I’m sitting here stuffing myself with another slice of cake and watching The Incredibles. I’ve just seen the bit where Mirage introduces herself in a recorded message and says that like Mr. Incredible, the government says that she does not exist. So that combined with her name gives the impression that she is some kind of superhero.
But what kind of super is she? The image on the recorded message and the business card it spits out both have a strange visual effect. This and her name lead me to think that she has some kind of invisibility or illusion power. But at no time in the flick does she ever show any super abilities.
So . . . you’re in the middle of the movie, and the director is feeding you the information he wants you to have at the rate in which he wants to reveal it, but you’ve paused the movie to consult a message board rather than just WTFM? The comprehension, it comes not.
I don’t get the impression that this is the first time Ol’ Hypno-Toad has seen The Incredibles, and he just broke away to ask the SDMB - “what’s going to happen?!” Rather, he’s wondering about something that he just thought of while watching the movie — something not directly addressed in the movie — and he took the time to ask a question about it.
Toad: For what it’s worth, you could have probably written the Wiki entry on Mirage which states: