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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

I know we all love Edna because she’s super fierce and determined and an awesome role model and shit but

do you ever think that she feels intensely guilty over this, having made this suit that lead to the death of this amazing young girl

Maybe there’s a reason she never looks back.

Repeated for emphasis:

Maybe there’s a reason she never looks back.

Edna at the funeral, veiled from head to toe, slowly ripping pages out of her pocket sketchbook and mouthing the words “no capes”

you people are monsters

What the actual fuck oh my god

Think about how appalled Edna must have been. How traumatized. How guilty she must have felt over the death of this young girl.

Then realize that Edna anticipated practically every threat that the Incredibles would run into from Syndrome and built help into their suits. The only logical conclusion is that he contacted her–possibly scores of times. Syndrome was a stalkery fanboy before he turned supervillain. And Edna is THE suit maker for supers, as well as Mr. Incredible. Of course Syndrome would go to her. Edna is the best, and Syndrome would want the best designer for his costume.

Think about all that. Think about the woman who was so horrified and grief-stricken by Stratogate’s death being asked by a supervillain–one who was a genuine threat to supers she cared about–to design his costume.

And then realize that, despite her horror and guilt and rage at the gruesome deaths of Stratogate and other supers, despite her vehement conviction that such deaths should never happen again…

…she gave Syndrome a cape.

…

YOOOOOOO WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKK

This post fucked me up

I’d have an alternative theory, because I think Syndrome never went to Edna, actually.

Syndrome is quite antisocial. He lives by himself, in a island, and brings people to him, while you have to go to Edna to get clothes for her. Also, unlike other heroes, he doesn’t have just to have a suit suited (yeah, I know, let me have this one) to his powers, he must have his gadgets built in. And I doubt he’d allow anyone to have access to those. He strikes me more the kind of person who would have everything done by itself.

Consider who Syndrome was, what he was obsessed with. He grew up adoring heroes, dreaming to be like them, and then dreaming to demolish them (by proving him the gratest of all first, and giving his tech to make all “super” after) after what he percieved as them letting him down. He believed that the supers looked down on him for just being normal, using that supposed prejudice to justify his own actions afterwards.

But Edna was normal too. And she wasn’t looked down at all, she played an essential role in all of that. She might have become a superhero herself, had she wanted to (I mean, she can create clothes undamaged by missiles, lava and extreme friction, able to stretch to absurd levels, turn invisible and so on, she would have probably been able to weaponize them), but still was definitely not held in any disregard for not having powers. And she was in friendly terms with the heroes.

To put it simply, then, Syndrome could not confront Edna. Edna’s existence and lifestyle, basically, would have proven him wrong. They would have forced him to admit that it wasn’t some form of prejudice, and to face his own actions, exposing him for what he really was: an entitled brat whose entitlement caused the downfall of superheroes. So, either his own prejudice led him to ignore Edna (Lex Luthor style), or he chose to do it to preserve his facade.

And then irony kicked in. Because he made himself his clothes, and made a cape with them. He studied heroes, their fighting styles and their weaknesses, but never actually considered having to face those himself. He was so obsessed with superheroes not considering him like one of them, that he ended up not considering himself a superhero, and that bit him back big time. That’s the same thing that happened with the robot: he built it to be able to adapt, reason, improve, and best every hero. And then faced it not considering that those same abilities would have been used to fight him, leading to his defeat. So, when he modeled his costume after popular heroes for his master plan, he just ignored the issues costumes caused to the heroes themselves, since he wasn’t one of them, so didn’t think those could apply to him. He was proven very wrong.