Pixar needed to receive permission from DC Comics to use the name in the film. Elastigirl is also the name of a superheroine with similar stretching abilities on the DC Comics superhero team, the Doom Patrol. Helen’s call sign for her plane is “India Golf Niner-Niner,” (IG99), a reference to the 1999 film The Iron Giant, which was directed by Brad Bird (who also directed The Incredibles).ĩ. In both instances, Elastigirl/Dorinda is initially distracted before returning to the controls to bring her plane back under control.Ĩ. When Elastigirl approaches Nomanisan Island (No Man Is An Island, get it?) in her jet, the scene is similar to Dorinda’s end-of-movie flight in which her plane also goes into an uncontrollable dive.
Elastigirl was voiced by Holly Hunter, and there is a reference to another Holly Hunter film (Always, in which she played pilot Dorinda Durston) in the Pixar classic. When Elastigirl looks at the size of her hips in the mirror and sighs, this echoes a similar gag from Peter Pan. Tinker Bell was similarly astonished (or surprised?…it’s hard to tell with fairies) by the size of her hips when she saw her reflection in a hand-held mirror.ħ. Eagle-eyed viewers might have noticed a nod to Peter Pan in The Incredibles. Don’t feel too badly for Helen though, she did much better than her hubby, Mr. Speaking of Edna Mode, she narrowly edged out Elastigirl on Rolling Stone’s list of “25 Best Pixar Movie Characters,” with Edna placing 9th while Elastigirl followed a few spots later at number 14. Fortunately, her super suit provides her with added toughness, though the suit’s designer, Edna Mode, warns her that she can still injure herself by stretching too far. All that stretching comes at a cost though when she stretches out to support a heavy object, such as the family Winnebago she “held” as the family flew back for their ultimate confrontation with Syndrome, she clearly experiences a great deal of discomfort. Regardless of how far she can stretch though, she can leap up to 80 feet, and can use her elasticity to throw objects incredible distances, often utilizing a slingshot technique to maximize her throwing range.ģ. That’s pretty impressive, but Syndrome’s Operation Kronos database states that she can stretch up to 300 feet.
It has been stated that Elastigirl can stretch out as thin as 1 mm (approximately 4/100s of an inch), which would put her maximum “height” at just under 100 feet. But just how far can she stretch? Well, that’s a bit unclear, and depends on which source you believe. But of course, we know her regular height is far from, um, regular. A housewife and mother of three, she is in her late thirties and stands a modest 5′ 8”.Ģ. To all outward appearances, Helen Parr seems to be fairly typical in terms of stature.
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