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[doomlazy]

Tails As FanBoy Or Buddy Pine/Incrediboy.

Hey Guys, I'm About To Make A Parody Animation Video, With Sonic Characters, The Incredibles AU, Tails As Buddy Pine Aka Incrediboy, Or Just FanBoy Tails, To Idolize His Own Hero?

Sonic the Hedgehog: The Incredibles AU

[malcontent7]

Ok, it just hit me that Buddy Pine has blonde hair as Incrediboy,

But has red hair as Syndrome.

Do we think he was bleaching his hair as a child to look more like Mr. Incredible, or did he dye it as an adult to look less like him?

[algorithmik]

Syndrome Reimagined

[frownyalfred]

To clarify about my new fic: I think it takes place in a world where Lex is less of a threat initially, and more obsessed with Superman than he is with anything super evil. Clark convinced Bruce to hint at their identities to try and convince Lex to “stop digging” before it turns into something the JL actually has to address with force.

[legendary-defender-of-fandoms]

For context, I’m working on my very own Dewey Finn cosplay for future cons. Specifically the musical Dewey Finn, not the movie Dewey Finn (no shade against the movie). But instead of bedazzling my cosplay’s tie with generic stars & gems like the tie in the show, I’m gonna deck it out with tiny charms for a handful of Alex Brightman’s other roles. I’ve got a heart charm I’m painting a tiny clock face onto for Boq from Wicked, and I need to get some Halloween-y charms for Beetlejuice & Emile from Goosebumps - Phantom of the Auditorium. But I can’t decide which of these angels to use for Adam from Hazbin Hotel. He spends most of the show in a white robe, but he wears a purple robe in the Season 1 finale.

[hunterwritesstuff]

Can I get some general hcs for riddlebomb?

OF COURSE! :D

🔎🧨 Right off the bat, these two ran into each other completely on accident.

🔎🧨 Like, ran into each other at the hardware store.

🔎🧨 Wesley had a bunch of pipes, Ed had a bunch of bits and bobs.

🔎🧨 After that, they just sorta. kept in contact.

🔎🧨 "It's too late, Batman! When the clock reaches zero, the bomb in that room will go off!"

🔎🧨 "I put all the explosives I could fit into it in, Boss-man!"

🔎🧨 "YOU WHAT?!? OH MY GOD, IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE AN ACTUAL BOMB WHERE IS I-"

🔎🧨 Safe to say, Riddler watches Nothing like a fucking HAWK most of the time.

🔎🧨 In all due fairness, if your boyfriend had a hyperfixation on pipe bombs?

🔎🧨 YOU WOULD TOO.

🔎🧨 They're like, one of the more domestic couples.

🔎🧨 "HONEY, DO YOU THINK A CAESAR CIPHER WILL STUMP HIM?!"

🔎🧨 "SPELL IT BACKWARDS, THEN CAESAR SHIFT IT!"

🔎🧨 Nothing tries to help Riddler with his stuff as best he can.

🔎🧨 Which means Riddler has to(begrudgingly)help Nothing with his schemes too.

🔎🧨 "No, honey, you can't blow up the Gotham City waterways. You did that in June."

🔎🧨 "I DON'T CARE IF IT'S 'BE GAY DO CRIMES', YOU WERE BARELY ABLE TO BREAK OUT OF GOTHAM LAST TI-"

🔎🧨 They do have sweet moments!

🔎🧨 Riddler just. hates having to bail Nothing out of Gotham because he got bomb-happy again.

🔎🧨 Nothing tests Riddler's escape rooms that he subjects Batman to.

🔎🧨 Most of the time, he lies down and cries because he doesn't think he's smart.

🔎🧨 Riddler remedies this with sending him into easy escape rooms.

🔎🧨 He will NOT have his beloved thinking he's stupid. Batman can wait, his love needs reassurance, dammit.

🔎🧨 That being said, sometimes he will(JOKINGLY) call him a dumbass. Nothing is fine with this, as he knows Riddler means nothing bad by it.

🔎🧨 THE INSTANT SOMEONE ELSE CALLS NOTHING STUPID, HOWEVER; IS THE INSTANT HE BECOMES LIKE GHOST FACE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS.

🔎🧨 Riddler WILL track down the perpetrator and pull a Scream Ghost Face on their asses. And then proceed to DOX THEM ON WHATEVER THE UNIVERSE'S VERSION OF TWITTER IS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN FIND THEIR MANGLED CORPSE WITH THEIR BLOOD SPELLING OUT "Don't call my darling stupid :)"(The smiley-face is important.)

🔎🧨 All-in-all, very loving towards one another! :D

I love my gays sm <3

[reekiiroo]

mr incredible and incrediboy

[missazura]

local menace terrorizes teenagers in search of his successor twice and was not prepared to meet a third one who's a big fan

the incredibles/incrediboy idea was @crypticpara help

[teratocore]

We have been talking about how good The Incredibles is for the last two decades and it’s completely warranted tbh so here’s a few things I really like about Syndrome’s design:

The obvious: he’s wearing a cape. It is a callback to classic hero designs and is directly called out in the film foreshadowing his eventual death. Also looking closely the inside of his cape is blue, but a darker shade than his Incrediboy costume. Perhaps once again drawing back to the one event on his life he can’t let go, and how his idea of glory days Mr. Incredible is tainted and drags him backwards eventually because he is unable to let it go.

He also still has jet boots like in the prologue. He’s still using a form of the same technology he tried to impress Mr. Incredible with.

The color scheme: black and white. He is not a complex thinker for all his technological intelligence. He thinks in black and white. He’s stuck in an immature mode of thought, obsessed with his childhood hero, despite the fact that his actions basically led to the end of his (and by extension other heroes) careers following the Bomb Voyage L-train accident lawsuits.

Giant ‘S’ on his chest like Superman, but takes up the entire torso instead of being just over the chest. Definitely gives the vibe of overcompensating.

Hair like a mad scientist. And the color! It sort of implies to me that he dyed his hair as a kid to closer resemble Mr. Incredible possibly just as a tribute and possibly as a way to subliminally make Mr. Incredible see some of himself in Incrediboy and take him on as a sidekick. (Side note: I don’t think we ever actually see any sidekicks, at least kid sidekicks in the entirety of the film, except perhaps the Parr kids, who may or may not count. Also I don’t recall Buddy ever saying sidekick, and refers to himself as “your ward” when making his Incrediboy introduction to in the prologue. Make of that what you will, but the viewing of Bob by Buddy as his father figure has some interesting subtext given some theories about Buddy’s parents both being supers themselves.)

[correlance]

I really want someone to redraw or reanimate this scene, originally from The Incredibles, but with Alastor (Mr. Incredible) and Vox (Incrediboy). We all know that Vox started off as an Alastor fanboy. Bonus points if it includes the "I'm your #1 fan!" scene as well. Vox gives me a lot of Syndrome energy in general with his grudge.

[ultraericthered]

One Villainous Scene: A Childhood Wound Repaid

Unlike later Disney/Pixar villains like Lotso and Ernesto de la Cruz, Buddy Pine AKA Syndrome of The Incredibles was promoted as the film's villain from the moment the character was revealed, as you can just tell by looking at him that he's a dastardly supervillain. But they still sort of pulled a trick on us with what they showed us of him versus what they did not show. Voiced by comedic actor Jason Lee, Syndrome was characterized as a geeky superhero fanboy gone bad after having been soured on his hero, Mr. Incredible, and now he's not only an enemy to Incredible and his family, but a threat to the world at large with the super weapons he plans on making and selling. While it figures he'd be credible as that threat, the geeky personality and hammy characteristics of Syndrome painted him as a goofball cartoon baddie, one who'd evoke more humor than hatred.

And then we all actually saw the movie, and got to see exactly what Syndrome did in it and what effects those actions had on others. Syndrome was a viler, crueler, far more personally nasty villain than we'd been led to believe he'd be, and this scene best exemplifies it.

Before this scene, we were told that Syndrome was an arms dealer and that he'd brought about the deaths of other Supers. We saw Gazerbeam's skull and saw heroes classified as "terminated" on a big computer screen. Dark stuff, but Syndrome's comedically douchey manchild character didn't quite match the darkness of his deeds. Syndrome enters this scene just as comically, fanboying over Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) all over again even as he holds him captive, then disparaging him sending out a call for help as "Lame, lame, lame, LAME!" And then not two seconds have passed before Syndrome orders the electro shock torture to be turned on, as Bob is painfully zapped by the volts that suspend him, and he writhes in agony but refuses to give Syndrome the info he's demanding. After Bob sent out his request for help, which included a honing signal that gives his location, a government plane has requested to fly and land on the island Syndrome owns. Syndrome wants to know who's on board, as they'd almost assuredly be allies of Bob's. He even plays the transmission from Helen, Bob's wife, but Bob still denies that it's anyone he knows. So Syndrome says he'll send them a greeting.

Not shown in the video is that the "greeting" in question turns out to be an array of missiles to shoot down the plane. And because he knows Bob is lying about not knowing the pilot and wants to fuck with him, Syndrome keeps the live transmission on as the missiles seek to destroy. At one point Helen confirms that her children, her and Bob's son and daughter, are on board, which gets Bob panicked and pleading with Syndrome to call off the strike. Syndrome's response is a cheerful "Too late!", followed by a snarling, disdainful "15 years too late." Because he remains embittered towards Bob about how he'd spurred his help all those years ago, back when Buddy was a young, overzealous Super fanboy wanting to be his kid sidekick "Incrediboy". Bob doing this, and his cold, insensitive attitude about it, cut Buddy so deeply that it set him on course to becoming the villain he is today, and the grudge he carries over it drives him in his vendetta against Supers, Mr. Incredible himself in particular. Really think about that for a second: Buddy remains so sore about having had his feelings hurt as a child - in part due to Bob trying to stop him from recklessly jeopradizing his own life and the lives of others - that he now as an adult is A-OK with harming and ending the lives of children so long as doing so can hit the idol who'd rejected him where it really hurts.

When the last missile hits the target and it seems that Helen and the kids have perished in the explosion, Bob is mortified. Syndrome takes his speechless anguish as yet another opportunity to rub in some petty payback for the incident 15 years ago, throwing Bob's words to him back at him "You'll get over it. I seem to recall you prefer to work alone?" Cackling maliciously, Syndrome turns to walk away not noticing a now furious Bob about to grab him from behind. His assistant Mirage rushes in the way and Bob grabs her in a chokehold instead. Bob demands he be released or he will crush Mirage to death right there and then. Syndrome displays zero empathy or understanding that Bob is doing this out of the pain of having just lost his beloved wife and offsprings, remarking that killing a hostage would "be a little dark for him" before nonchalantly going "Aaah, go ahead." Bob, even in this emotional state, doesn't actually want to take Mirage's life, so he verbally reinforces how easy it'd be for him to do it. Syndrome just chuckles and calls his bluff again. "Show me!", he says, daring Bob to go through with the murder, a despicably evil smirk on his face as he looks his ex-idol in the eyes.

Bob cannot do it. His human decency is too great. But Syndrome sees it differently. "I knew you couldn't do it." he sneers "Even when you have nothing left to lose! You're weak...and I've outgrown you." Completely cold, dead serious, and detached from any semblence of human feelings, Syndrome doesn't even give Bob a second glance as he walks out of the room, believing his revenge to have at last been fulfilled, as now Bob can only suffer and drown in his despair until the time comes where Syndrome makes him the last Super to perish. But Mirage does give a glance back and a sad look as Bob, the mighty and once revered Mr. Incredibly, has broken down in anguished sobs, believing he's just had everything taken from him.

Beneath the geekiness, blase humor and superficial affability, Buddy Pine is not only absolutely a true menace not to be taken lightly, but a malignant, sociopathic monster who relishes any and all ways he can build himself up at the expense of others who are either enemies for him to topple or collateral damage he gives not one single shit about. And with his own self-elevation to greatness, he feels it fine to bring about both the end of Supers and the downfall of human civilization once all of his weapons would be put up for grabs. Nothing matters to Syndrome except Syndrome, and in such a self-aggrandizing soul there exists endless room for cruelties and exactly none for shame.

[lunarsilkscreen]

The complexity of "The Incredibles"

Buddy Pine looked up to Mr. incredible as a father figure, and instead of teaching this kid exactly how to help people the right way; as he was inspired to do. He stated outright that the burgeoning Eminem was an inferior person not capable of helping anybody and should just go away.

Bob Par treated him like the poor little red headed step-child he saw him as.

Exactly how to help people, what counts as helping people, and what is the right way in which to help others is the *key theme* to this movie. And while working at his soul crushing job, Bob lost his temper and took it out on his boss.

Of course; his boss didn't know he was a super. The Supers were all in witness protection. From his perspective; Gilbert Hugh was protecting Bob from his *own* mistakes.

Par on the other hand was a direct cause in the firm he worked for to lose a lot of money; because he didn't follow the protocols, and authorized every claim that passed by his desk.

He never verified if any of his customers were at fault; as far as Gilbert knew: Bob was a lazy worker who didn't do anything besides approve the applications on his desk.

This comes to a head, when Hugh stops Bob from stopping a mugging. This scene is framed as the Boss going on a power trip against somebody who is superior to him. Bob felt like a dog on a leash. But Gilbert was protecting him from himself (and racking up his own insurance bill the company would have to pay for.)

And there's another take; Bob didn't know if this "Mugging" was self-defense and he didn't care to find out.

He just wanted to live out his "Hero" Fantasy. The same attitude he had when Incrediboy got in his way.

Why were the supers all in witness protection you ask? Because they had a habit of doing damage first and asking questions later. Living this sleek nighttime fame, while taking on none of the responsibility or consequences for the negative outcomes of their actions.

The government was essentially paying them to stay out of the way and to stop doing damage. That was their Job.

<aside>Let's take a step back and admire the naming choice "incredible" as in "Not Credible". It's an excellent naming choice.</aside>

<aside>If this sounds familiar to another movie by Mike Judge; "Office Space" you've got it. Where the unreliable protagonist abuses the power he's entrusted with.</aside>

<aside>This style of messaging being purely entertaining to kids, but attempting to appeal to parents and older audiences with much deeper messaging and imagery is really an amazing construct that is prevalent in all of Judd's work.</aside>

And this extends well past this; after losing his job, Bob is contacted by a secret organization in order to "relive his glory days" and jumps at the chance to do so.

However; this is where the story loses coherency. We as the audience don't actually know what is the right thing anymore. We start to see the entire plot through the eyes of the unreliable narrative.

Because Bob sees all of these things as his own person enemy, and worries about how he's getting old and obsolete. And starts literally fighting the future that will make him obsolete; we as the audience can no longer discern right or wrong and we root for the good guys.

Because Syndrome, and his monstrosity literally built to make Supers obsolete, becomes a weapon for evil as far as the story goes.

But if we look at it from an alternate perspective; Syndrome had worked his whole life to protect the world. He started at a young age, and when he was rejected by his hero; he started seeing the world differently. He started seeing the damage and the reckless behavior that Supers routinely displayed in the pursuit of the clout that comes from being "The Hero".

He was protecting the world from the threat supers demonstrated, and something even stronger than they were. Possibly even stronger than Jack -Jack.

Syndrome didn't have the experience or wisdom that the Incredibles had, but he still showed a work ethic and dedication they did not. He probably shouldn't've called child services on them though... That was a bad move.

After tearing apart his dreams, treating him awfully, Mr. Incredible [terminated] his biggest fan, without any evidence at all that he was the cause of the other Super's death.

<aside>A lot of the spin-off stuff tries to create a solution for this, including creating a kind of jumping point for "brain in a jar" or matrix style world building. But the truth is; Bob didn't even know how old the deceased were, as far as he knew he was watching simulations of heroes who died of old age in Incredibles 1.</aside>

Instead of helping out the next generation of superhero; the Incredibles showcased a war between generations. One that Bob Par started with his inability to let go of the feeling of superiority and being the only one who can do the right thing.

What did Syndrome do? He created a situation where the supers, and his Hero didn't have to live in hiding anymore. He played the heel because despite the Par family's intense self-absorbed nature; they were in fact being treated like second class citizens.

He created a world where people were free to be Super. Just like he said he would, and unlike Mr. Incredible; he didn't do it for the clout.

"Oh noo, I've lost control of my custom built robot with millions of safe guards against this exact thing happening. WHATEVER WILL I DO?" - Syndrome Sarcastically

[djsherriff-responses]

Plus there was some good foreshadowing with Buddy when he was Incrediboy he had a bomb strapped to his cape that he didn’t notice and would have died if Bob didn’t see it.

So then that incident retroactively plays off the joke about practicality of superhero capes while still feeling appropriate within the setting and not being judgemental or insulting towards superhero media.

So when Syndrome meets his end because of his cape its great payoff to a joke and shows us that he never learned his lesson from before or why Bob tried to stop him from flying off.

Pretty much yeah, which plays into symbolism on how Syndrome’s villain motivation stems from his desire to be a superhero but his ignorance on what it actually means to be a superhero

so not only did he not learn his lesson, the guy has a shallow understanding of what a superhero is and is the type to go off stereotypes and cliches when designing his own super villain outfit

and capes is a cliche of the superhero genre

[radroller]

Overdue but i retract my Incrediboy comment on Ziin, he still isnt on Double Rider level but he’s like at least Taki level. And that’s great!

[rawwkingrimmie64]

"You always say 'Be true to yourself' but you never say which part to be true to."

"You always say 'Do your best' but you don't really mean it."

"Everyone is special, Dash."

"Which is another way of saying no one is."

"And with everyone Super...no one will be."

If Syndrome was TRULY obsessed with Mr. Incredible and wanting to destroy him, then he would have followed his life much more closely. Not enough to just eventually track him down, but enough to know about his family and their troubles with being normal people. Especially, a young blonde haired boy who wants nothing more than to be a superhero.

Syndrome is Dash's cautionary tale, and the parallels between them are astounding. Two young boys, similar in appearance, wanting nothing more than to be a super hero, but, for completely different reasons, neither of them can. One is shunned by the super hero community, while the other is told to lay low by that same community. Well, would you look at this? They even have the same person at the root of their unfulfilled desires:

Mr. Incredible himself.

Mr. incredible directly responsible for Buddy losing his dream of being a super hero, as he repeatedly turns away Incrediboy. Then, shortly after, his actions become the catalyst for making super heroes around the world go into hiding so that anyone who was naturally super, like himself and his future kids, couldn't embrace that part of who they are and be true to themselves.

Can you imagine if Syndrome just waited things out for a few more years? It's been about 15 years, what's another five to ten for a younger man like him? He could have continued revolutionizing his tech and eventually snagged the best apprentice he could have ever hoped for:

Mr. Incredible's own son.

Go and make THAT into a movie!

[dw-flagler]

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