1. What is the family's surname?
Parr
Bob, Helen, Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack Parr live in Metroville under the Superhero Relocation Program, after a lawsuit from a man Bob saved against his will drove the supers underground. Parker, among the distractors, is Spider-Man's family name.
2. What is Mr. Incredible's civilian first name?
Bob
Robert Parr, a claims adjuster at Insuricare who coaches customers through the company's loopholes and eventually throws his boss, Mr Huph, through several walls. Huph is voiced by Wallace Shawn, and Bob is fired for it.
3. What superhero name does Helen use?
Elastigirl
She stretches, flattens and reshapes herself, turning into a parachute for the children and a boat with Dash as the outboard motor. In the sequel it is Elastigirl who gets the public hero's job while Bob stays home with Jack-Jack.
4. Who voices Mr. Incredible?
Craig T. Nelson
Nelson was best known as the title character of the sitcom Coach, which suits a man who spends the film wishing the glory days back. Tim Allen, among the distractors, is Pixar's Buzz Lightyear, and John Goodman its Sulley.
5. Who voices Helen?
Holly Hunter
Hunter, an Oscar winner for The Piano, gives Helen the brisk Georgia-accented voice of a woman who has made her peace with suburbia and is better at the job than her husband. Helen Hunt, among the distractors, is a different Helen entirely.
6. What is Dash's main power?
Super speed
Dash is fast enough to run across water, which he discovers mid-chase on the island, and at school he is in trouble for putting a tack on his teacher's chair faster than the camera can catch. At the closing track meet he is told to come a close second.
7. Which pair of abilities does Violet have?
Invisibility and force fields
Violet is voiced by Sarah Vowell, the writer and public radio essayist, who was cast after the director heard her on This American Life. The force fields fail her under pressure in the plane, and the film is partly about her learning to hold one.
8. What is the baby called?
Jack-Jack
Jack-Jack appears powerless until the climax, when babysitter Kari and then Syndrome discover he can burst into flame, turn to metal and become a small demon. The short Jack-Jack Attack fills in Kari's very long evening.
9. What is Bob's superhero friend Lucius called?
Frozone
Lucius Best, Bob's best friend, freezes the moisture in the air and needs water to work with, which nearly costs him in the burning building. The two men spend their so-called bowling nights listening to a police scanner for trouble to meddle in.
10. Who voices Frozone?
Samuel L. Jackson
Jackson had done little animation before this, and Frozone's argument with his wife, Honey, about where his super suit has gone is the line most quoted back at him. Keith David, among the distractors, voices Goliath in Gargoyles.
11. Who designs the family's superhero outfits?
Edna Mode
Edna's voice belongs to the film's director, who laid down a temporary track and kept it when no actress bettered it. She builds the whole family suits unasked, and the homing beacon she sews into them is what later betrays Bob's position on the island.
12. What costume feature does Edna firmly reject?
Capes
Thunderhead, Stratogale, Meta Man, Dynaguy and Splashdown all died by cape in Edna's slideshow, snagged on missiles, turbines and takeoff. Syndrome wears one anyway, and at the end his own jet turbine proves Edna's point.
13. What name does Buddy Pine use as the villain?
Syndrome
Buddy was Incrediboy, the fan Mr Incredible brushed off during the fight with Bomb Voyage, and he has spent the years since selling weapons and luring retired supers to his island to be killed by the Omnidroid. He is voiced by Jason Lee.
14. What is the large fighting robot called?
The Omnidroid
A learning battle robot that Syndrome has been improving by feeding it supers; Mr Incredible beats one version by tricking it into tearing out its own power core. The final model is turned loose on the city so that Syndrome can arrive and play hero.
15. Who wrote and directed the film?
Brad Bird
Bird came to Pixar from The Iron Giant, a flop that is now a classic, and this was the studio's first film about humans rather than toys, bugs, monsters or fish. It won the Oscar for animated feature and another for sound editing; Bird also voices Edna.
