Buddy's feelings of being rejected and betrayed by Mr. Incredible angrily hands him over to the police and furiously tells them to bring him home and to inform his mom about what he was doing. Having had enough of Buddy's carelessness, Mr.
Incredible injured several of the passengers. Incredible was able to stop the train before it reached the destroyed track, although the force of the impact of the train and Mr. The bomb immediately detonated afterward and destroyed a large portion of the tracks as an oncoming train was approaching. Incredible managed to remove the bomb from Buddy's cape however, he and the bomb fell and landed on a set of train tracks. Incredible to release Bomb Voyage to save the ignorant boy. Mr. Still determined to impress his hero, Buddy left to get the police to arrest Bomb Voyage, but then Bomb Voyage placed a bomb on Buddy's cape, forcing Mr. Incredible still angrily told Buddy to leave, furiously telling him that he works alone. Incredible and Bomb Voyage's showdown and introduced his new rocket boots to Mr. Incredible kept angrily telling Buddy he doesn't need his help.Įventually, Buddy went as far as to interrupt Mr. Incredible and wanted to be his sidekick "Incrediboy". He could also be named after hero syndrome, which causes people to create desperate situations that they can resolve in search of recognition for their heroism - something Syndrome actually does in The Incredibles.Syndrome is a genius with buckteeth, a long chin, and long hair that sticks upwards like fire.Īs a young boy, Buddy proclaimed himself to be a huge fan of Mr. Of course, he can't really, and it's left up to those who really are super to sort out the mess he created. Here is a normal man who thinks he can compete with the supers, a belief reinforced by a society that limits the supers in order to make the normals feel better about themselves. Within the context of The Incredibles, Syndrome is what happens when the supers are forced underground - a symptom that society has been broken, or made ill, through placing limitations on what the truly exceptional can do. Google defines the word "syndrome" as "a group of symptoms which consistently occur together, or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms". These quotes both speak to the idea that society at large is scared of those that are better than them, and will do anything it can to force a feeling of equality between those who are unequal in ability or talent. Likewise, the evil plan that Syndrome undertakes can be summed up in one quote "People keep coming up with new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional…" Bob Parr expresses this this idea directly at one point in the film, when referring to his sons inability to play sports thanks to his powers
It isn't hard to see how The Incredibles espouses that philosophy - it's a film about people who are better than most being forced to hide their abilities so that normal people don't feel threatened. Without getting bogged down in the details, objectivism is a philosophy that states people have no ethical or moral responsibilities to help anyone other than themselves, and that exceptional people shouldn't be held back by normal people. Like another of Brad Bird's films, Tomorrowland, The Incredibles is a very objectivist film.
BUDDY PINE MOVIE
So why does Buddy Pine go by the name Syndrome? How does this name relate to his personality, his abilities, or his goals? Does it more relate to his role as a (wannabe) super hero or his role as a super villain (well, the word itself is certainly more negatively denoted)? Is this elaborated any further in the movie itself or maybe in external material? If not, are there at least reasonable conclusions to be drawn based on his character and his actions? Or is there not much of an in-universe explanation but at least commentary from the film-makers why they chose the name? But the name Syndrome seems on the one hand very generic, without a clear connection to his abilities and traits (be it as an Iron Man style inventor "hero", or even as a villain bound on eradicating all heroes), but on the other hand also remarkably unusual to suggest some deeper meaning above just denoting him as a villain. Many of the other superheroes have names that are either fitting their abilities (e.g. Buddy Pine, the villain from The Incredibles, goes by the name Syndrome.