The Incredibles 2 is finally out, and fans and critics alike were oh so pleased with
the sequel as it lived up to the expectations set by the first.
It also gave us a lot to think about when it comes to the grander scheme of the world,
and how it ties together with some other memorable Pixar stories.
So today, we’re returning to our fan theory list about the films, this time around focusing
more so on theories that have spawned from the Incredibles 2.
This is our top 10 the Incredibles theories that will ruin your childhood, part 2!
And don’t worry, not all of them will destroy you.
Also, major spoilers in this video.
You’ve been warned.
10 Freud Let’s start off our list by getting a little
weird.
A theory from Cameron D Jackson on website dapsmagic.com suggests that Violent, Dash
and Jack-Jack represent Sigmund Freud’s theory about the three-part psyche; the Id,
Ego and Superego.
If you need to brush up on your psych 101, the theory, in short, is that everyone’s
psyche is made up of three parts that work together or in opposition, making up who you
are as a person, and dictates your actions.
Back to the Incredibles; each of the children represents one part of this theory.
Jack Jack is the Id; our base instinct that reacts out of need.
He’s incredibly powerful and is unaware of the consequences of his actions.
Dash is the ego, who is impulsive, who seeks fulfillment but employs strategies in pursuit
of his needs.
For example, his whole thing with his remote summoning.
Violet is the super-ego; the conscious that controls the id and is a product of learned
behavior.
Violet learns to control and protect Jack-Jack, and she directs Dash.
For example, she sticks with Jack-Jack in the final battle and makes Dash wait to bring
their father up from the water until Frozone, an outside influence, lets her know it’s
okay to do so.
9 Frozone works for the government When the supers were banned, we see how difficult
it was for Mr. Incredible to hold down a job.
He and the family struggled for a bit.
But look at Frozone.
Dude lived in a nice place, had a bunch of expensive equipment, and seemingly didn’t
have a job in the first film.
This has led some fans to speculate that Frozone works as an informant of the government’s,
who reports back on how some of the most powerful supers are up to.
Other theories speculate that he’s working for the government, not as an informant, but
to create fresh water at a faster rate; we see that he’s capable of pulling water molecules
out of the air, and can create things like water spheres easily.
This means that he is a very useful resource, and his powers may be put to better economic
uses, hence why he doesn’t seem to have a joe job.
8 Pizza Planet We’ll be diving into the Pixar theory in
general later on this list, this smaller theory is just as enjoyable, and acts as an explanation
for an Easter Egg in the film.
From Reddit user TheDipstick47837, this theory speculates that the pizza deliverer who was
brainwashed to act as Screenslaver works for Pizza Planet, and that’s why the Pizza Planet
truck appeared at the start of the movie.
Short and sweet and no childhoods ruined here.
7 Jack Jack and Monsters Inc Let’s expand a bit more on Pixar tie-in
theories!
So, Jack Jack depicts a variety of powers in the film, including shooting laser beams
out of his eyes.
He can also teleport.
One Reddit user by the name of kriptxn speculated that this not only proves that these two films
exist in the same universe – which most of us already are on board with – but that
Jack-Jack is mentioned in Monsters Inc.
So, during Monsters Inc, there’s a scene with a news broadcast that announced a child
security breach.
A few monsters are interviewed by the channel, and one says “well a kid flew right over
me and blasted a car with its laser vision!”
This could be an example of jack jack messing around with his powers, teleporting to the
Monsters Inc dimension, and then hitting a car with his laser beam abilities.
6 Voyd will become evil Well, technically, Voyd does act as an antagonizing
force in the Incredibles 2, while under the control of Evelyn.
But let’s backtrack a moment here.
Voyd is to Helen what Buddy was to Bob.
She’s a mega fan of Elastigirl, who is her idol.
While Helen takes a much kinder approach to Voyd initially, and that Voyd, by the end
of the film, is clearly on the side of good, some have speculated that in the next film,
she’ll be a villain.
While that does seem pretty unlikely – and a bit of a weak storytelling device, all things
considered – the character will likely make a reappearance if there is another sequel,
and many think the character will share a bond with Violet rather than Helen.
Sophia Bush, who plays Voyd, has stated that she’d be interesting in seeming more fierce
female power between her character and Violet Parr, and the two have a pretty great interaction
at the end of Incredibles 2.
5 The Incredibles 3 There’s a theory floating around about the
direction the third – and likely inevitable – sequel in the Incredibles franchise.
At the end of the film, we see Violet’s boyfriend, Tony getting kicked out of the
car as the family speeds away to go fight crime.
As the theory points out, it seems likely that we’ll see more of Tony if the series
gets another installment, but the question is, in what capacity?
Since Violet shoves him out of the car, could it be that her budding new romance could eventually
get worn and weary of this kind of behavior, eventually finding out her true identity,
and turning against her – and the family – out of resentment?
The nature of being a superhero is not an easy one; we’ve seen the impacts Bob and
Helen’s secret identities have had on their attempts at maintaining a ‘normal’ life.
With a sequel, we’ll likely dive further into the lives of the children, and now that
supers are no longer banned, there’s a whole lot of responsibilities that will be on these
characters shoulders, should they continue to act as part of the superhero family team,
which opens the door for any sort of semblance of a social life they may have to completely
go haywire as they continue onwards into their teenage years.
4 Screenslaver and Syndrome One theory kicking around on the interwebs
is that Screenslaver isn’t actually Evelyn; it’s Buddy Pine, aka Syndrome.
So, it was no surprise that Evelyn was behind Screenslaver.
But some fans think that perhaps she was being controlled by Syndrome.
Syndrome seemingly died in the first Incredibles film, although we didn’t see his death on
screen.
While there’s many a theory that questions whether he’s alive, this one assumes that
he has Dissociative Personality Disorder; a split personality disorder that has a tendency
to affect individuals with incredibly high intelligence and creativity; two traits that
Buddy most definitely boasted.
The idea behind this is that Buddy manipulated Evelyn, knowing her family’s connection
to supers and her brother’s obsession with them, he would use them as a backup plan if
his initial plan failed.
A bit of a long shot, but an interesting one, nonetheless.
3 Ayn Rand This theory is a two-parter, and takes up
this and our next number.
So, for starters, back when the Incredibles came out, many fans thought that it was a
subtle introduction to the philosophies of Ayn Rand by director/writer Brad Bird.
Like, a kid-friendly version of why objectivism is good and altruism is bad.
If you’re unfamiliar with Objectivism, it’s a belief crafted by Rand that states moral
truths exist independently of human knowledge or perception of them.
Reality exists independently of consciousness, and one can attain objective knowledge from
perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic.
The moral purpose of one’s life is one’s own happiness, and rational self-interest
and the rights of the individual are the only social systems consistent with this morality.
Certain individuals are inherently superior to others, and the inferior will attempt to
stifle the natural order by repressing the rights of the individual.
So yeah, kinda s****.
How does this tie into the Incredibles?
The film takes place in a world where superheroes are outlawed by governments who are more concerned
by the collateral damage they cause than the good they do.
Syndrome uses his technological genius to create devices that equalize in order to negate
natural order by giving the masses superpowers; when everyone’s super, no one will be.
2 Disproven Aside from Brad Bird calling that theory ridiculous,
people still ran with the Rand theory.
That is until the Incredibles 2 came out.
Now it’s shifted gears; the idea is that Bird’s intention with the sequel is to intentionally
condemn objectivism.
The Screen Slaver, who is the main villain of interest in the film, has a monologue early
on that’s really neat.
For starters, it’s about how people are content to waste away their lives starring
at screens opposed to actually living their lives.
It’s done overtop a montage that is exactly that; a massive screen distraction that’s
so compelling that when you first watch the film, you may miss what Slaver is saying to
begin with.
It’s really well done.
Slaver also notes that the superheroes provide complacency to people rather than inspiring
them to do great things.
All of this makes Screen Slaver, or rather, Evelyn Deavor, the character behind the villain,
quite the objectivist.
1 The Pixar Theory We touched on the Pixar theory briefly on
our part 1 list, but since The Incredibles 2 came out, fans have further elaborated on
how the sequel ties into the idea that all Pixar films are connected.
In case you’re unfamiliar with it, the theory states that all of the Pixar films all exist
on one giant timeline within the same world.
Since it came to be, there’s been a whole lot of embellishing on theory, but typically,
most believe that it begins with the Good Dinosaur, and ends with Monsters Inc, and
that humans serve as a power source of sorts – humans are what make the toys in Toy Story
come to life, and in Monster’s Inc, the monsters travel to the human world to essentially
collect energy from humans.
Buy’n’Large, the company that takes over the world in Wall-E, and appears throughout
other Pixar titles, is theorized to have been created by the Omnidroid from Incredibles
1; the technology is so smart that it realizes it doesn’t need to take commands from humans,
hence creating its own company that inevitably rules the planet via capitalism.
Monster’s Inc is said to run on a parallel timeline to the main, and we see that they’re
running into an energy crisis, meaning there isn’t enough fear for them to collect.
By the end of the film, we learn that joy is a much more powerful emotion to harvest.
This is where the Incredibles 2 comes into play; that film is responsible for the shift
from fear to joy.
So, the villain in the Incredibles 2 is the ScreenSlaver, whose master plan is to break
humans out of the cycle of choosing convenience over quality; she plans on breaking them by
using the very screens they have become reliant on.
Except her plan is stopped before it comes into full fruition.
So the machines get better at their jobs.
People become more comfortable and reliant on them.
And then we have the stepping stones to the plot of Wall-E. Fear is becoming obsolete
because the machines are making life so incredibly easy and protected for humans.
Long story short, the Incredibles films set up the technology that later leads to Wall-E,
and is the reason why fear becomes less prevalent as far as the Monsters are concerned.
There we have it, friends!
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