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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 4992174" data-attributes="member: 13855">I forget: how many other superheroes are there at the end of the film? Do we celebrate just the one family, or does everyone become special (as other superheroes come out of the wood work or whatever). I forget: do the normals do anything to help out in this film, or is just the specially powered ones?If the normals don't help, then aren't we celebrating the special because no one but this family is special? At the end of the day, if I recall, the family gets to be normal as a reward for being special, while the normals in the film never get to be special.In short, if I'm remembering correctly and using the OP's metaphor right, everyone's focused on the CoDzillas of the film because all of the characters are CoDzillas. There's no Mary Jane, no crowd of ordinaries pitching in to help Spiderman in his final fight in the first film... (There are narratives that take the role of the normals quite seriously indeed. The Incredibles doesn't feature a Xander to save the world or a Giles to get the killing blow or a Charles Gunn to fight the good fight alongside the empowered.)For our purposes, the only thing that makes someone worthy of our attention in The Incredibles is if they're powerful. Whatever the dialogue says, the underlying structure of the film could be seen to undermine its stated messages.</blockquote>