"Unintentional" references in The Incredibles.....

[MacTech]

Here’s a few i noticed…

“Brodie, err, Buddy”, i understand may have been a reference to Jason Lee’s character of Brodie from Mallrats

the aircraft Helen/Elastigirl is piloting looks vaguely like a Gulfstream IV (Steve Jobs, CEO of Pixar and Apple was given a Gulfstream IV by Apple stockholders when he returned to Apple around '97-98)

the OmniDroid 9’s blade/feet/arm/spinner thingies look sort of like Maximillian’s blades (Maximillian was the evil red robot onboard the Cygnus in Disney’s “The Black Hole”)

there seems to be a running question here, is Helen’s aircraft I.D. of India Golf Niner Niner (I.G. 99) an offhand reference to Brad Bird’s underpromoted masterpiece of animation “The Iron Giant”, which was released in 1999?

what other “unintentional” references have you found

[rjung]

@MacTech

“Brodie, err, Buddy”, i understand may have been a reference to Jason Lee’s character of Brodie from Mallrats

Intentional reference.

@MacTech

there seems to be a running question here, is Helen’s aircraft I.D. of India Golf Niner Niner (I.G. 99) an offhand reference to Brad Bird’s underpromoted masterpiece of animation “The Iron Giant”, which was released in 1999?

Darn straight it was. That call sign was in the earliest treatments for the story.

@MacTech

what other “unintentional” references have you found

Note that the Omnidroid, being both boggingly big and obviously metallic, is another “iron giant.”

[Larry_Mudd]

Syndrome looks just like a caricature of Brad Bird! What a coincidence!

The Nomanisan Island security forces chase scenes were looked and sounded just like the speeder-bike sequences in Return of the Jedi. What are the odds?

(Am I doing this right?)

[Scott_Plaid]

depening on how you look at it, Jack-Jack either has the powers of

A Super Skrull, or something original, and based on his emotions.

[MacTech]

@rjung

Intentional reference.
Darn straight it was. That call sign was in the earliest treatments for the story.
Note that the Omnidroid, being both boggingly big and obviously metallic, is another “iron giant.”

what would have been nice (i’ve stated this before) is if one of the early prototype OmniDroids looked like the Iron Giant

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Have you looked at the second disk yet?
The files on the Glory Days supers?
At least 2 are (implied) gay, & one has adopted kids with his “room-mate”.

[rjung]

@Scott_plaid

depening on how you look at it, Jack-Jack either has the powers of

A Super Skrull, or something original, and based on his emotions.

After seeing “Jack-Jack Attack,” the first theory is out.

[Casey1505]

Check out the trivia tab for The Incredibles on IMDb.

[Scott_Plaid]

@rjung

After seeing “Jack-Jack Attack,” the first theory is out.

Oh…

I don’t have the DVD, and I only saw the movie once. :smack:

[Tangent]

When Mr. Incredible is battling the omnidroid (the first time) and it rolls up into a ball and he is running from it–very much like Indy in Raiders of the Lost Ark.