of this ultimately caused him to be exhausted, during which he acted selfishly and short-tempered. It is only when he vents his frustrations and apologizes that he and his children finally start to develop a genuine connection.

## Biography

### Early Life

While not much is known about his early life, Bob has shared he was trained in his days as a rookie hero by veteran wartime hero Jack B. Nimble. Not as naturally agile as his teacher, Bob and Jack worked together to adapt Bob's powerhouse fighting style so he could more easily dodge and move around enemy blows and weaponry.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Superhuman Strength:** Mr. Incredible's primary superpower is his tremendous level of superhuman strength. While the precise limits of his strength aren't clearly established, according to Syndrome's data files on "Supers", Bob's exact lifting limit is well in excess of 66 tons, though he was previously seen bench-pressing an ALCO locomotive, which weighs 153 tons. Even in middle age, he is phenomenally strong, being able to bench-press locomotives and fight on equal footing with the Omnidroid 8000. Mr. Incredible's superhuman strength apparently extends to all his musculature. Most notably, his leg muscles possess sufficient strength to enable him to leap incredible heights, with a significant freedom in his agility and movement.
* **Peak or Above Human Speed:**His superhumanly strong leg muscles also gives him a certain degree of peak-human speed, though it is unknown if his capabilities can be classified as superhuman. While it seemed like he can run significantly faster than any normal human, neither his speed nor agility approached that of his son Dash.
* **Enhanced Agility:** His superhumanly strong muscles allow him to move and perform feats of great agility a normal human being could never do without hurting himself or damaging his ligaments. Combined with his jumping ability, Mr. Incredible is able to perform some astonishing maneuvers no other normal human or even the finest of athletes could do.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Mr. Incredible also possesses a superhuman degree of endurance and stamina. He is capable of engaging in heavy feats of strength and combative endeavors for lengthy durations without tiring readily.
* **Invulnerability:** Mr. Incredible also has a superhuman degree of resistance to physical injury. He can withstand tremendous amounts of physical trauma, including multi-story falls, the direct impact of a train, breaking through brick walls, and withstanding 100,000 volts of electricity while under torture. His body is capable of withstanding the physical stresses needed in order to apply his strength substantialy without his bones or tissues breaking or tearing. At the beginning of the first film, when a common thug threatened him by pointing a gun at him point blank, Mr. Incredible showed no concern or preoccupation getting shot by a low-caliber bullet. He can, however, be cut with very extremely hard metals and a suitable amount of force, and a sufficient amount of blunt or sharp.
* **Enhanced Senses**: According to his *NSA* file, Mr. Incredible can "sense" imminent danger. This power may have been depicted when Bomb Voyage was robbing a bank and Bob heard the faint beeping of an explosive from the other side of a thick wall. Also, when he arrived home after a few hours of vigilantism, he quickly noticed the presence of another person in the dark room; said presence was his wife however.

### Abilities

* **Skilled Strategist**: His years of super-heroic experience allows him to rapidly formulate effective strategies to deal with opponents who cannot be bested by his brute strength alone. It also allows him to work well with other heroes he is familiar with and take advantage of their powers in concert with his own.
* **Skilled Swimmer:** He is also a very good swimmer. His substantial strength aids in his propulsion underwater.
* **Expert Hand-To-Hand Combatant:** Mr. Incredible's vast experience and years of crime-fighting have turned him into an excellent unarmed combatant.

## Weaknesses

* **Durability:** Mr. Incredible doesn't appear to have any specific superhuman weaknesses, but he is as vulnerable as anyone to hubris from the veneration of his "glory days" and in middle age he has a bad back. In a deleted scene, it was implied that his superhuman durability was in of itself a weakness, as it would have exposed him when his fingers dented a butcher knife when he accidentally chopped his hand with it, forcing him to act fast and fake an injury, and later allowed him to be identified by one of the neighbors, an agent of Syndrome.
* **Uncontrollable Strength:** His is immense strength can also be a huge weakness he often has difficulty controlling, as shown when he constantly breaks or dents objects, such as his car and a small plate. It also became a problem when he threw Huph through five walls, which was much harder than he intended.
* **Sharp Attacks:** He can be cut with very extremely hard metals and a suitable amount of force. This is shown when the Omnidroid v.8 cuts him on his shoulder.

* **Molten substances:** Despite being near-indestructible, he is shown to have an aversion to lava, suggesting he is not completely invincible, and can be hurt and ultimately killed by molten substances.
* **Intense Force:** Although Mr. Incredible has a certain degree of invulnerability, things that produce a large force can still cause him pain. For example, when he was going to stop an oncoming train, bare-handed, he winced just before it hit him; according to director Brad Birdthis was him "preparing for the fact that it's going to hurt".