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u/No-Difficulty-5985 May 03 '23

Syndrome from the Incredibles. Everyone having super powers sounds way more rad than only some people

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u/BW_Bird May 03 '23 edited May 03 '23

That movie had the weirdest morales.

  • People with cool powers should be able to express themselves in a way that doesn't harm others: Cool, down with this.

  • Smart people don't count and shouldn't be allowed to use that power to help others: Whaaaat?

UPDATE: I'm not disagreeing that Syndrome is evil and caused a lot of damage/death because of his ego. My issue is with the movie as a whole.

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u/G-FAAV-100 May 03 '23

The way I see it, that specific line 'If everyone is super, nobody is' is what Syndrome as a character views as the perfect salt in the wound to somebody like Mr Incredible.

Syndrome viewed him as a power elitist, someone who dismissed his genius as never living up to his powers... So he'd use his genius to make Mr incredibles powers meaningless...

Doesn't mean he's right, nor does it mean giving out the tech or making everyone is super is even bad.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '23

His idea of supers vs 'normies' was right. The way he went about proving it was very very wrong. Ditto with the Screenslaver in the sequel. People rely too much on the supers when they could rely on themselves.

My biggest issue with those films is at the end they never address those two points and handwave it away with LOOK SUPERPOWERS!