Yippee-ki-yay movie lovers, it's Jan here and today I'm breaking down the new Incredibles
2 trailer for Pixar easter eggs, things you might have missed, plus a theory about the
villain reveal.
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I'm going to start with the meeting at the Devtech building where Mr Incredible, Elastigirl
and Frozone are being introduced to Winston Deavor.
Remember in the sneak peek that Frozone mentioned he'd been approached to set up just such a
meeting.
"I was approached by this tycoon."
"Wants to talk ... about hero stuff."
Notice that in this scene, Mr Incredible and Elastigirl are actually wearing their original
early costumes from the first movie before Edna Mode made them the iconic red suits we're
more used to seeing them in.
And notice that when Winston Deavor pitches his idea to bring the Supers back into public
favour, he's showing a picture of the Incredibles family being led away by a police officer.
From the backdrop of the picture, it looks like it might be during the aftermath of the
Underminer's rampage.
There seems to be a lot of public damage and destruction that happens during the Incredibles'
fight with the Underminer, and it sounds like public opinion might be quite anti-Supers
even if the Parr family did succeed in taking down the villain.
There are also some very cool action shots in the new trailer and I want to particularly
examine this shot of Dash.
The young speedster is running through portals that take him through solid objects.
I think this could be the work of a new character called Voyd who, according to the official
description for her character, has "the ability to divert and manipulate objects around her
by creating voids that allow the objects to appear and disappear."
Voyd hasn't shown up yet in the trailers, but her character description also states
she's "a 'wannabe' Super and a mega-fan of Elastigirl."
But what's also interesting in this scene is that Dash appears to be running in a never-ending
loop.
You can see an image of Dash running through the same portal over and over in the distance.
Now, judging by Voyd's character description, it sounds like she'd be friendly to our band
of superheroes, but what if she's actually a villain in disguise, masquerading as a fan
of Elastigirl?
Could she have trapped Dash in an endless loop of sorts?
Or maybe she is really on their side and created this loop accidentally.
A possible alternative is that these portals are being created by Jack-Jack who has a ton
of superpowers.
In fact, we've already seen him teleport himself before now, including in another scene in
this trailer.
And I wonder, if like me, those scenes made you think a bit of the mutant Blink in X-Men:
Days of Future Past and also Vibe in TV's The Flash.
It also looks like Violet is getting some new powers in the sequel to go with her adolescent
angst.
As well as being able to create forcefield energy shields that can protect her family,
there's a moment during what looks like the Underminer sequence where she seems to cast
force blades or blasts that take out a piece of falling rubble saving the people below.
OK, let's get to the big villain reveal from the trailer.
"The Screenslaver interrupts this program for an important announcement."
It looks like his dastardly plan will be hypnotising and mind-controlling people via their TV screens.
Elastigirl already seems to be aware of his plan as notice how she's shielding her eyes
from the screens in the background here.
This is happening at the local TV station and I think this is going to tie in with the
scene earlier in the trailer where Elastigirl attacks an escaping helicopter.
A recent Incredibles 2 LEGO set has an "Elastigirl Rooftop Pursuit" scene which shows that Screenslaver
is indeed the person piloting the helicopter which also has a spinning hypno-propeller
that can hypnotise you if you look at it.
And there's some evidence now which I think ties Screenslaver with the head of the Devtech
corporation Winston Deavor.
Firstly, the shape of Screenslaver's head seems to match that of Winston's.
And, secondly, think about what business Devtech is involved in: It's a telecommunications
company.
In fact, the LEGO set mentions that Screenslaver is trying to hack into a satellite dish on
the roof of a building.
And that LEGO set building is likely the same TV building as in the trailer.
On top of that, Winston has a sister called Evelyn, who is the tech brainchild behind
the business.
What's more as I mentioned in my breakdown of the Olympics trailer, Evelyn Deavor could
be pronounced "Evil Endeavour", even if that's a little on the nose, all of which gives me
the impression that these two could be up to no good.
There's also something fishy about the tycoon's plan to recruit Elastigirl and there's a possible
hint at that in the recent Edna Mode teaser.
"I'm not all dark and angsty."
"I'm Elastigirl."
"Edna designed this?"
"No!
Some guy named Alexander Galbachy."
I'm not sure if all these evil hints and links to Devtech feel a little too obvious so perhaps
there'll be a further twist in the movie a bit like we got with Coco, but at the moment,
I'm definitely getting some dodgy vibes from Winston.
By the way, it looks like this scene is happening in the city of New Urbem as you can spot part
of a sign for a "New Urbem Savings & Loan" bank in the distance.
New Urbem is a new location that will be introduced in Incredibles 2.
There are also some Pixar easter eggs and call backs in the trailer which I want to
talk about.
"What!"
"Is this all vegetables?!"
"Who ordered all the vegetables?!"
"I did."
The shot of a mountain of broccoli on Dash's plate as he complains about his mum ordering
a vegetable takeout dish is a hat-tip to Inside Out and Riley's aversion to eating that particular
vegetable.
"Hold on, guys."
"It's broccoli!"
"Yucky!"
"Well, I just saved our lives."
"Yeah.
You're welcome."
And those Chinese takeout containers are also another Pixar easter egg as the same style
of food box has been used a number of times in other Pixar movies.
The first time was in A Bug's Life where it was called the "Chinese Cabinet of Metamorphosis".
It's also appeared in the Pizza Planet Truck in Toy Story 2, in Linguini's apartment in
Ratatouille, and it was also in Inside out where, just like the Parr family, Riley and
the Andersens sat down for a dinner of Chinese takeout.
One of the most memorable moments in the first movie was when Frozone went to get his supersuit
so he could join the fight against Syndrome and then this happened.
"Honey?"
"HONEY: What?
"Where is my supersuit?"
"HONEY: What?"
"Where is my supersuit?"
"HONEY: I put it away.2 "Where?"
"HONEY: Why do you need to know?"
"I need it!"
"HONEY: Don't you think about running off doing no derrin'-do."
"We are talking about the greater good."
"HONEY: 'Greater good'?
I am your wife!"
"I'm the greatest good you are ever gonna get!"
So, it was just fantastic to discover that this time he's got his suit at the ready;
although, by the sound of it, his wife Honey still isn't overly keen on her husband's superhero
shenanigans.
"Suit up, it might get weird!"
"I'll be there, asap!"
"HONEY: Where you going asap?!
You better be back asap!"
Now, what do you think about the new Incredibles 2 trailer?
And do you have any theories on the villain or was there anything I missed?
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