| | I'm just discovering the site, and wanted to comment on the use of technology in "The Incredibles".
I don't think that Syndrome's plan to sell technology that would "make everybody super" was particularly offensive to Mr. Incredible, or to anyone else in the movie. I do think that Syndrome was speaking through his own twisted view of reality when he taunted Mr. Incredible with that "threat", because he probably felt that Mr. Incredible would find the idea repugnant. Maybe that idea was based on how Mr. Incredible reacted when young Buddy presented himself as a sidekick at the beginning of the movie -- Syndrome may have assumed that Mr. Incredible ignored his genius then because he felt threatened by anyone else being "incredible". And so, to Syndrome, the obvious way to ultimately hurt Mr. Incredible would be to take away the thing he valued most; his "incredibleness".
I don't think that it would really have bothered Mr.Incredible very much at all -- in fact, he might have found it liberating, since he would have been able to use his abilities in the open, without even a mask.
But of course, Mr. Incredible would view as a deadly enemy anyone who would kill so many heroes, and plot to kill countless others, simply to see himself elevated to hero status. Not only had Syndrome committed acts of wanton murder, he was perverting the very idea of what it meant to be a hero.
The irony is that if Syndrome had taken Edna Mode's path, he probably would have gotten everything he wanted, all the attention and acclaim, but legitimately.
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