Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, it's Jan here and today I want to talk about everyone's
favourite super-baby, Jack-Jack, and explain and rank his seventeen powers.
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your top three Jack-Jack powers.
Spoilers ahead for Jack-Jack's scenes, so take care if you haven't seen Incredibles
2 yet and remember you can add this video to your watch-later playlist.
We see this very briefly in Incredibles 2 when Jack-Jack sneezes.
After Mr Incredible discovers Jack-Jack's powers for the first time, we see a brief
lightning effect around the super-powered baby suggesting he can summon electricity.
In fact, it reminds me a bit of Thor's lightning powers in the MCU.
After Syndrome kidnapped Jack-Jack in the first movie, the baby transformed into metal,
dragging the villain down and throwing him off balance.
Jack-Jack's levitation powers are a fun spectacle we've seen in the short Jack-Jack Attack and
Incredibles 2, and it's something he appears to be able to control quite well.
Associated with this power is his ability to reverse gravity selectively.
For example, in the short, while Jack-Jack hangs upside down on the ceiling, he maintains
his position but allows the milk from his bottle to fall onto Kari.
When manifesting his powers, Jack-Jack displays various degrees of super-strength, durability
and resistance.
During the racoon fight, he physically wrestles, kicks, and smacks the creature across the
yard, and he also picks up and throws garden furniture with ease.
In Jack-Jack Attack, he was able to chew his way through a wooden playpen.
There wasn't any sign of wood left over either, suggesting Jack-Jack's body can even cope
with digesting organic matter like wood.
His skin is also pretty damage-resistant because he can withstand fighting with the racoon
and even turning himself on fire.
And that ability to burst into flames is pretty cool and what he touches can catch fire too.
He used this power against Syndrome in the first movie, but it's something that often
seems to be triggered by emotion.
It'd definitely be good to see him learn to harness the ability more and even potentially
throw fireballs.
Another cool power Jack-Jack has in Incredibles 2 is the ability to rocket jump or blast off
and that often seems to be brought on by a sneeze.
Jack-Jack has a sort of elasticity, similar to his mother, where he can stretch his body,
for example, when he's attacked by the raccoon.
And this could well be an important part of his seeming invulnerability.
There's an interesting moment in the Incredibile when, after escaping from the hynoptised Supers
at the house, the Parr children are feeling unsure about how to go forward.
Jack-Jack levitates, rotates and at the same time performs a weird reality distortion effect
that warps and wobbles the space inside the car.
This reminds the kids that they have a secret weapon: their highly super-powered baby brother
and that kick-starts them into action.
Seeing Jack-Jack create multiple copies of himself is pretty awesome.
This is a useful skill against an opponent, and we see this when Jack-Jack attacks the
racoon, and it reminds me somewhat of Agent Smith from The Matrix.
Jack-Jack also self-multiplies at Edna's house and while he's there we also get to see his
power of mimicry.
He can not only make himself look like the feisty fashion designer, but he can also imitate
her physical expressions.
Jack-Jack used his ability to shapeshift into a demon to ferociously good effect against
Syndrome.
As the infant transforms he gets red skin, longer nails and sharper teeth, plus his muscles
expand giving him increased strength and manoeuvrability which he uses to pull out Syndrome's hair
and attack his rocket boots.
The sequel also shows Jack-Jack transforming into a demon on multiple occasions and suggests
this power is often triggered when the toddler gets angry, for example, when he's denied
a cookie.
It's a pretty funny moment in Incredibles 2 when Jack-Jack grows into a giant baby,
bursting out of an air vent where he and his siblings are hiding.
He also then smashes and runs through a series of metal walls in a moment that reminded me
of Juggernaut in X-Men 3.
Of course, with Ant-Man And The Wasp out this year as well, I couldn't help but also think
of Giant-Man.
Jack-Jack's ability to teleport is an incredibly useful one that first manifested in Jack-Jack
Attack.
This is the first power he ever displayed and happened just after Kari put on some classical
music by Mozart.
The Parr family had always assumed Jack-Jack was normal.
But just after Kari puts on some Mozart, Jack-Jack seems to perk up and his eyes dilate and in
the next few seconds his powers kick into action.
It seems it was Mozart that unlocked Jack-Jack's latent superpowers because, as Kari says to
Helen, "I also brought Mozart to play while he sleeps
because leading experts say Mozart makes babies smarter."
Phasing through solid objects like walls and windows is another incredibly useful skill
as it means Jack-Jack isn't really constrained by any physical boundaries.
Kari witnessed this to hilarious effect in Jack-Jack Attack and we also see him use it
in Incredibles 2.
Not only can Jack-Jack teleport between physical locations, but he can also travel to other
dimensions and once there he can still even communicate with our own dimension.
"Cookie!
Cha cha want a cookie?!"
"Nam nam cookie!"
"Cha cha want num num?"
By the way, the other dimension scene is a fantastic easter egg to the classic horror
movie Poltergeist which I talk more about in my easter eggs video.
There's a link for that at the end of this video and in the video description.
We first get a taste of Jack-Jack's telekinetic powers when, during the raccoon scene, he
uses his mind to raise the trash can lid off the floor.
And it's Jack-Jack who ultimately breaks the hypnotic spell cast on Elastigirl when he
telekinetically removes her googles.
Jack-Jack's telekinesis is a new ability that we see for the first time in the sequel and
this power's been wielded by some of the most powerful heroes on screen.
Think Professor X and Jean Grey from the X-Men and Eleven from Stranger Things.
Jack-Jack's seventeen powers are all fantastic, so deciding on my favourite was tough, but
his laser vision and how he uses it in the raccoon scene is pretty amazing.
We did see the laser eyes for the first time in Jack-Jack Attack where Kari used a hand-mirror
to deflect the rays, however, one of the funniest moments in Incredibles 2 has to be when Bob
turns Jack-Jack into a kind of baby laser gun.
Now, what your three favourite Jack-Jack powers?
And what would you like to see him do if there's another sequel?
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