I’d be cool with a sequel as well (ideally we’d see both, but maybe I’m being too optimistic). Hadn’t thought about a future story about the kids, though, which is a great idea.

I’m still really hoping that Brad Bird pursues at least one of the above scenarios. I guess animation is really expensive, which is a major hurdle, but Incredibles was so popular that I think it would be a viable proposition at the box office. I would certainly buy the Dvd’s/Blu-Rays as well.

So if they played off of the Underminer— Could the villain find out where they live and destroy the foundation of their home? How about undermining the family? They love each other and destroying what they had sought so hard to protect could make a very powerful story.

If they did a prequel idea— Could they play with Mr. Incredible’s character by starting him out as a young adult who is mentored into maturity? A character arc which starts off with him insecure, moving through a time of over-confidence where he does the right thing for the wrong reasons, thus pushing him back into his insecurity, and then finally settling in for the final confident hero who does the right thing because it needs to get done— that might be an engaging (though well-trodden) path.

If they did something that focused more on the kids as they grow— What about focusing on the redemption of Dash? What if Dash’s over-confidence gets him in the wrong crowd? What if he needs the rest of the family to come to bat for him, before he slips over the edge and becomes a villain? This might be an ideal vehicle to introduce a villainous mentor character. The antithesis to a Mr. Miyagi or Obi-Wan Kenobi character —something like Henri Ducard (Ra’s al Guhl) in Batman Begins. The struggle of peer versus familial pressure, the intergenerational interactions, and the redemption of a character gone bad would all make powerful moral backdrops for action adventures.

This may sound odd, but I think I’m the only person on the planet who wasn’t begging for a sequel immediately after the first one came out. I never really even thought it ended on a cliffhanger. I always figured they had a battle with the Underminer, defeated him and sent him off to jail and made it back home in time to throw some leftovers together for dinner. Just another day in the life of the Parrs. No sequel needed to know what happened immediately after.

I put some thought into this a while ago. I’m woefully uncreative with original ideas, but I think it’s a decent stab at, at least, what *I* would like to see from a sequel:

We see a montage of the kids growing up (similar to the start of Toy Story 3), and fighting crime alongside their parents, etc. As things go on, Dash (at age about 16 or so) starts to get very self-confident; Bob and Helen are older and even less in their prime, and Dash starts thinking he should be the main hero, so branches off on his own, Nightwing-style. In the process of doing this, he accidentally helps an old enemy of Mr. Incredible’s with some evil scheme or another.

As I said, I’m not a story-creatin’ person, and there’s a lot of gaps, but that’s the kinda thing I’d like to see. I don’t think it can just pick up with The Underminer (I never read that as being a lead in to a sequel, just a call back to cartoon serials of the 60s/70s), and shifting Dash to being the main focus seems pretty logical to me. But lots of Frozone still, please.

Also, EDNA MODE IS THERE IN EVERY SCENE. Boom! Best Picture Award guaranteed.