The Incredibles Characters:
The Allies
The Incredibles characters who are friends with the Parr family are all quite different from one another, but they all have one thing in common: they're all good guys. From superhero colleague to teenage babysitter, these characters have positive intentions. Who are they?
Frozone AKA Lucius Best
As a Super, Frozone has the ability to instantly create ice and travel on it with high speed. During the Golden Age of Super Heroes, Frozone was close with Mr. Incredible. Frozone was even the best man at Mr. Incredible's wedding!
Frozone has a white and light blue super suit with special goggles that help protect his identity as well as his eyes from the ice crystals. Frozone also has special boots that can turn into speed skates or skis and he also has a special disc-like snowboard to whip along the ice. As he throws out long runways of ice, Frozone can get around very quickly.
When he had to go undercover and give up his life as a Super, Frozone became Lucius Best. Lucius and Bob are still close, and Bob is the only former Super that he associates with anymore. While he has an easier time of adjusting to civilian life, Lucius still goes out every Wednesday night with Bob, telling their wives they're going bowling. Instead, they monitor police scanners and help out in small ways.
Lucius stays as a civilian until the Omnidroid attacks Metroville. He's in his VERY nice high rise condo, getting ready to take his wife, Honey, out for a romantic dinner when he sees the Omnidroid making its way down the street next to his building. Lucius goes to get his super suit but sees that it is missing. He implores his wife to tell him where it is, but she's more worried about her night out. It is a HILARIOUS scene!
Evidently Honey gave in, seeing how Lucius turned up as Frozone, complete with his super suit. Frozone helped The Incredibles defeat the Omnidroid putting up an impressive ice wall and he also helps Dash when he runs away from it with the remote control.
Edna "E" Mode
Edna Mode is one of the most memorable of The Incredibles characters. She is a short woman with black hair in a severe bob and thick, round glasses. She's supposedly half Japanese and half German, both cultures known for their high technology and sophistication. Edna is an eccentric, famous fashion designer and during the Golden Age of Superheros she designed the suits of the Supers.
She takes Bob's old "hobo" suit and repairs it, and insists she design him a new suit, but with NO CAPE. She tells Bob about the many supers who had died because their capes were caught onto something or sucked into something else, dragging them in with them.
Edna later shows Helen her the line of super suits she created for the entire family: Helen's stretches with her and is indestructible, yet breathes like Egyptian cotton. Violet's can disappear with her. Dash's suit can withstand enormous amounts of friction as his legs move with lightening speed. And lastly, Jack-Jack's suit passes all sorts of stress tests: It's bullet-proof, fire proof and machine washable!
Rick Dicker
Someone's got to be the one who keeps track of all the former Supers and help relocate them when their identities are suspect. Someone also must modify or erase memories of civilians who have witnessed a former Super use his or her power in their presence.
The Incredibles character who has this job is a government agent named Rick Dicker, who comes to Bob's aid after Bob puts his boss, Gilbert Huph, into the hospital. He emerges from Huph's hospital room, supposedly erasing Huph's memory of his confrontation with Bob.
It is implied, in The Incredibles, that Rick Dicker has come to the Parr's aid on more than one occasion, resulting in relocating the family. Rick complains to Bob that he can't keep doing this, that there isn't enough in the budget for yet another move, but maybe he can swing it just one more time. Bob tells him not to since his family just recently got settled into their new home.
Rick Dicker appears again in the Pixar short, Jack-Jack Attack, where he must erase the babysitter, Kari McKeen's, memory after she had witnessed Jack-Jack's emerging powers.
Kari McKeen
Violet hires her reliable friend, Kari McKeen to babysit Jack-Jack while she and Dash go along with their mother to rescue Bob. Kari's a young teenager with a ponytail and a mouthful of braces. Of all the Incredibles characters, she is unaware of the super hero status of the Parr family.
She's supremely confident in her babysitting skills after taking numerous classes and bringing along Mozart music and flashcards for cognitive development. Kari reassures Helen that she can take anything this baby can dish out.
The Incredibles character Kari is not prepared for Jack-Jack's emerging powers, though and she leaves increasingly urgent messages for Helen as she puts out fires when Jack-Jack turns into a fireball or as he floats through walls.
She's only too happy when a "replacement sitter" arrives at the door, only to be discovered later that it was Syndrome, intent on kidnapping Jack-Jack.
In the Pixar short Jack-Jack Attack Kari is later picked up by Rick Dicker, who erases her memory of the entire episode and the short film depicts what went on while Violet and Dash were away tagging along with their mother as they went to Nomanisan Island.
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