The Red-And-White Version of Elastigirl

**Elastigirl** is The Super Name .

## Description

It has a white torso, a red belt, and a black circle with a white letter "e" standing for "Elastigirl." There are red boots that go over the knees and red gloves that go over her elbows. It had no tights.

## Personality

**In her younger days as Elastigirl, was very adamant about breaking into a man’s world (that is, the world of superheroes). She also didn't feel that marriage was in her future because she believed that marriage would ruin her style. However, she ultimately falls in love with Mr. Incredible and marries him. Following their marriage and the subsequent outlawing of Supers, Helen gives up her feminist attitude of breaking into the male-dominated world of Supers, as their abolishment makes that a moot point. She takes on a more traditionalist mindset as a wife and mother.** As a housewife, she has a sharp wit and cares for her family's well-being. She wants to make them happy but is concerned with ensuring nobody finds out that they are superheroes. While she can sometimes be a little irritable, she usually tries to remain composed, though she can get panicked or angry under pressure. She is often more authoritative with her children than her husband Bob, who is often too distracted to be substantially authoritative. An argument with Bob occurred over Dash being punished for performing a prank, which Bob actually thought funny. Helen argued that Bob is encouraging rebellious behavior in Dash, something she wants to nip in the bud. 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 to break the anti-Super law (whereas her husband takes the stance that the kids need to revel in their very special abilities). **Helen adjusted skilfully to the anti-Super law by completely renouncing her career as Elastigirl, which spared her from becoming Syndrome's target, unlike her husband and Frozone She uses both her superpowers and her innate abilities as a wife and mother to unify her family and protects them at all costs. She is quick-witted, resourceful, talented, passionate, driven, and supportive. Throughout the story, she is the only unwavering character, always sure of herself and always caring for those around her. She is the stronghold of the Parr family and is the glue that holds them all together.**

## 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. **In her glory days as Elastigirl, she had long reddish hair and a slim, athletic figure, with the exception of rather wide hips. She wore a light grey leotard with a black and white "E"/"G" insignia on the chest, with a scarlet headband, mask, and belt, long scarlet gloves, and thigh-high scarlet boots.** 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.

## 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.
		- **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.
* **Enhanced 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.
* **Hand-To-Hand Combat:** 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.

## Weaknesses

* **Temperature Extremes:** If Elastigirl is exposed to extreme cold, her body becomes harder and less pliable as the temperature decreases until ultimately it actually becomes brittle, possibly breaking if she exerts too much force. Likewise, if she is exposed to extreme heat, such as electricity, she seems to enter a pseudo-melted state, where she is limp and extremely pliable.
* **Elasticity:** Her own elasticity can sometimes be problematic, as it caused her leg, torso, and arm to be caught in three doors.
* **Blunt Force:** Absorbing large shocks to her form is physically exhausting and a sufficient amount of blunt force, such as three anti-aircraft missiles going off at the same time, can render her unconscious. Also, in spite of her bodily malleability, Elastigirl can be disoriented by solid enough impact, such as her own blows, as seen when Voyd re-directed one of Helen's elongated punches through a portal and causing Elastigirl to accidentally punch herself, leaving her briefly dazed.
* **Forced Stretching:** Forced stretching, even under several tons of load, appears to cause pain and discomfort but no permanent or even temporary harm.

## 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.
* 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.