The Incredibles/Fridge

Red + Blue = Violet

Fridge Brilliance

• The producers went for an Ironic Name and juxtaposition with the names of the film and family: The Incredibles and the Parrs. 'Par' means average, something which Supers are not.
• In Mr. Incredible's first suit at the beginning, the 'i' is large, covering a large portion of the front — symbolic that Bob works alone and that it's all about him. In the red suit, it's much smaller and surrounded by a circle. It symbolises that he can't just think of and work by himself anymore; he has a family to consider, and he's ultimately stronger with them.
• Mr. Incredible and Incrediboy/Syndrome have the same initials: Bob Parr and Buddy Pine.
• The film is set in the 1960s, but there's quite a bit of Anachronism Stew in terms of the technology and culture. This is because there are people with Tony Stark-like intelligence like Syndrome.
• What did Elastigirl tell Mr. Incredible in their first scene together? "You need to be more flexible". It highlights the Personality Powers aspect of the characters that the Rubber Man character is better able to adjust to a new situation, while the Nigh-Invulnerable guy is more set in their ways.
• The federal government was liable to be sued for damages caused by Supers as they were part of the government, and Good Samaritan laws weren't enacted until the 1970s. Therefore, the wave of lawsuits frightened the government into shutting the project down. Another reason for the Super ban could be the lack of supervillains capable of causing catastrophes, so there was no motivation for the government to keep them legal.
• Mr. Incredible originally had a blue supersuit while Elastigirl had a suit that featured red. What did they name their first child? Violet. The violet motif is also very prevalent with her.
• The three Parr children have names that match what their powers are: Dash has super speed, and Violet can create purple-tinged forcefields and become invisible, with ultraviolet light being invisible to the naked eye. So when Jack-Jack was given his name, it was an indicator that he was a jack-of-all-trades, because of his myriad of powers that he demonstrates in Jack-Jack Attack and at the film's end.
• The Parrs' and Frozone's powers correspond with their personalities and family positions. Bob is the family's strength and protector; Helen is flexible, as busy mothers need to be; Violet is a self-conscious teenager, wanting to be invisible at times and put up barriers; Dash is a young kid, full of energy; and Jack-Jack is a baby, full of potential, still undefined. Frozone is the cool friend/uncle to the Parrs.
• Violet's hair is a perfect metaphor for her personality. She's the 'black sheep' of her family, feels isolated and insecure, which is represented by her black hair, which contrasts sharply with that of the rest of her family. It hides her face, but one of her eyes peek through, which represents her desire to be noticed despite her insecurity. In the end, she wears it back with a hairband, showing her confidence and new-found control over her emotions. She's also a girl who can turn invisible with a hair colour over two thirds of the population have. She is made to blend.
• Mr. Huph's speech about how a company is like a clock ironically fits with the movie's theme on teamwork and family.
• Mirage is Ambiguously Brown and has an accent which is difficult to pinpoint, because her ethnicity, like everything else about her, is a mystery.
• Helen is shown to have highly sensitive vision, given she noticed a piece of rubble on Bob's shoulder from across the room, a hair on one of his suits, and saw a monopod coming from a long distance. The eye focuses on objects by adjusting the curvature of the crystalline lens, and it is evident that Helen's superpower also applies to her eyes, giving her much better vision than the average person.
• Normally a suburban home wouldn't have a sprinkler system installed, but the Parrs are backed by the government's Superhero Relocation Program. The government knows that families with powers are more likely to have a fire, such as Jack-Jack's combustion power or Dash creating friction from Super Speed.
• The Omnidroid v.8's tactics when fighting Mr. Incredible make perfect sense since this was the version made when Frozone was still Syndrome's next target. It chases Mr. Incredible into a volcano and coats its claws with lava, tactics which would have melted Frozone like an ice cube.
• The symbols on Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible's suits are combined on the red suits.
• Why did Syndrome choose the name 'Syndrome'? According to dictionary.com, syndrome can mean "The pattern of symptoms that characterize or indicate a particular social condition". Keep in mind that Syndrome is Incrediboy and he pretty much had his hero tell him he was useless, and that he has shut himself off from the world to get revenge. Syndrome has ASPD.
• Syndrome's Self-Serving Memory of the Bomb Voyage incident excludes said villain and portrays Mr. Incredible's posture and tone in a far more condescending manner. The villain was blocked out by Syndrome to avoid making a connection between himself and the banning of Supers. He only remembers the "insult" Bob made to him, not the danger he was in or what arose from his impulsive attempt to be a hero.
• Mr. Incredible realizes that the Syndrome drops a bomb down the waterfall, since it bears a close resemblance (small, round, blinking light) to the ones used by Bomb Voyage.
• Universal Man was the first Super to be killed by an Omnidroid. The NSA bonus features reveal that he hated having a secret identity and probably did not take the Registration Act well. That would explain why he was the first one to answer the call to get back in the game.
• Considering that Supers had been in forced retirement for fifteen years by the time of the main story, it's likely many of them were defeated by the Omnidroids so easily because of how out of practice they were when Syndrome contacted them.
• On the database Mr. Incredible was looking at, Elastigirl's whereabouts were 'unknown' while Frozone's were 'known', likely only after Mirage saw him and Bob. The Parrs and Frozone kept a low profile after the Super ban, hence Syndrome's difficulty in finding them, particularly with the Parrs frequently moving due to Bob's secret identity being exposed multiple times.
• Plasmabolt is one of the few Supers from the Golden Age who doesn't fall victim to an Omnidroid or Cape Snag. Syndrome being unable to track her down and lure her to his island makes sense given that her secret identity is as a forest ranger, far from civilization. She's also described as being pretty adamant about keeping her Secret Identity separate from her life as a hero, and she wears a mask that makes it hard to pick out any identifying features on her face.
• Syndrome named his plan 'Operation Kronos' since he sees himself as Zeus, overthrowing the Supers like Zeus did to his father Cronus. The computer password 'KRONOS' highlights how Syndrome sees himself above Supers like how Cronus was the father of many gods. It foreshadows Syndrome being overthrown by the Supers.
• As pointed out in the DVD Commentary, Edna begrudgingly gives Helen some toilet paper to dry her tears when she believes Bob is cheating on her. Someone with Edna's self-confidence would be the last person who would need Kleenex in their house.
• How was Helen not injured when she shielded the kids from Syndrome's missiles? Edna made her supersuit virtually indestructible. Her suit acted as a built-in shield. This was foreshadowed when Edna shows Helen the supersuit in the testing chamber; she fires rockets into it and the suit is unscathed.
• The scene where Helen/Elastigirl sees her backside in a reflection and reacts with disgust. Why? Like, obviously it's intended to express her displeasure with her age, but...has she even aged "poorly"? If anything it's enhanced her appearance. Instead of being a skinny teenager, she's become a curvy adult woman and somehow maintained her looks, after twenty years, despite having THREE kids. This is the equivalent of that Batman: The Animated Series episode where Calendar Girl sees her reflection and despite still being beautiful, she sees herself as "ugly" for some reason. Only now it's like, if she saw herself, looked demonstrably more attractive and curvaceous than before but somehow viewing it as "ugly"...or is this meant to just show she's vain? In a way it's an interesting question, since it could, literally, have been Pixar pointing out how absurd vanity is, just like Calendar Girl.
• Syndrome's speech about how he'll sell his inventions to the people, and make everyone heroes, and then there won't be any. This is analogous to superheroes being special, and being better, so the phrase could mean equality. This phrase takes on a new meaning when one realises that Syndrome's a weapons contractor/arms dealer, and this would elevate wars to immense scales, and his forboding tone indicates that he knows this.
• The scene with Frozone and his wife arguing has somewhat deep implications when you think about it. Depending on what she is, it could either be a Deconstruction of the super-marries-normal trope (Superman x Lois Lane, Spider-Man x MJ-pre-Quesada), or a take on the Super Couple thing that Bob and Helen have. Either way, it shows how much depth Pixar puts into their work, when even little scenes like this are more than meets the eye.

Fridge Horror

• Since Supers are meant to help people and save lives, the true cost of banning supers is staggering, and the mugging outside Insuricare is a small sample. The newspaper Bob is reading has a headline that says "Crime rates at an all-time high".
• Frozone was originally Syndrome's target to fight the Omnidroid v.8. Frozone would have been the next victim. Thankfully, Bob was with him, and they didn't go bowling.
• The mugger from when Huph's second telling off of Bob was beating the victim pretty hard, it was dark and Bob couldn't save him, and the condition of the victim was never revealed. Later in the hospital while Bob is with Dicker, a man is being wheeled in on a gurney behind him, and looks pretty beaten up.
• Considering Bob only used a fraction of his strength against Huph, which forced him to be in traction, he was very lucky that Bob didn't use all of it. Huph is also very lucky Bob decided to throw him through the wall and not out of the window, since the drop is a least a few stories.
• Edna security system may appear grandiose, but there may be multiple supervillains gunning for her that know what she does for Supers, either to attack her or force her to make similarly advanced supersuits. She would also possess vital statistics, exact power quirks and secret identities of every Super she designs for. Her designs and patented technologies would certainly be coveted by other designers.
• Edna designed the supersuits with capes that lead to multiple cases of Cape Snag, so she's had to live with a lot of guilt.
• Stratogale was only in high school when she got sucked into a jet turbine. What happened to the plane and its passengers is unknown.
• Since Super teams all split up and most did not have any contact with each other after the ban was enacted, it was easy for Syndrome to lure them in alone. It also didn’t help that most Supers were largely inactive during their retirement. Despite his weight gain and bad back, Bob’s instincts and skills were as sharp as ever due to his regular “workouts” helping people in trouble. Very few of the dead Supers had that kind of advantage, or enough sheer power to compensate. Thus, most of them did not survive their first encounter with an Omnidroid and almost none of them walked away from the second.
• Helen telling her kids the guards are not afraid to kill them is based on her own experiences. In A Real Stretch: An Elastigirl Prequel Story, it is stated that Rick Dicker recruited her as a teen. She saw how the criminals did not hesitate to try and kill her even though she was a kid.
• When Mirage frees him, Mr. Incredible nearly kills her in a rage at the assumed deaths of most of his family. Mr. Incredible is one of, if not the most powerful Supers on the planet. Imagine if the knowledge his family still lived wasn't made known to him. The possible ending outcome of that isn't pretty to think about.
• It was a good thing Kari was gullible enough to buy Syndrome’s lie about being a replacement sitter. He definitely Would Hurt a Child, so if Kari did see through his lie and refused to give Jack Jack to him, it’s not hard to imagine him resorting to more harmful, possibly lethal measures to get him.