When Everybody Is Super

Published: July 14, 2018, 2:30 a.m.

b'Thoughts on the Incredibles and the Incredibles 2: do these movies value being "naturally" super over technological advancement?\\xa0\\n\\nThe Incredibles movies have a weird relationship with technology\\n\\nhttps://bit.ly/2MSukcL\\n\\nBut there\\u2019s another, subtler thread running through the two Pixar films. And because it repeats, it seems to point to a larger philosophy: both movies feature villains whose evil deeds give the franchise a markedly technophobic outlook. In The Incredibles, it\\u2019s Syndrome, a normal human with no superpowers who uses his tech skills to amass a huge fortune, which he plans to use to effectively rid the world of supers. In The Incredibles 2, it\\u2019s Screenslaver, a normal human with no superpowers who uses her tech skills to amass a huge fortune, which she plans to use to actually rid the world of supers.\\n\\nAre these movies sectretly anti-tech? And do they secretly hearken back to a happier time when white guys ran everything? Phil and Stephen discuss.\\n\\nWT 456-773\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\\n\\nVideos and Images from Pixabay.com and other sources'