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Violet Parr
The Incredibles character
First appearanceThe Incredibles
Created byBrad Bird
Portrayed bySarah Vowell

Violet "Vi" Parr is a fictional character from the movie The Incredibles. A withdrawn junior high school student whose character arc in the film involves her learning self-confidence, her superpowers include invisibility and creating a spherical forcefield around herself. She is voiced by Sarah Vowell.

"Like many teen girls, Violet doesn't like being different from her peers and especially doesn't want to be noticed. But when she learns she's a force to be reckoned with, Violet pulls back her hair and allows her true self to shine."- Official Pixar Website

Fictional character history

The Incredibles

When she is first introduced in The Incredibles, Violet is depicted as gloomy and socially withdrawn -- preferring to hide behind her long hair. She has a crush on one of her classmates, Tony Rydinger, but is too shy to approach him and turns herself invisible whenever he looks her way so as to avoid attention. She also appears to be thirteen or fourteen, as it shows at the beginning of the movie, when she's at her school, named: "Western View Junior High"

After Violet and Dash discover the extraordinary properties of the supersuits designed for them by Edna Mode (In Violet's case, her suit can turn invisible along with her, rendering her totally unseen without disrupting her force fields. The force field part is discussed in A Magic Kingdom Adventure.), they stow away on their mother's jet when she leaves to find their father, who has been doing secret hero work behind his family's back. Shortly after they are discovered by Helen, the plane is attacked by Syndrome's missiles, and Helen calls upon Violet to put a force field around them for protection. Violet is not confident that she can generate such a large force field, however, and is unable to do so before the plane is destroyed. Helen manages to use her powers to shield her children from the blast, before parachuting with them to safety. After making it to shore, Violet apologizes to her mother for failing to live up to expectations, but Helen reassures her by saying that she has more power than she herself realizes. She also warns her that in their situation, doubt is a luxury they can no longer afford.

After Elastigirl goes off to rescue Mr. Incredible, Syndrome's henchmen discover the children and pursue them. Violet and Dash use their powers for the first time in self-defense against an enemy. At one point, the siblings combine their powers to create the IncrediBall (named in the video game): Violet generates a forcefield and Dash runs along its inner surface like a hamster ball, propelling it at considerable speeds and mowing down everything in their path.

The two siblings are reunited with their parents, during which Violet again displays her increasing confidence, raising a large shield which protects her family from a hail of automatic weapons fire. Though the guards are quickly overpowered, Syndrome captures the entire family. Once imprisoned, it is Violet who manages to free everyone by creating a force field that severs her magnetic bonds, allowing her to free her family.

After learning Syndrome has launched an immense robotic weapon at Metroville called the Omnidroid, the Parrs journey there, Violet, along with the rest of her family and Frozone, work together as a team to destroy it. They return home to find Syndrome abducting Jack-Jack, but foil his attempt. Syndrome's disabled plane crashes into the Parr home, but Violet protects her family with a forcefield.

Three months later, Violet is wearing brighter clothes, a more flattering hair style, and is confident enough to talk to friends and boys.

The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer

In the video game, Rise of The Underminer, Helen, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack are told to evacuate Metroville after they are surrounded by The Underminer's robots, but the four return just in time to watch as Mr. Incredible and Frozone seemingly slay the Underminer by crashing his machine onto a bigger machine, which creates an explosion.

Disneyland Adventure

Violet appears in the Disney on Ice production Disneyland Adventure.

Comic book

During a fight between the Incredible Family and Futurion in Boom! Studios' first Incredibles story arc, "Family Matters", Helen has Violet watch over Jack-Jack while she, Bob, and Dash try to calm down a horde of zoo animals that have been mutated into dinosaur-like creatures, leading Violet herself to complain. "Why am I always the babysitter…?".[1]

Personality

Violet's character development constitutes an important subplot in the movie. At first, Violet is shy and timid, and troubled by difficulty in socializing at school. Violet desperately wants to be like everyone else, to blend in with normal people and not to stand out. However, by the end of the movie, she is more outgoing and confident. She displays intelligence as she advises her parents to use the coordinates of the last rocket launch to fly the next one to Metroville, and after the crisis with Syndrome is resolved, she finds it easier to speak to others. Violet loves her family and even though she constantly butts heads with Dash, she cares for him very much. She is concerned for the wellbeing of her family, so she always tries very hard to help them. However, as seen in Family Matters #1, she will complain if relegated to a position that does not allow her to engage in combat (such as watching over Jack-Jack).

Appearance

Violet is thin, with black hair, and dark blue eyes. At the beginning of the movie, she wears loose fitting, baggy, dark clothes, and wears her hair in a manner that partially obscures her face. By the end of the movie, however, in keeping with her more confident, outgoing personality, she wears brighter, more flattering clothes, and her hair pulled back with a headband.

Powers

Violet's superpowers allow her to instantly render herself partially or entirely invisible. She is only seen able to manifest this ability upon her own body, as her normal clothes remain visible. The supersuit Edna Mode makes for her is the first outfit she encounters that turns invisible with her. She can also generate powerful force fields that she has used defensively in the film and offensively in the Boom! Studios comics. The force fields, which are spherical or elliptical in shape, can easily deflect continuous machine gun fire. In fact, no technical limit was shown as to the force field limit of strength, however, they can be broken if Violet is suitably distracted or rendered incapacitated, such as in the end of the movie when the Omnidroid knocked her field into the ground, concussively smashing her head into the side of it and rendering her unconscious.

Actresses

Violet is voiced by the following actresses:

Bonus content

  • In the alternate opening from The Incredibles film, Syndrome is depicted as trying to abduct Violet while she is still in infancy but is foiled when the baby Violet, in her invisible state, spits up into his face, distracting him long enough for Bob and Helen to retrieve her.
  • The Special Edition DVD for The Incredibles includes a video essay by Sarah Vowell, entitled "Vowellett". She explains that Pixar sent her test footage of Violet using audio from one of Vowell's This American Life broadcasts. The radio program featured Vowell and her father firing a cannon. The test footage shows Violet nervously exploring the hideout of a fellow superhero. She accidentally knocks down the friend's phaser gun. After turning invisible to avoid being spotted and putting it back on its stand, she decides to wield it and shortly after becomes visible again. Saying "This is like a cartoon," she accidentally pulls the trigger on the phaser (the cannon), releasing a green energy beam and a cloud of thick smoke ("It's like the Fourth of July!"). After putting the phaser back on the display, she turns invisible once more and starts nervously singing "America the Beautiful".
  • In a deleted scene also included in "Vowellett", Helen tries to cheer up a gloomy Violet ("Don't be silly! You're beautiful!"), but Violet lashes back, saying "I'm gangly and I'm growing ganglier. I'm ugly, I have no curves, my friends are dorkier than I am, I can't talk, but my brain won't shut up!"

Merchandise

  • On Incredibles merchandise, Violet is nicknamed the "Queen of the Unseen", and uses invisibility-related sayings such as "See ya!" and "Gotta disappear!" In a poster included with Violet action figures, Violet, after levitating Dash with a force field, says "You're making my good attitude… disappear!"
  • Violet is the only one of the Incredible family members who does not appear as a dispenser for the Pez merchandise.

Notes

  1. ^ The Incredibles: Family Matters #1 at Boom! Studios (Cover D)
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