Pixar's The-Incredibles 001/TV-Tropes

* **Superheroes Wear Capes:** Defied in *The Incredibles*, where Edna Mode, superhero costume designer for Mr. Incredible, cites numerous superhero fatalities that have stemmed from their capes. And, out of universe, the animators didn't want to deal with capes flapping around. They did have one character wear a cape- Buddy/Syndrome, who's established early on as a superhero fanboy with a major flair for the dramatic. And it comes back to bite him, just like Edna warned Bob.

Edna: No capes!
* **Turbine Blender:** During the "no capes" montage, Stratogale has just leveled out a Boeing 707 from a dive, flies up in front of the wing and waves at a male passenger only to be sucked into the engine when her cape gets pulled into the turbine intake. The passenger looks on in alarm and must have been scarred for life (if the plane was able to land safely) because while the audience is allowed a Discretion Shot, he obviously wasn't...
	+ The Big Bad Syndrome suffers the same fate at the end of the movie. In this case, the engine explodes followed by the entire plane.
* **An The Cape**: While it is possible that all of the superheroes displayed in *The Incredibles* can qualify as this, Mr. Incredible and Syndrome's dynamic can qualify as a deconstruction of this trope. Mr. Incredible is shown to be a popular and inspiring hero, having many flattering articles of his super heroics, a fan club and even a key to the city of Metroville given to him by the mayor. This leads to him inspiring his "number one fan" Buddy to want to become a superhero just like him and trying to be his sidekick "Incrediboy." Because Mr. Incredible only wants to work alone (or, maybe more importantly, had just had a long day "at the office" which Buddy did not make any easier), he inadvertently crushes the boy's dreams in an attempt to keep him safe, leading to him to becoming a sociopathic super*villain* who's plot is to become a superhero in the eyes of the public involves killing off various veteran heroes, unleashing a giant robot into populated areas and then "stopping it", become a bastardization of The Cape.
* **Cape Snag:** This is the old Trope Namer. It isn't hard to see why, as it Lampshades the topic quite heavily.

Edna Mode has a good reason to never add capes onto superheroes' costumes again solely because too many have gotten into accidents related to them. When Bob requests one on his new costume, she shoots him down:
Bob: Something classic, like — Dynaguy! Oh, he had a great look! Oh, the cape and the boots...!
Edna: *[throwing crumpled up paper at Bob]* No capes!
Bob: Isn't that my decision?
Edna: Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? man, good with kids.
Bob: Listen-
Edna: November 15th of '58! All was well, another day saved, when... his cape snagged on a missile fin!
Bob: Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb—
Edna: Stratogale! April 23rd, '57! Cape caught in a jet turbine!
Bob: E, you can't generalize about these things...
Edna: Man, express elevator! Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex! *NO CAPES!*
Given an Ironic Echo of sorts when Syndrome's cape gets caught in a jet turbine in the climax, leading to his death.
**The Family-Unfriendly Deceased:** Mr. Incredible tosses a car at Syndrome, causing him to go flying into the engine of his jet plane where his cape gets caught in a propeller, where he is quickly pulled into the engine and chopped to pieces before the jet explodes (granted the moment of death was off-screen it was still pretty gruesome to think about). Earlier in the film, Edna Mode listed a number of superheroes who had met their untimely demise on account of their capes getting hung, one of which just so happened to get sucked into a jet enginenote Worse yet, the superhero in question was a teenage girl. Anvilicious foreshadowing. Even more so when you realise that it means that little bits of flesh and blood and bone would be raining down over the neighbourhood for a few minutes afterwards.

Also, every time a hovercraft exploded with a Mook inside.
**Cruel And-Unusual Deceased:** Syndrome is run through a jet turbine. Feet first.

The same thing happened to teenage super-heroine Stratogale, though she went in head first.
**Surprisingly Realistic Outcome/Reality-Ensues:** When Syndrome threatens that he will come back and nab Jack-Jack, Bob decides to eliminate him rather than let him go.

Syndrome gets sucked into the plane's engine, causing the already damaged plane to catch fire and explode - and since it was hovering above the Parrs' house, the wreckage falls right on the house and destroys it.
**Deceased-Montage:** Played for laughs in The Incredibles, to explain why wearing a cape will inevitably lead to a Cape Snag, and why Edna Mode is very, very adamant about her "NO CAPES!" policy. And to be clear, these are deaths. The database on every hero in the Special Features disc for the DVD does confirm they all died due to "Suit Malfunctions".