WARNING: The following articles contains spoilers for Pixar's Incredibles 2, in theaters now.


After 14 long years, Pixar finally released the sequel to its 2004 hit The Incredibles, with the Parr family picks up (literally) right where they left off in the original, leaving Dash's track meet only to find a new villain wreaking havoc on their city. Having only just been given the go-ahead to return to superhero duties, the family springs into action to defeat the Underminer, but they fail and once again are on the hook for the millions in damage. They're forced to go into hiding once more until the Deavors, billionaire siblings and superhero superfans, offer to help the family and, supers in general, with some positive PR.

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The sequel has predictably crushed at the box office, setting a new record for an animated movie with its $180 million opening weekend. It outpaced former record holder Finding Dory by $45 million, and probably won't slow down anytime soon. A good portion of those fans contributing to box office returns are no doubt Pixar acolytes whose eyes are peeled for Easter eggs the studio is widely known for dropping in each of its films. Entire fan theories have been based on things like Monster's Inc. hero Sully's face showing up in a carving in Brave, so the hunt for subtle references can be rewarding.

But not everyone has the time or attention span to rewatch a bunch of Pixar movies and then sit in a darkened theater scribbling down anything that might be significant. So we did it for you. Here's every Easter egg and reference we caught from Incredibles 2.

A Familiar Face

The woman Bob Parr assists at the beginning of 2004's The Incredibles while he's working at Insuracare appears again in the sequel during the opening battle against the Underminer, where she distracts Dash by asking for help.

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Speaking of Insuracare, Bob still has his company mug and drinks out of it while he's home taking care of Violet, Dash and Jack Jack after Helen begins her new job. That's one of the many references to the fact that, despite their powers, the Parrs are not well-off -- they're legitimately two weeks away from homelessness after the debacle with the Underminer sends them underground once more.

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The Municiberg Credit Union

Municiberg is a generic, mid-size city that doesn't change in the sequel; it's still the same barely/totally recognizable town rife with criminals for supers to defeat. But this time there's a fun addition to the cityscape that references Disney's other powerhouse brand.

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One of the banks the Underminer (John Ratzenberger) robs in the opening sequence is the Municiberg Credit Union, aka the MCU. He burrows beneath a long line of financial institutions, including that one, and when they fall into the sinkhole he's created, he robs them. It's full of enough money that he needs a giant vacuum cleaner to suck it out of the vault in time to escape (and he does, as the Underminer is still at large).

Retro Decor

Incredibles 2 takes place in the same mid-century-ish time period as the first movie, and the production design reflects that. The fabulous mansion (purchased from a mysterious eccentric billionaire) the Deavor siblings give to the Parrs reflects the mod style we saw all throughout the 2004 film. But that's not the Easter egg we're talking about. No, we mean the posters that adorned Bob's office in The Incredibles. Despite the the destruction of the Parr family home, Bob rescued a few pieces of memorabilia, and we see them tucked in a box in his new office after the move.

The Return of A113

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As any diehard Pixar fan will tell you, the alphanumeric sequence A113 pops up all over the studio's films. It's a reference to the number of one of the classrooms used by animation and graphic design students at the California Institute of the Arts. Pixar's Brad Bird and Tim Lasseter are both alumni, so the salute to their former classroom has appeared in every single Pixar film as well as other media the two have worked on (Bird even claims to have put it in his Simpsons episodes). So it was no surprise at the end of Incredibles 2 that Violet and Tony go see a movie called "Dementia 113."

The Incredi-Bile Returns

Mr. Incredible's sweet ride disappears in the beginning of The Incredibles, and audiences never learn what became of it after the family went into hiding. They kept their old super-suits, so it's not like they were forced to give up all their fancy toys, but at no point does Mr. Incredible even complain about no longer having his car.

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Incredibles 2 clears up this mystery nicely by revealing that some wealthy dude bought the car at auction and kept it in his garage to impress women. Mr. Incredible was under the impression the car was destroyed, and when he sees a news report on this travesty he's brokenhearted that his car has fallen into such lame hands. Luckily he still has the remote that controls it, so the Incredi-bile doesn't stay missing for too much longer.

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Wardrobe Malfunction

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The way Helen learns in The Incredibles that Bob has been super-ing on the side is by noticing a repaired tear in his super suit. Knowing that Edna Mode is the only one who could, or would fix, such a malfunction, she heads to the designer's home and gets the full story on her husband's "work" with Syndrome.

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In Incredibles 2, someone else designs Elastigirl's new super-suit, much to the frustration of Edna, who considers herself unparalleled in the industry. She's not wrong: The first tear in Mr. Incredible's suit over the course of his entire career comes at the "hands" of Syndrome's Spider Bot, making it clear this is a bigger threat than any Parr has ever faced. Edna creates a new suit to fix the problem and, in a neat bit of synchronicity, Elastigirl's new, non-Mode suit tears while she's working, in precisely the same spot as her husband's did. Looks like the Parrs have Achilles' left shoulders when they're not properly outfitted.

Ambassador Who?

Ambassador Selick is a hero of Elastigirl's and a proponent of reintroducing supers to society. She's the first person to sign the agreement between countries that legalizes the heroes once again, allowing them to come out of hiding. If you happened to be watching closely, you'd have noticed that her first initial was H, clear reference to Henry Selick, a well-known animation director whose best-known work was a little film called Coraline. 

RIP Dynaguy and Gazerbeam

In the first film, there's a super bloodbath perpetuated by Syndrome as he sacrifices heroes to help the Spider Bot learn how to fight. Among those killed by the megalomaniacal wannabe was Gazerbeam, the laser-eyed super who scrawls the password to Syndrome's computer on a cave wall as his dying act.

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Dynaguy doesn't go down quite so nobly, as he's shown being sued in the very beginning of The Incredibles. Edna Mode then reveals him to be one of the tragic victims of capes when Bob asks her to give him one on his new suit.

In Incredibles 2, Winston Deavor tells the Parrs about his father's love of supers, and reveals that the man kept direct lines to both Dynaguy and Gazerbeam in his home should any danger strike. Tragically, when the Deavor home is broken into, Winston's father calls both supers, but they never show -- presumably because they're in hiding, but also probably dead.

The Train Rescue(s)

One of the reasons Winston Deavor wants to start the Legalize Super campaign with Elastigirl is that she's just as capable of saving the world as her husband, but she does it without inflicting nearly as much damage. And to prove that point, her first mission mirrors one of her husband's, but never gets quite as messy.

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The first action sequence in The Incredibles ends in Mr. Incredible stopping a train from running off tracks and crashing (tracks that he just destroyed). On her first mission in Incredibles 2, Elastigirl outruns a speeding train on her new Elasticycle and manages to save the Metrolev train from running off of unfinished tracks. She and her husband both slow down the train until the front car just barely avoids falling down, but Elastigirl's methods result in far less surrounding damage than Mr. Incredible's do in the original.


Written and directed once again by Brad Bird, Incredibles 2 stars Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Sophia Bush, Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener, Isabella Rossellini and Brad Bird.