Trivia

As with other Pixar productions, the original trailer for this film featured animation made specially for the trailer and not appearing in the final film. It was directed by Brad Bird 18 months before the release of the movie.

John Barry was originally hired to score the film in his James Bond-style, but left the project after recording only a few demo themes; some were used for theater trailers.

The code title for this film, used during production, was "Tights".

Syndrome's zero-point energy beam is based on an actual physics concept, the zero-point field, demonstrated in 1948 via the Casimir Effect and essential to Stephen Hawking's theory that black holes eventually evaporate. Harnessing the zero-point field would be quite a feat, as it would yield a virtually infinite source of energy.

In order to give Dash a realistic out-of-breath voice, Brad Bird made Spencer Fox run laps around the studio.

Syndrome's facial features are based on those of the film's director, Brad Bird.

The theme from the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, composed by John Barry, is used in the previews for this film. The version used in the first trailer is from the CD "Bond: Back in Action" (Escape From Piz Gloria and Ski Chase). The second trailer uses the remix by David Arnold featuring The Propellerheads as it appears on the 1997 albums "Shaken and Stirred - The David Arnold James Bond Project" and "Decksanddrumsandrockandroll"; this second trailer also uses the song "The Planet Plan" from the album "3rd Perspective" by United Future Organization.

When Frozone starts speed skating, his moves are clearly modeled after Olympic gold medalist Shani Davis. Davis jokingly remarked in a Dutch program that he was really upset, because he didn't get any type of money for it. ("Yeah it's me, who else swings his arms like that!")

At one point Mr. Incredible calls his family life "My greatest adventure." That was the title of a DC Comics series called "My Greatest Adventure" which was most famous for featuring the four-member superhero team the Doom Patrol which has a member named Elastigirl, although her power is to alter her size, not stretch.

Helen's use of radio protocol while flying is exceptionally accurate for a movie. In the director's commentary Brad Bird tells that Holly Hunter insisted on learning the lingo and its meaning. The terminology used hints that Elastigirl has had military flight training.

• "VFR on top" means she is flying in the regime of Visual Flight Rules 'on top' of a cloud cover.
• She requests "vectors to the initial", directions how to get to the initial landing approach.
• "Angels 10" is her altitude call, ten thousand feet. This is a military term. Civilian flights use the term "flight level".
• "Track east" is her direction of travel.
• "Buddy spike(d)" is a US military brevity code meaning "friendly anti-aircraft radar has locked on to me, (please don't shoot)".
• "Transmitting in the Blind Guard" is a call on the emergency frequency where 2-way communication has not been established.
• "Abort" is also a military brevity code, a directive meaning "stop the action/mission/attack".

When Edna gives Helen the homing device for the first time in the laboratory, the GPS zooms into the San Francisco area, where the Pixar Animation Studios is located (Emeryville, California) and the old studio building in Point Richmond.

Most of the story takes place in a city called Metroville. It's a combination of Metropolis and Smallville, which are, respectively, the cities where Superman lives and where he was raised. In the beginning of the film (supposedly before they were relocated), Bob, Helen and Lucius Best (Frozone) are living in Municiberg, another play on Metropolis, both roughly meaning "hometown".

Jason Lee (Buddy/Syndrome) recorded his vocals in four days, while Craig T. Nelson (Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible) recorded his vocals over the span of two years.

In the Singaporean version of the film, the company "Insuricare" is translated into "Black-hearted insurance company" if read literally in the Chinese character subtitles.

One of the background buildings has a sign for Lozano Records, a reference to cast member Albert Lozano.

The name of the principal at Dash's school is John Walker (as seen on the plaques on his office wall), a reference to producer John Walker.

During development, villain Bomb Voyage was named Bomb Perignon. The famous champagne maker would not provide legal rights for the use of the name, however, so the name was changed.

Edna, the costume lady, is based on Edith Head, who worked as a studio costume designer on hundreds of movies over more than fifty years.

In the opening chase scene, the radio announcer says that the bank robbers are fleeing on San Pablo Avenue. San Pablo Avenue is a real street in Emeryville, California, close to where the Pixar Studios is located. Most of the streets in the map indicator in Mr. Incredible's car are also real streets in Emeryville.

Jack-Jack, the baby boy, is also the nickname Brad Bird and his wife had for one of their sons.

Brad Bird has stated that the movie is in part inspired by the comic books of Jim Steranko, whose work on "Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD" tackled a similar spy/espionage genre.

This was the first film by Pixar whose lighting was designed with LPICS, a design technology developed in-house. With it, lighting designers could view and make lighting changes, and it would take a tenth of a second to show the new image. Previously, it took 2000 seconds to do the same task.

Brad Bird was listening to Public Radio International and heard Sarah Vowell, a frequent contributor to the PRI program "This American Life". He felt her voice was perfect for Violet even though she had never acted before. To convince her, Pixar animators animated one of Vowell's segments from "This American Life" and sent it to her.

Michael Kamen was set to score but died in the middle of scoring.

The tag for Mr. Incredible's sports car is LR 0415. LR stands for "Lou Romano" and "0415" marks his birthday (April 15th).

The movie's line "You sly dog! You got me monologuing!" was voted as the #15 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.

The commentaries by Brad Bird and John Walker which you can hear on The Incredibles DVD, were recorded on September 8th 2004, the same day Frank Thomas passed away.

This was originally developed as a traditionally animated cartoon feature at Warner Brothers. The closure of Warners' animation division led Bird to move to Pixar.

Brad Bird's turn as Edna Mode was accidental. He had originally voiced the character as a temp track. Subsequent searches for alternate voices proved fruitless.

Brad Bird drove his teams hard to be as creative as possible, insisting on greater attention to details and characters than any other previous Pixar production. The teams responded by pumping the film full of references and in-jokes, one of the most noticeable being the villain Syndrome being modeled on Bird himself.

Clothing, with its textures, weaving and stitching, is notoriously difficult to achieve in computer simulation. Given that there are over 95 different outfits worn by the characters in the film, a tailor was brought in to the studio to explain the intricacies of clothes design.

Mr. Huph's pencils read "Your Life Is In Our Hands".

Frozone's aftershave is Hai Karate, a real '60s/'70s aftershave brand.

When Mr. Incredible is called into Mr. Huph's office, at one point Mr. Huph places his hand on a piece of paper. Judging from Mr. Incredible's expression, it seems like this paper is a termination notice. Actually, it is a memo to all employees, letting them know they will be responsible for buying all of their office supplies. It also states that parking will be metered by the hour, and that their electricity usage will be deducted from their paychecks. The letter concludes by saying that Insuricare has "recorded its highest profits in years."

There are strong similarities to another family of super-heroes: Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four. Mr. Incredible (Bob Parr) has super-strength like the Thing (Ben Grimm); Elastigirl (Helen Parr) is able to stretch her body like Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards); Violet is able to turn invisible and project force-fields like the Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards); and baby Jack-Jack briefly shows an ability to turn himself into living flame like the Human Torch. Jack-Jack bears an even stronger resemblance to Reed and Susan Richards' son Franklin, a mutant with the power to alter reality. Like Bob and Helen Parr, Reed and Susan Richards are husband and wife, and have children with powers. Like Violet and impulsive Dash Parr, Susan and the impulsive Johnny Storm are elder sister and younger brother. The costumes of the Incredibles are red unitards with black collars, trunks, gloves and boots with an "i" emblem in the chest area. The costumes of the Fantastic Four are blue unitards with black collars, belts, gloves, and boots with a "4" emblem in the chest area. Both sets of costumes are made to adapt to the wearer's specific powers and abilities. The super-villain that appears at the end of the movie calling himself the Underminer is a dead ringer for The Mole Man, a longtime foe of the FF, and the image of the first FF cover is briefly mimicked. In fact, makers of Fantastic Four were forced to make significant script changes and add more special effects because of similarities to the storyline of The Incredibles.

The first Disney/Pixar film to receive PG rating.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan felt compelled to dub his voice for the Hindi version because his son Aryan Khan was so impressed by a preview of the original movie. Aryan Khan also lent his voice to the character Dash Parr, son of Mr. Incredible. Actress Negar Khan voiced Mirage and funny man Javed Jaffrey voiced Syndrome. The dubbed Hindi version and the original English version were released simultaneously on 17 December 2004 in India, and distributed by SPE Films.

The first two trailers released on the internet features (a slightly modified version of) the cover version The Propellerheads made over the theme from On Her Majesty's Secret Service. This can be verified by listening to the morse rhythm in the cover version: They spell the first letters from the original movie title: OHMSS (translated into morse: ---/..../--/.../...)

When Buddy, voiced by Jason Lee first enters Mr. Incredible's car, he stutters over the boy's name, first landing on "Brody". "Brody" is a character that Jason Lee played in several Kevin Smith movies.

The first Pixar film not to receive an Oscar nomination for its music.

On the far left of the middle shelf in Bob's home office, the Rock 'em Sock 'em robots who spoke in Toy Story 2 can be seen.

Quite a lot of German movie-goers were convinced that the look of Mr. Huph was based on actor and comedian Herbert Feuerstein, who provided the voice of Huph in the movie's German version and who is a dead ringer for his on-screen alter-ego. According to Feuerstein, though, he was cast because he "looked the part".

As of 2012, the only Pixar movie to win an Academy Award for a category other than Best Animated Picture (Best Sound Editing).

Jason Lee was cast as Syndrome on this strength of his performance as Azrael in Dogma.

When Bomb Voyage attaches a bomb to Buddy (later Syndrome), it foreshadows what happens to Buddy (Syndrome) later, when his cape gets snagged by a plane propeller.