Robert "Bob" Parr, also known as Mr. Incredible, is a fictional character who appears in Pixar's computer-animated superhero film The Incredibles (2004) and its sequel Incredibles 2 (2018). He is a superhero who possesses superhuman strength, durability, and stamina. He is married to Helen Parr, also known as Elastigirl, and has three children named Dash, Violet, and Jack-Jack. He is voiced by Craig T. Nelson in the films, while in Mr. Incredible and Pals and the video games, he is voiced by Pete Docter, Richard McGonagle and Jeff Bergman. He was created by writer/director, Brad Bird, and is partly based on Bird's father, with Bird stating, "He’s a little bit like my dad, because my dad was a great guy, really funny and smart, and I love him dearly".
Appearances
Films
The Incredibles
On the day he is set to marry his fiancée Helen (also known as Elastigirl), Bob Parr (also known as Mr. Incredible) rescues Oliver Sansweet from committing suicide by tackling him through a window of a skyscraper currently being robbed by a supervillain called Bomb Voyage. While the two confront each other, a young fan of Mr. Incredible, Buddy Pine, flies in with rocket boots he invented and acts as Mr. Incredible's sidekick "Incrediboy". Bob rejects Buddy as his sidekick, but Bomb Voyage throws a sticky bomb that attaches to Buddy's cape. Bob throws the bomb off of Buddy, but destroys an elevated train track, and Bob prevents the train from falling off. After the wedding, Sansweet and the train passengers sue Bob for their neck injuries. Bob's collateral damage lawsuits, along with similar lawsuits against other superheroes, turn public opinion against them, and the government initiates the Superhero Relocation Program, forcing "supers" to adhere to their secret identities and abandon their exploits.
Fifteen years later, Bob, Helen, and their children Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack live in the city of Metroville and are forced to keep their superpowers a secret. Although, occasionally Bob, along with his best friend Lucius Best or Frozone, will relive "the glory days" of being a superhero by being a vigilante at night.
One day while Bob is working as an insurance adjuster, he sees someone getting mugged and goes to stop it, but his supervisor, Gilbert Huph, threatens to fire him if he does. Losing his temper, Bob injures his advisor by throwing him through walls ultimately resulting in him being fired. After being fired Bob goes home and receives a holographic video message from a woman named Mirage asking him to fight an Omnidroid, a tripod-like robot that has gone rogue. Bob takes up on the offer without telling his family and gets on a flight with Mirage where he is taken to an island called Nomanisan to battle the Omnidroid. Bob battles with the droid and tricks it into destroying its own power source deactivating the robot. After the fight, Bob starts to get into shape by doing strenuous workouts. Bob looks at his old super suit and notices a tear in it. He takes it to superhero costume designer Edna Mode. Edna makes entirely new superhero costumes for the entire family assuming Helen knows what he is doing.
Heading back out to Nomanisan, Bob finds out Mirage is working for an adult Buddy, who is now going under the superhero name Syndrome. Syndrome is now an inventor and wealthy arms dealer and has been perfecting the Omnidroid by hiring different superheros to come and fight it. Syndrome intends to send the perfected Omnidroid to Metroville, where he will secretly manipulate its controls to defeat it in public, becoming a "hero" himself. He then plans to sell his inventions to everyone so that everyone can become a superhero, saying that "when everyone's super, no one will be".
Helen gets suspicious of Bob and visits Edna and discovers what Bob has been up too. She activates a beacon Edna built into the suits to find Bob, inadvertently causing him to be captured while infiltrating Syndrome's base. Helen borrows a private plane to travel to Nomanisan, with Violet and Dash as stowaways. Syndrome launches missiles that blow up the plane, much to Bob's dismay, and he threatens to kill Mirage, but is unable to do so despite being encouraged by Syndrome. Helen and the kids survive the missile, and after Helen finds Bob they both hurry to find their children as they are being chased by Syndrome's guards. After finding their kids, they all escape to Metroville in another rocket with Mirage's help.