I would like the characters to only get a few months older, and honestly, I love Bob and Helen together, and I would like to see more of their complex marital love. I’m only 14, but the whole teenage romance thing really turns me off in a movie. More Bob and Helen!!! (I love Violet, but puppy love is overrated.)
I just want more screen time for Violet. I know Bob and Helen were the two main characters, but Violet is a very special yet overlooked character.
She is the dark horse person that no one really gets to know too well…Dash was well documented but i think that is because Brad Bird likes boys. If they were to do a sequel they would have to do something with Violet just because she would be becoming more and more of a prominent figure.
My thoughts about a sequel that actually might be made would be built on an idea floated at the very beginning of the original movie: Who wants to be super all the time? We’ve already seen the Parr family struggling to live only in their civilian identities. But what if their cover is totally blown and everyone knows they are all supers? Hey, how hard would it be for the media to figure out with the entire family working together? Bob would love it at first, but the rest of the family would face immediate problems. Dash wouldn’t be allowed to compete in sports any more; Violet’s b/f would feel overshadowed; Helen wouldn’t be able to find any sitters (besides Violet, another sore point for the V-girl.) Reporters, paparazzi, fan stalkers, and of course lawyers would come out of the woodwork. Bob, of course, would be conned by the slimiest agent on the planet into a contract committing himself and the family to all sorts of of appearances, commercial endorsements and the inevitable movie deal.
There has to be some super-villainy, of course, and my suggestion is have a family of super-villains. Maybe Pixar could dust off Xerek (the original main villain) and make him into a retired villain who drags his family into the business again because he’s feeling jealous of Bob’s renewed success. Being a mad scientist, his big project gets out of control and the two families have to join forces to save the world (and themselves).
Finally, although I seriously doubt Pixar or Disney would go for it, at the end of the movie Violet and whichever b/f she’s with are sitting Jack-Jack and waiting for another woman to drop off her child. Violet opens the door and the other woman is Mirage with a little girl of a certain age, who flies over to Jack-Jack.
Dude, I absolutely love your ideas. I like you’re idea of having their identities revealed, thereby making them celebreties, if you will. And what I love the most about this idea is that it is a totally normal conflict, not something like an evil genious is taking over the world, but something so incredibly munduane in the realm of the Super heroes. It would be intresting to see how the family reacts to all of the popularity, and then realzing that it isn’t all that they thought it would be.
Excellent idea dude. I’m liking you already. Welcome to Pixar Planet.
This is probably just me, but I’d like to see a comeback for Syndrome. 
Obvious, right? But I think there’s basis behind it.
Okay. So, first we have to consider: what if he didn’t die? Possible mangled legs, burns, yes, but somehow still alive. The NSA finds him while checking out the wreckage, and then it would occur to somebody… “Hey, isn’t this guy a genius?” They have the technology to erase memories as shown in Jack-Jack Attack, and I really think he could be useful- even a protagonist- and be the brains that the Incredibles have to call on to stop some great villain. I also believe that without memory of the events that corrupted him, he would still have his heart in the right place. And maybe he’d be a little more mature.
Of course, this is already happening in my fanfic so if it doesn’t happen in the sequel I still know what could have been. I realize that not a whole lot of people like Syndrome (from what I can see) but I still think he could really add to the plot.
I’m up for anything as far as the rest of it goes- especially the idea of having their real identities found out. I love love LOVE that idea. 
Though I myself would personally prefer a new villain than the return of Syndrome, I do like your idea of Syndrome returning as a good guy. (In my fanfic, he returns, seemingly a good guy, but with other inner motives.) Everyone says that he died cause his cape got caught in a jet turbine. And yes, it is a PG movie, so we can’t see the gruesomeness of the death. But as comic book writers always say, “No body, death is suspect.” So we can assume he died, but who’s to say that he can’t return?
The comics would definitely be a good springboard for a follow-up.
Good point FigmentJedi. Maybe Brad can gather some inspiration from the comics, while steering in his own original direction.
oldring2001o, that is absolutely brilliant. Not to mention that with increased media coverage, there is greater expectations on the Parr to save the day everyday.
Example… people know Dash is a superhero. So they count on him to save them from a school bully, say. He defeats the bully, but then gets called to the principal’s office. Or people know Helen is a superhero. And she happens to be in the vicinity of a bank robbery. Folks see her and cry to Helen to save them. She has no choice. The veil of anonymity gives the Parr their choice of when to act, and how much they are willing to risk. We all know the Parr family would almost always leap into action to save the day, if they can. But if a villain knows who you are, he has your family, your friends, as bargaining chips.
Also, what if they can’t rescue everyone? What if they fail? People would now have a name to put the heroics to. It could get personal. The Parr family name would be dragged through the mud, whereas as anonymous superheroes, they embody an ideal that people can look up to (and as Buddy Pine/Syndrome had demonstrated to an extreme, emulate as well). It’s the typical ‘be careful what you wish for’ warning story, except nobody has thought of this with respects to the Incredibles (to my knowledge).
Arkie, I do appreciate your reasoning. I would love to see you continue your ‘Birds of a Feather’ fanfic, if only to see what story possibilities you can take on with a ‘blank slate’ Syndrome.
I love your genious ideas TDIT. Reading it, all I can think about was “talk about pressure.”
TDIT, that’s a good idea. But, IMO, I think it would end up being a lot like the F4 movies if they took that path. And I do not like the F4 movies. 
I think Pixar could pull something like that off, though. They could probably pull almost anything off.
The only things I would ask are that Violet is not the main character, and that the family doesn’t age more than a couple of years.
I think if the family were not to age in the sequel, then I think the forcus would still be on Bob and Helen. But I would like Violet to have more of a focused and supporting role. More than what she had in the first one.
That’s probably true. I would just find it very awkward and hard to watch if Violet was in the spotlight. I love how in the movie, each character(except maybe Helen, that’s debatable) has a character arch and transforms somewhat. Violet finally stopped being a wet blanket, so, maybe in the sequel I would like her more. She seemed more like my preferred character at the end, because she wasn’t too happy or too depressed. She seemed…right somehow, which was likely the intention. I just hope she stays “the daughter”, and not the “leading lady”.
Great timing, because I’ve just watched Sarah Vowell on Dailyshow with Jon Stewart, and she was GRRRREATT!! She’s such a great entertainer. I want MOAR of her voice acting! So yeah, I wouldn’t mind if Violet become the lead in that elusive Incredibles sequel.
Just curious out of my own interest, but did Sarah say anything political? I know Stewart is pretty political.
Nah, they went on about how Hawaii got annexed and McKinley administrations went on an expansion spree, which is the topic of Sarah’s new book. So unless you consider that political… 
Ah, cool. She writes a lot, it appears.
Nah, I never asked for Violet to be the leading lady. I would be very excited fi she got her adventure, but I only wished for her to have a bigger role compared to the first movie.
Oh, I get it now. She’s just been the starlet of so many fanfictions, I just hope that isn’t any prediction of a possible sequel.