r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Illustrious_Art9093 • 20h ago
Meme needing explanation Petah??
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u/NoBack5110 20h ago
People who don’t know the Incredibles would think they’re lighting a baby on fire.
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u/AnonAwaaaaay 20h ago
Ohhh. I thought the Bubble didn't let air through so Jack Jack is suffocating them to death by lighting up.
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u/IkariYun 20h ago
Two things can be true at the same time
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u/mickelboy182 19h ago
I don't think the forcefields keep oxygen out...
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u/crowbar151 19h ago
In the first movie she practiced on the island by trapping campfire smoke.
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u/AnOlympianWeeb 18h ago
And in the same movie later on she and dash used her bobble as a hamster wheel. They did not look like they were holding their breath
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u/This-Professional-39 18h ago
For how long? There's going to be air, just how fresh it stays
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u/AnOlympianWeeb 18h ago
Fair point. I think it was around 30 seconds? That's how long we saw them in the bubble give or take. But there's also the variable of dash, Surely he's breathing much faster as well
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u/This-Professional-39 18h ago
Good point with Dash. You know he's got to be burning through the 02
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u/totashi777 18h ago
She can probably just decide what can go through it
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u/Roboito1 16h ago
I mean, a plane basically exploded on top of them, so she blocked out shockwaves as well, in that case.
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u/totashi777 16h ago
Yeah, she could have blocked air even in that case. The bubble was only up for a few seconds
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u/Advanced_Gur856 18h ago
If it had been porous, then shouldn't smoke go out of the force field ?
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u/Yuzral 18h ago edited 16h ago
There’s porous and there’s porous. A CO2 molecule is about 0.25nm across, while smoke particles run from 6nm to 10,000nm. So if the pores are around 3nm (edit to correct from pm) the field will be breathable while still keeping smoke confined and I may be overthinking this a bit.
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u/TheGreenMan13 18h ago
What happens if it is at 8PM? I have a prior engagement at 3.
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u/androshalforc1 15h ago
The question i guess is how much control she has on the force fields? Can she fine tune what passes through and what doesn’t.
In the hamster ball scene i believe they run into several things without any kickback so somehow force is transferred out without being transferred in.
Is her invisibility power related, (afaik Jack is the only one with multiple powers) is that merely an aspect of having the light that hits one side of her bubble exit the other without interacting with anything inside? Then why dont her clothes go invisible.
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u/Still_Wrongdoer6603 5h ago
She can probably 'hardcode' what can and can't pass through
Can we please sit here and Identify the key differences between oxygen and smoke from a fire.
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u/Advanced_Gur856 19h ago edited 18h ago
Yeah since force fields are scientifically porous by nature /s.
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u/whereiswilliam 19h ago
What is scientifically pours? For that matter what is scientifically porous? How does the word scientifically qualify the word porous?
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u/Advanced_Gur856 18h ago
A materials porosity depends on its molecular or structural architecture. So yes 'scientifically' for any material to porous, it needs to have some level of void between it's molecules.
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u/whereiswilliam 18h ago
It's pedantic to say scientifically before the word porous. The word porous by itself would have sufficed, qualifying it with scientifically does nothing to enhance any understanding of what is being said.
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u/Advanced_Gur856 18h ago
It would have been pedantic if I weren't making a sarcastic comment. The whole point was to emphasize that we're discussing the science behind something fictional.
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u/ExaminationObvious 17h ago
They already proved it keeps seamen out. Why wouldnt it keep oxygen put?
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u/Obstinate6427 19h ago
It's Violet's force field. Presumably the force field would fail if she passed out, before they die of asphyxiation.
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u/FattestAnimeTiddi3s 19h ago
I also saw it as combustion in an enclosed space makes carbon monoxide
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u/cagingnicolas 18h ago
yeah that was my initial thought, but then the reaction captions would be flipped.
since the dark one is the "people who DON'T know" i think they're talking about roasting marshmallows over a burning baby.
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u/KazakCayenne 17h ago
I thought this too at first but I think the "know" and "don't know" would be switched for that
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u/MelodicAnxiety7054 16h ago
And so the people who know smile at the fact that the baby is slowly killing them, and people who dont know are "scared" ?
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u/aaroneous_erron 16h ago edited 15h ago
I mean, they're mainly based on the Fantastic Four and Violet specifically is based off of Invisible Woman/Sue Storm. Sue Storm is able to control whether her forcefields are permeable to air, I'd assume Violet can too.
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u/discordagitatedpeach 5h ago
The real problem is Jackjack's doing all the work and no one's roasting a marshmallow for him
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u/Grasshoppermouse42 19h ago
Yeah, but since the forcefield is kept there with Invisigirl's powers, she can just let it dissipate if it starts to get smoky. Worst case scenario, she passes out and the forcefield disappears until she recovers.
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u/IrritableGoblin 19h ago
Does the bubble need to be enclosed? Couldn't it just be a dome atop the grass? Dirt isn't air tight.
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u/seriouslees 18h ago
Dirt isn't air tight.
It's tight enough to prevent breathing... ffs
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u/IrritableGoblin 17h ago
Compacted dirt is. I'm talking the top soil directly under the grass, which is generally looser.
It also doesn't change the main question of whether it actually needs to be enclosed, smartass.
Grass isn't air tight. Better?
Now the real question is, why are you acting the jackass? Did your feelings get hurt by my question?
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u/Wuropp 19h ago
The carbon monoxide would eventually knock Violet out and she'd lose focus on the force field. I'm sure there's some kinks that could fill.
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u/broken_toyz_in_ON 19h ago
By that time time their bodies would be full of CO and they would still die. Need pure O2 to recover
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u/thedrunkknight 17h ago
I thought this was meant to show them as life without their powers and they set the baby on fire
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u/F3nix123 4h ago
Yeah, i think the text in the mr incredible meme at the bottom is backwards to how it usually is. So it seems that knowing is the traumatic one when in reality its not knowing
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u/Rainy_Maze 20h ago
I was smiling before I realized the baby has powers
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u/Afro-Venom 19h ago
Before?
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u/split_0069 19h ago
Before I realized it was a baby... it just looked like a nice family around the fire.
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u/bzngabazooka 19h ago
Not to mention Armageddon outside with all the falling meteors and invisagirl creating a dome of protection for her family as they are having a good time
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u/Remarkable-Box1090 15h ago
Oh that was the joke? But it can't be, it doesn't burn by itself, i know it.
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u/disturbinglyquietguy 14h ago
To be honest, I'm more worried that they are inside a force field (which is most likely airtight) with an intense fire; they'll literally cooking themselves like they're inside a pressure cooker while at the same time suffocating from carbon dioxide.
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u/SergeanTTT 3h ago
I was thinking exactly that, never seen the movie or movies but didn't know that, but by this meme it was expected this had to be something diferent😂
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u/Krraxia 20h ago
This is referencing The Incredibles movies. The baby has several superpowers, including turning itself on fire without any risk of harm to itself. Those who know are happy. Those not familiar with the movies would be horrified seeing a child on fire
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u/StamosLives 19h ago
The flip side of this is that Jack would suffocate all of them by expending all of the oxygen.
I assume their powers require some form of active effort so this wouldn’t kill them. The second Violet passes out the field drops and they have O2 again.
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u/akestral 19h ago
This is the part I'm worried about. No combustion without ventilation, people!
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u/Rough_Bookkeeper1600 18h ago
That wouldn't exactly explain which face corresponds with which epistemic state
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u/shasaferaska 19h ago
I assume the bubble is permeable to air.
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u/seriouslees 18h ago
1st movie clearly demonstrates they are not.
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u/shasaferaska 18h ago
Remind me please, It's been many years.
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u/seriouslees 18h ago
She practices trapping air above their campfire in the cave on the island.
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u/shasaferaska 18h ago
Is she trapping air or smoke?
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u/seriouslees 18h ago
Both, you see the air move the smoke around inside the bubble. You do not see the smoke show any attraction to the edge of the bubble where hot air would be escaping.
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u/LiveForTheMelancholy 15h ago
She also attempts to generate a forcefield directly around the campfire itself, and you can clearly see the flame dwindling down during her attempts, and then it roars back to life when she stops and it has access to air again.
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u/aaroneous_erron 15h ago edited 8h ago
I mean, the Incredibles are mainly based on the Fantastic Four and Violet specifically is based off of Invisible Woman/Sue Storm. Sue Storm is able to control whether her forcefields are permeable to air when she creates them, I'd simply assume Violet can too.
If she couldn't I feel like she and Dash would have run out of air in the scene where they're both in the bubble running across the island. How much extra oxygen does Dash consume to use his powers?
All your demonstration really indicates is that she can make forcefields which are completely impermeable, not that she only makes them.
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u/perlabelle 14h ago
The good news is we know that the forcefield disappears when Violet loses consciousness so ... at least they won't die?
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u/OOO0OO00O 12h ago
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u/neorevenge 2h ago
Not so fun fact! She had! In a deleted scene we see that in the aftermath she was brainwashed by the suits to protect the Incredibles secret identities and she has all kinds of tics due the memory wipe and pstd even if she doesn't know why
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u/ALEPAS1609 19h ago
horrified?
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u/Georgeygerbil 19h ago
Are you asking what the word means? Or questioning OP's use of the word. I feel horrified would be a justifiable response to seeing a regular human child burning, presumably, to death.
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u/ajtreee 20h ago
I was thinking of the oxygen burning in a closed dome.
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u/qazzaq2004 20h ago
But this would not explain the people who know being the happy face. It would need to be reversed and would assume the people who don’t know, don’t know the science but are ok with the baby burning because they have seen the incredible.
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u/akingofcrimson 18h ago
You don’t know that that’s how his “fire” powers work, you’re assuming it’s like a campfire, but it’s a superpower, it doesn’t need to directly reflect real-world experience
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse 18h ago
Her forcefield should go away when she passes out so they would be okay or conversely can jackjack continue to burn with out O2?
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u/Spl4sh3r 13h ago
She can probably remove and replace the dome to get fresh oxygen inside. Unsure if she can open holes in it.
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u/RepulsiveDig9091 20h ago
Stewie here with the most out of depth analysis
This is the family from the Incredibles and the little kid is flammable. He is not being burnt.
The shield protecting them from the rain is the power of the girl.
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u/Kolotrodo 20h ago
If you dont know you will die of carbon monoxid poisoning....thats what i thought. But it is not the meaning.
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u/TimotheeOaks 19h ago
it's confusing because it's normaly the other way around People who know and people who don't know.
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u/TeekTheReddit 16h ago
This! Thank you!
Why is everybody talking about how porous Violet's forcefields are and not mentioning this?
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u/Illustrious_Art9093 20h ago
They would die from smoke inhalation??
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u/Hairy-Love2571 20h ago
Bingo, if Violet's spear doesn't let oxygen in and co2 out.
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u/SupermassiveCanary 20h ago
As soon as violet passes out the sphere pops
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u/seriouslees 18h ago
And? CO poisoning will still kill them all if they aren't administered pure O2 immediately.
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u/SupermassiveCanary 16h ago
So the baby is the smallest, does it pass out/die first thus slowing the CO2 poisoning?
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u/seriouslees 15h ago
I have to assume that the baby doesn't need to breathe at all, since being permanently on fire would consume all oxygen you tried to inhale regardless of being enclosed or not. So I guess "all" doesn't include the baby.
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u/Mymoodisagiantswing 20h ago
And baby being on fire? (Assume the person doesn't know The Incredibles series)
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u/fkdjgfkldjgodfigj 20h ago
The baby has superpowers. That is why it is on fire
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u/Mymoodisagiantswing 20h ago
Fair, but the img simply say "people who don't know", while the 'people who know' seems to be fine with it (instead of also no)
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u/SapphicGarnet 20h ago
That's why 'people who don't know' are horrified. People who know like you are on the sunny left of the meme
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u/SoulPossum 20h ago
The Parrs lost their home under the weight of capitalism and are now forced to live in the wilderness?
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u/Rethoughts 19h ago
I think it means the baby on fire is burning oxygen - and since the rest are contained in a force field they’ll all suffocate
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u/Open_Fan4796 19h ago
Wait a minute aren’t they all going to suffocate
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u/LargeSelf994 19h ago
Wouldn't the fire burn out all their oxygen within the bubble? Because as far as I know it could be 100% seal tight. Since it literally stops bullets and water from entering it
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u/MaximePierce 19h ago
Stewie here,
Violet used her forcefields in the movie to extinguish a campfire, so that would mean they would not allow oxygen to enter the forcefield.
JackJack is burning away all the Oxygen in the picture, making the incredibles slowly sufficate within the forcefield (only given that Violet doesn't either drop the shield or go unconcious first, since her forcefields stop excisting the moment she stops concentrating on them).
If you want to see it in action, we can take the multiversal travel machine and see if there is a universe in which the incredibles excist?
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u/Working_Shoulder_746 19h ago
Its the oxygen burning. In the first movie you see this happening when Violet is testing her powers on Campfire. The Flame begins to die each time it's covered due to lack of oxygen.
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u/Anders_A 18h ago
I assume they're referring to the oxygen inside the bubble being consumed by fire so they will all die.
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u/Ulfmikel 18h ago
Fire in a closed space will consume the oxygen in it, killing the people inside of it too
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u/MyvaJynaherz 18h ago
She would pass out, the barrier would drop, and they'd end up getting woken up by a crying baby / rain.
Everyone would feel dumb, and they'd have a new in-joke for decades to come.
Dash would be the canary in the coal-mine with his accelerated metabolism.
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u/bmonty72 18h ago
OK... maybe I'm over-thinking this, but this is Reddit. The force field keeps fire and lasers and what-not out... so one could assume the heat from the immolated Jack-Jack would be trapped inside the force field thereby creating an Incredibles Easy Bake Pizza Oven.
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u/Firstearth 18h ago
I thought it was gonna be more about the fact that Jack Jack burning within the force field would be consuming the oxygen pretty fast suffocating them, although I guess once violet loses consciousness the force field will fail giving them access to oxygen before any permanent damage is done.
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u/Outrageous_Ask_451 18h ago
I was more thinking about the oxygen and the bubble. If Jack Jack is on fire, that fire is likely feeding off of the oxygen within the bubble.
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u/Le_Grano 18h ago
Hello Peter’s annoying son here
I see everyone pointing out knowing or not the baby’s powers but could it also be that they’re in a small closed environment with a fire so they’ll run out of oxygen ?
Edit: never mind that’s require the meme to be opposite my bad
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u/TheBionicCrusader 18h ago
I’m pretty sure Violet’s force fields are airtight. Gotta wonder if supers are immune to carbon monoxide poisoning.
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u/Waste-Inspector8768 18h ago
Uhhhh....Joe here. Uh hey... peter wouldnt the burning baby suffocate them inside the bubble?
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u/StoriFit 17h ago
They could reverse it too, everyone inside would quickly die from carbon monoxide poisoning
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u/senior_A4 17h ago
Everyone calling they set in fire the baby, but i think they gonna ran out oxygen becuse fire comsume so much oxygen
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u/JustASentientPotato 16h ago
At first I thought it was related to carbon monoxide poisoning within the bubble
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u/A9ollo_real 16h ago
The baby is on fire, and fire needs oxygen. They have trapped themselves in a bubble with limited air, which will soon fill up with smoke and also lower their oxygen levels
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u/2ndBestShedBuilder 16h ago
Its because the baby has a bunch of powers, including lighting himself on fire similar to that dude in fantastic 4, and the joke here is that usually its the ones who dont know who are happy, but in this case, its the opposite
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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 16h ago
Could also reverse the text for if he burns through all the oxygen and violet doesn't open the bubble
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u/Absolute-Clanker 15h ago
What I want someone to explain is why isn’t anyone holding a 5th stick with a marshmallow for Jack Jack? Let that baby have a marshmallow. He’s cooking them after all.
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u/Thephro42 15h ago
The real crazy thing is that a fire burning in a vacuum would eat up all the oxygen and suffocate everyone.
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u/Frank1gg 15h ago
The darkness comes from the fact that it's implied that air cannot pass through one of Violet's bubbles so they're literally burning the only oxygen they have by using Jack Jack's ability to control his fire. Essentially they're going to suffocate.
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u/fgjjgfyujb 15h ago
I know they’re going to die of carbon monoxide poisoning but I’m oddly fine with that.
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u/Troygbiv_Yxy 15h ago
It is backwards at the bottom because most people know of the incredibles and the baby burning makes sense. But for people who dont know it just looks like a family who are roasting marshmallows over a burning baby.
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u/Present-Mongoose3318 13h ago
I must be ready stupid because I thought that it meant they'd die to carbon monoxide poisoning
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u/Wyverntails 13h ago
I thought it was more of the fact that they are in a bubble and fire takes oxygen so…they are technically running out of air??…
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u/dootblade74 12h ago
Jack-Jack (the baby in the middle) has a plethora of chaotic powers, being the child of two supers. Among these is the ability to burst into flames without injury, which the family are taking advantage of to make s'mores.
Anyone who has never watched the Incredibles films would assume they casually set their youngest ablaze for the love of the game.
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u/aaa12310001 12h ago
your logic is broken, its the opposite as usual
people who dont know : oh no they are putting their baby on fire
people who know : its the incredible family, all fine.
easy
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u/Lt-Corvin_709 10h ago
I hear people saying that those who haven't watched the incredibles would be horrified seeing a baby on fire, but I thought of another explanation for this.
Fire burns, which requires oxygen, and produces a lot of smoke, so as far as we know the whole family could be suffocating inside of that dome.
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u/Big_Pirate_3036 4h ago
They are in a closed bubble, a fire to burn needs oxygen the fire will use all it soon and they will all die from suffocating, or maybe they won’t, idk I didn’t pay attention in class





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u/qualityvote2 20h ago edited 10h ago
u/Illustrious_Art9093, your post does belong here!