Bob leaves Jack-Jack in care of [[Edna Mode|Edna]], who refuses at first but her perspective changes when she is delighted at seeing his powers in action. When Bob picks Jack-Jack up, Edna reveals she upgraded Jack-Jack's suit to help Bob handle him and gives a demonstration. During the demo, Edna reveals that listening to Mozart's music caused Jack-Jack to unleash his powers. Edna describes him as a polymorph, explaining they have various abilities. When Jack-Jack sees a giant cookie, Bob declares that he must get cookies. Edna tells him that not only does he not need cookies, but he also should not use them with Jack-Jack ''no matter what he does'': Any solution involving cookies will inevitably make him angry enough to not only use his Monster Transformation Power but his Self-Combustion power as well.
Bob leaves Jack-Jack in care of [[Edna Mode|Edna]], who refuses at first but her perspective changes when she is delighted at seeing his powers in action. When Bob picks Jack-Jack up, Edna reveals she upgraded Jack-Jack's suit to help Bob handle him and gives a demonstration. During the demo, Edna reveals that listening to Mozart's music caused Jack-Jack to unleash his powers. Edna describes him as a polymorph, explaining they have various abilities. When Jack-Jack sees a giant cookie, Bob declares that he must get cookies. Edna tells him that not only does he not need cookies, but he also should not use them with Jack-Jack ''no matter what he does'': Any solution involving cookies will inevitably make him angry enough to not only use his Monster Transformation Power but his Self-Combustion power as well.
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Shortly after Bob leaves upon being contacted by [[Evelyn Deavor]] that Helen is in trouble, Jack-Jack and his siblings are visited by the mind-controlled "wannabe" Supers. The children escape by the Incredibile (summoned by Dash) and make their way to the Devtech ship to search for their parents. They eventually find them as well as Lucius but are forced to take cover in Violet's force-field as their mind-controlled parents and "Uncle Lucius" attack them. Jack-Jack then floats through the force-field and up to his mother. Noticing the goggles, he uses his telekinesis ability to levitate the goggles off Helen, freeing her from Evelyn's control. Helen then removes the goggles from Bob and Lucius before proudly embracing her children. Jack-Jack uses his powers to assist in freeing the other hypnotized Supers from Evelyn's control as his mother is shocked to learn of them and Bob tells her they have to catch up later. Following Evelyn's arrest, Helen can't believe she missed watching her son's powers as Bob tells her that he has more. Indeed, Helen witnesses Jack-Jack's clone powers.
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Shortly after Bob leaves upon being contacted by [[Evelyn Deavor]] that Helen is in trouble, Jack-Jack and his siblings are visited by the mind-controlled "wannabe" Supers. The children escape by the [[Incredibile]] (summoned by Dash) and make their way to the Devtech ship to search for their parents. They eventually find them as well as Lucius but are forced to take cover in Violet's force-field as their mind-controlled parents and "Uncle Lucius" attack them. Jack-Jack then floats through the force-field and up to his mother. Noticing the goggles, he uses his telekinesis ability to levitate the goggles off Helen, freeing her from Evelyn's control. Helen then removes the goggles from Bob and Lucius before proudly embracing her children. Jack-Jack uses his powers to assist in freeing the other hypnotized Supers from Evelyn's control as his mother is shocked to learn of them and Bob tells her they have to catch up later. Following Evelyn's arrest, Helen can't believe she missed watching her son's powers as Bob tells her that he has more. Indeed, Helen witnesses Jack-Jack's clone powers.
Later on, Evelyn is arrested and the [[Supers]] are made legal again.
Later on, Evelyn is arrested and the [[Supers]] are made legal again.
John Jackson "Jack-Jack" Parr is a major character in the 2004Disney•Pixar animated film The Incredibles and its 2018sequel, as well as a main character in the short films Jack-Jack Attack and Auntie Edna. He is the youngest child of Bob and Helen and the younger brother of Violet and Dash. Despite coming from a family of Supers, it was initially believed that he was born without any powers. In a surprising turn of events, the Parrs would later discover that he has at least seventeen powers.
Jack-Jack is the black sheep of the family. He is nearly two years old, and it seems the only thing incredible that he can do is jabber in gibberish. He’s very good at that— as well as throwing food at dinnertime. Hey, that’s what being a baby is all about! But who knows, maybe someday. He is an Incredible after all…[1]
Jack-Jack Parr, the baby of the family, likes to sit back with a bottle and a good story. Well-versed in gibberish with a penchant for throwing food, Jack-Jack may seem like a typical toddler, but he just might turn out to be the most powerful Parr in the household—if only his family had a clue of what this kid can really do.[2]
Jack-Jack acts just like a typical baby. He laughs and giggles a lot but cries whenever he is disturbed. Like many infants, Jack-Jack's emotions are unpredictable; and since his powers are stimulated by them, being with him when the baby uses his powers becomes very difficult when attempting to pacify or restrain him. For instance, Jack-Jack loves Mozart's music to the point where he is stimulated by it. He also becomes enraged if he is given a cookie and is not allowed more. The few things that can calm him down are his family, specifically his mother.
Jack-Jack is smart and intuitive for an infant as he recognized Syndrome as an enemy and identified the exploding plane as a danger. In fact, he was the one who made his father accidentally kill Syndrome. Jack-Jack even recognized that the hypno mask Elastigirl was wearing made her evil, causing him to release her by removing it through his telekinesis.
Jack-Jack is small, albeit at the average size for a baby as he stands at 2'6". He has a single tuft of strawberry-blond hair on his head and blue eyes. He also has two baby teeth on the bottom of his mouth. Also, he is one year old. Although he is usually seen in a yellow onesie during his on-screen appearances in the film, he also has a red super suit with a black mask. When he transforms into a little monster, his skin turns red and gains sharp fangs and claws, that he can use to defend himself and look intimidating. Mozart's music will trigger him into manifesting his powers, which Edna Mode uses to design a new suit that has sensors and a hand-held monitor, which alerts his family to upcoming use of his powers and allows them to counter them quickly. His powers and abilities are significant enough for his siblings to use him as a third member of a rescue team.
Jack-Jack is first introduced being bathed in the sink by his mother, Helen as she talks on the phone to her husband, Bob. He is later seen at dinner, with Helen trying to get him to eat his baby food by making funny faces, which he mimics. This also makes his older brother, Dash, feel weird. He laughs when his older siblings, Violet and Dash, get into a fight, enjoying the action and thinking they are playing.
Jack-Jack with his father.
In the montage scene, Jack-Jack is seen being taken care of by Bob, who has recently gained a large amount of confidence, after secretly taking a job on a remote island. He gives him a kiss on the cheek. Realizing that his dad has come to care for him more despite the latter's responsibilities, Jack-Jack giggles. Helen encourages Bob to take a turn feeding Jack-Jack, which he does. Later, Dash and Violet stow aboard a plane Helen had rented, and quickly called Violet's friend, Kari McKeen, to babysit him. The baby is seen playing with an orange ball in his high chair while Kari is talking to Helen on the phone.
He is not seen again until the end of the movie when Syndrome tries to kidnap him to raise him as a sidekick to get revenge on his family. However, thanks to Kari playing Mozart for him, he has learned of his powers and uses them (fire, steel, and monster forms) to escape from Syndrome who is flying up towards his hover jet. As he is falling towards the ground, Helen catches him. He and the rest of the family are then saved from Syndrome's exploding plane thanks to Violet's force field. Jack-Jack then joins the others in laughter after Dash asks if they will have to move again. At the end of the movie, he is shown clapping for Dash from the bleachers during the track meet and is then shown to be ready to fight The Underminer, thereby setting up the events of the sequel.
Jack-Jack in Jack-Jack Attack.
In his own mini-movie, we see what happens to him and Kari while the rest of the family were on Nomanisan Island. Kari decides to stimulate his cognitive abilities by giving him some educational toys and playing Mozart for him (as she has heard that Mozart makes babies smarter). Listening to the music, he has an epiphany about his powers.
Over the course of the night, he demonstrates many powers, such as floating through the walls, catching on fire, and shooting laser beams out of his eyes, and Kari tries to keep him and the house in one piece. By morning, Kari has been up all night and figured out how to counter his powers. In her frazzled state of mind, she hands him over to Syndrome, whom she believes he is a replacement babysitter contacted by Helen.
Jack-Jack tended to by his father.
In the sequel, the fight with The Underminer picks up where it left off. Jack-Jack is left in the care of his older siblings. Later, his family is moved into a motel and then into a fabulous new home after his mother gets a new job. While Helen is gone, Jack-Jack is tended to by Bob who does what he can to care for him and the baby enjoys his time with his father.
Jack Jack reveals to his father that, thanks to Kari, he has awakened at least seventeen of his powers when he fights off a raccoon. (Apparently, his powers were never seen by his family in the three months that passed in-universe between the first movie's final two scenes.) Bob is overjoyed to learn this but becomes worried when he sees the rest of his son's many powers and decides to hide this from his family for a while as it could bring Helen home.
Jack-Jack's powers make this an overwhelming task as whenever he uses his dimensional travel power, Bob has to use cookies to bring him back. Bob then has to keep giving his infant son cookies until he is satisfied. If he is unable or unwilling to do so, Jack-Jack will get angry, causing him to turn into his Monster form and attack his father.
Eventually, Violet and Dash witness Jack-Jack's powers and they find out Bob is so sleep-deprived from trying to reign in Jack-Jack, so they call Lucius. At first, Lucius sees a normal infant but is surprised when his powers activate and describes Jack-Jack's abilities as "freaky" and he had to calm Jack Jack by making an ice cookie. Lucius advises Bob to get some outside help.
Jack-Jack shows off one of his abilities to Edna.
Bob leaves Jack-Jack in care of Edna, who refuses at first but her perspective changes when she is delighted at seeing his powers in action. When Bob picks Jack-Jack up, Edna reveals she upgraded Jack-Jack's suit to help Bob handle him and gives a demonstration. During the demo, Edna reveals that listening to Mozart's music caused Jack-Jack to unleash his powers. Edna describes him as a polymorph, explaining they have various abilities. When Jack-Jack sees a giant cookie, Bob declares that he must get cookies. Edna tells him that not only does he not need cookies, but he also should not use them with Jack-Jack no matter what he does: Any solution involving cookies will inevitably make him angry enough to not only use his Monster Transformation Power but his Self-Combustion power as well.
Shortly after Bob leaves upon being contacted by Evelyn Deavor that Helen is in trouble, Jack-Jack and his siblings are visited by the mind-controlled "wannabe" Supers. The children escape by the Incredibile (summoned by Dash) and make their way to the Devtech ship to search for their parents. They eventually find them as well as Lucius but are forced to take cover in Violet's force-field as their mind-controlled parents and "Uncle Lucius" attack them. Jack-Jack then floats through the force-field and up to his mother. Noticing the goggles, he uses his telekinesis ability to levitate the goggles off Helen, freeing her from Evelyn's control. Helen then removes the goggles from Bob and Lucius before proudly embracing her children. Jack-Jack uses his powers to assist in freeing the other hypnotized Supers from Evelyn's control as his mother is shocked to learn of them and Bob tells her they have to catch up later. Following Evelyn's arrest, Helen can't believe she missed watching her son's powers as Bob tells her that he has more. Indeed, Helen witnesses Jack-Jack's clone powers.
Later on, Evelyn is arrested and the Supers are made legal again.
After his family drops Tony Rydinger off at the movies, he officially joins them in fighting crime.
In this short, Bob takes Jack-Jack to Edna for her to study the powers he uses while Bob caught up on some much-needed rest. Taking Jack-Jack to Edna, she studies different superpowers he uses to impress her. When Edna becomes crowded by multiple Jack-Jack clones, Jack-Jack uses his monster form, combining it with his fire form. Later, Edna examines Jack-Jack for his powers he used and giving him a red suit. After studying, Edna then takes Jack-Jack to Bob as she explains to him that whenever she babysits Jack-Jack (unlike other babies), she does not charge him as Bob and Jack-Jack leave for home. At the end of the short, Edna notices Jack-Jack (presumably a clone of himself) next to her, as Edna runs off telling Bob that he forgot his baby.
Jack-Jack has 17 known superpowers, potentially making him the most powerful Super in the Incredibles universe.
However, Jack-Jack could have just general shape-shifting powers.
Jack-Jack is the only member of the Parr family who is known for having many superpowers.
It was planned for Jack-Jack's blob form to appear in the first movie, but it wasn't used due to technical limitations at the time. The blob power was used in the sequel during Jack-Jack's battle with the raccoon.
Jack-Jack is the only member of his family who doesn't have an "i" emblem on his super-suit.
Jack-Jack is responsible for both the simplest and the most advanced super-suit design Edna created: the first one for when he did not show any power and the second one for managing all of them.
