An Incredible Theory

an Incredible theory

Right, so I don’t have any programs to pull out the GIFs for anything from the movie and I haven’t found them online. 

But I and my fiancee were going over some lines from the Incredibles Movie and we caught something Edna said, which struck us as odd…

“Your outfit will be ready before you next assignment.”

NEXT ASSIGNMENT

How did she know he was getting missions? Mr Incredible never said he was taking missions, in fact he was denying he was even moonlighting as a hero at this point. 

Unless. 

She knew Syndrome. 

Now we know Syndrome has money, he has power, and he’s been trying to set himself up as a Hero. If he’s been using his resources to find all these heros it wouldn’t take much for him to also look up the person who was their costume designer. 

And he would very likely have approached her. After all, he’s wanting to set himself up as a hero.

Now Edna, she’s been working with heros her entire career. She knows a real hero when she sees one. And we also know she too is in a position of power and has her own resources to draw from. It stands to reason that she would very likely read Syndrome pretty easy and know that 2+2 equals fish in this case. BUT, she’s not a super herself. She’s also in hiding. If she refused to make Syndrome’s outfit for him he could very likely cause her a LOT of trouble. 

Edna can’t do much, she is not in a position to be able to tell anyone about what’s  going on, supers are not in good standing and ones disappearing, well no one is searching for them at all. What else can she do?

She can manipulate things as she sees the opportunity show itself to her.

Mr Incredible comes to her about repairing his costume. He’s obviously on Syndrome’s hit list (hell she likely got Syndrome monologuing and knows everything going on) 

She already had the outfits for the rest of his family ready before Helen even got there. 

She knew their powers. She knew the best things to say to Helen that would get her to go help her husband. 

She placed a tracking device without telling Mr Incredible in all the suits. She put that device into his suit apparently BEFORE she made the ones for his family.

She gave them the resources, put them into the path that would allow them the best chance of stopping Syndrome, because she knew this situation needed real heros. 

And she did one other thing for them. One major thing that goes against everything she is so vehemently against.

She gave Syndrome a Cape. 

Devil’s Reign: X-Men #2 - “Truth & Consequences” (2022)

written by Gerry Duggan art by Phil Noto

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